On this weekend...
Continuing our look back through the OHAFC archives at games played on this weekend last season, three seasons ago and five seasons ago...
Last Season: March 16th 2013
1st XI: Were thumped 7-0 at Charterhouse to complete a miserable week for the side following their Dunn Cup semi-final defeat to Winchester seven days earlier.
With over half the Dunn Cup side making themselves unavailable for the trip to the League leaders, three players made their 1st XI debuts: Max Curry, Alex Elwell and Azhar Khan.
Harrow conceded after twenty minutes but then held firm until just before the break. Unfortunately two goals either side of half time killed the fixture as a contest and as Harrow legs tired late on, the home side took full advantage, scoring four more to give the scoreline a decidedly one-sided feel.
2nd & 3rd XI's: No fixture
Three Seasons Ago: March 17th 2012
1st XI: No fixture
2nd XI: Hammered Westminster 2nd XI 7-0 on the Phil with in-form Bemini Soyinka scoring four times in the rout.
Phil Berry opened the scoring after just five minutes in a game played in driving rain. Two goals in two minutes, one from Soyinka, the other courtesy of an own goal, gave Harrow a comfortable 3-0 lead with less than twenty minutes of the game played. The Harrow striker added a second on the half hour and scored twice more as the home side ran amok.
Hugo Trower completed the scoring to earn Arjun Chopra's side their biggest win of the season.
3rd XI: No fixture
Five Seasons Ago: March 13th 2010
1st XI: No fixture
2nd XI: Thumped Bradfield 4-0 on the Hill with another player helping himself to a hat-trick, this time Johan Harder.
The Dane connected twice with headers from set-pieces and completed his man of the match performance with a superb 30-yard free-kick to kill off the opposition. Nick Warner added a fourth and the Blues went home happy.
3rd XI: No fixture
Other notable world events - March 15th:
- 74th day of the Gregorian calendar
- 34 days until Tour!
- 44BC Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus - the Ides of March
- 1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas
- 1877 The first ever official cricket Test match is played between Australia and England at the MCG, Melbourne
- 1892 Liverpool Football Club is founded
- 1906 Rolls-Royce is incorporated
- 1962 American singer Terence Trent d'Arby is born
- 1971 Penny Lancaster, wife of Rod Stewart, is born
- 1975 American rapper and producer will.i.am is born
- 1985 The first internet domain name is registered
- 1989 Tottenham midfielder Sandro is born
- 1993 Juventus' French midfielder Paul Pogba is born
Items to diarise immediately and action appropriately - March 15th:
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International Day against Police Brutality
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World Consumer Rights Day
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Bacchanalia (Ancient Rome)
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade - *Charles Dickens, Great Expectations*