Continuing our look back at OHAFC fixtures played on the corresponding weekend over the previous six seasons with, surprisingly, only three season's worth of games played on this particular occasion:

Six Seasons Ago: No OHAFC Fixtures

Five Seasons Ago: January 15th 2011

Lancing Old Boys 3 OHAFC 1st XI 1: The OHAFC 1st XI suffered their third consecutive defeat with a 3-1 loss to Lancing at the excellent Tolworth Court facilities belonging to Kingston University.

Despite the return to the side of skipper Quentin Baker, who missed the previous week's loss to Chigwell, and the continuing return to fitness of Freddie Brunt, the side struggled once again to play with any consistency and despite Lederman drawing the side's level at 1-1 with a fine free-kick, two second half goals condemned the team to a defeat that left them firmly in the wrong half of the table.

Fred Milln was dismissed late on for a strong challenge deemed over-zealous by referee Richard Wilson, capping a miserable afternoon for the Blues.

Four Seasons Ago: January 14th 2012

OHAFC 1st XI 2 Old Foresters 0: Following on from the excellent victory over Charterhouse a week previously, the OHAFC 1st XI produced another fine display to defeat close rivals Forest on the Hill in a game played in perfect winter conditions.

The hosts’ first forty-five minutes was some of the best football played to date that season with Martins and Brunt on the left and Poulter and Lederman on the right linking up superbly to supply chances for strikers Hoffen and de Rougemont.

Despite dominating the first half, the game remained goalless and for twenty minutes after the break Forest threatened to come back into the game.

But with twenty minutes remaining the home side broke the deadlock when Lederman’s second cross from the right was smashed in by Harry Hoffen.

The points were assured shortly before the end when the striker raced clear of the visitors’ rearguard to calmly slot home and ensure maximum points from the first two games of the new year.

OHAFC 2nd XI 2 Old Amplefordians 3: The Harrow second string were not so fortunate however, falling 3-2 at home to bottom side Ampleforth in a see-saw battle on the Hill.

Striker Dave Stead fired home to give the hosts the lead but Arjun Chopra’s side failed to assert themselves and found themselves trailing at the break.

The usual goal from Bemini Soyinka drew the sides level again at 2-2 with twenty-five minutes remaining but another defensive blunder allowed the visitors to steal the points in the final quarter of an hour.

Two & Three Seasons Ago: No OHAFC Fixtures

Last Season: January 17th 2015

Old Carthusians 10 OHAFC 1st XI 1: One of the most humiliating results in OHAFC history occurred on this weekend a year ago when the 1st XI were steamrollered by the League’s top side Charterhouse.

With skipper Ed Poulter and fellow centre-half Fred Coleridge-Cole both back for the first time after long-term injuries, the visitors’ defence resembled a sieve at times and the score was already 4-0 after just a quarter of an hour.

Fred Milln arrived late to shore things up but the half-time score still read an embarrassing 6-0 to the hosts. To Harrow’s credit they battled well in the half hour after the break, reducing arrears when Lederman converted a penalty following a handball inside the box. But the hosts’ superior fitness told in the final quarter of an hour and they scored four more goals, several of them class efforts.

The result left the Blues firmly rooted to the foot of the table with survival in the top division looking ever more unlikely.

OHAFC 3rd XI 3 Merchants Taylor 2: A much better effort from the OHAFC 3rd XI ensued on the Phil pitches under the new captaincy of Ludo Callander.

The Blues took the lead early through Oli Walker, who converted following some excellent pressure from Ed Page that forced the Merchants Taylor into a hurried clearance.

The visitors rallied, forcing ‘keeper James Gallagher into a number of smart saves but there was nothing he could do to prevent a low curled effort from finding the bottom corner minutes before the break.

The lead was restored however just after the interval when Ollie Feather latched onto a George Pratt flick-on to coolly nutmeg the ‘keeper.

The hosts dropped deeper in a bid to limit the chances created by the visitors but this plan didn’t last long, an equaliser following soon afterwards from a throw-in that was poorly defended, the ball being crossed into the box for a simple finish.

A frantic finale saw Harrow grab the points thanks to a fine breakaway goal, Alec Fogarty crossing from the left for Walker to grab his second and Harrow’s vital third of the game.

On this weekend…In the wider footballing world

Some interesting and amusing events have taken place in the football world on this weekend previously:

On January 16th 1982 in Madrid the organising committee for that summer’s World Cup in Spain conducted the draw for the finals. Comically badly, as it turned out.

A youthful, sideburned Sepp Blatter and his colleagues had performed a dress rehearsal for journalists earlier in the day that had gone swimmingly. But come the evening, with millions watching on TV, Mr Blatter and his colleagues couldn't remember their own rules, leading to confusion from the off and Belgium, the first team out, having to be redrawn into a new group.

What followed closely resembled an episode of It' a Knockout, complete with a cast of Spanish children wearing bizarrely religious clothing.

One of the rotating ball machines, which were used every weekend for the Spanish National Lottery, then broke, cutting one ball in half that subsequently had to be poked out by a FIFA official with a stick!

Even once the draw was over the humiliation for FIFA wasn’t complete. They were accused of slave labour by the West German representative Hermann Neuberger following the admission that orphaned children had been used to carry the balls backwards and forwards during the draw.

An incredulous Jimmy Hill, Alan Parry and commentator Barry Davies help recount the stunningly inept draw action in this BBC video of the highlights here.

January 17th 1948 saw a Football League attendance record that has stood to this day: 83, 620 fans packed Maine Road to watch Manchester United play Arsenal. The game was played at City’s ground because Old Trafford was still undergoing reconstruction after suffering bomb damage in March 1941. Indeed, the ground was so badly affected that it would not reopen again until 1949.

With Old Trafford’s current capacity at 75,000 and the demand for increased stadia elsewhere, how long will it be before the record is broken?

Back to the amusing side of football and most Newcastle fans will remember January 17th 1998 because it was on this night that Georgian midfielder Temuri Ketsbaia produced one of the most extraordinary goal celebrations the Premier League has ever seen.

Clearly frustrated at being left out of the side for recent fixtures, Ketsbaia responded to his last-minute winner in the home game with Bolton by, for want of a better description, ‘going mental’.

He removed his shirt, tried and failed to remove one of his boots and proceeded to violently and repeatedly kick an advertising hoarding, throwing aside any teammate who approached him so he could continue his one-man war on the poor hoarding.

Again, video evidence is readily available of Temuri’s tremendous tantrum here