The Greens failed to complete their Ryman League schedule. Simon was the only player to start at least 30 League and 10 cup games, ending on 44 appearances, and he started six of the seven matches played in the final 12 days. Things were somewhat different under Dave Anderson, but one that didn't change was Simon's level of performance. He collected his second supporters' Player-of-the-Year award, this despite the pressure of long commutes from his Essex base and also took home a Middlesex Senior Cup winners' medal, though only as an unused substitute.
He also found himself wearing a number of different shirts, all too often those in the teens, but he saw time at right-back and in the middle of defence. At the end of the season, the travel became too much for Simon and he left the Club. His love of the club was clear as when Hendon played at Bishops Stortford the following season, he drove to the game, just so he could catch-up with supporters, officials and former team-mates and to return the Supporters Association trophy. Simon came back to Hendon in October , playing for Maldon Town, but he had left the Jam-Makers by the time of the return fixture in April - though the other Simon Clark did play for them at Park Avenue.
It has been announced this morning that our former coach Junior Lewis has been named as assistant head coach of Leeds United. Junior, who has spent three years with us on the coaching side on top of his three years as a player in the late s, will be working under former Forest Green Rovers manager Dave Hockaday, who has been named as the new head coach at Elland Road. Everyone at the club is delighted for Junior, and we all know that he has a lot to offer his new empoyers. We wish Junior every success for the future as he looks to build on on his career on the coaching and management side of the game.
A supporters game has been arranged for this coming Wednesday, 25th June, against Hendon Youth coaches. The game will kick off at 7. If any supporters are interested in taking part, please email Eddie Edwards as soon as possible on eddieedd hendonfc. Any supporters who fancy watching some live football rather than watching it on tv, are of course welcome to attend the game. As many of you will be aware, our supporters team have played a handful of games over the past few months. Home games will be played at Silver Jubilee Park, and the best thing is that every game we play makes money for the club, so the more games we play means more money to keep our club alive.
Footballing ability is not important, just your enthusiasm and willingness to be part of the team. Nick looks forward to hearing from you. The latest in the series focuses on a Hendon player who gave many years of fine service in the club's tradition of outstanding goalkeepers. Dave Root joined Hendon from Walthamstow Avenue in the summer of In the late s, Dave had the misfortune of being the second-best goalkeeper in Barking's youth team - but he was behind Kevin Hitchcock, who went onto enjoy a long career as a full-time professional.
Although Kevin was the regular first-team and youth-team keeper, Dave made 16 appearances for Barking in and, by the time he moved with his family to run a guest house in Cornwall in , he had played 97 times for the Blues. Dave turned out a few times for Launceston Town, but returned to London and signed for the Avenue in Mark Broughton, a Hendon hero in the relegation battle, returned to Derbyshire, so Ted Hardy was looking for a new goalkeeper, and he chose Root. Dave made his debut in a defeat at Yeovil. It was the busiest season in the club's history as the first-team played in 76 matches and Dave set a club record, one which will, almost certainly, never be beaten, starting 31 cup ties in the campaign - if Hendon were to win every cup competition they enter next season including the FA Cup , they would play a total of 33 ties.
Dave had all the attributes to be a goalkeeper, height, speed, agility and safe hands - until he became a courier van driver, he was a chandelier repairer. Hardy and Hendon were happy to ignore his one weakness - he was a very poor kicker - and Dave quickly became a fans' favourite. The Greens lost and Root was the scapegoat. Root's first visit to Wembley had come a few weeks earlier, as a fan, for the FA Trophy final, and he spent much of the afternoon walking around the stadium, open-mouthed in awe at the surroundings.
A strange statistic regarding Dave's career is that in eight seasons excluding the third of a season he missed in and overall appearances, Dave was never an ever-present, although he did play at least 50 matches in every campaign and missed no more than four league games in each season. This is even more remarkable given the state of flux at the club; managers came and went, budgets were cut regularly and the dressing room door frequently resembled a turnstile. But through all this, Dave was 'Mr Dependable'.
Other clubs were very keen to sign him and one prospective buyer walked away when the league's transfer tribunal came up with a valuation far higher than both clubs rated him. When Victor Green became chairman at the end of , Hendon went on another wild ride, with rapid turnover everywhere at the club - well, everywhere except in the number one shirt. At the season's end, Dave became one of an elite group of Hendon players to be awarded the Supporters Association Player-of-the-Year trophy for the third time - he had won two and four years earlier.
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The season started very brightly and ended in chaos despite Hendon picking up silverware at the end of the season, in the Full Members Cup. He spent a number of years at Kingstonian before joining Boreham Wood. Sadly some fans never forgave him for moving on and publicly vilified him at every opportunity. A loyal club servant - and thoroughly decent bloke - he deserved a much better reaction than that. Supporters' Association Player of the Year: Isthmian League Full Members Cup: The Supporters Association have set up a Pinterest account - where many photos of various events and matches can now be found.
If you have any pictures and the appropriate permissions that we can add, please email them to johnerice hotmail. You can see what is already on the account by clicking the link below which includes photos from the trips to Cardiff and Leyton Orient, sponsored walks and much more. The AGM of the Ryman League took place yesterday morning at the Wembley Hilton, and there has been nothing of any major note to report.
It has also been announced that if Salisbury City are expelled from Conference South - that division will run a club short, so there will be no further reprieves from relegation this summer. Apart from ourselves, the only other club in the division who are in a groundshare are Grays Athletic, who will be playing at Aveley again this coming season. There had been suggestions that East Thurrock United would be playing at Tilbury, but it has been confirmed that they will be remaining at Rookery Hill this coming season.
The league announced that the fixtures will be released no later than 17th July, and they are hoping to release them sooner. As always, we will put the fixtures online at our earliest opportunity.
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The Supporters Association has been supporting Hendon FC for 80 seasons now and membership forms for the new season are available now. Membership of the Association provides the following benefits: Members discount on merchandise; Advance exclusive news of new merchandise lines; Exclusive opportunity to pre-order merchandise; Exclusive member opportunity to purchase memorabilia; FREE membership of Travel Club; FREE membership of Supporters Association social society; Exclusive invitation to social events with fellow Hendon fans during the season as well as closed season; Priority advance ticket opportunity to events; Exclusive invitation to the end of season event.
If you can set up an annual standing order it will save us a great deal of time, thus allowing us to spend more time on supporting the club. Junior Lambs Membership Form. We are delighted to have four items of England memorabilia for auction on eBay, headlined by a shirt signed by Terry Butcher in November These items have been kindly donated to us by one of our supporters who worked as a police officer at the games concerned, and the three items of kit come with a signed certificate of authenticity.
As well as the shirt signed by Terry Butcher, we have a programme from the same game against Switzerland which has been signed by the England squad. Then from a game against the Republic of Ireland we have shorts that were worn by Laurie Cunningham, and socks that were worn by David Johnson. All items are in excellent condition, and all proceeds from these auctions will go direct to the Supporters Trust.
Please do spread the word to anyone that you think may be interested. Signed Terry Butcher England Shirt. Shorts worn by Laurie Cunningham. Socks worn by David Johnson. Signed England v Switzerland programme. The latest in the series focuses on a Hendon player who epitomised per cent effort. Nothing says more about Roy Butler's contribution to the Hendon cause than the fact that he was named as Supporters' Association Player of the Year in , a season during which he went through more than Greenwich Mean Time in his case five days short of six months without scoring a single goal.
For those who don't know his name or much about him, Roy was a big, bustling striker, an old-fashioned No. Another big plus against his name is his personality and the fact that when he found out that fans - myself included - could not get to Hayes for a Boxing Day game public transport, i. What Roy was very good at, however, was soaking up pressure, making a complete nuisance of himself with opposing centre-halves and normally took the main defender out of the equation to deal with him.
In , this meant that Mick Garrini, a signing from Tring, and a very close friend of Roy's was given the time and space to bang in 19 goals. Despite Roy's goal drought that winter, from 21 October to 16 April , he did manage to score a total of 10 goals during the season. Roy's career at Hendon was in two parts, a brief spell as a young man in the great team, and then as a battle-hardened forward in the late s. A signing from Ruislip Manor, where he had represented the Athenians in an inter-league fixture, his debut came in the cauldron of a local derby against Enfield, just after Christmas - and there were well over 1, fans in attendance - a match Hendon won thanks to a goal from Roy.
He got a run of consecutive games and scored in four of his first five matches for the first team. He ended the season with five goals from 12 appearances, 11 of which were starts - there was only one substitute available in those days. Although Hendon reached three finals that season, he was an unused substitute only in the London Senior Cup defeat against Enfield and thus missed out on winners' medals in the Amateur Cup and Middlesex Senior Cup. In the summer of , Roy moved on to St Albans City, before moving on to Hayes, where their fans, like those of Hendon, loved his never-say-die attitude and made him their player-of-the-year.
Roy scored only five goals in 34 appearances, but picked up Isthmian League Cup and Middlesex Charity Cup winners' medals. The following season, Roy missed a quarter of the season, appearing in only 32 Isthmian League fixtures, but 17 out of 20 cup-ties. The opener was on 5 August, in a defeat of Finchley in a group match, the last one was on 14 May, the final goal of the season, the third in another victory this time over Harrow Borough in the final at Earlsmead.
In his final Hendon campaign, , Roy couldn't add to his medal count and again missed a quarter of the league season, appearing only 31 times. He scored nine goals from 46 appearances, but Hendon's league form had been mediocre during the last three seasons, with 13th, ninth and 13th place finishes - never really in relegation danger, but never in the hunt for the title.
He moved into management and had some success at Berkhamsted Town. Steve will be the covered later in the series. We are looking to have a travel club for the new season where we can arrange car-shares for both home and away games.
If you are interested, either as a car driver who would be willing to take fellow supporters with you, or if you normally travel by public transport and would prefer to travel with others by car. This is a win-win situation, as you share the cost of the petrol, share the experience of attending games, and we get more fans to games.
Please email John Rice on johnerice hotmail. He will need your name, phone number and your postcode. If you love Twitter then you will love our two volumes of Twitter Titters. They are filled with some of the funniest tweets you will ever see.
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Kindle for PC List of items available for Kindle. It is with great sadness that we heard this morning of the passing of Les Vincent. He passed away earlier today, peacefully after a long battle with cancer. Les has been on the Supporters Association committee for many years, and will have been a familiar face to many of us. He could often be found outside the turnstiles before the game selling programmes, and then during the game be heard behind the goal supporting the team. His son Andrew, and youngest daughter Michelle will be well known to many supporters as they have both also been regulars as they have grown up, and our thoughts are with them, their sister Suzanne, and their mum at this very sad time.
Starting on 23 June lifelong Hendon fat,,,we mean fan John Rice will begin a 3 month sponsored slim. This is in addition to the sponsored slim initiative posted here yesterday. His target is 40lbs of weight loss. Backed by a nutritional and fitness programme and qualified professional he feels he can achieve that. If you would like to sponsor him for every lb lost please email him at JohnsTransformation Yahoo. He will post pictures, stats and updates to keep people informed of his progress in his new Facebook group - https: We will post updates here for those who do not use Facebook.
This will help improve his health as well as raise some revenue. Please sponsor him to give him that extra initiative. The latest in the series focuses on a Hendon legend who, as recently as , was an occasional visitor. Thanks to Peter Lush for his assistance with this biography. Jimmy Quail was one of the finest players to grace the Isthmian League when Hendon entered the competition in He had already spent 10 years with the Greens - apart from a short spell at Enfield.
In modern football, he would probably be either a striker or attacking midfielder, in the mould of Zinedine Zidane. His family had moved from Bambridge, Northern Ireland before he was old enough for school, living in Harlesden. He wrote to the club in to ask for a trial and was taken on, but did not become a regular Hendon first-teamer at Claremont Road until Jimmy played in the FA Amateur Cup-winning team, and was rewarded with a place in the British squad for the Rome Olympic Games, but didn't get a game.
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He did, however, earn the first of his two Northern Ireland amateur international caps and, in November , also came very close to selection for the full Northern Ireland team. Quail scored Hendon's second goal in a defeat. After two years at Enfield, Jimmy returned to Claremont Road for the start of the Greens' venture into the Isthmian League - which was now the number one amateur competition in the south of England, and Hendon were among the very best. The Greens finished runners-up behind Wimbledon in , but the following season was the greatest in club history.
But there was an earlier highlight, in the London FA Challenge Cup, a competition for London Football League clubs and two invited amateur teams - the finalists of the previous season's London Senior Cup. Hendon were drawn away to Arsenal, who filled the team with a number of players who would become household names. Ian Ure, a recent big-money transfer, was at centre-half, Bob Wilson was in goal, Jon Sammels played in midfield and John Radford led the attack. Radford scored a hat-trick, but Danny Lakey and David Hyde, also a hat-trick, ensured Hendon advanced. Jimmy and Hendon returned to Highbury for the Amateur Cup semi-final, and Quail set up David Hyde for the first goal in a Hendon victory over near-neighbours Finchley.
On 24 April , Jimmy scored at Wembley in the Greens' victory over Whitby Town and, six days later, was in the Hendon team at Champion Hill, Dulwich, as Enfield were crushed in the only championship playoff in Isthmian League history. On 26 February , playing against Wycombe Wanderers in the Amateur Cup quarter-final, Jimmy suffered a double break to his leg.
Without Quail, Hendon reached the final but succumbed to Wealdstone. Jimmy did return the following season but, by his own admission, was not the same player. Evans was leaving to manage in Colombia, and Jimmy was invited to take over as boss. His first game back Evans remained in charge for a few more weeks could hardly have been tougher, an FA Cup first round proper tie against Plymouth Argyle.
Hendon came within a few seconds of forcing a replay, going down Quail finished what Evans had started, a dominant season, unbeaten in the first 39 Isthmian League games and champions by Easter.
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Eventually the Greens finished runners-up behind Wycombe in the race for the title, after which football lost its amateur-professional distinction, and Hendon slipped out of the elite. Jimmy had already decided to resign at the end of the season because of work commitments.
Jimmy returned to manage the club for 18 months in , leaving at Christmas , and then again in , when he worked with Gary Hand, who was officially the manager. They kept Hendon in the Premier Division, but Gary's work commitments meant he and Jimmy left at end of the season. Although Gary returned in , Jimmy has had no involvement with football management since then.
We will be running a free sponsored slim, starting hopefully within the next two months. This is being run by John Rice, who will be participating, and an ex-Hendon player who is a qualified fitness instructor and nutritionist. We believe that the programme is unique and has never been offered in this format anywhere. So every pound lost will gain pounds for a good cause. If you or a friend are interested in participating, please email sponsoredslim yahoo. The channel has videos going back to the 's. When you visit the site, check out the Playlists link and you will see links to more than 50 videos, with more being added over time.
You can access this visual history of the club by clicking the link below. The latest in the series focuses on a Hendon player who died tragically young but heroically. It takes a special kind of player to accept a role as substitute week-in week-out. One of those, and probably in the top two 'super subs' in Hendon's history, is Danny Worley. There were many things that made Danny, who was raised in Hendon, a special player, not just the acceptance of his place in the squad.
Ask any manager about problems posed an opposing player, and the thing they all find hardest to deal with is exceptional pace. Danny was one of the fastest players ever to appear for the Greens and a succession of managers realised that his speed, against tiring defenders, would be more effective late in a game than from the start. It was an exceptional team, led by Steve Newing, with Phil Gridelet also a regular player.
Steve was one of the country's top schoolboy footballers, while Phil went on to enjoy a long professional career and remains the last man to earn an England Non-League international cap while a Hendon player. Junior Lewis wore England's No. Newing was the first of the trio to make his first-team debut, doing so on 1 January It was the first of four appearances - all starts - he made in what was a troubled season.
Despite the Greens' problems, Danny was never on the losing side in that campaign. The highlight was his magnificent individual performance in a stunning victory away to Wycombe Wanderers, denting their title challenge - the Chairboys went up when the top two, Sutton and Worthing, declined promotion - while simultaneously bolstering the Greens in their battle against the drop.
He didn't score in the game, but Newing finished off a move created by Danny for the decisive third goal. Despite taking serious kickings from a number of defenders neither quick nor smart enough to stop him legitimately, he never retaliated. In the season, he scored Hendon's goal in a defeat away to Yeovil Town; in the return at Claremont Road in March, a Glovers defender, once more beaten for pace, slowed Danny down by literally knocking him into the front row of the stand.
The only reason Danny didn't make many more appearances for the Greens was that he was already committed to joining the Royal Air Force and his studies often took priority. He had been an unused substitute on what would have been his final appearance before going to RAF training. Hendon could have done with Danny as the team had a frantic end to the season, which culminated in League and Premier Inter-League Cup final defeats. A player who could make a difference off the bench, he scored the winner the Inter-League Cup last defeat of Dagenham, and there might have been a happier outcome if he had played in the League Cup final loss to Bognor Regis Town.
But Danny wasn't actually finished with football or Hendon. The following season, when on leave, he came back to play for the Greens nine times, seven as substitute, but he didn't reach the 10 goal career milestone. Danny travelled around the world with the RAF and when he entered civilian life, he was married and then moved from Wiltshire to Derbyshire - by coincidence the Commissioner of Derbyshire's Police force was his former Princes Park and Hendon Youth coach, John Newing.
The plane developed problems and crash-landed at Lyon-Satolas Airport in France. The efforts of Danny and the pilot, David Saunders, ensured that the three passengers escaped without serious injury; tragically, however, the cockpit caught fire and Worley, still only 33, and Saunders died. The deadline for entering the World Cup prediction competition is looming, with the first game taking place on Thursday evening. Entries must be received before the competition begins on Thursday 12th June. It is open to anyone over the age of 18, so please spread the word - tell your friends, family and colleagues.
The more people who enter, the more you can win, and the more money can be given to Gary for the budget. To download the form, please click this link. The full rules of the competition are also on the download, together with details of how to make payment for your entry. We are sure that many of our supporters have stories dating back from your first game until the present day.
Some of those stories will be anecdotal and cause you to smile or laugh out loud when thinking of them. It would be a real shame if those stories were not shared or worse still were lost by not being told. Now you have an opportunity to share those stories and raise money for Hendon FC. We are in the process of creating an eBook of anecdotes by Hendon fans to generate an income. We need your help.
Please can you email any stories you can think of to John Rice at johnerice hotmail. Anecdotes are universal and therefore more saleable to the football world. When we get enough stories we have every football fan as a potential reader and customer. That is potentially a huge market for us. So please cast your mind back, reminisce, smile and share your stories. Every singe person has at least one. If every Hendon fan contributed one story we would have an awesome book.
If people donate more than one story each then we could have one huge book or even two volumes. So please share one story at least. Stories of between words are ideal. Although longer stories would be most welcome. Meanwhile, Anthony Thomas is expected to sign for Canvey Island in the next couple of days - his record for the club being 20 goals in 59 appearances. Everyone at the club joins Gary in wishing them every success for the future. We are holding trials this coming Sunday morning for those players who will be eligible to play at under 16 and under 17 levels next season.
The latest in the series focuses on a Hendon legend of more recent vintage, James Burgess, whose brother Mark will be featured later. In modern football, loyalty is almost a dirty word. Breaking the mould were the Burgess twins, Mark and James. At right-back that afternoon was identical twin Mark and all three of James's appearances in that campaign came with Mark also in the team. One had to feel sorry for a rather bemused assistant referee at Hayes when the twins came off the substitutes' bench a minute apart at the end of a Hendon victory in the Middlesex Senior Cup.
And both played the full 90 minutes when Hendon's interest in the League Cup ended away to Aldershot Town. It turned out to be James's last appearance of the season. The following season, James became a regular in Dave Anderson's team, amassing a total of 40 appearances - including the Middlesex Senior Cup final when he collected a winner's medal - but in it was Mark who played regularly while James played sporadically.
As well as being identical - more than one supporter has seen one of the twins come out of the dressing room a few seconds after the final whistle and wondered how they could have got changed so quickly. James confided in me that there was an easy way to tell them apart, provided you knew where to look - and the difference was easy to spot even if they were walking down the street together!
It is said that identical twins think alike and act alike - and the Burgess boys proved that argument in their style of play.
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Both were defenders or midfielders, tough tackling, no nonsense and ready, willing and able to help out team-mates in distress. This, unsurprisingly, got them into trouble with referees and they set an unwanted record when both saw red cards in a FA Cup tie at Stevenage, though one of the red cards was rescinded on appeal. Their combative nature made it difficult for the Hendon management team to have both players on the pitch at the same time, so Mark left during the season.
The twins' similarity went further than playing style, because the way they took penalties was also identical: Feltham's goalkeeper in a penalty shoot-out screamed at the referee that James was taking two in a row, but the referee shouted "This one is 3, the last one was 2. Despite their ability from the penalty spot, neither twin was noted for their goalscoring prowess. Mark scored only once, in September , but James had to wait even longer, until he was well past his 30th birthday.
Although he wound up with a Hendon career total of three goals - aggregate yardage for the trio being approximately six - the first came in his st first-team outing, on 15 October against Harrow Borough at Northwood. For almost every fan there it was the most memorable of the match. James also scored Hendon's last goal of the League season, a stoppage time consolation at home to Carshalton Athletic. James's third and final goal came in the dying moments of another victory, at home to Maidstone United, only this goal was not celebrated by every player - Craig Vargas was left as the only regular outfield player not to score, and Burgess had applied the coup de gras to his goalbound effort.
It was more than successful as he scored twice in a and one of the goals singled him out as a special talent. Attacking in the inside-right channel, he ran onto a through ball from Dermot Drummy, burst past a defender, who barely moved, and fired a rifle shot across the goalkeeper just inside the far post. Ineligible to play in the League Cup - Saints had picked him earlier in the competition despite requests not to - he was able to take his place in the Hendon team for the run in the GMAC Cup, also known as the Premier Inter-League Cup.
The Greens enjoyed a fantastic run in the competition's inaugural season, reaching the final where Kettering Town - then one of the strongest sides in the Conference - won at Rockingham Road.
Iain had to miss the semi-final at Burton Albion because the match was played on a Sunday and he had a finals exam that day. The club even looked at flying him up to the North Midlands, but he didn't make the 13 who drew in a match that was not for the faint-hearted. He played his part in the replay and although he didn't score, the Greens won Despite not playing for the first 10 weeks of the season, Iain completed his first Hendon campaign with 23 goals from 46 appearances.
The following season, Hendon made their final appearance at the old Wembley stadium in the Russell Grant Middlesex Charity Cup final, a defeat of Wembley. The match on 2 June was his 56th match of the season, and he scored his 28th goal. But Iain wasn't satisfied with a strike rate of a goal every other game and he worked diligently throughout the off-season with coach Ronnie Duke, a hard taskmaster, but who possessed an outstanding technical and tactical mind. All the hard work paid off handsomely as he banged in goals at a rate of almost one per match. By now a number of Football League clubs were showing great interest in the striker and it was clear that Iain's time at Hendon was coming to an end, though he agreed not to leave the club until the FA Cup run was over.
Iain's final appearances came in the FA Trophy, an infamous tie against Hayes, in which five players were sent off at Claremont Road. Dowie scored twice in a draw, but didn't find the net in the replay, which Hendon won As a professional, one of the few modern players not to use an agent, Iain appeared in more than first-team matches, including 59 for Northern Ireland. Although born in Hatfield, Iain's parents were from Northern Ireland and they watched him play almost every week.
Iain is now a football pundit, seen regularly on Sky Sports.
Three Hendon shirts, one of which is signed by the squad, have been put up for auction on eBay for charity. All three auctions end within the next couple of days. The proceeds from the sale will go to Help For Sam, which has been set up to raise funds for a young disabled Wealdstone supporter so that he can get the support that he requires.
This has been set up by James Smith, a long time Wealdstone supporter who also has Hendon connections as he was involved in the coaching of one of our youth teams for a number of years. The three auctions can be found via the links below. Please note that these are shirts from a couple of years ago, not from the season just finished. Signed Hendon Home Shirt. The full league list for next season includes four teams that we've never faced before. The merged club will be playing at Maidenhead United next season until such time as the old Yeading ground has been redeveloped.
The fourth promoted side are Leatherhead. The new season kicks off on Saturday 9th August, and the fixtures are expected to be released in mid-July. It has been confirmed this evening that we will be staying in the Ryman League for the season. The full list of clubs will appear on here late tonight or tomorrow. The word legend is overused in football parlance but, in the case of Rod Haider, it is a massive understatement.
Rod has a place in England football history as he won 65 England Amateur international caps, and as that tier of football ended in , no one will pass his total second on the list is another Hendon legend, John Swannell - Rod joined Hendon from Kingstonian - much to their disappointment - in , having already won 10 England Amateur caps. A tireless worker in midfield, he had the uncanny ability to time his runs into the penalty area to finish off attacks with a goal. Rod's debut came in the opening game of the season, a victory over Dulwich Hamlet at Champion Hill, and the first goal came three days later, in a defeat of Walthamstow Avenue at Claremont Road.
However, Rod's debut season was his equally-least productive in terms of goals for Hendon. He appeared in 34 League matches and nine cup ties and scored eight goals - the only one of his 12 campaigns in which he failed to register in a knock-out fixture. For the first four seasons, as Hendon slipped from highest echelon of the Isthmian League, Rod was one of the most consistent performers. He had the happy knack of avoiding serious injury and never missed more than half a dozen league matches in any season until he left the club - aged almost 37 - in November The first half of the s was Rod's greatest spell.
The Greens scored midway through the first half and, after soaking up huge Es' pressure, sealed the win in the last couple of minutes. It was Rod who paraded the Amateur Cup to the Hendon faithful for the third and final time. In 58 League and cup appearances, he scored an astonishing 23 goals - one almost every two-and-a-half games. Five months later, it was off to Italy as Hendon represented England in the Barassi Cup - dubbed the European Amateur Championship, though it was an Anglo-Italian challenge - and a draw against Unione Valdinvole gave Hendon a aggregate victory.
Rod had scored Hendon's second goal at Claremont Road. Once again, there was Haider lifting a trophy aloft. The Greens enjoyed a very special campaign, winning the Isthmian League championship after an unbeaten run that stretched 38 matches from 8 August to 17 April. Rod's busiest season was in and he, once again, hit the national headlines. This time it was in the FA Cup because, after victories over Barnet in a fourth-qualifying round replay , Leytonstone and Merthyr Tydfil, Hendon reached the third round proper.
There, the Greens were drawn away to Newcastle United and, after conceding a goal to Pat Howard just before half-time, Rod was on the end of a free-kick move to make it He nearly grabbed a second late on, but the Magpies held on and won the replay Hendon's campaign was arduous in the extreme as a nine-match FA Amateur Cup run ended with a third-round second replay exit at the hands of Leatherhead.
Rod missed only one of 67 matches that season - of which 16 came in 39 days from 9 April At the end of that season, most of the team moved elsewhere, but Rod stayed loyal to the Club where he had enjoyed so much success. He turned down numerous offers to go elsewhere - he had been offered pro terms earlier in his career - and indeed missed only three matches in the five seasons from His ability to score key goals had been shown in as he netted the only goal of the London Senior Cup final, and eight years later, as he repeated the feat in the League Cup final against Barking.
In , Rod was appointed player-manager, a role he took on reluctantly and it was not a huge success. He stopped playing for Hendon in November that year and a little later, was sacked as manager. It was the signal for Rod to move on to pastures new and he had spells as a player and coach at both Harrow Borough and Hayes, before playing veterans football for Corinthian Casuals, finally retiring aged 57! Gary McCann has announced that Scott Cousins will step up to take over as coach following the departure of Junior Lewis. Gary said "As I said at the awards evening on Saturday, I am confident that I will be able to keep the majority of the squad from last season, though a lot of them will get offers from other clubs.
I think the appointment of Scott Cousins as coach has certainly helped. He will be replacing Junior Lewis who has decided to move on. He has the same coaching ethics as Junior and he will get the chance to put his own plans and styles into place, while still playing the same type of football. It will be a great chance for him to make a mark in his first coaching job. Most of the players have committed to returning which is great news because I feel that we have four each of outstanding central defenders and full-backs - so we have plenty of cover all across the back four.
We will be looking to bring in a few players, maybe a goalkeeper, a couple of wide players, somebody up front. I began to wonder if I had taken the Club as far as I could. I had a conversation with Gordon Bartlett which helped to clear my mind and realise there were challenges I could meet here. I love the Club and it has been a big part of my life for so long and I can see a light at the end of the tunnel. The setting up of the Youth section is very important to me and to the future of the Club.
It is going to be a real challenge to match what we did last season, but I am confident I will be able to put together a squad which will be more than competitive. Every week you have to predict whether matches will end in a home win, away win or a draw. You will get one point for every correct prediction. Please, please encourage your friends and family to take part. The more people who play, the more you can win and the more funds we raise.
For more information please email John Rice or Chris Hutton at hfcfootballcomp outlook. We are delighted to announce that Gary McCann has committed to the club for what will be his 10th full season as manager. Speaking at the awards evening last night Gary said "I am proud to call these players my team, they have worked hard all season, and marched on despite the difficulties that came their way. As we all know Junior is off to pastures new, and he has been an absolute pleasure to work with. We have all learnt so much from him, and hopefully we will keep in touch.
The journey they have gone through with the various groundshares and what they have now achieved at their new home in winning the championship needs to be our gauge for our future. There is a lot of hard work ahead of us - but if we continue to pull together, who knows what we can achieve. The annual awards were presented at Silver Jubilee Park this evening - with a number of presentations being made. The supporter of the year is Rob Wakeley, who travels down from Telford every weekend to our games, and has also done some valuable research for the website archive.
The management team also picked their player of the year, and their award went to Chris Seeby, who played every minute of all 46 league games this season - something t that we believe no outfield player has done since the s. The chairman's award went to Steve Rogers, who spends many hours away from matchdays working for the club in his roles as match secretary and website editor. First of all, the supporters association made a presentation to Mike Hogan, who is retiring as chairman of the association this summer. He has been made life president of the assocation as a mark of the efforts he has put in for so many years for the club.
Secondly, Simon Lawrence made a special presentation to Gary McCann to mark his th game as manager of the club. As everyone at the club is aware, Gary first joined us just over 17 years ago as a player, and has been around for the vast majority of the time since, and we hope for many years to come. One of the pleasures of being a fan of a club such as Hendon is that when an exceptional player arrives, has success and moves on to pastures new, is that you can follow his subsequent career and think, maybe my club played a part in this success.
Dermot Drummy arrived at Hendon after being released by Arsenal without playing in the Football League for the Gunners. He had gone on loan to Blackpool, where he played a handful of matches. A genuinely outstanding winger, his party trick was a dummy when he dropped his hands either side of the ball and shaped to pick it up. Defenders, almost without exception, stopped - at which point Dermot would knock the ball past him, run on and cause chaos in the opposing penalty area.
He left us to sign for Enfield, then in the Conference, and spent just under three seasons with the Es, winning the title in Malcolm Graves, the phantom bugler, was on the Hendon FC Committee in , when Ted Hardy was manager, and he persuaded his fellow members to stump up the money to bring Dermot back to the club in autumn Dermot's second League debut came in the same match that Iain Dowie made his first Hendon appearance, and they scored three of the four goals in a trouncing of Hitchin at Top Field.
It was full circle for Dermot, who had made his Hendon debut in the same competition, a demolition of Southall at Western Road. The fathers of three future Hendon players were in that line-up: I have four vivid memories of that day at Hillheads Park. First was Dermot having a goal disallowed for calling for the ball in a London accent. That evening, the squad went back to their hotel on the Whitley Bay seafront - my stories about the Chinese takeaway and Royal Hotel are not for repeating here - but by the time another supporter and I had played a game of pin bowling in the centre adjacent to the ground, we went back into the clubhouse to find the trophy sitting there.
After looking around the clubhouse it was clear no Hendon people remained. I spoke to the bar manager and told him of our predicament mobile phones didn't exist in and asked if it was OK if we took it back to the hotel with us. He said it was OK, so the two of us walked the mile or so through Whitley Bay town centre, past the funfair and along the front and into the hotel proudly carrying the Will Mather Cup - aka the Allaway Brothers Trophy.
Once we got into the hotel, the trophy was given to our manager Roy Ruffell. But, back to Dermot. After brief spells player-managing Finchley and Ware he shared the role with another former Hendon player Alan Roughan , he hung up his boots in and returned to work at Arsenal.