Middlesex County League

Premier Division

Tuesday 31st March 2026

Kick Off 19.30 Actual 19.33

Harrow United 5 Larkspur Rovers 1, attendance 49

4’ 1-0

7’ 2-0

10’ 3-0

16’ 4-0

22’ 4-1

66’ 5-1

@ William Perkin Centre for Youth Sport Development, 3G Pitch

Legion Road

off Oldfield Lane North

Greenford

UB6 8XG

No Admission or Programme.

With Harrow United’s normal home venue being unavailable, this match was switched to the 3G pitch at William Perkin Centre, just north of the A40, where the pitch runs parallel to Western Avenue. It’s a standard cage set up, with a designated spectator area on three quarters of one side. Car parking is available inside the complex and there are toilets for use inside the changing room building.

The match was 11th versus 4th in the league table and certainly didn’t go the way that the respective league positions would suggest. A one on one finish saw the hosts ahead after just four minutes and by the time we’d played ten minutes they’d made it 3-0, intercepting a miss kick by the ‘keeper for the second goal, before making it three with a free kick from wide on the left that was touched in from close range, possibly off a defender. Another one on one finish saw them make it 4-0 after sixteen minutes and at this point it looked like they’d run up a cricket score. Larkspur did reply with a goal of their own midway through the half, when a cross from the right was squeezed in at the near post and surprisingly the score remained 4-1 at the break. Larkspur did have a header cleared off the line early in the second half, before Harrow rounded off the scoring, with another one on one finish with twenty four minutes left.

The 42 mile journey there, via M25, M4, A312 and A40 took a ridiculous 92 minutes, not helped by 40-50 mph speed reductions on all bar ten miles of the motorway section. Thankfully, a totally traffic free drive on the return took under fifty minutes.