On Saturday 26th April, the Old Carthusians beat Old Bradfieldians 4-0 in the last match of the season to complete a most remarkable and surely unprecedented feat for the School. By winning that match the Old Boys secured the premiership title of the Arthurian League. This represented a fine double since they had won the Arthur Dunn Cup the previous week-end, beating Old Brentwoods 1-0 in a hard-fought final.
Charterhouse has a strong reputation for football which is as old as the game itself. The School was represented at the first ever meeting of the Football Association; the Old Carthusians won the FA Cup in 1881; and the Old Carthusians have won the Arthur Dunn Cup more times than any other school.
The ‘double’ has been done before, most recently by the Old Carthusians in 2005/06, but what makes the feat all the more extraordinary this year is that the OC 2nd XI won their league, the OC 3rd XI won their league and the OC Veterans XI won the Veterans’ Cup. Coming on top of an unbeaten season for the School 1st XI, in which they won the Boodles ISFA Cup and the Southern Independent Schools’ League, Charterhouse is, not surprisingly, abuzz, and can with real justification lay claim to being the leading football school in the country.