In the Premier League top of the table LIVERPOOL drew their 7th league game 2-2 away to ASTON VILLA. Liverpool are on a total of 80 goals while Villa are on 42.
In the Championship bottom of the table LUTON TOWN, after they had failed to score in their previous 2 games, drew 1-1 at home to Plymouth and are now on a total of 32 goals.
In the Championship PRESTON NE drew 1-1 at home to MILLWALL and are on a total of 45 goals. Millwall are on 39 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games.
In League One WREXHAM lost 2-1 at home to Leyton Orient and picked up goal number 48 and they have njow scored in all of their last 16 league/cup games. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN won 1-0 away to Shrewsbury Town and are on a total of 49 goals.
In League Two AFC WIMBLEDON in 2nd place, drew 0-0 away to Fleetwood Town and picked up their 11th blank of the season. DONCASTER ROVERS in 3rd place won 1-0 away to Morecambe. NOTTS COUNTY in 4th place drew 1-1 at home to Colchester United and are on a total of 59 goals.
In the Championship LEEDS UNITED have moved back to the top on goal difference, after they won 2-1 at home against Sunderland with 2 very late goals. Leeds are on a total of 69 goals.
Here is a look at our 10 top teams this season. The numbers in red after the teams name in brackets are their best end of season score with Golden Goals.
100 CELTIC (143)
78 LIVERPOOL (127)
69 RANGERS (126)
69 LEEDS UNITED (97)
67 DUNDEE (65)
66 FALKIRK (108)
65 MANCHESTER CITY (137)
63 ARSENAL (103)
62 TOTTENHAM (109)
59 BIRMINGHAM CITY (95)
In Week Twenty-Eight of the competition, we had another £5 Weekend Jackpot but we had 3 winners which means that they won £1.66 each. This weekends winners are MICK LIDDLE, LUCIFER (John Wood) and our 2016/176 Champion JOHN WOOD. All won on a score of 9 goals, That now means that we have had a total of 30 winners this season.
Mick picks up his second win of the season as he won some cash back in Week Five. His highest position is still 39th in Week Six. Since Christmas he has started to pick upo the goals from his seletion. His best team is Liverpool.
John wins twice this weekend first as a Champion and then with Lucifer. John started with Golden Goals back in the 1997/98 season and finished in 87th place with a total of 209 goals, he picked up a shared weekend win. John became Champion in the 2016/17 winning on a score of 344 goals. That currently finds him in 3rd place in our Champions league. Last season John finished in 46th place with 297 goals. His other combination, Lucifer finished in 60th place with 291 goals. You might not know that John has 4 combinations in the comoetition for the last few season’s. John this season has been as high as 44th place in Week Nine. He has picked up just 3 blank weekend score sheets. Our winners teams are.
Mike COVE RANGERS 3, LIVERPOOL 2, MANCHESTER CITY 4
Lucifer BOLTON 3, LIVERPOOL 2, MANCHESTER CITY 4
John ARSENAL 2, BOLTON 3, MANCHESTER CITY 4
100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
Most of us managed to pick up some more goals during midweek, so the race for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot has changed again from last week. We had another 7 players that have now reached the half-way mark which now brings our total to 72 players that have hit the 50 mark. The highest score this week went to MIKE HARRINGTON our 1997/98 Champion with a total of 10 goals. They came from Birmingham City, Charlton and Leeds United.
We have a new leader this week with RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion moving up from second place, now with a total of 70 goals. In second place we have JAMES BLYTH up from five on a total of 69 goals. In third place up from four we have MARTIN CORBETT now with a total of 68 goals. In fourth place we have BARRY BURROUGHS and ALFIE DIMMOCK down from third place, but joining them, we have last weeks leader BARBARA BARNES (2) also we have . All now on a total of 67 goals. In fifth place we have PETER WELLARD down from two and joining the race CARLA STEPHENS, both on a total of 66 goals. In sixth place we have GRANT PHILLIPS down from five on a total of 65 goals.
WEEKEND RESULTS
We had just 4 of our teams without a game this weekend and we had another 10 teams that failed to score any goals. We had a couple of good results from our top teams this weekend. The average score went up from four goals of last weekend to 6 goals this weekend. So if you have done better than that? Well done. The highest score over the weekend was 4 goals, and they came the Premier League where MANCHESTER CITY won 4-0 at home to NEWCASTLE UNITED. City have taken their goals tally to 65 goals and have now scored in all of their last 14 league/cup games. Newcastle after a goal run of 17 league/cup games, picked up their 4th blank of the season. Here are the rest of the weekend results.
PREMIER LEAGUE
Top of the table LIVERPOOL are now 7 points clear after they won 2-1 at home to Wolves. Liverpool are on a total of 78 goals. ARSENAL are still in 2nd place after they won 2-0 away to LEICESTER CITY and are on a total of 63 goals. Leicester picked up their 9th blank of the season. ASTON VILLA drew 1-1 at home to IPSWICH TOWN and are on a total of 42 goals. Ipswich hit goal number 32. AFC BOURNEMOUTH won 3-1 away to bottom of the table SOUTHAMPTON and are now on a total of 48 goals. Southampton are on 32 goals. WEST HAM UNITED lost 1-0 away to Brentford and picked up their 6blank of the season. CRYSTAL PALACE lost 2-1 at home to Everton and are on a total of 42 goals and th have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. TOTTENHAM won 1-0 at home against MANCHESTER UNITED and are on a total of 62 goals. United picked up their 10th blank of the season.
CHAMPIONSHIP
SHEFFIELD UNITED are now top of the table after they won 1-0 away to LUTON TOWN. United are on a total of 51 goals while Luton, picked up their 12th blank of the season and now 2 in a row and they are bottom of the table. Leeds United drop down to second place with a game in hand.
In the Play-offs we still have just one of the 4 teams and they are BURNLEY in 3rd place. They drew 0-0 away to PRESTON NE. Burnley picked up their 14th blank of the season while Preston picked up their 10th.
Meanwhile PORTSMOUTH won 2-0 away to OXFORD UNITED and are on a total of 41 goals. Oxford picked up their 11th blank score sheet and now 3 games without a goal. NORWICH CITY drew 1-1 away to Hull City and are on a total of 55 goals. MIDDLESBROUGH picked up their 9th blank of the season after a goal run of 5 games, as they lost 1-0 at home to Watford. MILLWALL drew 1-1 at home top WBA and are on a total of 38 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. SWANSEA CITY lost 3-1 away to Stoke City and are on a total of 37 goals.
LEAGUE ONE
BIRMINGHAM CITY remain top of the table this week after they won 1-0 at home to CHARLTON. City are on a total of 59 goals and a goal run of 10 league/cup games. Charlton after a goal run of 8 league/cup games, picked up their 8th blank of the season.
In the Play-offs we now have two of the 4 teams. In 3rd place we still have WREXHAM who won 2-0 away to Northampton Town. Wrexham are on 47 goals and have extended their goal run to 15 league/cup games. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN are still in 5th place after they won 2-1 away to BARNSLEY. Huddersfield are on a total of 48 goals while Barnsley also hit goal number 48.
Meanwhile BLACKPOOL drew 3-3 at home to Mansfield Town and are now on a total of 54 goals. BOLTON won 3-2 away to Shrewsbury Town and are now on a total of 55 goals. PETERBOROUGH drew 1-1 away to Stevenage and picked up gaol number 55. They have now scored in al of their last 6 games.
LEAGUE TWO
The highest team that we have are AFC WIMBLEDON who have moved up to 2nd place after they won 1-0 at home to Salford City. Wimbledon are on a total of 50 goals.
In the Play-offs we have two of the 4 teams. They are Notts County are down to 4th place while DONCASTER ROVERS are down to 6th place after they lost 2-1 at home to Grimsby Town and are on a total of 51 goals.
Meanwhile BROMLEY won 1-0 at home to Fleetwood Town and are on a total of 49 goals. MK DONS drew 1-1 away to Tranmere Rovers and are on a total of 44 goals. CHESTERFIELD lost 3-1 away to Walsall and are on a total of 53 goals.
SCOTTISH LEAGUES
In the Premiership Champions CELTIC won 3-0 at home to Dundee Utd and they become our first team to hit 100 goals this season. They have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. RANGERS in 2nd place won 3-1 away to HEARTS. Rangers are now on a total of 69 goals while Hearts pick up goal number 40 and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. DUNDEE lost 2-1 at home to Aberdeen and picked up gaol number 67. KILMARNOCK won 3-1 at home to St Johnstone and are now on a total of 32 goals. ROSS COUNTY won 3-0 away to Motherwell and are now on a total of 39 goals.
In the Championship, top of the table FALKIRK drew 2-2 at home to second place Ayr Utd and are on a total of 66 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games.
In League One COVE RANGERS are now in 2nd place after they won 3-1 at home to Annan. Rangers are on a total of 47 goals.
In League Two EAST FIFE are still top after they drew 1-1 at home to Bonnyrige Rose and they are on a total of 59 goals PETERHEAD remained in second place after they drew 2-2 at home to CLYDE. Peterhead are on a total to 51 goals while Clyde are on 40 goals.
Our BEST three teams this week
CELTIC (100) LIVERPOOL (78) RANGERS (69) Total of 247 goals
Our WORST three teams are
LUTON TOWN (31) WEST HAM (32) SOUTHAMPTON (32) Total of 95 goals
Our best performing team this weekend are now MANCHESTER CITY after they have now scored in all of their last 14 league/cup games. They have a total of 65 goals which gives them an average score of 2.2 goals per game.
Our worst performing team is now BURNLEY this weekend as they have had a total of 14 blank score sheet from 36 league/cup games. They have a total of 43 goals.
Our highest goal-scoring team that we have in our 42nd Season are MANCHESTER CITY after they won 8-0 at home to Salford City in the FA Cup 3rd Round in Week Twenty-Three.
GEOFF DOCKERILL our 1994/95 Champion, is celebrating his 7th weekend at the top after his teams picked him up a total of 9 goals from the week. Geoff’s teams are Arsenal, Celtic and Liverpool. Carla Stephens has moved up to second place now, just 4 goals behind Geoff. Carla picked up a total of 12 goals from the week and her teams are Birmingham City, Celtic and Liverpool.
At the other end at 114 we still have CHARLIE FARLEY with his 13th consecutive weekend. Charlie’s teams picked up just 2 goals again all from the weekend. His teams are Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir.
Here are our top ten for this weekend.
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 - G. DOCKERILL (1994/95) 64 177 241
2 3 C. STEPHENS 66 171 237
3 2 L. HAMMOND 63 173 236
4 - J. WEARDEN 59 174 233
5 - B. BURROUGHS 67 163 230
6 - D. SOMERVILLE (2009/10) 64 163 227
7 10 J. BLYTH 69 157 226
8 12 S. DICKINSON 62 160 222
9 11 A. WELLARD 62 160 222
10 9 S. STUBBS (2) 64 158 222
In the Premier League CHELSEA in 4th place, lost their 6th league game 3-0 away to Brighton. Chelsea picked up their 5th blank of the season after a goal run of 7 league/cup games and have now won just 2 of their last 6 league games.
Here is a look at our 10 top teams this season. The numbers in red after the teams name, in brackets, are their best end of season score with Golden Goals.
97 CELTIC (143)
76 LIVERPOOL (127)
67 LEEDS UNITED (97)
66 RANGERS (126)
66 DUNDEE (65)
64 FALKIRK (108)
61 MANCHESTER CITY (137)
61 ARSENAL (103)
61 TOTTENHAM (109)
59 NEWCASTLE UNITED (105)
In League Two second place NOTTS COUNTY lost 1-0 away to Port Vale, and picked up their 7th blank of the season after a goal run of 10 league/cup games.
In the Premier League LIVERPOOL drew 2-2 away to Everton in this Merseyside derby and are on a total of 76 goals.
In the Championship second place SHEFFIELD UNITED won 3-1 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH and are on a total of 50 goals. Middlesbrough are on 53 goals. BURNLEY won 2-0 at home to Hull City and are on a total of 43 goals. MILLWALL lost 5-1 away to Plymouth and are on a total of 37 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. LUTON TOWN lost 2-0 away to Sunderland and picked up their 11th blank of the season. SWANSEA CITY lost 1-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday and they have now had a total of 14 blank score sheets.
