In Week Eight of the competition we had just one winner to take the full £5 weekend prize money. That now means that we have had a total of 12 winners this season. Our winner is SAMUEL STEPEHENS, who won on a score of 10 goals, which is his personal best weekend score. This is Samuel’s fifth season with us as he started in the 2021/22 season. In that season he finished in 29th place out of 113 with a total of 290 goals. He had one weekend win. Last season he finished in 90th place out of 114 with a total of 243 goals. This season, Samuel is at his highest position to date. He has picked up just one blank weekend scoresheet and his best team is Plymouth. Here are his winning teams.
LIVERPOOL 1, MANCHESTER CITY 5, PLYMOUTH 4
100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
Most of us managed to pick up some goals this week, which means that our top five have had a slight change this week. LUCIFER (John Wood) picked up the most number of goals with 12. They came from Brighton, Manchester City and Newcastle United. Lucifer now has a total of 20 midweek goals.
In the lead this week we still have EMMAF now with a total of 36 goals. In second place we still have DAVID BARRETT now with 30 goals. In third place we still have BISH-BASH-BOSH (Keith Rattle) but HAYLEY ADKINS joins him up from four. Both with a total of 29 goals. In fourth place, up from fifth place we now have our 2005/06 Champion, KEAMUS SETNA on a total of 24 goals. In fifth place we now have BARBARA BARNES (1) and our joint 2023/24 Champion, JOHN FILTNESS. Both on a total of 22 goals.
WEEKEND RESULTS
With a near full weekend fixture, we had just 2 teams without a game over the weekend, with another 14 of our teams that failed to score any goals. The average weekend score fell from six goals last weekend, to just 3 goals this weekend, so well done if your teams picked up more than that.
The highest score over the weekend was 5 goals, and they came from the Premier League where MANCHESTER CITY picked up their biggest result of the season with a 5-1 home win over Burnley. City have taken their goals tally to 16 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games
Manchester City started with Golden Goals back in our first season of 1983/84 where they finished on a total of 73 goals. Their highest score was in the 2013/14 and 2018/19 season with a total of 137 goals. They have scored 100 or more goals in ten of their 32 season’s with us. Last season they finished on a total of 92. This season they have picked up a total of 19 votes and they have had just one blank scoresheet to date. Over the years they have netted a total of 2782 goals which gives them an average score of 86 goals per season.
Let’s get on with the results to see how your teams have performed this weekend.
PREMIER LEAGUE
Top of the table LIVERPOOL have lost their first league game 2-1 away to CRYSTAL PALACE. Liverpool are on a total of 14 goals and have now scored in all 7 league/cup games. Palace are on a total of 9 goals and have moved into third place. In second place we still have ARSENAL after they won 2-1 away to NEWCASTLE UNITED. Arsenal are on a total of 14 goals while Newcastle are on a total of 8 goals. BRIGHTON picked up their second league win with a 3-1 away win over CHELSEA. Brighton are now on a total of 21 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. Chelsea are on a total of 13 goals and they have also scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. TOTTENHAM drew 1-1 at home against WOLVES and hit goal number 14. Wolves, bottom of the table and still without a win, are on a total of 9 goals. MANCHESTER UNITED lost 3-1 away to Brentford and are on a total of 9 goals. AFC BOURNEMOUTH drew 2-2 away to Leeds Utd and are on a total of 8 goals. NOTTINGHAM FOREST lost 1-0 at home to SUNDERLAND and picked up their third blank of the season. Sunderland with their third win of the season, are on a total of 8 goals. ASTON VILLA have won their first league game 3-1 at home to Fulham. With their biggest result of the season, Villa are now on a total of 5 goals.
CHAMPIONSHIP
MIDDLESBROUGH are still top after they drew 1-1 away to SOUTHAMPTON. Middlesbrough are on a total of 12 goals while Southampton are on 13 goals. BIRMINGHAM CITY lost 3-0 away to Coventry to pick up their fourth blank scoresheet and now just one goal in their last 5 games. It’s 20 goals for WREXHAM after they drew 1-1 at home to Derby. Wrexham have kept their 100% scoring record after a total of 10 league/cup games. BLACKBURN ROVERS lost 3-0 away to Charlton and picked up their third blank scoresheet of the season. IPSWICH TOWN won 2-1 at home to Portsmouth and are on a total of 12 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED have finally won their first league game 1-0 away to Oxford Utd. After a total of five consecutive blank scoresheets, United picked up goal number 3. PRESTON NE drew 0-0 at home to BRISTOL CITY. Preston picked up their second blank scoresheet while City picked up their third. NORWICH CITY drew 1-1 away to Stoke and are on a total of 12 goals. WATFORD won 2-1 at home against Hull and are on a total of 8 goals.
LEAGUE ONE
CARDIFF CITY are still in fourth place after they won their sixth league game 2-0 away to Wigan. Cardiff are on a total of 22 goals and have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. WYCOMBE lost 2-1 away to AFC Wimbledon and are on a total of 15 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league games. LEYTON ORIENT lost 3-2 at home to Stevenage and are on a total of 13 goals. BLACKPOOL lost 1-0 away to Bradford and picked up their fifth blank of the season and now just 2 goals in their last six games. PLYMOUTH won 4-0 away to Burton and have taken their goals total to 19. After they had failed to score in their last 2 games, HUDDERSFIELD TOWN won 1-0 away to Exeter and are on a total of 19 goals. LUTON TOWN won 1-0 at home against Doncaster and are on a total of 12 goals. BOLTON lost 2-0 away to Northampton and after a goal run of 9 league/cup games, picked up their second blank scoresheet. PETERBOROUGH UNITED picked up their fifth blank scoresheet after they lost 3-0 at home to Lincoln. STOCKPORT COUNTY drew 1-1 at home to Reading and are on a total of 18 goals.
LEAGUE TWO
WALSALL have moved to the top of the table after they won 3-1 away to Accrington. Walsall are now on a total of 15 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 games. SWINDON TOWN moved into second place after they won 2-0 at home to BROMLEY. Swindon are on a total of 22 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 games. Bromley picked up their third blank of the season. GILLINGHAM moved down to third place after they lost 1-0 at home to Harrogate. Gillingham after a goal run of 10 league/cup games, picked up their first blank of the season. CREWE won 2-1 at home to NOTTS COUNTY and are on a total of 15 goals. County hit goal number 17. BARNET drew 1-1 away to Oldham and are on a total of 14 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. CHESTERFIELD picked up their biggest result to date after they won 4-1 at home to Newport. Chesterfield are on a total of 18 goals. MK DONS won 2-1 away to Shrewsbury and are on a total of 16 goals.
SCOTTISH LEAGUES
In the Premiership HEARTS go back to the top after they won 3-0 at home to Falkirk and are now on a total of 32 goals. Hearts keep their 100% scoring record after a total of 11 league/cup games. CELTIC are now in second place after they drew 0-0 at home to HIBERNIAN. Celtic and Hibs both picked up their second blank of the season. RANGERS have won their first league game, 2-1 away to Livingston. Ranger’s are on a total of 11 goals.
In the Championship, AYR UNITED won 4-2 at home to Airdrie and have taken their goals tally up to 24 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league games. ROSS COUNTY have still yet to win a game as they drew 1-1 away to Greenock. County are on a total of 20 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league games.
In League One, STENHOUSEMUIR are down to third place after they lost 2-0 away to Hamilton. Stenhousemuir picked up their fourth blank of the season. EAST FIFE lost 4-1 away to Inverness CT and are on a total of 15 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league games. Bottom of the table COVE RANGERS are still unable to win after they lost their sixth league game, 2-0 at home to Kelty Hearts. Ranger’s have picked up their sixth blank score sheet and now just one goal in their last 4 games.
In League Two, CLYDE won their third consecutive league game 4-2 away to Stirling and have taken their goals tally to 21 goals. DUMBARTON lost 2-1 at home to Stranraer and are on a total of 17 goals and have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games.
Our BEST three teams are
HEARTS (32) AYR UNITED (24) SWINDON TOWN (22) Total of 78 goals
Our WORST three teams are
SHEFFIELD UNITED (3) ASTON VILLA (5) BLACKBURN ROVERS (6) Total of 14 goals
Our best performing team is still HEARTS, after they have now scored in all of their 11 league/cup games. With a total of 32 goals, their average score is 2.9 goals per game.
Our worst performing team is SHEFFIELD UNITED this weekend, as they have picked up 5 blank score sheets in their 8 league/cup games.
Our highest scoring team in our 43rd Season is ROSS COUNTY. They won 8-0 at home against Edinburgh City in the first round group stages of the Scottish League Cup in Week One.
HAYLEY ADKINS becomes the second player to reach number one this season. Hayley picked up a total of 13 goals from the week. Hayley’s teams are Hearts, Liverpool and Manchester City. David Barrett has dropped down to second place after being top for seven consecutive weekends. He is just 2 goals behind Hayley as his team’s picked him up a total of 6 goals from the week. David’s teams are Celtic, Hearts and Liverpool.
At the other end at 111 we still have ANN WELLARD with her fifth consecutive weekend. Ann picked up just 4 goals from the weekend. Ann has Aston Villa, Celtic and Sheffield United.
We have had a slight change in our top ten this weekend
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 2 H. ADKINS 29 33 62
2 1 D. BARRETT 30 30 60
3 10 EMMAF 36 24 60
4 28 B. BARNES (1) 22 35 57
5 3 BISH-BASH-BOSH 29 24 53
6 4 M. WALKER 9 43 52
7 5 K. SETNA (2005/06) 24 28 52
8 9 G. DOWSETT (1) 21 30 51
9 11 T. GUY (3) 15 35 50
10 7 J. FILTNESS (2023/24)* 22 28 50
