In Week Thirty-Eight of the competition we had our 7th Rollover of the season worth £10 and that was won on a score of 10 goals. The prize money went to our 34th winner of the season, ANNE HAMMOND.
Anne is in her very first season with Golden Goals and this is her personal best score of the season. Anne as been as high as 61st place in Week Thirty. She as picked up a total of 6 blank weekend score sheets. Anne’s best team is Liverpool. Here ate her winning combination.
CRYSTAL PLACE 5, LIVERPOOL 3, RANGERS 2
100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
Only 30 of us have managed to pick up a goal or two this week as the race for the record hots up. We now have a total of 15 players that have now reached 100 or more goals and we hope there will be a couple more next week. The record to beat is 136 midweek goals and the record holder is Daryl Nicholls from the 2016/17 Season.
Leading the race for the record this week we still have TONY KING now with a total of 117 goals. In second place we have MARK JOHNSTON and ANN WELLARD with a total of 112 goals. In third place we have BAILEY MORAN with a total of 110 goals. In fourth place we have GEOFF CARTHY, DOUG MORBEY and JAMES SOMERVILLE all with a total of 107 goals. In fifth place with 106 goals, we have ANDREW HAMMOND.
WEEKEND RESULTS
We had all but 9 of our teams in action again over the weekend and the ones that did play, 5 of them failed to score any goals. What a crazy weekend we had again with our teams and that is once again reflected in the table this week. The average score for the weekend remained the same as last week of just 5 goals.
The highest score that we had was 5 goals, and they came from two of our teams. They are CRYSTAL PALACE and MK DONS.
FA CUP Semi-Finals
In this round we had three of the four teams. MANCHESTER CITY won 1-0 against CHELSEA and are on a total of 91 goals. Chelsea after a goal run of 8 league/cup games, pick up their 9th blank of the season. MANCHESTER UNITED drew 3-3 against Coventry City after full time and that score remained after extra time. United who were 3-0 up with 20 minutes to go, then won 4-2 on penalties. United are now on a total of 64 goals and have now scored in all of their last 19 league/cup games. It’s the old firm final between City and United on 25 May.
PREMIER LEAGUE
ARSENAL are at the top this weekend after they won 2-0 away to Wolves and are on a total of 79 goals. LIVERPOOL are now in second place after they won 3-1 away to FULHAM and are now on a total of 102 goals which makes them our second team to reach 100 goals this season. Fulham picked up goal number 60 Manchester City are in third place. ASTON VILLA in fourth place, won 3-1 at home against AFC BOURNEMOUTH and they are now on a total of 74 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league games. Bournemouth are on a total of 62 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league games. CRYSTAL PALACE picked up their biggest result of the season as they beat London rivals WEST HAM 5-2 at home. Palace are now on a total of 46 goals. West Ham are on a total of 60 goals. NOTTINGHAM FOREST lost 2-0 away to Everton and picked up their 12th blank of the season.
CHAMPIONSHIP
LEICESTER CITY are back on top after they won 2-1 at home to West Brom. City after they had failed to score in their last 2 games, are now on a total of 95. Ipswich are back down to second place as they had no game this weekend.
In the Play-offs we have three of the four teams. In third place we still have Leeds United who had no game this weekend.
SOUTHAMPTON are still in fourth place after they lost 2-1 away to Cardiff. Southampton are now on a total of 94 goals. NORWICH are still in sixth place after they drew 1-1 at home against BRISTOL CITY. Norwich are on a total of 86 goals and have now scored in all of their last 16 league/cup games. Bristol City are on 59 goals.
Meanwhile SWANSEA picked up their biggest result of the season after they won 4-0 away to Huddersfield. Swansea have taken their goals tally to 64. STOKE won 3-0 at home to PLYMOUTH and are now on a total of 54 goals while Plymouth, picked up their 13th blank of the season. SUNDERLAND picked up their 17th blank of the season after they lost 1-0 at home to Millwall. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY won 3-1 away to Blackburn Rovers and are now on a total of 47 goals.
LEAGUE ONE
DERBY are still our highest team here in second place after they won 1-0 away to Cambridge Utd. Derby are on a total of 79 goals.
In the Play-offs we still have two teams with PETERBOROUGH still in fourth place after they won 2-0 away to BRISTOL ROVERS. Peterborough are on a total of 98 goals while Rovers picked up their 13th blank of the season. BARNSLEY are in fifth place after they lost 3-2 away to BLACKPOOL. Barnsley are on a total of 89 goals while Blackpool are now on a total of 74 goals.
Meanwhile CHARLTON drew 1-1 at home to Shrewsbury and are on a total of 72 goals. READING lost 3-2 away to Burton and are on a total of 74 goals and have now scored in all of their last 19 league/cup games.
LEAGUE TWO
WREXHAM are down to third place after they won 3-0 away to Crewe and have taken their goal tally to 91.
In the Play-offs we now have one team and they are MK DONS, who are still in fourth place after they won 5-3 away to Harrogate. The Dons have taken their goals total to 81.
Meanwhile SALFORD CITY won 1-0 away to Newport and are on a total of 73 goals. NOTTS COUNTY won 1-0 at home against Colchester and are on a total of 94 goals and have now scored in all of their last 10 league games. SUTTON UNITED drew 2-2 at home to Crawley and are on a total of 65 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 7 league games. AFC WIMBELDON lost 3-2 away to Tranmere and are on a total of 73 goals.
SCOTTISH RESULTS
In the SCOTTISH CUP Semi-Finals we had three of the four teams. CELTIC drew 3-3 against ABERDEEN after extra time and then went on to win 6-5 on penalties. Celtic are now on a total of 94 goals and have scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. Aberdeen, after they had failed to score in their last 2 league games, are now on a total of 50 goals. RANGERS won 2-0 against Hearts and are on a total of 92 goals. The final between Celtic and Rangers is to be played on 25 May.
In League One Champions FALKIRK top of the table drew 2-2 at home to KELTY HEARTS. Falkirk are on a total of 103 goals and have now scored in all of their last 21 league/cup games. Kelty are on a total of 60 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league games. It’s 70 goals for COVE RANGERS after they lost 3-2 at home against Alloa and they have now scored in all of their last 7 league games.
In League Two STENHOUSEMUIR top of the table, drew their seventh consecutive league game 2-2 away to bottom of the table CLYDE. Stenhousemuir are on a total of 52 goals while Clyde are on a total of 60 goals. EAST FIFE lost 2-1 away to Forfar and are on a total of 48 goals.
Our BEST three teams this week
FALKIRK (103) LIVERPOOL (102) PETERBOROUGH (98) Total of 303 goals
Our WORST three teams are
CRYSTAL PALACE (46) SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY (47) NOTTINGHAM FOREST (48) Total of 141 goals
Our Best performing team are now FALKIRK after they have now scored in all of their last 21 league/cup games. They have a total of 103 goals which gives them an average score of 2.5 goals per game.
Our worst performing team is SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY this week as they have picked up 19 blank score sheets out of their 48 league/cup games.
Our highest goal scoring teams in our 41st Season are NEWCASTLE UNITED after they won 8-0 away to Sheffield United in Week Eight. BARNSLEY, BRISTOL ROVERS, COVE RANGERS, CELTIC and FALKIRK have all pick up our second highest score with 7 goals each. Barnsley won 7-0 at home to Port Vale in the first league game of the season in Week One. Bristol Rovers won 7-2 at home to non-league Whitby Town in the first round of the FA CUP in Week Fourteen. Cove Rangers won 7-2 at home to Edinburgh City in the league in Week Twenty-One. Celtic won 7-1 at home to Dundee in the league in Week Thirty-One. FALKIRK won 7-1 away to Montrose in the league in Week Thirty-Five.
JOHN FILTNESS is at the top again this weekend as he picks up a total of 6 goals from the weekend. John has now been at the top for a total of 11 weeks throughout the season. His teams are Leicester City, Liverpool and Manchester City. John has now beaten our 2006/07 Champion Adam Porters score of 284 goals in our “Champions League”. Scott Thomson (1) is still in second place with his 1st combination. Scott picked up a total of 7 goals from the week with his teams of Liverpool, Manchester City and Notts County. Scott is just 1 goal behind John.
At the other end at 110 we still have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) for his 19th consecutive weekend. John picked up a total of 2 goals this weekend. John has Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir. John has remained in 33rd place in our “Losers League” this week.
Here is our top ten this weekend and the race is still wide open. Who is going to win the £100?
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 - J. FILTNESS 100 188 288
2 - S. THOMSON (1) 100 187 287
3 6 J. SOMERVILLE 107 180 287
4 3 GRAHAM PHILLIPS 90 196 286
5 4 C. NUNN 81 203 284
6 7 B. MORAN 110 174 284
7 8 S. THOMSON (2) 88 195 283
8 5 A. STUBBS (2) 95 187 282
9 10 D. MORBEY 107 174 281
10 9 A. HAMMOND 106 174 280
