Capital One Cup Second Round Games

We have had twenty of our teams left in the Capital One Cup 2^nd round games this week and out of them nine failed to make it through to the next round.

The biggest upset was when MANCHESTER UNITED were beaten 4-0 away to MK DONS. That was United’s first blank score sheet of the season while the Dons take their goals tally to 14 and they are now our best team of the season to date. Other teams through are FULHAM as they win 1-0 away to Brentford to pick up their 3^rd goal of the season and DERBY are on 11 as they beat CHARLTON 1-0 at home. Charlton also picked up their first blank score sheet. NOTTINGHAM FOREST are now our second best team as they win 2-0 away to Huddersfield and are now on 13 goals. NORWICH pick up another three goals to give their goals total another boost as they win 3-1 at home to Crawley. Norwich are on a total of 10 goals in their last four games. CARDIFF are also on 10 goals as they win 3-2 away to Port Vale. READING beat SCUNTHORPE 1-0 away to give them a total of 8 goals while Scunthorpe picked up their 3^rd blank score sheet of the season and they have scored just one goal in their last four games. CRYSTAL PALACE picked up their highest score of the season with a 3-0 away win over Walsall and a place in the next round. DONCASTER beat WATFORD 2-1 away to take their goals total to 9 goals while Watford have 11. SHEFFIELD UNITED drew 1-1 after extra time against West Ham away but then won 5-4 on penalties. After a two game dry spell for goals, LEYTON ORIENT beat Aston Villa 1-0 away. Orient are on 8 goals.

Teams that did not make it through to the third round are PRESTON who lost 3-1 away to Middlesbrough but they did pick up their 10^th goal of the season. ROTHERHAM lost 1-0 away to Swansea to pick up their 3^rd blank score sheet in six games played. LEEDS UNITED lost 3-1 away to Bradford to get their 5^th goal of the season while QPR lost 1-0 away to Burton to pick up their 3^rd blank score sheet. Rangers have still yet to score in this season after three games. PORTSMOUTH picked up their first blank score sheet as they lost 3-0 away to Stoke.

In the Scottish Communities League Cup 1^st round, RANGERS beat Queens Park 2-1 away to take their goals tally to 9. In the 2^nd round games, HEARTS beat STENHOUSEMUIR 2-1 away to give them a total of 10 goals while Stenhousemuir are on 9 goals. DUNFERMLINE is also on 9 goals but they lost 2-1 away to St Mirren.

So the race for the 100 Midweek Goals jackpot has changed this week with NICK GATES in front with a total of 15 goals while Mrs DEPP and MIKE HARRINGTON our 1997/87 Champion are both joint second with 14 goals.

Week Three

We had a very good weekend for goals but we had six people that failed to pick up any from their combinations.
The highest score at the weeekend came from DERBY who won 5-1at home to FULHAM to pick up their highest score of the season. Derby take their goals tally to ten and they are in seventh place in the Championship. Fulham after a two game dry spell, picked up their second of the season.
Derby have a total of 15 votes and this is their 12^th Season with Golden Goals and in their very first season of 1985/86, they picked up their highest score with104 goals. Their lowest score came in 1987/88 where they finished on a total of just 36 goals. Their last time out they finished on 78 goals and that was back in our 2008/09 Season.

 

PREMIERSHIP
TOTTENHAM are top of the Premiership this weekend as they picked up their highest score with a 4-0 home win against QPR. Tottenham are now on a total of five goals from their  two games played. Rangers are rock bottom and they have failed to pick up any gaols both their games played. CHELSEA are second as they win 2-0 at home to Leicester City. Chelsea are on 5 goals. ARSENAL are fourth as they come from 2-0 down in the first half against EVERTON to draw 2-2. Both teams are on 4 goals each.  CRYSTAL PALACE picked up their second goal of the season but lost 3-1 at home to West Ham.  MAN UTD have still not won a game this season as they drew 1-1 away to Sunderland to take their goals tally to just 2 goals.

 

CHAMPIONSHIP
NOTTINGHAM FOREST are our best team here as they go top of the Championship after they won 4-0 at home to READING. Forest have now scored in all of their five games and are on 11 goals. Reading picked up their very first blank score sheet. WATFORD also picked up their highest score to go second in the table as the beat LEEDS UTD 4-1. Watford are now on 10 goals while Leeds follow on with just 4 goals. NORWICH are third as they win 1-0 away to Ipswich to pick up their 7^th goal of the season.  WOLVES are on 5 goals as they win 1-0 at home against  Cardiff  picked up their first blank score sheet. CHARLTON have ascored in all of their five games now as they drew 1-1 away to Huddersfield. Charlton are now on 11goals. ROTHERHAM are on 3 goals as they win 1-0 away to Millwall. WIGAN won 1-0 at home to Blackpool and are now on 5 goals. 

 

LEAGUE ONE
PETERBOROUGH are our highest team here in second place as they win 1-0 away to Bradford. Borough are on 6 goals. In third place is PRESTON who won 1-0 at home to Oldham. Preston are on 9 goals and have scored in all of their five games to date. BRISTOL CITY who were top last weekend are now fourth as they drew 1-1 away to Rochdale but they are now on 6 goals. BARNSLEY picked up their highest score to date with a 4-1 home win against Gillingham to give them a total of  8 goals. DONCASTER have scored in all of their games as they win 1-0 away to Colchester. Doncaster are on 7 goals. LEYTON ORIENT picked up their second blank score sheet and both in a row as they drew 0-0 at home to Walsall. Both MK DONS and COVENTRY pick up their first blank of the season as they drew 0-0. It’s six goals for SHEFF UTD as they win 1-0 at home against Crawley. After a two game dry spell for goals, SCUNTHORPE picked up their third goal as they drew 1-1 away to Yeovil.

 

LEAGUE TWO
PORTSMOUTH are still our highest in this league in 2^nd place as they win 1-0 away to Oxford. Portsmouth have scored in all of their games and have a goals tally of 7 goals. LUTON drew 2-2 away to Accrington to take their goals total to 5. BURY are on 7 goals as they win 2-1 at home to Plymouth. STEVENAGE are on 3 goals as they lost 3-1 at home to Wycombe.

 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES 
CELTIC picked up their first blank score sheet of the season as they lost to the top of the table Inverness 1-0 away. RANGERS picked up their highest score of the season with a 4-0 away win over Raith. Rangers are on 7 goals and are still our lowest scoring Scottish team. HEARTS won 4-1 at home to Dumbarton to get their highest score to date and they are on a total of 8 goals. After a two game dry spell, DUNFERMLINE are now on 8 goals after they won 3-0 at home to Airdrie. STENHOUSEMUIR also picked up their highest score as they lost 5-4 at home to Stirling. Stenhousemuir are now on 8 goals. 

THE BEST THREE TEAMS ARE… 

CHARLTON (11) NOTTINGHAM FOREST (11) DERBY (10) Total of 32 goals. 

THE WORST THREE TEAMS ARE… 

QPR (0) FULHAM(2) CRYSTAL PALACE (2) Total of 4 goals.

 

CELTIC have still picked up the highest score of the season so far as they beat Dundee UTD 6-1 at home in their second league game.

TOBY BICKNELL celebrated his second weekend at the top and is on 28 goals three goals clear of  NICK GATES in second place who is now no 25 goals. He was also our third weekend winner of the season collecting 12 goals from his combination of Derby, Dunfermline and Rangers.

Tuesday Nights Results

We have had twenty-five of our teams in action this week so far and a few of our teams have picked up their first blank score sheets of the season. From the English Premiership on Monday night, CHELSEA had their first game against Burnley and went a goal down in the first 14 minutes. Chelsea came back and scored three goals in the next 17 minutes to be 3-1 up at halftime. But there were no more goals in the second half which in the end gave Chelsea a comfortable win. Chelsea are now top of the premiership with last season’s champions Manchester City in second place.

In the Championship, CHARLTON are now on 10 goals as they win 3-2 against DERBY at home. Charlton become our best team to date. NOTTINGHAM FOREST won 2-1 away to Bournemouth to take their goals tally to 7. It’s 7 goals for CARDIFF as they win 1-0 at home to WIGAN. LEEDS picked up blank number two as they lost 2-0 at home to Brighton. It’s 6 goals in two games now for NORWICH, as they win 3-1 at home to Blackburn. READING lost 2-1 at home to Huddersfield and are now on 7 goals. WATFORD beat ROTHERHAM 2-0 away to take their goals tally to 6. Rotherham have now had two blank score sheets out of four games.

In League One, Both BRISTOL CITY and LEYTON ORIENT both picked up their first blank score sheet of the season as they drew 0-0. MK DONS are now on 10 goals as they win 1-0 away to Chesterfield. COVENTRY drew 2-2 at home to BARNSLEY and DONCASTER drew 1-1 at home to PRESTON. Both PETERBOROUGH and SHEFFIELD UNITED are both on 5 goals each as United win 2-1. SCUNTHORPE picked up their second blank in a row as they lost 2-0 at home to Fleetwood.

In League Two, LUTON drew 1-1 against BURY at home while STEVENAGE picked up their second goal as they drew 1-1 away to Plymouth. PORTSMOUTH have now scored in all of their four games of the season as they win 2-0 at home to Northampton.

Week Two

PREMIERSHIP

MAN CITY go straight to the top this weekend as they win their very first game 2-0 away to Newcastle. ARSENAL are in second place as they win 2-1 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE. LIVERPOOL are third as they win 2-1 at home to Southampton.  EVERTON drew 2-2 away to Leicester City while QPR lost1-0 at home to Hull. TOTTENHAM beat London rivals West Ham 1-0 away. MAN UTD seem to be continuing from last season as they lost their first game 2-1 at home to Swansea. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

CARDIFF are our highest team here in third place as they win with their biggest score to date 3-1 at home to Huddersfield. Cardiff  have scored in all of their three games and are on a total of 6 goals. NOTTINGHAM FOREST are next as they drew 2-2 away to Bolton. Forest have also scored in all of their three games and are on 5 goals. CHARLTON seem to be starting off  well as they win 2-1 against WIGAN. Charlton again have scored in all three games and are on 7 goals. Wigan have also scored in all their games and are on a total of 4 goals. FULHAM picked up their first blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 at home to Millwall. LEEDS picked up their third goal as they win 1-0 at home to Middlesbrough. NORWICH picked up their first goals of the season with a 3-0 home win against WATFORD. Watford picked up their first blank score sheet. READING have scored in all of their three games and are now on 6 goals as they win 1-0 at home to Ipswich. WOLVES picked up their first blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 away to ROTHERHAM. Rotherham are on 2 goals. DERBY picked up their first blank score sheet as they drew 0-0 away to Sheff  Wed. 

 

LEAGUE ONE

BRISTOL CITY are top here as they win 2-1 at home against Colchester. City have a total of  5 goals. PETERBOROUGH picked up their biggest win of the season with a 3-2 home win against MK DONS. Borough are now on 4 goals while the Dons are on 9. PRESTON picked up their highest score to date with a 4-0 away win over SCUNTHORPE. Preston have scored in all of their three games and are on 7 goals. Scunthorpe picked up their first blank score sheet. COVENTRY are on 4 goals as they win 1-0 at home against SHEFF UTD. United picked up their first blank score sheet. After a two game dry spell for goals, BARNSLEY pick up their first goals with a 2-1 away win over Crewe. DONCASTER have scored in all of their three games as they lost 3-1 at home to PortVale. Doncaster are on 5goals. LEYTON ORIENT are doing well as they win 3-1 away to Oldham and after three games have a total of  7 goals.

 

LEAGUE TWO

PORTSMOUTH are our highest in this league in 8^th place as they win 2-1 at home to Cambridge. Portsmouth have scored in all of their three games and have a total of 4 goals. BURY are on 4 goals as they win 2-1 away to Hartlepool while LUTON picked up their first blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 at home to AFC Wimbledon. STEVENAGE picked up their second balnk score sheet in a row as they lost 2-0 away to Southend.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

CELTIC picked up the biggest win of the weekend with a 6-1 home win against Dundee UTD. RANGERS had no game this week. HEARTS won their game 2-1 at home to Hibs to give them four goals in two games played. STENHOUSEMUIR picked up their first blank score sheet as they 1-0 away to Brechin. DUNFERMLINE lost 2-0 away to Forfar and have now picked up two blank score sheets in a row. 

THE BEST THREE TEAMS ARE… 

CELTIC (9) MK DONS (9) CHARLTON (7) Total of 25 goals. 

THE WORST THREE TEAMS ARE… 

QPR (0) STEVENAGE (1) FULHAM(1) Total of 2 goals. 

CELTIC have picked up the highest score of the season so far as they beat Dundee UTD 6-1 at home in their second league game.

 

We have TOBBY BICKNELL top this week with a total of 19 goals. In Second place on 18 we have David Davidson who picked up this weekends highest score of 12 goals from Celtic 6, Manchester City 2 and Preston 4.

All 106 of us have now all scored some goals this week. The race is on for our 32nd Champion.

Capital One Cup First Round Games

The Capital One Cup first round games have been played over the last few days so here are our teams in Golden Goals results.

We had a total of 24 of our teams involved in the first round and out of them only 15 have made it through to the next round.

CHARLTON picked up the highest score with a 4-0 home win against Colchester. DERBY won 2-0 away to Carlisle while SCUNTHORPE won 1-0 away to Blackburn. LEEDS won 2-0 at home to Accrington and MK DONS won 3-1 against AFC Wimbledon. LEYTON ORIENT go through after they drew 3-3 away to Plymouth in extra time and then won 6-5 on penalties. PORTSMOUTH beat PETERBOROUGH 1-0 at home and READING won 3-0 at home to Newport. PRESTON won 2-0 away to Rochdale and ROTHERHAM won 1-0 at home to Fleetwood. WATFORD beat STEVENAGE 1-0 away while NOTTINGHAM FOREST won 1-0 away to Tranmere. DONCASTER won 1-0 away to York. CARDIFF won 2-1 away to COVENTRY and SHEFF UTD won 2-1 at home to Mansfield.

The other teams that went out are BARNSLEY, BURY, BRISTOL CITY, LUTON, WIGAN and WOLVES.

In Scotland, Celtic played their first league game of the season and won 3-0 away to St Johnstone.

Best in the last three Seasons

It’s been a while since we last posted anything on our blog and so here is the first of many.
Our 32nd Season has ended on a total of 106 entries which is better than last season but we failed to beat our 1999/00 total of 111. We will beat this record one day.

We last reported that Manchester City was picking up the most number of votes, and they did finish as our highest voted team with 54 votes out of 106. I can see why all of the 54 have gone for City especially after their last season’s record goal total of 137 goals. A long way off was Manchester United in second place with 28 votes. Third was Chelsea with 24 and then Arsenal with 22.

Luton Town are back into the football league and back into Golden Goals with 3 votes. Luton was our second most voted team, after Liverpool back in the very first season of Golden Goals. We last saw Luton on our pages back in our 2007/08 Season where they finished on a total of 56 goals. Their best score with us was 98 goals from our 2001/02 Season. Their worst was back in our 1992/93 Season with 55 goals.

Derby are back with us with 15 votes. They last played in our 2008/09 Season with 78 goals. Their best was in their first season with Golden Goals with 104 goals. Fulham are also back. They were in our first season and we last saw them in our 2008/09 Season with 51 goals. Their best was in our 2000/01 Season with 105 goals. Barnsley will be making their fifth appearance with us. They last played in our 2002/03 Season and finished on their lowest score of 53 goals. The best that they have done was in their very first season of 1998/99 with 79 goals.

With our Scottish teams, Celtic came out the most voted team with the same as last season with 41 votes. Rangers followed a close second with 40. We have just five Scottish teams this season and we welcome back Dunfermline with 3 votes. They last played in our 2007/08 Season with 38 goals which is their lowest score to date. Their beat score of 83 goals were scored in their first season of our 1994/95. We have not seen Hearts for a while in fact their last outing was back in our 2006/07 Season with 55 goals. Their best score is 92 back in our 1987/88 Season. Our other team is Stenhousemuir.  

Now we know that we have had a lot of visitors to our blog, so if you had been following last season’s competition, then you will know what this blog is all about. It’s just a shame that no-one out in the big wide world joined in with all the fun.

Next up the first round of the League Cup.