It's a All London Final for The Capital One Cup

TOTTENHAM have completed the stage for the Capital One Cup Final as they win 3-2 on aggregate against SHEFFIELD UNITED. The all London final was touch and go for Spurs as they went 1-0 up by half time. Late in the second half United came back with two goals but in the 88^th minute, Tottenham equalized and the game ended 2-2. So Chelsea will face Tottenham on Sunday 1st March.

 

Chelsea in Capital one Final

Last night we had eight of our teams in action and two of them were playing in the Capital one Cup Semi-finals 2^nd leg. They were CHELSEA and LIVERPOOL. Chelsea who were dumped out of the FA Cup by Bradford at the weekend, had drawn the first leg 1-1 with Liverpool. But the good news is that they won the 2^nd leg 1-0 at home to win 2-1 on aggregate. Chelsea are now on 65 goals and a place in the Capital One Final. Liverpool picked up their 7^th blank of the season and have now failed to score in their last two games.

In the Championship, DERBY won 2-0 at home against Blackburn and that now gives them a total of 64 goals while READING picked up their 11^th blank of the season as they drew 0-0 away to Millwall. ROTHERHAM picked up their highest score of the season as they win 4-2 at home against Bolton. Rotherham, who have not had a great season for goals, are now on 27 goals.

In League One SCUNTHORPE drew 1-1 at home to MK DONS and that gives them a total of 40 goals while the Dons are on 68.

In League Two Bury picked up their 45^th goal as they won 1-0 away to Accrington.

Week Twenty-Five and the FA Cup

This weekends average score boomed down to just 2 goals as our top teams go out of the FA Cup this weekend. We had a nine teams that had no game and another eleven teams that failed to score any.
The highest score that we had was seven goals from the Championship and NOT the FA Cup Round as WATFORD picked up their highest score of the season with a 7-2 home win over Blackpool.  Watford are now on a total of 58 goals and they have now scored 12 goals in their last two games. Watford’s name is now in the book for just one of our highest scorers of the season.
Watford have a total of three votes this season and they are now in their 20^th season with Golden Goals. Having started in  our very first season back in 1983/84, Watford wasour sizth most voted team and finished on a total of 86 goals. Their highest score to date came in the following season with 102 goals. This will not be their lowest score as they only netted 41 goals back in our 2006/07 Season. Last season they finished on 86 goals. Over the seasons they have scored a total of 1,356 goals which gives them an average of 67 goals per season to date.

 

FA CUP Fourth Round
Well what a fourth round we had here with our Golden Goals teams.as some of the biggest names in football fall out of the cup. We had a total of fourteen of our teams in action and the start of the disasters for the top teams is when Manchester United failed to beat Cambridge on Friday night.
We only have had four teams to make it through to the next round. READING won 2-1 away to CARDIFF to take their goals tally to 38 while Cardiff picked up goal number 45. DERBY are also through as they win 2-0 at home to Chesterfield. Derby are now on 62 goals. CRYSTAL PALACE are on 37 goals as they win 3-2 away to Southampton. Our last team through are ARSENAL as they win 3-2 away to Brighton after they went 2-0 up by half time. Arsenal are now on 45 goals.
Now the teams that went outare CHELSEA who after going 2-0 up against Bradford at home, they finally lost 4-2. Their goals total is now on 64. MANCHESTER CITY are also out as they lost 2-0 at home to Middlesbrough. That was City’s 4^th blank of the season and they have now failed to score in their last two games. TOTTENHAM many of picked up goal number 48 but they are out after they lost 2-1 at home to Leicester City. BRISTOL CITY are out as they lsot 1-0 at home to West Ham and they picked up their 5^th blank score sheet.
We have four teams in repalys. LIVERPOOL drew 0-0 at home to Bolton to pick up their 6^th blank score sheet of the season and PRESTON drew 1-1 at home to SHEFFIELD UNITED. Preston picked up goal number 50 while United picked up gaol 46 after a two game dry spell. FULHAM picked up their 11^th blank score sheet as they drew 0-0 away to Sunderland.

 

CHAMPIONSHIP
We had just five of our teams in action here and we already know about one of them Watford who are now in sixth place in the league. NORWICH are on 53 goals but lost 2-1 at home to Brentford. WIGAN lost 1-0 at home to Huddersfield and picked up their 11^th blank of the season. WOLVES drew 0-0 at home to CHARLTON. Wolves picked up their 8^th blank score sheet while Charlton picked up their 11^th and now three games in a row. They have scored just one goal in their last five games.

 

LEAGUE ONE
LEYTON ORIENT picked up their 11^th blank of the season as they lost 2-0 away to Colchester while our best team still at the moment is MK DONS. They won 2-0 at home to BARNSLEY. The Dons are now on 67 goals and could beat their best score with Golden Goals of 105goals back in 2011/12. Barnsley picked up their 9^th blankand now two games in a row. PETERBOROUGH are now on 35 goals as they win 2-1 away to Notts County. COVENTRY drew 0-0 away to Yeovil and picked up their 9^th blank of the season.

 

LEAGUE TWO
All four of our teams here are already out of the FA Cup so all of them played over the weekend. We have two teams in the play-off zone one is LUTON in fourth place as they drew 1-1 away to Cheltenham. Luton arre now on 38 goals. BURY are also there in seventh place after they won 2-1 at home to Carlisle. Bury are now on a total of 44 goals. Just outside wew have STEVENAGE who lost 3-2 away to Shrewsbury. Stevenage are on 40 goals this weekend. PORTSMOUTH lost 2-1 at home against Southend to pick up their 31^st goal of the season.

                                     

SCOTTISH LEAGUES                                                                                                                      
In Scotland only four of our five teams were in action again over the weekend. CELTIC won 1-0 away to Ross County and picked up goal number 56. HEARTS are also on 56 goals as they lost 3-2 at home to Falkirk. DUNFERMLINE lost 2-0 away to Morton and picked up their 6^th blank score sheet of the season. STENHOUSEMUIR drew1-1 at home to Ayr and are on 31 goals.

 

THE BEST THREE TEAMS ARE…  

MK DONS (67) CHELSEA (64) DERBY (62) Total of 193 goals.

 

THE WORST THREE TEAMS ARE…  

QPR (23) ROTHERHAM (23) WIGAN (27) Total of 73 goals.

 

QPR are still our worst team this weekend as they had no game over the past week. Rangers have played a total of 24 games and they have picked up a total of ten blank score sheets.

 

ROTHERHAM have picked up the most number of  blank score sheets in our 32^nd season.  After a total of 29 games played, Rotherham have picked up twenty-three goals and  had a total of 13 blank score sheets to date.

 

We have had three teams that have now picked up the highest score this season. First MANCHESTER CITY won their Capital One Cup third round tie against Sheffield Wednesday 7-0 at home.  MK DONS won 7-0 at home to Oldham in the league.Now WATFORD have won 7-2 at home to Blackpool in the league.

 

Manchester City had a record breaking end of season score of 137 goals from last season and I think that that score will not be beaten this season. In Week twenty-five last season, City scored three goals in midweek and another four goals at the weekend. Their goals tally has now risen to 92 goals after thirty games played. They have had two blank score sheet’s and their highest score was seven goals against Norwich in the league.
This season they had no midweek game once again and they failed to score at the weekend. So City are still on a total of 54 goals this weekend. But they have now had a total of four blank score sheet after twenty-six games played. They are now 38 goals behind last seasons record run. They are away to Chelsea at the Weekend.

Here is how the Top Ten is looking this weekend

         THIS     LAST                                                       M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL
        WEEK   WEEK            NAME                               GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

 

            1              -                 C. EVANS                               69                  111                 180
            2              6                M. STUBBS                            56                   120                176              
            3              -                 S. KEMP                                  71                  104                 175
            4              5                R. NETTING                           60                   114                 174
            5             8                 A. STUBBS (2012/13)            58                   115                 173
            6              7                J. SOMERVILLE                    67                   105                 172
            7              2                M. PEPPERRELL (2002/03)  58                   113                 171
            8              4                S. THOMSON (1)                   65                   104                 169
            9              18              C. BOLBERY                         54                    114                 168
            10            13              T. BICKNELL                        64                    104                 168 

FA Cup Fourth Round Starts

MANCHESTER UNITED played in the very first game of the FA Cup Fourth Round against Cambridge United and drew 0-0 in a very disappointing game. United should have walked all over Cambridge but showed no signs of scoring at all last night. Man UTD have now had a total of six blank score sheets to date.

Tottenham for the Cup, But for which one?

TOTTENHAM’S seasons is starting to look bright as they win their first leg game against SHEFFIELD UNITED 1-0 at home in the Capital One Cup. Tottenham are now on 47 goals while Sheffield United picked up their 6^th blank of the season and now two games without a goal. 

In the league, FULHAM beat NOTTINGHAM FOREST 3-2 at home and they take their goals tally to 48 while Forest are on 41 goals.

In Scotland it’s 55 goals for CELTIC as they win 4-0 at home to Motherwell.

Blue or Red in the Capital One Cup?

Let’s have a quick catch up on the midweek results that affects Golden Goals this week. We have had seven of our teams in action over the last couple of days and out of them only two have failed to score any goals.

Monday night saw EVERTON draw 0-0 at home to West Brom in the league and that was their 7^th blank score sheet of the season.

Last night in the Capital One Cup 1^st leg game, It's all even here as LIVERPOOL drew 1-1 at home to CHELSEA. That was Liverpool’s 41^st goal and Chelsea’s 62^nd.

Back to our league games, LEEDS had a big surprise win over top of the table Bournemouth in the Championship. Leeds picked up their 31^st goal of the season. CARDIFF are on 44 goals as they lost 2-1 away to Middlesbrough.

In League One, DONCASTER picked up their 10^th blank score sheet as they drew 0-0 at home to Notts County. PRESTON drew 1-1 at home against Yeovil and that now gives them a total of 49 goals for the season.

Week Twenty-Four

This weekends average score moved up one to just 4 goals even though we had a couple of  teams that scored a hat full of goals. We had five teams that had no game and another eight teams that failed to score any.
The highest score that we had was five goals and we had two teams to hit that number. Premiership leaders CHELSEA won 5-0 away to Swansea and they are now on a total of 61 goals and are now our second best team this weekend. Chelsea have scored in all of their last eleven games. The other team to hit five was WATFORD. They beat CHARLTON 5-0 at home to take their goals tally to 51. Charlton picked up their 10^th blank score sheet and now two games in a row. Charlton have scored just two goals in their last six games.

 

PREMIERSHIP
CHELSEA are now five points clear of MANCHESTER CITY after they lost 2-0 at home to ARSENAL. City picked up their 3^rd blank of the season after a goal run of thirteen consecutive games. Arsenal are now on 42 goals and are now fifth in the league. MANCHESTER UNITED are still fourth even after they won 2-0 away to QPR. United are now on 38 goals while Rangers picked up their 10^th blank score sheet of the season. CRYSTAL PALACE are now on 34 goals as they win 3-2 away to Burnley. LIVERPOOL won 2-0 away to Aston Villa and they are now on a total of 40 goals and they have scored in all of their last eight games. Its 46 goals for TOTTENHAM as they win again 2-1 away to Sunderland.

 

CHAMPIONSHIP
DERBY have moved down to third place as they lost 2-1 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST. The single goal takes Derby's goals total to 60. Forest are now on 39 goals after a two game dry spell for goals. FULHAM have picked up some more goals at the weekend as they win 2-1 at home to READING. Fulham are now on 45 goals while Reading picked up goal number 36. LEEDS picked up their 30^th goal of the season as they drew 1-1 at home to Birmingham. NORWICH won 3-2 at home to CARDIFF and are now on 52 goals while Cardiff are on 43. ROTHERHAM picked up their 13^th blank score sheet of the season and now two games in a row as they lost 2-0 at home to Bournemouth. WIGAN drew 1-1 a home to Blackburn and that was their 27^th goal. WOLVES won 2-0 at home to Blackpool and they are on 36  goals.

 

LEAGUE ONE
BRISTOL CITY have fallen to second place on goal average after they won 2-0 away to SCUNTHORPE. City are now on 55 goals while Scunthorpe picked up their 7^th blank and have now failed to score in their last two games this week. We have two teams in the play-off zone this week. MK DONS are third as they win 1-0 at home to SHEFFIELD UNITED. The Dons are on 65 goals while United picked up their 5^th blank of the season.  PRESTON are in fourth place as they drew with Orient on Friday night. It’s 36 goals for DONCASTER as they win 1-0 at home to BARNSLEY. Barnsley picked up their 8^th blank of  the season and have now scored two goals in their last four games. COVENTRY lost 3-1away to Gillingham to get goal number 29 while PETERBOROUGH picked up goal number 33 after a two game dry spell as they lost 2-1 away to Port vale.

 

LEAGUE TWO
LUTON are out best team here in fourth place in the play-off zone and they are now on 37 goals as they win 1-0 away to Plymouth. STEVENAGE are also there as they win 2-0 away to York. Stevenage are now on 38 goals. BURY drew 1-1 at home against Wycombe and that was their 42^nd goal of the season. PORTSMOUTH are on 30 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Burton.    
                                     
SCOTTISH LEAGUES                                                                                                                       
In Scotland only three of our five teams were in action again over the weekend. CELTIC won 2-0 away to Hamilton and Celtic are now on a goals total of 51. DUNFERMLINE drew 2-2 at home against Airdrie which now gives them a total of 43 goals while STENHOUSEMUIR lost 1-0 away to Forfar. That was their 8^th blank score sheet of the season.

 

THE BEST THREE TEAMS ARE…  

MK DONS (65) CHELSEA (61) DERBY (60) Total of 186 goals.

 

THE WORST THREE TEAMS ARE…  

QPR (23) ROTHERHAM (23) WIGAN (27) Total of 73 goals.

 

QPR are still our worst team this weekend as they failed to score any goals at the weekend against Manchester United. Rangers have played a total of 24 games and they have picked up a total of ten blank score sheets.

 

ROTHERHAM have picked up the most number of  blank score sheets in our 32^nd season.  After a total of 29 games played, Rotherham have picked up twenty-three goals and  had a total of 13 blank score sheets to date.

 

We have had two teams that have picked up the highest score this season. First MANCHESTER CITY won their Capital One Cup third round tie against Sheffield Wednesday 7-0 at home.  MK DONS won 7-0 at home to Oldham in the league.

 

Manchester City had a record breaking end of season score of 137 goals from last season and I think that that score will not be beaten this season. In Week twenty-four last season, City scored five goals in midweek and another four goals at the weekend. Their goals tally has now risen to 85 goals after twenty-eight games played. They have had two blank score sheet’s and their highest score was seven goals against Norwich in the league.
This season they had no midweek game again and they failed to score at the weekend. So City are still on a total of 54 goals this weekend. They have now had three blank score sheet after twenty-five games played. They are now 31 goals behind last seasons record run. They are home to Middlesbrough in the Fourth Round of the FA CUP at the Weekend.

As you can see that there has been a bit of a change in the running for Champion and in red is our two winners for the weekend.

THIS     LAST                                                      M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

        WEEK   WEEK            NAME                              GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

 

             1              -                 C. EVANS                             68                   107                175
             2              3                M. PEPPERRELL (2002/03) 57                   111                168              
             3              8                S. KEMP                                69                     99                 168
             4              2                S. THOMSON (1)                  65                   102                167
             5             -                  R. NETTING                          55                   111                166
             6              7                M. STUBBS                           55                   111                 166
             7              4                J. SOMERVILLE                   63                   102                 165
             8              11              A. STUBBS (2012/13)           53                   111                 164
             9              6                G. GOODEY                          40                   120                 160
             10           -                 G. PHILLIPS                           58                   102                 160

Happy Tottenham

It seems that the bad weather here in the UK is now affecting the football fixture as we have had two of our games cancelled due to the snow.

We had the last of the FA CUP replays played on Wednesday night with TOTTENHAM taking on Burnley after they drew their first game 1-1. Well Tottenham made no mistake about the replay and won the game 4-2 at home. Tottenham are now on a total of 44 goals and they have now scored a total of 11 goals in their last four games.

In League One, PRESTON drew 2-2 at home to LEYTON ORIENT. Preston take their goals tally to 48 while Orient are on 38.

Third Round FA CUP Replays

We had quite a few of our teams in the Third Round of the FA Cup and last night we had six of them in action. Out of them six only two have made it through to the next round.

First team through was BRISTOL CITY as they win their replay 2-0 at home to DONCASTER. City take their goals total for the season up to 53. Doncaster picked up their 9^th blank score sheet.

SCUNTHORPE are out as they lost 2-0 away to Chesterfield. That was their 6^th blank of the season after a goal run of eleven games.

We had two games that went into extra time and then penalties. They were EVERTON who drew 2-2 away to West Ham after extra time and then went out of the competition 9-8 on penalties. The two goals take’s Everton’s goals tally to 33. In the last game of the night, after a dry goal spell at FULHAM for four games, they drew 3-3 after extra time and then won 5-3 on penalties against WOLVES away from home. The three goals give’s Fulham a total of 43 and Wolves 34 goals. 

One League One result from Monday night was that COVENTRY lost 3-0 at home to Swindon. That was Coventry’s 8^th blank score sheet of the season.

 

Week Twenty-Three

We have not started off  2015 with any goals rush as the average score fell down from four of  last weekend to just 3 goals this weekend. We had four teams that had no game over the weekend and another nine teams that failed to score any goals.
The Highest score that we had came from the Scottish Championship where HEARTS won 5-1 away to Dumbarton. That now gives Hearts a total of  54 goals.
Hearts  was our 12^th Scottish team to be picked in Golden Goals and they are in their 10^th season with us. They started with us back in our 1986/87 Season and finished on a grand total of 72 goals. In the following season they picked up their highest score to date with 92. Their lowest score is 50 goals scored in our 1998/99 Seasons. Last time out was back in our 2006/07 Season and finished on a total of 55 goals. Over the ten seasons, they have scored a total of  642 goals which gives them an average score of 64 goals per season. They have just one vote this season.

 

PEREMIERSHIP
CHELSEA are now two points clear of Manchester City after they beat Newcastle 2-0 at home. Chelsea are now on a total of 56 goals and they remained our third best team this weekend. MANCHESTER CITY drew 1-1 away to EVERTON. That was City’s 54^th goal of  the season while Everton picked up their 31^st.  MANCHESTER UNITED drop down to fourth place as they lost 1-0 at home to Southampton. That was United’s 5^th blank score sheet of the season.  ARSENAL are fifth as they win 3-0 at home to Stoke. The Gunners are now on 40 goals. LIVERPOOL are now on 38 goals as they win 1-0 away to Sunderland. CRYSTAL PALACE won 2-1 at home against TOTTENHAM and that now gives them a total of 31 goals while Tottenham picked up their 40^th goal of the season.  QPR picked up their 23^rd goal as they lost 2-1 away to Burnley.
 
CHAMPIONSHIP
DERBY are in second place here as they win 1-0 away to Ipswich and that was their 59^th goal of the season to keep them our secondbest this weekend. In the play-off zone we have just one team hanging on in there and they are WATFORD who lost 3-1 away to Huddersfield. That was Watford’s 46^th goal. It’s 26 goals for WIGAN after they lost 3-1 away to Birmingham after they had a two game dry spell. LEEDS are on 29 goals as they drew 1-1 away to Bolton. NORWICH are on 49 as they win 2-1 away to Bournemouth after going a goal down in the first eighteen minutes. ROTHERHAM picked up their 12^th blank score sheet of the season as they lost 1-0 away to Brentford.  CARDIFF are on 41 goals as they win 1-0 at home to FULHAM. Fulham picked up their 10^th blank of  the season and they have failed to score in their last four games. CHARLTON picked up their 9^th blank of the season as they lost 1-0 at home to Brighton. Charlton have scored just two goals in their last five games. NOTTINGHAM FOREST lost 2-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday to get their 8^th blank of  the season and now two games in a row without a goal. READING drew 0-0 at home to Middlesbrough to pick up their 10^th blank score sheet. WOLVES are on 31 goals as they win 1-0 away to Blackburn. 

 

LEAGUE ONE
BRISTOL CITY are still top here as they win again 4-0 at home to Notts County to pick up their highest score of the season. City are now on a total of 51 goals. In the play-off zone we have three of the four teams there. MK DONS drew 2-2 away to Crawley and are now on 64 goals. PRESTON are also in there but they lost to our other team there SHEFFIELD UNITED 2-1 away. Preston picked up goal number 46 while United are now on 45. After a two game dry spell for goals BARNSLEY are now on 42 goals as they win 2-0 at home to Yeovil. LEYTON ORIENT lost 1-0 at home to Fleetwood and picked up their 10^th blank of the season while DONCASTER drew 2-2 away to Oldham and they are now on a total of 35 goals. PETERBOROUGH picked up their second blank in a row as they lost 2-0 at home to Colchester. Borough have now had a total of ten blank score sheets and now they have netted just four goals in their last seven games. SCUNTHORPE picked up their highest score of the season as they win 4-1 away to Walsall. Scunthorpe are now on 39 goals.

 

LEAGUE TWO
Again just two teams were in action here as STEVENAGE won 2-1 at home to AFC Wimbledon. Stevenage have now scored a total of 36 goals. PORTSMOUTH lost 1-0 away to Newport and so picked up their 11^th blank score sheet of the season.

                                                     

SCOTTISH LEAGUES                                                                                                                       
In Scotland we had four of our five teams in action again over the weekend. Hearts we already know about but RANGERS won just 1-0 away to Alloa and that was their 53^rd goal of the season. STENHOUSEMUIR are on 30 goals but lost 3-2 at home against Morton. DUNFERMLINE are on 41 goals in their 2-2 draw away to Stirling.

 

THE BEST THREE TEAMS ARE…  

MK DONS (64) DERBY (59) CHELSEA (56) Total of 179 goals.

 

THE WORST THREE TEAMS ARE…  

QPR (23) ROTHERHAM (23) WIGAN (26) Total of 72 goals.

 

QPR are still our worst team this weekend as they have only picked up another single goal. Rangers have played a total of 23 games and they have picked up a total of nine blank score sheets.

 

ROTHERHAM have picked up the most number of  blank score sheets in our 32^nd season.  After a total of 28 games played, Rotherham have picked up twenty-three goals and  had a total of 12 blank score sheets to date.

 

We have had two teams that have picked up the highest score this season. First MANCHESTER CITY won their Capital One Cup third round tie against Sheffield Wednesday 7-0 at home.  MK DONS won 7-0 at home to Oldham in the league.

 

Manchester City had a record breaking end of season score of 137 goals from last season, In Week twenty-three last season, City scored six goals in midweek and two goals at the weekend. Their goals tally has now risen to 76 goals after twenty-six games played. They have had two blank score sheet’s and their highest score was seven goals against Norwich in the league.
This season they had no midweek game but picked up a single goal at the weekend. So City are now on a total of 54 goals this weekend. They have still had two blank score sheet after twenty-four games played. They are now 22 goals behind last seasons record run. They are home to Arsenal at the Weekend.

We had a very poor weekend for goals but here is how our top Ten look's like this weekend.

THIS     LAST                                                             M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

       WEEK   WEEK            NAME                                      GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

 

            1              -                 C. EVANS                                      68                  101                169
            2              -                 S. THOMSON (1)                          65                  101                166              
            3              -                 M. PEPPERRELL (2002/03)         57                  106                163
            4              -                 J. SOMERVILLE                           63                    99                162
            5             -                  R. NETTING                                  55                  104                159
            6              9                G. GOODEY                                  40                   118                158
            7              6                M. STUBBS                                   55                   101                156
            8              -                 S. KEMP                                        65                     91                156
            9              15              K. THOMSON                               55                   100                155
            10           12              G. PHILLIPS                                   58                     97                155