Week Thirty-Four

This weekends we only had the lower leagues in action in both England and Scotland. That means that we had just fourteen of our teams in action and out of  them three failed to score any goals.
The highest score for us came from the Scottish Championship where RANGERS won 4-1 at home to Cowdenbeath. It has been a very long time for Rangers to hit big and the four goals now brings them up to a total of 67 goals. This will not be their lowest score on record as they only picked up a total of 62 goals back in our second season of 1984/85. In their last two seasons they have scored over 100 goals with 107 and 120 last season.

 

LEAGUE ONE
BRISTOL CITY remained top here this weekend as they drew 2-2 at home to BARNSLEY. City are now on 82 goals while Barnsley are on 61. PRESTON are still second as they drew 1-1 away to Fleetwood.  Preston picked up goal number 78.  We still have three teams in the play-off  zone. MK Dons are their in fourth place followed by SHEFFIELD UNITED. They lost 2-1 at home against Crewe. United are on 75 goals this weekend. PETERBOROUGH lost 1-0 at home against COVENTRY. Coventry picked up goal number 46 while Borough picked up their 14^th blank score sheet. After a two game dry spell for goals, LEYTON ORIENT won 3-1 at home to Port vale. Orient are now on 54 goals. SCUNTHORPE are on 57 goals as they drew 2-2 away to Notts County.

 

LEAGUE TWO
Our highest team here is in the play-off zone is BURY their game was abandoned against Southend at the weekend due to the weather. LUTON have moved out of the zone this weekend as they lost 2-1 away to Northampton.. Luton picked up goal number 54. PORTSMOUTH picked up their 17^th blank of  the season and now they have failed in their last two games as they lost 2-0 at home to Shrewsbury.

                                     

SCOTTISH LEAGUES                                                                                                           
In Scotland we know of Rangers win in the Championship but HEARTS also won 2-0 at home to Queen of South. Hearts are now on 88 goals. In League One, DUNFERMLINE lost 4-0 at home to Morton to pick up their 9^th blank of the season while STENHOUSEMUIR lost 2-1 away to Airdrie but picked up goal number 38.

 

THE BEST THREE TEAMS ARE…  

MK DONS (90) HEARTS (88) DERBY (84) Total of 262 goals.

 

THE WORST THREE TEAMS ARE…  

QPR (31) WIGAN (36) STENHOUSEMUIR (38) Total of 105 goals.

 

QPR are still our worst team this weekend even though they no game all week. Rangers have played a total of 32 games and they have picked up a total of eleven blank score sheets to date.

 

We have just one team that has picked up the highest number of blank score sheets to date. They are now PORTSMOUTH and they have picked up a total of 17 blank score sheets after a total of 43 games to date.

 

HEARTS have picked up the highest score for this season with a 10-0 home win against Cowdenbeath in the league.

 

Manchester City had that record breaking end of season score of 137 goals last season. In Week thirty-four last season, City picked up three goals in midweek and one goal at the weekend. They are now on a total of 115 goals for the season after forty-one games played. They have had four blank score sheet’s and their highest score was seven goals against Norwich in the league.
This season they had no game at all this week. So City remains on a total of 71 goals this weekend and they have had a total of five blank score sheet after thirty-three games played. They are now 44 goals behind last seasons record run.
 
JOHN NICHOLLS is back at number 106 and that is now his 9^th weekend there but he has moved up our Losers League. John has over taken Ian Etheridge and Freda Hilliers scores of 156 goals scored in 1999/00 and 1987/88 and that now means that John  is in 28^th place in our Losers League. Johns combination is Bristol City, Everton and Wigan. He has had a total of just two blank score sheets all season to date.
 
Here is our top ten this week and not much has changed once again


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

 

         1              -                 T. BICKNELL                    91                  154                245
         2              -                 G. GOODEY                      59                  183                242              
         3              -                 A. STUBBS (2012/13)       75                  164                239
         4              -                 J. SOMERVILLE               89                  149                238
         5              -                 D. GOODSON                   73                  162                235
         6              -                 C. BOLBERY                    74                  159                233
         7              9                D. DAVIDSON                  80                  152                232
         8              7                C. EVANS                          87                  145                232
         9              8                R. NETTING                      76                  155                231              
         10           13              S. DICKINSON                   87                  142                229

Sheffield United Still Fifth in League One

 

We are only going to get three of our teams in action this week and they all played last night and most picking up some goals.
In League One, SHEFFIELD UNITED picked up the highest score with us as they beat SCUNTHORPE 4-0 at home. That takes United’s total to 74 while Scunthorpe picked up their 12^th blank score sheet of the season.
Sheffield United was our 80^th English team to be voted in Golden Goals and they started in the competition in our 1990/91 Season where they finished on a score of 42 goals. United are not a very high scoring team but their highest score came in 2011/12 with 104 goals. Last season they picked up 66 goals. Over the fifteen seasons that they have been with us, they have netted a total of 1,068 goals which gives them an average of 71 goals per season to date. They have a total of six votes this time round.
After a two game dry spell for goals, in League Two, LUTON finally picked up some goals and they are now on a total of 53 goals after they lost 3-2 at home to Wycombe.

 

Week Thirty-Three

This weekends average score shot up from four goals from last weekend to 6 goals each. We had a ready good weekend for goals even though we had four teams that had no game and just five teams that failed to score any goals in their games.
The highest score of the weekend came from MK DONS and TOTTENHAM with four goals each. MK DONS are really doing well this season in League One. They won 4-1 at home to Notts Co and with their three goals in midweek, they are now on 90 goals and are back as our best team. Currently in fourth place in the league, the Dons are in their sixth season with Golden Goals and this is their second best score. Their highest score which they could beat is 105 back in our 2011/12 Season. Last season they finished on 76 goals. They have now netted a total of  506 goals which gives them an average of  84 goals per season to date.
TOTTENHAM won 4-3 at home to Leicester City and its their fourth time this season to net four goals in a match. Spurs are now on a total of 67 goals. Spurs are in their 31^st Season with us and they started in our very first season in 1983/84 and finished on 71 goals. They are our 11^th voted English team back then. Their highest score is 109 scored back in our 1986/87 Season and last season they ended on 62. They have now scored a total of 2,233 goals in all the years and that now gives them an average of 72 goals per season to date.

 

PREMIERSHIP
CHELSEA keep their six points lead at the top as they just about win 3-2 away to Hull. Chelsea have now scored in all of their last 22 games and they are on a total of 77goals. MANCHESTER CITY win 3-0 at home to West Brom and that takes their goals total to 71. ARSENAL are third as they win 2-1 away to Newcastle. Arsenal are now on 68goalos and they have scored in all of their last 14 games. MANCHESTER UNITED are in fourth place as they win 2-1 away to LIVERPOOL and that gives them a total of 61 goals while Liverpool picked up goal number 58. CRYSTAL PALACE are on 49 goals as they win 2-1 away to Stoke. Its 41 for EVERTON as they win 2-1 away to QPR. Rangers are now on 31 goals.

 

CHAMPIONSHIP
WATFORD are still our best team here in second place as they lost 1-0 at home to Ipswich. That was Watford’s 10^th blank of the season. We again have two teams in the play-off zone and they are NORWICH and Derby who had no game. Norwich won 3-1 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST and they are now on 79 goals while Forest hit goal number 66. LEEDS drew 1-1 away to Blackpool and that was their 46^th goal of the season while CARDIFF won 2-0 at home against Birmingham and are now on 57 goals. CHARLTON win 3-2 at home against READING to give them a total of 53 goals while Reading are on 54. After a blank in midweek, FULHAM are now on 60 goals as they win 2-0 away to Huddersfield. ROTHERHAM are on 42 goals but lost 3-2 at home to Sheffield Wednesday. WIGAN picked up their 36^th goal as they drew 1-1 at home to Bolton.

 

LEAGUE ONE
BRISTOL CITY remained top here this weekend even though they had no game. PRESTON are still second as they drew 1-1 away to BARNSLEY. Preston are on 77 goals while Barnsley are on 59. We still have three teams in the play-off  zone but with a slight change. MK Dons are their in fourth place followed by SHEFFIELD UNITED. They won 1-0 at home against Port Vale. United are on 70 goals and they have scored  just a single goal in their last six games. PETERBOROUGH have moved into the zone as they win 1-0 at home to Chesterfield. Borough are on 48 goals. It’s 58 goals for DONCASTER as they win 3-1 away to COVENTRY. Coventry picked up goal number 45. LEYTON ORIENT are in real trouble third from bottom they lost 1-0 away to Crawley. That was their 16^th blank of the season and now they have failed to score in their last two games. SCUNTHORPE are on 55 goals as they lost 3-1 away to Rochdale.
 
LEAGUE TWO
Our highest team here is in the play-off zone as BURY move up to fourth place as they win 2-1 at home to Northampton. Bury are on 56 goals. Luton are also in the zone but they had no game at the weekend. PORTSMOUTH picked up their 16^th blank of the season as they lost 1-0 away to AFC Wimbledon. STEVENAGE lost 1-0 at home to Redbridge and that was their 13^th blank score sheet of the season and now two games in a row without a goal.

                                     

SCOTTISH LEAGUES                                                                                                           
In Scotland all of our teams managed to play again this weekend. CELTIC won 3-0 at home to Dundee Utd and after beating them 4-0 in the cup in midweek, Celtic are now on 83 goals. RANGERS are still third in the Championship even after winning 2-0 away to Hibs. Rangers are now on 63 goals. HEARTS are on 86 goals as they win 3-0 away to Falkirk to stay top. In League One, DUNFERMLINE win 1-0 away to STENHOUSEMUIR. Dunfermline are now on 54 goals while Stenhousemuir picked up their 12^th blank and now two games in a row without a goal.

 

THE BEST THREE TEAMS ARE…  

MK DONS (90) HEARTS (86) DERBY (84) Total of 260 goals.

 

THE WORST THREE TEAMS ARE…  

QPR (31) WIGAN (36) STENHOUSEMUIR (37) Total of 104 goals.

 

QPR are still our worst team this weekend even though they picked up another goal at the weekend. Rangers have played a total of 32 games and they have picked up a total of eleven blank score sheets to date.

 

We have just one team that have picked up the highest number of blank score sheets to date. They are WIGAN and they have picked up a total of 16 blank score sheets after a total of 41 games to date.

 

HEARTS have picked up the highest score for this season with a 10-0 home win against Cowdenbeath in the league.
 
Manchester City had that record breaking end of season score of 137 goals last season. In Week thirty-three last season, City had no game in midweek again and they picked up five goals at the weekend. That was their 111^th of the season after thirty-nine games played. They have had four blank score sheet’s and their highest score was seven goals against Norwich in the league.
This season they had no game in midweek but at the weekend they picked up three goals. So City are now on a total of 71 goals this weekend and they have had a total of five blank score sheet after thirty-three games played. They are now 40 goals behind last seasons record run. They have no game this week.

 

We have some good news for “ZIGGY” John Woods at number 106 and that is that’s his second combination has already started to move up our losers league. Last weekend John beat our 1995/96 loser R.U.Shaw, a pub team that finished rock bottom that season with only 146 goals. This weekend John has beaten the next lowest score of 154 by R. Lloyd in our 1993/94 season. John’s combination contains Rangers, Scunthorpe and Stenhousemuir. With this combination John has picked up four blank score sheets at the weekend and he has now been at the bottom for two weeks.

Here is how the top ten looks this week and as you can see that there are three of our five winners this weekend.

THIS     LAST                                              M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

        WEEK   WEEK            NAME                      GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

 

             1              -                 T. BICKNELL               91                   153                244
             2              5                G. GOODEY                 59                   181                240              
             3              6                A. STUBBS (2012/13)   75                   164                239
             4              2                J. SOMERVILLE           89                   149                238
             5              3                D. GOODSON                73                   162                235
             6              8                C. BOLBERY                 74                   159                233
             7              4                C. EVANS                      87                   145                232
             8              10              R. NETTING                 76                   155                231
             9              12              D. DAVIDSON               80                   151                231              
             10           7                 S. KEMP                          89                   140                229 

Wolves Win Again

We had another two of our Golden Goals teams in action last night and both have already played this week. They are WOLVES and DERBY. The result went to Wolves who won 2-0 at home and that takes them up to 7^th place in the Championship.

Wolves who beat Sheffield Wednesday 3-0 on Tuesday night have now taken their goals total to 61 goals. Derby picked up another blank score sheet after they lost to Middlesbrough also on Tuesday night. They have now had a total of eight blank score sheets this season and now two games in a row with out a goal.

Celtic Through to the Semi-Finals

CELTIC have at last beaten Dundee Utd 4-0 in the WILLIAM HILL CUP 6^th Round Replay after a 1-1 draw in their first game against them. Celtic have now taken their goals tally to 80 goals.

With our English teams last night, In the Championship, FULHAM lost 3-0 at home to LEEDS to pick up their 14^th blank score sheet of the season. Leeds are now on a total of 45 goals and that is their biggest win since week fourteen. NOTTINGHAM FOREST win 2-0 at home to ROTHERHAM to give them a total of 65 goals while Rotherham picked up their 16^th blank of the season.

Mixed Bag of Results

We had plenty of our Golden Goals teams in action last night and it was a bit of a mixed bag for results with the lesser voted teams doing well.

In the Championship, CHARLTON are now on a total of 50 goals as they win 3-0 away to Blackpool. CARDIFF drew 1-1 at home to Bournemouth and that was their 55^th goal of the season while DERBY picked up their 7^th blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 at home against Middlesbrough. It’s 76 goals for NORWICH as they drew 2-2 away to Huddersfield. WIGAN lost 2-0 at home to WATFORD to pick up their 17^th blank score sheet while Watford are now on a total of 79 goals. WOLVES are on 59 goals as they win 3-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday.

In League One, BRISTOL CITY are on 80 goals as they win 3-0 at home to Crewe while DONCASTER lost 2-1 at home to Swindon to pick up goal number 55. COVENTRY won 2-0 away to Fleetwood and are now on a total of 44 goals. LEYTON ORIENT drew 0-0 at home to BARNSLEY and that was their 15^th blank of the season while Barnsley have now had a total of 11. MK DONS are on 86 goals as they win 3-1 away to Oldham. PRESTON have stretched their goal scoring run to 26 games as they win 2-0 at home to PETERBOROUGH. Preston are now on a total of 76 goals while Borough picked up their 13^th blank of the season. SHEFFIELD UNITED drew 1-1 away to Walsall and are now on a total of 69 goals.

In League Two, STEVENAGE drew 0-0 away to Exeter and that was their 12^th blank of the season. LUTON picked up their 11^th blank and now two games in a row as they lost 1-0 away to Newport. PORTSMOUTH drew 2-2 at home to Cheltenham and are now on 47 goals. BURY picked up goal number 54 as they win 1-0 away to York.

In the Scottish Championship, HEARTS won 3-1 away to Raith and they are now on 83 goals while RANGERS drew again 2-2 at home to Alloa. Rangers are now on 61 goals.

 

History for READING in the FA CUP

 

READING have made it through to the Semi-Finals of the FA Cup as they beat Bradford 3-0 in the Quarter-final replay.

Reading will be in their first FA Cup Semi-Final appearance for 88 years and now they will be playing against Arsenal in the semi in April. Readings goals now take their goals total to 52.

 

In the English Premiership, LIVERPOOL won 1-0 away to Swansea and that is their 57^th goal of the season.

Week Thirty-Two

This weekends average score shot up from one goal from last weekend to 4 goals each. We had Just one team with out a goal and they are Liverpool while another eight teams failed to score any goals.
The highest score of the weekend came from PRESTON in league one with their biggest score of the season as they beat Crewe 5-1 at home. Preston have taken their goals total to 74and they have now scored in all of their last 25 games. Preston are now in their 18^th season with Golden Goals and they started way back in our 1994/95 Season and became our 88^th English team in the competition they finished on a total of 62 goals. Their highest score to date is 90 and they came in our 1999/00 Season. Last season they finished on 86 goals. Over the seasons they have netted a total of 1,272 which gives them an average of 70 goals per season. They have just three votes this time round.

 

PREMIERSHIP
CHELSEA drew 1-1 at home to Southampton and dropped some needed points as they take their goals tally to 74. But they are now six points clear of  MANCHESTER CITY and a game in hand as City lost 1-0 away to Burnley. City have now failed to score in five games this season out of  32 games played.  ARSENAL are catching up on City as they win 3-0 at home to London rivals West Ham. Arsenal are now on 66 goals. CRYSTAL PALACE are now on a total of 47 goals as they win 3-1 at home against QPR. Rangers picked up their 30^th goal of the season. MANCHESTER UNITED’S Goals total is going up as they win 3-0 at home to TOTTENHAM. United are now on 59 goals while Tottenham picked up their 7^th blank of the season. After a two game dry spell for goals, EVERTON won 3-0 at home to Newcastle and that now gives them a total of 39 goals.

 

CHAMPIONSHIP
WATFORD are our best team here in second place as they win 4-1 at home to READING. Watford are now on 77 goals while Reading picked up goal number 49. With have two teams in the play-off zone and they are DERBY who drew 1-1 away to our other team in the zone NORWICH. Derby are now on 84 goals while Norwich hit goal number 74.
Its 54 goals for CARDIFF as they win 2-1 away to Brentford. WOLVES drew 1-1 away to Brighton and are now on 56 goals while CHARLTON picked up their 47^th goal as they lost 3-1 at home to Blackburn. LEEDS picked up their 11^th blank of the season as they drew 0-0 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST. Forest picked up their 10^th. WIGAN are on 35 goals as they win 2-1 away to ROTHERHAM who are now on 40 goals. FULHAM drew 1-1 awayto Sheffield Wednesday and hit goal number 58.

 

LEAGUE ONE
BRISTOL CITY remained top here this weekend as they drew 0-0 at home to Gillingham.City have now had a total of seven blank score sheets to date. Preston are still in second place after their big win. In the play-off  zone, we still have three of the four teams. This weekend we have MK DONS in fourth place as they drew 1-1 away to Walsall. That was the Dons 83^rd goal of the season. Fifth is SHEFFIELD UNITED. They drew 1-1 away to SCUNTHORPE and are now on 8 goals while Scunthorpe are on 54. Then there’s BARNSLEY who won 3-1 away to Oldham. Barnsley are now on 58 goals. PETERBOROUGH could be back in there next weekend as they win 2-0 away to DONCASTER. Borough are on a total of 47 goals. Doncaster  picked up their 13^th blank score sheet. Its about time that COVENTRY had a big score and they did as they won 3-2 away to Chesterfield. Coventry are now on 42 goals. LEYTON ORIENT are now on 51 goals as they win 3-0 at home to Yeovil.

 

LEAGUE TWO
Our highest team here is in the play-off zone as BURY move up to fifth place as they win 1-0 away to Mansfield. That was Bury’s 53^rd goal. LUTON have now moved down to sixth place as they lost 2-0 away to PORTSMOUTH. Luton picked up their 10^th blank score sheet while Portsmouth take their goals tally to 45. STEVENAGE drew 1-1 away to Cambridge and that was their 53^rd goal.

                                     

SCOTTISH LEAGUES                                                                                                           
In Scotland all of our teams managed to play this weekend. CELTIC played in the Scottish Communities Cup Final and they won 2-0 against Dundee UTD. Celtic are on 76 goals this week. RANGERS may of picked up their 59^th goal of the season but they drew again, 1-1 with Livingston. HEARTS won 4-0 at home to Dumbarton and they are now on 80 goals. Could be a great season for Hearts. STENHOUSEMUIR picked up their 11^th blank score sheet as they drew 0-0 away to Ayr. DUNFERMLINE drew 1-1 at home to Stirling and picked up goal number 53.

 

THE BEST THREE TEAMS ARE…

DERBY (84) MK DONS (83) HEARTS (80) Total of 247 goals.

 

THE WORST THREE TEAMS ARE…  

QPR (30) WIGAN (35) STENHOUSEMUIR (37) Total of 102 goals.

 

QPR are still our worst team this weekend even though they picked up another goal at the weekend. Rangers have played a total of 31 games and they have picked up a total of eleven blank score sheets to date.

 

We have had two teams that have picked up the highest number of blank score sheets to date. They are READING and WIGAN. Both have picked up a total of 16 blank score sheets each to date.

 

HEARTS have picked up the highest score for this season with a 10-0 home win against Cowdenbeath in the league.

 

Manchester City had that record breaking end of season score of 137 goals last season but that will not be beating it this season. In Week thirty-two last season, City had no game in midweek again and they picked up two goals at the weekend. That goal was their 106^th of the season after thirty-eight games played. They have had four blank score sheet’s and their highest score was seven goals against Norwich in the league. 
This season they failed to score at the weekend. So City are still on a total of 68 goals this weekend and they have now had a total of five blank score sheet after thirty-two games played. They are now 38 goals behind last seasons record run. They are at home to West Brom at the weekend.

This is how the top ten look this weekend

THIS     LAST                                              M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

        WEEK   WEEK            NAME                     GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

 

            1              -                 T. BICKNELL             85                   149                234
            2              -                 J. SOMERVILLE          85                   143                228              
            3              7                D. GOODSON               69                   157                226
            4              3                C. EVANS                     87                   139                 226
            5              6                G. GOODEY                 52                   172                 224
            6              4                A. STUBBS (2012/13)  69                   155                 224
            7              5                S. KEMP                        89                  133                  222
            8              -                 C. BOLBERY               68                   153                 221
            9              10              M. STUBBS                  70                   149                 219              
          10              9                R. NETTING                 72                   146                 218