Week Forty

We are now playing in injury time and what a week we have had with our last remaining teams in action. Barbara Barnes’s second combination picked up the highest score over the weekend with 11 goals. They came from Man City 6, Preston 3 and Rangers 2. Only one of us failed to collect any goals over the weekend and that was John Nicholls.

This weekend we had just the English and Scottish Premiership playing with a full fixture. The highest score that we had came from the English Prem where MANCHESTER CITY won 6-0 at home to poor old QUEENS PARK RANGERS.
City have now taken their goals tally to 86 goals while Rangers picked up their 14^th blank of the season and now just one goal in their last four games. They are also relegated down to the Championship.

PREMIERSHIP
Champions CHELSEA are now just eleven points clear of Manchester City in second place as they drew 1-1 at home to LIVERPOOL. That was Chelsea’s 86^th goal of the season while Liverpool hit goal number 66. Arsenal are third with MANCHESTER UNITED still in fourth place as they won 2-1 away to CRYSTAL PALACE. United are now on 70 goals while Palace picked up goal number 56 after a three game dry spell for goals. TOTTENHAM picked up their 11^th blank and now two games in a row as they lost 3-0 away to Stoke. EVERTON lost 2-0 at home to Sunderland and that was their 12^th blank of the season.

CHAMPIONSHIP-PLAY-OFF
We have just one of our teams here in the play-off and they are NORWICH. They had to play Ipswich in the first leg away and drew 1-1. That was their 92^nd goal of the season. In the other game Brentford lost 2-1 at home to Middlesbrough.

LEAGUE ONE-PLAY-OFF
We have two of the four teams here and after winning their first leg game against Chesterfield during the week, PRESTON made sure of the 2^nd leg and won 3-0. Preston won 4-0 on aggregate but who will they be playing in the final, Swindon or SHEFFIELD UNITED? Preston are now on a total of  97 goals.

LEAGUE TWO-PLAY-OFF
Just one out of four in this one and they are STEVENAGE. They drew their first leg game 1-1 at home to Southend and picked up goal number 64. In the other game, Wycombe won 3-2 away to Plymouth.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES                                                                                                           
In Scotland Champions CELTIC won 1-0 away to Aberdeen and picked up goal number 105. In the Premiership Play-off RANGERS won their 1^st leg game against Queen Of  South 2-1 away. Rangers are now on a total of 83 goals. In the League One Play-off, STENHOUSEMUIR won their 2^nd leg game against East Fife 3-1 at home after extra time to win 4-2 on aggregate. Stenhousemuir are now on 51 goals. Stenhousemuir will play Queen’s Park in the final lst leg on Wednesday night.

THE BEST THREE TEAMS ARE…  

MK DONS (115) CELTIC (105) BRISTOL CITY (103) Total of 323 goals.

THE WORST THREE TEAMS ARE… 

QPR (39) WIGAN (40) ROTHERHAM (48) Total of 127 goals.

QUEENS PARK RANGERS are still our worst team this weekend after they lost 6-0 away to Manchester City at the weekend. Rangers have now had a total of 14 blank score sheets.

WIGAN have picked up the most number of blank score sheets this season with a total of 22 after playing a total of 48 games this season.

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 forty last season, City picked up four goals in midweek and another two goals at the weekend. They are now on a total of 137 goals for the season after forty-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 picked up the six goals at the weekend. City are now on a total of 86 goals this weekend and they have had a total of five blank score sheet after thirty-nine games played. They are still 51 goals behind last seasons record run.

JOHN NICHOLLS  has moved back into that number 106 position after he failed to pick up any goals this week from his combination of Bristol City, Everton and Wigan. With a total of 192 goals this weekend and with just Everton left in action, John is still has our fifth best loser’s score to date.

At the Top TOBY BICKNELL is in 22^nd place this weekend. Toby with a  score of 302 goals picked up just five goals for the week. His combination is Celtic, Derby and Preston.

Here is our top ten for this week and once again not much of a change..

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

      1              -                 T. BICKNELL                    126                  176                302           £100.00
      2              -                 J. SOMERVILLE                113                  178                291            £50.00
      3              -                 G. GOODEY                         78                  211                289             £40.00
      4              6                D. DAVIDSON                    108                  180                288             £35.00
      5              7                C. BOLBERY                        97                  186                283             £30.00
      6              4                A. STUBBS (2012/13)          98                   185                283             £26.00
      7              5                D. GOODSON                      99                   184                 283             £22.00
      8              9                R. NETTING                         95                   182                 277             £19.00
      9              10              S. DICKINSON                   107                  170                  277             £16.00  
      10           8                J. WEARDEN                       113                  161                  274             £14.00