Everton Are In Fifth Place

We have had twenty-one of our Golden Goals teams in action over the last couple of nights with a couple of them picking up their highest score of the season to date.

One of them came from the English premiership where EVERTON beat West Brom 3-2 away. That now gives Everton a total of 18 goals and they move up to 5^th place in the league.

In the Championship WOLVES scored their highest result with a 3-0 away win over Fulham. Wolves are on a total of 16 goals. Also in the Championship, BRENTFORD picked up their 3^rd blank score sheet as they lost 2-0 at home to Birmingham.

In League One, BLACKPOOL are now on 9 goals as they win 2-0 at home against CHESTERFIELD who picked up their 4^th blank of the season. BURTON ALBION picked up their 2^nd Blank as they drew 0-0 at home to SHEFFIELD UNITED who get their 3^rd blank score sheet.

SWINDON drew 2-2 away to Doncaster and are now on 17 goals while PETERBOROUGH are on 19 as they lost 3-2 at home to Bury. PORT VALE get goal number 13 as they drew 1-1 at home to Oldham. SCUNTHORPE lost 1-0 at home to Walsall and that is their 4^th blank score sheet. WIGAN drew 2-2 at home to MILLWALL. Both teams are now on a total of 15 goals each.

In League Two, It’s another single goal from LEYTON ORIENT as they lost 2-1 at home to Carlisle. LUTON picked up another three goals as they win 3-1 away to Morecombe. PLYMOUTH won 2-1 at home to Barnet and that now gives them a total of 17 goals. It’s 20 goals each for PORTSMOUTH and EXETER as Portsmouth lose 2-1 at home to Exeter. STEVENAGE have now had a total of four blank score sheets and now two in a row as they lost 2-0 at home to Mansfield. WYCOMBE are on 14 goals as they win 1-0 at home against Cambridge.

Week Eight

We have had another cracking weekend of football and the table for Golden Goals have been thrown in the air once again. 
DANIEL GOODSON is at the top this weekend for the very first time this season and he becomes our sixth person to do so. Daniel’s combination of  teams picked him up a total of  16 goals over the week with eight coming from the weekend. His goals came from Manchester City 1, Middlesbrough 3 and Rangers 4 and he is  just two goal clear of MICK LIDDLE who moves up to second place. 

At the other end, JOHN NICHOLLS is in his seventh weekend at number 119 as his combination picked him up a total of 11 goals for the week. At the weekend they came from Arsenal 5, Bolton 2 and  Newcastle 2 which is his highest score of the season.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
All but one of us picked up some more midweek goals with CARRIE-ANNE WRIGHT picking up the most with eleven goals. They came from Chelsea and Manchester City with four goals each while Manchester United picking her up three more. This has now given Carrie-Anne a total of 15 midweek goals. This week we once again have had a change around for the race for the cash. CRAIG EVANS is in the lead this week after picking up ten more goals from his teams of Hearts, Manchester City and Middlesbrough. Craig has moved up from two last week with a new total of 34 goals. In joint second place both with 31 goals we have MICK LIDDLE and up from three DANIEL GOODSON. BARBARA BARNES (2) is once again still in third place but has been joined with TONY KING down from one both on 29 goals. In fourth place place is TOM MACDONALD on 28 goals as he moves down from three while in fifth place on 26 we still have CHRIS SETFORD. There then follows six people all on 25 goals.

We had three winners this weekend to take a share  of the cash prize money of £5 winning on our top score of the season with 12 goals each. All three are first time winners for this season and we have now had a total of twelve winners.Our winners are DANNY HARRINGTON, CHRIS SETFORD and DAVE WOOD. 
Danny as been with the competition for for a while now  but this weekend we see Danny at his highest position in 18^th place. He’s combination has managed to score goals every week. His best team is Rangers.
Chris has been with Golden Goals for a few more seasons than Dan but Chris has had just one blank score sheet and that was at week one. This is also his highest position to date and Rangers is also his best team.
Dave is the longest serving player out of  this weeks winners and again this is his highest position. Dave has also picked up one blank score sheet from week one and like the others, Rangers are his best team to date.Our winners teams are 

                              Danny  ARSENAL 5, MILLWALL 3, RANGERS 4 
                          Chris  ARSENAL 5, MIDDLESBROUGH 3, RANGERS 4 
                                   Dave  ARSENAL 5, DERBY 3, RANGERS 4

WEEKEND RESULTS 
All of us once again managed to pick up some more goals this weekend but our weekend average score came in at 6 goals each down from seven last weekend. The reason for another high score is that only nine of our teams failed to pick up any goals this weekend with another five teams that had no game this weekend.The highest score that we had over the weekend came from the English Premiership where ARSENAL picked up their highest score of the season winning 5-2 away to Leicester City. Arsenal are now on a total of 12 goals.Arsenal have been with the competition for thirty-one seasons and they started in our second season finishing on a total of 75 goals. In that season of 1984/85, the Gunners became our 27th voted English team but we had to wait till the season of 2002/03 before they picked up their highest score of 103 goals.Last season they ended on a grand total of 87 goals. Over the season’s they have netted a total of 2507 goals which gives them an average score of 80 goals per season to date. They have a total of 35 votes this season. 

PREMIERSHIP
We have the top five teams here this weekend with MANCHESTER UNITED moving into the top position for the first time this season as they win 3-0 at home to Sunderland. United are doing very well of late and with another three goals to their goals tally, they are on 15 goals this weekend. They have scored three goals each in their last four games. MANCHESTER CITY drop down to second place as they get beaten again by a London team, TOTTENHAM. They lost 4-1 away and although they still keep their 100% goals scoring record going. They are now on 17 goals. Tottenham picked up their highest score of the season which moved them up into fifth place. Tottenham are now on 10 goals. WEST HAM are still in third place as they drew 2-2 at home to NORWICH. The Hammers are on 16 goals and still have their 100% scoring record after eight games. Norwich are on also on 16 goals. The other team in the top flight is Arsenal. They are now on fourth place after their big win. LIVERPOOL picked up their biggest win of the season with a 3-2 home win over Aston Villa. Liverpool are now on 8 goals. CHELSEA drew 2-2 away to NEWCASTLE to take their goals total to 15 while Newcastle are on 9 goals. WATFORD picked up their 5^th blank score sheet of the season as they go down 1-0 at home to Crystal Palace. 

CHAMPIONSHIP
We have just the top two teams here this weekend with BRIGHTON still on top as they drew 2-2 away to BOLTON.  Brighton are now on 15 goals while Bolton are on 6 goals. MDDLESBROUGH are second still as they win 3-0 at home to LEEDS. Brough are now on 25 goals after netting six goals this week while Leeds picked up blank number three.HULL comes next in fourth place as they drew 1-1 at home to Blackburn and that was their goal number 16. CARDIFF follow them as they win 2-1 at home to CHARLTON. Cardiff are on 15  goals while Charlton hit goal number 18. BRENTFORD are on 12 goals but lost 2-1 at home to Sheffield Wednesday while BURNLEY also lost 2-1 at home to Reading to pick up goal number 12. It’s 21 for IPSWICH as they drew 2-2 at home to BRISTOL CITY. City are now on 12 goals. DERBY picked up their biggest win of the season with a 3-1 away win over MK DONS. Derby are now on 11 while the Dons hit goal number twelve. PRESTON drew 1-1 at home to WOLVES and are on 12 goals while after a two game dry spell, Wolves hit goal number thirteen. 

LEAGUE ONE
BURTON ALBION are still top here as they  win 2-1 away to CHESTERFIELD. Both Burton and Chesterfiled are both now on 14 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED have moved up to sixth place as they win 3-1 at home to Doncaster. United are now on 18 goals. PETERBOROUGH have scored in all of their last ten games as they win 2-0 away to Bradford. Borough are now on 17 goals. After a two game dry spell, PORT VALE are now on 12 goals as they win 2-1 away to Fleetwood. MILLWALL picked up another three goals this season as they win 3-1 at home to Rochdale. Millwall are on 13 goals. WIGAN are on 13 goals as they drew 1-1 away to Oldham. We are still waiting for that big score from BLACKPOOL but they lost 2-0 away to Shrewsbury to pick up blank number five. Another two goals for SOUTHEND now puts them on a total of 9 goals as they win 2-1 at home to SCUNTHORPE. Scunthorpe hit goal number nine. SWINDON are on 15 goals as they lost 2-1 at home to Colchester. 

LEAGUE TWO
We still have the top four teams here with PORTSMOUTH moving to the top as they win 2-1 away to Birstol Rovers. Portsmouth are now on 19 goals. WYCOMBE have moved up to second place as they win 2-0 away to EXETER. Wycombe are on 13 goals while Exeter picked up their third blank of the season. LEYTON ORIENT fall down to third place as they drew 1-1 away to Northampton. Orient are now on 17 goals. PLYMOUTH have moved down to fourth place as they drew 0-0 away to Mansfield to pick up their very first blank after a run of nine games. LUTON are on 18 goals as they win 2-0 against AFC Wimbledon. STEVENAGE picked up their third blank of the season as they lost 1-0 away to Cambridge United. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES
In the Premiership CELTIC are still in second place as they could only draw 0-0 at home to third place HEARTS. Celtic picked up their first blank of the season while Heatrs picked up their second. ABERDEEN remained top after they lost their first league game 2-1 away to Inverness. Aberdeen are now on 16 goals.In the Championship RANGERS remained top here again with eight wins out of eight and now nine points in front of Falkirk in second place as they win 4-0 away to Morton. Rangers are still our best team with 37 goals after eleven games keeping their 100% goals record intact.  HIBERNIAN are in fourth place on 13 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to St Mirren. In the lower Leagues, STENHOUSEMUIR lost 2-0 away to Albion to pick up their 3rd blank of the season and now two games in a row. CLYDE drew 1-1 at home to BERWICK to pick up goal number ten and 14 for Berwick. QUEENS PARK won 2-1 away to Stirling and are now on 14 goals.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND 

                     RANGERS (37) MIDDLESBROUGH (25) CELTIC (23) Total of 85 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

WATFORD (5) BLACKPOOL (6) BOLTON (6) Total of 17 goals

Our worst team this week is still WATFORD as they have picked up five blank score sheets out of eight games played. They have scored 3 goals in their last four games played.  

Our Best team this weekend is still RANGERS after scoring in all of their eleven League/Cup games played they are on a total of 37 goals which is an average of three goals per game.

Our highest scoring team in our 33^rd Season is from the Scottish Premiership CELTIC as they win 6-0 at home to Dundee in a league game in week seven.

We still have just  teams left that still have a 100% scoring record. They are MANCHESTER CITY, WEST HAM, and and RANGERS.  

This is how the top ten has changed again this weekend.               

      THIS     LAST                                                      M/WEEK        W/END        TOTAL          

    WEEK    WEEK             NAME                              GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

1               2                D. GOODSON                       31                   49                  80

2               3                M. LIDDLE                           31                   47                  78

3               9                C. SETFORD                        26                   49                  75

4               7                R. WILLIAMS                       25                   48                  73

5               4                T. MACDONALD                 28                   45                  73

6               -                 B. BARNES (2)                     29                   44                  73

7               1                T. KING                                29                   43                  72

8               10              JA. WOOD                            17                   52                  69

9               5                S. CADWELL                        20                   49                  69

10             21               B. SOPER                              21                   28                  69

Who's Firing Blanks?

Another three of our teams were in action last night but none of them picked up any goals. In the English Championship, Q.P.R took on Fulham away and they lost 4-0. That was Rangers second blank score sheet of the season.

In Scotland, FALKIRK drew 0-0 at home to QUEEN OF SOUTH in the Scottish Championship. The draw means that Falkirk have failed to score any goals this week and this is now their second blank in a row. Queen of the south picked up their fourth and they have now scored three goals in their last six games.

Nottingham Forest Are In Tenth Place

Last night in the English Championship, NOTTINGHAM FOREST drew 1-1 away to Huddersfield to pick up goal number 12. They have now netted five goals in their last four games and still they have had just two blank score sheets to date.

Forest are our 13^th voted team in our first season where they finished on a grand total of 78 goals. Their highest score came in our 1988/89 Season with 100 goals. They have been with Golden Goals for twenty-four seasons and they have been out in all of the last six. Last season they finished on 75 goals. Over the twenty-four seasons they have netted a total of 1696 goals, which gives them an average score of 70 goals per seasons to date.

Scottish League Cup Third Round

In the Scottish League Cup last night we had four of our teams in action and out of them three are through to the next round. CELTIC are through as they win 2-0 at home to Raith and that now gives them a total of 25 goals while HEARTS won 3-2 away to Kilmarnock and that also gives them a total of 25 goals. HIBERNIAN are through as they beat ABERDEEN 2-0 at home. Hibs are now on 14 goals while Aberdeen’s goal run ends after a run of eight games.

More Capital One Cup Third Round Games

We had more league cup action last night in where ten of our Golden Goals teams played. Out of them another five had been taken out of the competition.

The highest score of the night came from CHELSEA as they beat Walsall with their highest score of the season by winning 4-1 away. Chelsea are in the next round and they are now on 13 goals. ARSENAL are also through as they beat London rivals TOTTENHAM 2-1 away. Arsenal are now on 7 goals while Tottenham picked up goal number six. NORWICH picked up another three goals in their 3-0 home win against West Brom and that gives them a total of 14 goals while MANCHESTER UNITED are now on 12 goals as they win 3-0 at home to IPSWICH. Ipswich goal scoring record has come to the end after a total of ten games. LIVERPOOL just about scraped through in this round after drawing 1-1 after extra time against Carlisle. Liverpool then went on to win 3-2 on penalties. That was Liverpool’s 5^th goal of the season.

Teams out are CHARLTON as they went down 4-1 away to Crystal Palace to pick up their 17^th goal while with their biggest defeat of the season, MK DONS lost 6-0 at home to Southampton. That became their Dons 5^th blank of the season.  NEWCASTLE lost 1-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday to get their 5^th blank and now just one goal in their last four games. 

Scottish League Cup Third Round

We had just two of our teams in action in this third round stage and both are out. RANGERS are out of the Scottish League Cup as they lose 3-1 at home to St Johnstone. The only good news from this is that Rangers are now on 34 goals and they have kept their 100% scoring record.

FALKIRK are also out with their biggest defeat of the season with a 7-0 thrashing from Ross County. That saw Falkirk’s goals run come to the end after a total of eight games.

Capital One Cup Third Round

We had the third round of the Capital One Cup last night in where seven of our Golden Goals teams were in action. Out of them four have made it through to the fourth round.

The biggest win of the night came from MANCHESTER CITY as they win 4-1 away to Sunderland. City are now on a total of 16 goals with their biggest win of the season to date. HULL are through as they win 1-0 at home to Swansea to give them goal number 15. MIDDLESBROUGH are also through as they beat WOLVES at home 3-0. Brough are now on 22 goals and are our best English team today. Wolves picked up their third blank of the season and they have now failed to score in their last two games. EVERTON are in the next round as they win 2-1 away to Reading and they are now on 15 goals.

WEST HAM go out 2-1 away to Leicester City after extra time but they keep their 100% goal record intact and they are now on 14 goals. PRESTON drew 2-2 with Bournemouth at home after extra time . They then lost 3-2 on penalties. Preston take their goals tally to 11 goals. 

Second For Derby

DERBY picked up their second blank score sheet of the season on Monday night as they drew 0-0 at home to BURNLEY. Derby have scored just four goals in their last four games and have a total of 22 votes. Burnley picked up their third blank score sheet. They have netted seven goals in their last four games. They have just one vote this season.

Week Seven

TONY KING is at the top this weekend for the very first time this season as he’s combination of  teams pick him up a total of  9 goals over the week with five coming from the weekend. His goals came from Hull 1, Q.P.R 1 and Rangers 3 and he is now just one goal clear of  DANIEL GOODSON and MICK LIDDLE who share second place.

At the other end, JOHN NICHOLLS is in his sixth weekend at number 119 as his combination picked him up a total of just 2 goals. They came from Arsenal 0, Bolton 1 and Newcastle 1.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

This week 72 of you picked some more midweek goals with NATHAN TREADWELL picking up the most with five goals. They came from Middlesbrough 3 and Sheffield United 2. His third team is Manchester City. Nathan is now on a total of 18 midweek goals. This week we then have had a change around for the race for the cash.

TONY KING is in the lead this week with his teams of Hull, QPR and Rangers. Tony moves up from two of last week with a total of 27 goals picking up four more goals. Tony was just one of five people that picked up four goals. In second place both with 24 goals we have down from one MICK LIDDLE and up from four CRAIG EVANS. BARBARA BARNES (2) is still in third place but has been joined with DANIEL GOODSON up from fifth place and TOM MACDONALD all on 23 goals. In fourth place up from five is MALCOLM CORMACK on 21 goals while in fifth place both on 20

We had two players to share this weekend cash prize money of £5 winning on a score of 11 goals each. Both are first time winners for this season and we have now had a total of nine winners. Our winners are MARK GREGORY and ROBERT NETTING.

Mark as been with the competition for eight seasons now and he first started with us back in our 2008/09 Season. In his first season he finished in 49^th place out of 102 on 251 goals. Last season he finished in the winning frame in 23^rd place on 272 goals taking home just over £5 in cash. This season we see Mark in his highest position so far and with his highest score of the season. He has collected just one blank score sheet to date. His best team is Celtic.

Robert has been with Golden Goals for twelve seasons now and he first started back in our 2004/05 Season. In that season he finished in 86^th place out of 105. He netted 243 goals. Last season he finished in the winning frame in 9^th place on 291 goals. He had one shared weekend win taking home £17 in cash. This season Rob has also picked up one blank score sheet at the weekend but this is not the highest that he has been. In week one he was in 33^rd place. Rob also has Celtic as his best team. Our winners teams are

Mark  CELTIC 6, MANCHESTER UTD 3, SHEFFIELD UTD 2

Robert  CELTIC 6, CHELSEA 2, MANCHESTER UTD 3

WEEKEND RESULTS                

All of us managed to pick up some more goals this weekend as our weekend average score came in at a fantastic 7 goals each.

The highest score that we had over the weekend came from Scottish Premiership where CELTIC picked up their highest score of the season winning 6-0 at home to Dundee. Although Celtic remain second in the table, they are now on 23 goals and they keep their 100% goal scoring record in tack after eight games played.

Celtic are the only Scottish team to have played in all of our 33 Seasons and out of them they have ended on 100 or more goals in fourteen of them. They are our second voted Scots team after Aberdeen in our first season and in our first season they finished on a total of 116 goals. Their best score to date came in our 2000/01 Season with 122 goals. In their last two seasons they have finished on a total of 110 goals. Over the years they have netted a total of 3,084 goals which gives them an average score of 93 goals per season to date.

PREMIERSHIP

We have the top three teams here with MANCHESTER CITY remaining top as they lose their first league of the season 2-1 at home against WEST HAM. City are now on 12 goals while West ham now in third place, take their goals tally to 13.  MANCHESTER UNITED have moved up to second place as they win 3-2 away to Southampton. United are now on a total of 9 goals. In the big London derby, CHELSEA took on  ARSENAL at home and won 2-0. Chelsea are on 9 goals this weekend while Arsenal picked up their third blank score sheet of the season. It’s five goals for WATFORD as they win 2-1 away to NEWCASTLE. Newcastle picked up goal number seven. EVERTON picked up their 3^rd blank score sheet as they drew 0-0 away to Swansea. LIVERPOOL still in our worst team frame and 13^th in the league, drew 1-1 at home against NORWICH. Liverpool hit goal number four while Norwich are on 11. TOTTENHAM are on 5 goals as they win 1-0 at home to Crystal Palace.

CHAMPIONSHIP

We have the top five teams here this weekend with BRIGHTON still on top as they drew 0-0 away to WOLVES.  Brighton picked up their very first blank of the season after ten games played while Wolves picked up their 2^nd. MDDLESBROUGH are second as they win 2-1 away to NOTTINGHAM FOREST. Brough are now on 19 goals while Forest are on 11. In third place is HULL. They drew 1-1 at home to QPR to give their goals tally to 14 and Rangers to 18. Burnley are fourth but they had now game while Ipswich moved down to fifth place. CHARLTON picked up their 2^nd blank score sheet as they lost 3-0 away to Blackburn. BRENTFORD won 2-1 at home to PRESTON to give them 11 goals while Preston are on 9. BRISTOL CITY picked up their 2^nd blank as they lost 2-0 at home to Reading.

BOLTON picked up their 4^th goal of the season as they lost 4-1 away to Huddersfield. MK DONS are on 11 goals as they lost 2-1 at home to LEEDS. Leeds are now on 10 goals. CARDIFF drew 1-1 away to Rotherham and picked up goal thirteen.

LEAGUE ONE

It’s all change here again as  BURTON ALBION become our highest team here in first place. They won 1-0 away to SWINDON. Burton are now on 12 goals while Swindon picked up their 2^nd blank of the season. SHEFFIELD UNITED are now down to seventh place as they drew 2-2 away to Bradford. United are now on 15 goals. BLACKPOOL are on 6 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Barnsley while PORT VALE lost 1-0 away to Bury to collect their 5^th blank score sheet and now two in a row. CHESTERFIELD picked up their 3^rd as they lost 1-0 away to Coventry. SOUTHEND won 2-0 away to MILLWALL and are on 7 goals while Millwall picked up their 4^th blank score sheet. PETERBOROUGH hit goal number 15 as they drew 1-1 at home to Walsall. SCUNTHORPE lost 2-1 away to Rochdale but they are now on 8 goals. WIGAN won 2-1 at home to Fleetwood and are now on 12 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

We still have the top four teams here with LEYTON ORIENT still on top again this weekend as they drew again 1-1 at home to WYCOMBE who remained in fourth place. Orient are now on 16 goals while Wycombe are on 11. PLYMOUTH are still in second place as they drew 1-1 at home to Bristol Rovers. Plymouth keep their 100% goals record going and are now on 15 goals. PORTSMOUTH are still in third place as they drew 1-1 away to Oxford. Portsmouth are now on 17 goals this week. EXETER lost 4-2 away to Accrington and are now on 18 goals.  LUTON are on 16 as they win 1-0 at home to Mansfield. STEVENAGE are on 12 goals as they lose 3-2 away to Barnet. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership even after their biggest win of the season, CELTIC are still in second place to ABERDEEN who won 3-1 away to HEARTS to keep their 100% scoring record going. Aberdeen are now on 15 goals while Hearts in third place are now on 22 goals.

In the Championship RANGERS remained top here again and now seven points in front of Falkirk in second place as they win 3-1 away to Dumbarton. Rangers are still our best team with 33 goals after nine games.  FALKIRK drew their game 1-1 away to Alloa to give them a total of 16 goals. HIBERNIAN are in third place on 12 goals as they win 1-0 away to Livingston. QUEEN OF THE SOUTH drew their game 2-2 at home to Morton after a two game dry spell.

In the lower Leagues, STENHOUSEMUIR lost 1-0 at home to Dunfermline to pick up their 2^nd blank of the season. CLYDE lost 1-0 away to East Fife to pick up their 4^th blank of the season, After a two game dry spell QUEENS PARK won 3-1 at home to Elgin. Queens are now on a total of 12 goals. BERWICK. lost 2-0 at home to Anna which gave them their second blank of the season.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND

RANGERS (33) CELTIC (23) HEARTS (22) Total of 78 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

BOLTON (4) LIVERPOOL (4) WATFORD (5) Total of 13 goals

Our worst team this week is back to BOLTON as they have now picked up six blank score sheets and they have scored just 4 goal in their nine games played.  

Our Best team this weekend is still RANGERS after scoring in all of their nine League and Cup games played they are on a total of 33 goals which is an average of three goals per game.

Our highest scoring team in our 33^rd Season is from the Scottish Premiership CELTIC as they win 6-0 at home to Dundee in a league game in week seven.

We still have eight teams left that still have a 100% scoring record of which half of them are still Scottish teams.

We had a good weekend for goals from our Golden Goals teams this weekend so as you can see the we have had a bit of a change around at the top.

  THIS     LAST                                               M/WEEK        W/END        TOTAL

WEEK    WEEK             NAME                      GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

    1                 5                T. KING                        27                     38                 65

    2                 7                D. GOODSON              23                     41                 64

    3                 2                M. LIDDLE                  24                     40                 64

    4                 3                T. MACDONALD        23                     40                 63

    5                 1                S. CADWELL               19                     43                 62

    6                 4                B. BARNES (2)            23                     38                  61

    7                 6                R. WILLIAMS             18                      42                 60

    8                 -                 J. HUNTER                  20                     37                  57

    9                 12              C. SETFORD                20                     37                  57

    10               9                JA. WOOD                   14                      41                  55 

Ipswich Four Points From Two Games

IPSWICH was the only team from Golden Goals to have played twice in midweek. On Tuesday they beat Leeds away, to pick up all three points and on Friday night they took on Birmingham at home, and picked up another point as they drew 1-1. Ipswich have done very well this week and they are now on a total of 19 goals.

They keep their 100% goal scoring record going for this season and they have now scored in all of their ten games played. They have scored five goals in their last four games.

Middlesbrough On Target

The English Championship have played over the last couple of nights and out of the twenty teams that we had in action only four failed to score any goals.

The highest score so far this week came from MIDDLESBROUGH as they win 3-1 at home to BRENTFORD. Middlesbrough are now on a total of 17 goals while Brentford picked up goal number nine.

NOTTINGHAM FOREST are now on 16 goals as they won 1-0 away to Birmingham. BOLTON picked up their 6^th blank score sheet of the season as they drew 0-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday. BRIGHTON won 2-1 at home to Rotherham and that gives them a total of 13 goals while BURNLEY also won 2-1 at home against MK DONS, Burnley are now in double figures with 11 goals while the Dons are on 10. CARDIFF picked up their first blank of the season as they lost 2-0 at home to HULL. Hull are now on 13 goals. CHARLTON lost 2-1 at home against Huddersfield but picked up goal number 16. IPSWICH are on 18 goals as they beat LEEDS 1-0 away. Leeds picked up their second blank of the season.  PRESTON drew 1-1 at home to BRISTOL CITY to give them 8 goals while City have 10 goals. DERBY are also now on 8 goals as they win 1-0 away to Reading. QPR drew 2-2 at home to Blackburn and are now on 17 goals.

In League One, MILLWALL won 2-0 away to PORT VALE to take their goals tally to 10 while Port Vale  picked up their fourth blank score sheet. SHEFFIELD UNITED lost 3-2 at home to Colchester but that brings their goals total to 13.

Just one from Scotland Premiership this week as ABERDEEN won 1-0 at home to Hamilton which gave them their 12^th goal of the season.

UP THE HAMMERS!

Yes, WEST HAM have now moved up to 5^th place in the English Premiership last night after they beat NEWCASTLE 2-0 at home.  West Ham have now taken their goals tally to 11 goals while Newcastle moved down to the bottom of the table. This was Newcastle’s 4^th blank of the season and they have now failed to score any goals in their last two games.

West Ham are in their 26^th Season with Golden Goals and they are our 8^th voted team from our very first season of 1983/84. In that season they finished on 79 goals. Their highest score is 91 goals from our 1989/90 Season.

Last time out was back in our 2011/12 Season with 89 goals. Over the seasons they have scored a total of 1632 goals which gives them an average of  62 goals per season to date.

Week Six

STEVEN CADWELL is now celebrating is third weekend at the top this weekend as he’s combination of teams pick him up a total of 5 goals all from the weekend. His goals came from Berwick 1, Leyton Orient 1 and Rangers 4 and he is now just one goal clear of MICK LIDDLE who is now in second place. Mick picked up a total of 6 goals from Man UTD 3, and Rangers 3. His third team Hearts who had no game this weekend.

At the other end, JOHN NICHOLLS is in his fifth weekend at number 119 as his combination picked him up a total of 3 goals. They came from Arsenal 2 and  Bolton 1. Newcastle had no game for him this weekend. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

So again this weekend there was not a single change in the race for the cash this week.

MICK LIDDLE is in the lead with his teams Hearts, Manchester Utd and Rangers. Mick is on a total of 24 goals. In second place with 23 goals is TONY KING. In third place we have BARBARA BARNES (2) on 22 goals while in fourth place on 21 we have CRAIG EVANS and TOM McDONALD. In fifth place we have MALCOLM CORMACK, DANIEL GOODSON and JAMES HUNTER all on 20 goals.

We had our first Rollover of £10 for this season this weekend and the winner becomes our 7^th of the season winning on 10 goals and the money goes to our 2001/02 Champion LAURIE KING.

This is Laurie’s highest weekend score of the season to date and this is also his highest position so far. Laurie has been a life time player with Golden Goals and I thank him for his support over the years. He became Champion back in our 2001/02 season finishing on a grand total of 355 goals from his team then of Celtic, Man City and Rangers. That total is our highest end of season score to date but could Laurie or someone else beat that fantastic score which he has held over such a long time?

Last season, Laurie finished in 78^th place on 242 goals but won no cash at all. So this is a great start for him this week. His teams are

ARSENAL 2, PETERBOROUGH 5, RANGERS 3 

WEEKEND RESULTS

                

All of us managed to pick up some goals this weekend as our weekend average score came in at just 4 goals each.

The highest score that we had over the weekend came from League One where PETERBOROUGH picked up their highest score of the season winning 5-1 away to Oldham after they sacked their manager in midweek. Borough have just one vote this season as they take their goals tally to 14.

Peterborough are in their tenth season with Golden Goals and they are our 91^st team to be picked over the years. In their first season of 1997/98 they netted a total of 73 goals. Their best score came in 2010/11 with 129 goals. Last season they finished on just 55. Over the ten seasons they have netted a total of 751 goals which gives them an average of 75 goals per season to date. 

PREMIERSHIP

MANCHESTER CITY have remained top here as they get a last minute goal against Crystal Palace away to make it five wins out of five. City keep their 100% goal scoring record going after five games and they are now on 11 goals. In second place is Leicester City with MANCHESTER UNITED behind them in third place. They picked up their biggest win if the season with a 3-1 home win against LIVERPOOL. The goals now give them a total of 6 goals as Liverpool in 9^th place pick up goal number three after a two game dry spell for goals.ARSENAL are fourth as they win 2-0 at home to Stoke to give them a total of 5 goals. EVERTON are on 13 goals this weekend as they win 3-1 at home to CHELSEA. Perhaps one of the upsets of the season so far, Chelsea are now fourth from bottom in the premiership with 7 goals. NORWICH won 3-1 at home to Bournemouth and are now on 10 goals while WATFORD picked up goal number three after a four game dry spell winning 1-0 at home to Swansea. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

We have the top three teams here with BRIGHTON on top as they win 1-0 at home to HULL. Brighton are now on 11 goals and that keeps their 100% goal run alive after eight games. Hull on the other hand picked up their first blank score sheet of the season. CARDIFF are in second place as they win 2-0 at home to Huddersfield. Cardiff are on 12 goals and keep their 100% scoring record going. In third place is MIDDLESBROUGH. They won 2-0 at home to MK DONS. Brough are now on 14 goals while the Dons picked up their fourth blank of the season. BURNLEY picked up their highest score of the season as they win 3-1 at home to Sheffield Wednesday. Burnley are on 9 goals. BRISTOL CITY are also on 9 goals as they lost 4-2 away to Birmingham. BOLTON picked up their highest score of the season as they win 2-1 at home against WOLVES. Wolves net goal number 12. It’s 15 for CHARLTON as they drew 1-1 at home to Rotherham while LEEDS also drew 1-1 at home to BRENTFORD to give both teams a total of  8 goals each. DERBY have also picked up their highest score of the season as they win 2-1 away to PRESTON. Both of the teams are on 7 goals each. NOTTINGHAM FOREST take their goals total to nine as they win 2-1 away to QPR. Rangers are now on 15 goals.  

LEAGUE ONE

It’s all change here as  BURTON ALBION become our highest team here in third place. They won 1-0 at home to Rochdale to give them their 11^th goal of the season. SHEFFIELD UNITED are now fifth as they lost 3-1 at home to Bury. It’s 11 goals for United this weekend. CHESTERFIELD drew 3-3 at home to Colchester and that now takes them up to 13 goals. SWINDON are on 14 goals but lost 4-1 away to Barnsley. After a two game dry spell for goals, MILLWALL picked up their highest score with a 3-1 away win over Crewe. Millwall are now on 8 goals. BLACKPOOL picked up their 5^th goal as they lost 2-1 away to Top of the table Gillingham. PORT VALE after a two game dry spell picked up a 3-2 home win against WIGAN. Port Vale are now on 10 goals while Wigan are also on 10. It’s seven for SCUNTHORPE as they win 1-0 at home to Coventry. SOUTHEND picked up their 5^th blank of the season as they lost 1-0 at home to Shrewsbury.

LEAGUE TWO

We now have the top four teams here with LEYTON ORIENT still on top again this weekend as they drew 1-1 away to Cambridge. Orient are now on 15 goals. PLYMOUTH move up to second place as they beat WYCOMBE 2-1 away.  Plymouth keep their 100% goals record going and are now on 14 goals. Wycombe move down to fourth place and are on 10. PORTSMOUTH move up to third place as they win 3-1 at home to Barnet. Portsmouth are on 16 goals this week. EXETER win 1-0 at home to Hartlepool and that gives them a total of 16 goals while LUTON are on 15 as they lost 3-2 away to Notts County. STEVENAGE are on 10 goals as they drew 2-2 at home to York. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership CELTIC lost their first league game 2-1 away to ABERDEEN who now go top. Celtic picked up goal number 17 while Aberdeen are on 11. Both teams keep their 100% scoring record going. In the Championship RANGERS remained top here again and still five points in front of Falkirk in second place as they win 3-0 at home to Livingston. Rangers are still our best team with 30 goals after just eight games.  FALKIRK won their game 3-2 away to St Mirren to give them a total of 15 goals. HIBERNIAN are on 11 goals as they win 3-0 at home to Alloa. QUEEN OF THE SOUTH lost their game 1-0 away to Raith and that was their third blank of the season and now two games in a row.

In the lower Leagues, STENHOUSEMUIR won 1-0 at home to Stranraer and are on 12 goals this week while CLYDE picked up their highest score of the season with a 4-2 home win over Annan, Clyde are now on 9 goals.  After a two game dry spell QUEENS PARK picked up their highest win with a 5-1 home win against East Stirling. Queens are now on a total of 9 goals. BERWICK. are on  13 goals as they lost 4-1 away to Elgin.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND

RANGERS (30) HEARTS (21) CELTIC (17) Total of 68 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

WATFORD (3) BOLTON (3) LIVERPOOL (3) Total of 9 goals

Our worst team this week is WATFORD they have scored just one goal in their last five games. 

Our Best team this weekend is still RANGERS after scoring in all of their eight League and Cup games played they are on a total of 30 goals which is an average of about four goals per game.

Our highest scoring teams in our 33^rd Season are EVERTON, FALKIRK and RANGERS. Everton won 5-3 against Barnsley in the Second Round of the Capital One Cup in Week Four. Falkirk won 5-0 in the Scottish Communities League Cup First Round against East Stirling in Week One, while Rangers have now scored five goals four time already this season. First they won against  Alloa in Week Two 5-1 away in a league game. Then in Week Four they won 5-0 against Airdrie in the Second Round of the Scottish Communities League Cup and then at the weekend in another league game winning 5-1 away to Queen Of The South and this weekend 5-0 at home to Raith. We can also add on PETERBOROUGH’S 5-1 away win over Oldham in league one and QUEENS PARK’S 5-1 home win over East Stirling in the Scottish league two this weekend.

We still have ten teams left that still have a 100% scoring record of which four of them are Scottish teams.

Not much of any big changes this weekend but here are our top ten.

        THIS     LAST                                                 M/WEEK        W/END        TOTAL

      WEEK    WEEK             NAME                        GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

     1                -                 S. CADWELL                19                  39                   58

     2               5                  M. LIDDLE                   24                  33                   57

     3                -                 T. McDONALD             21                  35                   56

     4                -                 B. BARNES (2)              22                  34                   56

     5                2                T. KING                          23                  33                   56

     6                7                R. WILLIAMS                18                  37                   55

     7                6                D. GOODSON                20                  35                   55

     8                -                 J. HUNTER                    20                  33                   53

     9                11              JA. WOOD                      14                  37                   51

     10              9                M. CORMACK               20                  31                   51