Week Seventeen

LAURIE KING becomes our 8^th persons to reach that top spot this season. Laurie is our 2001/02 Champion and he also has the highest ever end of season score of 355 goals.  Laurie’s teams are Arsenal, Peterborough and Rangers who picked him up a total of eight goals for the week with five coming from the weekend. Laurie is now two goals clear of last weeks leader RICHARD WILLIAMS as his teams  picked up just three goals from Hibernian, Manchester City and Rangers.

At the other end, it’s still JOHN NICHOLLS now in his sixteenth weekend at number 119 as his combination once again picked him up just two goals all coming from the weekend.  His teams are Arsenal, Bolton and Newcastle.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

Just under half of us managed to pick up some more goals this week but the highest score this week with eight goals and they all went to GRAHAM WARMAN who had Portsmouth and Derby., His third team is Celtic. Graham is now on a total of 26 midweek goals and way behind the field. So there was just a little change in the race for the cash again this week and the field is beginning to thin out a bit.

CRAIG EVANS is still in the lead this week even though none of this teams were in action. His teams are Hearts, Manchester City and Middlesbrough. Craig has a total of 42 goals. Still in second place we have DANIEL GOODSON with 38 goals.  In third place up from four of last week we have NATHAN TREADWELL on a total of 37 goals while in fourth place both on 36 goals we have RICHARD WILLIAMS down from three and up from five MARK HOWARD. Down from four to five this week is TONY KING on 35 goals. 

This weekend we had two winners and the reason for that is that both have the same combination which is entirely my fault. So not to miss out on the Cash Prize Money of £5 this weekend both will receive £5 each. Our winners are GEOFF CARTHY and ALEXANDER REEVES both with 10 goals each. This is their highest score of the season and they have had not had any blank score sheets this season so far. Their best team is Celtic netting 45 of their total of 115 goals. Their teams are

CELTIC 3, MANCHESTER CITY 3, SWINDON 4 

WEEKEND RESULTS                                

All but nine of our teams were in action over the weekend and most of them were Scottish teams.But once again it was not a very high scoring weekend as the average score went up to just 5 goals. Once again our top teams failed to perform very well even though we had twelve teams that failed to score any goals.

The highest score that we had came from league one with BURTON ALBION as they won 5-1 at home to Colchester. With their highest score of the season, Burton are now on a total of 24 goals. They are now in third place in the league. Burton are in their very first season with Golden Goals with just a single vote. 

PREMIERSHIP

MANCHESTER CITY are back on top this weekend as they win 3-1 at home to Southampton. City are now on 39 goals. Leicester City drop down to second place as they drew 1-1 at home to MANCHESTER UNITED.  United have moved down to third place with a goals total of 23. ARSENAL are in fourth place as they drew 1-1 away to NORWICH. Arsenal are on 26 goals while Norwich hit goal number 23. TOTTENHAM  are in fifth place as they drew 0-0 at home to CHELSEA. That was Tottenham's 4^th blank of the season while Chelsea picked up their third. Chelsea have now scored just one goal in their last three games. WEST HAM picked up goal number 26 as they drew 1-1 at home to West Brom. EVERTON are doing well of late as they drew 3-3 away to Bournemouth. Everton are in 9^th place behind West Ham and they are now on 35 goals. Everton have scored in all of their last six games with 14 goals in their last four games. WATFORD picked up their highest score of the season as they win 3-2 away to Aston Villa. Watford are now on 15 goals. NEWCASTLE picked up goal number 18 but lost 5-1 away to Crystal Palace. LIVERPOOL won 1-0 at home to Swansea and are on 20 goals this weekend. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

We still have the top five teams here with BRIGHTON moving to the top as they win 2-1 at home against Birmingham to take their goals tally to 26. MIDDLESBROUGH are in second place as they win 2-0 away to Huddersfield. Brough are now on 35 goals. In third place is DERBY after their win on Friday night with HULL in fourth place. BURNLEY are in fifth place as they drew 2-2 away to CARDIFF. Burnley are on 26 goals with Cardiff on 21. BRISTOL CITY lost 3-0 away to Rotherham to pick up their 5^th blank of the season. City have now scored three goals in their last six games played. NOTTINGHAM FOREST take their goals tally to 19 as they win 3-1 away to Reading. IPSWICH are on 34 goals as they win 3-0 away to CHARLTON. Charlton picked up their 8^th blank score sheet of the season. PRESTON are on 19 goals as they drew 1-1 away to Fulham. WOLVES drew 0-0 at home against MK DONS to get their 7^th blank while the Dons get their 9^th. LEEDS UTD picked up their 7^th blank of the season and now two in a row as they lost 1-0 away to QPR. Rangers after a four blank score sheets picked up goal number 27. 

LEAGUE ONE

Once again we have just three of our teams in the top six here with BURTON ALBION in third place.  WIGAN are in fifth place as they drew 0-0 away to SOUTHEND. Wigan picked up their 7^th blank and now two games in a row while Southend picked up their 8^th. PETERBOROUGH are now in sixth place after their big win in midweek, they also won 4-0 away to SCUNTHORPE at the weekend. Borough are now on 52 goals and they are now our best team this weekend. They have scored in all of their last twenty-two games played. Scunthorpe picked up their 6^th blank score sheet. SHEFFIELD UNITED are on 36 goals as they drew 1-1 away to Barnsley. SWINDON won 4-0 away to CHESTERFIELD. Swindon are now on 31 goals while Chesterfield picked up their 7^th blank and now two in a row. It’s 34 for MILLWALL as they win 1-0 at home to Bury. PORT VALE lost 2-1 away to Rochdale and are now on 31 goals. 

LEAGUE TWO

PLYMOUTH are now in second place as they drew 1-1 away to Redbridge. Plymouth are now on a total of 31 goals. PORTSMOUTH are still in fifth place as they drew 2-2 away to WYCOMBE. Portsmouth are now on 38 goals while Wycombe are on 28. EXETER are on 36 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Bristol Rovers while LEYTON ORIENT are now on 39 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to AFC Wimbledon. LUTON lost 3-0 away to Newport to pick up their 3^rd blank of the season.  STEVENAGE picked up their highest score of the season with a 4-3 home win over Morecombe. Stevenage are now on 31 goals. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership, CELTIC remained top as they won 3-1 away to Inverness. Celtic are now on 45 goals. ABERDEEN move into second place as they win 3-1 at home to Ross County. Aberdeen are now on 25 goals  HEARTS moved down to third place as they drew 2-2 away to Motherwell.  Hearts are now on 39 goals and they have scored in all of their last eight games.

In the WILLIAM HILL CUP third round we had just three of our Scottish teams in action with one going through. That team was FALKIRK as they win 4-1 at home to non-league team Fraserburgh. Falkirk are on 39 goals and they have now scored 13goals in their last four games. QUEENS PARK and STENHOUSEMUIR will have to wait as they drew their games. Queens Park drew 1-1 at home to Forfar to pick up goal number 27 while Stenhousemuir drew 2-2 at home to non-league E Kilbride to take their goals total to 28. 

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND

PETERBOROUGH (52) RANGERS (50) CELTIC (45) Total of 147 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

BOLTON (11) WATFORD (15) BLACKPOOL (16) Total of 42 goals 

Our worst team this week is still BOLTON as they had no game this week. They have had a total of eleven blank score sheets out of eighteen games played. They have scored just two goal in their last seven games.

Our Best team this weekend is PETERBOROUGH after scoring in all of their last twenty-two League/Cup games played out of twenty-three, they are on a total of 52 goals..

We now have seven high scoring teams in our 33^rd Season. From the Scottish Premiership CELTIC won 6-0 at home to Dundee in a league game in week seven while MANCHESTER CITY won 6-1 at home to Newcastle in the League in week nine. NEWCASTLE’S won 6-2 at home against Norwich in the League from week eleven. EVERTON won 6-2 at home in a league game against Sunderland. LEYTON ORIENT won 6-1 at home to non-league team Stains Town in the first round of the FA Cup in week fourteen. QUEENS PARK won 6-1 away to Montrose in the Scottish league two. PORTSMOUTH have now joined our six goals club by winning 6-0 at home to York in the league.

Here is how the top ten is looking this week

   THIS     LAST                                                  M/WEEK        W/END        TOTAL

 WEEK    WEEK             NAME                         GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

      1                2                L. KING (2001/02)           25                  104                129              

      2                1                R. WILLIAMS                 36                   91                 127

      3                 -               D. GOODSON                  38                   86                 124              

      4                 -               C. BOOM                          27                   96                 123

      5                 6              A. BROWN                       31                   91                 122              

      6                 14            S. DICKINSON                 31                   91                 122

      7                 10            A. BEW                             34                   85                 119              

      8                 13            D. WESTON                     33                   85                  118                     

      9                 5              B. SOPER                         26                    91                 117              

      10              9               J. WISE                             31                    85                 116