Liverpool End 2015 On A High

LIVERPOOL have moved up to 7^th place in the English Premiership as they beat Sunderland 1-0 away last night. That single goal gave Liverpool their 30^th goal of the season.

In Scotland, ABERDEEN picked up their 3^rd blank score sheet of the season as they drew 0-0 at home to Partick while HEARTS won 3-2 at home against Dundee Utd.

Manchester City Lose Ground

We had another nine of our Golden Goals teams in action last night and only two failed to pick up any goals. They were from the English Premiership where MANCHESTER CITY took on Leicester City and drew 0-0 away. That is now City’s fourth blank score sheet of the season.

In the Championship, BRIGHTON picked up their third consecutive blank score sheet as they lost 

1-0 at home to IPSWICH. Brighton have now had a total of six blank score sheets while Ipswich picked up their 40^th goal of the season. CARDIFF are on 31 goals as they drew 1-1 at home against NOTTINGHAM FOREST who are now on 27. LEEDS drew 2-2 at home to DERBY to give them a total of 26 goals and Derby 38.

Two teams from Scotland as FALKIRK beat Livingston 2-0 at home to take their goals tally to 45 while STENHOUSEMUIR are on 31 goals after a 1-0 away win over Airdrie.

Christmas Monday Results

We had a very good night for goals last night as three of our teams picked up four goals each. We had a total of 40 teams in action, only thirteen failed to score any goals.

In the English Championship, EVERTON picked up the highest score here as they lost 4-3 at home against on form Stoke. Everton have now scored in all of their last twelve games and they are now on a total of 45 goals. ARSENAL won 2-0 at home to Bournemouth and that now gives them a total of 35 goals. MANCHESTER UNITED drew 0-0 at home to CHELSEA to pick up their 8^th blank of the season and now no goals in their last two games. Chelsea picked up their 5^th. It’s 28 for NORWICH as they win 2-0 at home to Aston Villa while TOTTENHAM won 2-1 away to WATFORD to take their goals tally to 34 while Watford hit goal number 24. NEWCASTLE lost 
1-0 away to West Brom and that was their 10th blank of the season and now two games in a row without a goal. WEST HAM are on 29 as they win 2-1 at home against Southampton.

In the Championship, BURNLEY picked up another four goals as they win 4-0 at home against BRISTOL CITY. Burnley are now on 34 goals. City picked up blank number eight. MK DONS lost 1-0 away to Birmingham and that was their 12^th blank of the season. BOLTON picked up goal number 19 as they win 1-0 at home to Blackburn. WOLVES are on 35 as they beat CHARLTON 

2-0 away. Charlton picked up their 11^th blank and they have now scored three goals in their last five games. MIDDLESBROUGH are now on 42 goals as they win 1-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday. PRESTON beat HULL 1-0 at home to give them goal number 25 while Hull picked up their 4^th blank score sheet. QPR drew 1-1 at home to Huddersfield and that was goal number 33 for Rangers. BRENTFORD won 2-1 away to Reading and they are now on a total of 36 goals.

In League One, BLACKPOOL are on 21 goals but lost 4-2 away to Barnsley. BURTON ALBION are on 33 as they won 1-0 at home to SWINDON who picked up their 6^th blank of the season. After a four games without a goal, CHESTERFIELD drew 10-1 at home against Coventry to give them goal number 32. It’s 35 for WIGAN as they win 3-1 away to Fleetwood. PORT VALE won 1-0 at home to Bury and that was goal number 33 for them. SCUNTHORPE drew 1-1 at home to Rochdale and they are now on 33 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED are on 42 goals as they win 3-1 at home to Bradford.  After a two game dry spell for goals, MILLWALL won 4-0 away to SOUTHEND to take their goals tally to 40 while Southend picked up blank number nine. PETERBOROUGH lost 2-0 away to Walsall and that was their 3^rd blank of the season.

In League Two, LEYTON ORIENT lost 2-1 away to Bristol Rovers and they are now on 45 goals. EXETER lost 2-0 at home to AFC Wimbledon and that was their 7^th blank of the season and now no goals in their last two games. It’s 37 for PLYMOUTH as they win 2-1 away to Newport. PORTSMOUTH drew 0-0 at home to LUTON and that was both their 6^th blank of the season. STEVENAGE lost 3-1 at home against Redbridge to pick up goal number 36 while WYCOMBE won 2-0 at home to Crawley to take their goals total to 38.

Just one result from Scotland from their Championship where RANGERS beat HIBERNIAN 4-2 at home. Rangers are now on 61 goals while Hibs are on 41.

There are more of our Golden Goals teams in action tonight, so please come back tomorrow to see how our teams are doing.

Week Twenty-One

The Boxing Day games did not produce much of a stir in the tables this weekend but that could all change as we go into a very busy week for games. As you can see on the right here that I am doing a poll to see which team will score 100 goals first this season, so thanks for the three that have. 

LAURIE KING is now in his fifth weekend at the top at the start of the second half. Laurie picked up two goals in midweek from Arsenal and another two at the weekend from Peterborough. His combination is  Arsenal , Peterborough  and Rangers. Laurie is in joint top but ahead on weekend goals with SIMON DICKINSON as he moves up from fourth to second place this weekend after picking up a total of nine goals for the week. Simon's teams are Celtic, Manchester City and Portsmouth. 

At the other end, it’s still JOHN NICHOLLS now in his twentieth weekend at number 119 as his combination picked him up two goals in midweek from Arsenal and another blank score sheet at the weekend.  His teams are Arsenal, Bolton and  Newcastle. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
Most of us managed to pick up some more goals again this week but the highest score this week was a total of three goals and they went to nine players who had Arsenal and Manchester City as part of their combination.  
So at the start of the second half here at Golden Goals we still have two players out in front as we say fairwell to 2015. CRAIG EVANS and DANIEL GOODSON are both sharing the lead again this week as both picked up another single goal from Manchester City to move their total up to the half way mark with 50 goals each. In second place all on 45 goals we have TONY KING who remained in second place with these from third place last week. They are BARBARA BARNES (2), JAMES HUNTER, TOM MACDONALD, DAVID STAINS, NATHAN TREADWELL and RICHARD WILLIAMS. In third place up from four is JAMES WISE on 44 goals while in fourth place all on 42 we now have ADRIAN BEW, BARRY BURROUGHS and JOHN DAVIES. 

This weekend we had our Christmas Jackpot of £10 in cash to give away and we had one lucky winner to pick the whole lot up. Our winner was CHRIS BOOM winning on a score of 9 goals and he becomes our 24^th winner of the season. Chris started with Golden Goals back in our 2008/09 Season finishing in 31^st place on 262 goals. Last season he finished in 65th place with 247 goals. Last time that Chris finished in the winning frame was in our 2012/13 Season in 6^th place picking up £31 in cash including one weekend win. This season, Chris has had two blank score sheets and although we can see him in 5^th place this weekend, third is his highest to date from week three. His best team is Celtic netting him 51 of his total of 145 goals.   

CELTIC 2,  LEYTON ORIENT 3, MANCHESTER CITY 4 

WEEKEND RESULTS
The average score this weekend moved from three last weekend back to 5 goals this weekend. This weekend we had nine of our teams that had no game and another fourteen teams failed to score any goals.The highest score that we had this weekend came from the English Premiership where MANCHESTER CITY won 4-1 at home against Sunderland. City became our third team this season to reach 50 goals. They remain in third place in the table this week.
Manchester City are in their 22^nd season with Golden Goals and they were our 15^th most voted team in our very first season of 1983/84 where they finished on a grand total of 73 goals. Their highest score came in 2013/14 Season with 137 goals. Last season they finished on 92 goals. This season they have had just three blank score sheets out of 21 games played and they have our top vote this season of 52. Over the seasons they have scored a total of 1,685 goals which gives them an average score of 76 goals per season. 

PREMIERSHIP 
Leicester City are still top this weekend with ARSENAL still in second place as they lost 4-0 away to Southampton. Arsenal have now had a total of five blank score sheets. Manchester City are in third place with TOTTENHAM still fourth after they won 3-0 at home against NORWICH.  Tottenham are now on 32 goals while Norwich picked up their fifth blank of the season. MANCHESTER UNITED are down to sixth place as they lost again 2-0 away to Stoke. That was United's 7th blank score sheet of the season. WEST HAM picked up their 27^th goal of the season after a three game dry spell for goals as they drew 1-1 away to Aston Villa. CHELSEA drew 2-2 at home to WATFORD and are now on 28 goals while Watford are on 23 and they have scored in all of their last nine games. LIVERPOOL won 1-0 at home to Leicester City and that was goal number 29. EVERTON are on 42 as they win 1-0 away to NEWCASTLE. Everton have scored in all of their last eleven games while Newcastle picked up their 9^th blank of the season. 

CHAMPIONSHIP
We still have the top six teams here with DERBY back on top after they won 2-0 at home against Fulham. Derby are on 36 goals. Middlesbrough are back down to second after their game was cancelled. HULL are now third as they win 3-0 at home to BURNLEY. Hull are now on 40 goals while Burnley keep in fifth place and get their 8^th blank of the season. BRIGHTON are now down to fourth place as they drew 0-0 away to BRENTFORD. Brighton have now had five blank score sheets and now two in a row. Brentford picked up their sixth. IPSWICH remained in sixth place as they win 2-1 at home against QPR. Ipswich are now on 39 goals while Rangers picked up goal number 32. BRISTOL CITY picked up goal number 23 as they drew 1-1 at home to CHARLTON who are now on 29 goals. It’s 24 for PRESTON but they lost 3-1 away to Huddersfield. MK DONS are on 24 as they win 2-1 at home to CARDIFF who are on 30. WOLVES won 1-0 at home to Reading and are on 33 goals 

LEAGUE ONE
Burton Albion have fallen down to second place this weekend after their game was cancelled.  PETERBOROUGH are up to fifth place after they won 2-0 at home to CHESTERFIELD. Borough are now on 57 goals while Chesterfield picked up their 11^th blank and now four games in a row without a goal. Wigan are down to sixth place after their game was also cancelled. SOUTHEND are now on 32 goals after they won 2-0 away to Colchester. PORT VALE picked up their 10^th blank of the season as they lost 1-0 away to Coventry. SCUNTHORPE won 1-0 away to Doncaster to pick up goal number 32 while SWINDON are on 35 as they lost 3-1 at home to Gillingham. MILLWALL lost 1-0 to pick up their 7^th blank and now no goals in their last two games.while poor old BOLTON lost 4-0 away to Rotherham. Bolton have now had a total of thirteen blank score sheets. NOTTINGHAM FOREST are on 26 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to LEEDS who are on 24 goals. 

LEAGUE TWO 
Our highest team here is PLYMOUTH who are still top of the table as they win 1-0 at home against Yeovil. Plymouth are on 35 goals this weekend. PORTSMOUTH are still in fourth place as they lost 3-2 away to LEYTON ORIENT. Portsmouth are now on a total of 47 goals while Orient are on 44.  WYCOMBE are in sixth place as they win 2-0 away to LUTON. Wycombe are on 36 while Luton picked up their 5^th blank of the season. EXETER  picked up their 6^th blank as they lost 3-0 away to Oxford. STEVENAGE lost 2-1 away to Crawley and are on 35 goals. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES 
The weather hit the Scottish teams this weekend as only seven of the eleven teams played. In the Premiership, CELTIC drew 2-2 at home to third place HEARTS to become our fourth team to hit 50 goals. They are now on 51 goals while Hearts are on 41. ABERDEEN kept up the pressure on Celtic as they drew 2-2 at home to Inverness. Aberdeen are on 34 goals. In the Championship, FALKIRK won 1-0 at home to Dumbarton and that was their 43^rd goal of the season. 
In the lower leagues, STENHOUSEMUIR lost 5-1 at home to Stranraer and are now on 30 goals after a two game dry spell for goals. QUEENS PARK lost 1-0 at home to BERWICK to pick up their 7^th blank score sheet while Berwick are now on 28. 

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND 

RANGERS (57) PETERBOROUGH (57) CELTIC (51) Total of 165 goals 

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE 

BOLTON (18) BLACKPOOL (19) QUEEN OF SOUTH (22) Total of 59 goals 

Our worst team this week is still BOLTON They have had a total of thirteen blank score sheets out of twenty-four  games played. They have now scored four goals in their last four games. 

Our Best team this weekend is RANGERS after scoring in all of their twenty League/Cup games played keeping their 100% scoring record in-tacked. They are on a total of 57 goals.

We have eight 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 won 6-0 at home to York in the league. LIVERPOOL won 6-1 away to Southampton in the Capital One Cup quarter-finals.     

After the Boxing Day games, we do have a bit of a change around this week. It will all change again by the next post as we have a load of games being played.               

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

1                 -                 L. KING (2001/02)           31                   117                148              

2               4                  S. DICKINSON                36                   112                148

3                 2                R. WILLIAMS                  45                   102                147              

4                 3                D. GOODSON                  50                   97                   147

5                 7                C. BOOM                         32                   113                 145              

6                 5                A. BROWN                       36                   109                145

7                 6                J. WISE                             44                   99                   143              

8                 -                 B. SOPER                         37                   105                142                              

9                 -                 A. BEW                            42                   100                142              

10              13              D. WESTON                      40                   100                140

Merry Christmas From Golden Goals

Our next post here will be after all of  the games have been played on Boxing Day and Christmas Sunday, so look out for our next results here on Christmas Monday.  

Will Laurie King our 2001/02 Champion, stay on top to pick up his second win with Golden Goals as we start our second half? And will Rangers still be our best team as we head into 2016? As you can see that I have started a poll to see which team you think will score 100 goals first this season. Please give us your thoughts as this will be closing at the end of December 2015.

But mean time while we wait to find out, may I wish you, all who come here and have taken an interest in this football competition,

A Very Merry Christmas to You and Your Family

Early Present For Arsenal Fans

ARSENAL beat MANCHESTER CITY 2-1 at home last night to remain in second place in the English Premiership. Arsenal take their goals total to 33 and they have now scored in all of their last seven games. City picked up their 46^th goal of the season and have now lost five of their seventeen league games played. 

Week Twenty And Half Time

LAURIE KING is now in his fourth weekend at the top at half time. Laurie picked up just one goal this week and the goal came from Rangers at the weekend. His combination is  Arsenal , Peterborough  and Rangers. Laurie is just two goals clear of  RICHARD WILLIAMS as his remains in second place once again. Richards teams  picked him up two goals all from the weekend. His teams are Hibernian, Manchester City and Rangers.

At the other end, it’s still JOHN NICHOLLS now in his nineteenth weekend at number 119 as his combination picked him up five goals for the week. He had two goals in midweek from Bolton and the other three came from the weekend. His teams are Arsenal, Bolton and  Newcastle. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

Most of us managed to pick up some more goals this week but the highest score this week was a total of six goals and they went to BOB BURGIN (Stalky (2) who had Derby 4 and MK Dons 2 and JAMES SOMERVILLE who had Derby 4 and Ipswich 2. Both have Celtic as their third team.   

So at half time here at Golden Goals we still have two players out in front as we go into the Christmas period. CRAIG EVANS and DANIEL GOODSON are both sharing the lead again this week as both picked up a single goal to move their total up to 49 goals and nearly half way to the cash. In second place is TONY KING who moved up from five with 45 goals. In third place all on 44 goals we have BARBARA BARNES (2), JAMES HUNTER and TOM MACDONALD all moved up from fourth place with RICHARD WILLIAMS moving down one place. NATHAN TREADWELL remains in third place with DAVID STAINS coming straight in. In fourth place on 43 goals we have JAMES WISE joining in now. 

Once again this weekend we had two winners to share the £5 cash jackpot which means that we have now had a total of 23 winners. Our winners are  MICHEAL FISHER and NATALIE RAMSDEN both winning on a score of 7 goals each which is the lowest score we have to date for our 33^rd Season.

Micheal is in his second season with us. Last season he finished in 96^th place out of 106 with a grand total of 221 goals. Out of his combination from last season, he has only kept Manchester United. This season he has had a total of  four blank score sheets and his highest position was 63^rd from week one. So his first lot of cash with Golden Goals and we still have plenty of weeks yet for Micheal to win even more in the second half of the season.

Natalie is in her very first second season with us and she is now the second lady to win cash this season. Natalie has not  had any blank score sheets to date and this is the highest that she has been so far.

Micheal  BURTON ALBION 3, CHELSEA 3, MANCHESTER UNITED 1

Natalie  BRENTFORD 4, LUTON 3, MANCHESTER CITY - 

WEEKEND RESULTS                                

Once again our top teams did not have a great weekend for goals although Manchester City and Arsenal had no game. So the average score was effected by them not in action over the weekend as the average score fell from five of last weekend to just 3 goals this weekend. This weekend we had four of our teams that had no game and another seventeen teams failed to score any goals.

We had four teams that picked up the highest score with four goals each. They were from the English Championship, BRENTFORD who won 4-2 at home against Huddersfield. This is the second time this season that Brentford have scored four goals in a game. They are now on a total of 34 goals and they have scored in all of their last seven games. They have four votes this season. BURNLEY after a three game dry spell, they picked up their highest score of the season with a 4-0 home win against CHARLTON. Burnley are on 30 goals and they have just one vote this season. Charlton picked up their 10th blank score sheet.

From the Scottish Prem, ABERDEEN also picked up their highest score of the season as they win 4-0 away to Kilmarnock. With just a single vote this season, they are now on 32 goals. BERWICK from League Two won 4-0 away to East Stirling. This was also their highest score of the season and that takes their goals tally to 27. They also have just one vote. 

PREMIERSHIP

Leicester City moved back to the top this weekend and ARSENAL go back down to second as they had no game. MANCHESTER CITY are down to third place as they also had no game. TOTTENHAM move up to four as they win 2-0 away to Southampton. Tottenham are now on 29 goals. MANCHESTER UNITED are in fifth place as they lost again 2-1 at home against NORWICH. United hit goal number 25 while Norwich are on 26 goals. CHELSEA won their fifth league game of the season out of seventeen as they beat Sunderland 3-1 at home. Chelsea are now on 26 goals. EVERTON are on 41 goals after they lost 3-2 at home to Leicester. Everton have now scored in all of their last ten games played. WATFORD beat LIVERPOOL 3-0 at home and they are now on 25 goals while Liverpool picked up their 5^th blank of the season NEWCASTLE  drew 1-1 at home to Aston Villa and that now gives them their 23^rd goal of the season. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

We are back to the top six teams here with MIDDLESBROUGH going on top as they beat BRIGHTON 3-0 away. Brough are now on 41 goals while Brighton fall down to third place with their 4^th blank of the season. DERBY are second as they win 1-0 away to IPSWICH. Derby are on 34 goals now while Ipswich picked up their 7^th blank score sheet of the season and now in sixth place. HULL are now down to fourth place as they lost 2-0 away to Rotherham. Hull have now had a total of three blank score sheets. Burnley are in fifth place after their big win. BOLTON are now on 18 goals this weekend as they drew 2-2 at home to Fulham. QPR are on 31 as they drew 1-1 away to BRISTOL CITY. City picked up goal number 22. NOTTINGHAM FOREST beat MK DONS 2-1 at home to take their goals total to 25 while Dons are on 22. LEEDS picked up goal number 23 as they beat PRESTON 1-0 at home. Preston picked up their 8^th blank of the season. WOLVES lost 4-1 away to Sheffield Wednesday and that was their 32^nd goal of the season.

LEAGUE ONE

BURTON ALBION are top here again this weekend after they drew 3-3 at home to Doncaster. Burton take their goals tally to 32 while WIGAN are in fifth place after their 2-0 away win over Barnsley. Wigan are now on 32 goals after a three game dry spell for goals. PETERBOROUGH’S goal run of twenty-four games has come to the end as they get beaten by BLACKPOOL 2-0 away. That was Boroughs 2^nd blank score sheet of the season. Blackpool take their goals tally to 19. It’s all going wrong for CHESTERFIELD as they lost 1-0 at home to Bradford. That was their 10^th blank of the season and now three in a row with just one goal in their last six games. MILLWALL picked up their 6^th blank score sheet as they lost 3-0 at home to Gillingham. SCUNTHORPE picked up their 8^th blank as they lost 1-0 at home to SHEFFIELD UNITED. United are now on 39 goals. SWINDON are on 34 as they win just 1-0 away to Shrewsbury. PORT VALE picked up their 9^th blank of the season as they lost 2-0 away to Walsall. 

LEAGUE TWO

Our highest team here is PLYMOUTH who are now top of the table as they win 2-1 away to Hartlepool. Plymouth are on 34 goals this weekend. PORTSMOUTH are in fourth place as they win 2-1 away to Northampton. Portsmouth are now on a total of 45 goals.  LUTON picked up another three goals in their 3-2 away win over EXETER. Luton are on 44 goals with six goals in their last two games. Exeter are on 40 goals. LEYTON ORIENT drew 1-1 at home to Yeovil to hit goal number 41. STEVENAGE drew 1-1 at home to Accrington and that was goal number 34.  WYCOMBE are on 34 goals as they win 2-1 at home against Oxford.  

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership, CELTIC lost their second league game out of eighteen played as they went down 2-1 at home to Motherwell. More importantly it’s their 49^th goal of the season. Still in third place after Aberdeen is HEARTS. They drew 0-0 away to St Johnstone and that was their 4^th blank of the season and now two games in a row with out a goal.

In the Championship, RANGERS lost their second league game of the season after they were beaten 2-1 away to FALKIRK. Rangers are still our best team this weekend with 57 goals and they keep their 100%scoring record going after twenty games played this season. Falkirk are now on 42 goals. HIBERNIAN won 1-0 at home to QUEEN OF THE SOUTH and that was their 39^th goal. Queen of South picked up their 7^th blank of the season.

In the lower leagues, STENHOUSEMUIR lost 1-0 away to Dunfermline and that gave them their 6th blank of the season and now two in a row. CLYDE lost 2-0 at home to Arbroath and that was their 7^th blank of the season. QUEENS PARK drew 0-0 away to Elgin and that was their 6^th blank score sheet to date. 

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND

RANGERS (57) PETERBOROUGH (55) CELTIC (49) Total of 161 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

BOLTON (18) BLACKPOOL (19) WATFORD (21) Total of 58 goals 

Our worst team this week is still BOLTON They have had a total of twelve blank score sheets out of twenty-three games played. They have now scored six goals in their last four games.

Our Best team this weekend is RANGERS after scoring in all of their twenty League/Cup games played keeping their 100% scoring record in-tacked. They are on a total of 57 goals.

We have eight 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 won 6-0 at home to York in the league. LIVERPOOL won 6-1 away to Southampton in the Capital One Cup quarter-finals.  

The Whistle has been blown for half time here at Golden Goals and with the start of the second half not that far away, we have a very busy period coming up over the Christmas and New Year.

But here are how the top ten looks this weekend.

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

        1                 -                 L. KING (2001/02)      29                     115               144              

        2               -                   R. WILLIAMS             44                     98                 142

        3                 -                 D. GOODSON             49                     93                 142              

        4                 -                 S. DICKINSON           35                     104               139

        5                 6                A. BROWN                  35                     103               138              

        6                 9                J. WISE                         43                     93                 136

        7                 -                 C. BOOM                     31                     104               135              

        8                 5                B. SOPER                     34                     101               135                             9                 10              A. BEW                         41                     94                135              

        10              11              J. HUNTER                    44                     90                134

Southend Up To Seventh Place

We had two of our teams in action last night. In the English Championship, CARDIFF picked up their 7^th blank score sheet of the season as they lost 1-0 away to Birmingham.

In League one, SOUTHEND won 4-1 at home to Bury and that now gives them a total of 30 goals.

A Win For Leeds

LEEDS UNITED won their 6^th league game out of their twenty-one games played in the Championship, as they beat WOLVES 3-2 away last night. Leeds are now on a total of 22 goals while Wolves take their goals tally to 31. Leeds have moved up to 14^th place in the championship table after the win.

Hull Now In Fourth Place

In the English Championship last night, HULL beat Reading 2-1 at home to take their goals total to 37. Hull became our 13^th voted team to join Golden Goals in our very first season of 1983/84 where they finished on a final total score of 70 goals. Their best score with us came in the 2004/05 Season with 89 goals. Last time out in 2010/11 they finished on 55 goals. This is their 8^th season with us and over the years they have netted a total of 519 goals which give them an average score of 64 goals per season to date. They have a total of five votes this season.

FA Cup Second Round Replays And More

We had a total of eighteen of our Golden Goals teams in action last night and most managed to pick up some goals.

But first we had the second round replays of the FA CUP, where we had three of our teams in action but only one went through to round three. SCUNTHORPE are through to the next round after they beat LEYTON ORIENT 3-0 at home. With their highest score for a while, Scunthorpe are now on a total of 31 goals. Orient picked up their 4^th blank of the season with just one goal scored in their last three games. Also out are CHESTERFIELD. They lost against Walsall away. They drew 0-0 after extra time but them lost 5-3 on penalties. As penalties do not count in our competition, Chesterfield picked up their 9^th blank of the season and they have failed to score in their last two games. In fact, Chesterfield have scored just one goal in their last five games.

In the English Championship, MIDDLESBROUGH go top after they beat BURNLEY 1-0 at home. That was Brough’s 38^th goal of the season. Burnley picked up their third blank score sheet in arrow with a total of seven for the season. CARDIFF won 3-2 at home to BRENTFORD to take their goals total to 29 while Brentford are on 30. CHARLTON are on 28 as they drew 2-2 at home to BOLTON. Bolton are now on 16 goals. DERBY picked up the highest score of the night as they win 4-0 at home against BRISTOL CITY. Derby take their goals tally to 33 while City picked up their 7^th blank of the season. IPSWICH won 2-1 away to Fulham to give them a new total of 37 goals. After a three game dry spell for goals, MK DONS won 2-1 at home against Sheffield Wednesday to move their goals total up to 21. PRESTON drew 1-1 at home to Birmingham to pick up goal number 23 while QPR are on 30 goals as they drew 2-2 at home to BRIGHTON who are now on 33 goals.

In league one, WYCOMBE drew 2-2 at home to Notts County and they are on 32 goals. In the Scottish league two, BERWICK lost 3-1 away to Arbroath to pick up their 23^rd goal of the season.

Chelsea Blues

CHELSEA lost their 9^th league game out of the sixteen played last night as they lost 2-1 away to Leicester City. Chelsea have only won four of their premiership league games this season and they are now just one point away from the relegation zone in 16^th place. Chelsea are now on a total of 23 goals and wonder if we going to see them finish on their lowest score ever with Golden Goals? Their lowest score to date was just 56 goals scored in our 1994/95 Season. Last season they picked up a total of 89.

Also last night from the English Championship, NOTTINGHAM FOREST drew 0-0 away to Blackburn to pick up their 7^th blank score sheet of the season.

Tonight we have most of the English Championship playing with a couple of our teams in the FA CUP second round replays.

Week Nineteen

LAURIE KING is now in his third weekend at the top. Laurie picked up a total of just five goals for the week with them all coming at the weekend.  His goals came from Arsenal 2, Peterborough 1 and Rangers 2. Laurie is still three goals clear of  RICHARD WILLIAMS as his remains in second place once again. Richards teams  picked him up five goals all from the weekend. His teams are Hibernian, Manchester City and Rangers.

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

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

Only eleven of us managed to pick up some more goals this week but the highest score this week was a total of just three goals and they all went to STEPTOE & SON who had Queens Park 2 and Queen of the South 1. Their third team is QPR. The rag and bone men of Golden Goals are now on a total of 23 midweek goals and a bit behind the field.

So there was just two changes in the race for the cash this week. CRAIG EVANS and DANIEL GOODSON are both sharing the lead again this week both on a total of 48 goals. In second place is still RICHARD WILLIAMS with 44 goals. In third we still have NATHAN TREADWELL on a total of 43 goals while in fourth place on 42 goals we have BARBARA BARNES (2) and TOM MACDONALD but up from five this week we have JAMES HUNTER to join them. In fifth place we have JOHN DAVIES and TONY KING both on 41 goals. In sixth place this week we have MARK HOWARD and ADRIAN BEW and back in BARRY BORROUGHS all on 40 goals. 

This weekend we had two winners to share the £5 cash jackpot this weekend which means that we have now had a total of 21 winners. Our winners are  SIMON DICKINSON and GRAHAM WARMAN both winning on a score of 9 goals each.

Simon has been with the competition for fourteen seasons now and I thank him for his loyal support. Simon started with us back in our 2002/03 season, where he finished in the winning frame in 24^th place on a total of 301 goals.Not only did he finish in the winning frame picking up £4 in cash, but he also won the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot of £20. Last season he finished in the winning frame once again in 8^th place on 293 goals taking home £19 in cash.

This season, Simon has picked up two blank score sheets and he has equalled his highest score of the season with week two. His best team is Celtic picking him up 48 of his 136 total and we see Simon at his highest position to date.

Graham is in his second season with us and last season he finished in 85^th place on 235 goals. This season only keeping Celtic from last season, Graham has also had two blank score sheets and this is his highest score to date. “8^th is his highest position in week three. Celtic is also his best team. Our winners teams are

Simon  CELTIC 3, MANCHESTER CITY 2, PORTSMOUTH 4

Graham  CELTIC 3, DERBY 2, PORTSMOUTH 4 

WEEKEND RESULTS                                

Our teams did not have a great weekend for goals last weekend and they certainly did not do any better this weekend. But the good news is that the average score shot up from one of last weekend to 5 goals this weekend. It’s really strange as we had eight of our teams that had no game which most were cancelled due to  the weather. Another twelve teams failed to score any goals.

The highest score that we had came from PORTSMOUTH in league two as they win 4-0 at home against Hartlepool.

Portsmouth are now on a total of 43 goals and they have now scored thirteen goals in their last four games. They are currently in fourth place in the league and they have four votes this season.

Portsmouth are in their 18^th Season with Golden Goals and they started with us back in our 1985/86 Season and they finished on a grand score of 82 goals. They were our 50^th English team to be voted in. Their highest score came in 2002/03 with 101 goals. Last season they finished on 55 goals. They have already beaten their lowest score of 40 goals back in our 2008/09 Season. Over the years they have netted a total of 1,120 goals which gives them an average score of 62 goals per season to date. 

PREMIERSHIP

We have the top two teams here as we see ARSENAL move to the top as they win 2-0 away to Aston Villa. Arsenal are now on 31 goals and they have scored in all of their six games. MANCHESTER CITY are in second place just in front of Leicester City in third. City were lucky to beat Swansea 2-1 at home with a very late goal. City are now on 45 goals. MANCHESTER UNITED are in fourth place as they lost 2-1 away to Bournemouth. United hit goal number twenty-four. TOTTENHAM are in fifth place as they lost 2-1 at home against NEWCASTLE after going a goal in front. Tottenham are on 27 goals while Newcastle are on 22. NORWICH drew 1-1 at home to EVERTON to give them goal number 24 while Everton are on 39. Everton have now scored in all of their last nine games. It’s 18 for WATFORD as they win 1-0 away to Sunderland. WEST HAM picked up their 3^rd blank score sheet of the season as they drew 0-0 at home to Stoke. West Ham have now failed to score in their last two games. LIVERPOOL are on 28 goals as they drew 2-2 at home to West Brom. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

We now have the top seven teams here with BRIGHTON still at the top as they drew 2-2 away to DERBYwho moved down to fourth place. Brighton take their goals tally to 31 while Derby are on 29. MIDDLESBROUGH are still in second place as they drew 0-0 at home to Birmingham to pick up their 9^th blank score sheet. HULL moved up to third place as they win 1-0 at home against BOLTON. Hull hit goal number 35 while Bolton picked up their 12^th blank of the season. BURNLEY are still in fifth place as they drew 0-0 at home to QPR. Burnley have had six blank score sheets and now two games in a row while Rangers picked up their 6^th and now just two goals in their last seven games.

CARDIFF are still in sixth place as they drew 2-2 at home to Sheffield Wednesday. Cardiff are on 26 goals this weekend. CHARLTON drew 0-0 at home to LEEDS and that was their 9^th blank while Leeds picked up their 8th

BRENTFORD are on 28 goals as they drew 2-2 away to Fulham. BRISTOL CITY won 2-1 away to Huddersfield and that gives them a total of 21 goals after a two game dry spell. MK DONS 11^th blank score sheet and now three in a row as they lost 1-0 at home to IPSWICH. Ipswich picked up goal number 35. PRESTON are on 22 goals this week as they win 1-0 at home to Reading. 

LEAGUE ONE

BURTON ALBION are top here as they win 3-0 away to Gillingham. Burton are doing well as they take their goals tally up to 29. They have scored eleven goals in their last four games. PETERBOROUGH come next in fifth place as they drew 1-1 at home to Shrewsbury. Borough are now on 55 goals and that is now a goal run of twenty-four games in a row. CHESTERFIELD lost 1-0 away to Bury and that was their 8^th blank of the season and now only one goal in their last four games. PORT VALE are on 32 goals as they drew 1-1 at home with SCUNTHORPE. Scunthorpe hit goal number 22. SWINDON won 2-1 at home to Rochdale and are now on 33 goals. BLACKPOOL picked up another goal as they win 1-0 away to WIGAN. Blackpool are on 17 goals now while Wigan picked up their third blank in a row and eight over the season. SHEFFIELD UNITED win 1-0 at home to second place Coventry to take their goals total to 38. 

LEAGUE TWO

Our highest team here is PLYMOUTH in third place as they lost 2-1 at home against Cambridge United. Plymouth picked up their fourth single goal in a row and are now on 32 goals. Next comes Portsmouth after their big win in fourth place.It’s 33 for STEVENAGE as they win 2-1 away to AFC Wimbledon. LEYTON ORIENT drew 1-1 away to Mansfield and are on 40 goals. After a two game dry spell for goals, LUTON are now on 41 as they lost 4-3 at home to Northampton. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership, CELTIC are now four points clear of Aberdeen as they win 3-0 away to St Johnstone to take their goals tally to 48. ABERDEEN are still in second place then, as they win 1-0 at home to third place HEARTS. Aberdeen are on 28 goals while Hearts picked up their 3^rd blank score sheet of the season.

In the Championship, RANGERS drew their second league game of the season after they drew 2-2 at home to Morton. Rangers are back as our best team this weekend with 56 goals and they keep their 100%scoring record going after nineteen games played this season. HIBERNIAN drew 1-1 at home to FALKIRK to give them a total of 38 goals while Falkirk are on 40. In the lower leagues, STENHOUSEMUIR lost 1-0 at home to Albion and that gave them their fifth blank of the season. BERWICK lost 3-2 at home to Elgin. Berwick are now on 22 goals after a two game dry spell for goals. CLYDE won 2-0 at home to East Fife and are now on 26 goals.  QUEENS PARK won 1-0 at home to Arbroath to pick up goal number 31.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND

RANGERS (56) PETERBOROUGH (55) CELTIC (48) Total of 159 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

BOLTON (14) BLACKPOOL (17) WATFORD (18) Total of 49 goals 

Our worst team this week is still BOLTON They have had a total of twelve blank score sheets out of twenty-one games played. They have scored just five goal in their last ten games.

Our Best team this weekend is RANGERS after scoring in all of their nineteen League/Cup games played keeping their 100% scoring record in-tacked. They are on a total of 56 goals. That’s roughly three goals per game.

We have eight 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 won 6-0 at home to York in the league. LIVERPOOL won 6-1 away to Southampton in the Capital One Cup quarter-finals.

Well here we are again with our top ten this weekend.

     THIS     LAST                                                    M/WEEK        W/END        TOTAL

   WEEK    WEEK             NAME                           GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

       1                -                  L. KING (2001/02)             29                  114                143              

       2               -                   R. WILLIAMS                   44                   96                  140

       3                 -                 D. GOODSON                   48                   89                  137              

       4                 6                S. DICKINSON                 35                  101                 136

       5                 4                B. SOPER                           34                  100                 134              

       6                 7                A. BROWN                        35                   99                  134

       7                 5                C. BOOM                           31                   102                133              

       8                 14              JA. WOOD                         29                   101                130                        9                 11              J. WISE                              39                    91                  130              

       10              8                A. BEW                              40                    90                   130