FA Cup Fourth Round

MANCHESTER UNITED are through to the next round of the FA Cup as they beat DERBY 3-1 away in the first match of the 4^th Round. The rest of the games will be played over the weekend.

Manchester United have now taken their goals total to 35 goals while, although Derby are out of the cup, they are now on 43 goals.

Capital One Cup Semi-Final Result

In the second game of the Capital One Cup Semi-final last night it was between two of our teams MANCHESTER CITY and EVERTON. In the first leg game, Everton won 2-1 but it all changed in the second leg as City win this one 3-1 to win 4-3 on aggregate. City are now on a total of 65 goals while Everton hit goal number fifty-five. The result means that it will be a LIVERPOOL v MANCHESTER CITY final and that is to be played on Sunday the 28^th February 2016.

Capital One Cup Semi-Final and WILLIAM HILL CUP Fourth Round Results

LIVERPOOL won their first Semi-final leg game 1-0 against Stoke and was looking to seal their place in the next round with another win. But Stoke won the second leg 1-0 and so it ended one goal apiece. Even after extra time it was still 1-1 on aggregate so into penalties where Liverpool won 6-5.

So with Liverpool picking up a blank score sheet even after extra time, they have now had a total of eight blank score sheets to date. Penalties do not count in Golden Goals.

We also have a few league games to talk about. In the English Championship, BRADFORD drew 

1-1 at home to LEEDS to take their goals tally to 42 while Leeds are now on 32. NOTTINGHAM FOREST drew 0-0 at home to QPR. That gave them their 8^th blank of the season while Rangers have now had ten.

In League One, BLACKPOOL drew 0-0 at home to SHEFFIELD UNITED to pick up their 14^th blank to United’s sixth.  It’s 38 goals for PORT VALE as they win 2-1 away to Doncaster. BURTON ALBION won 1-0 away to PETERBOROUGH. Albion are now on 38 goals. Borough picked up their 5^th blank of the season.

In League two, LEYTON ORIENT picked up their 51^st goal of the season as they win 1-0 at home to Newport.

In the WILLIAMS HILL CUP Fourth Round game, FALKIRK lost 3-1 away to Dundee after going a goal up. Falkirk are now on 49 goals. 

100% Rangers

Scottish RANGERS keep their 100% scoring record in tack as they win 2-0 away to Morton last night in the league. Rangers are on their way to another 100 goals in a season as their goals tally movers up to 78.

Also in action last night from the English Championship was the game between BURNLEY and DERBY who won 4-1 at home. Burnley are now on 48 goals while Derby picked up goal number 42.

Week Twenty-Five

RICHARD WILLIAMS has spent the second weekend at the top as his combination picks him up a total of just five goals all scored at the weekend. They came from Hibernian 3 and Manchester City 2. His third team Rangers had no game this weekend. Richard has now been top for a total of five weeks, he was also top for three consecutive weeks from week fourteen to sixteen. Now he is now just one goal in front of  SIMON DICKINSON who picked up a total of fifteen goals for the week. His teams are Celtic, Manchester City and Portsmouth.

At the other end, it’s STEPTOE & SON to take a turn at number 119 as his combination picked him up just two goals for the week. His teams are Queens Park, Queens Park Rangers and Queen of the South..

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

Celtic have a total of  64 votes this season and so that score made a very big impact on the race for the cash this week. We had another seventeen players to score 50 or more goals this week bringing the total to 28.

The highest score again this week was a total of eleven goals and they went to SILVIA FERNANDES, BOB SAWYER and STALKY (2) (Bob Burgin). All three had Celtic and MK Dons as part of their combination.

So this is how the race to £40 looks this week and it could be anyone now. In the lead this week we have ADRIAN BEW, JOHN DAVIES, DANIEL GOODSON and DAVE WESTON all with a total of 57 goals. In second place all on 56 goals we have CHRIS BOLBERY, CRAIG EVANS,  JAMES HUNTER, TONY KING and MARK UNSTEAD. Still n third place we have NATHAN TREADWELL still on 54 goals. In fourth place on 53 goals we have TOM MACDONALD, MONGO, JAMES SOMERVILLE, KELLIE STRATTON and BENJAMIN WAYMARK.  In joint fifth place we still have RICHARD WILLIAMS and JAMES WISE but now BRIAN WAKEFIELD joins them all on 52 goals. 

We had had two winners this weekend and they both won on a score of  9 goals. Our winners share the cash of £5 and it goes to BRADLEY CLARK and BRADLEY HAYES and it takes our winners total to thirty-one.

We would like to welcome both the Bradley boy’s to Golden Goals as this is their very first season with us.

Bradley C has picked up a total of four weekend blank score sheets to date and the highest that he has been is 27^th place in week thirteen. His best team is Celtic. 

Bradley H has picked up a total of five blank score sheets and we can see him at his highest position of the season this week. His best team is Manchester City.

B. CLARK  CELTIC 3, MANCHESTER CITY 2, NORWICH 4

B. HAYES  LIVERPOOL 5, MANCHESTER CITY 2, WEST HAM 2 

WEEKEND RESULTS                                

Not a bad weekend for results from our Golden Goals teams this weekend as the average score fell back down to just four goals each. We had four teams that had no game and another eleven teams that failed to find their opponents goal.

The highest score that we had this weekend came from the English Premiership where LIVERPOOL beat NORWICH away in a nine goal thriller with Liverpool winning 5-4 in the end. The five goals takes Liverpool total to 44 while Norwich are now on 34 with their highest scoring game of the season to date.

PREMIERSHIP

Leicester City go back on top after they beat Stoke 3-0 at home while last weeks leaders, ARSENAL lost 1-0 at home to London rivals CHELSEA to fall down to third place. Arsenal picked up their 7^th blank of the season and now two games in a row without a goal. Chelsea picked up goal number 39. MANCHESTER CITY move up to second place as they drew 2-2 away to WEST HAM. City take their goals tally to 62 while West Ham are now on 38 

TOTTENHAM are still in fourth place as they win 3- 1away to Crystal Palace. Tottenham are now on 46 goals and they have now scored a total of nine goals in their last three games. MANCHESTER UNITED are  still in fifth place as they lost 1-0 at home to Southampton. United have now had a total of nine blank score sheets. EVERTON picked up their 54^th goal of the season as they lost 2-1 at home to Swansea. After a two game dry spell for goals, WATFORD beat NEWCASTLE 2-1 at home to give them a new total of 28 goals and Newcastle get their 29^th. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

HULL are back on top here this weekend as they win 1-0 away to Fulham. Hull are now on 52 goals. MIDDLESBROUGH moved down to second place as they lost 1-0 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST. Brough picked up their second blank in a row and now a total of eleven for the season. Forest are now on 34. We have three of the four teams in the play-off zone this week and they are BRIGHTON who won 2-1 at home against Huddersfield to take their goals tally to 36. Derby and Burnley are also there but they both had no game this week.

IPSWICH picked up their 9^th blank of the season as they lost 1-0 away to Birmingham. BOLTON picked up their second set of three goals this week as they win 3-1 at home to MK DONS. Bolton are now on 28 goals while the Dons are on 32. CARDIFF drew 2-2 at home to Rotherham which now gives them a total of 37 while after a two game dry spell for goals, CHARLTON drew 1-1 at home against Blackburn to get their 32^nd goal of the season. It’s 31 for LEEDS as they win 1-0 at home against BRISTOL CITY. City have now had eleven blank score sheets with two in a week. BRENTFORD are now on 41 goals as they win 3-1 away to PRESTON who are now on 31. QPR drew 1-1 at home to WOLVES to give them as total of 39 goals and Wolves 41. 

LEAGUE ONE

BURTON ALBION drop down to second place this weekend as they lost 2-1 at home to Shrewsbury. Albion are now on 37 goals. We still have two teams in the play-off zone with WIGAN in fourth place as they drew 1-1 with Crewe. Wigan are now on 46 goals and they have scored in all of their seven games. MILLWALL are also there now as they win 2-1 away to CHESTERFIELD. Millwall are on 48 goals while Chesterfield are on 44. Just outside the zone we have PETERBOROUGH who lost 2-1 away to Gillingham and are now on 63 goals while SHEFFIELD UNITED are also near as they drew 1-1 at home to SWINDON. United are now on 50 goals while Swindon picked up goal number 44. It’s 36 for PORT VALE as they drew 1-1 at home to Bradford while SCUNTHORPE won 3-0 at home to Colchester. Scunthorpe are now on 37 goals. SOUTHEND are on 37 goals as they win 3-0 at home to Coventry. BLACKPOOL drew 1-1 away to Walsall and are on 27 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

PLYMOUTH are now down to second place this weekend as they drew 1-1 away to Bristol Rovers. Plymouth are now on 44 goals. We just have PORTSMOUTH in the play-off zone in fifth place as they lost 1-0 at home to Oxford. Portsmouth picked up their 7^th blank of the season. LEYTON ORIENT and WYCOMBE both just outside the zone as Orient beat Wycombe 2-0 away. Orient are now on 50 goals while Wycombe picked up their 8^th blank and now three games in a row. EXETER won 2-1 at home to Accrington and that now gives them a total of 49 goals. LUTON after a four game dry spell for goals, won 2-0 away to Mansfield. Luton are now on 46 goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership, CELTIC are now six points clear of Aberdeen as they win 3-1 at home to St Johnstone. Celtic picked up a total of 11 goals this week and that now gives them a total of 70 goals. HEARTS in third place drew 0-0 away to Hamilton. That was their 5^th blank of the season.

In the Championship, HIBERNIAN won 3-1 at home to St Mirren and they are now on 48 goals and they have now scored in all of their last twenty-two games. FALKIRK are on 48 goals as they drew 1-1 away to Livingston. QUEEN OF THE SOUTH are on 26 goals as they win 1-0 at home to Alloa. 

In the lower leagues STENHOUSEMUIR won 1-0 away to Forfar to pick up goal number 33 while QUEENS PARK drew 0-0 away to Stirling to pick up their 8^th blank of the season. CLYDE, after a two game dry spell are on 27 as they lost 2-1 away to Montrose.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND

RANGERS (76) CELTIC (70) PETERBOROUGH (63) Total of 209 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

 QUEEN OF SOUTH (26) CLYDE (27)BRISTOL CITY (27) Total of 80 goals 

BOLTON have picked up the most number of blank score sheets this season with a total of fifteen out of thirty-one games played. They have now scored eight goals in their last four games.

Our Best team this weekend is still RANGERS after scoring in all of their twenty-four League/Cup games played keeping their 100% scoring record in-tacked. They are on a total of 76 goals after they picked up a total of 20 goals in their last five games.

The highest scoring team in our 33^rd Season is now CELTIC from the Scottish Premiership, when they beat Hamilton 8-1 at home in a midweek league game in week twenty-five.

We have had a big change around in the table this weekend and that's all down to Celtic mega score.

       THIS     LAST                                                 M/WEEK        W/END        TOTAL

     WEEK    WEEK             NAME                       GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

         1                 -                 R. WILLIAMS               52                   135                187                            2               9                  S. DICKINSON              51                   135                186              

         3                 -                 D. GOODSON               57                   126                183              

         4                 2                L. KING (2001/02)         40                   142                182

         5                 11              C. BOOM                       46                   136                182              

         6                 4                B. SOPER                       47                   135                182

         7                 8                J. DAVIES                      57                   125                182              

         8                 5                J. WISE                           52                   127                179                            9                 6                J. HUNTER                    56                   123                179                          10              19              A. BROWN                     49                   129                178

Aberdeen still second

ABERDEEN picked up their 38^th goal of the season last night as they win 1-0 at home to Dundee.

They remain in second place in the Scottish Premiership behind Celtic.

More FA CUP Third Round Replays

We had another three of our teams in the FA CUP Third Round Replays last night and out of them, two have made it through to the fourth round.

They are TOTTENHAM who finally beat Leicester City 2-0 away. That takes Tottenham’s goals total to 43. LIVERPOOL are also through as they beat EXETER 3-0 at home. Liverpool are now on 39 goals while although Exeter are out of the competition, they have now picked up their 8^th blank score sheet of the season.

Celtic's Goal Record Win

CELTIC took away the glory of the FA Cup results last night as they picked up this seasons highest score as they win 8-1 at home to Hamilton. They have now beaten CHESTERFIELDS record when they beat Shrewsbury 7-1 at home in a league game in week twenty-two.

Celtic have jumped up to a total of 67 goals which will cheer up our Celtic fans all six-four of them. Celtic are now our second best team this season and have now netted a total of 16 goals in their last four games.

FA CUP Third Round Replays

In the FA CUP Third Round Replays we had six of our Golden Goals teams in action. Out of them only three have made it through to the next round.

They are MK DONS who beat Northampton 3-0 at home. The Dons are now on a total of 31 goals. PORTSMOUTH are also through as they win 2-1 at home against IPSWICH. Portsmouth are now on 54 goals while Ipswich go out but they did pick up goal number 46. Our worst team BOLTON are through after they finally beat non-league Eastleigh. Bolton take their goals total to 25.

Teams that are now out of the competition are WYCOMBE who lost 2-0 away to Aston Villa to pick up their 7^th blank score sheet and now two in a row, and so are BRISTOL CITY. They lost 1-0 at home to West Brom. City have now had a total of ten blank score sheets. 

The Golden Goals Poll

Our first Poll on out blog will be closing soon. We have had just 9 votes in which one is from me. Still here is how it looks.

With 66% of the votes goes to Scottish Rangers and we can see why when they are already on a total of 76 goals. In second place with just 11% is Celtic who have scored a total of 59 goals and they are our fourth best team in Golden Goals. In third place is Portsmouth again with 11% of the votes. They are our 7^th best team with 52 goals. While other also has 11% vote.

But this is how it looks for the first team to score 100 goals this Season our 33^rd.

As we have said Rangers are first with 76 goals followed by Peterborough on 62. Manchester City comes third with 60 while Celtic are fourth with 59 goals and they are playing tonight. Joint fifth is Everton and Hearts both on 53 followed by Portsmouth on 52 and Hull on 51.

So who do you think will get their first? Vote now!

Another Blank For Watford

WATFORD remained in 12^th place in the English Premiership as they lost 1-0 away to Swansea last night. Watford picked up their 8^th blank of the season and now they have failed to score in their last two games.

Week Twenty-Four

RICHARD WILLIAMS moves back to the top this weekend as his combination picks him up a total of nine goals all scored at the weekend. They came from Hibernian 1, Manchester City 4 and rangers 4. Richard has now been top for a total of four weeks out of the twenty-four weeks played. He was top for three consecutive weeks from week fourteen to sixteen. He is now just one goal in front of last weekends leader LAURIE KING. Laurie was top for seven weekends but his combination only picked him up seven goals for the week.  His teams are Arsenal, Peterborough  and Rangers.

At the other end, it’s still JOHN NICHOLLS now in his twenty-third weekend at number 119 as his combination picked him up ten goals for the week. His teams are Arsenal, Bolton and  Newcastle. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

Only four players failed to pick up any goals this week which was a big surprise that we only had one more player to get to the half way stage to that lovely £40 Cash Jackpot for this season. We now have a total of eleven players to have now score 50 or more midweek goals.

The highest score this week was a total of eleven goals and they all went to JOHN WOOD and that takes his midweek  total to 47 goals. John picked them up from Arsenal and Burnley. His third team is Manchester City.

Still out in front this week is DANIEL GOODSON with a total of 57 goals with a single goal from Middlesbrough. In second place all on 56 goals we have CRAIG EVANS who remains in second place this week with JAMES HUNTER and TONY KING who both move up from three last week. In third place we have JOHN DAVIES up from five and NATHAN TREADWELL up from six. Both are now on 54 goals. Still in fourth place on 53 goals we have TOM MACDONALD. In joint fifth place we have JAMES WISE still at five with RICHARD WILLIAMS down from four. Both have a total of 52 goals. In sixth place back in the running with 51 goals is DAVID STAINS. In seventh place drown from six is BARBARA BARNES (2) on 50 goals.

We had our 29^th winner of the season this weekend and they won on this seasons highest score of 14 goals. Our winner picks up the full amount of £5 and it goes to MARK HOWARD.

We would like to welcome Mark to Golden Goals as this is his very first season with us. Although we can see Mark in 32^nd place this weekend, Mark has been right at the top in week two for one weekend. His lowest position is 55 in week fourteen. He has picked up only one blank score sheet and his best team is Manchester City who have picked up 60 goals for him. His teams are 

HEARTS 6, MANCHESTER CITY 4, SWINDON 4  

WEEKEND RESULTS                                

We had another great weekend results from our Golden Goals teams. Our average score went up one to five which is a real shock when you see the results we had. The reason could be that we had twenty-two of our teams that either had no game or failed to score over the weekend.

The highest score that we had this weekend came from two of our teams. From the English Championship we had HULL who picked up their highest score of the season by winning 6-0 at home to CHARLTON. Hull have five votes and they are now on a total of 51 goals. Charlton picked up their 13th blank and now two games in a row. HEARTS was the other team to pick up their highest score, from the Scottish Premiership, where they beat Motherwell 6-0 at home. Hearts have four votes and they are now on 53 goals. 

PREMIERSHIP

ARSENAL are still top but only on goal difference with Leicester City as they drew 0-0 away to Stoke. Arsenal after scoring six goals in their last two games, picked up their 6^th blank score sheet of the season. MANCHESTER CITY are in third place as they win 4-0 at home to Crystal Palace and they are now on 60 goals. TOTTENHAM are fourth as they win 4-1 at home to Sunderland to give them a new total of 41 goals. In fifth place on 32 goals is MANCHESTER UNITED. They won just 1-0 away to LIVERPOOL who picked up their 7^th blank of the season. CHELSEA drew their 7^th league game of the season as they drew 3-3 at home to EVERTON. Chelsea are on 38 goals while Everton are on 53. NORWICH picked up their 7^th blank of the season as they lost 3-0 away to Bournemouth. NEWCASTLE had their 5^th win out of twenty-two league games as they beat WEST HAM 2-1 at home. Newcastle are now on 28 goals while West ham are on 36. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

We have MIDDLESBROUGH still on top here after they lost 1-0 away to BRISTOL CITY. Brough picked up their 10^th blank of the season while City picked up their 27^th goal. With Hull in second place we have three of our teams in the play-off zone. They are DERBY in third place but they lost 3-0 at home to Birmingham and picked up their 7^th blank score sheet and Burnley are in fourth place. In Fifth place we have BRIGHTON. They won 1-0 away to Blackburn to pick up their 34^th goal after a two game dry spell for goals. Meanwhile PRESTON drew 1-1 away to IPSWICH to give Preston their 30^th goal of the season and Ipswich their 45^th. It’s 28 goals for MK DONS as they win 1-0 at home to Reading. NOTTINGHAM FOREST are now on 33 goals as they win 3-0 at home to BOLTON. Bolton picked up their 15^th blank score sheet of the season. QPR picked up their highest score for a long while as they win 3-0 away to Rotherham. Rangers are now on 38 goals. LEEDS picked up their 9^th blank score sheet as they lost 2-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday. WOLVES are on 40 but they lost 3-1 at home to CARDIFF. Cardiff after a two game dry spell for goals are now on 35. 

LEAGUE ONE

BURTON ALBION are top here as they beat Coventry 2-0 away. They are now on 36 goals. WE have just two teams in the play-off zone this week and they are WIGAN in fifth place as they pick up yet another three goals in their 3-1 home win against CHESTERFIELD. Wigan have picked up nine goals in their last three games and they are now on a total of 45 goals. Chesterfield picked up their 43^rd goal of the season. PETERBOROUGH are in sixth place but they drew 0-0 at home to SOUTHEND. Borough picked up their 4^th blank of the season while Southend picked up their 11^th. Just outside the zone we have SHEFFIELD UNITED. They won 2-1 away to Colchester and are now on 49 goals. BLACKPOOL picked up their highest score of the season as they win 5-0 at home to SCUNTHORPE. Blackpool after a tow game dry spell, that their goals tally to 26. Scunthorpe picked up their 10^th blank and now two games in a row without a goal. SWINDON have now score eight goals in their last two games as they win 4-3 at home to Crewe. Swindon are on 43 goals. It’s 46 for MILLWALL as they win 3-1 at home to PORT VALE. Port Vale are now on 35 goals. 

LEAGUE TWO

PLYMOUTH are still top here as they win 3-2 at home to STEVENAGE. Plymouth are on 43 goals and they have now scored in all of their last eleven games. Stevenage are now on 41. We have just two of the four teams in the play-off zone. They are Portsmouth who’s game was cancelled and WYCOMBE. They lost 1-0 away to Hartlepool to pick up their 6^th blank score sheet. EXETER won 3-1 away to LEYTON ORIENT and are now on 47 goals. Orient are on 42 goals. LUTON drew 0-0 at home to Cambridge and that was their fourth blank score sheet in a row and eight over the season. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

The weather hit the Scottish teams once again this weekend. In the Premiership, we already know about Hearts biggest win which keeps them in third place. Celtic played Friday night and they are still top here and now three points clear of ABERDEEN who won 3-2 away to Ross County. Aberdeen are now on 37 goals after a two game dry spell for goals.

In the Championship, RANGERS are going goal crazy again as they win 4-1 at home to Livingston. Rangers are by far our best team with a total of 76 goals. They have scored 19 goals in their last four games. Rangers are five points clear of Falkirk with a game in hand. FALKIRK drew 1-1 at home to HIBERNIAN and they are now on 47 goals while Hibs are on 45. In the lower leagues we only had QUEENS PARK in action. They are on 33 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Montrose. 

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND

RANGERS (76) PETERBOROUGH (62) MANCHESTER CITY (60) Total of 198 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

BOLTON (22) QUEEN OF SOUTH (25) CLYDE (26) Total of 73 goals 

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

Our Best team this weekend is still RANGERS after scoring in all of their twenty-four League/Cup games played keeping their 100% scoring record in-tacked. They are on a total of 76 goals after they picked up a total of 20 goals in their last five games.

The highest scoring teams in our 33^rd Season is still CHESTERFIELD from the English League One when they beat Shrewsbury 7-1 at home in a league game in week twenty-two.

We had quite a change around in our table this weekend and it still could be any one in the top ten who could be our next Champion.

   THIS     LAST                                                    M/WEEK        W/END        TOTAL

 WEEK    WEEK             NAME                             GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

     1                 2                R. WILLIAMS                     52                  130               182                 

     2               1                  L. KING (2001/02)               40                  141               181

    3                 -                 D. GOODSON                     57                  124               181              

    4                 -                 B. SOPER                            47                  133               180

    5                 -                 J. WISE                               52                  125               177              

    6                 -                 J. HUNTER                         56                  120               176

    7                 9                T. MACDONALD               53                  121               174              

    8                 10              J. DAVIES                           54                  118               172                     

    9                 7                S. DICKINSON                   41                  130               171                       

     10              8                JA. WOOD                          40                  130               170

Burnley Doing Well

We had three of our Golden Goals teams in action last night and they all picked up some more goals. BURNLEY from the English Championship played twice. First they picked up three points against MK Dons and last night they picked up another three points as they beat BRENTFORD 3-1 away. Burnley have moved up to fourth place in the league and have scored a total of eight goals this week. They are now on a total of 44 goals. Brentford after a two game dry spell for goals, they are now on 38.

We had just one result from Scotland and that came from their premiership where CELTIC beat Dundee Utd 4-1 away, Celtic are now on 59 goals and six points clear of second place Aberdeen.

Arsenal Remain Top After Draw

We had ten of our teams in action last night and out of them five failed to score any goals for us. In the English Premiership, CHELSEA drew 2-2 at home to West Brom to take their goals tally to 35 goals while LIVERPOOL drew 3-3 at home to ARSENAL. Liverpool are now on a total of 36 goals and Arsenal are on 42 and remain top on goal difference. MANCHESTER CITY picked up their 5^th blank score sheet of the season as they drew 0-0 at home to on form EVERTON. Everton after a goal run of fifteen games also picked up their 5^th blank of the season. WATFORD lost 2-0 away to Southampton and that was their 7^th blank score sheet to date while NORWICH picked up their 30^th goal of the season as they lost 3-1 away to Stoke. TOTTENHAM lost to Leicester City 1-0 at home. Tottenham have now had a total of five blank score sheets.

In the Championship, HULL moved up to second place after their 2-0 home win against CARDIFF. Hull are now on 45 goals while Cardiff picked up their 9^th blank and now two games in a row without a goal.

Plenty Of Goals For Us Last Night

We had twenty-two of our teams in action last night and what a night it was for most of them.

In the English premiership, WEST HAM move up to 5^th place in the table as they came back after going a goal down at Bournemouth to won 2-1 away. West Ham are now on 35 goals. NEWCASTLE picked up a point against MANCHESTER UNITED at home in their 3-3 draw after going behind twice in the game. Newcastle are now on 26 goals after they have not scored in all of their last four games. United are now on a total of 31 goals and they fall down to 6^th place in the league.

In the Championship BURNLEY picked up the highest score of the night and for them as they win 

5-0 away to MK DONS. Burnley take their goals tally up to 41 goals while the Dons picked up their 13^th blank of the season. QPR picked up their 35^th goal as they drew 1-1 away to Blackburn. MIDDLESBROUGH won 1-0 away to BRENTFORD. Brough are now on 46 goals while Brentford picked up their 8^th blank score sheet and now two games in a row without a goal. PRESTON won 2-1 away to BRISTOL CITY to give them their 29 goals of the season while City are now on 26.  DERBY drew 1-1 at home to Reading and that was their 41^st goal while CHARLTON lost 5-0 away to Huddersfield. Charlton picked up their 12^th blank of the season. After going a goal behind, IPSWICH came back to beat LEEDS 2-1 at home. Ipswich are now on 44 while Leeds are on 30. NOTTINGHAM FOREST drew 1-1 at home to Birmingham and they are now on 30 goals. They have now scored one goal in each of their last five games. It’s all going wrong for BRIGHTON as they picked up another blank score sheet to take their bad run to six games without a goal as they lost 2-0 away to Rotherham. BOLTON are now on a total of 22 goals as they lost 3-2 away to Sheffield Wednesday. WOLVES won 3-2 at home to Fulham and are now on 39 goals.

In League One, WIGAN picked up another three goals in their 3-3 draw against SHEFFIELD UNITED. Wigan are now on 42 goals while United take theirs to 47.

In League Two, EXETER drew 1-1 away to Morecombe and they are now on 44 goals and PLYMOUTH are on 40 goals as they lost 2-1 at home to Northampton. 

Week Twenty-Three

LAURIE KING is now in his seventh weekend at the top as his teams picked him up a total of ten goals all coming from the weekend. All of his combination teams scored from Arsenal 3, Peterborough 2  and Rangers 5. Laurie is now just one goals clear of RICHARD WILLIAMS who picked up a total of eleven goals from his combination this week. 

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

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

Quite a few of us managed to pick up some more goals again this week but the highest score this week was a total of four goals and they went to CHRIS BOLBERY and BRADLEY HAYES.  Chris picked them up from Manchester City and Wigan. His third team is Celtic. Bradley received his from Liverpool and Manchester City. His third team is West Ham.

We now have a total of ten players that are now on or over the half way mark for the cash prize money of £40. But we do have a clear leader again this week with DANIEL GOODSON out in front with a total of 56 goals with a single goal from Manchester City. CRAIG EVANS remains in second place this week with a total of 55 goals. In joint third place both on 53 goals we have TONY KING while up from fourth place to join him is JAMES HUNTER. In fourth place we have both from last weeks fifth place TOM MACDONALD and RICHARD WILLIAMS on 52 goals. In fifth place up from six is JAMES WISE and back in the running JOHN DAVIES both on 51 goals. In sixth place this week both on 50 goals we have BARBARA BARNES (2) and NATHAN TREADWELL. 

We had our 28^th winner of the season this weekend and they won on a score of 11 goals which we have not had for a long while this season. Our winner picks up the full amount of £5. Our winner is BOB SOPER but even with all of them goals, he remains in fourth place again this weekend and this is his highest position to date.

Bob has been with the competition for a total of sixteen years and his first season in 2000/01, Bob finished in 97^th place out of 102 on a total of 221 goals. In the following nine seasons he finished in the winning frame and his best was in our 2012/13 Season where he finished in second place on 312 goals and picked up £50 in winnings. Last season Bob finished in 31^st place on 269 goals.

This season he has had just two blank score sheets at the weekend and 49^th is his lowest position so far. Rangers is his best team. His combination is

ARSENAL 3, MANCHESTER CITY 3, RANGERS 5 

WEEKEND RESULTS                                

We had a great start to the New Year from our Golden Goals teams although the average score fell down one from five of last weekend to 4 goals this weekend. The reason is simple and that is that we had eight of our teams that had no game over the weekend, with another twelve teams that failed to score.

The highest score that we had this weekend came from the English League One where CHESTERFIELD picked up their highest score of the season by winning 7-1 at home to Shrewsbury. Now Chesterfield have not be doing well here as they have only scored two goals in their last eight games. The seven goals takes them up to a total of 39 goals and they have just one vote this season. 

FA CUP 3^rd Round

We had a total of 32 of our Golden Goals teams in action in this round and out of them 13 have made it through to the next round of the cup. We have another seven teams in replays which do not include the EXETER and LIVERPOOL replay. So that leaves 12 of our teams that have been kicked out of the cup.

There was no big results or shock wins from any of our teams. But we did have a couple of premiership teams that picked up the highest score with three goals.

They are ARSENAL who won 3-1 at home against Sunderland to give Arsenal a total of 39 goals. MANCHESTER CITY won 3-0 away to NORWICH. City are on 56 goals while Norwich picked up their 6^th blank of the season. So that’s two of our teams through and now, here are the rest.

EVERTON are through as they win 2-0 at home to Redbridge and are now our sixth team to net 50 goals. DERBY are on 40 goals as they win 2-1 away to Hartlepool. HULL beat BRIGHTON 1-0 at home to pick up their 43^rd goal while Brighton have now failed to score in their last five games and now eight over the season. LEEDS are through after they beat Rotherham 2-0 at home. Leeds are now on 29 goals. MANCHESTER UNITED could only beat SHEFFIELD UNITED 1-0 at home to get goal number 28 while Sheffield picked up their 5^th blank of the season. BURNLEY join the pack as they win 2-1 away to MIDDLESBROUGH. Burnley are on 36 goals while Brough are on 45. NOTTINGHAM FOREST picked up their 29^th goal as they beat QPR 1-0 at home. Rangers picked up their 9^th blank of the season.

PETERBOROUGH are on 62 goals now as they beat PRESTON 2-0 at home. Preston picked up their 9^th blank of the season. WATFORD knocked out NEWCASTLE with a 1-0 home win to give them a total of 26 while Newcastle picked up their fourth blank score sheet in a row to take their total to twelve without a goal. WEST HAM beat WOLVES 1-0 at home to give them their 32^nd goal and Wolves their 8^th blank score sheet. CHELSEA beat SCUNTHORPE 2-0 at home to take their goals tally to 33 while Scunthorpe picked up their 9^th blank score sheet.

In replays we have BOLTON who nearly went out to non-league team Eastleigh but managed to draw 1-1 with just three minutes to go of the game. That was Bolton's 20^th goal of the season. IPSWICH drew 2-2 at home to POTSMOUTH to give them 42 goals and Portsmouth 52. MK DONS drew 2-2 away to Northampton and that gave them a total of 27 goals. BRISTOL CITY are on 25 goals after a two game dry spell as they drew 2-2 away to West Brom. WYCOMBE drew 1-1 at home to Aston Villa and are now on 39 goals while TOTTENHAM are on 37 goals as they drew 2-2 at home to Leicester City.

Teams that are also out are BRENTFORD who lost 1-0 at home to Walsall to get their 7^th blank of the season. CHARLTON follow as they lost 2-1 away to Colchester to pick up their 31^st goal of the season. CARDIFF lost 1-0 at home to Shrewsbury to pick up their 8^th blank score sheet.

LEAGUE ONE

We had six of our teams in action here with PORT VALE winning 1-0 away to BLACKPOOL. That gives Port vale their 34^th goal of the season while Blackpool picked up their 13^th blank and now two games in a row. MILLWALL are on 43 goals as they win 2-1 away to Oldham while CHESTERFIELD won 3-2 away to Rochdale and that gives them a total of 42 goals. That’s now ten goals in two games for Chesterfield. SWINDON are on 39 goals this week as they win 4-2 at home to SOUTHEND after going two goals down in fifteen minutes of the first half. Southend after a two game dry spell for goals, are now on 34. 

LEAGUE TWO

STEVENAGE was the only team to play here and they lost 2-1 away to Mansfield but picked up goal number 39.

 SCOTTISH LEAGUES

The weather hit the Scottish teams once again this weekend. In the WILLIAMS HILL CUP Fourth Round,  RANGERS are through to the next round as they beat Cowdenbeath 5-1 at home. Rangers are now on a total of 72 goals and they have now scored a total of sixteen goals in their last four games. CELTIC join them as they win 3-0 away to Stranraer to take their goals tally to 55. HEARTS are through as they win 1-0 at home to ABERDEEN. Hearts are now on 47 goals while Aberdeen picked up their 4^th blank score sheet and now two in a row. HIBERNIAN beat Raith 2-0 away to go through and that now gives them a total of 44 goals.  QUEEN OF SOUTH go out as they lost 2-1 away to Dumbarton. Queen of South are now on 25 goals. BERWICK are also out as they lost 1-0 away to East Fife. Berwick have now had five blank score sheets to date.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND

RANGERS (72) PETERBOROUGH (62) MANCHESTER CITY (56) Total of 190 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

BOLTON (20) BLACKPOOL (21) NEWCASTLE (23) Total of 64 goals 

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

Our Best team this weekend is still RANGERS after scoring in all of their twenty-three League/Cup games played keeping their 100% scoring record in-tacked. They are on a total of 72 goals after they picked up a total of five goals this week.

The highest scoring teams in our 33^rd Season is CHESTERFIELD from the English League One when they beat Shrewsbury 7-1 at home in a league game in week twenty-two.

Here is our top ten this week and there is not much movement in this section.

     THIS     LAST                                                M/WEEK        W/END        TOTAL

  WEEK    WEEK             NAME                        GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

      1                 -                 L. KING (2001/02)         37                   137                174              

      2               -                   R. WILLIAMS                52                   121                173

      3                 -                 D. GOODSON                56                   116                172              

      4                 -                 B. SOPER                      44                   125                169

      5                 -                 J. WISE                           51                   117                168              

      6                 -                 J. HUNTER                    53                   111                164

      7                 -                 S. DICKINSON              37                   126                163              

      8                 -                 JA. WOOD                     37                   126                163                           9                 -                 T. MACDONALD         52                   110                162              

      10              11              J. DAVIES                       51                   110                161