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