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