Week Thirty

RICHARD WILLIAMS has remained top this weekend and this is now his ninth weekend at the top.  Richard’s combination picked him up a total of four goals over the weekend. They came from Hibernian 2, Manchester City and Rangers each picking up a single goal. SIMON DICKINSON finds himself still three goals behind Richard. Simon.s teams also picked him up four goals for the week from Celtic, Manchester City and Portsmouth.

At the other end, it’s still STEPTOE & SON at number 119 for his sixth weekend as his combination picked him up eight goals for the week. His teams are Queens Park, Queens Park Rangers and Queen of the South. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

 Only sixteen of you failed to pick up some more midweek goals this week but we had another five players to reach that magic score 50 or more goals bringing the total up to 70 this week.

The highest score this week was a total of eight goals and they all went to PETER MURPHY. Pete picked up his goals from Charlton one Manchester United three and Southend four goals from their two games played this week. He now has a total of 46 midweek goals.

So this is how the race to £40 is looking this week. DANIEL GOODSON moves out in front this week as he picks up three goals from just one of his teams. That  team was Middlesbrough which brings his total to 70 goals. Daniel’s other two teams are Manchester city and Rangers. In joint second place this week are JOHN DAVIES, and JAMES HUNTER who were joint leaders last week with CRAIG EVANS still in second place and ADRIAN BEW up from three. All four are on 67 goals. In third place down from two is DAVE WESTON now on 65 goals while in fourth place both on 64 goals we have MARK UNSTEAD with JAMES WISE both down from three last week. 

This weekend we had our 41^st winner of the season as our third lady to do so as SANDRA NICHOLLS wins on a total of 7 goals. Sandra started with Golden Goals back in our 2007/08 Season where she finished in 42^nd place on 250 goals and she has been with us ever since. Last season Sandra finished in 101 with a total of 214 goals. This season she has picked up three blank score sheets and 101 is the best that she has done so far this season. Sandra’s best team is Chelsea netting her 57 of her total of 153 goals.

  ARSENAL 2, CHELSEA 2, MANCHESTER UNITED 3 

WEEKEND RESULTS                          

After a promising start to the week from the midweek results, the weekend failed to carry that on. So once again our average score remained at 4 goals for a third weekend running. We had a total of eight teams that had no game and another six that failed to score any goals which is not all that really bad for us. But it was a very low scoring weekend with three being the highest score and we had six teams that picked them up.

Capital One Cup Final

We had both of the teams in the first trophy of the season. LIVERPOOL with a total of four votes took on MANCHESTER CITY with fifty-two. Manchester City scored first in this premiership final after the start of the second half. Liverpool came back with the equaliser in the 83^rd minute of normal time. This is how it remained in normal time and it also remained 1-1 after extra time. In the penalty shoot-out, Manchester city won 3-1. So the first piece of silver ware goes to Manchester City and the goals takes them up to a total of 74 goals. Liverpool’s goal gives them a total of 54. 

PREMIERSHIP

With the Cup final being played, only seven of our premiership teams played. TOTTENHAM are in second place after Leicester City as they win 2-1 at home to Swansea. Tottenham are now on 58 goals. ARSENAL drop down to third place as they lost 3-2 away to MANCHESTER UNITED. Arsenal are now on 50 goals while United take their goals tally to 46. WEST HAM are on 50 goals this weekend as they win 1-0 at home to Sunderland. NORWICH picked up their 10^th blank of the season as they lost 1-0 away to top of the table Leicester City. CHELSEA won 2-1 away to Southampton and they are now on a total of 57 goals. WATFORD drew 0-0 at home to Bournemouth and that was their 11^th blank of the season.

CHAMPIONSHIP

BURNLEY moved to the top here this weekend as they win again 2-1 away to BOLTON.  Burnley are now on 56 goals while Bolton hit goal number 37. Hull are in second place now with three of our teams are now in the play-offs. MIDDLESBROUGH are in third place as they win 2-0 away to Fulham. Brough are now on 53 goals. Brighton comes next with DERBY behind them. Derby lost 2-1 away to WOLVES and that was their 49^th goal of the season while Wolves are now on 46. MK DONS are on 38 goals but they lost 3-2 away to Blackburn. CARDIFF beat PRESTON 2-1 at home to give them a total of 47 goals while Preston are now on 39. CHARLTON are on 40 goals as they lost 4-3 at home to Reading. It’s 50 for IPSWICH as they win 1-0 away to Huddersfield. BRISTOL CITY are now on 34 goals as they win 2-1 away to NOTTINGHAM FOREST. Forest after a two game dry spell for goals are now on 36. QPR beat Birmingham 2-0 at home and they are now on 45 goals while BRENTFORD are on 47 as they go down 2-1 away to Rotherham. 

LEAGUE ONE

BURTON ALBION are still on top this weekend even though they drew 0-0 at home to Walsall to pick up their 8^th blank of the season. WIGAN are still second as they win 3-0 at home to Bury and they are now on a total of 56 goals. We still have just one of our teams in the play-off zone this weekend and they are MILLWALL still in fifth place. They Drew 1-1 away to Doncaster and that gives them goal number 57. BLACKPOOL lost 1-0 at home to Bradford and that was their 16^th blank of the season while CHESTERFIELD are on 50 goals as they win 2-1 away to Gillingham. SWINDON are on 53 goals as they win 2-1 away to PETERBOROUGH who are now on 69 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED picked up their 9^th blank of the season as they lost 2-0 away to Rochdale. It’s 44 for SCUNTHORPE as they drew 1-1 at home to Oldham.

LEAGUE TWO

PLYMOUTH are still in second place here as they win 1-0 at home to Notts County. Plymouth are now on 49 goals. We are back to three teams in the play-off zone here with PORTSMOUTH in fifth place. They won 2-1 at home to Cambridge UTD and that takes their goal tally to 62. WYCOMBE are next as they win 1-0 at home to Bristol Rovers. Wycombe are on 44 goals. LEYTON ORIENT are in 7^th place as they win 2-0 at home to Crawley. Orient are on 56 goals. STEVENAGE lost 2-0 at home to EXETER to pick up their 11^th blank score sheet and now two in a row while Exeter take their goals total to 55. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Scottish Premiership, Celtic are still top after their draw on Friday night but ABERDEEN are still in second place as they drew 1-1 at home to St Johnstone. Aberdeen hit goal number 46. HEARTS are in third place as they win 1-0 at home to Kilmarnock. That was their 60^th goal of the season. In the Championship RANGERS picked up goal number 85 as they win just 1-0 at home to St Mirren while HIBERNIAN in second place lost 3-2 away to Dumbarton. Hibs are now on 59 goals. FALKIRK are third as they win 3-1 at home to QUEEN OF SOUTH. Falkirk are on 55 goals while Queen of South picked up goal 28. In the lower leagues, STENHOUSEMUIR lost 3-2 at home to Cowdenbeath but that gives them a total of 38 goals while CLYDE won 1-0 away to Arbroath to get goal number 32 while BERWICK also won 1-0 at home to Montrose to pick up goal number 37. QUEENS PARK won 3-0 at home to East Fife and they are now on 38 goals.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND

RANGERS (85) CELTIC (80) MANCHESTER CITY (74) Total of 239 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

QUEEN OF SOUTH (28) NEWCASTLE (31) WATFORD (32) Total of 91 goals 

BLACKPOOL and CHARLTON have both picked up the most number of blank score sheets this season with a total of sixteen each.

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.

The top ten have settled down a bit this weekend but will they remain there by next weekend as we have a very busy week coming up here at Golden Goals.

      THIS     LAST                                                   M/WEEK        W/END        TOTAL

    WEEK    WEEK             NAME                            GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

        1                 -                 R. WILLIAMS                   63                  156               219                              

        2               -                   S. DICKINSON                 58                  158               216              

        3                 -                 J. DAVIES                        67                  146               213              

        4                 -                 C. NUNN                          52                  159               211              

        5                 -                 B. SOPER                         56                  155               211              

        6                 9                D. GOODSON                  70                  141               211              

        7                 6                C. BOOM                         53                  157               210                              

        8                 7                C. BOLBERY                   62                  148               210                              

        9                 12              A. BROWN                      56                  152               208                             

        10                8               J. WISE                            64                  144               208     

Celtic Still On Target

CELTIC are still on target to end on 100 or more goals this season as they drew 1-1 away to Hamilton last night to pick up their 80^th goal. Celtic have now scored in all of their last fifteen games.

In the English Championship, HULL picked up their 8^th blank score sheet of the season as they drew 0-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday. Hull have now scored just one goal in their last four games.

In League One, PORT VALE after a two game dry spell for goals picked up their highest score since week 20 as they win 3-1 at home against SOUTHEND. Both Port Vale and Southend are now on a total of 43 goals each. 

Update on the Midweek Results

Over the last few nights we have had a total of twenty-four of our Golden Goals teams in action and the goals have been coming in. In the English Championship, BOLTON after a goal run of seven games, picked up their 16^th blank score sheet of the season when they lost 1-0 away to Birmingham. BRENTFORD are now on total of 46 goals as they win 3-0 at home against WOLVES. Wolves have picked up their 11^th blank score sheet and now no goals in their last two games. In fact they have now scored just one goal in their last four games. BRIGHTON picked up their biggest score of the season as they win 4-0 away to BRISTOL CITY. Brighton are now on 47 goals while City picked up their 13^th blank of the season. BURNLEY won 1-0 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST and that was their goal number 54.  Forest have now had two blanks in a row to give them eleven over the season and only one goal in their last five games played.  IPSWICH lost 1-0 at home to HULL and that was their blank number eleven and for Hull after a two game dry spell for goals, goal number 58. After a three game dry spell, LEEDS drew 1-1 at home to Fulham and that was their goal number 35. It’s 51 goals for MIDDLESBROUGH as they win 3-1 at home to CARDIFF. Cardiff are on 45 goals. MK DONS drew 1-1 at home to Huddersfield and they are now on 36 while PRESTON won 2-1 at home against CHARLTON and are now on 38 while Charlton are on 37 after a three game dry spell for goals. It’s 43 for QPR as they drew 1-1 away to Sheffield Wednesday. DERBY beat Blackburn 1-0 at home and are now on 48 goals.

In League One, PETERBOROUGH lost 2-1 at home to Oldham but they are now on 68 goals after a two game dry spell for goals. In League two, PORTSMOUTH lost 1-0 away to Barnet and that was blank number nine. EXETER are on 53 goals but lost 4-1 at home to Oxford. PLYMOUTH drew 0-0 away to Yeovil and that was their blank number five.

In Scotland, BERWICK RANGERS drew 1-1 at home to QUEENS PARK and they are now on 36 goals to Queens 35. CLYDE won 2-1 away to Stirling and they are now on 31 goals. HIBERNIAN lost 3-0 at home to Morton to pick up their 3^rd blank of the season.

FA CUP Fifth Round and United are Through

We had another Golden Goals team to join the five that have or will have after the Arsenal and Hull replay, in the quarter-finals of the FA CUP. That team is the last to join them are MANCHESTER UNITED. They beat Shrewsbury 3-0 away and the goals take their goals tally up to 43.

Just one league result from the English League One where SOUTHEND won 3-1 at home to BURTON ALBION. Southend are now on a total of 45 goals while Burton hit goal number 44. 

Week Twenty-Nine

RICHARD WILLIAMS has moved back to the top this weekend and this is now his eighth weekend at the top.  Richard’s combination picked him up a total of eight goals over the week. Five came from the weekend from Hibernian, Manchester City and Rangers. SIMON DICKINSON who had just one weekend at the top now finds himself three goals behind Richard. Simon's teams picked him up five goals all from the weekend from Celtic, Manchester City and Portsmouth.

At the other end, it’s still STEPTOE & SON at number 119 for his fifth weekend as his combination picked him up just two goals at the weekend once again. They came from Queens Park Rangers and Queens Park with a goal each while  Queen of the South failed to score at the weekend. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

There was twenty-six of you that picked up some more midweek goals this week and out of them another three players reached that magic score 50 or more goals bringing the total up to 65 this week. The highest score this week was a total of five goals and they went to STEVE CADWELL. Steve picked up his goals from Berwick with three and Rangers with two goals. Leyton Orient  is his third team. He now has a total of 42 midweek goals.

So this is how the race to £40 is looking this week. We have three players that are still in joint leadership this week. They are JOHN DAVIES, DANIEL GOODSON and JAMES HUNTER who are all on a total of 67 goals. Still in second place we have CRAIG EVANS and DAVE WESTON. Both are on 64 goals. In third place all on 63 goals we still have ADRIAN BEW and MARK UNSTEAD but they are now joined with JAMES WISE up from four and RICHARD WILLIAMS up from fifth place. In fourth place up from five we have TOM MACDONALD now on 62 goals while in fifth place both on 61 goals we have CHRIS BOLBERY down from fourth place and TONY KING comes back in. 

This weekend we had our 40^th winner of the season as PHIL COLLINS wins on a total of 12 goals. This is his personal best weekend score and it catapults him up to 55^th place. This is not his highest as he was in 29^th place in week one. Phil has been with Golden Goals since season 2004/05 where he finished in 45^th place on 266 goals he also picked up the Christmas weekend jackpot of £10. Last season he finished in 105^th place on 202 goals but no cash that time round. This Season, Phil has had just three blank score sheets for the weekend and his best team is Celtic.

  CARDIFF 4, CELTIC 3, CHELSEA 5 

WEEKEND RESULTS                          

We have had a fairly good weekend of football as our average score remained at 4 goals for a second weekend. Even though we had eleven teams that had now game and another twelve teams that failed to score any goals.

We had the fifth round of the FA Cup and this is where the highest score came from. In fact we had two teams that picked up the weekends highest score with five goals each and they were both London teams. First up is WEST HAM as they beat Blackburn 5-1 away. This is West ham’s highest score this season and they are now on a total of 49 goals. West Ham was our 7^th most voted team from our very first season of 1983/84 where they finished on a total of 79 goals.

Their highest score came in our 1989/90 Season with 91 goals. Last season they picked up a total of 89 goals. This is their 26^th Season with Golden Goals and over the seasons they have netted a total of 1670 goals which gives them an average score of 64 goals per season to date.

CHELSEA won 5-1 at home to MANCHESTER CITY and they have now score eleven goals in their last four games. City picked up goal number 73 to keep them as our third best team of the season. Chelsea also started with the competition from our very first season where they finished on a total of 98 goals. They were our 24^th most voted team in 1983/84 and they have been in every season since then. Their highest score came in 2009/10 with 128 goals. Last season they picked up a total of 89 goals. Over the seasons they have now scored a total of 2667 goals which gives them an average score of 80 goals per season to date.

FA CUP Fifth Round

We had nine of our teams in cup action over the weekend and out of them only four have made it through to the next round. We already know that Chelsea and West Ham have made it through with them big scores and that Manchester City are out. But also through are EVERTON who beat Bournemouth 2-0 away to take their goals tally to 66. WATFORD are also there as they win 1-0 at home to LEEDS UTD. Watford picked up goal number 32. Leeds picked up their 12^th blank score sheet and now they have failed to score in their last three games. TOTTENHAM go out as they lost their London derby 1-0 at home to Crystal Palace. Tottenham picked up their 6^th blank of the season. ARSENAL drew 0-0 at home to HULL and so we will have to wait and see which one of them goes through to the next round. But Arsenal meanwhile picked up their 9^th blank score sheet and Hull picked up their 7^th but now two games in a row without a goal. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

CARDIFF picked up the highest score here over the weekend with a 4-1 home win against BRIGHTON. Cardiff with their biggest win of the season, are now on a total of 44 goals after a two game dry spell for goals. Brighton picked up goal number 43. BOLTON are now on a total of 36 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to QPR. Rangers are now on 42 goals. DERBY beat BRENTFORD 3-1 away after going a goal down to take their goals total to 47. Brentford are now on 43 after a two game dry spell. It’s 53 for BARNLEY as they win 2-0 at home to Rotherham. It’s three games without a goal now for CHARLTON as they lost 3-0 away to Fulham. WOLVES lost 1-0 away to Huddersfield and that was their 10^th blank of the season. BRISTOL CITY are on 32 goals as they win 2-0 away to MK DONS. PRESTON won 1-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday. Preston hit goal number 36. 

LEAGUE ONE

Burton Albion are still on top this weekend even though they had now game over the weekend. WIGAN have moved into second place as they win 2-1 away to Walsall. Wigan take their goals total to 53. We  have just one of our teams in the play-off zone this weekend and they are MILLWALL in fifth place. They won 3-0 at home to PETERBOROUGH. Millwall are now on 56 goals while Borough picked up their 7^th blank of the season and now no goals in their last two games. After a two game dry spell for goals, CHESTERFIELD have picked up four goals this week with three of them at the weekend as they win 3-1 at home to Crewe. Chesterfield are now on 48 goals. SCUNTHORPE are on a total of 43 goals but they lost 2-1 away to Fleetwood. It’s 51 for SWINDON as they win 3-2 at home to BLACKPOOL. Blackpool are now on 32 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED won 1-0 at home to PORT VALE and that was their 52^nd goal of the season. Port Vale picked up their 13^th blank of the season and now no goals in their last two games played. 

LEAGUE TWO

PLYMOUTH are still in second place here as they drew 1-1 away to Crawley to pick up their 48^th goal of the season. We only have one team in the play-off zone here too in seventh place and they are POTSMOUTH. They drew 1-1 away to Yeovil. That was Portsmouth 60^th goal of the season. Meanwhile STEVENAGE lost 1-0 away to Carlisle to get their 10^th blank of the season. EXETER drew 1-1 at home to Newport and after a two game dry spell for goals, now gives them their 52^nd goal. It’s 51 goals for LUTON as they win 2-1at home to Hartlepool. WYCOMBE have a total of ten blank score sheet snow as they lost 1-0 away to Northampton. LEYTON ORIENT won 1-0 away to Notts County and that gives them a total of 54 goals. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Scottish Premiership, CELTIC won 3-0 at home to Inverness and that takes their goals tally to 79. While HEARTS in third place lost 2-1 away to Dundee Utd. Hearts are now on 59 goals. In the Championship RANGERS picked up goal number 84 as they win just 1-0 away to QUEEN OF SOUTH. Queen of South picked up their 9^th blank score sheet of the season. FALKIRK are on 52 as they win 1-0 away to Morton. It’s 57 for HIBERNIAN as they win 3-0 at home to Alloa. In League Two QUEENS PARK won 1-0 away to Airdrie. Queens are now on 34 goals. CLYDE beat BERWICK 2-1 at home and that gives them a total of 29 goals and Berwick 35 goals. 

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND

RANGERS (84) CELTIC (79) MANCHESTER CITY (73) Total of 236 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

QUEEN OF SOUTH (27) CLYDE (29) NEWCASTLE (31) Total of 87 goals 

CHARLTON have now picked up the most number of blank score sheets this season with a total of sixteen from their thirty-six games played.

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.

Here is how our top ten looks this week and we now have eighteen players that have now score 200 or more goals this weekend.

    THIS     LAST                                                     M/WEEK        W/END        TOTAL

  WEEK    WEEK             NAME                              GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

      1                 2                R. WILLIAMS                     63                   152                215                              

      2               1                  S. DICKINSON                   57                   155                212              

      3                 -                 J. DAVIES                          67                   143                210              

      4                 8                C. NUNN                            51                   156                207              

      5                 4                B. SOPER                            56                   151                207              

      6                 5                C. BOOM                            52                   154                206              

      7                 -                 C. BOLBERY                     61                   144                205                              

      8                 11              J. WISE                               63                   141                204                              

      9                 6                D. GOODSON                    67                   137                204                             

       10              14              G. CARTHY                        51                   152                203       

William Hill Cup 5th Round Replays

We had two of our Scottish Golden Goals teams through to the Quarter-finals of the WILLIAM HILL CUP on Tuesday night in their 5^th round replays.

HIBERNIAN beat HEARTS 1-0 at home to go through in their second cup competition. They are already in the Scottish League Cup Final against Ross County. Hibs take their goals tally to 54 while Hearts pick up their 6^th blank score sheet of the season. RANGERS are also through to the next round as they win 2-1 against Kilmarnock away. Rangers are now on a total of 83 goals.

We also have some league games to catch up on. In the English Championship, HULL drew 0-0 at home to BRIGHTON to pick up their 6^th blank score sheet and Brighton’s 10^th.

In League One, BLACKPOOL drew 0-0 at home to Oldham to get their 15^th blank score sheet while SOUTHEND lost 2-0 away to Bradford and that now means that they have not scored in their last two games and thirteen over the season. SHEFFIELD UNITED picked up their 8^th blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 away to Bury. CHESTERFIELD are on a total of 45 goals as they drew 1-1 away to Colchester. SCUNTHORPE won 2-0 away to MILLWALL and they are now on 42 goals while Millwall picked up their 8^th blank of the season.

In League Two, EXETER lost 2-0 away to York and that was their 10^th blank score sheet and now two in a row.

But the biggest score of the night went to the Scottish League Two where BERWICK RANGERS won 3-2 at home to Anna Athletic. That takes Berwick's goal total to 34.

Aberdeen Missing Out On Points

It’s a new week here at Golden Goals and it has not started off very well for us. Out of the three teams that we had playing last night only one managed to score.

That team was ABERDEEN from the Scottish Premiership. They lost 3-1 away to Inverness after going a goal up in the first seven minutes of the game starting. They are now three points behind league leaders Celtic, and Celtic have a game in hand. Aberdeen are now on a total of 45 goals.

In the English Championship, LEEDS drew 0-0 at home against MIDDLESBROUGH. Leeds pick up their second blank score sheet in a row and now eleven over the season. Brough picked up their 12^th and they have now scored just two goals in their last five games.

Week Twenty-Eight

SIMON DICKINSON has moved to the top this weekend and becomes the ninth person to do so this our 33^rd Season.  Simon’s combination picked him up a total of six goals over the weekend. They came from Celtic 2, Manchester City 1 and Portsmouth 3. RICHARD WILLIAMS moves down to second place only on goal difference as his combination picked him up just two goals for the week. His teams are Hibernian, Manchester City and Rangers.

At the other end, it’s still STEPTOE & SON at number 119 for his fourth weekend as his combination picked him up just two goals at the weekend from Queens Park Rangers and Queen of the South. Queens Park failed to score again at the weekend. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

 There was twenty-seven of you that picked up some more midweek goals this week and out of them another four players reached that magic score 50 or more goals bringing the total up to 62 this week.

The highest score this week was a total of just four goals and they went to CRAIG EVANS. Craig picked up his goals from Hearts with three and Middlesbrough with one.  Manchester City is his third team. He now has a total of 64 midweek goals.

So this is how the race to £40 is looking this week with the same old names but in different positions. We have three players in joint leadership this week. They are JAMES HUNTER who remains here but now with JOHN DAVIES and DANIEL GOODSON who both moved up from second place all with a total of 65 goals. In second place is still DAVE WESTON but he is now joined with CRAIG EVANS who jumped up from sixth place. Both are on 64 goals. In third place both on 63 goals we have MARK UNSTEAD a none mover and up from four ADRIAN BEW. In fourth place both up from five are CHRIS BOLBERY and JAMES WISE both are on a total of 61 goals while in fifth place up from six we have RICHARD WILLIAMS and TOM MACDONALD both still with 60 goals. 

We had our 39^th winner of the season this weekend as DOUG MORBEY wins on a total of 12 goals. This is his personal best and this is the highest that he has been this season for quite a while. Dough has been with Golden Goals since season eight and in that season of 1990/91. Doug finished in 33^rd place on a total of 231 goals. Last season he finished in 87^th place on 232 goals but the season before last he did finish in the winning frame in 18^th place with 309 goals. He also had two weekend wins and so took home over £11 in winnings.This season Doug has had three blank score sheets and 25^th place in week eight is his highest position to date. Rangers is his best team. His combination for this season is

  CHELSEA 5, LIVERPOOL 6, RANGERS 1 

WEEKEND RESULTS                      

We have had a better week of football than last week as our average score moved up a place to 4 goals each. We had six teams that had now game and another sixteen teams that failed to net any goals.

The highest score that we had came from the English Premiership where LIVERPOOL beat foot of the table, Aston Villa 6-0 away. That is the highest score that we have had from Liverpool this season and they are now on a total of 53 goals. Liverpool have just 4  votes this season. Liverpool are just one of four teams that have a 100% appearance with Golden Goals. In the first season they picked up a total of 103 goals and in our third season of 1985/86 Season they picked up a record number of 127 goals which they held on to for 24 years before Chelsea beat them in 2009/10 with 128 goals. Liverpool have score 100 or more goals in six of the 32 Seasons and last season they finished on 68 goals. Over the years they have scored a total of 2712 goals which gives them an average score of 82 goals per season. 

PREMIERSHIP

Leicester City have remain top of the table this weekend even though they got beaten by ARSENAL 2-1 away. Arsenal are still in third place on 48 goals. TOTTENHAM are still in second place as they win 2-1 away to fourth place MANCHESTER CITY. Tottenham are on 56 goals and they have now scored in all of their last seven games. City take their goals total up to 72. MANCHESTER UNITED are in fifth place as they lost 2-1 away to Sunderland to pick up goal number 40. CHELSEA picked up another five goals as they win 5-1 at home against NEWCASTLE. Chelsea are now on 50 goals while Newcastle are now on 31. WATFORD after a two game dry spell are now on a total of 31 goals as they win 2-1 away to Crystal Palace. NORWICH also after a two game dry spell drew 2-2 at home to WEST HAM and they are now on 36 goals and West Ham are on 44. EVERTON picked up their 6^th blank of the season as they lost 1-0 at home to West Brom.  

CHAMPIONSHIP

HULL are top here again this weekend as they win 2-0 away to Blackburn and that takes their goals tally to 57. With Middlesbrough in second place, we have three teams in the play-off zone again this weekend. BURNLEY are in third place even though they drew 0-0 away to Reading. Burnley have now had a total of ten blank score sheets. BRIGHTON are in fourth place as they win 3-2 at home to BOLTON. Brighton are on 42 goals while Bolton are on 35. DERBY are in sixth place as they lost 1-0 at home to MK DONS. Derby picked up their 9^th blank and they have now scored just three goals in their last six games. The Dons are now on 35. Meanwhile it’s 30 goals for BRISTOL CITY as they win 2-1 at home to IPSWICH. Ipswich are on 49. CHARLTON drew 0-0 at home to CARDIFF and that now means that Charlton have failed to score in their last two games giving them a total of fifteen blank score sheets. Cardiff picked up their 11^th blank and also two games without a goal. NOTTINGHAM FOREST picked up their 10^th blank as they lost 2-0 at home to Huddersfield. Forest have now netted one goals in their last four games. QPR lost 3-1 at home to Fulham and that was their 41^st goal of the season. BRENTFORD lost 4-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday and that was their 10^th blank and now two games in a row. PRESTON are on 35 gaols as they win 2-1 away to WOLVES who picked up goal number 44. 

LEAGUE ONE

BURTON ALBION are still on top this weekend after their win on Friday night. We still have two teams in the play-off zone with WIGAN moving up to fourth place as they drew 0-0 at home to Oldham. That is their 9^th blank of the season.  MILLWALL are also still in there as they win 1-0 away to Rochdale. Millwall are now on 53 goals. BLACKPOOL are now on 30 goals as they lost 3-2 at home to Shrewsbury. After a three game dry spell for goals, SWINDON picked up another four goals in their 4-1 away win over Colchester. SHEFFIELD UNITED are now on 51 goals as they win 1-0 away to Doncaster. PETERBOROUGH lost 4-0 at home to Bradford and that was their 6^th blank score sheet. PORT VALE picked up their 12^th as they drew 0-0 at home to Fleetwood. It’s 40 goals for SCUNTHORPE  as they win 1-0 at home to SOUTHEND. Southend picked up their 12^th blank of the season. 

LEAGUE TWO

PLYMOUTH are in second place here as they win 3-0 at home to Mansfield. Plymouth are now on 47 goals. In the Play-off zone we have again two out of the four teams. WYCOMBE in fourth place beat EXETER 1-0 at home. Wycombe are on 43 goals while Exeter picked up their 9^th blank score sheet. PORTSMOUTH who are our other team in the zone in fifth place won 3-1 at home to Bristol Rovers and that now gives them a total of 59 goals. Meanwhile LUTON lost 4-1 away to AFC Wimbledon but it was their 49^th goal to date. LEYTON ORIENT lost 4-0 at home to top of the table Northampton to pick up their 5^th blank of the season. STEVENAGE won 2-0 at home to Cambridge and that gives them a total of 46 goals. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

CELTIC won 2-0 against Ross County in the Premiership and the goals now gives them a total of 76 goals and they are catching up on Rangers. RANGERS in the Championship drew 1-1 away to Alloa and that was their 81^st goal. FALKIRK drew 2-2 at home to Raith and that takes them to a total of 51 goals. HIBERNIAN picked up their 2^nd blank of the season after a goals run of twenty-five games, as they drew 0-0 away to Livingston. QUEEN OF SOUTH won 1-0 at home to St Mirren to pick up goal number 27 while in the lower leagues, STENHOUSEMUIR won 3-2 at home to Airdrie after a two game dry spell and that now takes their goals tally to 36. CLYDE picked up their second blank in a row and now ten this season as they lost 1-0 away to Elgin. QUEENS PARK lost 3-0 at home to East Stirling and that now gives them three blank score sheets in a row and ten over the season. BERWICK lost 2-1 away to Stirling and are on 31 goals. 

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND

RANGERS (81) CELTIC (76) MANCHESTER CITY (72) Total of 229 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

CLYDE (27) QUEEN OF SOUTH (27) BRISTOL CITY (30) Total of 84 goals 

BOLTON and CHARLTON have both picked up the most number of blank score sheets this season with a total of fifteen each.

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 a slight change in the race for this season's champion and the weeks are quickly going by.

        THIS     LAST                                           M/WEEK        W/END        TOTAL

      WEEK    WEEK             NAME                  GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

          1                 2                S. DICKINSON         57                   150                207                                2               1                  R. WILLIAMS           60                   147                207              

          3                 5                J. DAVIES                 65                   141                206              

          4                 3                B. SOPER                  54                   149                203              

          5                 4                C. BOOM                   52                   149                201              

          6                 -                 D. GOODSON           65                   135                200              

          7                 -                 C. BOLBERY            61                   138                199                                8                 16              C. NUNN                   51                   147                198                                 9                 10              L. KING (2001/02)    44                   153                197                                 10               11              A. BROWN                55                   142                197