Monday 1 February 2016

Week Twenty-Six

RICHARD WILLIAMS has stayed at the top for three weeks now as his combination picked him up a total of twelve goals over the week. Five came from midweek with another seven at the weekend. They came from Hibernian 2, Manchester City 4 and Rangers 1. Richard has now been top for a total of six weeks as he was also top for three consecutive weeks from week fourteen to sixteen. Now he is now four goal clear of  SIMON DICKINSON who picked up a total of nine goals for the week. His teams are Celtic, Manchester City and Portsmouth.

At the other end, it’s still STEPTOE & SON at number 119 for a second week as his combination had no games over the week. His teams are Queens Park, Queens Park Rangers and Queen of the South.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 
With a total of twenty-four votes this season it was Chelsea that has made the biggest 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 45.
The highest score this week was a total of seven goals and they went to SCOTT THOMSON (2), JAMES WISE and JOHN WOOD. Scott picked up his goals from Derby’s goals from two games, Manchester United and Rangers. James came from again Derby’s two games, Manchester City and Rangers while John’s goals came from Burnley and Manchester City. Arsenal is his third team.
So this is how the race to £40 looks this week. In the lead this week we have JOHN DAVIES and DANIEL GOODSON both now on 62 goals each. In second place on 61 goals we still have  JAMES HUNTER while in third place both down from one of last weekend we have ADRIAN BEW and DAVE WESTON both on 60 goals. In fourth place with 59 goals each we have down from two, CHRIS BOLBERY, CRAIG EVANS and MARK UNSTEAD and up from five JAMES WISE. In fifth place we have, down from two TONY KING and down from four TOM MACDONALD all on 58 goals. In sixth place all on 57 goals we have NATHAN TREADWELL down from three and down from five RICHARD WILLIAMS and BRIAN WAKEFIELD.We had had three winners this weekend and they all won on a score of  11 goals. Our winners take a share the cash of £5 and they are first time winners of this season. The cash goes to ALEX DAVEY, KEAMUS SETNA and TIM WOOD and it takes our winners total to thirty-four.
Alex has been with Golden Goals for twelve seasons now. Starting way back in our 2004/05 Season, Alex finished in 56th place out of 105 on 261 goals. Last season he finished in 58th place on 251 goals. So it’s about time that Alex won some cash. Alright it’s only £1.66 pence but it’s a win. This season he has picked up a total of three blank score sheets and this is his best score of the season. Although we can see him jump up to 95th place this weekend, 94th is his best to date from week three. Manchester City is his best team.
Keamus is our 2005/06 Champion where he finished on a grand total of 309 gaols. With three weekend wins, Keamus picked over £61 in cash. His winning combination was Celtic, Chelsea and Gretna Green. Keamus started with us way back in our 1998/99 Season. Last Season he finished in 70th place on 245 goals. This season, Keamus has not had any blank score sheets to date and his best team is also Manchester City. 50th place is his best from week eleven.
Tim started with us back in our 1996/97 Season and he finished in 43rd place on 251 goals. Last season he finished in 64th place on 249 goals. This season, Tim has also had just three blank score sheets and his best team is also Manchester City. 70th is his best to date from week eleven.

Alex  CHELSEA 5, LEEDS UTD 2, MANCHESTER CITY 4
Keamus  CHELSEA 5, EXETER 3, MANCHESTER CITY 4
Tim  ARSENAL 2, CHELSEA 5, MANCHESTER CITY 4      
  
WEEKEND RESULTS                                
This weekend we had the Fourth Round of the FA Cup and this is where the biggest score came from. Although we had twenty of our Golden Goals teams that were not in action and another ten teams that picked up another blank score sheet, I was really surprised that the average score went back up to five goals each this weekend.
So it was from the FA Cup that we had the biggest score as CHELSEA beat MK DONS 5-1 away. With their highest score of the season, Chelsea are now on a total of 44 goals while MK Dons picked up goal number thirty-three.
As you already know that Chelsea have been in every single season of Golden Goals and in our very first they were our 24th most voted team. In that season they finished on a total of 98 goals. Their best end of season score came in 2009/10 when they picked up a total of 128 goals. Chelsea had then beaten Liverpool's record score of 127 goals which they held on to for 24 Seasons. Last season Chelsea finished on a total of 89 goals. Over the thirty-three seasons, Chelsea have now scored a total of 2,638 goals which gives them an new average score of 79 goals per season to date.

FA CUP Fourth Round
We already know that Manchester United are through to the next round after beating Derby on Friday night. But out of the sixteen teams that we had playing over the weekend, only eight including Chelsea are in the next round.
They are ARSENAL as they beat BURNLEY 2-1 at home. Arsenal after a two consecutive blank sheet, they are now on 44 goals. Burnley are out and they picked up their 49th goal of the season. MANCHESTER CITY are through as they win 4-0 away to Aston Villa. City have picked up a total of seven goals this week which means that they are now on 69 goals. LEEDS are on 34 goals as they beat BOLTON 2-1 away. Bolton are on 29 goals. HULL are through as they win 3-1 away to Bury. That now gives Hull a total of 55 goals and twelve goals in their last four games. TOTTENHAM beat Colchester 4-0 away and that puts their goals tally to 50 goals and that’s thirteen goals in their last four games. WATFORD picked up their 29th goal as they win 1-0 away to NOTTINGHAM FOREST. Forest picked up their 9th blank of the season and two games in a row. EVERTON are our last team to go through as they win 3-0 away to Carlisle. Everton are now on 58 goals. The good, news depending on your point of view, is that we could have some more of our teams joining them as LIVERPOOL drew 0-0 at home to WEST HAM to wait a replay. Liverpool picked up their 9th blank of the season and now two games with out a goal. West Ham picked up their 5th blank. PETERBOROUGH could also be there as they drew 2-2 away to West Brom. Borough are now on 65 goals. PORTSMOUTH though, are out as they lost 2-1 at home to Bournemouth but it was their 55th goal of the season.

CHAMPIONSHIP
Due to the FA Cup, we only had three of our teams in action. They were CHARLTON who won 4-1 away to Rotherham to take their goals tally to 35 while BRISTOL CITY drew 0-0 at home to Birmingham. That was City’s 12th blank of the season and they have now failed to score in their last three games. It’s 40 goals for CARDIFF as they win 3-2 away to Huddersfield.

LEAGUE ONE
BURTON ALBION are back on top this weekend even though they lost 2-1 away to Rochdale. Albion are now on 39 goals. We still have two teams in the play-off zone with WIGAN in fourth place won 3-0 at home to PORT VALE. Wigan are now on 49 goals and they have now scored in all of their last eight games. Port vale picked up their 11th blank of the season. MILLWALL are also still there as they drew 1-1 at home to Crewe. Millwall are on 49 goals. Meanwhile BLACKPOOL are on 28 goals as they win 1-0 at home against Gillingham. SWINDON picked up their 7th blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 at home to Barnsley. SCUNTHORPE won 2-1 away to Coventry and that takes their goals total to 39.

LEAGUE TWO
PLYMOUTH are still in second place this weekend as they lost 1-0 at home to WYCOMBE. Plymouth picked up their 4th blank of the season. Wycombe picked up goal number forty after a three game dry spell for goals. They still have only scored two goals in their last six games. Portsmouth are still in the play-off zone in sixth place but they were in cup action this weekend. LEYTON ORIENT are just outside the zone as lost 3-1 at home to Cambridge. Orient are now on 52 goals. EXETER are on 51 goals as they win 2-0 away to Hartlepool. LUTON picked up their 9th blank of the season as they lost 2-0 at home against Notts County. STEVENAGE lost 2-1 away to York to pick up goal number 42.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES
Only five of our eleven Scottish teams managed to play over the weekend due to the bad weather once more. In the Scottish League Cup Semi-finals, we had two of the four teams still in this competition but only one of them has managed to get through to the final. That teams is HIBERNIAN as they won 2-1 at home against St Johnstone. Hibs are now on 50 goals and they have now scored in all of their last twenty-three games. The Shock of the weekend must surely go to CELTIC  as they lost 3-1 away to Ross County. Celtic out of the cup are now on 71 goals.
In the Championship, RANGERS kept up their 100% goal record but only in injury time to beat FALKIRK 1-0 at home. Rangers are now on 79 goals while Falkirk picked up their 4th blank of the season. CLYDE from League Two lost 2-0 away to East Fife to pick up their 9th blank score sheet.

                                                      
OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND

RANGERS (79) CELTIC (71) MANCHESTER CITY (69) Total of 219 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

QUEEN OF SOUTH (26) BRISTOL CITY (27) CLYDE (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-two games played. They have now scored seven goals in their last four games.

Our Best team this weekend is still RANGERS after scoring in all of their twenty-six League/Cup games played keeping their 100% scoring record in-tacked. They are on a total of 79 goals after they picked up a total of 12 goals in their last four games.

The highest scoring team in our 33rd 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.

It seems that the top ten has settled down just a bit this weekend.

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

       1                 -                 R. WILLIAMS                57                   142                199                          2               -                   S. DICKINSON              54                   141                195              
       3                 6                B. SOPER                       52                   142                194              
       4                 3                D. GOODSON                62                   131                193              
       5                 -                 C. BOOM                       50                   142                192              
       6                 7                J. DAVIES                      62                   130                192              
       7                 8                J. WISE                           59                   132                191                            8                 4                L. KING (2001/02)         42                   147                189                            9                 11              C. BOLBERY                 59                   130                189                            10              9                J. HUNTER                     61                   128                189

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