No Joy In The Play-off Finals

We have the last two results for our 33^rd year here at Golden Goals and they were the finals for the play-offs for the English League’s One & two.

In League One we had just one of our teams in the play-offs and they were MILLWALL. They had beaten Bradford in the semi-finals and faced Barnsley in the final. But the Lions roar was more of a Lions growl as Barnsley went two up within the first twenty minutes. MIllwall did come back just after the first half hour to go in at half time 2-1 down. Things did not get any better in the second half as Barnsley scored a third goal.

Although Millwall finally lost 3-1, am sure that we will hear more of Millwall next season. Millwall finished on a total of 83 goals and they had scored in all of their last nine games.

In League twos final PLYMOUTH who finished in fifth place in the league, and had scored in all of their last eleven games they faced AFC Wimbledon in the final but lost 2-0 to them. Both of Wimbledon’s goals came very late in the game in the 78^th minute and in injury time after 90 minutes with a penalty. Plymouth picked up their 8^th blank of the season.

Well that’s the end of the 2015/16 season but we still have the final New Sheet of do which should be out to you all that are in the competition by the weekend. But for those of you who take a look now and then on this blog, please still do so as I will be publishing how our Golden Goals teams did over the season.

Hull Back In Premiership

After a tough second leg game against Derby in the Championship Semi-final, HULL made it to the finals to play against Sheffield Wednesday for a place in the Premiership. The good news to our five Golden Goals voters is that they are back in the Premiership after they beat Sheffield Wednesday just 1-0. The goal came in the last ten minutes of play and they finished on a fantastic total of 83 goals. Hull had a good season in the Championship after they were relegated from the Premiership last season. They finished in fourth place in the league.

Scottish Premiership Play-off Final 2nd Leg

FALKIRK’S fantastic run in the Scottish play-offs has come to an end as they lost their second and final leg in their promotion race for the premiership. After winning the first leg 1-0 against Kilmarnock, they really got in to trouble at Rugby Park and lost 4-0 away. Kilmarnock won 4-1 on aggregate and remained in the premiership for next season. Falkirk who finished second after Rangers in the Championship, picked up their fifth blank score sheet of the season.

United Win FA Cup

MANCHESTER UNITED have won the FA CUP for the twelfth time as they beat Crystal Palace 2-1 after extra time. The last time that Manchester United won the cup was back in 2004.

Crystal Palace did not show much fight in the first half of normal time and let United do all the work. But they held United’s attacks and it was 0-0 at half time. Second half and I was hoping for Palace to jump into action but with just the odd attack at United’s goal but palace did scored the first goal of the match by Puncheon after 78 minutes but United quickly respond to their goal and scored a few minutes later with a goal by Mata. United did hit the woodwork twice in the second half but at the end of 90 minutes the scored ended 1-1.

So extra time was needed and the play picked up pace. But United’s Smalling was sent off after 105 minutes for a second foul. So with ten men, United played even better and United’s winner came 12 minutes left of the second half of extra time with a goal by Lingard. It would of been nice to see Palace win the cup for the first time but they are not up to standard just yet.

United have not had a great season and they finished fifth in the premiership and with a total of 66 goals.

Hibernian Win the Scottish Cup after 114 years.

HIBERNIAN have won the Scottish Cup final after they beat RANGERS 3-2 at Hampden Park. Hibs went into the lead after just three minutes of play with a goal from Stokes before Rangers equalised within the half hour of the first half. It was 1-1 at half time but Rangers came back with a goal after 64 minutes before Hibs scored two goals in the last ten minutes of play.
Hibernian may of missed out to play in the Premiership next season but they do now have a shining new cup in the trophy room. Hibernian finished on a total of 88 goals while Rangers although promoted back into the Premiership, end their season on a total of 113 goals.

Millwall Roar into Final

MILLWALL have roared into the finals of the League One play-offs as they drew 1-1 with Bradford in the second leg game. Millwall win the tie 4-2 on aggregate and will play Barnsley on 29^th May. Millwall take their goals total to 82. They have just two votes this season and have scored in all of their last eight games.

Advantage Falkirk in Play-off Final

FALKIRK have beaten Kilmarnock 1-0 in their first round Premiership play-off final and are now half way to be playing in the Scottish Premiership next season, Falkirk take their goals tally to 78. They have done very well in the play-off rounds as they have now score six goals in three of the games so far in fact they have now scored in all of their last twelve games with seven goals in their last four games. They will play their second leg game on Sunday 22^nd May.

United Win Their Last League Game

MANCHESTER UNITED have finally played their last league game of the season against Bournemouth and won 3-1 at home. The result moves them up to fifth place in the Premiership on 66 points the same as Manchester City above them, but City have the better goal difference.

United are now on a total of 64 goals and they still have the FA Cup Final to play in this weekend against Crystal Palace.

In the Championship 2^nd leg play-off game between HULL and DERBY we nearly saw Derby turn the play-off around. They were 3-0 down against Hull from the first leg but won the second leg 2-0. But Hull won this tie 3-2 on aggregate and will play Sheffield Wednesday in the final on 28^th May at home. Derby finish the season on 72 goals while Hull picked up their 14^th blank score sheet of the season.

No Glory For Brighton

BRIGHTON will remain in the English Championship next season as they drew their second play-off game against Sheffield Wednesday 1-1. That means that Sheffield Wednesday win 3-1 on aggregate. The single goal means that Brighton have finished on a grand total of 75 goals. They had just one vote this season.

Brighton finished in third place in the league on goal difference with second place Middlesbrough.

Week Forty-One

RICHARD WILLIAMS lead has been cut right down to just one goal this weekend as he picks up just five goals for the week. This is now his 19^th week over the season and five weeks in a row. Richard’s combination has Hibernian, Manchester City  and Rangers. He has climbed up the Champions table this week and is now in 24^th place as he has now beaten my score of 290 goals back in the 2008/09 Season and Ricky Wood/Gerry Kyei joint winners of our 2007/08 Season with 293 goals.

SIMON DICKINSON has jumped into second place this weekend and is one goal behind Richard as his combination picked him up a total of 11 goals for the week. His teams are Celtic, Manchester  City and Portsmouth. Simon has already had a weekend at the top in week twenty-eight.

At the other end, STEPTOE & SON is still at the 119 spot after their combination picked up three goals from midweek. Their combination is once again Queens Park, Queens Park Rangers and Queen of the South. Although this is their third weekend at the bottom of the table they are now in their 12^th week at 119. They remain in the 29^th place in the losers league again this weekend. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Most of us managed to pick up some last minute midweek goals this week but the highest score to be picked up this week was once again five goals and they went to STEVEN AYRES, BRADLEY CLARK and AMANDA MORRISON.

The race for the £40 Midweek Jackpot is over for this season for DANIEL GOODSON who is just four goals away from the cash with a total of 96 goals. His team were Manchester City, Middlesbrough and Rangers

In second place this week we have RICHARD WILLIAMS who moves up from third place with a total of 91 goals with his goals coming from the two Hibernian games with four goals. CHRIS SETFORD still on 89 goals moves down to third place while down to fourth place we have CRAIG EVANS with 88 goals. In Fifth place on 87 goals we have DAVID STAINS who moved down from third place. In sixth place both on 86 we have JOHN DAVIES and BENJAMIN WAYMARK both moved down from fourth place last week. 

There was no cash prize money again this weekend but if there was it would of gone to DARREN DAVIDSON who picked up the highest score of the weekend with a fantastic total of 14 goals. That is his person best of the season and it shot Darren's name up to 21^st place. This is the highest that Darren has been this season and he has had a total of four blank score sheets. The goals came from ARSENAL 4, CELTIC 7 and HULL 3.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We are now well into injury time here at Golden Goals as the referee takes another look at his watch. What a weekend we have had with most of you picking up goals in double figures. But for most of you the season is now over and now you will have to wait to see where you have ended up in the final table which will be with you after the Cup finals and play-off finals. We do have a hand full of teams still in action so keep looking at our Golden Goals blog to find out who.

PREMIERSHIP

So we had the very last league games of the season and we already know that Leicester City are this season’s league champions but we still have Manchester United yet to play after the weekend drama at Old Trafford. ARSENAL have finished in second place as they win 4-0 at home to Aston Villa. Arsenal have finished on a total of 77 goals. TOTTENHAM finished in third place because they lost 5-1 away to NEWCASTLE.  Tottenham finished with 78 goals while Newcastle end the season on a high but they will be playing in the Championship next season. They finished on a total of 48 goals. Now at the moment MANCHESTER CITY are still in fourth place as they drew 1-1 away to Swansea. City finished on a total of 97 goals. WEST HAM have finished in seventh place after they lost 2-1 away to Stoke. West ham finished on 76 goals. LIVERPOOL drew 1-1 away to West Brom to pick up their 79^th goal while CHELSEA also drew 1-1 at home to Leicester City. Chelsea finished on a total of 76 goals. EVERTON at last picked up a large score with three goals against NORWICH at home with a 3-0 win. Everton finished the season on 82 goals while Norwich picked up their last blank of the season and that was their 17^th. WATFORD finished on 46 goals as they drew 2-2 at home against Sunderland.

CHAMPIONSHIP Play-Off

We already know that Brighton lost their first game against Sheffield Wednesday 2-0 but we also had another two teams involved in the play-offs. They are DERBY and HULL and in their game Hull won the first leg 3-0 away. That takes Hull goals tally up to 82 while Derby picked up their 12^th blank and now two in a row.

LEAGUE ONE Play-Off

MILLWALL are our only team in the play-off’s and they won their first leg game 3-1 against Bradford away. Millwall are now on a total of 81 goals. They could be playing Barnsley in the final as they won 3-0 against Walsall.

LEAGUE TWO Play-Off

We ended the season with just two teams in the play-off zone with PLYMOUTH and PORTSMOUTH which they had to play each other. They drew their first leg game 2-2 but Plymouth won the second leg game 1-0 at home. Plymouth won 3-2 on aggregate and they also are now on 76 goals while Portsmouth picked up their 11^th blank of the season after a goals run of eleven games.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Scottish Premiership, CELTIC picked up their second biggest win of the season with an incredible result, 7-0 at home to Motherwell. Celtic finished on a score of 108 goals. ABERDEEN picked up their second blank in a row as they lost 4-0 at home to Ross County. Aberdeen have picked up seven blanks through the season and finished in second place.

HEARTS finished on a total of 72 goals as they drew their last game 2-2 at home to St Johnstone.

In the League One Play-off’s QUEEN OF THE SOUTH lost their 2^nd leg game against CLYDE who won 1-0 away but they won 3-2 on aggregate. Queens of South picked up their 14^th blank of the season while Clyde finished on a total of 60 goals.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND

RANGERS (111) CELTIC (108) MANCHESTER CITY (97) Total of 316 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

BLACKPOOL (40) NORWICH (45) BOLTON (46) Total of 131 goals

BLACKPOOL have picked up the most number of blank score sheets this season with a total of twenty-three out of forty-eight games played.

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

We are not finished yet and it might all change again on our final sheet coming soon.

      THIS     LAST                                         M/WEEK        W/END        TOTAL       

    WEEK    WEEK             NAME               GOALS          GOALS        GOALS     

         1                 -                 R. WILLIAMS       91                   203                294                

         2               3                  S. DICKINSON      72                   221                293                  

         3                 6                C. BOLBERY         70                   218                288            

         4                 -                 B. SOPER               74                   213                287                 

         5                 2                J. DAVIES               86                   201                287                  

         6                 5                L. KING (2001/02)  68                   216                284                  

         7                 11              M. ADKINS             62                   220                282                  

         8                 9                C. NUNN                 59                   222                281                  

         9                 12              The COLONEL        67                   214                281                 

          10              7                D. GOODSON         96                    183                279             

Falkirk In Play-Off Final

FALKIRK won their second leg game against HIBERNIAN 3-2 winning 5-4 on aggregate. Falkirk will now play Kilmarnock in the final. Falkirk are now on a total of 77 goals while Hibs finished this season on 85 goals.

In the Championship play-off 1^st leg semi-final BRIGHTON had to play Sheffield Wednesday but lost their first game 2-0 away. That was Brighton’s 13^th blank score sheet of the season.

League Two Play-off

In the League two play-off semi-final first leg PORTSMOUTH drew 2-2 at home to PLYMOUTH which still gives both teams another chance to get promoted. Portsmouth are now on a total of 88 goals and have scored in all of their last eleven games while Plymouth are now on 75 goals and have a goals run of ten games.

Meanwhile in the Scottish Premiership HEARTS beat ABERDEEN 1-0 away and remain in third place still behind Aberdeen. That was hearts 70^th goal of the season while Aberdeen picked up their 6^th blank of the season.

Too Late for Norwich!

This week is nearly over already so let’s get right up to date with the results that affect our Golden Goals teams. On Tuesday night WEST HAM played their very last game at the famous Upton Park before their move to the new Olympic Stadium next season. They were home to MANCHESTER UNITED and won the game 3-2. The goals gave West Ham a total of 75 goals while Manchester takes their goals tally to 61.

Also in the English Premiership this week, LIVERPOOL drew 1-1 at home to CHELSEA to pick up goal number 78 for them and 75 for Chelsea. EVERTON picked up their 11^th blank score sheet of the season as they lost 3-0 away to Struggling Sunderland who will now not be relegated to the Championship. After a four game dry spell for goals NORWICH won 4-2 at home to WATFORD which is now too late for them to stop the drop. Norwich are now on a total of 45 goals while Watford are on 44.

With the Scottish teams we have had some more play-off games in where for the Premiership; HIBERNIAN drew 2-2 at home against FALKIRK in their first leg semi-final game. Hibs are now on a total of 83 goals while Falkirk take their goals tally to 74. In the League One first Leg final, CLYDE lost 3-1 at home to QUEENS PARK to give them a total of 59 goals but Queens take their s to 55.

Meanwhile CELTIC picked up their 101^st goal of the season but lost 2-1 away to St Johnstone in the league.

Week Forty

We are now in injury time here with this season's competition and RICHARD WILLIAMS is still five goals clear this weekend as he picks up just four goals all from the weekend.

This is now his 18^th week over the season and four weeks in a row. Richard’s combination is Hibernian, Manchester City  and Rangers. He is still climbing up the Champions table and is now in 26^th place as he has now beaten Martyn Gents score of 289 goals in our 1984/85 Season.  

JOHN DAVIES is still in second place with his Liverpool, Manchester  City and Rangers combination which also picked him up a total of four goals again all coming from the weekend.

At the other end, STEPTOE & SON is still at the 119 spot after their combination picked up two goals in midweek and just one at the weekend. Their combination is Queens Park, Queens Park Rangers and Queen of the South. Although this is their second weekend at the bottom of the table they are now in their 11^th week at 119. They remain in the 29^th place in the losers league again this weekend. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Over half of you managed to pick up some midweek goals this week but the highest score to be picked up this week was again five goals and they all went to GEOFF DOCKERILL taking his midweek total to 44 goals. The goals came from Chelsea two and Clyde three his third team is Celtic.

The race to the £40 Midweek Jackpot now looks over for this season as there are no more midweek games left to play and that means that it will roll over to next seasons total. DANIEL GOODSON is just four goals away from the cash and still seven goals in front with a total of 96 goals. His team were Manchester City, Middlesbrough and Rangers. In second place we still have CHRIS SETFORD still on 89 goals. While in third place we still have CRAIG EVANS and RICHARD WILLIAMS with DAVID STAINS who moved up from fourth place. They all have a total of 87 goals. In fourth place all on 85 we have JOHN DAVIES, JAMES HUNTER and TONY KING all moving up from fifth place while BENJAMIN WAYMARK moved up from sixth.

There was no cash prize money to win this weekend as we paid out the last £5 last weekend, but if there was it would of gone to NATALIE RAMSDEN who picked up the highest score of the weekend with a great total of 11 goals. That is her person best of the season and it shot her name up to 68^th place. Natalie has had a total of just two blank score sheets and her highest position is thirty-five in weeks twenty and twenty-one. The goals came from BRENTFORD 5, LUTON 4 and MANCHESTER CITY 2. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

What a great weekend for our last set of games and some of our teams went mad with their last game of their season. We had a total of fourteen teams that failed to score and another five that had no game. The highest score came from four of our teams picking up five goals each. Read on to find out who they were.

PREMIERSHIP

As we now already know that Leicester City are this season’s league champions with TOTTENHAM still in second place. After their draw in midweek with Chelsea they then lost 2-1 at home to Southampton. The three goals this week takes their goals total to 77. ARSENAL are still in third place as they drew 2-2 away to MANCHESTER CITY. Arsenal are now on 73 goals while City in fourth place are now on 96 and near that 100 mark. MANCHESTER UNITED are still in fifth place as they win 1-0 away to which now must be a relegated NORWICH. The single goal gives United a total of 59 goals while Norwich picked up their 16^th blank of the season and now four in a row. WEST HAM move down to seventh place after they lost 4-1 at home to Swansea. West Ham take their goals tally to 72.   LIVERPOOL won 2-0 at home to WATFORD and they are now on 77 goals and they have now scored in all of their last fourteen games. Watford picked up their 15^th blank of the season. CHELSEA are on 74 goals but lost 3-2 away to Sunderland. EVERTON lost 3-1 away to the Champions Leicester City but that was Everton’s 79^th goal. NEWCASTLE picked up their 16^th blank of the season as they drew 0-0 away to relegated Aston Villa. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

It’s all over here except for the play-offs with BURNLEY becoming Champions in the end as they win their last game 3-0 away to CHARLTON who are relegated. Burnley have finished on a total of 75 goals while Charlton picked up their 22^nd blank of the season. MIDDLESBROUGH finished in second place as they could only draw 1-1 at home to BRIGHTON who finished in third spot. Middlesbrough finished on a total of 72 goals while Brighton take their’s up to 74. We ended up with three of the four teams in the play-off zone and they are Brighton and HULL. Hull remained in fourth place as they win 5-1 at home to Rotherham. Hull take their goals tally to 79. DERBY finished in fifth place as they lost 1-0 at home to IPSWICH. That was Derby’s 11^th blank of the season while Ipswich finished on a total of 62 goals. BRENTFORD picked up their highest score of the season in their last game with a 5-1 away win over Huddersfield. Brentford finished on 72 goals. CARDIFF are on 58 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Birmingham. PRESTON drew their last game 1-1 at home to LEEDS UTD. Preston finished on 51 goals while Leeds end on 55. QUEENS PARK RANGERS end on 58 goals as they win 1-0 at home to BRISTOL CITY.  City end the season with sixteen blank score sheets this season. WOLVES finish on a total of 57 goals as they win 2-1 at home to Sheffield Wednesday. Relegated BOLTON lost their last game 1-0 away to Fulham and that was their 20^th blank score sheet while Relegated MK DONS also lost 2-1 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST. The Dons finished on 49 goals while Forest end on 47.

LEAGUE ONE

Champions WIGAN lost 4-1 at home to Barnsley but end on a total of 83 goals and they had scored in all of their last twelve games.  BURTON ALBION are also promoted in second place as they drew 0-0 away to Doncaster. That was Albions 14^th blank of the season. MILLWALL are our only team in the play-off’s as they win 3-0 at home to Gillingham. That takes their goals tally to 78. It ended on 66 goals for SCUNTHORPE as they win 2-0 away to SHEFFIELD UNITED. United picked up their 14^th blank score sheet. CHESTERFIELD end with eighteen blank score sheets as they lost their last game of the season 2-0 away to Bradford. SOUTHEND lost 2-3 away to Bury and end with 59 goals. PETERBOROUGH won 5-1 at home to relegated BLACKPOOL and they finished on 95 goals. Blackpool end with a grand total of 40 goals.  PORT VALE lost 5-0 at home to Walsall and end with seventeen blank score sheets and no goals in their last two games. SWINDON won their last game of the season 3-0 at home against Shrewsbury. Swindon end on a total of 66 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

We end the season with just two teams in the play-off zone with PLYMOUTH reaching the highest spot in fifth place. They picked up their highest score of the season with a 5-0 home win against Hartlepool. Plymouth are on 73 goals. PORTSMOUTH finished in sixth place and lost their game 2-1 at home to Champions Northampton. Portsmouth are now on 86 goals and they have scored in all of their last ten games. STEVENAGE finished with eighteen blank score sheets as they drew 0-0 away to Accrington. LUTON won their last game 4-1 at home to EXETER. They end on 69 goals while Exeter end with 75. WYCOMBE lost 3-0 away to Oxford and that was their 15th blank and just one goal in their last four games. LEYTON ORIENT end with 67 goals as they win 1-0 away to Yeovil.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Scottish Premiership, CELTIC won 3-2 at home to ABERDEEN to become Champions once again. Celtic become our second team to pick up 100 goals. Aberdeen in second place are on 62 goals. In third place HEARTS drew 1-1 at home to Ross County and are on 69 goals.

 In the Premiership Play-off’s  HIBERNIAN won their second leg 2-0 at home to Raith to win 2-1 on aggregate and are now on 81 goals. In the League One Play-off’s QUEEN OF THE SOUTH lost their 2^nd leg game 1-0 away to Cowdenbeath but won 2-1 on aggregate. Queen of South picked up their 13^th blank of the season. CLYDE won 2-0 away to Elgin in their 2^nd leg game and won 5-1 on aggregate and are now on 52 goals. 

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND

RANGERS (111) CELTIC (100) MANCHESTER CITY (96) Total of 307 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

BLACKPOOL (40) NORWICH (41) WATFORD (42) Total of 123 goals

BLACKPOOL have picked up the most number of blank score sheets this season with a total of twenty-three out of forty-eight games played.

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

Well here are the top ten out of our thirty winners of this season and the games are now slowing down. Will Richard Williams be our 33rd Champion?

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

        1                 -                 R. WILLIAMS             87                   202                289                

        2               -                   J. DAVIES                    85                   199                284                             3                 4                S. DICKINSON           69                    213                282            

        4                 3                B. SOPER                    74                    208                282                 

        5                 7                L. KING (2001/02)      68                    212                280                 

        6                 8                C. BOLBERY              69                    210                279                  

        7                 5                D. GOODSON             96                    182                278                  

        8                 6                J. WISE                        83                    194                277                  

        9                 13              C. NUNN                     57                    213                270                 

        10               9                JA. WOOD                  75                    195                270   

Scottish Play-Offs First Leg Games

The Scottish leagues have already started their first round play-offs and for the Premiership we have just one team and they are HIBERNIAN with three votes this season. They lost their first leg game against Raith Rovers 1-0 away. That was their 8^th blanks core sheet of the season.

For League One, we have two out of the four. They are CLYDE who beat Elgin in their first leg 3-1 at home. Clyde are now on 56 goals and they have just one vote. In the other match QUEENS PARK won 2-0 at home to Cowdenbeath and that puts their goals tally up to 52 goals and they have two votes.

Leicester City are Finally Champions

First we must congratulate Leicester City on winning the Premiership league title for the very first time in their history. No-one in the Golden Goals competition had them in their selection this season but it is going to be interesting on how many may next season.

The reason why they have at last won the title is that the only team that could take their dream from them was TOTTENHAM and they needed to beat CHELSEA their London rivals last night. But after going two up Chelsea came back and drew the game 2-2 after a very tough game where tempers flared on both sides. Still Tottenham take their goals tally to 76 while Chelsea are on 72.

In the Championship, BURNLEY are back on top as they win just 1-0 at home against QUEENS PARK RANGERS. Burnley take their goals tally to 72 while Rangers picked up their 14^th blank of the season and now they have scored just one goal in their last four games. It’s 73 goals for BRIGHTON as they drew 1-1 at home to DERBY who are now on 70 goals. 

Week Thirty-Nine

RICHARD WILLIAMS is now five goals clear this weekend as he picks up a total of 10 goals for the week. This is now his 17^th week over the season and now three weeks in a row. Richard is still climbing up the Champions table and is now in 27^th place as he has now beaten three past champions score. They are Mike Harrington & Dave Salmon’s score of 276 goals back in the 1997/98 Season and Alec Shorts total of 280 goals in the 1988/89 Season and now Adam Porter’s score of 284 goals in the 2006/07 Season. Richard’s combination is Hibernian, Manchester City  and Rangers. JOHN DAVIES is still in second place and he has Liverpool, Manchester  City and Rangers in his combination which only picked him up a total of five goals all coming from the weekend.

At the other end, STEPTOE & SON has fallen back down to 119 spot after their combination failed to pick them up any goals this week. Their combination is Queens Park, Queens Park Rangers and Queen of the South. Although they have been at 119 for a straight nine weeks from week’s twenty-six to thirty-three this season they are now in their 10^th week at 119. They remain in the 29^th place in the losers league this week. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

 Only twenty-eight of you managed to pick up any midweek goals this week but the highest score to be picked up this week was just five goals and they all went to STUART KEMP once again this week. Stuart now has a total of 65 midweek goals. They came from Hibernian four and Tottenham one his third team is Preston.

The race to the £40 Midweek Jackpot has once again had a bit of a change around. DANIEL GOODSON is now just four goals away from the cash and still seven goals in front with a new total of 96 goals. Middlesbrough picked him two but Rangers let him down with a blank score sheet. His third team is Manchester City. In second place this week we still have CHRIS SETFORD still on 89 goals. While in third place this week we still have CRAIG EVANS but we also now have RICHARD WILLIAMS who moved up from fifth place. Both have a total of 87 goals. Still in fourth place is DAVID STAINS on 86. In fifth place we still have TONY KING but we also have JOHN DAVIES and JAMES HUNTER both from last week’s third place all three are on 85 goals. In joint sixth place both now on 84 goals we still have NATHAN TREADWELL and BENJAMIN WAYMARK.

This weekend we had our very last payout of the season for the weekend prize money of £5 and we once again had two winners to share the cash on a total of 9 goals each. One of the winners picked up their second win of the season and that went to CHRIS BOLBERY.  The other winner picked up their first win of the season and that went to MIKE PEPPERRELL which now takes our final winners total up to fifty-two.

Chis won his first lot of cash in week twenty-five. and since then Chris has kept space with the top ten. His best team is still Celtic.

Mike became our 2002/03 Champion on a score of 338 goals. With two weekend wins to his name that season, Mike won over £47 in cash. Last season Mike finished in 35th place on 268 golas. This season he has had a total of two blank score sheets and his highest position is 13^th of the very first weekend of football. Celtic is also his best team.

Chris  CELTIC 3, MANCHESTER CITY 2, WIGAN 4

Mike  BRISTOL CITY 4, CELTIC 3, SWINDON 2 

WEEKEND RESULTS

With the very last full league fixture of the season the weekend average score remained the same as last weekend of 5 goals. This weekend we only had twelve teams that failed to score any goals and another seven that had no game at all over the weekend.

The highest score at the weekend goes to ABERDEEN, BRISTOL CITY, PETERBOROUGH, and WIGAN once again  All of the above teams picked up a total of four goals each.

PREMIERSHIP

Well it all went pear-shaped here over the weekend, with Leicester City still top with Tottenham still in second place. ARSENAL have moved up to third place as they win 1-0 at home to NORWICH. As Arsenal picked up their 71^st goal of the season, Norwich picked up their 15^th blank of the season and now it’s three games without a goal. They are currently second from bottom. In fourth place is MANCHESTER CITY but they lost 4-2 away to Southampton. The only good news here for the City fans is that they are now on a total of 94 goals.

MANCHESTER UNITED are still in fifth place as they drew 1-1 at home to Leicester City. The single goal gives United a total of 58 goals. WEST HAM remained in sixth place as they win 3-0 away to West Brom. West Ham take their goals tally to 71.  Mean while LIVERPOOL lost 3-1 away to Swansea and they are now on 75 goals. EVERTON won 2-1 at home to Bournemouth and they are on 78 goals while NEWCASTLE picked up goal number 43 as they win 1-0 at home to Crystal Palace to take them out of the relegation zone for a while? WATFORD won 3-2 at home to Aston Villa and that gives them a total of 42 goals.

CHAMPIONSHIP

It is all happening here once again as Middlesbrough have moved back in the top spot after their draw on Friday night as Burnley had no game over the week they drop down to second. We still have three of the four teams in the play-off zone and they are Brighton are still in third place as they had no game over the week. HULL are still in fourth place as they lost 1-0 away to relegated BOLTON. Hull picked up their 13^th blank of the season and Bolton picked up their 46^th goal of the season. Derby are still in fifth place and they also had no game this week.

BRISTOL CITY picked up the highest score here as they won 4-0 at home to Huddersfield and that now gives them a total of 57 goals. It’s 67 for BRENTFORD as they win 3-0 at home to Fulham. IPSWICH beat relegated MK DONS 3-2 at home to give them a total of 61 goals to the Dons 48. CHARLTON are now relegated but they beat LEEDS UTD 2-1 away. Charlton are now on 50 goals while Leeds picked up goal number 54. NOTTINGHAM FOREST are on 45 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to WOLVES who are now on 55 goals. PRESTON won 2-1 away to Reading. CARDIFF picked up their 15^th blank of the season as they lost 3-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday.

LEAGUE ONE

WIGAN are top and promoted to the Championship as they picked up one of the highest score with a 4-0 away to BLACKPOOL. Wigan are on 82 goals and they have scored in all of their last eleven games. Blackpool could be relegated as they picked up their 23^rd blank of the season and now they have failed to score in their last four games. BURTON ALBION remain in second place as they win 2-1 at home to Gillingham. Burton are now on a total of 59 goals. MILLWALL are once again still our only team in the play-off’s as they win 3-0 at home to Oldham. That takes their goals total to 76. It’s 64 for SCUNTHORPE as they win 1-0 at home to PORT VALE. Port Vale picked up their 16^th blank of the season. CHESTERFIELD are on 64 goals as they win 3-0 at home to Bury while SHEFFIELD UNITED picked up their 69^th goal as they lost 3-1 away to Coventry. SWINDON drew 2-2 away to Rochdale and they are now on a total of 63 goals. PETERBOROUGH won 4-3 away to Shrewsbury to give them a goals tally of 90 goals after a two game dry spell. SOUTHEND picked up their 18^th blank as they lost 1-0 at home to Bradford. Southend have now scored just three goals in their last six games.

LEAGUE TWO

We still have just two teams in the play-off zone with PORTSMOUTH being the highest here in fifth place as they win 2-0 away to Hartlepool. Portsmouth are now on 85 goals and they have scored in all of their last nine games. PLYMOUTH are now down to sixth place as they drew 2-2 away to Cambridge Utd. Plymouth are now on 68 goals and they have scored in all of their last eight games. WYCOMBE lost 1-0 at home to Accrington to pick up their 14^th blank of the season. EXETER are now on 74 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Morecombe. LEYTON ORIENT won 1-0 against Mansfield at home and are now on 66 goals while LUTON picked up their 13^th blank of the season as they lost 2-0 away to promoted Northampton. STEVENAGE drew 0-0 at home to AFC Wimbledon and that was their 17^th blank of the season.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND

RANGERS (111) CELTIC (97) MANCHESTER CITY (94) Total of 302 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

BLACKPOOL (39) NORWICH (41) WATFORD (42) Total of 122 goals

BLACKPOOL have picked up the most number of blank score sheets this season with a total of twenty-three out of forty-seven games played.

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

Just one more week to go and then it will be the play-offs and the domestic cup finals

  THIS     LAST                                                M/WEEK        W/END        TOTAL       

WEEK    WEEK             NAME                       GOALS         GOALS        GOALS    

    1                 -                 R. WILLIAMS              87                   198                285               

    2               -                   J. DAVIES                     85                   195                280                  

    3                 -                 B. SOPER                     74                    204                278            

    4                 6                S. DICKINSON            69                    207                276                 

    5                 -                 D. GOODSON              96                   179                275                  

    6                 4                J. WISE                         82                   192                274                  

    7                 -                 L. KING (2001/02)       68                   205                273                  

    8                 -                 C. BOLBERY              69                   204                273                  

    9                 -                 JA. WOOD                    75                   192                267                 

    10               12              M. ADKINS                   61                   201               262