Monday 2 May 2016

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 17th week over the season and now three weeks in a row. Richard is still climbing up the Champions table and is now in 27th 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 10th week at 119. They remain in the 29th 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 13th 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 71st goal of the season, Norwich picked up their 15th 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 13th blank of the season and Bolton picked up their 46th 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 15th 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 23rd 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 16th blank of the season. CHESTERFIELD are on 64 goals as they win 3-0 at home to Bury while SHEFFIELD UNITED picked up their 69th 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 18th 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 14th 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 13th 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 17th 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 33rd 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                           

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