Week Four

Here we are in Week Four of the competition and this weekend we had our first Rollover of  £12.  We had one lucky winner to grab this and he becomes our fifth winner of the season winning on a total of 11 goals which is the highest that we have scored at the weekend this season. The cash goes to ROBERT NETTING. Rob has been with Golden Goals since the 2004/05 Season. Last season he finished in 64^th place on 250 goals with a shared weekend win to his name. This season Rob has not been jumping up and down the table as most of you have but he started the season in 54^th place and has now worked his way up to 45. With his highest score of the season, his best team is Celtic netting him 15 of his total of 35 goals. 

CELTIC 4, HIBERNIAN 4, MANCHESTER CITY 3

 
100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
Most of us once again managed to pick up some more midweek goals this week. We had three players that picked up the most number of goals with nine each for the second week running. They were TONY KING, DOUG MORBEY and ALICE STUBBS. Tony picked up his from Norwich 6, Q.P.R 2 and Rangers 1 while Doug had Chelsea with 3, Liverpool 5 and Rangers 1. Alice our 2012/13 Champion received them from Chelsea 3, Norwich 6 with Celtic being her third team. JOHN FILTNESS remains in the lead this week as he picked up five goals from Brighton 4,and Rangers 1 with his third team Colchester. John now has a total of 33 goals. In Second place is still JAMIE WOOD now with 30 goals. In Third place we now have TONY KING with 29 goals and down from three to four on 28 goals we have CHRIS SETFORD. In joint fifth place all on 27 goals we have KEITH THOMSON  and RICKY WOOD who move straight in with DAVID SMITHERS also at five. In sixth place we have DOUG MORBEY moving in and KELLIE STRATTON who has fallen down from fourth place. Both are on a total of 26 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS 
Following on from the midweek games, we had yet another great weekend for goals. We had four teams without a game over the weekend with another nine teams that failed to score any goals. So our weekend average score for the second weekend running remained at 6 goals this weekend. So if your teams picked up more than that, then you have done very well once again.
The Highest score over the weekend was four goals and we had three teams that picked that amount up. From the Scottish Premiership we had CELTIC and HIBERNIAN where Celtic won 4-1 at home to ABERDEEN to give them a total of 15 goals while Aberdeen hit goal number five. Hibernian picked up their biggest score to date with a 4-0 home win against Morton in the Championship. Hibs are now on 11 goals. Our third team to hit four was DONCASTER from League Two where they also picked up their highest score with a 4-1 home win over YEOVIL. Doncaster are now on 10 goals while Yeovil are on 6 goals. All three teams have a 100% scoring record.

PREMIERSHIP
The Premiership have now played three games each and the table has changed once again this weekend. MANCHESTER CITY are still top here on goal difference as they beat WEST HAM 3-1 at home. City take their goals tally up to 9 goals while West Ham picked up goal number three. CHELSEA move up to second place as they win 3-0 at home to Burnley. Chelsea are on a total of 10 goals. MANCHESTER UNITED drop down to third place after they win 1-0 away to Hull. EVERTON are in fourth place as they win 1-0 at home to STOKE. Everton have kept their 100% scoring record after four games and they have a total of 8 goals. Stoke picked up their first blank score sheet of the season. LEICESTER CITY picked up their first win of the season as they beat Swansea 2-1 at home. Leicester are on three goals. TOTTENHAM drew 1-1 with LIVERPOOL to give them their 3^rd goal of the season while Liverppol picked up their 10^th. ARSENAL won 3-1 away to Watford and that now gives them a total of six goals while BOURNEMOUTH drew 1-1 away to Crystal Palace to give them their 4^th. It’s now two goals in three games for SOUTHAMPTON as they drew 1-1 at home to Sunderland. They are now our lowest scoring team this week.

CHAMPIONSHIP
NEWCASTLE are our highest team here in the league in fourth place after they won 2-0 at home to BRIGHTON. Newcastle are now on 10 goals while Brighton picked up their second blank of the season. QUEENS PARK RANGERS are back up to fifth place as they win 1-0 away to Wigan. Rangers are now on 12 goals. NORWICH picked up their second blank score sheet as they lost 3-0 away to Birmingham. BRENTFORD drew 1-1 at home to SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY and that was their 5^th goal of the season while Wednesday picked up their 4^th. ASTON VILLA lost 3-1 away to Bristol City to get their 6^th goal while CARDIFF lost 1-0 at home to Reading to collect their fourth blank of the season. WOLVES picked up their second blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 away to Huddersfield. PRESTON picked up their third as they lost 1-0 away to Ipswich. LEEDS are now on 8 goals as they lost 3-1 away to Nottingham Forest.

LEAGUE ONE
We have six out of the seven top teams here with BRADFORD in second place as they drew 1-1 at home to OLDHAM. Bradford are now on 7 goals while oldham picked up goal number four. SCUNTHORPE drop down to third place as they lost 3-1 away to PORT VALE who are now in fourth place. Scunthorpe are on 16 goals and they have still have a 100% scoring record after seven games. Port Vale with their biggest win of the season are now on 7 goals. MILLWALL are in fifth place as they continue to score them goals as they win 3-1 away to Chesterfield. Millwall have now scored in all of their seven games played and have a total of 16 goals. PETERBOROUGH come next as they win 2-0 away to MK DONS. Borough are now on 15 goals while the Dons picked up their very first blank of the season.CHARLTON are on 7 goals as they drew 1-1 at home against Bolton while SHEFFIELD UNITED picked up their highest score of the season as they win 2-1 at home to Oxford. United are now on 5 goals. It’s 14 goals for GILLINGHAM as they win 3-2 away to Shrewsbury and WALSALL are on seven as they drew 3-3 at home to Bury. SOUTHEND picked up their second blank score sheet after they lost 2-0 at home to Fleetwood.

LEAGUE TWO
LUTON are back up to second place as they win 3-0 away to Cambridge and that now gives them a total of 13 goals. Doncaster are third after their biggest win to date at the weekend. COLCHESTER are in fourth place as they win 2-0 away to Wycombe. Colchester are on 8 goals this weekend.  ACCRINGTON STANLEY are on 8 goals but lost 3-2 at home against Morecombe who went top. It’s five for PLYMOUTH as they win 1-0 away to Blackpool while PORTSMOUTH won 1-0 away to Exeter to pick up their 6^th goal. LEYTON ORIENT are on 9 goals as they lost 2-1 at home to Mansfield.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES 
In the Scottish Premiership, Celtic are on top after their big win and that pushed down Rangers after their drew in midweek. St JOHNSTONE lost 2-1 away to Inverness to claim their 19^th goal of the season. In the Lower Leagues Hibernian are now top in league one after their biggest win of the season against Morton. FALKIRK won 1-0 at home to Dumbarton and are now on 8 goals.
In league two STENHOUSEMUIR who are second from bottom after they drew 2-2 at home to Airdrie but they are on 7 goals while PETERHEAD who are rock bottom in the league, lost 1-0 away to Stranraer. Peterhead picked up their fourth blank of the season and they have now scored just two goals in their last five games.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE 

RANGERS (21) St JOHNSTONE (19) SCUNTHORPE (16) Total of 56 goals 

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE 

SOUTHAMPTON (2) DERBY (3) LEICESTER CITY (3) Total of 8 goals

Our Best team is RANGERS once again after scoring in all of their nine League and Cup games played and netting a total of 21 goals which gives them an average score of two goals per game. 

Our worst teams are CARDIFF, DERBY, OLDHAM  and PETERHEAD this weekend. All four teams have picked up a total of four blank score sheets each. 

Our highest goal scorers in our 34^th Season are now NORWICH who won 6-1 at home to Coventry in the EFL League Cup Second Round in week four.

Well here are the top ten for this weekend

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

     1            4                  C. SETFORD                       28                   19                   47

            2                 -              B. BURROUGHS                22                   24                   46
            3                 -              K. STRATTON                   26                   20                   46
            4                 5             JA. WOOD                          30                   16                   46
            5                 9             T. KING                               29                   16                   45
            6                 -              J. FILTNESS                       33                   12                   45
            7                 8             M. HOWARD                     22                    22                   44                
            8                 1             ZIGGY                                 23                    21                   44
            9                 11           STEPTOE & SON               25                    19                   44
           10              21            D. SOMERVILLE (2009/10) 22                  20                   42

Derby's Fourth

On Friday night DERBY picked up their fourth blank score sheet of the season as they lost 1-0 away to Burton Albion in the English Championship. Derby have played seven games and have only scored in three of them.

In the Scottish Premiership RANGERS drew 1-1 away to KILMARNOCK and missed the chance to pull away from their rivals Celtic in the table. Rangers are now on a total of 21 goals and they keep their 100% goal run in tact after nine games played. Kilmarnock picked up their 9^th goal of the season.

More 2nd Round League Cup Games

We had our last two teams in cup action last night and the good news is that both teams are through to round three.

ACCRINGTON STANLEY had to win in extra time against Burnley to end the game winners with a single goal. That goal was number six for the season. Accrington are in their second season with Golden Goals and they started back in the 2006/07 Season and finished on a total of 71 goals. They have two votes this season.

BOURNEMOUTH won their game 2-1 away to Morecombe and that takes their goals tally to three.

League Cup Second Round

In the Second Round of the EFL Cup last night we had a total of twenty-one of our Golden Goals teams in action and out of them, thirteen have made it through to the next round.

But what a night it was for most of our teams as they picked up their highest score of the season.  

The highest score that we had last night and for the season came from NORWICH as they won 6-1 at home to Coventry. Norwich has doubled their goals tally over night to 12 goals. After their disappointing result at the weekend against Burnley, LIVERPOOL took out their frustration on Burton Albion by picked up their highest score as they win 5-0 away. Liverpool have now netted a total of 9 goals in three games played.  CHELSEA also picked up their highest score and are now on 7 goals as they win 3-2 at home to BRISOL ROVERS who are now on 8 goals. DERBY drew their game 1-1 at home to Carlisle after extra time but then won 14-13 on penalties. Derby’s goal was their third of the season. EVERTON won 4-0 at home to YEOVIL and that was their biggest score to date which takes their goals tally to seven. Yeovil have now had three blank score sheets in a row. LUTON picked up their first blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 at home to LEEDS UTD. Leeds picked up their 7^th goal of the season. MILLWALL kept their 100% goals record in tack as they lost 2-1 at home to Nottingham Forest. NEWCASTLE are on 8 goals as they win 2-0 at home to Cheltenham. BRIGHTON won 4-2 away to Oxford to take their goals tally to 16 while PETERBOROUGH are out of the competition as they lost 3-1 at home to Swansea. Borough are now on 13 goals. PRESTON won 2-0 at home to OLDHAM and they are now on 6 goals while Oldham picked up their 4^th blank score sheet. QUEENS PARK RANGERS are on 11 goals as they won 2-1b at home to Rochdale. SCUNTHORPE are also out as they lost 2-1 at home against Bristol City after extra time to pick up goal number 15. STOKE picked up their highest result with a 4-0 away win over Stevenage. Stoke are on 6 goals while GILLINGHAM take their up to 11 goals as they win 2-1 away to Watford after extra time. WOLVES are also on 11 goals as they win 2-1 at home to Cambridge. MK DONS are out as they drew 2-2 away to Reading after extra time and then lost 4-2 on penalties. The Dons are on 10 goals.

Week Three

Here we are with Week Three of the competition and this weekend we had a total of seven players that picked up the highest score of the season with 10 goals each. But under the competition rules we are only paying out for six players to share the cash this season which means that we will have our first Rollover next weekend for a fantastic sum of £12. 
All of our high scorers had Celtic and Manchester City as part of their combinations but here is the list with their third teams. BRADLEY CLARK – Chelsea, SIMON DICKINSON – Portsmouth, PETER MURPHY – Charlton, ROBERT NETTING – Hibernian, MARK UNSTEAD – Plymouth, JULIA WOOD – Preston and TERRY WARWICK with Brighton.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 
Most of us managed to pick up some more midweek goals this week for our 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot of £80. We had two players that picked up the most number of goals with nine each.They were PETER PORTER and SCOTT THOMSON (1). Peter and Scott both collected their goals from Newcastle 4 and Peterborough 5 but Peter has Manchester City as his third team while Scott has Hibernian. But we do have a clear leader this week with JOHN FILTNESS picking up six goals from Brighton and Colchester three each with his third team Rangers. John moves out in front with 28 goals. Down to Second place is JAMIE WOOD on 25 goals. In Third place we have CHRIS SETFORD moving up from number four with 24 goals. In Fourth place all on 23 we have STEPTOE & SON who remains in the same position but he is now joined with LAURIE KING and KELLIE STRATTON. In joint fifth place all on 21 we have JACQUI WILLIAMS  down from two and ZIGGY down from four we also now have PETER GASPARELLI, MANGO and DAVID SMITHERS.

WEEKEND RESULTS 
Following on from the midweek games, we had a good weekend for goals. We had just two teams with no game over the weekend with another fourteen teams that failed to score any goals. So our weekend average score moved up from four of last weekend to 6 goals this weekend. So if your teams picked up more than that, then you have done very well. The Highest score over the weekend came from the English League One where SCUNTHORPE beat GILLINGHAM 5-0 at home to pick up their highest score of the season. Scunthorpe are in their 8^th Season with Golden Goals and they started with us back in the 2002/03 Season where they became our 98^th voted English team and finished on their highest score to date of 76 goals. Scunthorpe have been in the last seven consecutive seasons where they finished on 66 goals last season. Over the years they have now netted a total of 459 goals which gives them an average end of season score of 57 goals per season. They have just one vote again this season. Gillingham after five games played picked up their first blank of the season.

PREMIERSHIP
The Premiership have now played two games each and the table has changed quite a lot this weekend. MANCHESTER CITY go top here on goal difference as they picked up their highest amount of goals as they win 4-1 away to STOKE. City take their goals tally up to 6 goals while Stoke picked up goal number two. In Second place is Manchester United after their win in midweek against Southampton. LIVERPOOL picked up their first blank score sheet after they lost 2-0 away to Burnley. ARSENAL and LEICESTER CITY also picked up their first blank score sheet after their game ended 0-0. CHELSEA are on 4 goals as they win 2-1 away to Watford while EVERTON won 2-1 away to West Brom and they are now on 3 goals. TOTTENHAM picked up gaol number two as they win 1-0 at home to Crystal Palace. WEST HAM win their first game at home against BOURNEMOUTH 1-0. West Ham are also on 2 goals while Bournemouth picked up their very first blank score sheet of the season.

CHAMPIONSHIP
QUEENS PARK RANGERS have dropped down to sixth place after they lost 2-0 at home to PRESTON. Rangers picked up their first blank score sheet while Preston take their goals tally to 4 goals. So our highest team here is BRIGHTON in second place after they drew 2-2 away to Reading. Brighton are now on 12 goals and still doing well. In third place is WOLVES. They won 3-1 away to Birmingham to pick up their highest score of the season and now give them a total of 9 goals. NORWICH are fourth after they drew 1-1 away to rivals Ipswich. Norwich are now on 6 goals. NEWCASTLE are also on 6 goals as they win 1-0 away to Bristol City while ASTON VILLA drew 0-0 away to DERBY to get their second blank score sheet while Deby now has three. CARDIFF picked up more goals in their 2-2 draw against Fulham away. Cardiff are now on 4 goals. BRENTFORD picked up their second blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 away to Rotherham. LEEDS win their first league game of the season as they win 2-0 away to SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY. Leeds take their goals total to 6 while Wednesday pick up their second blank in their last three games.

LEAGUE ONE
After their biggest win at the weekend, Scunthorpe are now second in the league. BRADFORD are third as they pick up their biggest win with a 3-1 home win over Coventry to take their goals tally to 6. After a two game dry spell for goals, OLDHAM picked up their third goal of the season as they win 1-0 away to Bury. MILLWALL still have a 100% scoring record after five games as they win 2-1 at home to SHEFFIELD UNITED. United picked up their third goal in five games. After picking up five goals in midweek, PETERBOROUGH lost 2-1 away to Oxford but they are now on a total of 12 goals. MK DONS are on 8 goals as they win 1-0 away to Rochdale. SOUTHEND and BRISTOL ROVERS are both on 6 goals this weekend after they drew 1-1. PORT VALE lost 1-0 away to Swindon to pick up their second blank of the season while CHARLTON won 2-1 away to WALSALL to take their total goals to six. Walsall after a three blank score sheets are now on 4 goals.

LEAGUE TWO
LUTON was top but now third as they lost 2-1 away to Stevenage. That was Luton’s 10^th goal of the season and still with a 100% scoring record. It’s six for DONCASTER as they win 1-0 away to Cheltenham. LEYTON ORIENT are on 8 goals as they win 2-1 away to Grimsby. PLYMOUTH pick up another two goals in their 2-0 home win against Mansfield. Plymouth take their total to 4 goals. After a two game dry spell for goals, PORTSMOUTH are now on 5 goals as they win 2-0 at home to COLCHESTER. Colchester picked up their second blank score sheet of the season. YEOVIL lost 1-0 at home to Morecombe to pick up their second blank and now two games in a row.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES 
In the Scottish Premiership, RANGERS win 2-1 at home to Motherwell to remain top here and they have extended their goals run to eight games with a total of 20 goals. CELTIC have now netted a total of 11 goals in three games after they won 4-2 away to St JOHNSTONE. St Johnstone are still our second best team with 18 goals. KILMARNOCK picked up their third blank of the season after they lost 2-0 away to Ross County. ABERDEEN are on 4 goals as they win 2-1 at home to Partick.
In the Lower Leagues HIBERNIAN are in second place in league one as they win 2-0 away to St Mirren and they are now on 7 goals. FALKIRK picked up their third blank of the season after going down 2-0 away to Queen of South. In league two STENHOUSEMUIR are on 5 goals but lost 4-1 away to Livingston while PETERHEAD drew 2-2 at home to Alloa and that gives them a total of 10 goals after a two game dry spell.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE 

RANGERS (20) St JOHNSTONE (18) SCUNTHORPE (14) Total of 52 goals 

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

BOURNEMOUTH (1) LEICESTER CITY (1) SOUTHAMPTON (1) Total of 3 goal

Our Best team is RANGERS scoring in all of their eight League and Cup games played with 20 goals.

Our worst teams are CARDIFF, DERBY, FALKIRK, KILMARNOCK, OLDHAM, PETERHEAD, PLYMOUTH,  and WALSALL this weekend. All eight teams have picked up a total of three blank score sheets each. We can add another two teams to our highest goal scorers in our 34^th Season who are PETERBOROUGH who won 5-1 at home to Millwall in the league and SCUNTHORPE winning 5-0 at home against Gillingham in the league both from week three. Also CELTIC won 5-0 in the Scottish League Cup Second Round against Motherwell at home in week two, while RANGERS also get their highest score from the League Cup Second Round home tie against Peterhead 5-0.

ZIGGY (John Wood) becomes our second player to hit the top slot this season. Ziggy picked up a total of 10 goals this week with just two from midweek and the other eight at the weekend from his combination of Rangers, Scunthorpe and Stenhousemuir. With just a goal in front this week and with loads of games being played this week, this could all change again by the next sheet.
At the other end at 136 we still have SANDRA NICHOLLS, now in her second week by picking up just four goals for the week from Everton, Leicester City and Man Utd.

So Here is our top Ten for this weekend

  THIS      LAST                                                           M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

          WEEK     WEEK             NAME                                  GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

     1            4                   ZIGGY                                      21                   18                   39

               2                 3                B. BURROUGHS                     20                    18                   38
             3                 14              K. STRATTON                        23                    15                   38
               4                 7                C. SETFORD                            24                   14                   38
               5                 12              JA. WOOD                               25                    13                   38
               6                 8                J. FILTNESS                            28                    10                   38
             7                 11              R. WOOD (2007/08)*             25                    12                   37
               8                 5                M. HOWARD                          19                   16                    35
               9                 2                T. KING                                   20                   15                    35
             10              -                 L. KING (2001/02)                   23                   12                   35