Week Two

Here we are with Week Two of the competition and this weekend we had a total of three winners to share the £6 weekend cash prize money.  All three won on a score of 8 goals each and one of them is our first lady winner to win this season and it is also her very first season with Golden Goals. That lady is LUCY POULTON and a very big welcome to the competition. Lucy did not pick up any goals in our first week so these are all she has to date. Our other two winners are well know to the rest of us and they are STALKY 2 (Bob Burgin) and KEITH THOMSON. Bob has also picked up his first lot of goals this weekend with his second combination and he has had two combination with us for some while now. Last season his combinations came in at 101 (1) with 226 goals and 98 (2) with 229. Keith is doing very well with his teams this week after picking up eight goals in midweek as well. Keith finished in 82^nd place on 241 goals last season. All three winners then pick up £2 each and here are their teams 
 

L. Poulton – ARSENAL 3, MAN CITY 2, MAN UTD 3

Stalky (2) – LIVERPOOL 4, MAN UTD 3, NEWCASTLE 1

K. Thomson - LIVERPOOL 4, MK DONS 2, RANGERS 2

 
100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 
At last we can have our first look at who is in the lead for our 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot worth £80 this season. The prize money will go to the first person to reach 100 goals from their three teams. ROB FREEMAN picked up the most number of midweek goals this week with 14 goals. They came from Briughton’s two games total of 7 goals, Celtic 5 and Portsmouth 2. So we have two joint leaders this week with JOHN FILTNESS and JAMIE WOOD both are on 22 goals. In Second place we have JACQUI WILLIAMS with 21 while in third place on 20 is RICKY WOOD. Then we have all on 19 goals BARRY BURROUGHS, CHRIS SETFORD, STEPTOE & SON and ZIGGY.
 
WEEKEND RESULTS  
So we had our very first full weekend fixture but it was not as good as our first weekend score’s. We had just four teams with no game over the weekend with another fourteen teams that failed to score any goals. So our weekend average score was just 4 goals. So if your teams picked up more than that, then you have done well. The Highest score over the weekend came from the English Premiership where LIVERPOOL beat ARSENAL 4-3 in their first game of the new season. Liverpool are just one of four of our teams that have a 100% record in that they have been with us in every season. (The other teams are Celtic, Chelsea and Manchester United) They were our highest voted team back in our first season of 1984/84 and they finished on a total of 103 goals. Two seasons later in 1985/86 they picked up their highest score of 127 goals. Last season they finished on 79. Over the 34 years they have now netted a total of 2742 goals which gives them an average score of 80 goals per season. they have 11 votes this season compared to just four last season.
 
PREMIERSHIP
So the Premiership played their first league game and it was not a great start from our teams. CHELSEA and WEST HAM had no game this weekend so MANCHESTER UNITED are top of the Prem which we have not seen for a few seasons now as they beat BOURNEMOUTH 3-1 away. LIVERPOOL are second after their win against ARSENAL. MANCHESTER CITY won 2-1 at home to Sunderland and EVERTON drew 1-1 at home to TOTTENHAM. Last Years Champions LEICESTER CITY lost their first league game 2-1 away to Hull. STOKE drew 1-1 away to Middlesbrough while SOUTHAMPTON drew 1-1 at home to Watford.
 
CHAMPIONSHIP
After two games now  QUEENS PARK RANGERS are top as they win 2-0 away to CARDIFF to take their goals tally to 7 goals while Cardiff have still yet to score this season after three games and three blank score sheets. ASTON VILLA picked up their first win of the season and their highest score with a 3-0 home win against Rotherham. WOLVES keep up their 100% scoring record as they win 2-0 at home to Reading. Wolves are on 6 goals. BRENTFORD take their’s up to 3 as they win 2-0 at home to Ipswich. LEEDS lost 2-1 at home against Birmingham and that was their 3^rd goal of the season. NEWCASTLE picked up their first goal of the season as they lost 2-1 at home to Huddersfield. NORWICH and SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY both picked up their first blank score sheet as they drew 0-0. PRESTON lost 2-1 away to Fulham and that’s goal number two for them. 
 
LEAGUE ONE
GILLINGHAM are now top this weekend as they win 2-1 at home to Bury. Gillingham have now scored 8 goals in three games. MILLWALL are now third as they drew 2-2 away to MK DONS. Both teams have a 100% scoring record with Millwall netting 9 goals to Dons 6. BRISTOL ROVERS are on 4 goals as they win 2-1 at home against Oxford while CHARLTON picked up their very first goal as they drew 1-1 at home to Northampton. SCUNTHORPE drew 2-2 away to Fleetwood and are now on 7 goals while OLDHAM and WALSALL both picked up their second blanks of the season as they drew 0-0.  After doing so well in the opening games for PETERBOROUGH, they picked up their first blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 at home to BRADFORD who picked up their first goal. PORT VALE are on 3 goals as they win 2-0 at home to SOUTHEND. That was also Southends first blank of the season. SHEFFIELD UNITED drew 1-1 at home to Rochdale and that was their second goal in three games. 
 
LEAGUE TWO
LUTON are top here as they drew 1-1 at home to YEOVIL to pick up their 7^th goal of the season. Yeovil are on 5. COLCHESTER are in third place as they win 2-0 at home to Cambridge Utd and that gives them 3 goals to date. ACCRINGTON STANLEY picked up their second blank as they lost 2-0 away to Barnet. Three blanks in three games for PLYMOUTH as they lost 1-0 away to Carlisle. PORTSMOUTH picked up their first blank score sheet as they drew 0-0 away to Crewe. DONCASTER hit goal number four in their 1-1 draw with Crawley Town. LEYTON ORIENT picked up their first blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 at home to Newport.
 
SCOTTISH LEAGUES
In the Scottish Premiership, there was no game for CELTIC this weekend so RANGERS moved to top spot after they won 2-1 away to Dundee to pick up their first win in the Premiership. Rangers have a 100% scoring record after seven games and they are now on 18 goals and our best team. St JOHNSTONE are second as they win 2-1 away to Motherwell. St Johnstone are on 16 goals. KILMARNOCK are on 8 goals as they win 2-1 away to Hamilton while ABERDEEN picked up their second blank score sheet in three games as they drew 0-0 at home to Hearts. In the lower leagues, HIBERNIAN are second in the Championship as they win 2-1 at home to Dunfermline. Hibs are on 5 goals. FALKIRK drew 1-1 away to Morton to pick up goal number seven. In League One, PETERHEAD picked up their third blank and now three in a row as they lost 3-0 at home to East Fife while STENHOUSEMUIR picked up their fourth goal of the season as they lost 2-1 at home to Queens Park.
 
So lets have a look at our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals. They are 
 

RANGERS (18) St JOHNSTONE (16) MILLWALL (9) Total of 43 goals 

 
OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE 
 

CARDIFF (0) PLYMOUTH (0) BRADFORD (1) Total of 1 goal

 
Our Best team is RANGERS scoring in all of their seven League and Cup games with 18 goals. 
 
Our worst teams are  CARDIFF and PLMOUTH this weekend. Both teams after three games each which is a cup and two league games, Both teams have failed to score in any of them. 
 
Our highest goal scorers in our 34^th Season are CELTIC and RANGERS. 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.
 
Jacqui Williams is still at the top this weekend after picking up eleven goals this week. Six came from midweek and the other five at the weekend from Falkirk, Hibernian and Rangers. With just a goal in front this week, will Jacqui remain there next weekend. At the other end at 136 we have two ladies that have just five goals each. They are Sandra Nicholls with Everton, Leicester City and Man Utd and Silvia Fernandes with Chelsea, Man City and Man Utd.

 THIS      LAST                                                            M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

WEEK     WEEK             NAME                                   GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

    1              -                  J. WILLIAMS                           21                     9                   30

            2                 -                 T. KING                                    17                   12                   29
            3                 5                 B. BURROUGHS                     19                   10                   29
            4                 3                 ZIGGY                                      19                   10                   29
              5                 6                 M. HOWARD                           18                   10                   28
            6                 19               K. THOMSON                         18                   10                   28
            7                 8                 C. SETFORD                            19                     9                   28                
              8                 16               J. FILTNESS                             22                     6                    28
            9                 11               S. REEVE (2008/09)                17                    10                   27
              10               7                 L. KING (2001/02)                   18                      9                    27