Week Thirteen

It’s Week Thirteen and we have had our fifteenth winner of the season and it was won on a total of 12 goals which is our second highest score of season 34.  The £6 cash weekend jackpot went to JAMIE WOOD.

Jamie is in his second season with Golden Goals as he started with us last season where he finished in the winning frame in 12^th place on a total of 278 goals picking up £15 in cash. This season Jamie has only kept Rangers from last seasons combination who are his best team to date. Jamie has had a total of two blank score sheets and this weekend his his personal best. His highest position to date is fourth place in week four. Jamie's teams for this season are

BRIGHTON 5, MANCHESTER CITY 4, RANGERS 3 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

All but six of us managed to pick up some more goals for midweek but it did change the order for  the race to the cash. DAVID SMITHERS is still top again this week as he takes his midweek goals total to 60 goals. David has extended his lead to four goals. His teams are Chelsea, Newcastle and Rangers. Still in second place but now on 56 goals we have CHRIS SETFORD. In third place is still MANGO now on a total of 55 goals but he is now joined by TONY GUY (2) who moved up from four and GRANT PHILLIPS who comes flying in this week. In fourth place up from six last week we have DARYL NICHOLLS on a total of 54 goals. In fifth place now on 52 goals we still have PETER GASPARELLI but he is now joined with STEPTOE & SON. In sixth place this week we still have ANDY EYLES on a total of 51 goals while in seventh place all on 50 goals we have TONY KING down from three of last week and also we have JOHN DAVIES and IAN SMITH. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

This weekend the average score shot up from just three goals from last weekend to 6 goals this weekend and what a weekend we had for goals. Out of our fifty-four teams that we have in season 34, we had three teams that had no game over the weekend and another fourteen teams that failed to net any goals.

The highest score over the weekend was five goals and they came from the English Championship where BRIGHTON won 5-0 at home to NORWICH. Brighton have now taken their goals tally to 32 goals with their highest score of the season. They remain second in the league table. Norwich picked up their fourth blank of the season.

Brighton are our 73^rd voted English team in the competition and they first appeared in the 1994/95 Season finishing on a total of 62 goals. Their highest score came in the 2000/01 Season with 82 goals. Last season they finished with a total of 75 goals. Brighton are in their 13^th season with Golden Goals and over the years they have picked up a total of 839 goals which gives them an average score of 64 goals per season. They have a total of ten votes this season which is their best to date. 

PREMIERSHIP

We have the top six teams here with MANCHESTER CITY staying top on goal difference as they win 4-0 away to West Brom. After their disappointed result in the cup in midweek, City are now on a total of 26 goals. ARSENAL remained in second place after they won 4-1 away to Sunderland to take their goals tally to 29. LIVERPOOL are still in third place as they win 4-2 away to Crystal Palace. Liverpool are now on 34 goals and all of the top three teams are now on 23 points. CHELSEA are in fourth place after they won 2-0 away to SOUTHAMPTON. Chelsea are now on 29 goals and they have netted a total of ten goals in their last four games. Southampton picked up their third blank of the season. TOTTENHAM are still in fifth place as they drew 1-1 against LEICESTER CITY. Tottenham are now on a total of 20 goals while Leicester hit goal number 14. EVERTON are in sixth place after they won 2-0 at home against WEST HAM. Everton are on 19 goals while West Ham picked up their second blank of the season. BOURNEMOUTH have now picked up their fourth blank score sheet and now two in a row as they went down 2-0 away to Middlesbrough. MANCHESTER UNITED have fallen down to eighth place as they drew 0-0 at home to Burnley. That was United’s third blank of the season and now just one goal in their last four games. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

NEWCASTLE have remained top here again after they beat PRESTON again twice in a week with a 2-1 away win. Newcastle are now on a total of 42 goals with 13 coming from their last four games. Preston hit goal number 25. BRIGHTON are now in second place after their big win against NORWICH who have remained in fourth place. WOLVES picked up their 21^st goal of the season after a tow game dry spell as they drew 1-1 away to Blackburn after going a goal down. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY lost 2-0 away to DERBY and that was their third blank score sheet while Derby after a two game dry spell for goals are now on 11 goals. CARDIFF picked up their ninth blank as they lost 1-0 at home to Wigan. ASTON VILLA are on 16 goals as they drew 1-1 away to Birmingham while it’s 22 goals for LEEDS as they win 2-0 at home to Burton. 

LEAGUE ONE

We now have three of the six top teams here with SCUNTHORPE still on top after they win 4-1 at home to Swindon. Scunthorpe are now on a total of 39 goals. BRADFORD have moved down to third place after they won 3-2 away to AFC Wimbledon. Bradford are now on a total of 22 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED are in fourth place as they beat MK DONS 2-1 at home. United are on 27 goals and they have now scored on all of their last twelve games. MK Dons are now on 25 goals.BRISTOL ROVERS lost 2-1 at home to PETERBOROUGH to pick up their 27^th goal while Borough are now on 30 goals. It’s 21 goals for PORT VALE but they lost 3-1 away to Bolton. CHARLTON won 1-0 at home against Chesterfield and that was their 18^th goal of the season. GILLINGHAM who are now on 27 goals lost 2-1 away to Fleetwood. It’s 30 goals for MILLWALL as they win 2-1 away to Oxford. OLDHAM who are now third from bottom, lost 1-0 away to Rochdale and that is their eleventh blank of the season and now two in a row.  SOUTHEND drew 1-1 at home to Shrewsbury and that was goal number 19 while WALSALL are on 20 as they drew 1-1 at home to Coventry. 

LEAGUE TWO

We are now down to just four teams of the top seven here in this league this weekend with PLYMOUTH still top as they win 2-1 at home to COLCHESTER. Plymouth are now on a total of 26 goals and they have now scored in all of their last thirteen games while Colchester are on 19. DONCASTER are still in third place as they drew 2-2 at home against Wycombe. Doncaster are now on a tally of 31 goals after sixteen games played. They are now our only English team with a 100% scoring record. LUTON remained in fourth place after they drew 0-0 away to Notts County.  Luton have now had three blank score sheets. PORTSMOUTH are still in fifth place as they win 1-0 away to Cambridge.  Portsmouth are on 25 goals. ACCRINGTON STANLEY lost 2-1 at home to Newport to pick up their 20^th goal of the season. LEYTON ORIENT picked up their sixth blank of the season after they lost 2-0 at home to Crewe. YEOVIL drew 0-0 at home to Grimsby and that is their sixth blank of the season. 

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Scottish Premiership CELTIC remained top as they win again 1-0 away to ABERDEEN. Celtic are our only other team to have a 100% scoring record and they are now on a total of 39 goals. RANGERS have moved up to second place after they win 3-0 at home to KILMARNOCK.  Rangers are now on a total of 35 goals while Kilmarnock picked up their fifth blank of the season. St JOHNSTONE are now in fifth place as they lost 2-1 at home to Partick to pick up their 29^th goal.

In the Championship it’s now 19 goals for HIBERNIAN as they win 2-0 at home to St Mirren to remain top. FALKIRK lost 1-0 away to Dundee United to pick up their fourth blank of the season.

In the lower leagues, PETERHEAD won 2-0 at home to Stranraer and that puts them on a total of 22 goals while STENHOUSEMUIR picked up their biggest score of the season with a 3-0 away win over Queens Park to take their goals total to 16 but they remain bottom of the league.

Our Best Three Teams Are

NEWCASTLE (42) SCUNTHORPE (39) CELTIC (39) Total of 120 goals

Our Worst Three Teams Are

OLDHAM (11) DERBY (11) WEST HAM (13) Total of 35 goals 

Our Best team on form is CELTIC after they have scored in all of their thirteen League and Cup games played and netting a total of 39 goals which still gives them an average score of three goals per game.

Our worst teams is  OLDHAM  this weekend as they have picked up a total of eleven blank score sheets out of eighteen games played.

Our highest goal scorers in our 34^th Season are BOURNEMOUTH  after their 6-1 home win against Hull in the league in week eleven.  CELTIC with their 6-1 home League win against Kilmarnock from week eight. NEWCASTLE winning  6-0 away to Q. P. R in the league in week seven and 6-1 away to Preston in the EFL League Cup Fourth Round in week thirteen.  NORWICH by winning 6-1 at home to Coventry in the EFL League Cup Second Round in week four. 

GRANT PHILLIPS is now in his fifth weekend at the top as his combination of teams picked him up a total of 15 goals for the week. Twelve came from midweek and the other three from the weekend. They came from Celtic one, Newcastle two and Norwich who failed to score in their game. Even after picking up 15 goals Grant’s lead has been cut down to just two goals clear of Daniel Goodson who has remained  in second place as he picks up a total of 19 goals from his combination of Celtic, Liverpool and Newcastle. 

At the other end at 136 we still have KATHY SOMERVILLE and she has now been there for a total of five weeks. Kathy picked up just two goals this week with just one goal coming at the weekend from Tottenham. Her other teams are Oldham and Yeovil and they both failed to net any goals at the weekend.

     THIS      LAST                                                         M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

     WEEK     WEEK             NAME                               GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

        1            -                  G. PHILLIPS                              55                  62                  117              

          2                 -                 D. GOODSON                           49                  66                  115

          3                 5                D. NICHOLLS                           54                  59                  113

          4                 3                I. SMITH                                     50                  61                  111              

         5                 13              M. PEPPERRELL (2002/03)   43                  67                  110

         6                 7                S. STUBBS                                  48                  62                  110              

         7                 4                STEPTOE & SON                      52                  58                  110

         8                 -                 J. TIGHE                                      42                  66                  108              

        9                 16              M. DORAN                                 39                  68                  107               

        10              9                C. SETFORD                               56                  51                  107               

Brentford Winners

In the English Championship after a two game dry spell for goals, BRENTFORD scored a goal in both half’s to beat London rivals QUEENS PARK RANGERS 2-0 away. The win moves Brentford up to eighth place in the league with a total of 21 goals. Rangers picked up their fourth blank of the season and now two games in a row.

More EFL League Cup Fourth Round Games

We had another  five of our Golden Goals teams in cup action last night and three of them have made it through to the next round. No big results here last night but most did pick up some more goals for us.

In the local Manchester derby, MANCHESTER UNITED beat MANCHESTER CITY 1-0 at home which was a big shock to me as United have failed to score in their last two games. United take their goals total  to 17 goals while City picked up their second blank of the season and now only two goals in their last four games.

SOUTHAMPTON are through with their 14^th goal of the season as they won 1-0 at home against Sunderland. Another shock of the night was that WEST HAM beat London rivals CHELSEA 2-1 at home.  West ham are now on 13 goals while Chelsea take their goals tally to 27.

We also had some more of our Scottish teams in action in the Premiership and they all scored some goals. CELTIC picked up the highest score of the night as they beat Ross County 4-0 away. That takes Celtics goals total to 38. RANGERS drew 1-1 at home to St JOHNSTONE after going a goal down. Rangers are now on 32 goals while St Johnstone hit goal number 28. KILMARNOCK are now on 17 goals as they win 2-0 at home to Hearts.

EFL League Cup Fourth Round

Last night we had seven of our teams in the EFL League Cup action and out of them four have made it through to the next round.

The highest score of the night went to NEWCASTLE as they beat PRESTON 6-0 at home. Newcastle have now scored six goals twice this season already and they are now on a total of 40 goals. Newcastle have now scored 14 goals in their last four games. Also through in the toughest game of the night was LEEDS UNITED. They drew 2-2 at home to NORWICH after extra time and then won 3-2 on penalties. Leeds take their goals tally to 20 while Norwich are on 36. ARSENAL won 2-0 at home to Reading which now gives them a total of 25 goals and a place in the next round. LIVERPOOL are on 30 goals as they beat TOTTENHAM 2-1 at home. Tottenham hit goal number 19.

We had one result from the Scottish Premiership where ABERDEEN failed to catch up on Celtics lead as they lost 1-0 away to Hamilton. That was Aberdeen’s third blank of the season.

Week Twelve

It’s Week Twelve and we have had our fourteenth winner of the season and it was won on a total of 8 goals.  The £6 cash weekend jackpot went to STEPHEN STUBBS.

Stephen has been with Golden Goals for a while now and we would like to thank him for the support over the seasons. Last season he finished in the winning frame in 27th place on a grand total of 267 goals. He collected a total of £4 in cash. This season Stephen has picked up two blank score sheets at the weekend and we see him at his highest to date.

CELTIC 1, CHELSEA 3, NEWCASTLE 3 

 100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

Most of us managed to pick up some more goals for midweek but it once again it has had little effect on the race to the cash. DAVID SMITHERS is still top again this week as he takes his midweek goals total to 52 goals. David has extended his lead to three goals. His teams are Chelsea, Newcastle and Rangers. Still in second place but now on 49 goals we have CHRIS SETFORD. In third place is still MANGO now on a total of 47 goals but he is now joined by TONY KING who moved up from four. In fourth place we now have TONY GUY (2) on 46 goals. In fifth place now on 45 goals we still have PETER GASPARELLI. We now have two players in sixth place this week and they are ANDY EYLES and DARYL NICHOLLS who moves up from seventh place both on 44 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

This weekend the average score fell down one to just 3 goals. Out of our fifty-four teams that we have in season 34, we had a fourteen teams that failed to net any goals.

The highest score over the weekend was four goals and they came from the English Premiership where CHELSEA won 4-0 at home to MANCHESTER UNITED. Chelsea are now on a total of 26 goals after picking up nine in their last three games. It has not been a great week for Manchester United as they have picked up their second blank in a week.

Chelsea was our 24^th most voted team and they have been in all of our 34 seasons. In their first they picked up a total of 98 goals but we had to wait till 2009/10 before they picked up their first 100 goals with a total of 128. A few seasons later they scored their second 100 with 108 goals in 2012/13. Last season they picked up a total of just 76 goals. Out of the eleven games that Chelsea have played this season they have picked up just one blank score sheet. They are now in fourth place in the Premiership table.

PREMIERSHIP

After a 1-1 draw MANCHESTER CITY stay top on goal difference again with Arsenal. City drew 1-1 with SOUTHAMPTON after going a goal down once again to collect their 22^nd goal of the season. Southampton in eighth place are now on a total of 13 goals. ARSENAL remained in second place after they drew 0-0 at home to Middlesbrough that gives them their second blank of the season. LIVERPOOL have moved up to third place as they win 2-1 at home against West Brom. Liverpool are now on 28 goals. TOTTENHAM move down to fifth place as they drew 0-0 away to BOURNEMOUTH. Tottenham have now picked up their very first blank score sheet after a run of nine games. Bournemouth picked up their third blank of the season. EVERTON remained in sixth place after they lost 2-1 away to Burnley but they are now on a total of 17 goals. After a three game dry spell for goals LEICESTER CITY won 3-1 at home to Crystal Palace to take their goals tally up to 13 goals. It’s 14 goals for STOKE as they win 2-0 away to Hull. WEST HAM have won their third league game of the season out of nine games played with a 1-0 home win against Sunderland. West Ham are now on a total of 11 goals with just three goals in their last four games. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

NEWCASTLE have remained top again after their midweek win to follow up with another win 3-0 at home to Ipswich. Newcastle are now on a total of 34 goals. BRIGHTON are now in second place as they win 1-0 away to Wigan to pick up their 27^th goal of the season. NORWICH have moved down to fourth place after they lost 1-0 at home to PRESTON.

Norwich have now had three blank score sheets. Preston picked up goal number 24. In fifth place we have SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY after they won 1-0 at home to QUEENS PARK RANGERS. Wednesday are now on 17 goals while Rangers picked up their third blank of the season. ASTON VILLA are on 15 goals as they win 1-0 at home to Fulham. BRENTFORD picked up their fifth blank and now two in a row as they lost 1-0 at home to Barnsley. Brentford have netted just one goal in their last four games. DERBY picked up their ninth blank and also two in a row as they lost 1-0 away to Huddersfield. It’s 13 goals for CARDIFF as they win 2-1 away to Nottingham Forest while LEEDS picked up their 18^th goal of the season as they win 1-0 away to WOLVES who picked up their sixth blank and now two games in a row with out a goal.

LEAGUE ONE

We now have  four of  the six top teams here with SCUNTHORPE still on top after they won 3-0 away to Chesterfield The three goals now gives them a total of  35 goals. BRADFORD remained in second place after they drew 3-3 at home to SHEFFIELD UNITED. Bradford are now on a total of 19 goals while United take theirs to 25 and they have now scored in all of their last eleven games. United are in third place in the table. BRISTOL ROVERS now in fifth place after they won 2-0 away to OLDHAM. Rovers take their goals tally to 26 while Oldham picked up their tenth blank of the season. GILLINGHAM who are now on 26 goals drew 1-1 at home to CHARLTON who are now on 17 goals. It’s 28 goals for MILLWALL as they win 2-1 at home against Fleetwood. SOUTHEND won 3-0 away to MK DONS and that gives them a total of 18 goals while the Dons picked up their fourth blank of the season. PETERBOROUGH lost 1-0 at home to AFC Wimbledon and that is their fourth blank of the season. PORT VALE drew 2-2 at home to Oxford and that gives them a total of 20 goals while WALSALL won 2-0 away to Swindon and they are now on 19 goals.  

LEAGUE TWO

We still have five of the top seven teams here in this league this weekend with PLYMOUTH still top as they win 3-1 away to Newport. Plymouth are now on a total of 24 goals and they have now scored in all of their last twelve games. DONCASTER have fallen down to third place as they lost 4-2 away to Blackpool. Doncaster are now on a tally of 29 goals after fifteen games played. They are now our only English team with a 100% scoring record. LUTON remained in fourth place after they drew1-1 at home to Mansfield. Luton are now on a total of 27 goals. PORTSMOUTH are still in fifth place after they lost 2-1 at home to Notts County.  Portsmouth are on 24 goals. ACCRINGTON STANLEY are in seventh place after they drew 0-0 away to Crawley to pick up their fourth blank of the season. After a three game dry spell for goals,

COLCHESTER drew 2-2 at home to Morecombe. Colchester are now on a total of 18 goals. It’s 16 goals for YEOVIL as they win 1-0 away to Crewe. LEYTON ORIENT picked up their biggest win since week three as they win 3-1 away to Hartlepool. Orient are now on 18 goals.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

We had three of our Scottish teams in the Semi-finals of the BETFRED CUP. ABERDEEN are through as they win 2-0 away to Morton. Aberdeen are now on 22 goals. They will be playing CELTIC as they beat rivals RANGERS 1-0. Celtic are our only other team to have a 100% scoring record and they are now on a total of 34 goals. Rangers picked up their second blank of the season.

In the Premiership St JOHNSTONE are now in fourth place as they win 2-1 at home to Dundee to take their goals tally to 27. KILMARNOCK drew 1-1 away to Inverness to pick up their 15^th goal of the season. In the Championship it’s 20 goals for FALKIRK after they lost 4-2at home to Raith. HIBERNIAN are now on a total of 17 goals as they win 3-1 away to Dunfermline to remain top.

In the lower leagues, PETERHEAD won 1-0 away to Albion and that puts them on a total of 20 goals while STENHOUSEMUIR lost again but only 3-1 at home to Brechin to give them a total of 13 goals. 

Our Best Three Teams Are

SCUNTHORPE (35) CELTIC (34) NEWCASTLE (34) Total of 103 goals

Our Worst Three Teams Are

DERBY (9) OLDHAM (11) WEST HAM (11) Total of 31 goals  

Our Best team is CELTIC after they have scored in all of their eleven League and Cup games played and netting a total of 34 goals which still gives them an average score of three goals per game.

Our worst teams is  OLDHAM  this weekend as they have picked up a total of ten blank score sheets out of seventeen games played.

Our highest goal scorers in our 34^th Season are BOURNEMOUTH  after their 6-1 home win against Hull in the league in week eleven.  CELTIC with their 6-1 home League win against Kilmarnock from week eight. NEWCASTLE winning

6-0 away to Q. P. R in the league in week seven and  NORWICH by winning 6-1 at home to Coventry in the EFL League Cup Second Round in week four. 

GRANT PHILLIPS becomes the longest serving player at number one as he is now in his fourth weekend at the top as his combination of teams picked him up another total of eight goals. Four came from midweek and four at the weekend. They came from Celtic one, Newcastle three and Norwich who failed to score in their game. Grant lead is still six goals clear of Daniel Goodson now in second place. 

At the other end at 136 we have KATHY SOMERVILLE is back there and she now becomes the longest player to do so to date. Kathy picked up just three goals this week with just one goal coming at the weekend from Yeovil. Her other teams are Oldham and Tottenham and they both failed to net any goals at the weekend.

      THIS      LAST                                                                 M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

       WEEK     WEEK             NAME                                       GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

          1            -                  G. PHILLIPS                                    43                   59                   102              

             2                 3                D. GOODSON                                37                   59                   96

             3                 5                I. SMITH                                          40                   56                   96

            4                 6                STEPTOE & SON                           41                   54                   95

            5                 7                D. NICHOLLS                                 44                   51                   95

           6                 4                A. STUBBS (2012/13)                    33                   61                   94

           7                 12              S. STUBBS                                        37                   57                   94

           8                 22              J. TIGHE                                            32                   61                   93

           9                 -                 C. SETFORD                                    49                   44                   93

           10              -                 J. WISE                                               30                   62                   92

Wednesday up to Six

There were more goals for us last night and they all came from the English Championship where CARDIFF drew 1-1 at home against SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY. Cardiff have now moved up to third from bottom above Wigan and they are now on a total of 11 goals. Wednesday are now on 16 goals and they have moved up to sixth place. PRESTON won 3-1 at home to Huddersfield and that puts them on a total of 23 goals.

Newcastle Top of Championship

We had twenty-two of our teams in action last night and out of them only five failed to pick up any goals.

It’s good news for our NEWCASTLE fans as they go top of the English Championship as they beat Barnsley 2-0 away.  Newcastle take their goals tally to 31 and they are now one point clear of NORWICH who drew 2-2 away to Fulham. Norwich are now on 34 goals and they have now scored in all of their last nine games. BRIGHTON have moved up to third place after they won 1-0 at home against WOLVES. That was Brighton’s 26^th goal of the season while Wolves picked up their fifth blank score sheet. Meanwhile in the Championship, DERBY drew 0-0 at home to BRENTFORD to pick up their eighth blank score sheet to Brentford’s four. LEEDS picked up goal number 17 as they drew 1-1 at home to Wigan. QUEENS PARK RANGERS won 1-0 at home against Bristol City and that was their 21^st goal of the season. ASTON VILLA picked up their second league win as they beat Reading 2-1 away. Villa are now on a total of 14 goals.

In League One is where we saw all of the highest scores so far this week as MK DONS drew 3-3 at home to BRISTOL ROVERS. Both MK Dons and Rovers take their goals tally to 24. PETERBOROUGH won 3-0 at home to Northampton and they are now on 28 goals while goal getter’s SHEFFIELD UNITED won 3-0 away to Shrewsbury to give them a total of 22 goals with now seven goals in their last two games. Top of the table SCUNTHORPE lost their second league game out of fourteen played by losing 2-0 away to OLDHAM. That was Scunthorpe’s second blank of the season. Oldham have taken their goals tally to 11. GILLINGHAM are now on 25 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to WALSALL who are now on 17 goals. SOUTHEND drew 1-1 away to BRADFORD to take them up to 15 goals while Bradford hit goal number 16. PORT VALE are now on 18 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to CHARLTON who are now on a total of 16 goals. MILLWALL picked up their first blank score sheet of the season after a goal run of fourteen games played as they lost 2-0 at home to Bolton.

We are now down to just three teams with that 100% scoring run. They are CELTIC after ten games, TOTTENHAM after nine games and DONCASTER after fourteen games played this season. 

A Blank Night For The English Prem

In the English Premiership last night LIVERPOOL drew 0-0 at home to MANCHESTER UNITED which has disappointed most of us here at Golden Goals.

Both teams had done well up to this point as Liverpool picked up their second blank score sheet with a total of 26 goals while United after a goal run of eight games, they have picked up their very first blank of the season and have a total of 16 goals.

This time last season, Liverpool was on a total of just 9 goals and three blank score sheets. United had a total of 18 goals and two blank score sheets.

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Week Eleven

It’s Week Eleven and we had our third Rollover for £12 this season and it was won on a total of 9 goals.  The cash went to our third lady winner of our 34^th Season JUNE TIGHE who now becomes our 13^th player to win some cash. June is in her very first season with Golden Goals and we would like to welcome her to the competition. The nine goals has shot June up into the winning frame for the first time this season. June has had just one blank weekend score sheet to date and her best team is Celtic netting 33 of her total of 81. Her teams are

CELTIC 2, NEWCASTLE 3, SHEFFIELD UNITED 4 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

Just thirty-two of us managed to pick up some more goals for midweek but it has not had any effect on the race to the cash. But we must congratulate DAVID SMITHERS this week as he takes his midweek goals total to the half way mark with 50 goals. David still leads the way with the single goal from Rangers. His other teams are Chelsea and Newcastle. Still in second place but now on 47 goals we have CHRIS SETFORD. In third place is still MANGO now on a total of 45 goals. In fourth place both now on 44 goals we have TONY GUY (2) and TONY KING. In fifth place now on 43 goals we still have PETER GASPARELLI. We have three players in sixth place and they are ANDY EYLES,  JOHN FILTNES, and DOUG MORBEY. All are now on a total of 42 goals. DARYL NICHOLLS moves down to seventh place still on 41 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS 

This weekend the average score was just 4 goals even though we had quite a few teams that did very well for us over the weekend. Out of our fifty-four teams that we have in season 34, we had a four teams that  had no game over the weekend and another ten teams that failed to net any goals.

The highest score over the weekend was six goals and they came from the English Premiership where BOURNEMOUTH won 6-1 at home to Hull. With their highest result of the season, Bournemouth are now on a total of 16 goals.

Bournemouth are our 67^th voted English team in Golden Goals and they first appeared in our fifth season in 1987/88 where they finished on a score of 63 goals. In the 2002/03 Season they finished on their highest score of 79 goals and last time out in our 2013/14 Season they finished on a total of 72 goals. Bournemouth are in their 9^th Season with us and over the seasons they have now netted a total of 544 goals which gives them an average score of 60 goals per season. they have just one vote this season. 

PREMIERSHIP

After a 1-1 draw with EVERTON, MANCHESTER CITY stay top on goal difference with Arsenal. City went a goal down to come back to collect their 21^st goal of the season. Everton picked up their 16^th.  ARSENAL moved up to second place after they won 3-2 at home to Swansea and that gives them a total of 23 goals. TOTTENHAM move down to third place as they drew 1-1 away to West Brom. Liverpool remained in fourth place as they had no game while CHELSEA have moved up to fifth place as they win 3-0 at home to LEICESTER CITY. As Chelsea take their goals total to 22, Leicester picked up their third blank score sheet and now two in a row. WEST HAM win their second league game of the season out of eight games played with a 1-0 away win over fellow London rivals Crystal Palace. West Ham have now moved up to 15^th place. SOUTHAMPTON have picked up another three goals in their 3-1 home win against Burnley. Southampton are now on a total of 12 goals. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

NORWICH have moved up into the top position here as they win 3-1 at home to Rotherham.Norwich have now scored in all of their last eight games and they are now on 32 goals with eleven goals coming from their last four games. In second place is NEWCASTLE who won 3-1 at home to BRENTFORD. Newcastle are on 29 goals while Brentford picked up goal number 19. BRIGHTON are in fourth place and on 25 goals as they drew 2-2 at home to PRESTON. Preston are now on 20 goals. It’s 20 goals for QUEENS PARK RANGERS as they drew 1-1 at home to Reading. LEEDS picked up their fourth blank of the season as they lost 1-0 away to DERBY who picked up their 9^th goal. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY are now on 15 goals as they win 1-0 away to Huddersfield. ASTON VILLA drew 1-1 at home to WOLVES which gave Villa a total of 12 goals and Wolves 20. 

LEAGUE ONE

We still have  three of  the six top teams here with SCUNTHORPE still on top after they won 2-1 at home to MK DONS after going a goal down before half time. The two goals now gives them a total of  32 goals while the Dons are now on 21. BRADFORD remained in second place after they lost 1-0 away to Oxford to pick up their fourth blank of the season. SHEFFIELD UNITED have moved up to fifth place after they won 4-0 at home to PORT VALE. After their biggest win of the season, United are now on a total of 19 goals and they have now scored in all of their last nine games. Port Vale picked up their fourth blank score sheet and now just one goal in their last three games. OLDHAM have now picked up a total of nine blank score sheets after they lost 1-0 away to Bolton. BRISTOL ROVERS are now on 21 goals as they win 2-1 at home to GILLINGHAM who are now on 24 goals. CHARLTON have not had a big score line for a while but they won 3-0 at home to Coventry. Charlton are on a total of 15 goals. PETERBOROUGH lost 2-0 away to Fleetwood and that was their third blank of the season. MILLWALL have now scored in all of their fourteen games played this season after they won 3-1 away to Northampton and that now takes their goals tally to 26. SOUTHEND are now on 14 goals as they win 1-0 against Chesterfield at home. WALSALL won 3-2 at home to Shrewsbury and they are now on 16 goals. 

LEAGUE TWO

We now have five of the top seven teams here in this league this weekend with PLYMOUTH still top as they drew 2-2 at home to PORTSMOUTH who are now down to fifth place. Plymouth are now on a total of 21 goals and they have now scored in all of their last eleven games. Portsmouth are on 23. DONCASTER have remained in second place after they win 1-0 at home to COLCHESTER which keeps their 100% scoring record in tact. Doncaster are now on a tally of 27 goals after fourteen games played. Colchester picked up their fifth blank score sheet and now three games in a row without a goal. LUTON have moved back up to fourth place after they win 2-1 away to LEYTON ORIENT. Luton have taken their goals tally to 26 goals while Orient are on 15 goals after a three game dry spell for goals. ACCRINGTON STANLEY have moved into seventh place after they won 2-1 at home to Blackpool. Accrington are now on a total of 19 goals. YEOVIL are on a total of 15 goals as they win 1-0 at home to Newport. 

SCOTTISH RESULTS 

In the Premiership CELTIC are still top here after they won 2-0 at home to Motherwell. Celtic still with a 100% goal scoring record are now on a total of 33 goals. ABERDEEN are still in second place after they picked up another four goals in their 4-0 home win over Ross County. Aberdeen take their goals tally to 20. Rangers are now in fourth place after their  win on Friday night with St JOHNSTONE in fifth as they lost 1-0 at home to KILMARNOCK. Johnstone have now had a total of three blank score sheets while Kilmaronock picked up their 14^th goal of the season. In the Championship it’s 18 goals for FALKIRK as they win 2-1 at home to Dunfermline. HIBERNIAN picked up their second blank score sheet of the season as they drew 0-0 away to Raith and they are still top.

In the lower leagues, PETERHEAD won 3-1 away to Airdrie and that puts them on a total of 19 goals while STENHOUSEMUIR lost 5-0 at home to Stranraerto pick up blank number four for them. 

Our Best Three Teams Are

CELTIC (33) NORWICH (32) SCUNTHORPE (32) Total of 97 goals

Our Worst Three Teams Are

DERBY (9) OLDHAM (9) LEICSTER CITY (10) Total of 28 goals 

Our Best team is CELTIC after they have scored in all of their ten League and Cup games played and netting a total of 33 goals which still gives them an average score of three goals per game.

Our worst teams is  OLDHAM  this weekend as they have picked up a total of nine blank score sheets out of fifteen games played.

Our highest goal scorers in our 34^th Season are now BOURNEMOUTH  after their 6-1 home win against Hull in the league in week eleven.  CELTIC with their 6-1 home League win against Kilmarnock from week eight. NEWCASTLE winning

6-0 away to Q. P. R in the league in week seven and  NORWICH by winning 6-1 at home to Coventry in the EFL League Cup Second Round in week four.

GRANT PHILLIPS is now in his third weekend at the top as his combination of teams picked him up a total of eight goals all coming from the weekend. They came from Celtic two, Newcastle  and Norwich three goals each. Grant has now extended his lead to six goals. 

At the other end at 136 we still have EMMA SAWYER and that is now three weekends in a row. Emma picked up just three goals at the weekend and they came from Charlton. Hibernian, and Leicester City failed to score at the weekend. Emma is now three goals behind Sandra Nicholls at 135.

     THIS      LAST                                                          M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

   WEEK     WEEK             NAME                                GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

      1            -                  G. PHILLIPS                              39                   55                   94

        2                 6                N. HORTON                              25                   63                   88

        3                 2                D. GOODSON                           35                   53                   88

       4                 8                A. STUBBS (2012/13)              31                   56                   87

        5                 3                I. SMITH                                     35                   52                   87

       6                 4                STEPTOE & SON                     39                   48                   87

       7                 -                 D. NICHOLLS                           41                   46                   87

       8                 5                G. GREENHILL                        23                   63                   86

       9                 -                 C. SETFORD                             47                   39                   86

       10              -                 J. WISE                                        28                   57                   85