Southend Seven In Four Games

From the English League One, SOUTHEND beat SHEFFIELD UNITED 3-1 at home which moved them up into 8^th place in the league. Southend are now on a total of 54 goals with seven of them coming from their last four games while Sheffield United picked up their 61^st of the season.

Easter Monday Results

We all hope that you had a lovely Easter Holiday from Golden Goals.

From the Easter Monday games the highest score came from the English League One where SCUNTHORPE picked up their highest score of the season with a 6-0 home thrashing to SWINDON. Scunthorpe are now on a total of 55 goals while Swindon picked up their 11^th blank of the season and now just one goal in their last three games.

Staying in League One, BLACKPOOL are now on 37 goals as they win 1-0 away to Doncaster while MILLWALL won 2-0 at home to BURTON ALBION to take their goals tally to 65 while Burton picked up their 11^th blank score sheet and now two in a row. CHESTERFIELD lost 1-0 away to Oldham and that was their 15^th blank of the season and they have also now not scored in their last two games. PORT VALE also picked up their 15^th blank of the season as they lost 1-0 at home to Barnsley. It’s 66 for WIGAN as they win 1-0 at home to Rochdale.

In League Two LUTON are on 58 goals but they lost 2-1 away to Barnet. EXETER are now on 66 goals as they win 2-0 away to Crawley. Exeter have now scored in all of their last nine games. LEYTON ORIENT picked up their second blank score sheet in a row as they lost 2-0 at home to Hartlepool. WYCOMBE drew 0-0 away to Nott's County and that was their 12^th blank of the season while PLYMOUTH won 3-2 at home against York and that gives them a new total of 57 goals.

Week Thirty-Four

RICHARD WILLIAMS has remained top once again this weekend and this is his Sixth weekend in a row and 13th  over the season. Richard’s combination picked him up a total of four goals over the weekend. All of the four goals came from Rangers as Hibernian and Manchester City had no games over the weekend. BOB SOPER still finds himself in second place again this weekend  and still three goals behind Richard. Bob’s teams also picked him up a total of four goals for the week from Rangers as Arsenal and Manchester City had no games.

At the other end, Steptoe & Son are no longer at number 119 as JOHN NICHOLLS moves back down to the foot of the table after his combination had no games all week. John who has been at 118 for the last nine weeks, finds himself back at 119 for his twenty-fourth week this season. His teams are Arsenal, Bolton and Newcastle. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

Only twenty-six of us picked up some more midweek goals this week but non of the top five picked up any goals.

The highest score this week was four goals and we had five players who picked them up from Portsmouth and Wigan.

So the race to the £40 Midweek Jackpot remains the same as last weeks with DANIEL GOODSON still four goals in front on a total of 81 goals. In joint second place this week we still have JOHN DAVIES, and JAMES HUNTER both on a total of 77 goals. In third place we have CRAIG EVANS, TONY KING,  MICK LIDDLE and CHRIS SETFORD all on 73 goals. In fourth place we have TOM MACDONALD and RICHARD WILLIAMS both on 72 goals. In fifth place we still have ADRIAN BEW on a total of 71 goals. 

Now we had no cash to win this weekend as only ten of our teams played over the weekend. So it is  a shame that STEVE CADWELL picked up the highest score with just six goals from his combination. They came from Berwick Rangers 2 and Rangers 4. His third team is Leyton Orient. Steve moved up from 70^th Place to 51.

WEEKEND RESULTS

                                

We have had a really funny Easter fixture this year as usually this is a busy period for me with games over the weekend and Bank holiday Monday, but due to the Internationals being played only a hand full of our teams actually played this weekend and all on the Saturday. The highest score that we had, from just ten of our teams is four goals and they all went to Sottish RANGERS. They become our very first team, this season, to pick up 100 goals and they won that against QUEEN OF THE SOUTH 4-3 at home. This is their 15th season of scoring 100 or more goals in the thirty-two seasons that they have been in. Last season they picked up just 87 goals. Over the thirty-two appearances with Golden Goals they have netted a total of 3119 goals which gives them an average score of 97 goals per season to date. Congratulations to the twenty-one players who have picked them as part of their combinations this season and well done to the six people who voted for them in our poll. Queen of the South are now on a total of 41 goals. 

LEAGUE ONE

BURTON ALBION failed to score any goals against Oldham at home and the 0-0 draw means that they have now picked up a total of ten blank score sheets to date. MILLWALL also picked up their 10^th blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 away to Bradford. CHESTERFIELD drew 0-0 at home to Fleetwood Town and that was their 14^th blank score sheet of the season. So no goals from our English teams this weekend. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

We had better luck with our Scottish teams as the seven teams that did play, each and every one of them picked up some goals. We already know about Rangers and Queen of South but also in the Championship FALKIRK lost 2-1 at home to Livingstone. Falkirk picked up their 62^nd goal of the season.

In the lower leagues, STENHOUSEMUIR finally won 2-1 at home to Forfar and that now gives them a total of 44 goals. BERWICK are on 43 goals as they win 2-0 at home against Elgin. CLYDE are now on 46 goals as they lost 2-1 at home to Arbroath. It’s 43 for QUEENS PARK as they drew 1-1 away to East Fife.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND

RANGERS (100) CELTIC (86) MANCHESTER CITY (78) Total of 264 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

NEWCASTLE (33) WATFORD (35) BLACKPOOL (36) Total of 104 goals

BLACKPOOL have picked up the most number of blank score sheets this season with a total of nineteen out of forty-one 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.

      THIS     LAST                                            M/WEEK        W/END        TOTAL

    WEEK    WEEK             NAME                   GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

        1                 -                 R. WILLIAMS           72                   171                243                                2               -                   B. SOPER                   68                   172                240              

        3                 5                L. KING (2001/02)     63                   176                239

        4                 3                J. DAVIES                   77                   162                239              

        5                 4                S. DICKINSON          66                   171                237              

        6                 -                 D. GOODSON            81                   153                234              

        7                 10              JA. WOOD                  68                   165                233                               8                 7                J. WISE                        71                   162                233                               9                 -                 C. BOLBERY              66                   163                229                               10               11              T. MACDONALD        72                   157               229         

This Seasons First 100

The Big News from the Easter Saturday Games is that RANGERS are our very first team in our 33^rd Season to reach 100 goals as they win 4-3 at home to QUEEN OF THE SOUTH in the Scottish Championship.

This is their 15^th season of scoring 100 or more goals in the thirty-two seasons that they have been in. Last season they picked up just 87 goals. Over the thirty-two appearances with Golden Goals they have netted a total of 3119 goals which gives them an average score of 97 goals per season to date. Congratulations to the twenty-one players who have picked them as part of their combinations this season and well done to the six people who voted for them in our poll.

Ranger’s biggest score came in our 1992/93 Season with 126 goals. Now Rangers not only do they have to beat their own record score but could they also beat Manchester’s City record score of 137 goals from our 2013/14 Season? Only time will tell, as our season is quickly coming to the end. Queen of the South are now on a total of 41 goals and they have scored a total of twelve goals in their last four games.

Good Friday Goals

We had fourteen of our Golden Goals teams that played on Good Friday and what a ‘Good Friday’ it was as all but two of the teams managed to score some goals.

The highest scores of the day came from two of our teams Wigan from League One and Portsmouth from League Two.

So from League One, WIGAN picked up the highest score with a 4-1 away to SWINDON. That score took Wigan’s goal tally to 65 while Swindon hit goal number 58. Also, PETERBOROUGH won 3-1 at home against Coventry and they are now on 78 goals while SHEFFIELD UNITED won 3-2 at home to Crewe to take their goals total to 60. SCUNTHORPE picked up their 13^th blank score sheet of the season as they drew 0-0 away to Barnsley. BLACKPOOL have scored again at home in their 1-1 draw against Bury. Blackpool are now on 36 goals. It’s 51 goals for SOUTHEND now as they lost 4-1 away to Rochdale after going a goal up. PORT VALE drew 1-1 away to Shrewsbury to pick up their 50^th goal of the season.

In League Two, PORTSMOUTH won 4-0 at home to Nott’s County and they are now on 73 goals. It’s 54 goals for PLYMOUTH now as they win 2-0 away to Morecombe. LEYTON ORIENT picked up their 7^th blank of the season as they lost 1-0 away to Accrington. EXETER drew 1-1 at home to Barnet and they are now on a total of 64 goals while STEVENAGE are on 49 as they drew 1-1 away to Oxford. WYCOMBE pick up another single goal as they win 1-0 at home to Mansfield and that took their goals tally to 48.

Easter Saturday results will be up on here tomorrow with some big news!

Clyde Now Second

In the Scottish League Two CLYDE won their sixteenth league game out of thirty played with a 2-1 home win against Anna Athletic. The three points moves them up into second place and a point behind leaders East Fife.

Clyde are in their second season with Golden Goals and the only time that we have had Clyde was back in our 2004/05 Season where they finished on a score of 41 goals. The good news to our one Clyde vote this season is that they have beaten the score and they are now on a total of 45 goals with ten coming from their last four games. With a grand total of 86 goals over the two seasons, this gives them an average season of 43 goals per season to date.

Week Thirty-Three

RICHARD WILLIAMS has remained top once again this weekend and this is his twelfth weekend at the top.  Richard’s combination picked him up a total of just five goals over the week. One of them came from the weekend from Hibernian, Manchester City failed to score and Rangers had no game over the weekend. BOB SOPER finds himself in second place once again this weekend  now three goals behind Richard. Bob’s teams picked him up a total of four goals for the week from Arsenal, Manchester City and Rangers.

At the other end, it’s still STEPTOE & SON at number 119 for their ninth weekend as their combination picked  them up twelve goals for the week. But even after a very good week for goals, they still have the lowest score to date. Their teams are Queens Park, Queens Park Rangers and Queen of the South. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Only forty-seven of us picked up some more midweek goals this week as the race for the cash is near the end. The highest score this week went to RICHARD WILLIAMS with a total of four goals. Richard picked up his goals from Hibernian and Rangers with two goals each. His third team Manchester City had no game Richard now has a total of 72 midweek goals.

The race to the £40 Midweek Jackpot is looking like this with DANIEL GOODSON now four goals in front this week as he picks up three goals. Two came from Rangers and one from Middlesbrough. He is now on a total of 81 goals and just 19 goals away from that lovely cash. Daniel’s other team is Manchester city who had no game. In joint second place this week we still have JOHN DAVIES, and JAMES HUNTER both on a new total of 77 midweek goals. In third place we have four players with CRAIG EVANS remaining there with MICK LIDDLE up from four while up from fifth place last week we have TONY KING and CHRIS SETFORD all on 73 goals. In fourth place up from five is TOM MACDONALD and back in the race, RICHARD WILLIAMS both on 72 goals. In fifth place we still have ADRIAN BEW now on a total of 71 goals. 

We have now had a total of 47 winners this season as we had two new winners to the season winning on a total of 9 goals each.  They are for the ladies,  EMMA SAWYER and for the lads, STEPTOE & SON or Jamie Marson to the old followers of Golden Goals.

Emma is in her second season with the competition and last season Emma finished just outside of the winning frame by a single goal with a total of 270 goals in 26^th place. But She did have a weekend win all to herself. This season the nine goals has taken her back up to 87^th place, but her best was in week three when she went to 47^th place. Emma has picked up a total of four blank score sheets and her best team is Celtic.

Jamie (Steptoe) is in his 13^th Season with Golden Goals which was our 21^st Season and in his very first season of 2003/04,  Jamie finished in 77^th place out of 90 entries on a total of 235 goals. Last season Jamie & son finished in 65^th place 242 goals. This season, although Jamie has been in bottom position for a run of nine consecutive weeks, 36 is his highest from week one. Jamie has also had four blank score sheets and his best team is Queens Park Rangers netting him 51 goals. Our winners combinations are

 Emma  BRISTOL CITY 6, CELTIC 1, CHELSEA 2

Steptoe & Son  QUEENS PARK 2, QPR 1, QUEEN OF SOUTH 6 

WEEKEND RESULTS                               

So we did not have a bad midweek as most of our teams did pick up some goals but at the weekend again the goals did not come but some of our teams did pick up their highest scores of the season. We had four teams that had no game as they all played on Friday night and another thirteen teams that failed to score any goals. So for the second weekend running we ended up with an average score of just 3 goals this weekend.

We had two teams that picked up the highest score of the weekend and for themselves. They are from the English Championship BRISTOL CITY who beat BOLTON 6-0 at home. The highest score till now was just two goals so this amount of goals was a god send to the three players who have them this season. City are now on a total of 43 goals. Bolton picked up their 17^th blank of the season.

The other team to pick up six goals also came from the Championship but fron the Scottish league. They are QUEEN OF THE SOUTH as they win 6-0 at home to Dumbarton. With just one vote this season they are now on a total of 38 goals. 

PREMIERSHIP

Champions Leicester City are still on top this weekend with TOTTENHAM still in second place as they win 3-0 at home to Bournemouth. Tottenham are now on 65 goals. ARSENAL are in third place as they win 2-0 away to EVERTON to take their goals tally to 60. Everton picked up their 7^th blank of the season. MANCHESTER CITY are in still fourth as they lost to MANCHESTER UNITED 1-0 at home. City have now failed to score in their last two games which is something that they have not done all season till now. United picked up goal number 49. WEST HAM moved into fifth place as they drew 2-2 away to CHELSEA after going in front twice. West Ham are now on 57 goals and they have now scored in all of their last eight games. Chelsea are now on 62 goals. Meanwhile WATFORD picked up goal number 35 as they lost 2-1 at home to Stoke.After a two game dry spell, NORWICH won 1-0 away to West Brom and are now on 38 goals. LIVERPOOL lost 3-2 away to Southampton and that pushed their goals tally to 61. NEWCASTLE are on 33 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Sunderland. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

BURNLEY remained top here this weekend again as they drew 1-1 at home to WOLVES. Burnley picked up their 64^th goal while wolves picked up their 50^th. In Second place this weekend we have BRIGTON who won 2-1 away to MK DONS. Brighton are now on a total of 54 goals while the Dons picked up goal number 42. 

In the play-off zone we have three of the four teams. NIDDLEBROUGH have now dropped down to third place while HULL are now fourth. DERBY are still in fifth place as they win 1-0 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST. Derby take their goals total to 55 while Forest picked up their 14^th blank of the season and now only two goals in their last four games. Meanwhile BRENTFORD lost 1-0 at home to Blackburn to pick up their 12^th blank score sheet and now two games in a row. IPSWICH picked up their 13^th blank as they lost 1-0 at home to Rotherham. It’s 42 for LEEDS as they lost 4-1 at home to Huddersfield after going a goal up. PRESTON drew 1-1 at home to QPR and that gives Preston 42 goals to Rangers 51. CARDIFF drew 1-1 away to Reading and that was their goal number 51 while CHARLTON picked up their 18^th blank score sheet as they lost 3-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday. 

LEAGUE ONE

BURTON ALBION are once again still on top this weekend as they win 4-0 away to PORT VALE. Albion are now on 52 goals while Port vale picked up their 14^th blank of the season. In Second place is still WIGAN as they win 1-0 at home against Bradford. Wigan are now on 61 goals while in the play-off zone this weekend we still have MILLWALL still in fifth place as they win 1-0 at home to SHEFFIELD UNITED. Millwall are on 63 while Sheffield United picked up their 11^th blank of the season. SWINDON picked up their 10^th blank as they drew 0-0 away to Coventry. After a three game dry spell for golas, BLACKPOOL win 2-1 away to Crewe to take their goals total up to 35 while PETERBOROUGH are now on 75 as they win 2-1 away to Doncaster. SCUNTHORPE are on 49 as they drew 1-1 at home to CHESTERFIELD who are now on 54 goals. It’s 50 goals for SOUTHEND as they drew 1-1 at home to Gillingham. 

LEAGUE TWO

PLYMOUTH have dropped down to fourth place here as they lost 1-0 at home to LUTON. Plymouth picked up their 7^th blank while Luton picked up goal number 57. We do have another two teams in the play-off zone this week and they are still PORTSMOUTH in sixth place as they drew 1-1 away to Mansfiled which gave them goal number 69. LEYTON ORIENT are also their in seventh place as they win 1-0 at home to Morecombe. That was their 60^th goal. Meanwhile WYCOMBE drew 1-1 away to Carlisle and that gave them goal number 47. It’s 63 goals for EXETER as they win 4-1 away to Notts County. STEVENAGE lost 3-2 at home to Northampton and they are now on 48 goals after a dry goal spell of four games. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership CELTIC won 1-0 away to Kilmarnock and they are now on 86 goals while in second place ABERDEEN lost 2-1 away to Motherwell to pick up goal number 52. HEARTS are still in third place as they lost 3-0 at home to St Johnstone. Hearts have now had seven blank score sheets.

In the Championship HIBERNIAN lost 2-1 away to Raith to pick up their 64^th goal of the season. In the lower leagues, STENHOUSEMUIR lost again this time 3-1 away to Stranraer to pick up their 42^nd goal of the season. CLYDE are now on 43 goals as they win 4-0 away to East Stirling. BERWICK lost 1-0 away to Anna and that was their 8^th blank score sheet of the season. QUEENS PARK won 2-1 at home to Arbroath and they are now on 42 goals.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND

RANGERS (96) CELTIC (86) MANCHESTER CITY (78) Total of 260 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

NEWCASTLE (33) BLACKPOOL (35) WATFORD (35) Total of 103 goals 

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

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

Just a little movement in the top ten this week and there might not be much more on next weeks.

     THIS     LAST                                                   M/WEEK        W/END        TOTAL

   WEEK    WEEK             NAME                          GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

       1                 -                 R. WILLIAMS                  72                   167                239                        2               -                   B. SOPER                          68                   168                236              

       3                 4                J. DAVIES                         77                   158                235              

       4                 3                S. DICKINSON                 62                   171                233              

       5                 6                L. KING (2001/02)            60                   172                232

       6                 5                D. GOODSON                   81                   149                230              

       7                 -                 J. WISE                              71                   158                229                        8                 -                 C. NUNN                           54                   172                226                        9                 -                 C. BOLBERY                    62                   163                225                        10              16              JA. WOOD                          64                   161                225               

Rangers lost three

What went wrong with RANGERS last night? After going 2-0 up in the first ten minutes they lost the game in the last twenty minutes as FALKIRK win 3-2 at home. That was the third time in twenty-nine league games that Rangers have lost a league game. But they remain in top place in the Scottish Championship with an 11 point lead over Falkirk in second place. Rangers are now on a total of 96 goals while Falkirk are on 61.

In the English Championship, MIDDLESBROUGH picked up goal number 57 after a two game dry spell as they beat HULL 1-0 at home. Hull have now had a total of eleven blank score sheets to date and they have scored just three goals in their last nine games.

Hibernian Back On Target

We have not had any big scores this week as of yet after ten of our Golden Goals have already played. But last night we had two of our teams in action and both scored some goals.

In League Two, WYCOMBE drew 1-1 away to Accrington Stanley and the single goal takes their goals tally to 46. Wycombe are now in the play-off zone in 7^th place.

In Scotland we had the quarter-final replay in the WILLIAM HILL CUP between HIBERNIAN and Inverness CT. In their first meeting they drew 1-1 and after Hibs lost in the final of the Scottish League Cup on Sunday, they bounced back and won the round 2-1 away. Hibs are now on a total of 63 goals and another chance to win some silver ware this season.

Newcastle in Trouble

So let’s catch up on the midweek results starting from the Monday night’s game between Leicester City and NEWCASTLE. Well it was not Newcastle’s night as the Champions Leicester won 1-0 at home. That was Newcastle’s 15^th blank score sheet of the season and they have now lost seventeen of their twenty-nine league games played.

Last night in the Championship, BRIGHTON after a two games without a goal, beat Reading 1-0 at home. That was Brighton’s 52^nd goal of the season. HULL drew 1-1 again but this time against NOTTINGHAM FOREST at home to pick up goal number 60 for them and 38 for Forest. It’s 55 for IPSWICH as they win 2-0 at home to Blackburn. In League One, BLACKPOOL lost 1-0 away to Oldham and that was their 19^th blank of the season and now they have had three games without a single goal. In fact they have scored just three goals in their last seven games.

In Scotland, QUEEN OF THE SOUTH lost 3-2 away to Morton to take their goals total to 32 while QUEENS PARK lost 3-1 at home to Anna to pick up their 40^th goal of the season.

Week Thirty-Two

RICHARD WILLIAMS has remained top once again this weekend and this is his eleventh weekend at the top.  Richard’s combination picked him up a total of just four goals over the week. One of them came from the weekend from Hibernian, Manchester City failed to score and Rangers had no game over the weekend. BOB SOPER finds himself in second place this weekend  just two goals behind Richard. Bob’s teams also picked him up a total of eight goals for the week from Arsenal, Manchester City and Rangers.

At the other end, it’s still STEPTOE & SON at number 119 for his eighth weekend as his combination picked  him up seven goals for the week. His teams are Queens Park, Queens Park Rangers and Queen of the South. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Just over half of us picked up some more midweek goals this week and we had another ten players to reach that magic score 50 or more goals bringing the total up to 86 this week.

The highest score this week went to JAMIE WOOD with a total of ten goals. Jamie picked up his goals from Arsenal four and three each from Portsmouth and Rangers. Jamie now has a total of 62 midweek goals.

The race to the £40 Midweek Jackpot is looking like this with DANIEL GOODSON still three goals in front this week as he picks up three goals from Rangers. Middlesbrough failed to score. He is now on a total of 78 goals. Daniel’s other team is Manchester city who had no game. In joint second place this week we still have JOHN DAVIES, but JAMES HUNTER moves back up to second place from three . Both are on a total of 75 midweek goals. In third place down from two is CRAIG EVANS still on 72 goals. In fourth place on 71 goals we still have MICK LIDDLE. In joint fifth place we have four players this week. They are ADRIAN BEW down from three with TONY KING, TOM MACDONALD and CHRIS SETFORD moving into the race. All four are on a total of 70 goals. In sixth place down from five is JAMES WISE on 69 goals. 

We have now had a total of 45 winners this season as last season’s Champion TOBY BICKNELL wins on a score of 8 goals. Believe it or not, this is his best score of the season although he has picked up eight goals at the weekend in two other weekends but won no cash.

Our Champion last season finished on a score of 311 goals which is our 12^th best Champion’s score. He did very well in his very first season with Golden Goals by finishing eight goals in front of Darren Davidson in second place.

Toby not only picked up the £100 but he also had two shared weekend wins. He has dropped one of his winning teams from last season and they are Preston.

This season Toby has had just one blank score sheet and the highest that he has been is 36^th place in week 17. His best team is Celtic.

  CELTIC 2, DERBY 3, SHEFFIELD UNITED 3 

WEEKEND RESULTS                         

After a very good weekend for goals last weekend with the average score of six goals, we have gone to the other end of the spectrum and ended up with an average score of just 3 goals this weekend. We had four teams that had no game and another twelve that failed to score any goals it was our top voted teams for this season that made the difference once again this weekend to our scores. The highest score was three goals and we had six teams to hit them. But  first the Cup games that were played over the weekend.

FA CUP 6^th Round

We had all six of the teams in the four games that were played and out of them, only two have made it through to the semi-finals. They are EVERTON who beat  CHELSEA 2-0 at home to take Everton’s goals total to 73 while Chelsea picked up their 7^th blank of the season. ARSENAL lost 2-1 at home to WATFORD and that was their 58^th goal while Watford are now on 34 after a three game dry spell for goals. We still have to wait as see about MANCHESTER UNITED and WEST HAM as that game ended in a one all draw. Manchester are now on 48 goals while West Ham hit goal number 55.

SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP FINAL.

We ended up with just one team here in the final and they were HIBERNIAN. They lost 2-1 to Ross County and that was their 61^st goal of the season and they have just three voters this time round. 

PREMIERSHIP

We had just three of our teams in action here with TOTTENHAM being the only team to pick up some goals in their 2-0 away win over Aston Villa. Tottenham are now on 62 goals and in second place in the league. Meanwhile MANCHESTER CITY drew 0-0 away to NORWICH which keeps them in fourth place. City picked up their 7^th blank while Norwich picked up their 12^th and now two games in a row without a goal.

CHAMPIONSHIP

BURNLEY remained top here this weekend as they win again 3-1 away to Huddersfield. With the six goals that they have scored this week, Burnley are now on 63 goals. MIDDLESBROUGH are in second place as they lost 2-0 away to CHARLTON. Brough picked up their second blank of the week and now they have had a total of fourteen over the season. Charlton maybe second from bottom but they do have a total of 44 goals. In the play-off zone we have three of the four teams. HULL are still in third place as they drew 1-1 at home to MK DONS. Hull had failed to score in their last three games so this is goal number 59 for them. It was goal number 41 for the Dons. BRIGHTON are still fourth with DERBY in fifth place as they drew 3-3 away to Rotherham after going three goals up, Derby are now on 54 goals. Meanwhile LEEDS UNITED won 2-1 away  to Blackburn and that gives them a total of 41 goals. PRESTON won 2-1 away to BOLTON to give them a total of 41 after a two game dry spell while Bolton picked up their 41^st goal. It’s 50 goals for CARDIFF as they win 1-0 at home to IPSWICH who picked up their 12^th blank of the season. BRISTOL CITY are on 37 goals as they win 2-1 away to Fulham. NOTTINGHAM FOREST lost 3-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday and that was their 13^th blank score sheet. More goals for QUEENS PARK RANGERS as they win 3-0 at home to BRENTFORD. Rangers are on 50 goals while Brentford picked up their 11^th blank of the season. It’s twelve blanks for WOLVES as they drew 0-0 at home to Birmingham

.LEAGUE ONE

BURTON ALBION are once again still on top this weekend as they win 2-1 at home to Fleetwood. Albion are now on 48 goals. In Second place is still WIGAN as they drew 3-3 away to Colchester.. Wigan are now on 60 goals while in the play-off zone this weekend we still have the one team MILLWALL still in fifth place. After going two goals up, they drew 2-2 away to SWINDON. Millwall are on 62 while Swindon are on 57. BLACKPOOL lost 1-0 at home to Coventry and that was their 18^th blank and they have now scored just one goal in their last four games. It’s 49 for SOUTHEND as they win 2-0 away to Barnsley. It’s 53 for CHESTERFIELD as they lost 4-1 at home to Walsall. We have not had a high score from PETERBOROUGH for a while as they lost 3-2 at home to PORT VALE. Borough are now on 73 goals while Port Vale are on 49. SHEFFIELD UNITED are on 57 goals as they win 3-0 at home against Oldham. SCUNTHORPE drew 2-2 away to Shrewsbury and they are now on 48 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

PLYMOUTH are still in third place here as lost 2-1 away to Accrington. Plymouth are now on 52 goals. We have two teams in the play-off zone this week and they are PORTSMOUTH in sixth place lost 3-0 at home to Newport. That was their 10^th blank of the season. LEYTON ORIENT are also their in seventh place as they win 1-0 away to Oxford. That was their 59^th goal. Meanwhile EXETER drew 2-2 at home to Carlisle and they are on 59 goals while LUTON picked up their 10^th blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 at home to Crawley. WYCOMBE are on 45 goals after a two game dry spell as they won 1-0 at home to STEVENAGE. Stevenage have now had four blank score sheets in a row and thirteen over the season.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership CELTIC won 2-1 away to Partick and they are now on 85 goals while in second place ABERDEEN won 2-1 at home to Kilmarnock. Aberdeen are on 51 goals this week. HEARTS are still in third place as they win 1-0 away to Dundee. That was their 64^th goal of the season.

In the Championship FALKIRK are still second as they drew 1-1 away to Dumbarton. Falkirk are now on 58 goals. QUEEN OF SOUTH lost 2-1 away to St Mirren and are now on 30 goals. In the lower leagues, STENHOUSEMUIR lost 4-1 at home to Peterhead to pick up their 41^st goal of the season. CLYDE are now on 39 goals as they lost 2-1 at home to Elgin. BERWICK won 1-0 at home to Stirling and that was goal number 41 while  QUEENS PARK drew 1-1 away to Montrose and they are on 39 goals. 

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND

RANGERS (94) CELTIC (85) MANCHESTER CITY (78) Total of 257 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

QUEEN OF SOUTH (30) NEWCASTLE (32) BLACKPOOL (33) Total of 95 goals 

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

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

       THIS     LAST                                            M/WEEK        W/END        TOTAL

     WEEK    WEEK             NAME                   GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

         1                 -                 R. WILLIAMS           68                   166                234                                2               4                  B. SOPER                   66                   166                232              

         3                 -                 S. DICKINSON          62                   169                231              

         4                 2                J. DAVIES                   75                   156                231              

         5                 -                 D. GOODSON            78                   149                227              

         6                 12              L. KING (2001/02)      58                   168                226

         7                 -                 J. WISE                        69                   157                226                              8                 6                C. NUNN                     54                   169                223                              9                 -                 C. BOLBERY              62                   161                223                              10           8                    C. BOOM                     55                   167                222