Middlesbrough Go Back On Top

In the Championship last night MIDDLESBROUGH drew 2-2 away to Birmingham to give them a new goals total of 71 goals. But the point put’s them just a point in front of Burnley who have a game in hand of Brough.

The Highest Score Of The Week Goes To........

We have had another five of our Golden Goals teams in action and one of them has picked up the highest score of midweek so far. The team was HIBERNIAN as they won 4-0 at home to Dumbarton. It’s been a very long while since Hibs have had a big score big like that and the goals now gives them a total of 77 goals.

Staying with our Scottish teams, RANGERS picked up their second blank of the season as they lost 1-0 away to Livingston. After a goal run of fourteen games Rangers remain on a total of 109 goals.

In the English Championship HULL are now on 74 goals as they win 2-0 at home to BRENTFORD. Brentford picked up their 13^th blank of the season after they had a great goal run of 16 goals in their last six games.

In League Two, PORTSMOUTH picked up their 83^rd goal of the season as they win 1-0 away to AFC Wimbledon. 

Tottenham - Points Lost

TOTTENHAM dropped some much needed points last night as they drew 1-1 at home to West Brom. There is now a seven point gap between them and Leicester City who need just three points to be champions.

The single goal takes Tottenham’s goals tally to 74 and they have now scored in all of their last seven games.

This is Tottenham’s 32^nd season with Golden Goals and they are just one of our original starters of 1983/84. They became our 10^th most voted team and they finished the season on a total of 71 goals. Their highest score came in the 1986/87 season with 109 goals. It is the only season that they have scored over 100 goals in a season. Last season they finished on a total of 75 goals. Over the season’s they have score a grand total of 2315 goals which gives them an average score of 72 per season to date. They have just three votes this season.

Week Thirty-Eight

RICHARD WILLIAMS is just hanging on to the top spot this week as he is now on goal difference only with JOHN DAVIES. Richard picked up a total of eleven goals for the week. This is now his 16^th week over the season and now two weeks in a row. Richard is now climbing up the Champions table and is now in 30^th place as he has now beaten Robert Hough's 1990/91 and Geoff  Dockerill's 1994/94 score of 274 goals. Richard’s combination is Hibernian, Manchester City  and Rangers. John has Liverpool, Manchester City and Rangers.

At the other end, JOHN NICHOLLS combination managed to pick him up a total of six goals this week. Three came from midweek and another three from the weekend.  They came from Bolton with one while Newcastle picked him up two.  Arsenal failed to score in their game. Although John has been at 119 for a twenty-eight weeks this season the good news is that he has moved up the loser’s league to 29^th place. John has beaten Richard Lloyd's 154 in our 1993/94 season and Freda Hillier's 1987/88 and Ian Etheridge score in 1999/2000 Season

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Only four of us failed to pick up any midweek goals this week but the highest score to be picked up this week was nine goals and they all went to STUART KEMP who now has a total of 60 midweek goals. They came from Hibernian three, Preston two and Tottenham four.

The race to the £40 Midweek Jackpot has had a bit of a change around with DANIEL GOODSON now just six goals away from the cash and still seven goals in front with a new total of 94 goals. Middlesbrough and Manchester City picked him up a single goal each with Rangers netting two. In second place up from three we have CHRIS SETFORD now on 89 goals. While in third place this week we still have CRAIG EVANS but we now also have JAMES HUNTER

up from fourth place and up from six JOHN DAVIES all now on 85 goals each. In fourth place up from five on 84 goals we have DAVID STAINS. In fifth place we still have TONY KING but RICHARD WILLIAMS is also there both on 83 goals. In joint sixth place all on 82 goals we still have MICK LIDDLE, NATHAN TREADWELL and BENJAMIN WAYMARK they are now joined with JAMES WISE back in the running

This weekend we had two winners to share the cash on a total of 10 goals which is a bit better. But one of the winners picked up their second win of the season and that went to ALEX DAVEY.  The other win picked up their first win of the season and that went to CARRIE-ANNE WRIGHT which now takes our winners total up to fifty-one.

Alex won his first lot of cash in week twenty-six and that was also a part shared win. Since then Alex has picked up just one more blank score sheet to take his weekend blank score sheets total to four.  Although he moved up a couple of places to 92, this is the highest that he has been all season. His Best team is still Manchester City.

Carrie-Anne is in her very first season with Golden Goals and I would like to thank her for joining in the fun. Well saying that Carrie has had a lot of up’s and down’s and her highest position is 74 in week eleven. Carrie has had a total of five blank score sheets and her best team is also Manchester City. Our winners teams are

Alex  CHELSEA 4, LEEDS UTD 2, MANCHESTER CITY 4

Carrie-Ann  CHELSEA 4, MANCHESTER CITY 4, MANCHESTER UTD 2 

WEEKEND RESULTS

The weekend has ended as the midweek started with another set of teams picking up the same highest score. As a result this weekend average score moved up from four of last weekend to 5 goals and that was mainly down to two of our top teams. This weekend we only had eleven teams that failed to score any goals and another six that had no game at all over the weekend. So who had the highest score?

Well the highest score of the weekend goes to BRENTFORD, CHELSEA, MANCHESTER CITY, PORT VALE, STEVENAGE and WIGAN.  All of the above teams picked up a total of four goals each.

FA CUP Semi-Finals

We had three of the four teams in this cup competition and now the final looks like a one horse race. The first game that we had was between MANCHESTER UNITED and EVERTON. Both teams have not been playing that well this season but Everton should have had the upper hand with the amount of goals that they have scored this season but it was not to be. Manchester United won the match in injury time 2-1 and the goals takes their goals tally to 57. Everton hit goal number 77 but they have now scored just three goals in their last seven games, Manchester United will be playing Crystal Palace on May 21^st as they beat our other team, WATFORD 2-1. That was Watford's 39^th goal of the season. 

PREMIERSHIP

MANCHESTER CITY are still in third place as they win 4-0 at home to Stoke. City are now on a total of 92 goals and they have scored a total of ten goals in their last four games. ARSENAL remained in fourth place after they drew 0-0 away to Sunderland to pick up their 10^th blank of the season. Manchester United are fifth with West Ham in sixth place. LIVERPOOL drew 2-2 at home to NEWCASTLE after being two goals up at half time. Liverpool are now on 74 goals while Newcastle are on 42. CHELSEA have moved up to ninth place as they win 4-1 away to Bournemouth after failing to score in their last two games. Chelsea are now on 70 goals. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

It is all happening here as BURNLEY are back up the top after their midweek win while MIDDLESBROUGH have moved back down to second as they drew 0-0 at home to IPSWICH. Brough picked up their 15^th blank score sheet while Ipswich picked up their 16^th. We still have three of the four teams in the play-off zone and they are BRIGHTON in third place as they win 3-1 away to CHARLTON. Brighton are now on 72 goals after picking up another four in midweek. Charlton picked up their 48^th goal but they are now relegated.  HULL are still in fourth place as they drew 2-2 at home to LEEDS UNITED and that now gives them a total of 72 goals whiel Leeds have 53. DERBY are in fifth place still as they drew 1-1 at home to Sheffield Wednesday. Derby are now on 69 goals. It’s 64 for BRENTFORD as they win 4-1 away to MK DONS.  That now means that MK Dons are also relegated. BRISTOL CITY who are now on 53 goals drew 2-2 away to Blackburn. CARDIFF won 2-1 at home against relegated BOLTON and they are now on 57 goals to Boltons 45. We have not had a big score from NOTTINGHAM FOREST for a long while but they won 3-1 away to Fulham. Forest are now on 44 goals. QUEENS PARK RANGERS are on 57 goals after a two game dry spell as they drew 1-1 at home to Reading. WOLVES picked up their 15^th blank of the season as they drew 0-0 at home to Rotherham. 

LEAGUE ONE

WIGAN are top here again as they win 4-1 at home to SOUTHEND. Wigan are now on a total of 78 goals while Southend picked up their 57^th goal. BURTON ALBION are still in second place as they win 3-0 away to Colchester. Burton are now on a total of 57 goals. MILLWALL are once again still our only team in the play-off’s as they win 3-1 away to Bury. That takes their goals total to 73. It’s 63 for SCUNTHORPE as they win 2-0 away to PETERBOROUGH. Borough picked up their 10^th blank and now two in a row. SHEFFIELD UNITED picked up their 13^th blank of the season as they drew 0-0 at home to Barnsley. SWINDON picked up another goal this week as they win 1-0 at home to CHESTERFIELD. Swindon are now on 61 goals while Chesterfield picked up blank number seventeen. PORT VALE are now on 61 as they picked up their highest score of the season as they win 4-1 at home to Rochdale. BLACKPOOL could be going down next season as they drew 0-0 against Fleetwood away. Blackpool picked up their 22^nd blank of the season and they have now failed to score in their last three games. 

LEAGUE TWO

We still have just two teams in the play-off zone with PLYMOUTH being the highest here in fifth place as they lost 3-2 at home to relegated Redbridge. Plymouth are now on 66 goals. PORTSMOUTH are also there in sixth place as they win 2-1 at home to WYCOMBE. Portsmouth are on a total of 82 goals while Wycombe are on 52. STEVENAGE won 4-1 away to Morecombe and they are now on 56 goals. LEYTON ORIENT picked up their 10^th blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 away to AFC Wimbledon. EXETER are on 73 but lost 3-1 away to Bristol Rovers while LUTON are on 65 as they drew 1-1 at home to Newport.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Scottish Premiership, CELTIC drew 1-1 at home to Ross County to pick up their 94^th goal. HEARTS lost 1-0 away to Motherwell and that was their 9^th blank and now two games in a row without a goal. In the Championship RANGERS drew 1-1 at home to Alloa and are now on 109 goals. QUEEN OF SOUTH won 3-1 at home to Livingston and are now on 51 goals. HIBERNIAN picked up their 7^th blank of the season as they drew 0-0 away to Morton. In the lower leagues, STENHOUSEMUIR won 3-1 away to Cowdenbeath and are now on 48 goals while BERWICK won 2-0 at home to East Fife to take their goals tally to 50. QUEENS PARK won 2-1 at home to CLYDE and they are now on 50 goals each. 

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND

RANGERS (109) CELTIC (94) MANCHESTER CITY (92) Total of 295 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

BLACKPOOL (39) WATFORD (39) NORWICH (41) Total of 119 goals 

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

The weeks are still flying by and although there is not much movement in the top ten, in the rest of the table it's all going crazy.

     THIS     LAST                                           M/WEEK        W/END        TOTAL       

   WEEK    WEEK             NAME                  GOALS         GOALS        GOALS     

       1                 -                 R. WILLIAMS           83                  192               275                

       2               4                  J. DAVIES                  85                  190               275                 

       3                 2                B. SOPER                   74                  199               273            

       4                 7                J. WISE                       82                  188               270                 

       5                 -                 D. GOODSON            94                  175               269                  

       6                 -                 S. DICKINSON          68                  200               268                  

       7                 3                L. KING (2001/02)     68                  198               266                  

       8                 -                 C. BOLBERY             69                  195               264                 

       9                 -                 JA. WOOD                 74                  187               261                 

       10              -                 T. MACDONALD       79                  179               258                 

Only Burnley Score

Three more of our teams were in action last night with two of them coming from the English Championship. The two teams played each other and their second game of the week. Here PRESTON lost 1-0 at home to BURNLEY. Preston picked up their 14^th blank score sheet of the season while Burnley picked up their 71^st goal.

Our third team to play came from the Scottish Premiership where ABERDEEN lost 3-0 away to St Johnstone. That was their 5^th blank of the season.

Arsenal in Third Place

ARSENAL have moved up into third place in the English Premiership as they beat West Brom 2-0 at home. The Gunners are now on a total of 70 goals and they have now scored in all of their last ten games. Arsenal did not start with Golden Goals in our first season but they did in the second and finished on a grand total of 75 goals. They are our 36^th team to enter into the competition for our English teams. Their best end of season score was in our 2002/03 Season where they finished on a score of 103 goals beating their highest score of 101 in the previous season. Last season they picked up a total of 87.  This is Arsenal’s 31^st Season with us and over the years they have scored a total of 2565 goals which gives them an average score of 82 goals per season. They have a total of 35 votes this season.

Midweek Results for the First Half of the Week

Sorry for the lack of updates on this blog but here are all of this week’s results that will affect our Golden Goals teams.

In the English Premiership, TOTTENHAM take their goals tally to 73 as they beat Stoke 4-0 last Monday night. Tuesday night MANCHESTER CITY drop points as they drew 1-1 away to NEWCASTLE. City are now on 88 goals while Newcastle picked up goal number 40. LIVERPOOL picked up another four goals in their 4-0 home win against EVERTON on Wednesday. Liverpool are now on 72 goals while Everton picked up their 10^th blank of the season and now just two goals in their last six games. MANCHESTER UNITED are on 55 goals as they win 2-0 at home to Crystal Palace while WEST HAM are on 68 as they win 3-1 at home to WATFORD. Watford hit goal number 38.

In the Championship, PRESTON drew 2-2 away to Birmingham and that now takes their goals total to 48. BRENTFORD are on 60 goals as they win 2-1 at home against CARDIFF who are now on 55 goals. BRIGHTON are really picking up the goals now as they win against 4-0 at home to QUEENS PARK RANGERS. Brighton are now on 69 goals and they have scored a total of 13 goals in their last four games. Rangers picked up their 13^th blank and now two in a row. DARBY are also doing well now as they win 3-2 away to BRISTOL CITY. Derby are now on 68 goals while City are on 51. MIDDLESBROUGH drew 1-1 away to BURNLEY for that top spot which gives Brough a total of 69 and Burnley are on 70 goals. IPSWICH picked up another single goal in their 1-1 draw against Fulham to give them goal 58 while LEEDS are now on 51 goals as they win against 2-1 at home to WOLVES who are now on 54 goals. It’s 41 for NOTTINGHAM FOREST as they drew 1-1 at home to Blackburn. MK DONS picked up their 18^th blank of the season as they drew 0-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday and BOLTON drew 0-0 at home to CHARLTON. Bolton picked up their 19^th blank while Charlton picked up their 21^st and now two games in a row. HULL are on 70 goals as they win 2-1 away to Reading.

In League One PETERBOROUGH picked up their 9^th blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 away to Barnsley. WIGAN drew 1-1 away to BURTON ALBION and that was their 74^th goals and Burton’s 54^th after a two game dry spell for goals. CHESTERFIELD picked up their 61^st goal of the season as they drew 1-1 at home to Doncaster. MILLWALL beat Fleetwood 1-0 at home and they are now on 70 goals. It’s 61 for SCUNTHORPE as they win 2-1 at home against Bury. SHEFFIELD UNITED are on 68 as they win 2-1 away to Shrewsbury. SOUTHEND picked up their 17^th blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 at home to Oldham. It’s been three games without a goal for SWINDON but they picked up goal number 60 after they drew 1-1 away to Walsall.

In League Two LUTON won 2-1 away to Carlisle and that gives them a new total of 64 goals. EXETER are on 72 goals as they lost 3-2 at home to Mansfield. It’s 64 for PLYMOUTH as they win 3-1 away to LEYTON ORIENT who are now on 65. STEVENAGE drew 0-0 at home to Bristol Rovers and that was their 16^th blank of the season. WYCOMBE picked up their 13^th after they drew 0-0 at home to Yeovil. PORTSMOUTH picked up their 80^th goal of the season as they lost 3-1 away to York.

Just one result from Scotland and that came from the Championship where HIBERNIAN beat Champions RANGERS 3-2 at home. Hibs are now on 73 goals while Rangers are now on 108 goals.

Week Thirty-Seven

It’s all change at the top as RICHARD WILLIAMS moves back to the top after picking up a total of seven goals for the week. This is now his 15^th week over the season and that will be this seasons record as no-one can beat that now. The good news, at last, is that Richard has started to move up the Champions table in 32^nd place as he has now beaten Phil Mockler's score of 263 goals scored in the 1989/90 Season. Richard’s combination is Hibernian, Manchester City  and Rangers. BOB SOPER moved back down to second place and a goal behind as his combination picked him up a total of six goals at the weekend coming from Arsenal, Manchester City and Rangers. 

At the other end, JOHN NICHOLLS combination managed to pick him up a total of five goals this week all from the weekend.  They came from Arsenal and Bolton with one each while Newcastle picked him three. Although John has been at 119 for a twenty-seven weeks this season the good news is that this will not be the lowest score with Golden Goals as his total of 150 goals now moves him up the loser’s league to 32^nd place. John has beaten our pub team R.U.Shaw of 146 goals in our 1995/95 Season. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

 Over under half of us managed to pick up some more midweek goals this week. The highest score to be picked up this week was seven goals and they all went to PETER PORTER who now has 66 midweek goals. They all came from Birghton’s two league games. Peter’s other teams are Arsenal and Celtic.

The race to the £40 Midweek Jackpot has not had much of a change around but DANIEL GOODSON is just ten goals away from the cash and still seven goals in front with a new total of 90 goals. Middlesbrough once again picked him up the two goals His other teams are Manchester City and Rangers. In second place we still have CRAIG EVANS now on 83 goals while remaining in third place with 82 goals we have CHRIS SETFORD. In fourth place down from three is JAMES HUNTER with 81 goals. In fifth place we still have ADRIAN BEW, TONY KING and DAVID STAINS all on 79 goals. In joint sixth place all on 78 goals we still have MICK LIDDLE, NATHAN TREADWELL and BENJAMIN WAYMARK they are now joined with JOHN DAVIES who fell down from four last week. 

This weekend we had three winners to share the cash on a total of 8 goals. But one of the winners picked up his second win of the season and that went to CHRIS BOOM.  The other two winners picked up their first win which now takes our winners total to the magic 50. They are ARTHUR BROWN and NATHAN TREADWELL.  

Chris won his first lot of cash in week twenty-one which was the Christmas Jackpot of £10. Since then Chris has picked up just one more blank score sheet to take his weekend blank score sheets to three.  Although he is back up to 16^th place, fourth is his best from week twenty-seven.

Arthur started with the competition way back in our 1995/96 Season. Last season he finished in 42^nd place with a total of 264 goals and one shared weekend win. This season, Arthur has only picked up two blank score sheets to date and four is his highest position for this season.

Nathan joined us this season and he has had a total of four weekend blank score sheets. Manchester City is his best team and 25 is his highest in week eighteen. Our winners combinations are

Chris  CELTIC 2, LEYTON ORIENT 3, MANCHESTER CITY 3

Arthur  CELTIC 2, LUTON 3, MANCHESTER CITY 3

Nathan  MANCHESTER CITY 3, MIDDLESBROUGH 2, SHEFFIELD UNITED 3 

WEEKEND RESULTS

 We did not have a very good weekend for goals as the weekend average score fell down again to just 4 goals. The reason is simple. We had fifteen teams that failed to score any goals and another seven that had no game at all over the weekend.

The highest score of the weekend goes to PETERBOROUGH from League One. They beat Colchester 4-1 away and that takes their goals total to 86 and they remain our fourth best team of the season this week. Peterborough hold the second highest score with Golden Goals with their 129 goals scored in the 2010/11 Season.

WILLIAM HILL CUP Semi-Final

We had three of the four teams in this cup competition that wants to be in that big final. HIBERNIAN are through as they drew 0-0 after extra time to pick up their 6^th blank of the season and they then won 4-2 on penalties. RANGERS played the old rivals CELTIC in the other semi-final and they drew 2-2 after extra time to go on to win 5-4 on penalties. Rangers are now on 106 goals while Celtic getting ever nearer to that 100 are on 93. Rangers will play Hibernian in the final on Saturday 21^st May 2016. 

PREMIERSHIP

Champions Leicester City drew 2-2 at home to WEST HAM this weekend and that takes their league goals up to 59. West ham are now on 65 and they have now scored in all of their last twelve games. They are still in sixth place. Tottenham are still in second place even though they had no game while MANCHESTER CITY are now in third place as they win 3-0 away to CHELSEA. City are now on 87 goals while Chelsea picked up their 9^th blank score sheet and now two games in a row. ARSENAL are down to four as they drew 1-1 at home to Crystal Palace. That was their 68^th goal of the season. MANCHESTER UNITED are now up to fifth place as they win 1-0 at home to Aston Villa who are now relegated. That was United’s 53^rd goal of the season. EVERTON drew 1-1 at home to Southampton and are now on 75 goals while it’s 38 for NEWCASTLE as they win 3-0 at home to Swansea but they are still second from bottom. LIVERPOOL won 2-1 away to Bournemouth and they are now on 68 goals while WATFORD are on 37 as they win 1-0 away to West Brom. NORWICH picked up their 14^th blank of the season and now two in a row as they lost 3-0 at home to Sunderland.

CHAMPIONSHIP

MIDDLESBROUGH have moved up to the top as they win again 2-1 away to BOLTON who are now relegated. Borough are now on 68 goals while Bolton picked up their 44^th goal of the season. BURNLEY dropped down to second place as they win 2-1 away to Birmingham. Burnley are no won 69 goals. Brighton are third and in the play-off’s with Hull in fourth place. DERBY are in fifth place as they win 1-0 away to CHARLTON. Derby are on 65 goals while Charlton picked up their 20^th blank of the season. It’s 58 for BRENTFORD as they drew 1-1 at home against BRISTOL CITY who are now on 49 goals. QUEENS PARK RANGERS drew 0-0 away to CARDIFF and picked up their 12^th blank while Cardiff picked up their 14^th. LEEDS UTD are now on 49 goals as they win 3-2 at home to Reading. PRESTON and MK DONS failed to score in their last league game but they made up for that with a 1-1 draw against each other. Preston are now on 46 goals while the Dons are on 45. NOTTINGHAM FOREST picked up their 16^th blank as they drew 0-0 away to Rotherham. IPSWICH are on 57 goals as they drew 1-1 away to Sheffield Wednesday. 

LEAGUE ONE

WIGAN are top here even though they lost 3-1 away to Doncaster. Wigan are now on a total of 73 goals. BURTON ALBION are still in second place as they drew 0-0 at home against Barnsley. Burton picked up their 13^th blank of the season and now two in a row. They have scored just one goal in their last five games. MILLWALL are still our only team in the play-off’s as they lost 2-1 away to Coventry. That was their 69^th goal of the season. It’s 59 for SCUNTHORPE as they win 3-2 away to Crewe. PORT VALE are on 57 as they win 2-0 away to Gillingham. It’s another blank for BLACKPOOL as they lost 3-0 away to Rochdale. They have now failed to score in their last two games and they have a total of 21. SWINDON lost again 1-0 at home to Bury and they picked up their 14^th blank and now no goals in their last three games. CHESTERFIELD lost 3-0 at home to SHEFFIELD UNITED and that was their 16^th blank while United take their goals tally to 66. SOUTHEND are also on sixteen blank score sheets as they lost 1-0 away to Walsall.  

LEAGUE TWO

The highest team that we have here is still PLYMOUTH in fifth place as they win 2-1 away to PORTSMOUTH. Plymouth are now on 61 goals while Portsmouth are also in the play-off zone in sixth place with a total of 79 goals. EXETER drew 0-0 with Champions Northampton and that was their 11^th blank score sheet. LEYTON ORIENT won 3-2 at home to Redbridge and that takes them up to 64 goals while LUTON are on 63 after they won 3-2 away to Oxford. STEVENAGE won 2-1 at home to Newport after a two game dry spell and they are now on 52 goals. WYCOMBE picked up goal number 51 as they drew 1-1 at home to Barnet.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Championship only QUEEN OF SOUTH managed to get their game in and they drew 2-2 away to Alloa to take their goals total to 48. In the lower leagues, STENHOUSEMUIR lost 4-0 at home to Ayr to pick up their 11^th blank of the season while BERWICK won 2-1 away to Arbroath. That gives them a total of 48 goals. CLYDE drew 0-0 at home to East Fife and that was their 13^th blank of the season and now two games in a row. It’s now 48 for QUEENS PARK as they drew 1-1 away to Elgin. 

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND

RANGERS (106) CELTIC (93) MANCHESTER CITY (87) Total of 286 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

WATFORD (37) BLACKPOOL (39) NEWCASTLE (39) Total of 115 goals 

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

Just a little change inn the race to be Champion this week.

        THIS     LAST                                                M/WEEK        W/END        TOTAL       

      WEEK    WEEK             NAME                       GOALS         GOALS        GOALS     

           1                 2                R. WILLIAMS              77                   187                264                

           2               1                  B. SOPER                      69                   194                263                             3                 -                 L. KING (2001/02)        64                   197                261            

           4                 -                 J. DAVIES                     78                   183                261                 

           5                 7                D. GOODSON               90                   170                260                 

           6                 5                S. DICKINSON             66                   193                259                             7                 6                J. WISE                          76                   182                258                             8                 9                C. BOLBERY                67                   186                253                             9                 8                JA. WOOD                    69                   184                253                 

           10           -                    T. MACDONALD          76                   173               249     

Brighton's Best Result

We had three of our Golden Goals teams in action on Friday night and they all managed to pick up some goals.

All three teams are in the English Championship where BRIGHTON played their second league game of the week. On Monday they beat Nottingham Forest 2-1 and now they have won again 5-0 at home to Fulham. That is Brighton’s highest score of the season and they are now on a total of 65 goals. They have now scored in all of their last six games.

Meanwhile HULL took on WOLVES and won 2-1 at home. Hull are now on a total of 68 goals while Wolves picked up goal number 53.

Manchester United are through

The outcome of the FA CUP 6^th Round Replay between WEST HAM and MANCHESTER UNITED has now been settled with Manchester United finally winning 2-1. But the two goals only give’s United a total of 52 goals while West Ham are now on 63. Manchester United will play Everton in the Semi-finals.

We also have a few league games to catch up on and In the English Premiership EVERTON picked up their 9^th blank of the season as they drew 0-0 away to Crystal Palace.

In the Championship, MIDDLESBROUGH go top as they win 2-1 at home to Reading. Brough are now on a total of 66 goals. LEEDS are now on 46 as they win 2-1 away to Birmingham.

In League Two, LUTON after a two game dry spell for goals, Luton beat Redbridge 1-0 at home to give them goal number 59.

We had four of our Scottish teams in action over the last couple of days. HEARTS drew 0-0 away to Inverness to pick up their 8^th blank of the season while HIBERNIAN take their goals tally to 70 as they drew 2-2 at home against FALKIRK who are now on 69 goals. QUEEN OF THE SOUTH lost 4-2 away to Dumbarton and they push their goals total to 46.

Brighton Still Third

Last night in the English Championship BRIGHTON beat NOTTINGHAM FOREST 2-1 away to take their goals total to 60 goals. Brighton are our 73^rd voted team to enter the competition and they started in our 1989/90 season finishing on a total of 62 goals. Their highest score came in the 2000/01 Season with 82 goals. Last time out in our 2012/13 Season they had a grand total of 73 goals. Brighton are in their 12^th Season with Golden Goals and in them seasons they have scored a total of 792 goals which gives them an average score of 66 goals per season. Brighton have just one vote this season.

Nottingham Forest picked up their 40^th goal of the season and they started their career with us back in our very first season of 1983/84. In that season they were our 12^th voted team and they finished on a total of 78 goals. Their highest score came in the 1988/89 Season with 100 goals. Last season they finished on 75. Forest have been with us for twenty-four seasons and in that time they have netted a total of 1724 goals. That now gives them an average score of 71 goals per season. They have just three votes this time round.

Week Thirty-Six

BOB SOPER is top this weekend on weekend goals only. Bob becomes the tenth person to be top this season and he is now on a total of 257 goals. Bob picked up a total of six goals this week with goals coming from Arsenal, Manchester City and Rangers. RICHARD WILLIAMS after being at the top for a straight seven weekend in a row and 14^th over the season, is now in second place. Richard’s combination picked him up a total of just five goals over the week. His combination is Hibernian, Manchester City  and Rangers. One of the two will be champion this season.

At the other end, JOHN NICHOLLS combination managed to pick him up a total of six goals this week with one goal in midweek from Bolton and the other five from the weekend. John has been at 119 for a twenty-six weeks this season. His teams are Arsenal, Bolton and Newcastle. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Over half of us managed to pick up some more midweek goals this week. The highest score to be picked up this week was seven goals and they went to PAUL HUDSON, DAVID STAINS and BENJAMIN WAYMARK as all three had Derby and Middlesbrough as part of their combination.

The race to the £40 Midweek Jackpot has had a bit of a change around but DANIEL GOODSON is still seven goals in front with a new total of 88 goals. Middlesbrough picked him up the three goals again this week and one from Rangers. His other team is Manchester City. In second place up from three we have CRAIG EVANS now on 81 goals while in joint third place with 81 goals each we have JAMES HUNTER down from two and CHRIS SETFORD remaining in third place. In fourth place down from two is JOHN DAVIES on 78 goals. In joint fifth place all on 77 goals we still have ADRIAN BEW he is now joined with TONY KING down from four last week and back in is DAVID STAINS. In sixth place all on 76 goals we still have MICK LIDDLE and NATHAN TREADWELL but also TOM MACDONALD  down from five with JAMES WISE and BENJAMIN WAYMARK. 

This weekend we had just the one winner to pick up the full amount of cash on a total of 10 goals. The winner picked up his second win of the season and it goes to GRAHAM WARMAN.

Graham won in week nineteen but he had to share the money so this is good new for Graham who also picked up his personal best highest score of the season. Although the score takes Graham up into 26^th place, Graham went up to 17^th place in week twenty. Since his last win he has picked up another two blank score sheets taking his total to four for the season. His best team is now Celtic netting him 91 out of his total of 233 goals total. His combination is once again

CELTIC 2, DERBY 4, PORTSMOUTH 4 

WEEKEND RESULTS

 Once again this weekend we had some high scores from our Golden Goals teams but we had sixteen that failed to score any goals and another five  that had no game at all over the weekend.

Four was our highest score and we had Four teams that picked up that score. Details of these are in the results below. If you can remember last weeks average score which was a very high eight goals, this weekends average score fell right back down to 5 goals. There was three players who did not pick up any goals which one of them was me. So many thanks to Leeds and Manchester United. 

PREMIERSHIP

Champions Leicester City won again this weekend and that means that TOTTENHAM are still in second place as they win 3-0 at home to MANCHESTER UNITED. Tottenham are now on 69 goals while United picked up their 11^th blank of the season and they have now scored just three goals in their last five games which keeps them in fifth place in the league. ARSENAL in third place lost ground on the top two as they drew 3-3 away to WEST HAM. Arsenal have scored seven goals in their last two games to give them a total of 67 goals while West Ham in sixth place are now on 62 goals and they have scored in all of their last ten games. MANCHESTER CITY are still in fourth place as they win 2-1 at home to West Brom. City are now on 84 goals. Now one of our high scoring teams this week was LIVERPOOL as they won 4-1 at home to Stoke to take their goals tally to 66. NORWICH picked up their 13^th blank of the season as they lost 1-0 away to Crystal Palace While NEWCASTLE second from bottom of the table lost 3-1 away to Southampton to pick up goal number 36. CHELSEA picked up their 8^th blank score sheet of the season as they lost 1-0 away to Swansea. After a two game dry spell, it’s 74 for EVERTON as they drew 1-1 away to WATFORD who picked up goal number 36. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

BURNLEY are still top here as they win 1-0 at home to LEEDS UTD. Burnley are now on 67 goals while Leeds picked up their 14^th blank of the season. MIDDLESBROUGH are just one point behind Burnley as they win 1-0 at home to PRESTON. Borough are now on 64 goals as Preston picked up their 13^th blank score sheet. We still have three of the four teams in the play-off zone. They are Brighton in third place with HULL still in fourth place as they drew 2-2 away to Huddersfield. The goals give Hull a total of 66. DERBY are are now in fifth place as they win 4-1 at home against BOLTON. Derby have picked up eight goals this week and they are now on 64 goals while Bolton picked up goal number 43. BRISTOL CITY also picked up four goals in their 4-1 home win against Sheffield Wednesday. City are now on 48 goals. It’s 57 for BRENTFORD as they score yet another three goals as they beat IPSWICH 3-1 away. Brentford have score nine goals in their last three games. Ipswich are on 56 goals after a run of three games with out a goal. CHARLTON picked up their 47^th goal as they lost 2-1 away to QPR who take their goals tally to 56 while MK DONS lost 4-0 at home to Rotherham to pick up their 17^th blank of the season. CARDIFF are on 54 goals as they lost 2-1 away to Fulham and WOLVES drew 0-0 at home to Blackburn and that was their 14^th blank of the season. The saddest thing with this league is that we have all three teams for the drop. They are MK Dons, Charlton and Bolton. 

LEAGUE ONE

WIGAN are top here as they win 1-0 at home to Coventry and a goals total of 72 now. BURTON ALBION are still in second place as they lost 1-0 away to SCUNTHORPE. Albion picked up their 12^th blank of the season and now just one goal in their last four games while Scunthorpe hit goal number 56. MILLWALL are still the only team we have in the play-off’s as they win 3-1 at home to Shrewsbury. Millwall are now on 68 goals. CHESTERFIELD are on 60 goals as they win 2-1 away to Barnsley while SOUTHEND drew 2-2 at home to Fleetwood to take their goals total to 56. It’s 55 for PORT VALE as they win 3-0 at home to Crewe. SHEFFIELD UNITED picked up their 12^th blank of the season as they drew 0-0 at home to Gillingham and BLACKPOOL picked up their 20^th as they lost 1-0 at home to Colchester and they are now in the drop zone fourth from bottom. PETERBOROUGH are on 82 goals and our fourth best team as they lost 2-1 at home against Rochdale. SWINDON lost 1-0 away to Bradford and that was their 13^th blank and now no goals in their last two games. 

LEAGUE TWO

The highest team that we have here is PLYMOUTH now in fifth place as they lost 2-1 at home to AFC Wimbledon. Plymouth are now on 59 goals. PORTSMOUTH are also in the play-off zone in sixth place as they win 4-1 away to Redbridge. LEYTON ORIENT picked up their 9^th blank of the season as they lost 3-0 away to Barnet and LUTON picked up their 12^th blank and two in  a row as they lost 2-0 at home to Accrington. EXETER are now on 70 goals as they win 2-0 away to Yeovil. It’s 50 for WYCOMBE who drew 1-1 away to York while STEVENAGE lost 1-0 away to Nott's Co and that was their 15^th blank and two games with out a goal.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership, CELTIC march on to become champions again as they win 2-1 away to Motherwell. Celtic are now on 91 goals and they look set to becoming our second team this season to hit 100 goals. In the Championship no Rangers this weekend but FALKIRK won 3-2 at home to St Mirren taking their goals tally to 67. HIBERNIAN lost 1-0 away to Alloa to pick up their 5^th blank of the season. QUEEN OF SOUTH lost 2-1 at home to Raith but that was goal number 44 for them. In the lower leagues, STENHOUSEMUIR drew 1-1 away to Arbroath and that was their 45^th goal. BERWICK beat CLYDE 3-0 at home and they are now on 46 goals while Clyde picked up their 12^th blank of the season. It’s now 47 for QUEENS PARK as they win 3-0 away to East Stirling. 

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND

RANGERS (104) CELTIC (91) MANCHESTER CITY (84) Total of 279 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

NEWCASTLE (36) WATFORD (36) NOTTINGHAM FOREST (39) Total of 111 goals 

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

Here is how the top ten looks this week and our Champion this season will win a guarantee £100.

    THIS     LAST                                                M/WEEK        W/END        TOTAL       

  WEEK    WEEK             NAME                       GOALS         GOALS        GOALS     

       1                 2                B. SOPER                      69                   188                257                

       2               1                  R. WILLIMAS              75                   182                257                 

       3                 -                 L. KING (2001/02)       64                   190                254            

       4                 -                 J. DAVIES                     78                   176                254                 

       5                 -                 S. DICKINSON            66                   187                253                  

       6                 9                J. WISE                         76                   176                252                 

       7                 6                D. GOODSON              88                   163                251                  

       8                 -                 JA. WOOD                   69                   180                249                 

       9                 7                C. BOLBERY               67                   180                247                 

       10              -                 T. MACDONALD         76                   168                244