Happy New Year from Golden Goals

The very last post of the year and so we here at Golden Goals would like to wish you and your family a Very 

Happy New Year 

and best wishes for 2018.

Cardiff Lost again in Championship

Some of our Golden Goals teams have now played twice this week. In the English Championship they are CARDIFF who lost again 1-0 at home to Preston. Cardiff have now had six blank score sheets this season to date. QUEENS PARK RANGERS lost 1-0 away to Millwall and that is their seventh blank score sheet and now two in a row.

In League One, DONCASTER are now on 42 goals as they win 2-0 at home to Rochdale. WIGAN picked up their second blank of the week and now four over the season as they drew 0-0 at home to CHARLTON. Charlton picked up their seventh blank score sheet.

Arsenal Beat Palace

In the English Premiership, ARSENAL have remained in sixth place after they beat London rivals CRYSTAL PALACE 3-2 away. Arsenal are now on a total of 41 goals while Palace are now on 22.

Manchester City Champions?

In the English Premiership, I think we can say that MANCHESTER CITY will be this season’s champions as they win again 1-0 away to NEWCASTLE to take their goals tally to 64. Newcastle picked up their ninth blank of the season.

In the Scottish Premiership, second place ABERDEEN won 1-0 at home to Partick to pick up goal number 34 while third place RANGERS won 2-0 at home to Motherwell. Rangers are now on a total of 50 goals.

Boxing Day Results

The year is not finished yet as our Golden Goals teams are still pouring in them goals for us. The highest score that we had on Boxing Day was five goals and we had three teams that picked them up, but on with the results that will change the table on the next sheet by miles.

In the English Premiership LIVERPOOL picked up one of the five goals as they win 5-0 at home against Swansea. Liverpool have taken their goals total up to 46 goals. TOTTENHAM also picked up five goals as they win 5-2 at home against Southampton. Tottenham are now on 42 goals. CHELSEA are on 43 as they win 2-0 at home to Brighton. MANCHESTER UNITED drew 2-2 at home to Burnley after they went down 2-0 by half time. But United have taken their goals tally to 50 goals. BOURNEMOUTH drew 3-3 at home to WEST HAM to take their goals total to 25 while West Ham are now on 30. It’s 40 goals for LEICESTER CITY but they lost 2-1 away to Watford. WEST BROM picked up their ninth blank of the season as they drew 0-0 at home to EVERTON who picked up their second consecutive blank score sheet and now seven over the season.

In the Championship WOLVES are still top even after they drew 2-2 away to Millwall. Wolves are now on a total of 49 goals. NORWICH beat BIRMINGHAM 2-0 away to take their goals tally to 35 while Birmingham picked up their thirteenth blank score sheet and now just four goals in their last twelve games. BRENTFORD are on 45 goals as they win 2-1 at home to ASTON VILLA. Villa picked up goal number 38. READING lost 2-0 away to Bristol City to get their ninth blank score sheet of the season while LEEDS UNITED are on 49 as they win 2-1 away to BURTON ALBION. Albion are now on 23 goals. FULHAM won 4-2 away to CARDIFF and are now on 35 goals to Cardiff’s 38. HULL drew 0-0 at home against Derby and picked up their sixth blank score sheet and now no goals in their last three games. IPSWICH also drew 0-0 at home to QUEENS PARK RANGERS. Ipswich picked up their seventh blank and now two in a row while Rangers picked up their sixth. MIDDLESBROUGH are on 38 goals as they win 2-0 at home to BOLTON who picked up their eleventh blank of the season. SHEFFIELD UNITED won 3-0 at home to SUNDERLAND and they take their goals tally to 43 while Sunderland picked up their seventh blank score sheet.

In League One After a goal run of nine games, WIGAN picked up their third blank of the season after they drew 0-0 at home to Shrewsbury. BLACKBURN won 2-0 at home to Rochdale and are now on 52 goals. SCUNTHORPE picked up another three goals in their 3-2 away win over Blackpool. PETERBOROUGH won 3-1 away to BRADFORD and are on 55 goals to Bradford’s 44. It’s 40 goals for DONCASTER as they win 3-0 at home to Northampton. MK DONS picked up their seventh blank score sheet after they lost 1-0 at home to PLYMOUTH who picked up their 25^th goal of the season. FLEETWOOD won 2-1 away to Oldham and are now on 39 goals. It’s 30 goals for PORTSMOUTH as they win 2-1 at home against AFC Wimbledon. SOUTHEND won 3-1 at home to CHARLTON and they are now on a total of 29 goals while Charlton are on 38.

In League Two LUTON are still top as they win 5-0 away to Swindon to take their goals tally to 64. COLCHESTER won 2-0 away to Crawley and they are now on 36 goals. MANSFIELD are on 39 goals as they drew 1-1 away to Grimsby. LINCOLN CITY won 3-0 at home to Stevenage and are now on 32 goals. PORT VALE are on 31 goals as they win 1-0 at home to COVENTRY who picked up their tenth blank of the season.

We had just one Scottish result from their Premiership where CELTIC won 2-0 away to Dundee to take their goals tally to 63.

Merry Christmas

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Merry Christmas

Week Twenty-One

In Week Twenty-One of the competition we can now start the second half.  We had just one player to pick up the full amount of cash this weekend with the Christmas Jackpot worth £10. For his first win of the season it went to CHRIS BOLBERY who now becomes our 29^th winner with this season’s record score of 14 goals.

Chris started with Golden Goals back in the 1997/98 Season where he finished in 39^th place on a total of 252 goals. Last season he finished in 66^th place on 286 goals. This season we see Chris in second place for the second week and he has only had two blank score sheets from the weekend. His best team is Manchester City and the rest of his teams are

CELTIC 3, MANCHESTER CITY 4, WIGAN 7

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

We now have a total of forty-three players that are on 50 or more midweek goals and what a week it was.  We had one player that picked up the most with 10 goals and they all went to  JOHN DOVE.  His goals came from Arsenal four from their two games played and three each from Everton and Liverpool. That takes John’s midweek total to 37 but he is still some way behind the leaders. The race for the cash has changed slightly again this week.

Still in first place now on 61 goals we have JAMES BLYTH. In second place on 60 goals we now have DAVE WOOD. In third place on 59 goals is ROB FREEMAN and MIKE PEPPERRELL both moving up from five. In fourth place on 58 goals we have MATT DORAN, TONY GUY (1), STEPHEN LEADER, GRAHAM PHILLIPS and JULIE SOMERVILLE.  In fifth place all on 57 we have SIMON DICKINSON, TONY GUY (2) and (Me) STEVE REEVE.

WEEKEND RESULTS

This weekend the average score moved back up to 5 goals.  After another great start to the week with the midweek results, the weekend did even better. This weekend we had six teams without a game and another eleven teams that failed to score any goals. The highest score that we had over the weekend was seven goals and they came from the League One leaders WIGAN who won 7-0 away to Oxford. The goals take Wigans score up to 58 and they have now scored in all of their last nine games.

Wigan became our 83^rd voted English team and they did not start with Golden Goals until the 1992/93 Season where they finished on a total of 51 goals. Their highest score came in our 1998/99 Season with 84 goals. Last time out in the 2015/16 Season they finished on a total of 83 goals. This is there 12^th Season with us and they have now netted a total of 774 goals which gives them an average score of 64 goals per season. I think that this is going to be a big season for them and for the three players that have voted for them.

PREMIERSHIP

We are back to the top six teams here this weekend with MANCHESTER CITY still very much on top as they win 4-0 at home to BOURNEMOUTH. City are now on a total of 63 goals and they have now scored in all of their last eleven games. Bournemouth picked up their tenth blank score sheet and now just one goal in their last four games. MANCHESTER UNITED are now thirteen points behind them in second place as they drew 2-2 away to LEICESTER CITY. United are now on 48 goals while Leicester are now on 39 goals. In third place is still CHELSEA after they drew 0-0 away to EVERTON to pick up their fourth blank to Evertons sixth. In fourth place we still have Liverpool with TOTTENHAM in fifth place as they win 3-0 away to Burnley. Tottenham are now on a total of 37 goals. Arsenal have moved down to sixth place. WEST BROM are now on 18 goals but they lost 3-1 away to Stoke. CRYSTAL PALACE drew 1-1 away to Swansea and they are now on 20 goals. After a two game dry spell for goals, NEWCASTLE won 3-2 away to WEST HAM to take their goals tally to 21 while West Ham take theirs to 27.

CHAMPIONSHIP

We still have the top two teams here with WOLVES still on top as they win 1-0 at home to IPSWICH. Wolves are now on a total of 47 goals while Ipswich pick up their sixth blank of the season. Seven points behind them is CARDIFF who lost 2-0 away to BOLTON. As Cardiff pick up their fifth blank of the season, Bolton take their goals tally to 28. LEEDS UNITED are now in fifth place as they win 1-0 at home to HULL. Leeds are on 47 goals as Hull pick up their fifth blank and now two in a row. ASTON VILLA have now dropped down to sixth place as they drew 2-2 at home against SHEFFIELD UNITED. Villa are now on 37 goals and United are on 40. FULHAM are on 31 goals as they win 2-1 at home to Barnslay. QUEENS PARK RANGERS drew 1-1 at home to Bristol City and they are now on 28 goals. BURTON ALBION are now on 22 goals as they win 2-1 away to READING who  picked up goal number 34. MIDDLESBROUGH won 2-1 away to Sheffield Wednesday and that take their goals total to 36. BIRMINGHAM are on 18 goals as they drew 1-1 away to SUNDERLAND who are now on 31.

LEAGUE ONE

Wigan are still top here after their biggest win of the season but in third place we still have BLACKBURN who drew 1-1 away to Northampton. Blackburn are now on 50 goals. In fourth place is SCUNTHORPE as they win 3-1 at home to SOUTHEND. Scunthorpe are on a total of 35 goals while Southend picked up goal number 26. BRADFORD are now in fifth place as they lost 2-1 away to AFC Wimbledon. Bradford take their goals total to 43. In sixth place is CHARLTON who drew 1-1 at home to Blackpool and that is goal number 37 for them. DONCASTER won 1-0 away to Bristol Rovers and they are now on 37 goals. PETERBOROUGH won 3-0 at home to Bury and they are now on 52 goals while PLYMOUTH are on 24 as they pick up their biggest score of the season by winning 4-1 at home to Oldham. MK DONS lost 2-1 away to Rotherham and they are now on 36 goals. PORTSMOUTH picked up their seventh blank of the season as they lost 2-0 away to Shrewsbury.

LEAGUE TWO

LUTON are still top here as they win 2-0 at home to Grimsby to take their goals tally to 59. EXETER are still in third place as they lost 3-1 away to Yeovil but they are now on a total of 41 goals. Coventry are in fourth place with LINCOLN CITY in sixth as they drew 0-0 away to Newport and that is their tenth blank of the season. It’s 30 for PORT VALE as they win drew 1-1 away to COLCHESTER who are now on 34 goals. FOREST GREEN picked up their tenth blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 at home to Carlisle. MANSFIELD won 2-1 at home against Morecombe and they take their goals tally to 38.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Scottish Premiership, CELTIC won 3-0 at home to second place ABERDEEN and they are now on 61 goals. Aberdeen picked up their sixth blank of the season. It’s all going wrong for RANGERS as they lost again 2-1 away to Kilmarnock. Rangers are in third place with 48 goals.

In the Championship FALKIRK drew 0-0 away to Dumbarton to pick up their eighth blank and now four games with out a goal. In League One RAITH ROVERS won 2-1 away to Arbroath and that takes their goals total to 43. In League Two PETERHEAD are in second place as they win 3-2 at home to Cowdenbeath. Peterhead are on 51 goals. STENHOUSEMUIR picked up their biggest win of the season with a 4-1 home win against ELGIN CITY. Stenhousemuir are now on 34 goals and Elgin are on 35 goals.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

MANCHESTER CITY (63) CELTIC (61) LUTON (59) Total of 183 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

WEST BROM (18) BIRMINGHAM (18) CRYSTAL PALACE (20) Total of 56 goals

The team with the best run of goals is currently LEEDS UNITED who have scored in all of their last twelve games.

BIRMINGHAM and DONCASTER have both picked up the most number of blank score sheets with a total of twelve each.

Our highest goal scoring team in our 35^th Season is PETERHEAD from the Scottish League Two. They picked up our highest score in week eleven as they won 9-0 at home to non-league team Colville Park in the WILLIAM HILL CUP Second Round. 

 Our 2013/14 Champion PAUL DAVEY  is now in his sixth weekend at  number one which means he is the longest player to stay at number one. Paul’s combination picked him up three goals in midweek and another nine goals at the weekend. Paul has Celtic, Luton and Manchester City. Chris Bolbery has remained in second place after picking up a total of seventeen goals for the week. 

At the other end at number 149 we still have COLIN PINDER who is now spending his eighth consecutive weekend there and now ten over the Season. Colin picked up just three  goals from his combination all coming from the weekend. His teams are Colchester, Crystal Palace and Southend.

All change again in the top ten 

     THIS      LAST                                                   M/WEEK       W/END       TOTAL

    WEEK     WEEK             NAME                          GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

         1             -                 P. DAVEY (2013/14)        42                   141                183

         2                 -                 C. BOLBERY                  49                   133                182              

         3                 4                C. BOOM                          41                   134                175              

         4                 3                G. WARMAN                   51                   123                174

         5                 7                C. DICKER                       45                   127                172

         6                 5                A. DAVEY                        52                   119                171

         7                 6                T. BAXTER                      53                   118                171

         8                 -                 J. WEARDEN                  44                   124                168

         9                 12              D. GOODSON                  39                   126                165                                                         10              9                D. BARRETT                   40                   125                165                

             

Twelve Goals in Four games

In the English Premiership ARSENAL drew 3-3 at home to LIVERPOOL after they went a goal down in the first half. Arsenal are now on a total of 38 goals while Liverpool taker their goals tally to 41. In the Championship BRENTFORD won 2-1 away to NORWICH to take their goals total to 43 and Norwich to 33. In League One FLEETWOOD lost 2-0 at home to Gillingham to pick up their sixth blank of the season. In League Two COVENTRY are on 32 goals as they win 3-2 at home to Wycombe.

More Carabao Cup Quarter-Final Results

We have had the other three of our Golden Goals teams in cup action last night and there was some shock news as Bristol City beat MANCHESTER UNITED 2-1 at home. The single goal gives United a total of 46 goals. CHELSEA have beaten BOURNEMOUTH to go through to the next round of the League Cup. They won 2-1 at home to take their goals tally to 41 while Bournemouth picked up goal number 22.

In the Scottish Premiership, CELTIC have bounced back after their defeat by Hearts last weekend to win 2-0 at home to Partick. Celtic are now on a total of 58 goals.

Carabao Cup Quarter-Finals

In the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup we have seven of the eight teams fighting for a place in the semi-finals.

Four of them have now played in that round with ARSENAL beating London rivals WEST HAM 1-0 at home. Arsenal are now on a total of 35 goals while West Ham picked up their eighth blank of the season. MANCHESTER CITY are also through but had a very hard game against LEICESTER CITY away, as they drew 1-1 after full time and even after extra time, the two teams could not be split. In the penalty shoot-out Manchester City win 4-3. The single goals give Manchester City a total of 59 and Leicester City 37 goals.

We also had a couple of league games from the Scottish Championship FALKIRK who have not played a game for nearly three weeks, drew 0-0 away to Livingstone to pick up their seventh blank of the season and have now failed to score in their last three games. In League Two STENHOUSEMUIR drew 1-1 away to Cowdenbeath to take their goals tally to 30.

Celtic's Dream Ends

As you know Golden Goals was going to keeping an eye on Celtic this season to see if they can beat last season’s record run of playing a total of 47 league/cup games without getting any blank score sheets and scoring a grand total of 134 goals. That record was to score in all of their league games and their two domestic cup competitions. Well the dream of doing the same this season has come to an end with Hearts beating them 4-0 at home in a league game.

In week twenty and at this stage last season Celtic had played a total of twenty league/cup games and netted a total of 57 goals. This Season in the same week, Celtic have played twenty-one games and have scored a total of 56 goals. So although they have played one game more than at this stage last season, they are now one goal behind.  Celtic had played a total of 68 league/cup games without a blank score sheet and a total of 190 goals.

Three Points For Everton

In the English Premiership, EVERTON have moved up to 9^th place as they win 3-1 at home against Swansea. Everton have now scored in all of their last eight games and have taken their goals tally to 28.

Week Twenty

In Week Twenty of the competition it’s half time here and before the whistle was blown, we had just one player to pick up the full amount of cash this weekend with 10 goals. For his second win of the season it went to STUART KEMP.

Stuart won in week two on nine goals and he had to share the cash then. So Stuart has now won a total of £9 in cash so far this season. Since then he has picked up three blank score sheets giving him a total of four in the first half. The good news for Stuart is that he is back on the front page and we see him at his highest position to date. His highest score at the weekend was in week seven with 11 goals. His best team is Manchester City. Here are his teams once again

 LIVERPOOL 4, MANCHESTER CITY 4, MANCHESTER UNITED 2

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Last week we had a total of five players that were on 50 or more midweek goals and with the results over midweek there are now a total of twenty-two of us hoping to win the cash. All but six of you managed to pick up some more midweek goals this week. We had two players that picked up the most with 10 goals each. They are CHRIS BOLBERY and BRADLEY CLARK. Like most of you they had Celtic and Manchester City as part of their combination, but Chris has Wigan and Bradley has Chelsea to make the set. so the race for the cash has changed slightly again this week.

Still in first place now on 59 goals we have JAMES BLYTH. In second place on 56 goals we have (Me) STEVE REEVE and up from three JULIE SOMERVILLE.  In third place on 55 goals is STEPHEN LEADER jumping in. In fourth place still on 54 goals we have SIMON DICKINSON and TONY KING.  In joint fifth place we have ROB FREEMAN, MIKE PEPPERRELL and JUNE TIGHE all on 53 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

This weekend the average score fell down again from four goals last weekend to just 3 this weekend. After a great start to the week from the midweek results, the weekend did fall a bit flat. This weekend we had six teams without a game and another sixteen teams that failed to score any goals. The highest score that we had over the weekend was four goals and we had four teams that did manage to score them.  

PREMIERSHIP

We have the top five teams here this weekend with MANCHESTER CITY still top as they win 4-1 at home to TOTTENHAM. City are now on a total of 58 goals and they have now scored in all of their last nine games. MANCHESTER UNITED are still eleven points behind them in second place as they won 2-1 away to WEST BROM. United are now on 45 goals while West Brom hit goal number 17 after a three game dry spell for goals. In third place is still CHELSEA after they won 1-0 at home against Southampton to pick up goal number 39. In fourth place we still have LIVERPOOL who won 4-0 away to BOURNEMOUTH. Liverpool are now on 38 goals while Bournemouth picked up their second blank in a week and now nine over the season. ARSENAL are in fifth place again as they win 1-0 at home to NEWCASTLE. Arsenal are now on a total of 34 goals while Newcastle picked up their eighth blank of the season. CRYSTAL PALACE are doing very well of late as they win 3-0 away to LEICESTER CITY to take their goals tally to 19 while City picked up their fourth blank of the season. It’s 25 goals for WEST HAM as they win 3-0 away to Stoke.

CHAMPIONSHIP

We still have the top two teams here with Wolves still on top with CARDIFF now just four points behind them as they win 1-0 at home against HULL. Cardiff are now on 36 goals while Hull picked up their fourth blank of the season. In fifth place is still ASTON VILLA who lost 2-0 away to Derby to picked up their eighth blank of the season and now two in a row. In sixth place is SHEFFIELD UNITED who lost 1-0 away to Preston to get their fifth blank of the season. LEEDS UNITED won 1-0 at home to NORWICH to take their goals tally to 46 while Norwich picked up their sixth blank score sheet. BIRMINGHAM lost 2-1 at home to QUEENS PARK RANGERS to give them a total of 17 goals after a run of two games with out a goal. Rangers are now on 27 goals. BOLTON lost 1-0 at home to BURTON ALBION  to picked up their tenth blank score sheet while Albion have now netted 20 goals. BRENTFORD drew 0-0 at home to Barnsley to get their six blank of the season. It’s 40 goals for IPSWICH as they win 2-0 at home to READING who picked up their eighth blank score sheet. MIDDLESBROUGH are on 34 goals as they lost 2-1 away to Millwall. SUNDERLAND are on 30 goals as they win 1-0 at home against FULHAM who picked up their sixth blank score sheet.

LEAGUE ONE

WIGAN are still top here as they win 4-0 away to AFC Wimbledon to take their goals tally to 51. Wigan have now scored in all of their last eight games. In the play-off zone at the moment we have all four teams. In third place is BLACKBURN after they won 2-0 at home to CHARLTON who are in sixth place. Blackburn are now on 49 goals while Charlton picked up their sixth blank of the season and now two in a row. BRADFORD are still in fourth place as they win 2-1 away to SOUTHEND. While Bradford take their goals tally to 42, Southend are now on 25. Behind them is still SCUNTHORPE in fifth place after they drew 2-2 at home to MK DONS. After a two game dry spell for goals Scunthorpe are now on 32 goals while the Dons are on 35. DONCASTER are on 36 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Oldham. PORTSMOUTH picked up their 28^th goal of the season and now five goals in five games as they win 1-0 at home to Bury. It’s 20 goals for PLYMOUTH as they drew 1-1 away to Rotherham. PETERBOROUGH won 3-2 away to FLEETWOOD and are now on 49 goals while Fleet are on 37. 

LEAGUE TWO

LUTON are still top here as they win 2-0 away to FOREST GREEN. Luton are now on 57 goals while Forest Green picked up their ninth blank of the season. EXETER are now in third place as they win 2-1 at home to Stevenage Exeter are now on a total of 40 goals. LINCOLN CITY are still in sixth place after they won 2-0 at home against Accrington to take their goals total to 29. In seventh place is COVENTRY after they won 2-1 at home to Cheltenham and they are now on 29 goals.  It’s 29 for PORT VALE as they win 2-1 away to Grimsby. MANSFIELD drew 0-0 at home to Yeovil to pick up their sixth blank of the season and now two in a row.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Scottish Premiership, CELTIC’S record run of scoring in all of their twenty-one league and cup games is over as they lost 4-0 away to Hearts.  What an incredible record they have made by scoring in all of their last 68 games starting from the beginning of last season. That is going to be one hell of a record to beat. ABERDEEN have moved back in to second place as they win 4-1 at home to Hibernian. Aberdeen with seven goals in a week are now on a total of 33 goals. RANGERS are back to third place after they lost 3-1 at home to St Johnstone. Rangers picked up goal number 47.   

In League Two ELGIN CITY lost 3-0 away to Montrose and that is their ninth blank of the season. STENHOUSEMUIR won 2-1 away to Edinburgh City and they are now on 29 goals.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

MANCHESTER CITY (58) LUTON (57) CELTIC (56) Total of 171 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

WEST BROM (17) BIRMINGHAM (17) NEWCASTLE (18) Total of 52 goals

The team with the best run of goals is currently LEEDS UNITED who have scored in all of their last eleven games.

BIRMINGHAM and DONCASTER have both picked up the most number of blank score sheets with a total of twelve each.

Our highest goal scoring team in our 35^th Season is PETERHEAD from the Scottish League Two. They picked up our highest score in week eleven as they won 9-0 at home to non-league team Colville Park in the WILLIAM HILL CUP Second Round. 

Our 2013/14 Champion PAUL DAVEY  is now celebrating his fifth weekend at  number one as his combination picked him up a total of seven goals in midweek with another six goals at the weekend. Paul has Celtic, Luton and Manchester City. He is down to six goals clear of Chris Bolbery who has moved back up to second place.

At the other end at number 149 we still have COLIN PINDER who is now spending his seventh consecutive weekend there and now nine over the Season, which makes him our longest player to stay there. Colin picked up five goals from his combination in midweek with another four from the weekend. His teams are Colchester, Crystal Palace and Southend.

It's half time here at Golden Goals and here is how the top ten stands this week. 

      THIS      LAST                                                  M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

     WEEK     WEEK             NAME                         GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

          1             -                 P. DAVEY (2013/14)      39                   132                171

          2                 7                C. BOLBERY                  46                   119                165              

          3                 4                G. WARMAN                  48                   115                163              

          4                 2                C. BOOM                        38                   124                162

          5                 6                A, DAVEY                      49                   111                160

          6                 5                T. BAXTER                    50                   110                160

         7                 8                C. DICKER                     41                   118                159

          8                 3                J. WEARDEN                41                   117                158

         9                 15              D. BARRETT                 37                   117                154                                

         10                -               A. NEWMAN                 46                    108                154

Wolves Seven Points Clear at Top

In the English Championship WOLVES are now seven points clear of second place Cardiff after they won 1-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday. Wolves have now taken their goals tally to 46.

In League Two COLCHESTER have moved up to fifth place after they won 3-2 away to Swindon to take their goals total to 33.

Last Replay of FA Cup 2nd Round

The last of the FA CUP Second Round Replays have now been played in which our very last team have made it through to the next round. That team is FLEETWOOD TOWN where they won 2-0 away to non-league Hereford FC. Fleetwood are now on a total of 35 goals.

Blackburn are Through

We have another one of our teams through to the next round of the FA Cup. That team is BLACKBURN who have 12 votes this season. They beat Crewe 1-0 away in the second round replay. Blackburn are now on a total of 47 goals.

Meanwhile in the English Premiership MANCHESTER CITY won 4-0 away to Swansea and they are now on 54 goals. Could we already be seeing City as this season’s Champions? MANCHESTER UNITED won just 1-0 at home to BOURNEMOUTH. United take their goals tally to 43 while Blackburn picked up their eighth blank score sheet of the season. LIVERPOOL after a goal run of eight games picked up their fourth blank of the season as they drew 0-0 at home to WEST BROM who picked up their eighth blank and now three games in a row. EVERTON won 1-0 away to NEWCASTLE to take their goals total to 24 while Newcastle picked up their seventh blank score sheet. LEICESTER CITY picked up their highest score for some while as they win 4-1 away to Southampton. Leicester are now on 36 goals. TOTTENHAM are on 33 goals as they win 2-0 at home to Brighton. ARSENAL drew 0-0 away to WEST HAM to pick up their fourth blank after a goal run of thirteen games. West Ham picked up their seventh blank of the season.

In the Scottish Premiership CELTIC extend their goal run to twenty-one as they win 3-1 at home to Hamilton. Celtic are now on a total of 56 goals. RANGERS are on 46 goals as they win 2-1 away to Hibernian. ABERDEEN won 3-0 away to St Johnstone and they take their goals tally to 29.

FA CUP Second Round Replays.

We had five of our Golden Goal teams playing in the FA CUP Second Round Replays and what drama there was. PETERBOROUGH picked up the highest score of the night as they won 5-2 at home to non-league Woking, after going a goal down in the first nineteen minutes of the first half. Borough are now on a total of 46 goals. WIGAN are also through as they win 3-2 at home to non-league AFC Fylde to take their goals tally to 47. EXETER have also gone through to the next round as they win 2-1 after extra time against FOREST GREEN who scored first. Exeter are now on a total of 38 while Forest Green hit goal number 28. PORT VALE are out of the cup after they lost 3-2 after extra time with nine men. Vale are now on a total of 27 goals.

In the English Premiership CHELSEA won 3-1 away to Huddersfield which took their goals total to 38 while CRYSTAL PALACE won 2-1 at home to Watford after going a goal down in the first half. Palace have now moved out of the relegation zone with a total of 16 goals after they won their third league game out of seventeen played.

Cardiff Drop Points

In the English Championship, READING drew 1-1 at home to CARDIFF to take their goals tally to 33 while Cardiff remain in second place and now four points behind leaders Wolves with a total of 35 goals.

Week Nineteen

In Week Nineteen of the competition and we had our fourth Rollover worth £12 and we had three players that had to share the cash. All of our winners pick up their first win of the season which now takes our winners total to 28. Our winners won on a score of 10 goals each. They are STEPTOE & SON (Jamie Marson), PETER WELLARD and our 2015/16 Champion RICHARD WILLIAMS.

Jamie has been with Golden Goals for fifteen Seasons and he started with us in our 21^st Season (2003/04) where he finished in 77^th place out of 90 on a total of 235 goals. In that season he had two weekend wins winning over £4 in cash. Last season Jamie finished in 45^th place on 300 goals. Back to this season, and we can see Jamie at his highest position of the season so far. He has picked up three blank score sheets to date and his best team is Manchester City.

Peter started with us back in the 2004/05 Season where he finished in 57^th place out of 105 with 261 goals and two weekend wins. Peter was with us for ten seasons before he left us. So the good news is that he is back and he is also at his highest so far. He has also picked up three blank score sheets and his best team is Celtic.

Richard has also been with us for a total of fifteen seasons starting from 1992/93 to 2002/03 and then he came back to us in the 2015/16 Season where he became Champion. In that season he finished on a total of 298 goals and won £100 in cash. Last season he finished in 103^rd place on 260 goals. This season he has been as high as 35 in week three. This is his biggest score of the season and he has also had three blank score sheets. Richards best team is Celtic. Our winners combinations are

Jamie  BLACKBURN 3, MANCHESTER CITY 2, TOTTENHAM 5

Peter  BLACKBURN 3, CELTIC 2, TOTTENHAM 5

Richard  CELTIC 2, NORWICH 3, TOTTENHAM 5

MIDWEEK RESULTS

We only had five of our teams in midweek action and we had just one team that failed to pick up any goals. In the English Championship WOLVES beat BIRMINGHAM 1-0 away in which Birmingham picked up their eleventh blank of the season while SHEFFIELD UNITED lost 2-1 at home to Bristol City and they have taken their goal tally to 38.

In the Scottish Premiership, ABERDEEN won 1-0 away to Dundee. Aberdeen are now on a total of 26 goals. In League Two PETERHEAD won 1-0 away to Stirling. Peterhead have taken their goals tally to 48 and they have now scored in all of their last eight games.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Only nine players managed to pick up some more midweek goals this week so the race for the cash has changed slightly this week.

Still in first place now on 54 goals we have JAMES BLYTH. In second place on 52 goals we have (Me) STEVE REEVE In third place down one, we have JULIE SOMERVILLE on 51 goals. In fourth place still on 50 goals we have SIMON DICKINSON and TONY KING.  In joint fifth place we have MATT DORAN, PHIL FRANCKSEN, ROB FREEMAN, CHRIS SETFORD, JUNE TIGHE and DAVE WOOD plus moving up from sixth place we have TONY GUY (1), GRAHAM PHILLIPS and BOB SAWYER all on 49 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

This weekend the average score fell back down from eight goals last weekend to 4 this weekend. It has been a very funny weekend for our teams where teams that should of won, did not. This weekend we had six teams without a game and another fifteen teams that failed to score any goals.

The highest score that we had over the weekend came from the English Premiership where TOTTENHAM  picked up their highest score of the season by beating Stoke 5-1 at home. Tottenham are now on a total of  31 goals.

Tottenham are one of our original teams from Season One as they became our tenth most voted team that season where they finished on a score of 71 goals. This is Tottenhams 34^th Season with Golden Goals and their highest end of season goals total of 109 goals came in the 1986/87 and 2016/17 Seasons. Their lowest score was in 1987/88 with 47 goals. Over the years they have now netted a total of 2459 which gives them an average score of  72  goals per season. They have twenty-two votes this season.

PREMIERSHIP

We Still have the top six teams here with MANCHESTER CITY still top as they beat their local rivals MANCHESTER UNITED 2-1 away. City have taken their goals tally to 50 while United are now eleven points behind in second place with a total of 42 goals. In third place is still CHELSEA after they lost 1-0 away to WEST HAM. Chelsea have now had three blank score sheets while West Ham take their goals total to 22. In fourth place we still have LIVERPOOL who drew 1-1 at home to rivals EVERTON. Liverpool are now on 34 goals while Everton are on 24. ARSENAL are in fifth place again as they drew 1-1 away to Southampton. Arsenal picked up goal number 33 and they have now scored in all of their last thirteen games. Tottenham remain in sixth place after their win. CRYSTAL PALACE are picking up the points but remain bottom as they drew 2-2 at home to BOURNEMOUTH to take their goals tally to 14 after a two game dry spell. Bournemouth are now on 21 goals. LEICESTER CITY won 3-2 away to NEWCASTLE to give them a total of 32 goals to Newcastle’s 18. WEST BROM picked up their seventh blank score sheet and now two in a row as they lost 1-0 away to Swansea.

CHAMPIONSHIP

We still have the top two teams here with WOLVES still on top after they drew 0-0 at home to SUNDERLAND. As Wolves picked up their fourth blank score sheet, Sunderland have now had six. Cardiff have remained in second place even though they had no game over the weekend. ASTON VILLA are in fifth place still as they drew 0-0 at home to Millwall. Villa picked up their seventh blank score sheet. Sheffield United are down to sixth  place this weekend. BURTON ALBION lost 2-1 at home to Preston but picked up goal number 19 after a two game dry spell for goals. FULHAM are on 29 goals as they win 1-0 at home to BIRMINGHAM. Birmingham picked up their twelfth blank of the season and now just two goals in their last nine games. HULL won 3-2 at home to BRENTFORD and they are now on 37 goals while Brentford are on 41. MIDDLESBROIUGH won 2-0 at home to IPSWICH and they are now on 33 goals while Ipswich picked up their fifth blank score sheet. NORWICH won 3-1 at home to Sheffield Wednesday and they are now on 32 goals. BIOLTON are on 26 goals as they lost 3-2 away to Nottingham Forest. It’s 45 for LEEDS as they win 3-1 away to QUEENS PARK RANGERS who take their goals tally to 25. 

LEAGUE ONE

WIGAN are still top here as they win 2-0 at home to FLEETWOOD. Wigan are now on a total of 44 goals while Fleetwood picked up their fifth blank of the season. BLACKBURN have moved up to third place as they win 3-2 away to PETERBOROUGH. Blackburn are now on 46 goals while Borough are on 41. BRADFORD are in fourth place as they win 4-2 at home to Rochdale and have taken their goals total to 40. Behind them are SCUNTHORPE who lost 1-0 away to Walsall to pick up their second consecutive blank score sheets and now nine over the season. CHARLTON are in sixth place but lost 1-0 at home to PORTSMOUTH to get their fifth blank of the season while Portsmouth picked up goal number 27. SOUTHEND lost 3-0 away to Bristol Rovers to pick up their eighth blank score sheet. MK DONS are on 33 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Shrewsbury. DONCASTER lost 1-0 away to Oxford and they have now had a total of twelve blank score sheets. PLYMOUTH won 2-1 at home to Gillingham to take their goals tally to 19.

LEAGUE TWO

LUTON are top here as they drew 1-1 at home to Notts County. Luton are now on 55 goals. EXETER are in fourth place as they lost 3-1 away to COLCHESTER. Exeter are now on a total of 36 while Colchester are now on 30 goals. LINCOLN CITY are in sixth place after they won 2-0 away to Yeovil. Lincoln are on 27 goals. COVENTRY picked up their ninth blank of the season as they lost 2-0 away to Morecombe. MANSFIELD lost 2-0 away to Crawley and that is their fifth blank of the season. FOREST GREEN have now had eight blank score sheets as they went down 1-0 away to Grimsby. It’s 25 for PORT VALE as they win 2-0 at home to Cambridge.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Scottish Premiership, CELTIC drew 2-2 away to Hibernian after going two goals up. But Celtic have extended their run of goals to twenty games with a total of 53 goals. RANGERS are in second place and now five points behind their rivals Celtic after they win 2-1 at home to Ross County after going a goal down in the first half.

In League One RAITH drew 2-2 away to  Airdrie which took their goals tally up to 41 goals. In League Two ELGIN CITY drew 1-1 at home to Edinburgh City and they are now on 34 goals while STENHOUSEMUIR lost 3-1 at home to Anna and they are now on 27 goals.  

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

LUTON (55) CELTIC (53) MANCHESTER CITY (50) Total of 158 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

CRYSTAL PALACE (14) BIRMINGHAM (16) WEST BROM (16) Total of 46 goals

The only team with a 100% goal scoring run is CELTIC who have now scored in all of their twenty League/Cup games played with a total of 53 goals. That still gives them an average score of 2.6 goals per game.

BIRMINGHAM and DONCASTER have both picked up the most number of blank score sheets with a total of twelve each.

Our highest goal scoring team in our 35^th Season is PETERHEAD from the Scottish League Two. They picked up our highest score in week eleven as they won 9-0 at home to non-league team Colville Park in the WILLIAM HILL CUP Second Round. 

 Our 2013/14 Champion PAUL DAVEY could be looking at his second title as he is now celebrating his fourth weekend at  number one as his combination picked him up a total of just 5 goals all coming from the weekend. Paul has Celtic, Luton and Manchester City. He is still seven goals clear of Chris Boom in second place.

At the other end at number 149 we still have COLIN PINDER who is now spending his sixth consecutive weekend there and now eight over the Season. Colin picked up five goals from his combination all coming from the weekend once again. His teams are Colchester, Crystal Palace and Southend.

We have had a bit of a change again this weekend but here are the top ten 

     THIS      LAST                                                    M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

     WEEK     WEEK             NAME                          GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

          1             -                 P. DAVEY (2013/14)        32                  126                158

          2                 -                 C. BOOM                          31                  120                151              

          3                 -                 J. WEARDEN                   37                  113                150              

         4                 5                G. WARMAN                    40                  109                149

          5                 4                T. BAXTER                      42                  106                148

         6                 7                A. DAVEY                         42                  106                148

         7                 6                C. BOLBERY                    36                  111                147

         8                 -                 C. DICKER                       33                  112                145

         9                 -                 J. BLYTH                          54                  90                  144                             

         10              -                 A. NEWMAN                    39                  102                141