Week Twenty-Six

It’s Week Twenty-six of Season 34 and we had two winners  to share the cash this weekend on a score of 13 goals each. Our winners this weekend are TONY GUY our 2010/11 Champion who picks his first win of the season which now takes our winners total to thirty-one, while our other winner JOHN WOOD  becomes the first player to pick up their third win of the season.

Tony started with Golden Goals back in the 2010/11 Season on where he became our 28^th Champion in his first season. Tony won the competition on a total of 307 goals and won £60 in cash. Tony has two combinations with us this season and he has done this for quite a while now. Last season Tony finished in 42^nd place on 257 goals while his second combination finished in 93^rd place on 232 goals. This season he has had three blank score sheets and this is the highest that he has been to date.

John last won in week twenty-two where he shared the cash again. With his personnel best score of the season, john has taken his winnings to over £14 in cash. He has still only had three blank score sheets and he has moved back into seventh place this weekend. Our winners combinations are 

Tony - ARSENAL 5, CELTIC 4, MANCHESTER UNITED 4 

John - ARSENAL 5, CELTIC 4, CHELSEA 4 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Most of us managed to pick up some more goals this week with the highest score that we had was four goals and they went to PHIL COLLINS.  Phil has Aberdeen, Manchester City and Manchester United. The four goals takes his midweek total to 53. There was hardly any change in the race for the cash this week as we still have DARYL NICHOLLS remaining in the lead now with a total of 88 goals. Six goals behind him in second place we still have  DANIEL GOODSON and MANGO both now on a total of 82 goals.  In third place both on 81 goals we still have GRANT PHILLIPS and STALKY (2). Still in fourth place on 79 goals we still have CHRIS SETFORD. In fifth place we still have DAVID SMITHERS on a total of 77 goals while joining him back in the race is BRADLEY HAYES.

The good news this weekend is that we now have a total of ninety-four players that are now over the 50 goals mark. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had another fantastic weekend for goals this weekend and we once again had a few high scores from a couple of them. Although we had a total of twelve teams without a game this weekend, we also had nine teams that failed to score any goals. So the good news this weekend is that the average score for the second weekend running, remained at 7 goals each. Out of the thirty-four English teams that we had in action over the weekend, sixteen of them were involved in the FA CUP Fourth Round and this is where the highest scores came from.  

ARSENAL picked up the highest score and a place in the next round as they won 5-0 away to SOUTHAMPTON. This is the second time that Arsenal have netted five goals in a game this season and they are now on a total of 63 goals. Southampton picked up their ninth blank of the season.

Arsenal are in their thirty-second season and they started with us in our second season where they finished on a total of 75 goals. They are our 26^th voted English team then and their highest score came in 2002/03 when they finished on a total of 103 goals. Last season they finished on just 77 goals which was their worst score in sixteen seasons. Arsenal have netted a total of 2635 goals over the years and that gives them an average score of 82 goals per season. They have a total of 16 votes this season.

FA CUP Fourth Round

We had a total of sixteen of our teams in action in this round but only seven have made it through to the next round so far. We had a total of  seven teams that went out with another two teams involved in a replay. They are Derby and Leicester City who drew on Friday night. We already know about Arsenal getting through and that Southampton are out, but who are the other teams that have made it to round five. Well also through are CHELSEA as they win 4-0 at home to BRENTFORD and that takes their goals tally to 63 while Brentford picked up their tenth blank of the season. MANCHESTER CITY are in the next round as they win 3-0 away to Crystal Palace and City are now on a total of 53 goals. MANCHESTER UNITED won 4-0 at home to Wigan and they take their goals tally to 52. TOTTENHAM went two goals down against Wycombe but finally won 4-3 at home. Tottenham are now on 57 and they have scored in all of their last nine games. MILLWALL are on 57 goals and are in the next round as they win 1-0 at home to Watford. One of the shocks in this round was that LIVERPOOL are out of their second cup competition in a week as they lost 2-1 at home to WOLVES. Liverpool are now on a total of 65 goals while Wolves are now on 42. So the teams that are also out are NEWCASTLE. They lost 3-0 away to Oxford and that was their sixth blank of the season. LEEDS UNITED lost 1-0 away to non-league Sutton United. Leeds have now had a total of eight blank score sheets to date. BRIGHTON may be on a total of 55 goals but they lost to non-league team Lincoln City 3-1. ACCRINGTON STANLEY are also out as they lost 1-0 away to Middlesbrough to pick up their twelve blank of the season.

CHAMPIONSHIP

We still have the same four of the top six in this league with Brighton going back on top with Newcastle in second place and Leeds United in fourth place. Sheffield Wednesday are still in sixth place. But we did have four of our teams that did play as they are out of the FA Cup. They are NORWICH who won 2-0 at home to Birmingham and that takes their goals total to 59. PRESTON picked up goal number 45 in their 1-0 home draw against Ipswich. QUEENS PARK RANGERS lost 2-1 at home to Burton and that was their 33^rd goal of the season. CARDIFF are also on 33 goals as they lost 2-1 away to Reading. 

LEAGUE ONE

We still have just three of the top six teams here with SCUNTHORPE going back on top after they won 3-2 at home to PORT VALE. Scunthorpe are now on 60 goals while Port vale are now on 37. Sheffield United moved down to second place a sthey had now game while BRADFORD are still in fifth place after they won 2-1 away to OLDHAM. Bradford are now on 37 goals while Oldham are on 22 goals and still second from bottom. GILLINGHAM drew 1-1 at home to Shrewsbury and they are on 45 goals while CHARLTON after going a goal down came back to win 2-1 with ten men away to Bolton. Charlton take their goals tally to 39. BRISTOL ROVERS are on a total of 57 goals as they win 1-0 at home to Swindon. WALSALL were two goals down at half time but drew 3-3 in the end with Bury away. Walsall are now on a total of 36 goals. SOUTHEND are on 41 goals as they drew 1-1 away to Fleetwood. MK DONS picked up another high score as they win 4-0 away to PETERBOROUGH. It’s nine goals in their last two games for MK Dons and they are now on a total of 49 goals. Borough picked up their seventh blank and now two in a row.

LEAGUE TWO

We are back to just four teams out of the top seven teams here this weekend with DONCASTER still on top after they won 3-0 away to YEOVIL. Doncaster are now on a total of 60 goals while Yeovil picked up their eleventh blank of the season. Plymouth are still in second place while LUTON moved up to fourth place after they won 2-0 at home to Cambridge United. Luton are now on 52 goals. PORTSMOUTH have moved down to fifth place after they lost 1-0 at home to Exeter. Portsmouth have picked up their sixth blank of the season. It’s been a while since LEYTON ORIENT have played but they lost 2-0 away to Manfield to pick up their eleventh blank score sheet of the season.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Scottish Premiership I think that we can say that CELTIC will be Champions again as they win 4-0 at home against Hearts to take their goals tally to 73. Celtic have now scored in all of their twenty-seven league and cup games and they are twenty-two points in front of rivals Rangers. RANGERS won 2-0 away to Motherwell to take their goals total to 52.  

St JOHNSTONE won 3-0 at home to Hamilton and that takes their goals tally to 44.  After a four game dry spell of goals, KILMARNOCK are now on 24 goals as they win 3-2 at home to Ross County.

In the Championship top of the table HIBERNIAN won 1-0 away to Queen of South and that now gives them a total of 45 goals. FALKIRK in fourth place won 2-1 away to St Mirren and they are now on 37 goals.

In League One, PETERHEAD won 4-0 at home to Queens Park and that was their biggest result of the season. Peterhead are now on 36 goals. STENHOUSEMUIR are on a total of 38 goals as they win 4-2 at home to Airdrie.

Our Best Three Teams Are

CELTIC (73) NEWCASTLE (69) LIVERPOOL (65) Total of 207 goals

Our Worst Three Teams Are

OLDHAM (22) KILMARNOCK (24) ASTON VILLA (29) Total of 75 goals 

Our Best team on form is still CELTIC after they have scored in all of their twenty-seven League and Cup games played and netting a total of 73 goals which still gives them an average score of two goals per game.

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

Our highest goal scorers in our 34^th Season are  HIBERNIAN after they won 8-1 away to non-league team Bonnyrigg Ross in the Fourth Round of the Scottish WILLIAM HILL CUP in Week Twenty-Five.

DANIEL GOODSON is now in his tenth weekend in a row at the top and now eleven weeks over the season. His combination picked him up a total of six goals over the week. One came from midweek and the rest came from the weekend. The goals came from Celtic 4, Newcastle 0 and Liverpool 1 which are once again our best three teams this weekend. Dan has kept his lead of two goals as our 2002/03 Champion Mike Pepperrell and Stephen Stubbs move up to joint second place this weekend.

At the other end at that dreaded number 136 we still have KATHY SOMERVILLE as her combination picked her up a total of seven goals for the week. Kathy is now in her fifth weekend at the bottom and now eleven weeks over the season. Kathy’s teams are Oldham, Tottenham and Yeovil. Kathy is now just three goals behind Malcolm Stubbs who has remained at 135^th place this weekend.

   THIS      LAST                                                           M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

   WEEK     WEEK             NAME                                  GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

      1            -                  D. GOODSON                         82                   125                207              

        2                 4                M. PEPPERRELL (2002/03)    68                   137                205

       3                 -                 S. STUBBS                                72                   133                205

       4                 2                J. TIGHE                                    70                   134                204                                                5                 6                G. DOCKERILL (1994/95)       61                   140                201

       6                 5                G.  PHILLIPS                            81                   120                201                                               7                 11              JOHN WOOD                          47                   152                199              

       8                 7                L. CLARK                                 72                   127                199              

       9                 8                D. NICHOLLS                          88                   109                197                              

       10               14              N. HORTON                             56                   139                195 

FA CUP Fourth Round

The first game of the FA CUP Fourth Round has been played and it involved two of our Golden Goals teams DERBY and LEICESTER CITY. But there were no winners as Derby drew 2-2 at home to Leicester. Derby have taken their goals tally to 33 while Leicester are now on 30 after a two game dry spell for goals.

In the Scottish Premiership, ABERDEEN picked up the highest score of midweek as they win 3-0 at home against Dundee. Aberdeen are now second in the league and twenty-one points behind leaders Celtic. Aberdeen have take their goals total to 47 with ten goals coming from their last four games.                                                                                                              

Manchester United In EFL Cup Final

MANCHESTER UNITED managed to beat Hull in their first leg game in the EFL Cup Semi-Final but failed to win the second leg and lost 2-1 away to Hull. So by the skin of their teeth,, Manchester United are through to the finals as they win 3-2 on aggregate. The single goal moves their goals total to 48.

Manchester United will meet Southampton in the EFL Cup Final on 26^th February at Wembley.

Liverpool are out of the EFL Cup

LIVERPOOL are out of the EFL Cup after they lost their second leg Semi-Final game 1-0 at home to SOUTHAMPTON. Southampton win 2-0 on aggregate and the single goal takes Southampton’s goals tally to 32 and a place in the final while Liverpool picked up their sixth blank score sheet of the season.

In the English Championship, LEEDS UNITED have moved back up to third place as they win 2-0 at home to Nottingham Forest. Leeds are now on a total of 47 goals and they have now scored in all of their last nine games.

In the Scottish Premiership, CELTIC are now 22 points in front of second place rivals Rangers after they won 1-0 at home to St JOHNSTONE. Celtic are now on a total of 69 goals and have now extended their goal run to twenty-six games while St Johnstone picked up their sixth blank of the season. 

Brighton Back On Top Again

In the English Championship, BRIGHTON have moved back on top of the league after they won 1-0 at home to CARDIFF. Brighton picked up goal number 54 while Cardiff picked up their eleventh blank of the season.

In League One OLDHAM beat PETERBOROUGH 2-0 at home to win their fifth league game of the season out of twenty-seven played. Oldham are now on a total of 21 goals while Borough picked up their sixth blank of the season after a goal run of ten games. SHEFFIELD UNITED picked up their fourth blank score sheet after they lost 2-0 at home to Fleetwood. That was their sixth league game that they have lost out of twenty-nine played.

Week Twenty-Five

It’s Week Twenty-five of Season 34 and we had just one winner to pick up the full £6 cash Weekend Jackpot on a score of 15 goals. Our winner this weekend is CHRIS NUNN who becomes our thirtieth winner of the season.

Chris started with Golden Goals in the 1992/93 Season where he finished in 39^th place on 213 goals. The first time that Chris finished in the winning frame was in the 1996/97 Season in 25^th place on 265 goals picking up £3 in winnings. Last season he once again finished in the winning frame in 10^th place on a total of 281 goals winning £17.50 pence. This season Chris has moved back into the winning frame with his highest score of the season and the second player to reach fifteen goals this season. Chris has picked up just two blank score sheets and Celtic is his best team to date. His teams are 

CELTIC 3, HIBERNIAN 8, NEWCASTLE 4

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

Just under half of us managed to pick up some more goals this week with the highest score that we had was five goals and we had two players that picked that total up. They went to DARYL NICHOLLS and LUCIFER (John Wood). Both of them has Brighton and Newcastle as part of their combinations but Daryl has Celtic while Lucifer has Accrington Stanley. So once again this week we have had a little change in the race for the cash this weekend with DARYL NICHOLLS remaining in the lead now with a total of 86 goals. Five goals behind in second place we still have  MANGO but DANIEL GOODSON moves up from three to join him both on a total of 81 goals.  In third place both on 80 goals we still have GRANT PHILLIPS but he is joined with STALKY (2) up from fourth place. Still in fourth place on 79 goals we still have CHRIS SETFORD. In fifth place we still have DAVID SMITHERS on a total of 77 goals while back in the race on 76 goals is ANDY EYLES.

The good news this weekend is that we now have a total of eighty-eight players that are now over the 50 goals mark.

WEEKEND RESULTS 

We had a fantastic weekend for goals from our teams in action over the weekend and we once again had a few high scores from a couple of them. We had a total of nine teams with out a game this weekend with another six teams that failed to score any goals. So the good news this weekend is that the average score shot up to 7 goals which is the highest for 2017.

The highest score that we had over the weekend was eight goals and they came from HIBERNIAN in the Scottish WILLIAM HILL CUP fourth round. With their highest result of the season, Hibs beat non-league Bonnyrigg Ross 8-1 away. The goals, much needed for our Hibs fans are now on a total of 45 goals.

Hibernian have been with Golden Goals for just five seasons and they first started in our 1997/98 Season finishing on a total of 43 goals. They are our 20^th voted Scottish team. Their highest score came in the next season with 89. Last season they finished on a total of 88 goals. Over the five seasons they have netted a total of 340 goals which gives them an average season of 68 goals. This season they have picked up a total of three blank score sheets and they have now scored in all of their last seven games. They have a total of thirteen votes this season their highest yet.

PREMIERSHIP

We still have the top seven teams here with CHELSEA still firmly on top as they win 2-0 at home to Hull. Chelsea are now on a total of 59 goals. ARSENAL have moved back up to second place after they won 2-1 at home to Burnley and they are now on a total of 58 goals and they have now scored in all of their last ten games. TOTTENHAM have moved down to third place after they drew 2-2 away to MANCHESTER CITY who remain in fifth place. Tottenham are now on 53 goals while City have 50. LIVERPOOL are down to fourth place after they lost 3-2 at home to then bottom Swansea. Liverpool are now on a total of 64 goals. MANCHESTER UNITED have remained in sixth place after they get a very late goal to draw 1-1 away to STOKE. United hit goal number 47 and have now scored in all of their last fifteen games while Stoke are now on 33. EVERTON are now on 38 goals as they win 1-0 away to Crystal Palace and they remained in seventh place. SOUTHAMPTON won 3-0 at home to LEICESTER CITY and they are now on 31 goals while City picked up their eighth blank and now two games in a row with out a goal. BOURNEMOUTH drew 2-2 at home to Watford and are now on a total of 36 goals. It’s now six goals in two games for WEST HAM as they win 3-1 away to Middlesbrough. West Ham are now on a total of 33 goals.

CHAMPIONSHIP

We still have the same four of the top six in this league with NEWCASTLE going back on top after they won 4-0 at home to Rotherham.They have now scored ten goals in their last four games. They are now on a total of 69. Brighton have moved back down to second place with LEEDS UNITED going down to four after they lost 3-2 away to Barnsley. Leeds are now on 45 goals. Still in sixth place we have Sheffield Wednesday who lost on Friday night to Brighton. Meanwhile after a three game dry spell for goals, ASTON VILLA drew 2-2 at home to PRESTON after they went 2-0 up. Villa are now on 29 goals while Preston are on 44. CARDIFF are on 32 goals as they win 1-0 at home to Burton. DERBY won 3-2 at home against Reading and they are now on a total of 31 goals. NORWICH won 3-1 at home to WOLVES and are on 57 goals while Wolves picked up goal number 40. It’s 32 goals for QUEENS PARK RANGERS as they drew 1-1 at home to Fulham. BRENTFORD lost 2-1 away to Wigan and they are now on a total of 39 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

We still have just three of the top six teams here with SHEFFIELD UNITED staying top after they drew 2-2 at home to GILLINGHAM. United take their goals tally to 62 while Gillingham are now on 44. Scunthorpe are still in second place after their game was cancelled while BRADFORD are down to fifth place after they drew 1-1 at home to MILLWALL. Bradford picked up their 35^th goal of the season while Millwall picked up their 56^th. After a two game dry spell for goals MK DONS picked up their highest score of the season as they win 5-3 at home to Northampton. PETERBOROUGH won 1-0 away to Swindon and that was their 51^st goal of the season. WALSALL are now on 33 goals as they win 3-1 at home to BRISTOL ROVERS.  Rovers are now on 56 goals. OLDHAM picked up their eighteenth blank of the season as they lost 1-0 away to Shrewsbury.

LEAGUE TWO

This weekend we still have five of the top seven here with DONCASTER still on top after they won 3-1 at home to Crewe. Doncaster are now on a total of 57 goals. PLYMOUTH are still in second place as they win 2-1 away to Cheltenham and that takes their goals tally to 46. Fourth place is Portsmouth after their game was cancelled. In sixth place is LUTON after they drew 1-1 away to Wycombe. Luton are on a total of 50 goals. COLCHESTER are still in seventh place after they lost 3-0 away to Exeter and that was their eighth blank of the season. ACCRINGTON STANLEY drew 1-1 at home to Carlsile and that was goal number 32 for them. YEOVIL drew 2-2 away to Blackpool and that takes their goals total to 33.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

We had the Fourth Round of the WILLIAM HILL CUP at the weekend and out of our eight teams that were left in the competition, five have made it through to the next round. We already know about HIBERNIAN going through after their record win, but our two top teams Celtic and Rangers are also through. CELTIC won 3-0 away to Albion and that takes their goals tally to 68 while RANGERS won 2-1 at home against Motherwell. Rangers are now on 50 goals. ABERDEEN won 4-0 at home to Stranraer and that now gives them a total of 44 goals. St JOHNSTONE won 2-0 at home to STENHOUSEMUIR and they are now on 41 goals. Stenhousemuir picked up their eighth blank of the season. FALKIRK go out of the competition as they lost 2-0 away to Morton and that was their fifth blank score sheet of the season. KILMARNOCK are also out as they went down 1-0 at home to Hamilton to pick up their twelfth blank of the season.

Our Best Three Teams Are

NEWCASTLE (69) CELTIC (68) LIVERPOOL (64) Total of 201 goals

Our Worst Three Teams Are

OLDHAM (19) KILMARNOCK (21) LEICESTER CITY (28) Total of 68 goals

Our Best team on form is still CELTIC after they have scored in all of their twenty-five League and Cup games played and netting a total of 65 goals which still gives them an average score of two goals per game.

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

Our highest goal scorers in our 34^th Season are  HIBERNIAN after they won 8-1 away to non-league team Bonnyrigg Ross in the Fourth Round of the Scottish WILLIAM HILL CUP in Week Twenty-Five.

DANIEL GOODSON is now in his ninth weekend in a row at the top and now ten weeks over the season. His combination picked him up a total of thirteen goals over the week. Four came from midweek and the rest came from the weekend. The goals came from Celtic 3, Newcastle 4 and Liverpool 2 which are once again our best three teams this weekend. Dan has extended his lead to two goals as June Tighe remained in second place again after she picked up a total of twelve goals for the week. June’s teams are once again Celtic, Newcastle and Sheffield United.

At the other end at that dreaded number 136 we still have KATHY SOMERVILLE as her combination picked her up a total of four goals at the weekend. Kathy is now in her fourth weekend at the bottom and now ten weeks over the season. Kathy’s teams are Oldham, Tottenham and Yeovil. Kathy is now five goals behind Malcolm Stubbs who has dropped down to 135^th place this weekend.

    THIS      LAST                                                          M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

   WEEK     WEEK             NAME                                  GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

      1            -                  D. GOODSON                          81                  120               201              

        2                 -                 J. TIGHE                                    69                  130               199

        3                 -                 S. STUBBS                                71                  125               196

        4                 5                M. PEPPERRELL (2002/03)      67                  128               195              

        5                 6                G. PHILLIPS                              80                  114               194

        6                 4                G. DOCKERILL (1994/95)        60                  131               191                                                7                 8                L. CLARK                                  71                  119              190              

        8                 9                D. NICHOLLS                           86                  104              190              

        9                 10              I. SMITH                                    73                  115              188                              

         10              13              M. DORAN                               70                  117              187               

Brighton Are Back On Top

BRIGHTON have gone back on to the top of the English Championship as they win 2-1 at home against SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY. Brighton are now on a total of 53 goals while Wednesday picked up goal number 32.

In English League One after a two game dry spell for goals PORT VALE drew 2-2 at home to Bury. Vale have now taken their goals total to 35.

FA Cup Third Round Replays

In the FA CUP Third Round Replays we have added another three of our GOLDEN GOALS teams in to the fourth round. They are NEWCASTLE who finally won 3-1 at home against Birmingham which now takes their goals tally to 65. After a 0-0 draw in their first clash, LIVERPOOL are now through as they win just 1-0 away to PLYMOUTH. Liverpool picked up goal number 62 while Plymouth picked up their ninth blank score sheet of the season. SOUTHAMPTON are also through as they win 1-0 at home to NORWICH. Southampton are now on 28 goals while Norwich picked up their seventh blank of the season.

  

Week Twenty-Four

It’s Week Twenty-four of Season 34 and we had just one winner to pick up the full £6 cash weekend jackpot on a score of 8 goals. Our winner this weekend is JOHN DOVE who becomes our twenty-ninth winner of the season.

John is in his ninth season with Golden Goals after taking a break from us in the 20014/15 Season. John’s first season was in the 2007/08 where he finished in the winning frame in 16^th place on a total of 268 goals. John also won the Christmas jackpot and won a total of £17 in cash. Last season he finished in 11^th place on 217 goals so this could be a better season for him. This season, John has picked up a total of five blank score sheets at the weekend and we see John at his highest position of the season. His beloved Arsenal is his best team netting a total of 56 goals out of the 155 that he has. His teams are

ARSENAL 4, MANCHESTER CITY 0, TOTTENHAM 4

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Only thirty of us managed to pick up some more goals this week with the highest score that we had was just three goals and they went to ALEX DAVEY. Alex has Leeds United in his combination who played twice this week and picked up them three goals. Alex’s other teams are Manchester City and Rangers.

So once again this week we see a little change in the race for the cash this weekend as DARYL NICHOLLS remains in the lead with a total of 81 goals. In second place up from three is MANGO on a total of 78 goals. Down to third place both on 77 goals we have DANIEL GOODSON and GRANT PHILLIPS. In joint fourth place both on 76 goals we still have STALKY (2) and down from three CHRIS SETFORD. In fifth place down from four we have DAVID SMITHERS on a total of 74 goals.

The good news this weekend is that we now have a total of eighty-seven players that are now over the 50 goals mark.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had most of our teams in action over the weekend and we once again had a few high scores from some of them. Out of the teams that played, ten failed to score any goals and another ten that had no game. So for the third weekend for 2017 the average score remained at just 3 goals.

The highest score that we had over the weekend was four goals and we had five teams that picked that total up with three of them coming from the English Premiership.

PREMIERSHIP

We still have the top seven teams here with CHELSEA still on top as they win 3-0 away to LEICESTER CITY. Chelsea are now on a total of 57 goals while Leicester picked up their seventh blank of the season. TOTTENHAM have moved up to second place as they win 4-0 at home to West Brom and that moves their goals tally up to 51 goals with sixteen goals coming from their last five games. After a two game dry spell for goals, LIVERPOOL drop down to third place after they drew 1-1 away to MANCHESTER UNITED who remained in sixth place. Liverpool are now on a total of 61 goals while United hit goal number 46 and have now scored in all of their last fourteen games. ARSENAL are up to fourth place as they win 4-0 away to Swansea. Arsenal take their goals tally up to 56. MANCHESTER CITY are down to fifth place after they lost 4-0 away to EVERTON. City picked up their fourth blank of the season while Everton are now on a total of 37 goals and they remained in seventh place. SOUTHAMPTON picked up their eighth blank of the season as they lost 1-0 away to Burnley while BOURNEMOUTH hit goal number 34 as they lost 3-1 away to Hull. It’s 32 goals for STOKE as they win 3-1 away to Sunderland and it’s been a long while since a big win from them. After a three game dry spell for goals, WEST HAM won 3-0 at home to London rivals Crystal palace. West Ham are now on a total of 30 goals.

CHAMPIONSHIP

We have four of the top six in this league with NEWCASTLE going back on top after they won 2-1 away to BRENTFORD. Newcastle are on 62 goals while Brentford are on 38. In second place is BRIGHTON but they lost 2-0 away to PRESTON. That was their sixth blank of the season while Preston now have a total of 42 goals. In third place is Leeds United who won on Friday night. In sixth place we have SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY who won 2-0 at home against Huddersfield. Wednesday after a two game dry spell for goals are now on 31. Meanwhile CARDIFF are on 31 goals as they win 3-2 away to Bristol City. NORWICH picked up goal number 54 as they lost 2-1 away to Rotherham. WOLVES won 1-0 at home to ASTON VILLA to take their goals tally to 39 while Villa picked up their ninth blank and now three games with out a goal.

LEAGUE ONE

We still have just three of the top seven teams here with SHEFFIELD UNITED staying top after they lost 4-1 away to WALSALL. United take their goals tally to 60 while Walsall picked up their biggest win of the season to take their goals total to 30 after a two game dry spell for goals. SCUNTHORPE are still in second place after they win 2-1 away to Northampton and they are now on 57 goals. BRADFORD are still fourth after they lost 1-0 away to Shrewsbury. Bradford picked up their ninth blank of the season. PETERBOROUGH lost 5-1 away to Bury and that was their 50^th goal of the season. CHARLTON drew 0-0 at home to London rivals MILLWALL to pick up their ninth blank and Millwall’s sixth. BRISTOL ROVERS lost 3-1 away to Fleetwood and that was their 55^th goal of the season. OLDHAM picked up their fourth league win of the season out of twenty-five games as they won 1-0 at home to GILLINGHAM. Oldham after a four game dry spell, picked up goal number 19. It’s 40 goals for SOUTHEND after they won 2-1 at home to Rochdale.

LEAGUE TWO

This weekend we have five of the top seven here with DONCASTER still on top after they won 3-1 away to Barnet. Doncaster are now on a total of 54 goals. PLYMOUTH are still in second place as they win 4-2 at home to Stevenage. Plymouth are now on a total of 44 goals after  a two game dry spell for them. Fourth place is PORTSMOUTH as they win 2-1 at home against LEYTON ORIENT to take their goals tally to 43 while Orient are now on 30 goals. In sixth place is LUTON as they win 2-1 away to Crewe. Luton are on a total of 49 goals. COLCHESTER have dropped down to seventh place after they drew 1-1 away to Newport to pick up their 42^nd goal of the season. It’s eleven blanks for ACCRINGTON STANLEY as they went down 3-0 away to Cheltenham. YEOVIL drew 1-1 away to Wycombe and that was goal number 31 after a three game dry spell for goals.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

Only four of our Scottish teams were in action over the weekend with top,of the table HIBERNIAN remaining top as they win 1-0 away to Dumbarton. Hibs are now on a total of 37 goals in the Championship. FALKIRK drew 1-1 at home to Ayr to give them their 35^th goal. In the lower leagues STENHOUSEMUIR have moved up from the bottom of League one after they win 1-0 at home against Stranraer. Stenhousemuir picked up goal number 34. PETERHEAD won 1-0 away to Alloa and they are now on a total of 32 goals.

 Our Best Three Teams Are

CELTIC (65) NEWCASTLE (62) LIVERPOOL (61) Total of 188 goals

Our Worst Three Teams Are

OLDHAM (19) KILMARNOCK (21) ASTON VILLA (27) Total of 67 goals

Our Best team on form is still CELTIC after they have scored in all of their twenty-four League and Cup games played and netting a total of 65 goals which still gives them an average score of two goals per game.

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

Our highest goal scorers in our 34^th Season are  LUTON after they won 6-2 at home to non-league Solihull Moors in the FA CUP 2^nd Round in week eighteen. LIVERPOOL winning 6-1 at home against Watford in the league in week fourteen and SHEFFIELD UNITED winning 6-0 at home to LEYTON ORIENT in the 1^st Round of the FA Cup also in week fourteen. BOURNEMOUTH  after their 6-1 home win against Hull in the league in week eleven.  CELTIC with their 6-1 home League win against Kilmarnock from week eight. NEWCASTLE winning 6-0 away to Q. P. R in the league in week seven and 6-1 away to Preston in the EFL League Cup 4^th Round in week thirteen.  NORWICH by winning 6-1 at home to Coventry in the EFL League Cup 2^nd Round in week four.

DANIEL GOODSON is now in his eleventh weekend in a row at the top and now nine weeks over the season. His combination picked him up a total of another three goals over the week and they all came from the weekend. The goals came from Newcastle 2 and Liverpool 1. Celtic once again had no game over the weekend. Dan’s lead is still  just one goal as June Tighe remained in second place also after she picked up just three goals for the week. June’s teams are once again Celtic, Newcastle and Sheffield United.

At the other end at that dreaded number 136 we still have KATHY SOMERVILLE as her combination picked her up a total of six goals at the weekend. Kathy is now in her third weekend at the bottom and now nine weeks over the season. Kathy’s teams are Oldham, Tottenham and Yeovil. Kathy is now just one goal behind Emma Sawyer who has remained at 135^th place this weekend.

     THIS      LAST                                                               M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

     WEEK     WEEK             NAME                                     GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

         1            -                  D. GOODSON                             77                  111                 188              

            2                 -                 J. TIGHE                                        66                  121                 187

            3                 4                S. STUBBS                                    68                  116                 184

            4                 3                G. DOCKERILL (1994/95)       59                  124                 183              

            5                 6                M. PEPPERRELL (2002/03)     64                  119                 183

            6                 5                G. PHILLIPS                                 77                  104                 181                              

            7                 14              JOHN WOOD                             46                  132                 178              

            8                 13              L. CLARK                                    68                  110                 178              

            9                 7                D. NICHOLLS                             81                  97                    178                              

                      10              8                I. SMITH                                        70                 107                  177