Week Four

In Week Four of the competition we had our tenth winner of the season and it is the first time that the £6 cash prize money was picked up by just one player.  Our winners won on a score of 10 goals which seems to be the weekends average winning score. One winner is our third new player to win and they are MARTIN CORBETT.

Martin has had a slow start to the season and this is his highest position to date. His best team is Aberdeen netting 11 of his total of 25 goals.

ABERDEEN 4, FULHAM 2, LIVERPOOL 4

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

Most of us picked up some midweek goals for the race for the £40 cash prize money this season. The prize money will go to the first person to reach 100 goals from their three teams. We had just one player that picked up the most number of midweek goals this week with ten goals and they went to LUCIFER (John Wood). The goals came from Aston Villa five, Bolton three and Burton Albion two.  

The leader has changed hands this week and so in front this week with 21 goals we have  JULIE SOMERVILLE who has Aston Villa, Celtic and Reading. In Second place we have LUCIFER on 20 goals. In joint third place both on 19 goals we have TONY GUY (2) and DAVE WOOD both down from second place. In fourth place all on 18 goals we have SIMON DICKINSON, M. DORAN, TONY KING, AMANDA MORRISON, GRAHAM PHILLIPS and JAMES PLATT.

WEEKEND RESULTS 

We had some pretty high scores this weekend in our third full weekend fixture. We had three teams with out a game over the weekend with another sixteen teams that failed to score any goals. So our weekend average score for the first time this season reached a total of 5 goals which is a little better than last weekends. So if your teams picked up more than that, then you have done well.

The Highest score over the weekend was five goals and we had another two teams that scored them. They came from COLCHESTER and RAITH ROVERS.

PREMIERSHIP

In the Premiership MANCHESTER UTD have remained top again after they won 2-0 at home to LEICESTER CITY. United have now scored 10 goals in three games.  Leicester picked up their first blank score sheet of the season.In second place now is LIVRPOOL after they picked up their highest score with a 4-0 home win against ARSENAL. Liverpool take their goals tally to 8 goals while Arsenal picked up their second consecutive blank score sheet. Behind Huddersfield in third place is MANCHESTER  CITY. They won 2-1 away to BOURNEMOUTH and that is now five goals for City and three for Bournemouth. It’s six goals for WEST BROM as they drew 1-1 at home to Stoke. CRYSTAL PALACE have picked up their third blank in four games as they lost 2-0 at home to Swansea. NEWCASTLE keep WEST HAM rooted the the bottom of the table as they win 3-0 at home. Newcastle with their highest score of the season are now on five goals while West Ham picked up their second blank of the season. CHELSEA won 2-0 at home to EVERTON and are now on a total of six goals while Everton picked up their first blank of the season. It’s four goals for TOTTENHAM as they drew 1-1 at home to Burnley.

CHAMPIONSHIP

CARDIFF have now won five out of five league games to stay top after they won 2-1 at home to QUEENS PARK RANGERS. Cardiff are on a total of 13 goals and they have scored in all of their seven league and cup games played. Rangers picked up goal number 8. In second place is IPSWICH who picked up their first blank score sheet after they lost 2-0 at home to FULHAM. Fulham after a run of three blank score sheets are now on a total of 6 goals. LEEDS UNITED have moved in to third place as they win 2-0 away to Nottingham Forest. Leeds are on 16 goals.  WOLVES have dropped down to fourth place as they drew 0-0 at away to BRENTFORD. As Wolves pick up their first blank score sheet, Brentford picked up their third. SUNDERLAND have picked up their second as they lost 3-0 away to Barnsley.  READING are on 10 goals after they won 2-0 away to BIRMINGHAM. Birmingham have picked up their third blank of the season after seven games. BURTON ALBION picked up their ninth goal as they drew 1-1 at home to Sheffield Wednesday. MIDDLESBROUGH drew 0-0 at home to Preston to pick up their second blank while NORWICH picked up their first as they lost 4-0 away to Millwall. SHEFFIELD UNITED are on 9 goals as they win 3-1 at home to Derby.

LEAGUE ONE

PETERBOROUGH have gone top here after they won 4-1 away to Northampton on their highest score to date. Borough have taken their goals tally to 13. WIGAN have moved down to second place after they drew 1-1 at home to PORTSMOUTH. Wigan are on 11 goals while Portsmouthhit goal number five. CHARLTON are in fourth place as they win 2-0 away to Rotherham to take their goals total to 10. DONCASTER picked up their second blank of the season as they lost 2-0 away to AFC Wimbledon. BLACKBURN have picked up their highest score of the season as they win 4-1 at home to MK DONS. Blackburn are now on 10 goals while the Dons picked up goal number four. FLEETWOOD lost 3-1 away to Bristol Rovers but they are now on 7 goals. SOUTHEND picked up their highest score and are now on six goals as they drew 3-3 away to Gillingham. SCUNTHORPE also picked up their highest result to date with a 4-0 away win over PLYMOUTH. Scunthorpe are on 10 goals while Plymouth picked up their second blank of the season. BRADFORD drew 3-3 away to Walsall and are now on 8 goals with their highest score to date.

LEAGUE TWO

EXETER have now gone top here as they beat Cheltenham 4-3 away. Exeter with their highest result to date are now on a total of 8 goals. COLCHESTER are on 8 goals as they win 5-1 at home to FOREST GREEN. Colchester pick up their highest score while Forest Green are on 7 goals.  LINCOLN CITY also won big with a 4-1 home win against Carlisle to take their goals tally to 8. LUTON are now on 13 goals after they drew 2-2 away to MANSFIELD who are now on 7 goals. PORT VALE fourth from bottom lost 1-0 at home to Crewe to pick up their second consecutive blank score sheet. COVENTRY have also pick up their second blank in a row as they lost 2-0 away to Yeovil.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Scottish Premiership, CELTIC drew their fourth league game this weekend and fall down to second place after they drew 1-1 at home to St Johnstone.. Celtic are now on 13 goals this week. ABERDEEN have moved above Celtic as they win 4-3 away to Patick. Aberdeen with their highest score of the season are now on a total of 11 goals. RANGERS have moved up to fifth place after they won 3-1 away to Ross County. Rangers are now on 13 goals.

In the Championship FALKIRK might have extended their goal run to nine games but they are now second from bottom as they lost 4-1 at home to Queen of South. Falkirk are now on a total of 18 goals.

In League One RAITH ROVERS have moved to the top as they win 5-0 away to East Fife. Rovers are now our best team and they are on a total of 21 goals.

In League Two ELGIN CITY have moved in to third place after they win again 3-0 away to bottom place Edinburgh City. Elgin are now on a total of 9 goals. PETERHEAD are down to fourth place as they lost 4-2 at home to Stirling.  Peterhead have scored in all of their nine games this season and they are now on 15 goals.  STENHOUSEMUIR drew 1-1 away to Clyde to pick up their tenth goal of the season.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

RAITH ROVERS (21) FALKIRK (18) LEEDS UTD (16) Total of 55 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

CRYSTAL PALACE (2) EVERTON (2) BOURNEMOUTH (3) Total of 7 goals

Our Best team is still  FALKIRK after they have scored in all of their nine League and Cup games with 18 goals.

ELGIN CITY have picked up the most number of blank score sheets with four in eight games played to date.

Our highest goal scoring team in our 35^th Season is LUTON from League Two. They picked up our highest score in week one as they win 8-2 at home to Yeovil in their first league game of the season.

GARY BOLBERY is now celebrating his third consecutive weekend at the top as his combination of teams pick him up a total of  eight goals all once again coming from the weekend. They came from Celtic one Chelsea two and five from Raith Rovers. With still just a goal in front again this week from Guy Dowsett (2) who has moved up to second place with Celtic, Leeds Utd and Manchester United, will Gary still be there next weekend?

At the other end at 149 we have KAREN SMITH back this weekend to stay there for her second time this season. Karen picked up four goals for the week with three of them coming from the weekend. Her teams are Arsenal, Manchester City and Tottenham. 

         THIS      LAST                                                          M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

         WEEK     WEEK             NAME                                 GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

             1            -                  G. BOLBERY                             15                   25                  40

               2                 4                G. DOWSETT (2)                      15                   24                  39

               3                 2                J. WEARDEN                            6                     30                  36

               4                 3                M. LIDDLE                               7                     29                  36

              5                 -                 T. SKINNER                              14                   22                  36

               6                 10              S. DICKINSON                         18                   18                  36

               7                 11              J. PLATT                                    18                   18                  36                

               8                 23              JULIE SOMERVILLE               21                   15                  36

               9                 48              A. DAVEY                                 16                   18                  34                

                10              6                B. BARNES (3)                         9                     24                  33                 

Hull Sixth in Championship

Another three of our Golden Goals teams have played and they all have already played one game this week.

In the English Championship, HULL have moved up to 6^th place in the league after they win 4-0 at home against BOLTON. Hull have now played five league games and this is there second win of the season. Hull have taken their goals tally to 12 goals. Bolton have picked up their second blank score sheet of the season.

ASTON VILLA have already picked up four goals this week and they have added another goal to their total as they drew 1-1 away to Bristol City. Villa have taken their goals tally to 13 goals.

(Carabao) League Cup Second Round Part 2

We have had another four of our teams playing in the second round of the league cup and out of them only two have made it through to the next round.

They are WEST HAM who won 2-0 away to Cheltenham to give them a total of four goals and WOLVES, as they win 2-0 away to Southampton. Wolves have now scored in all of their six games so far and they are now on a total of 10 goals.

The two teams that went out are BLACKBURN as they lost 2-0 at home to Burnley to pick up their first blank score sheet of the season. NEWCASTLE are also out after they drew 2-2 at home to Nottingham Forest but then lost 3-2 after extra time. Newcastle are now on two goals.

(Carabao) League Cup Second Round

We had twenty-five of our teams in cup action and fourteen of them have made it through to the third round.

It was LEEDS UNITED that picked up the highest score of the night and their season as they hammer Newport 5-1 at home. Leeds are now our third best team to date and our highest scoring English team with 14 goals. WEST BROM are also through as they win 3-1 away to Accrington and they are now on a total of 5 goals and it was also their highest score of the season. ASTON VILLA are on 12 goals as they win 4-1 at home to WIGAN. Wigan picked up goal number ten. BOURNEMOUTH won 2-1 away to BIRMINGHAM to pick up their first goals of the season while Birmingham are now on a total of 9 goals. BOLTON also have picked up their highest score this season as they win 3-2 at home to Sheffield Wednesday. Bolton take their goals tally to 9. BURTON ALBION are through as they win 2-1 away to CARDIFF. Albion are now on 8 goals while Cardiff picked up their 11^th goal of the season. It’s 8 goals for SUNDERLAND as they win 2-1 away to Carlisle. CRYSTAL PALACE have picked up their first goals of the season as they win 2-1 at home to IPSWICH who are now on 12 goals. DONCASTER are on 11 goals as they win 2-0 at home to HULL who have picked up their first blank of the season. FULHAM are out as they lost 1-0 at home to Bristol Rovers to pick up their third consecutive blank score sheet. MIDDLESBROUGH are through as they win 3-0 at home to SCUNTHORPE. Brough are now on a total of 7 goals while Scunthorpe have picked up their first blank of the season. MK DONS are on three goals but lost the game 4-1 at home to Swansea. CHARLTON went 1-0 up against NORWICH but then lost 4-1 away. Charlton are on 8 goals while Norwich are now on 13 goals with their highest score of the season. BRENTFORD picked up their highest score of the season with a 4-1 win over QUEENS PARK RANGERS. Brentford are now on 12 goals while Rangers picked up goal number seven. Its 9 goals for LEICESTER CITY as they score their highest goals of the season as they win 4-1 away to SHEFFIELD UNITED. United are on 6 goals. The only game that went into extra time was READING against Millwall where it ended 1-1 after the full 90 minutes but Reading went on to win 3-1 in that extra time. Reading, with their highest score of the season, are now on 8 goals.

City Get Late Goal

In the English Premiership EVERTON went a goal up in the first half against MANCHESTER CITY with a goal by Rooney in the 35^th minute. City left their equaliser with just eight minutes left of play with a goal from Sterling. Both teams had a player sent off, which gave Everton the advantage in the first half. The Everton player was sent off with just a couple of minutes left to play. The goals mean that City are now on three goals after two games and have moved up to fifth place while Everton picked up their second and are now in eighth place.

Celtic On Target?

A couple of weeks ago I said that we here at Golden Goals would be keeping an eye on Celtic this season to see if they can beat last season’s record run of 47 games.

That record was to score in all of their league and the two domestic cup competitions without getting a blank score sheet.

Well we have just finished week three to start week four and there is some good news for the 113 votes that Celtic have this season.

By the end of week three last Season, Celtic had played three games and scored a total of 11 goals. This season after four games they have a total of 12 goals. So although they had played fewer games at this stage last season, they are a goal up so far to date.

Week Three

In Week Three of the competition and this weekend we had another two winners to share the £6 weekend cash prize money.  Our winners won on a score of 10 goals which is a little better than last weekends score.

One of our winners is our second lady to win this season and she is BARBARA BARNES with her third combination. Barbara started the competition in the 2000/01 Season. Last season Barbra’s best combination finished in 18^th place on 321 goals with two weekend wins winning just over £23 in cash. Our other winner is TONY SKINNER who started with Golden Goals in the 2013/14 Season. Last season Tony finished in 76^th place and failed to win any cash, so a good start for the season for Tony.

Barbara – CELTIC 2, CHARLTON 4, MANCHESTER UNITED 4

Tony – ASTON VILLA 4, CELTIC 2, MANCHESTER UNITED 4

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

Fifty of us picked up some midweek goals for the race for the £40 cash prize money this season. The prize money will go to the first person to reach 100 goals from their three teams.

We had just one player that picked up the most number of midweek goals this week with four goals and they went to ABBEY NEWMAN. Abbey picked the four up from Ipswich and that takes her total to 12. Abbey’s other teams are Celtic and Manchester City.

Out in front this week still with 17 goals is AMANDA MORRISON who has Falkirk, Manchester City and Scunthorpe. In Second place we have GARY BOLBERY,  TONY GUY (2),  and DAVE WOOD all with 15 goals. In third place all on 14 goals we have SIMON DICKINSON, MIKE PEPPERRELL and JAMES PLATT. We then have a total of twelve players on 13 goals with four still yet to score any midweek goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS 

Things seem to be slowing down in our second full weekend fixture as teams struggle to score goals. We had four teams with no game over the weekend with another fourteen teams that failed to score any goals. So our weekend average score was just four goals which is a little better than last weekends. So if your teams picked up more than that, then you have done well.

The Highest score over the weekend was four goals once again and we had four teams that scored them. They came from ASTON VILLA, CHARLTON, FOREST GREEN and MANCHESTER UNITED.

PREMIERSHIP

With the Premiership playing their second league games MANCHESTER UTD have remained top after they won 4-0 away to Swansea. United have now scored 8 goals in just two games. Behind Huddersfield is WEST BROM in third place. They won 1-0 away to Burnley and that is now two goals in two games for them. LIVERPOOL are in fourth place behind Watford as they win 1-0 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE. Liverpool are on 4 goals while Place have yet to score and have two blank score sheets to date. BOURNEMOUTH picked up their second blank score sheet as they lost 2-0 at home to Watford. LEICESTER CITY picked up their first win of the season with a 2-0 home win against Brighton. Leicester are on five goals. WEST HAM are still rock bottom but are now on a total of two goals as they lost 3-2 away to Southampton.

ARSENAL picked up their first blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 away to Stoke. Last seasons champions CHELSEA beat rivals TOTTENHAM 2-1 away to pick up their first win. Chelsea are on four goals while Tottenham are on three.NEWCASTLE have lost again with a 1-0 defeat away to Huddersfield. No goals for Newcastle in two games played.

CHAMPIONSHIP

CARDIFF win four out of four and stay top after they won 2-1 away to WOLVES. Cardiff are now on a total of 10 goals while Wolves moved down to third place with 8 goals. In second place is IPSWICH as they win 2-0 at home against BRENTFORD. Ipswich take their goals tally to 11 goals while Brentford picked up their second blank of the season. ASTON VILLA picked up their highest score of the season as they win 4-2 at home to NORWICH. Villa are now on a total of 8 goals while Norwich are on 9. It’s six goals for BOLTON but they lost 2-1 at home to Derby. FULHAM lost 1-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday to pick up their second blank score sheet and now two in a row. MIDDLESBROUGH lost 2-1 away to Nottingham Forest. READING picked up their second blank score sheet as they went down 1-0 away to Preston. QUEENS PARK RANGERS are on six goals as they win 2-1 at home against HULL. Hull’s single goal was goal number eight. After a run of two blank score sheet’s, SHEFFIELD UNITED are on 5 goals as they win 1-0 at home to Barnsley. SUNDERLAND pick up their first blank score sheet as they lost 2-0 at home to LEEDS UNITED. Leeds after a two game dry spell for goals are now on a total of nine.

LEAGUE ONE

WIGAN are now top here after they won 2-0 away to Oldham and they are now on 9 goals. PETERBOROUGH are still in second place after they won 2-1 at home to Rotherham. Borough are on 9 goals. In third place is FLEETWOOD TOWN who won 2-0 at home against AFC Wimbledon. Fleetwood are on 6 goals this week. BRADFORD picked up their first blank score sheet after they lost 1-0 at home to BLACKBURN. Blackburn are on a total of 6 goals. CHARLTON picked up their highest score to date with a 4-1 home win against Northampton. Charlton are on 7 goals. DONCASTER have picked up another three goals as they drew 3-3 at home to Blackpool. Doncaster are now on 9 goals. MK DONS picked up their second goal of the season as they win 1-0a t home to Gillingham. PORTSMOUTH are on four goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Walsall. SCUNTHORPE won 1-0 at home to Oxford to pick up goal number six. After a run of two blank score sheets SOUTHEND are on three goals as they drew 1-1 at home to PLYMOUTH who are now on 4 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

EXETER are in second place here behind Swindon after they beat LINCOLN CITY 1-0 at home. Exeter are now on four goals after four games. In third place is LUTON as they win 3-0 at home to COLCHESTER. Luton after a two game dry spell for goals, are now on a total of 11 goals. Colchester have picked up their first blank of the season. COVENTRY are now in fourth place after they lost 1-0 at home to Newport to pick up their first blank score sheet. MANSFIELD are on 5 goals after they lost 2-1 away to Accrington. PORT VALE also picked up their first blank score sheet after four games as they lost 2-0 away to Chesterfield. After a two game dry spell for goals, FOREST GREEN have picked up their highest score to date with a 4-3 home win against Yeovil. Forest Green are on 6 goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Scottish Premiership, it’s three wins in three games for CELTIC this weekend after they win 2-0 away to Kilmarnock. Celtic are now on 12 goals this week. In third place is ABERDEEN. They won 2-1 at home to Dundee and are now on 7 goals. RANGERS was the only Scottish team that we have not to score this weekend as they drew 0-0 at home to Hearts. As Rangers pick up their first blank score sheet, they remained in sixth place in the league.

In the Championship FALKIRK have extended their goal run to eight games as they lost 3-1 away to Dunfermline. Falkirk are now on a total of 17 goals.

In League One RAITH ROVERS are still in second place as they win 3-1 at home to Forfar and they are now on a total of 16 goals.

In League Two PETERHEAD are down to third place as they lost 3-1 away to STENHOUSEMUIR. Peterhead have scored in all of their eight games this season and they are now on 13 goals while Stenhousemuir are on 9. ELGIN CITY not only won their first game of the season but also picked up their highest score with a 3-2 home win against Clyde. Elgin are now on a total of 6 goals.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

FALKIRK (17) RAITH ROVERS (16) PETERHEAD (13) Total of 46 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

BOURNEMOUTH (0) NEWCASTLE (0) CRYSTAL PALACE (0) Total of 0 goals

Our Best team is still  FALKIRK after they have scored in all of their eight League and Cup games with 17 goals.

ELGIN CITY have picked up the most number of blank score sheets with four in seven games played to date.

Our highest goal scoring team in our 35^th Season is LUTON from League Two. They picked up our highest score in week one as they win 8-2 at home to Yeovil in their first league game of the season.

GARY BOLBERY is celebrating his second weekend at the top as his combination of teams pick him up a total of  seven goals all coming from the weekend. They came from Celtic and Chelsea two goals each while Raith Rovers netted three. With just a goal in front again this week from Jed Wearden who has Celtic, Luton and Manchester United, will Gary still be there next weekend.

At the other end at 149 we have Colin Pinder staying there for another weekend. Colin picked up just one goal from Southend. His other teams who failed to score are Colchester and Crystal Palace. 

        THIS      LAST                                                          M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

      WEEK     WEEK             NAME                                  GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

          1            -                  G. BOLBERY                              15                   17                  32

            2                 4                J. WEARDEN                             6                     25                  31

            3                 7                M. LIDDLE                                 7                     22                  29

            4                 8                G. DOWSETT (2)                       10                   19                  29

            5                 54              T. SKINNER                              9                     19                  28

            6                 50              B. BARNES (3)                          8                     19                  27

            7                 5                P. O’DONOGHUE                     10                   17                  27                

            8                 6                JAMIE SOMERVILLE              10                   17                  27

            9                 2                C. BOOM                                   13                   14                  27                

             10              16              S. DICKINSON                         14                   13                  27             

         

Burton's First Points of the Season

In the English Championship BURTON ALBION had to come back from being a goal down at half time to win 2-1 at home to BIRMINGHAM to pick up their first points of the season. Both teams have played already this week and both failed to pick up any goals. Albion are now on a total of six goals while Birmingham are on eight.

First League Win for Norwich

We had a a couple more of our English Championship teams in action and the highest score came from NORWICH as they win 2-0 at home to QUEENS PARK RANGERS to pick up their first win of the season. Norwich have now scored in all of their four league and cup games and now have a total of 7 goals. They have moved up to 10^th place in the league. Rangers pick up their first blank of the season. SUNDERLAND are now on six goals as they drew 1-1 away to Sheffield Wednesday. Sunderland have moved up to sixth place in the league.

Cardiff are Still Top of Championship

CARDIFF have remained top of the English Championship after they won their third league game 2-0 at home to SHEFFIELD UNITED. Cardiff are on a total of 8 goals while United picked up their second blank and now two in a row. WOLVES are now in second place as they win 3-2 away to HULL. Picking up their highest score of the season, Wolves are on a total of 7 goals while Hull are on also on 7 goals. IPSWICH have moved up to third place after they won 4-3 away to Millwall. Ipswich take their goals tally to 9 goals. In fourth place is MIDDLESBROUGH as they win 2-0 at home to BURTON ALBION. Brough are now on three goals while Albion pick up their second blank in four games played. As BIRMINGHAM pick up their second blank score sheet, BOLTON pick up their first as they drew 0-0. It’s eight goals for BRENTFORD as they drew 2-2 at home to Bristol City. LEEDS drew 0-0 at home to FULHAM to pick up their second blank and now two in a row while Fulham pick up their first. READING won 2-1 at home to ASTON VILLA and that now gives them a total of 5 goals to Villa’s total of four.

Week Two

Here we are with Week Two of the competition and this weekend we had two winners to share the £6 weekend cash prize money.  Our winners won on a score of 9 goals which is the lowest score to date and one of them is our first lady winner. That lady is ELLIE HOLDSWORTH who is in her second season with us. Ellie started with us last season and she finished in 40^th place on 304 goals with one weekend win.

Our other winner is STUART KEMP who has been with Golden Goals for a while now. Stuart finished in 67^th place but failed to win any cash, so a good start for the season for Stuart.

Ellie – LIVERPOOL 3, MANCHESTER UTD 4, RANGERS 2

Stuart – LIVERPOOL 3, MANCHESTER CITY 2, MANCHESTER UTD 4

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

At last we can have our first look at who is in the lead for our 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot worth £40 this season. The prize money will go to the first person to reach 100 goals from their three teams. We had five players that picked up the most number of midweek goals this week with 13 goals each but here is how the race for the cash is looking.  

Out in front this week with 17 goals is AMANDA MORRISON who has Falkirk, Manchester City and Scunthorpe. In Second place we have GARY BOLBERY with 15 goals while in third place on 13 goals we have six players. They are  CHRIS BOOM, ROBERT FREEMAN, TONY GUY combinations One and Two, CHRIS HESSE and DAVE WOOD.

WEEKEND RESULTS 

We had our very first full weekend fixture but it was not as good as our first weekend in goals. We had just three teams with no game over the weekend with another fourteen teams that failed to score any goals. So our weekend average score was just three goals. So if your teams picked up more than that, then you have done well.

The Highest score over the weekend was four goals and we had four teams to pick them up. They came from HULL CITY, MANCHESTER UNITED, PETERBOROUGH and WIGAN.

PREMIERSHIP

With the Premiership playing their first league game and it was not a great start from some of our teams. MANCHESTER UTD went straight to the top after they won 4-0 at home to WEST HAM. MANCHESTER CITY are third as they won 2-0 away to Brighton. Fourth is TOTTENHAM as they win 2-0 away to NEWCASTLE while ARSENAL are fifth.

Last season’s champions CHELSEA, lost their first game 3-2 at home to Burnley after going three goals down in the first half. CRYSTAL PALACE lost 3-0 at home to Hudddersfield. EVERTON won 1-0 at home against Stoke while LIVERPOOL drew 3-3 away to Watford. WEST BROM won 1-0 at home to BOURNEMOUTH.

CHAMPIONSHIP

After two games CARDIFF go top after they won 3-0 at home to ASTON VILLA. Cardiff have scored in all three games including the cup and they are on 6 goals. Villa picked up their first blank of the season. WOLVES are in second place as they picked up their highest score of the season with a 2-0 away win over Derby. Wolves are on a total of 4 goals. IPSWICH are in fourth place as they win 2-1 away to Barnsley and they are now on five goals. HULL won 4-1 at home to BURTON ALBION and they are on a total of five goals while Burton are on four. BIRMINGHAM have taken their goals tally to seven after they won 2-1 at home to Bristol City. BRENTFORD are on six goals but lost 4-3 at home to Nottingham Forest. LEEDS picked up their first blank score sheet after they drew 0-0 at home to Preston. SHEFFIELD UNITED also picked up their first blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 away to MIDDLEBROUGH who picked up their first goal of the season. BOLTON have scored in all of their three games as they drew 1-1 away to Millwall. READING drew 1-1 at home to FULHAM and that was their third goal of the season while Fulham are on four. QUEENS PARK RANGERS are on four goals as they drew 1-1 away to Sheffield Wednesday. SUNDERLAND picked up their highest score with a 3-1 away win over NORWICH. Both Norwich and Sunderland are on a total of 5 goals each.

LEAGUE ONE

PETERBOROUGH are our highest team here in second place. They won 4-1 away to Bristol Rovers to take their goals tally to 7 goals. In third place is WIGAN as they won 4-1 at home to Bury and they are on 7 goals. It’s four goals for FLEETWOOD as they win 1-0 away to Northampton. DONCASTER won 3-1 away to BLACKBURN and they are on 6 goals while Blackburn are on five. BRADFORD won 1-0 away to Gillingham and that gives them goal number five. MK DONS picked up their second blank in three games as they lost 1-0 away to Blackpool. PORTSMOUTH picked up their first blank as they lost 1-0 away to Oxford. PLYMOUTH are on three goals as they win 2-0 at home to CHARLTON who picked up their first blank score sheet. SCUNTHORPE drew 1-1 away to Rochdale and they are now on 5 goals. SOUTHEND lost 5-0 away to Rotherham and they have now picked up their second blank score sheet and now two in a row.

LEAGUE TWO

We have the top two teams here with COVENTRY on top as they win 2-0 away to Grimsby which now gives them a total of 6 goals. MANSFIELD are in second place after their 2-0 home win against FOREST GREEN. It’s four goals in three games for Mansfield and Forest Green have now had two blank score sheets in a row. After scoring eight goals in their opening game, LUTON have failed to score again as they lost 1-0 away to Barnet. COLCHESTER are on three goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Stevenage. LINCOLN CITY also drew 1-1 at home to Morecombe but they are on 4 goals. PORT VALE lost 3-2 at home to Wycombe and they are on 6 goals. EXETER are on three goals as they drew 1-1 away to Swindon.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Scottish Premiership, there was no game for CELTIC this weekend and their rival RANGERS lost 3-2 at home to Hibernian. Rangers are on a total of 10 goals and are in sixth place in the league. ABERDEEN are fourth as they win 2-1 away to Ross County.

In the Championship FALKIRK have extended their goal run to seven games as they drew 1-1 at home to Dumbarton. Falkirk are now on a total of 16 goals. In League One RAITH ROVERS are in second place as they win 3-0 at home to Stranraer and they are now on a total of 13 goals. In League Two PETERHEAD are in second place as they win 3-0 at home to ELGIN CITY. Peterhead have also scored in all of their six games and they are now on 12 goals while Elgin picked up their fourth blanks core sheet out of six games played. STENHOUSEMUIR drew 1-1 away to Montrose and they are on 6 goals.

So lets have a look at our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals. They are

FALKIRK (16) RAITH ROVERS (13) PETERHEAD (12) Total of 41 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

CRYSTAL PALACE (0) WEST HAM (0) NEWCASTLE (0) Total of 0 goal 

Our Best team is FALKIRK after they have scored in all of their seven League and Cup games with 16 goals.

Although our worst teams are  CRYSTAL PALACE, WEST HAM and NEWCASTLE this weekend we can also add BOURNEMOUTH as all four have failed to score in their first league game of the season.

Our highest goal scoring team in our 35^th Season are LUTON from League Two. They picked up our highest score in week one as they win 8-2 at home to Yeovil in their first league game of the season.

It was Amanda Morrison who was top last weekend but GARY BOLBERY has moved to the top this weekend after picking up eleven goals this week. Six came from Celtic in midweek and the other five at the weekend came from just two of his teams Chelsea and Raith Rovers. With just a goal in front this week, will Gary remain there next weekend. At the other end at 149 we have Colin Pinder with just five goals. His teams are Colchester, Crystal Palace and Southend.

Here is how our top ten look this week.

        THIS      LAST                                                            M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

        WEEK     WEEK             NAME                                   GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

             1            2                 G. BOLBERY                              15                  10                  25

               2                 3                C. BOOM                                    13                  11                  24

               3                 1                A. MORRISON                           17                  6                    23

               4                 8                J. WEARDEN                             6                    16                  22

               5                 6                P. O’DONOGHUE                      10                  12                  22

               6                 7                JAMES SOMERVILLE              10                  12                  22

               7                 24              M. LIDDLE                                 7                    14                  21                

               8                 12              G. DOWSETT (2)                       10                  11                  21

               9                 21              J. DORAN                                   12                  9                    21

               10              9                ZIGGY                                         12                  9                    21