Manchester City Still Well in Front

In the English Premiership MANCHESTER UNITED beat Watford 4-2 away to take their goals total to 38. LEICESTER CITY beat TOTTENHAM 2-1 at home to give them a total of 28 goals while Tottenham hit goal number 25. CRYSTAL PALACE drew 0-0 away to Brighton to pick up their tenth blank score sheet of the season. WEST BROM are now on a total of 16 goals after they drew 2-2 at home to NEWCASTLE who are now on 15 goals. MANCHESTER CITY have keep up their distance between them and rivals United as they win 2-1 at home to Southampton. City are now on a total of 46 goals. ARSENAL have picked up the highest result so far this week as they win 5-0 at home to Huddersfield. That now gives the Gunners a total of 31 goals. BOURNEMOUTH picked up goal number 18 as they lost 2-1 at home to Burnley. CHELSEA won 1-0 at home against Swansea and they now have a total of 32 goals. It’s 21 for EVERTON as they win 4-0 at home to troubled WEST HAM. West Ham picked up blank number six and now just one goal in their last three games. LIVERPOOL won 3-0 away to Stoke and they are now on a total of 28 goals.

In the Championship IPSWICH beat Derby away 1-0 and they are now on 34 goals while READING are on a total of 28 after they won 3-0 at home to Barnsley.

In League One BLACKBURN pick up another four goals in their 4-2 away win over Blackpool. Blackburn have now netted a total of thirteen goals in their last four games and have a total of 40 goals. CHARLTON drew 2-2 at home to PETERBOROUGH to take them up to a total of 35 while Borough are now on 38.

In the Scottish Premiership CELTIC slip up as they drew 1-1 away to Motherwell to pick up their 46^th goal of the season but they have extended their goal run to eighteen games. It’s 40 for RANGERS as they beat second place ABERDEEN at home. Aberdeen have now have five blank score sheets to date.

Championship Result

In the English Championship QUEENS PARK RANGERS drew 2-2 at home to BRENTFORD to take their goals tally to 24 while Brentford are now on 36.

Week Seventeen

In Week Seventeen of the competition and we can now take our winners total to 25 as this weekend we had two winners to share the £6 weekend cash prize money on a total of 9 goals. They are TOM BAXTER and JAMES BLYTH.

Tom is in his second season with Golden Goals and in his first season last year he finished in 119^th place on a total of 246 goals. Tom had one weekend win. This season Tom has had three blank score sheets at the weekend and this is his highest position to date. His best team is Celtic. James has been with us for three seasons. Last season he finished in 81^st place on a total of 277 goals. This season James has also had three blank score sheets and this is his highest position to date. Celtic is also his best team. Our winners combinations are

Tom  CELTIC 2, MANCHESTER CITY 2, WOLVES 5

James  BLACKBURN 2, CELTIC 2, WOLVES 5

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Most of us managed to pick up some midweek goals this week and the race for the cash has changed around just a bit. We had three players that picked up the most number of goals with 9 each. They were Jessica Barnett, Bob Sawyer and June Tighe. All three have Fulham as part of their combinations.

In first place on 48 goals we now have JAMES BLYTH moving up from two and in second place both on 47 goals we have CHRIS SETFORD and BOB SAWYER who has moved up from fourth place. In third place PHIL FRANCKSEN down from two and last week’s leader JULIE SOMERVILLE both are now on a total of 46 goals. In joint fourth place we have STEPHEN LEADER down from three and RICKY WOOD down from two both are on 45 goals. In fifth place all on 44 goals we have SIMON DICKINSON and TONY KING down from two and (Me) STEVE REEVE down from three, while GUY DOWSETT (1) and JUNE TIGHE join us at five this week.

WEEKEND RESULTS

This weekend the average score fell from five goals last weekend to just 4 this weekend. The reason for that is that we had six teams without a game and another twelve teams that failed to score any goals but also our top voted teams did not pick up many goals.. The highest score that we had over the weekend came from two of our teams. In the English Championship WOLVES picked up their highest score of the season with a 5-1 home win against BOLTON. Wolves have taken their goals total to 44 while Bolton hit goal number 21. In the Scottish League Two with their highest score of the season ELGIN won 5-1 at home to Berwick. Elgin are now on a total of 33 goals.

PREMIERSHIP

We Still have the top six teams here with MANCHESTER CITY still top after they won 2-1 away to Huddersfield. Manchester City take their goals tally to 44. Still eight points behind City in second place is MANCHESTER UNITED. They won just 1-0 at home to Brighton and are now on a total of 34 goals. CHELSEA are still in third place after they drew 1-1 away to LIVERPOOL. Chelsea picked up goal number 31 while Liverpool hit goal number 25 and move into sixth place. Up to Fourth place is ARSENAL as they win 1-0 away to Burnley. Arsenal are on 26 goals. TOTTENHAM are down to fifth place as they drew 1-1 at home against WEST BROM. As Tottenham picked up goal number 24 West Brom are now on 14 after a two game dry spell for goals. CRYSTAL PALACE are still stuck to the bottom of the table after they won their second league game of the season by beating Stoke 2-1 at home. Palace are now on 12 goals. NEWCASTLE picked up their sixth blank of the season after they lost 3-0 at home to on form Watford. Newcastle have now scored just one goal in their last four games. EVERTON lost 4-1 away to Southampton and they are now on 17 goals. BOURENMOUTH drew 0-0 away to Swansea and that was their seventh blank of the season.

CHAMPIONSHIP

We now have the top four teams here with Wolves still on top after their big win and they are now four points clear of second place CARDIFF who won 2-0 away to Nottingham Forest. Cardiff are now on a total of 30 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED are down to third place as they drew 1-1 at home to BIRMINGHAM.  Sheffield United are now on 36 goals while Birmingham are on 16. ASTON VILLA have moved up to fourth place as they win 2-0 at home to IPSWICH. Villa are now on 34 goals while Ipswich picked up their fourth blank score sheet. LEEDS won 2-0 away to Barnsley to extend their goal run to eight games with a total of 41 goals. SUNDERLAND beat BURTON ALBION 2-0 away to take their goals tally up to 28 while Albion picked up their tenth blank of the season. After their five goals in midweek, FULHAM won 1-0 at home to Millwall and they are now on a total of 27 goals. HULL are on 32 goals as they lost 3-2 at home to Bristol City. MIDDLESBROUGH picked up their sixth blank score sheet after they lost 3-0 at home to Derby. NORWICH drew 1-1 a home to Preston and they are on 28 goals while READING drew 0-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday to get their seventh blank score sheet.

LEAGUE ONE

WIGAN have moved to top place as they win 3-1 away to Rotherham. With six goals in a week, Wigan are now on a total of 41 goals. In third place is now SCUNTHORPE after they won 2-0 at home to CHARLTON. Scunthorpe are now on 30 goals while Charlton picked up their fourth blank after a goal run of ten games and have dropped down to sixth place. BRADFORD are in fourth place as they win 1-0 away to second place Shrewsbury. Bradford are now on a total of 33 goals.  BLACKBURN have moved up to fifth place after they won 2-1 at home to Bristol Rovers to take their goals tally up to 36. After a two game dry spell for goals DONCASTER are now on 32 goals as they win 2-1 at home against MK DONS after going a goal down in the first ten minutes. FLEETWOOD picked up their fourth blank score sheet as they drew 0-0 at home to Blackpool. PETERBOROUGH lost 1-0 away to Rochdale and that was their fourth blank of the season. SOUTHEND are on 22 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Oxford. PLYMOUTH are still bottom of the table after they lost 1-0 away to PORTSMOUTH. As Plymouth pick up their eighth blank of the season, Portsmouth take their goals tally to 26.

LEAGUE TWO

LUTON are now top this weekend after they won 2-1 away to Crewe. Luton are now on 49 goals. EXETER are still in fourth place as they win 2-0 at home to Accrington. Exeter are now on a total of 32 goals.  COVENTRY have moved up to sixth place after they drew 1-1 at home to Crawley. Coventry are now on 24 goals. MANSFIELD have moved up to seventh place as they drew 2-2 at home to Chesterfield. Mansfield are on 33 goals and have extended their goals run to nine games. FOREST GREEN are on 24 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Cheltenham. LINCOLN CITY won 3-1 at home to PORT VALE to give them a total of 25 goals to Vale’s 22. COLCHESTER lost 2-1 away to Notts County and that was goal number 27 for them.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Scottish League Cup, CELTIC have retained the cup for the fourth season in a row after they won 2-0 against Motherwell. Celtic have now extended their run of goals to seventeen games with a total of 45 goals.

In the Premiership ABERDEEN in second place are now three points behind Celtic as they win 3-1 away to Kilmarnock. Aberdeen are now on 24 goals. In the Championship FALKIRK lost 3-0 at home to Morton to pick up their sixth blank score sheet of the season and two in a row now.  In League One RAITH won 2-0 at home to Queens Park. Raith after a two game dry spell for goals are now on 37 goals. In League Two STENHOUSEMUIR lost 1-0 at home to Montrose that is their third blank of the season.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

LUTON (49) CELTIC (45) WOLVES (44) Total of 138 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

CRYSTAL PALACE (12) NEWCASTLE (13) WEST BROM (14) Total of 39 goals

The only team with a 100% goal scoring run is CELTIC who have now scored in all of their seventeen League/Cup games played with a total of 45 goals. That gives them an average score of 2.6 goals per game.

DONCASTER have picked up the most number of blank score sheets with a total of eleven out of twenty-four league/cup games played.

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 second weekend at  number one as his combination picked him up a total of 9 goals for the week. Paul has Celtic, Luton and Manchester City. He is now five goals clear of Chris Boom and Tom Baxter in second and third place.

At the other end at number 149 we still have COLIN PINDER who is now spending his fourth consecutive weekend there and now six over the Season. Colin picked up six goals from his combination for the week. His teams are Colchester, Crystal Palace and Southend.

After a very busy weeks for football, here are this weeks top ten

            THIS      LAST                                                    M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

           WEEK     WEEK             NAME                            GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

           1             -                 P. DAVEY (2013/14)        29                  109                 138

               2                 -                 C. BOOM                            27                  106                 133              

              3                 6                T. BAXTER                        38                  95                  133              

              4                 -                 C. BOLBERY                       32                  98                   130

              5                 3                A. DAVEY                           38                  92                   130

              6                 5                J. WEARDEN                      32                  96                   128

             7                 11              G. WARMAN                      33                  92                   125

            8                 32              J. BLYTH                             48                  77                 125

            9                 7                C. DICKER                             26                  97                  123                              

                      10               12              N. TREADWELL                  36                  87                  123     

Rangers Failed to Beat Dundee

In the Scottish Premiership RANGERS lost their second league game in a row as they lost 2-1 away to then bottom of table Dundee. As Rangers take their goals tally to 37 they have now lost four games out of fourteen played and they remain in fourth place.

In the English Premiership WEST HAM picked up their 20^th goal of the season as they drew 1-1 at home to LEICESTER CITY. Leicester take their goals tally to 26.

Wolves are still Top

In the English Championship WOLVES are now four points clear of second place Cardiff after they won 4-1 at home against LEEDS UNITED. Both Wolves and Leeds have now taken their goals total to 39 each. It’s 30 goals for MIDDLESBROUGH as they win 2-0 at home to BIRMINGHAM who picked up their tenth blank of the season and now only one goal in their last six games. IPSWICH drew 2-2 at home to Sheffield Wednesday and they are now on 33 goals.

Sheffield United Miss Out

In the English Championship FULHAM picked up their biggest win of the season as they beat SHEFFIELD UNITED 5-4 away. Untied have failed to catch up with Wolves on top but they are now on a total of 35 goals while Fulham take theirs up to 26. ASTON VILLA won 2-1 at home to SUNDERLAND to take their goals tally to 32 and Sunderland to 26. CARDIFF won 1-0 away to Barnsley and they are on 28 goals while BRENTFORD drew 1-1 at home to BURTON ALBION. Brentford are now on 34 goals while Burton hit goal number 18. It’s 20 goals for BOLTON as they drew 2-2 at home to READING who are now on a total of 25 goals. QUEENS PARK RANGERS picked up their fourth blank of the season as they lost 2-0 away to Derby. HULL drew 0-0 away to Millwall and that was their third blank of the season after a goal run of eleven games. NORWICH picked up their fifth blank score sheet after they lost 1-0 away to Nottingham Forest.

In League One SCUNTHORPE beat BRADFORD 2-1 away to take their goals tally to 28 while Bradford are on 32. CHARLTON are on 33 goals as they win 2-1 at home to Rochdale. MK DONS drew 1-1 at home to SOUTHEND to give them a total of 27 and Southend a total of 21 after a two game dry spell for goals. BLACKBURN are going goal crazy at the moment as they win 4-2 away to Oxford. Blackburn have scored a total of twelve goals in their last four games to take their goals total to 34. PETERBOROUGH won 2-1 at home to PORTSMOUTH and they are now on 36 goals to Portsmouth’s 25. PLYMOUTH are now on 16 goals as they win 2-0 at home against Northampton. After a two game dry spell for goals FLEETWOOD TOWN lost 4-2 away to Walsall but they are now on a total of 32 goals. WIGAN are now on 37 goals as they win 3-0 at home to DONCASTER who picked up their eleventh blank and now two games in a row without a goal.

In League Two FOREST GREEN lost 3-2 away to Chesterfield and are now on a total of 23 goals. COLCHESTER won 1-0 at home to LINCOLN CITY to pick up goal number 26 while Lincoln picked up their ninth blank of the season. It’s 30 goals for EXETER but they lost 3-1 away to Crawley. LUTON are also on fire as they win 3-0 at home to Carlisle. With thirteen goals in their last four games, Luton take their goals tally to 47. MANSFIELD won 4-0 away to PORT VALE. Mansfield are now on 31 goals while Vale picked up their eighth blank of the season. COVENTRY drew 1-1 away to Stevenage who are now on 23 goals.

Celtic's Record Breaking Run

As you know Golden Goals are still 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 a blank score sheets and scoring a total of 134 goals. That record was to score in all of their league and their two domestic cup competitions.

In week sixteen at this stage last season Celtic had played a total of fifteen league/cup games and netted a total of 43 goals. This Season in the same week, Celtic have played sixteen games and have scored a total of 43 goals. So although they have played one game more than at this stage last season, they will need a good result in their next game to be better than last season. Over all, Celtic have now played a total of 63 league/cup games without a blank score sheet, which will be one hell of a record to beat and the season is still not finished just yet.

Week Sixteen

In Week Sixteen of the competition and we had our third Rollover of the season worth £12. It was won on a total of 12 goals and with his second win of the season it goers to JED WEARDEN who becomes our third player to win twice this season. Jed last won back in our very first weekend with a part share of the cash prize money. Since then Jed has picked up just one blank score sheet in week five and second place is still his best position from week three. Jed has not been outside the top twenty all season. His best team is now Luton with 44 goals out of his total of 120 goals. His teams are once again

CELTIC 1, LUTON 7, MANCHESTER UNITED 4

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Only seventeen players managed to pick up some midweek goals this week so the race for the cash has remained much the same as last week. In first place on 42 goals and still two goals clear is JULIE SOMERVILLE. In second place we still have them eleven players all on 40 goals. They are JAMES BLYTH, SIMON DICKINSON, MATT DORAN, GUY DOWSETT (2), PHIL FRANCKSEN, TONY GUY (2), TONY KING, GRAHAM PHILLIPS, CHRIS SETFORD, DAVE WOOD and RICKY WOOD. In third place on 39 goals we have STEPHEN LEADER and (Me) STEVE REEVE. In fourth place we have MIKE HARRINGTON, DAVE SOMERVILLE and ALICE STUBBS and they are now joined with our 2010/11 Champion TONY GUY and BOB SAWYER all are on 38 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

This weekend the average score was just 5 goals which seems to be miss leading after we had a fantastic weekend for goals. We had three teams without a game and another eighteen teams that failed to score any goals. The highest score that we had over the weekend came from LUTON TOWN in the English League Two where they beat Cambridge United 7-0 at home. This is the second time that Luton have hit seven goals in a game but eight is their highest in week one.

Luton have moved up into second place in the league with a total of 44 goals. Luton have now taken their average score up to 73 goals per season.

PREMIERSHIP

We have the top six teams here with MANCHESTER CITY still top after they won 2-0 away to LEICESTER CITY. As Manchester City take their goals tally to 42, Leicester picked up their third blank of the season. Some eight points behind City in second place is MANCHESTER UNITED who won 4-1 at home to NEWCASTLE. United are now on a total of 33 goals while Newcastle picked up goal number thirteen after a two game dry spell. It’s 30 goals for CHELSEA in third place as they win 4-0 away to WEST BROM. West Brom have picked up their consecutive blank score sheet and now five over the season. TOTTENHAM are in fourth place but they lost 2-0 away to ARSENAL who are in sixth place. Tottenham picked up their third blank score sheet while Arsenal are now on a total of 25 goals and they have now scored in all of their last nine games. LIVERPOOL have now scored ten goals in their last three games as they win 3-0 at home to Southampton. Liverpool are now on a total of 24 goals. BOURNEMOUTH have picked up their biggest result of the season as they win 4-0 at home to Huddersfield to take their goals total to 17. CRYSTAL PALACE are still rooted to the bottom of the table as they drew 2-2 at home to EVERTON. Palace are now on 10 goals while Everton are now on 16 goals.WEST HAM are now third from bottom as they lost 2-0 away to Watford to pick up their fifth blank of the season.

CHAMPIONSHIP

We have the top three teams here with WOLVES back on top as they win 2-0 away to READING. Wolves are now on 35 goals while Reading picked up their sixth blank of the season. Sheffield United are in second place now with CARDIFF in third place after they won 2-0 at home to BRENTFORD. Cardiff are on 27 goals as Brentford picked up their fifth blank score sheet. ASTON VILLA are in fifth place as they win 2-1 away to QUEENS PARK RANGERS after going a goal down. Villa are now on 30 goals to Rangers 22. Behind them is MIDDLESBROUGH who lost 2-1 away to LEEDS UNITED. Brough are now on 28 goals while Leeds are on 38. BIRMINGHAM picked up goal number 15 after they have failed to score in their last four games as they win 1-0 at home to Nottingham Forest. FULHAM drew 1-1 at home to Derby and they are now on 21 goals while HULL are on 30 goals as they drew 2-2 at home to IPSWICH who take their goals total to 31. NORWICH picked up another goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Barnsley. Norwich are on a total of 27 goals. We had all three at the bottom of the league with Burton third from bottom, with Bolton and right at the foot of the table SUNDERLAND. They drew 2-2 at home to Millwall and they are now on 25 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

The highest team that we have here is still WIGAN in second place as they lost 2-1 at home to BRADFORD in third place. Wigan take their goals total to 35 while Bradford move on to 31 goals. Up to fourth place is SCUNTHORPE as they win 3-0 away to Northampton. Scunthorpe are now on 26 goals. CHARLTON have dropped down to fifth place as they drew 2-2 at home to MK DONS. Charlton have now scored in all of their last nine games and they are on 31 goals. MK Dons are on 26 goals.  BLACKBURN are now in sixth place after they won 3-0 away to Bury and that is now nine goals in three games to take their goals total to 30. FLEETWOOD TOWN picked up their third blank and now two in a row as they drew 0-0 at home to DONCASTER who picked up their tenth blank score sheet. PETERBOROUGH lost 1-0 at home to Blackpool and that is their third blank of the season. PORTSMOUTH are now on 24 goals as they win 1-0 at home to SOUTHEND. Southend have picked up their seventh blank and now two in a row. PLYMOUTH are second from bottom as they lost 4-0 at home against Oxford. That was Plymouth’s seventh blank score sheet.

LEAGUE TWO

After their big win, Luton are now up to second place with EXETER moving down to fourth place as they lost 1-0 away to Chesterfield. Exeter have now had a total of five blank score sheets to date. COVENTRY have moved down to seventh place as they win 2-1 away to LINCOLN CITY. Both teams are now on 22 goals. FOREST GREEN are now on 21 goals as they win 3-2 at home to Crewe. COLCHESTER drew 0-0 at home to Morecombe and that is their sixth blank of the season. MANSFIELD are on 27 goals as they win 1-0 at home to Stevenage. PORT VALE won 1-0 at home to Barnet and they are now on 21 goals.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the WILLIAM HILL CUP Third Round games we had four of our Scottish teams in action. The bad news is that only one have made it through to the next round. That team is  PETERHEAD who beat RAITH ROVERS 3-0 at home. Peterhead are now on 44 goals while Raith picked up their third blank of the season and now two in a row. ELGIN CITY are out as they lost 1-0 away to Dumbarton to pick up their seventh blank score sheet. STENHOUSEMUIR are also out as they went down 2-1 at home to Alloa. That was Stenhousemuir’s 26^th goal of the season.

In the Premiership CELTIC have extended their lead and run of goals to sixteen games as they win just 1-0 away to Ross County to hit goal number 43. ABERDEEN in second place and six points behind Celtic, lost 2-0 at home to Motherwell and that is their fourth blank of the season. RANGERS in fourth place behind Hibs, lost their third league game out of thirteen as they went down 2-0 at home to Hamilton. That is Rangers fourth blank score sheet.

In the Championship FALKIRK lost 3-0 away to Dundee Utd and they have now had a total of five blank score sheets.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

LUTON (44) PETERHEAD (44) CELTIC (43) Total of 131 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

CRYSTAL PALACE (10) WEST BROM (13) NEWCASTLE (13) Total of 36 goals

The only team with a 100% goal scoring run is CELTIC who have now scored in all of their sixteen League/Cup games played with a total of 43 goals. That gives them an average score of 2.6 goals per game.

DONCASTER have picked up the most number of blank score sheets with a total of ten out of twenty-two league/cup games played.

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 has become the sixth player to reach that number one spot this weekend, as his combination picked him up a total of 10 goals all coming from the weekend.  Paul has Celtic, Luton and Manchester City.

At the other end at number 149 we have COLIN PINDER who is now spending his third consecutive weekend there and now five over the Season. Colin picked up just two goals from from his teams and they all came from Crystal Palace. His teams are Colchester, Crystal Palace and Southend. 

Here is how the top ten looks this week

        THIS      LAST                                                  M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

        WEEK     WEEK             NAME                         GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

            1             2                P. DAVEY (2013/14)        26                  103                129

             2                 1                C. BOOM                         27                  102                129              

            3                 -                 A. DAVEY                        37                  86                  123              

            4                 -                 C. BOLBERY                   29                  91                  120

             5                 16              J. WEARDEN                 29                  91                  120

             6                 5                T. BAXTER                     34                  86                   120

            7                 -                 C. DICKER                      26                  92                   118

             8                 -                 J. WISE                           26                  90                   116

            9                 10              A. NEWMAN                  33                  83                   116       

             10              15              B. CLARK                       27                  88                   115         

Sheffield United Back on Top

In the English Championship we had three of our teams in action. SHEFFIELD UNITED move back to the top of the league and a point in front of Wolves as they win 3-1 away to BURTON ALBION. United have now taken their goals tally to 31 goals and they have scored seven goals in their last two games. Burton take their goals total to 17. BOLTON picked up their ninth blank score sheet as they drew 0-0 away to Preston. 

Peru Last Nation for Russia

Peru are the very last nation to take that trip to Russia next year as they beat New Zealand 2-0. We now have all 32 teams that will be in the group draw on the 1^st December.

They are Five-time winners Brazil, as are the defending champions Germany, plus Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, England, Egypt, France, Iceland, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, South Korea, Spain Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia and Uruguay. All you have to do in the Golden Goals World Cup 2018 is to pick just four of them.

FA CUP First Round Replay

PETERBOROUGH are our last Golden Goals team to go through to the next round of the FA CUP after they beat non-league Tranmere 5-0 away in the replay. Peterborough with their biggest win of the season have taken their goals total to 34. 

Update on World Cup 2018

We can now add another eight teams to the World Cup 2018 as Australia, Croatia, Denmark, Morocco, Senegal, Sweden, Switzerland and Tunisia have all won their Play-off games and they will all be going to Russia. We have just one more place left and that will be decided between New Zealand and Peru.

FA CUP First Round Replay

We had our first team to play in the FA CUP first round replays and they were SCUNTHORPE. They have finally gone through to the next round after beating Northampton 1-0 at home. Scunthorpe take their goals tally to 23.

In the Scottish league one, RAITH ROVERS have picked up their second blank of the season after a goal run of fourteen games as they went down 3-0 away to Ayr.

Week Fifteen

In Week Fifteen of the competition and not a very exciting week for us here at Golden Goals as we had the World Cup qualifying rounds being played over the week which meant that not many of our teams got round to playing any games. Still next weekend we will have our third Rollover of the season as our teams get back in league action.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Only three players managed to pick up some midweek goals this week so the race for the cash has remained the same this week. In first place on 42 goals and still two goals clear is JULIE SOMERVILLE. In second place we still have them eleven players all on 40 goals. They are JAMES BLYTH, SIMON DICKINSON, MATT DORAN, GUY DOWSETT (2), PHIL FRANCKSEN, TONY GUY (2), TONY KING, GRAHAM PHILLIPS, CHRIS SETFORD, DAVE WOOD and RICKY WOOD. In third place on 39 goals we have STEPHEN LEADER and (Me) STEVE REEVE. In fourth place we have MIKE HARRINGTON, DAVE SOMERVILLE and ALICE STUBBS all on 38 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

This weekend only forty-one of you managed to pick up some goals as we only had eighteen of our teams in action over the weekend. Out of the we had just three teams that failed to score any goals.

The highest score that we had over the weekend came from the English League Two where LINCOLN CITY won 4-1 away to Crewe.  That result has taken Lincoln’s goal tally to 21 goals after they failed to score in their previous three games.

Lincoln City are now in their fifth Season with Golden Goals and they became our 70^th voted English team. Lincoln started in our 1988/89 Season and finished on a total of 71 goals. Their highest score came in the 2005/06 Season with a total of 78 goals. In their last season with us in 2007/08, they finished on a total of 64 goals. This season they have two votes and they have picked up a total of eight blank score sheets in nineteen games played. Over the season’s they have netted a total of 303 goals which gives them an average score of 60 goals per season to date.

LEAGUE ONE

The highest team that we have here is Wigan in second place with Charlton right behind them in third. Both teams had no game over the weekend. BRADFORD in fourth place did and they lost 1-0 at home to PLYMOUTH. Bradford picked up their fifth blank of the season while Plymouth net goal number fourteen. In fifth place is SCUNTHORPE who won 1-0 at home to Bristol Rovers to take their goals tally to 22. PETERBOROUGH are now on 29 goals as they drew 2-2 away to AFC Wimbledon. After a three game dry spell for goals, PORTSMOUTH won 3-2 away to Blackpool and they are now on a total of 23 goals. It’s 30 goals for DONCASTER as they drew 1-1 at home to Rotherham. MK DONS won 1-0 at home to FLEETWOOD TOWN and they are now on a total of 24 goals while Fleetwood picked up their second blank of the season.

LEAGUE TWO

EXETER are third here and our highest team in league two as they win 3-0 at home against Grimsby. Exeter are now on 29 goals. LUTON are in fourth place as they drew 2-2 away to Cheltenham and they are now on 37 goals. COVENTRY are in sixth place but they lost 1-0 at home to MANSFIELD. Coventry have now had a total of eight blank score sheets as Mansfield take their goals tally to 26. COLCHESTER won 1-0 away to Barnet to pick up goal number 25. FOREST GREEN drew 1-1 away to Crawley and they are now on 18 goals.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

With our Scottish teams we had just three of our eight in action and they all came from their League Two. In fourth place we have  STENHOUSEMUIR who won 3-2 away to PETERHEAD to take their goals tally to 25 while Peterhead in third place are now on 41 goals. In fifth place is ELGIN CITY who won 3-1 Away to Cowdenbeath and they are now on a total of 28 goals.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

CELTIC (42) PETERHEAD (41) MANCHESTER CITY (40) Total of 123 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

CRYSTAL PALACE (8) NEWCASTLE (12) WEST BROM (13) Total of 33 goals 

Our Best team is now CELTIC who have now scored in all of their fifteen League/Cup games played with a total of 42 goals.

BIRMINGHAM, BURTON ALBION, CRYSTAL PALACE and DONCASTER have all picked up nine blank score sheets 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. 

CHRIS BOOM is celebrating his fifth consecutive week at the top as his combination picked him up two goals all coming from the weekend once again. He has Celtic, Manchester City and Peterhead. Paul Davey has moved back into second place but he is four goals behind Chris as his combination  also picked him up two goals at the weekend. Paul has the combination of Celtic, Luton and Manchester City.

At the other end at number 149 we have COLIN PINDER who is now spending his second weekend there and now four over our 35^th Season. Colin was lucky enough to have one of his teams in action and they were Colchester who picked up a goal for him. His teams are Colchester, Crystal Palace and Southend. 

Here are our top ten for this week

       THIS      LAST                                                     M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

      WEEK     WEEK             NAME                           GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

          1             -                 C. BOOM                            27                   96                 123

           2                 3                P. DAVEY (2013/14)          26                   93                 119

          3                 2                A. DAVEY                           37                   81                 118              

          4                 -                 C. BOLBERY                     29                   87                 116

          5                 -                 T. BAXTER                        34                   81                 115

          6                 11              D. BARRETT                     24                   87                  111

          7                 6                C. DICKER                        26                   85                  111

          8                 7                J. WISE                              26                   85                  111

          9                 8                P. COLLINS                       29                   82                  111                      

                   10              9                A. NEWMAN                     33                   78                   111