Champions Celtic 14 Points Clear of Rivals

In the English Premiership, LIVERPOOL are now on a total of 61 goals as they win 3-0 away to Huddersfield. ARSENAL lost 3-1 away to Swansea and that was their 54^th goal of the season. WEST HAM drew 1-1 at home to London rivals CRYSTAL PALACE and that is their 40^th while Palace are now on a total of 28 goals.

In the Championship, BIRMINGHAM have not had a big score since week two but they won 3-1 at home to SUNDERLAND. Birmingham are now a total of 27 goals while Sunderland picked up goal number 34. READING are now on 42 goals as they win 3-0 away to BURTON ALBION. Burton pick up their fifteenth blank score sheet and now two in a row. HULL drew 0-0 at home to LEEDS UNITED and that was their tenth blank score sheet while Leeds picked up their ninth. MIDDLESBROUGH have now failed to score in their last two games as they picked up another blank score sheet and now ten over the season as they drew 0-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday. It’s 50 for ASTON VILLA as they win 1-0 away to SHEFFIELD UNITED who picked up their eighth blank of the season.

In League One BLACKBURN won 3-1 at home to Walsall and they are now on a total of 64 goals.

In League Two, COVENTRY have picked up another three goals in their 3-1 home win against Cambridge United. Coventry are now on 43 goals. LINCOLN CITY won 3-1 at home to Newport County and they take their goals tally to 42 while LUTON are on 73 goals as they lost 3-2 at home to Wycombe.

In the Scottish Premiership, Champions CELTIC are now on a total of 74 goals as they win 3-1 at home to Hearts. Celtic are now fourteen points clear of rivals Rangers in second place. In League Two PETERHEAD won 3-2 away to Berwick and they are now on 77 goals.

Week Twenty-Six

In Week Twenty-Six of the competition and we have  had another single player that has won this weekends jackpot of £6 on a score of 9 goals. They become our thirty-third winner of the season and it goes to a STEPHEN LEADER.

Stephen is in his second season with Golden Goals and in last season’s table, he finished in 82^nd place out of 136 on a total of 277 goals. This season, Stephen has changed all of his combination from last season and it could be for the better as his teams are starting to get them goals in. In fact he has picked up twenty-six goals in the last two weeks and this is the highest that he has been for most of the season. 58^th place is his highest in week one. Stephen has picked up five blank score sheets to date and his best team is Celtic. His first win in two season’s come from                                       

CELTIC 1, FULHAM 3, LEICESTER CITY 5

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

We have now added another three players that are on 50 or more midweek goals and that takes our total to 132 out of 149. We had fourteen of our teams in midweek action and most of them picked up goals. It was CHRIS DICKER that picked up the most number of goals with nine goals.  They came from Celtic two, Manchester City three and Manchester United four. So the race for the cash has changed once again from last weeks leaders.

We have a new leader this week with a total of 80 goals, and that is (Me) STEVE REEVE. What a surprise that is as my combination is not doing very well at all. In second place on 77 goals and moving all the way up from fifth place is RAYMOND HARROD. In third place dropping down from one last week is STEPHEN LEADER and  MICK LIDDLE moving up from four. Both are on a total of 76 goals. In fourth place all on 75 goals we have MATT DORAN and GRAHAM PHILLIPS moving down from three with TONY SKINNER who has moved up from five. In fifth place down from two is JAMES BLYTH and remaining there is STEPHANIE CHRISTIE and MIKE PEPPERRELL. Joining them is MARK GREGORY and TERRY WARWICK all on 74 goals. Who will be here next week?

WEEKEND RESULTS

After last weekends high average score of nine goals we have come back down to earth as this weekends average score is just 4 goals. The reason for that is that we had fourteen of our teams with out a game and another fourteen teams that failed to score any goals.

Most of our teams played in the 4^th  Round of the FA CUP and this is where our highest score came in from LEICESTER CITY who won 5-1 away to PETERBOROUGH. That was Leicester’s highest score of the season and they are now on a total of 53 goals. Peterborough picked up goal number 63.

Leicester City became our 64^th voted English team into Golden Goals and they did not start with us until the 1987/88 Season where they finished on a total of 68 goals. We had to wait till the 2013/14 Season for them to score their highest score with 98 goals. Last season they netted a total of 57. This is Leicester’s fourteenth season with us and they have netted a total of 1025 goals which gives them an average score of 73 goals per season to date.They have just one vote this season.

FA CUP Fourth Round

We had seventeen of our teams in cup action over the weekend and on Friday night we saw Manchester United go through and Reading go out. To follow Manchester United there were another eight of our teams that will join them.

They are HULL who won 2-1 at home to Nottingham Forest which took their goals tally to 42. One of the shock results over the weekend was that WEST BROM beat LIVERPOOOL 3-2 away. We have not had a big score like that from West Brom since week four but they are now on a total of 28 goals. COVENTRY won 1-0 away to MK DONS and they are now on 40 goals while MK Dons picked up their ninth blank of the season.  CHELSEA won 3-0 at home to NEWCASTLE to take their goals tally to 59 while Newcastle picked up their eleventh blank of the season. MANCHESTER CITY are through as they win 2-0 away to CARDIFF. City are now on 84 goals as Cardiff picked up their ninth blank of the season and now two in a row. The other shock over the weekend was that League one leaders WIGAN beat WEST HAM 2-0 at home. Wigan have taken their goals total to 69 while West Ham picked up their tenth blank of the season. SHEFFIELD UNITED won 1-0 at home to Preston and they are now on 48 goals.

We also have two of our teams in replays. They are BIRMINGHAM who drew 1-1 away to Huddersfield to pick up goal number 24 while TOTTENHAM went a goal down in their 1-1 draw against Newport County before Kane equalised in the last ten minutes of play. Tottenham are now on 54 goals and they have now scored in all of their last fifteen games.

MIDDLESBROUGH go out as they lost 1-0 at home to Brighton. Brough have now had a total of nine blank score sheets.

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CHAMPIONSHIP

WOLVES are still top they win 1-0  away to IPSWICH. Wolves are twelve points clear of second place Derby and they are now on 56 goals but it’s only two goals in their last five games. Ipswich picked up their ninth blank score sheet. FULHAM are now on 51 goals as they win 3-1 away to Barnsley. Fulham have now moved into sixth place in the league. NORWICH won 1-0 away to BRENTFORD and they are now on 41 goals while Brentford picked up their ninth blank score sheet. QUEENS PARK RANGERS picked up their tenth blank and now two in a row as they lost 2-0 away to Bristol City.

LEAGUE ONE

WIGAN are still top here but now just two points in front of Shrewsbury as they win 1-0 away to PORTSMOUTH. Portsmouth picked up their ninth blank of the season and now two in a row. BLACKBURN are in third place as they drew 1-1 at home to Northampton. Blackburn are now on a total of 61 goals. SCUNTHORPE are in fourth place but they lost 3-2 away to SOUTHEND. Scunthorpe are now on 46 goals while Southend are now on 35 goals. BRADFORD are in fifth place as they lost 4-0 at home to AFC Wimbledon. That was Bradford’s eight blank score sheet and now two in a row. DONCASTER lost 3-1 at home to Bristol Rovers to pick up goal number 48 while FLEETWOOD are on 46 as they lost 2-1 away to Gillingham. PLYMOUTH won 2-1 away to Oldham and they take their goals tally to 35.

LEAGUE TWO

Top of the table LUTON won 1-0 away to Grimsby to take their goals tally to 71 goals. MANSFIELD have moved up to third place after they won 2-1 away to Morecombe. Mansfield are now on a total of 50 goals. FOREST GREEN picked up their twelfth blank of the season as they lost 1-0 away to Carlisle. PORT VALE are now on 40 goals as they drew 2-2 at home to COLCHESTER who are now on 41 goals.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

With the Scottish Premiership back into full swing, CELTIC are top as they win just 1-0 at home to Hibernian. Celtic are now on 71 goals. RANGERS are still in second place on goal difference and now eleven points behind their rivals Celtic as they win 2-1 away to Ross County. Rangers are now on 54 goals. ABERDEEN are in third place as they win 3-1 at home to Kilmarnock and they are now on 41 goals.

In the Championship, FALKIRK won 3-1 at home to Inveness and that takes their goals tally to 38. In League One RAITH ROVERS have dropped down to second place as they drew 0-0 away to Alloa to pick up their fifth blank and now two in a row. In League Two, PETERHEAD are still in second place after they lost 1-0 away to Clyde to pick up their second balnk of the season after a run of fourteen games. STENHOUSEMUIR are third as they lost 2-0 away to fourth place ELGIN CITY. Stenhousemuir picked up their fourth blank score sheet as Elgin take their goals tally to 40.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

MANCHESTER CITY (84) PETERHEAD (74) CELTIC (71) Total of 229 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

BIRMINGHAM (24) BURTON ALBION (27) NEWCASTLE (27) Total of 78 goals 

The team with the best run of goals is currently TOTTENHAM who have scored in all of their last fourteen games.

BIRMINGHAM and BURTON ALBION have both picked up the most number of blank score sheets with a total of fourteen games 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 once again top this weekend as his combination picked him up a total of ten goals. Seven of them came from midweek with the other three coming from the weekend. Chris is now in his eighth weekend at the top and his teams are Celtic, Manchester City and Peterhead. Paul Davey has remained in second place again after his combination picked him up a total of nine goals for the week.

At the other end at number 149 we still have COLIN PINDER who is now spending his thirteenth consecutive weekend there and now fifteen over the Season. Colin picked up five goals all from the weekend from his combination of  Colchester, Crystal Palace and Southend, although Crystal palace had no game this week.

Here is how the top ten looks after the fourth round of the FA CUP.

    THIS      LAST                                                     M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

   WEEK     WEEK             NAME                            GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

        1             -                 C. BOOM                             63                   166                229              

         2                 -                 P. DAVEY (2013/14)           64                   162                226              

         3                 -                 C. BOLBERY                      66                   158                224              

         4                 5                C. DICKER                          71                   146                217

         5                 4                G. WARMAN                       67                   149                216

         6                 7                B. CLARK                            65                   149                214

         7                 6                D. GOODSON                      61                   152                213

         8                 -                 T. BAXTER                          72                   139                211              

         9                 -                 P. REEVE (87/88 & 11/12)  60                   149                209                                                     10              -                 A. DAVEY                            67                   141                208               

The Start of the FA CUP Fourth Round

We have now started the first games of the FA CUP Fourth Round and we had two teams that played. MANCHESTER UNITED are through to the next round after they beat Yeovil Town 4-0 away. United should of scored more in this game as Yeovil are fourth from bottom in league two and they are second in the premiership, but a win is a win. United are now on a total of 62 goals. In the Other game, READING go out of the cup as they lost 3-1 away to Sheffield Wednesday but they picked up goal number 39.

Arsenal to Play City in The Cup Final

It will be ARSENAL that will be playing MANCHESTER CITY in the Carabao Cup Final after they beat London Rivals CHELSEA 2-1 at home in the Semi-Final Second leg game. After the teams drew 0-0 in the first leg, Chelsea went a goal up in the first seven minutes before Arsenal came back a few minutes later with an own goal from Chelsea. Arsenal scored the winning goal on the 60^th minute. Arsenal are now on 53 goals while Chelsea picked up goal number 56. The League Cup Final is to be played on 25^th February 2018.

In the Scottish Premiership RANGERS won 2-0 at home against ABERDEEN which now gives them a total of 52 goals, while Aberdeen picked up their eighth blank of the season. Rangers have moved up to second place on goal difference with Aberdeen and now eleven points behind rivals Celtic.

More Cup Results

In the Carabao Cup Semi-finals second leg game, Bristol City have given a tough ride for MANCHESTER CITY, but it was Manchester City that have made it through to the final after they won their second leg game 3-2 away. Manchester City win 5-2 on aggregate and that now means that the final will be a north v’s south. City have now taken their goals tally to 82.

In the WILLIAM HILL CUP Fourth Round games, FALKIRK are through to the next round after they won 1-0 away to Livingston to take their goals tally to 35 but PETERHEAD go out as they lost 3-2 at home to Dumbarton and they are now on 74 goals.

Meanwhile in the English League One BRADFORD lost 2-0 away to Rotherham and that is their seventh blank of the season. SCUNTHORPE drew 1-1 at home to DONCASTER and they are now on 44 goals to Doncasters 47.

In the Scottish Premiership CELTIC after their big cup win last weekend, start looking at the league once again and they have extended their lead for a while as they win 2-1 away to Partick. Celtic are now on a total of 70 goals.

No Move for Liverpool

In the English Premiership, LIVERPOOL have failed to join Chelsea in third place after they lost 1-0 away to Swansea last night. Liverpool have now had five blank score sheets this season.

Week Twenty-Five

In Week Twenty-Five of the competition and we had two players that have to share this weekends jackpot of £6 on a score of 15 goals. They are STEPHANIE CHRISTIE and MANGO (Paul Moran) both are first time winners this season which now brings our winners total to thirty-two.  

Stephanie is in her very first season with the competition and we thank her very much for joining in our biggest season. Stephanie has picked up her personal best score this weekend and this is the highest that she has been since week one where she started in 43^rd place. Stephanie has picked up just three blank score sheets so far and she now becomes our fifth lady winner. Paul  has been with Golden Goals for a hell of a long time and I thank him for being one of our longest serving players. But in the 1996/97 Season, Paul finished in 8^th place on a total of 282 goals and picking up over £13 in cash. Last season he finished in 100^th place on 264 goals. This season Paul has not had much joy with this one as his highest position is 59^th place in week one. Paul has picked up four blank score sheet to date and this is also his person best score this season. Both of our winners have Celtic as their best team, and the rest of their combinations are

Stephanie  ARSENAL 4, CELTIC 5, FULHAM 6

Paul  CELTIC 5, CHELSEA 4, FULHAM 6

MIDWEEK RESULTS

We had twelve of our teams in midweek action and most of them were once again in cup action and out of them just two failed to score any goals.  We had the third round replays of the FA CUP and this is where we are going to take a look at today. We had eleven of our teams taking part in these replays and six have made it through to the next round.

The highest score that we came from CARDIFF as they won their game 4-1 away to MANSFIELD. LEICESTER CITY finally won 2-0 at home to FLEETWOOD TOWN. After a three game dry spell for goals, READING won 3-0 at home against Stevenage. WEST HAM have scrapped through after they won 1-0 at home against Shrewsbury in extra time. WIGAN are through after they win 3-0 at home to BOURNEMOUTH. Bournemouth picked up their eleventh blank of the season. After a three game dry spell for goals, CHELSEA drew 1-1 at home to NORWICH after extra time but won 5-3 on penalties. WOLVES have failed to score in their last two games, but they picked up goal number 55 and they are out of the cup by going down 2-1 away to Swansea. To see the rest of the midweek results, go to the Golden Goals blog.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

We have now added another seven players that are on 50 or more midweek goals and that takes our total to 129 out of 149. We did not have many midweek games being played this week. It was TERRY WARWICK that picked up the most number of goals with six goals.  They came from Manchester United and Reading with three goals each. His third team is Celtic. The race for the cash has changed from last weeks leaders.

We have joint leaders this week on a total of 74 goals we have STEPHEN LEADER and  (Me) STEVE REEVE moving up from three. In second place on 72 goals we still have  JAMES BLYTH.  In third place both on 71 goals we have MATT DORAN and GRAHAM PHILLIPS. In fourth place on 70 goals we have STEPHANIE CHRISTIE, MICK LIDDLE and CHRIS SETFORD.  In fifth place all on 69 goals we have ROB FREEMAN, TONY GUY (1) TONY GUY (2), RAYMOND HARROD, MIKE PEPPERRELL, TONY SKINNER, JULIE SOMERVILLE and  DAVE WOOD all on a total of 69 goals .

WEEKEND RESULTS

We have had a very poor start to 2018 but how that has changed this weekend as the average score shot up from three goals last weekend to 9 goals this weekend. The reason for that is a follows, We had seven teams that had no game with most of them due to the weather we are having. We then had just eight teams that failed to score any goals. The highest score that we had over the weekend was six goals and they came from the English Championship where FULHAM won 6-0 at home to BURTON ALBION. That is Fulham’s biggest result of the season and the goals take their goals total to 48. Burton picked up their fourteenth blank of the season and now just one goal in their last three games.

Being one of our original teams from our very first season, Fulham was our third most voted English team and they finished on a score of 68 goals. We had to wait until the 200/01 Season before they scored their highest end of season score with 105 goals. The last time that Fulham was with us was back in the 2014/15 Season where they finished on 72 goals. This is their thirteenth season with Golden Goals which is a surprise as over the seasons they have netted a total of 884 goals which gives them an average score of 68 goals per season to date. They have a total of 20 votes this season which is their biggest vote yet.

PREMIERSHIP 

MANCHESTER CITY won 3-1 at home to NEWCASTLE to take their goals tally to 79. Newcastle hit goal number 27. City are now just twelve points in front of rivals MANCHESTER UNITED in second place as they win 1-0 away to Burnley. United have taken their goals total to 58 goals. CHELSEA  have moved up to third place as they win 4-0 away to Brighton. Chelsea are now on 55 goals. Liverpool have moved down to fourth place as they had no game over the weekend. TOTTENHAM have remained in fifth place after they drew 1-1 away to Southampton. Tottenham are now on a total of 53 goals. ARSENAL have remained in sixth place as they win 4-1 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE. As Arsenal take their goals tally to 51, Palace picked up goal number 27. LEICESTER CITY are in seventh place as they win 2-0 at home to Watford. Leicester take their goals total to 48. EVERTON drew 1-1 at home to WEST BROM and they are now on 31 goals to Albion's 25. WEST HAM are on 39 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to BOURNEMOUTH who are now on 34 goals

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CHAMPIONSHIP

WOLVES are still top but they picked up another blank score sheet and now seven over the season as they lost 2-0 at home to Nottingham Forest. Wolves have now scored just one goal in their last four games. CARDIFF are still in third place as they drew 0-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday. That is Cardiff’s eighth blank of the season. ASTON VILLA are still in fourth place as they win 3-1 at home to Barnsley. Villa have now scored in all of their last seven games and they are now on a total of 49 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED are in seventh place as they win 2-01 away to NORWICH. United are now on 47  goals to Norwich’s 40. BOLTON are 1-1 at home to IPSWICH to pick up goal number 32 while Ipswich are on 44. LEEDS UNITED are on 53 goals as they lost 4-3 at home to Millwall. BIRMINGHAM picked up goal number 23 as they drew 1-1 away to Preston. QUEENS PARK RANGERS picked up their ninth blank score sheet after they lost 3-0 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH. It’s 50 goals for BRENTFORD as they win 1-0 away to READING who picked up their thirteenth blank score sheet and now just three goals in their last five games. After a three game dry spell for goals, SUNDERLAND are on 33 goals as they win 1-0 at home to HULL who picked up their ninth blank and now two in a row.

LEAGUE ONE

WIGAN are still top here as they win 3-1 away to PLYMOUTH. With six goals this week for Wigan, they are now on a total of 67 goals. Plymouth picked up goal number 33 and they have now scored in all of their last ten games. It’s 60 goals for BLACKBURN who are now in second place and just five points behind Wigan as they win 2-0 away to FLEETWOOD TOWN. Fleetwood picked up their 45^th goal of the season. Still in fourth place is SCUNTHORPE who lost 3-1 at home to Gillingham. Scunthorpe are now on 43 goals. BRADFORD are in fifth place as they lost 3-1 away to Bristol Rovers. Bradford are on 51 goals. CHARLTON are in sixth place as they win 3-1 at home against Walsall. It’s been a while since Charlton had scored high and they are now on 44 goals. It’s 40 goals for the MK DONS but they lost 2-1 away to Northampton. PETERBOROUGH are on 62 goals as they win 3-0 at home to Oldham. PORTSMOUTH picked up their eighth blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 away to Rotherham. DONCASTER drew 2-2 away to Shrewsbury and they are now on 46 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

Top of the table LUTON won 1-0 at home to Morecombe to take their goals tally to 70 goals. EXETER are in fifth place as they win 2-1 away to Notts County and that gives them a total of 47 goals. Next comes COVENTRY who won 3-1 at home to Swindon and they are on 39 goals. In seventh place is MANSFIELD who won 3-2 at home against Cheltenham. Mansfield are now on 48 goals. PORT VALE are on 38 goals as they lost 3-2 away to Accrington. LINCOLN CITY drew 1-1 away to Barnet to pick up their 39^th goal of the season. COLCHESTER are on 39 goals as they picked up another single goal in their game against Grimsby that ended 1-1. FOREST GREEN have picked up their highest score of the season as they win 5-2 at home to Cambridge United. Green are now on 36 goals.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

We had the Fourth Round of the WILLIAMS HILL CUP but we only had two of our teams in action due to the weather they are having up there. Biggest score that we had came from CELTIC who won 5-0 at home to Brechin. Celtic back in action are now on a total of 68 goals. ABERDEEN managed to play and they won 4-1 at home to St Mirren to take their goals tally to 38.

The only league game we had came from their League One where RAITH ROVERS lost 1-0 away to Stranraer. Raith are still top in this league as they picked up their fourth blank of the season.  

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

MANCHESTER CITY (79) PETERHEAD (72) LUTON (70) Total of 217 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

BIRMINGHAM (23) WEST BROM (25) BURTON ALBION (27) Total of 75 goals

The team with the best run of goals is currently PETERHESD who have scored in all of their last thirteen games.

BIRMINGHAM and BURTON ALBION have both picked up the most number of blank score sheets with a total of fourteen games 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 still top this weekend after his combination picked him up a total of eight goals all coming from the weekend. Chris is now in his seventh weekend at the top and his teams are Celtic, Manchester City and Peterhead. Paul Davey has remained in second place after picking up a total of nine goals all from the weekend.

At the other end at number 149 we still have COLIN PINDER who is now spending his twelfth consecutive weekend there and now fourteen over the Season. Colin picked up just two goals from his combination of  Colchester, Crystal Palace and Southend, although Southend had no game.

So here is how the top ten looks this weekend after our frenzy of goals.

    THIS      LAST                                                    M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

  WEEK     WEEK             NAME                           GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

       1             -                 C. BOOM                           56                  163                 219              

       2                 -                 P. DAVEY (2013/14)          59                  158                 217              

       3                 -                 C. BOLBERY                     61                  153                 214              

       4                 -                 G. WARMAN                     62                  145                 207

       5                 6                C. DICKER                         62                  143                 205

       6                 5                D. GOODSON                    56                  147                 203

       7                 9                B. CLARK                          59                  143                 202

       8                 7                T. BAXTER                        67                  135                 202              

       9                 8                P. REEVE (87/88 & 11/12) 55                  145                 200                              

               10                 -               A. DAVEY                           62                  138                 200 

More FA CUP Third Round Replays

The last patch of the FA CUP Third Round Replays have now been played and in this lot we had five of our teams in action. Out of them only two of them have made it through to the next round. WIGAN are through after they win 3-0 at home to BOURNEMOUTH. Wigan are now on a total of 64 goals while Bournemouth picked up their eleventh blank of the season. After a three game dry spell for goals, CHELSEA drew 1-1 at home to NORWICH after extra time but won 5-3 on penalties. As penalties do not count in our competition, Chelsea are now on 51 goals to Norwich’s 39. WOLVES have failed to score in their last two games, but they picked up goal number 55 and they are out of the cup by going down 2-1 away to Swansea.

FA CUP Third Round Replays

In the FA CUP Third Round Replays, we had six of our Golden Goals teams in action and I am glad to say that four of them have made it through to the next round. They are LEICESTER CITY who finally won 2-0 at home to FLEETWOOD TOWN. Leicester take their goals total to 46 goals after failing to score in their last two games. Fleetwood picked up their eighth blank of the season. CARDIFF picked the biggest score on the night when they scored another four goals in their 4-1 away win over MANSFIELD. Cardiff are now on a total of 47 goals while Mansfield, after a two game dry spell, picked up goal number 45. After a three game dry spell for goals, READING won 3-0 at home against Stevenage. The three goals now give Reading a total of 38 goals. WEST HAM have scrapped through after they won 1-0 at home against Shrewsbury in extra time. West Ham are also now on 38 goals.

United Close on City

In the English Premiership, MANCHESTER UNITED have closed the gap on rivals City as they beat Stoke 3-0 at home. United are still twelve points behind City in second place but they are now on a total of 57 goals.

Week Twenty-Four

In Week Twenty-Four of the competition and we had another player to pick up the full amount of cash once again this weekend.  With their second win of the season it went to TONY JENKINS who won on a score of 11 goals.

Tony last won in week eight where he had to share some of the winnings. Since then Tony has picked up another two blank score sheet from the weekend taking his total to four. His best team is still Manchester City and for the first time this season, Tony has made it to the winning frame. Over the last four weeks, Tony’s combination has picked him up a total of 54 goals.

His teams are once again

LIVERPOOL 4, MANCHESTER CITY 3, TOTTENHAM 4

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

We have now added another six players that are on 50 or more midweek goals and that takes our total to 122 out of 149. With not many midweek games being played this week, over forty of you did pick up some goals. It was RICKY MILES and AMANDA MORRISON who picked up the most number of goals with three each.  Ricky’s goals came from Manchester City and Crystal Palace. His third team is Celtic. Amanda’s goals came from Falkirk and Manchester City. Her third team is Scunthorpe. So the race for the cash has remained unchanged from last weeks leaders.

In the lead on a total of 72 goals we have STEPHEN LEADER. In second place on 71 goals we  have  JAMES BLYTH and MATT DORAN. In third place all on 70 goals we have STEPHANIE CHRISTIE, (Me) STEVE REEVE and CHRIS SETFORD.  In fourth place we have ROB FREEMAN, TONY GUY (1) and  DAVE WOOD all on a total of 69 goals . In fifth place all on 68 we have PHIL FRANCKSEN, TONY GUY (2), BOB SAWYER and JUNE TIGHE.

WEEKEND RESULTS

The start of 2018 is not what we want as only a few of our teams are still netting the goals. But this weekends average score has moved up to the highest this year to 3 goals.  This weekend we had five teams without a game but we also had another eighteen teams that failed to score any goals.

The highest score that we had over the weekend was four goals and we had a total of five teams that picked them up. We had a lot of us once again that failed to pick up any goals.

PREMIERSHIP 

MANCHESTER CITY lost their first league game of the season after twenty-three played as they lost 4-3 away to LIVERPOOL. City are still fifteen points in front of rivals Manchester United in second place and they have now taken their goals total to 76. Liverpool who have moved up to third place, are now on 56 goals. CHELSEA are down to fourth place after they picked up their third consecutive blank score sheet and now seven over the season as they drew 0-0 at home to LEICESTER CITY. City picked up their sixth blank score sheet and now two in a row. TOTTENHAM are in fifth place as they win 4-0 at home to EVERTON. Tottenham are now on a total of 52 goals while Everton picked up their ninth blank score sheet and now just two goals in their last six games. ARSENAL are down to sixth place after they lost 2-1 away to BOURNEMOUTH. Arsenal are now on a total of 47 goals and Bournemouth are now on 33 goals. WEST HAM picked up their biggest win of the season as they win 4-1 away to Huddersfield. West Ham are now on 37 goals. CRYSTAL PALACE won 1-0 at home to Burnley to take their goals tally to 26. NEWCASTLE are also on 26 goals after they drew 1-1 at home to Swansea. WEST BROM are second from bottom but they won 2-0 at home to Brighton and they are now on 24 goals.

CHAMPIONSHIP

WOLVES are still top but they picked up their second consecutive blank score sheet and now six over the season as they drew 0-0 away to Barnsley. Wolves are ten points clear of second place Blackpool. CARDIFF are in third place as they win 4-0 at home to SUNDERLAND. That is Cardiff’s biggest win of the season and they are now on 43 goals as Sunderland picked up their tenth blank and now three in a row. ASTON VILLA are in fourth place as they win 1-0 away to Nottingham Forest to take their goals total to 46. BIRMINGHAM picked up their fourteenth blank score sheet after they drew 0-0 at home to Derby. BRENTFORD won 2-0 at home to BOLTON to take their goals tally to 49 after a tow game dry spell for goals. Bolton picked up their twelfth blank of the season. NORWICH are on 38 as they win 1-0 away to Bristol City. QUEENS PARK RANGERS picked up their biggest score of the season as they won 3-1 away to BURTON ALBION. Rangers are now on 33 goals while Albion hit goal number 27. HULL drew 0-0 at home to READING who have now had a total of eight blank score sheets to Reading’s twelve and now three in a row producing just two goals in their last seven games.IPSWICH are on 43 goals as they win 1-0 at home to LEEDS UNITED who picked up their eighth blank score sheet. MIDDLESBROUGH picked up their eighth as they lost 1-0 at home to FULHAM who are now on a total of 42 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

WIGAN are still top here and three points in front of second place Shrewsbury after they drew 0-0 at home to PETERBOROUGH. Wigan picked up their fifth blank of the season to Borough’s six. BLACKBURN are in third place after they won 3-1 at home to Shrewsbury. That takes Blackburn's goal tally to 58. In fourth place is SCUNTHORPE who drew 1-1 away to PORTSMOUTH to pick up goal number 42 while Portsmouth are on 35. In fifth place is BRADFORD as they lost 2-1 at home to Northampton. Bradford are on 50 goals. CHARLTON are in sixth place as they win 1-0 away to Bury. Charlton are now on 41 goals. DONCASTER are on 44 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to PLYMOUTH who are now on 32 goals. MK DONS picked up their eighth blank as they drew 0-0 at home to AFC Wimbledon. FLEETWOOD won 2-1 away to SOUTHEND and that gives them a total of 44 goals to Southend's 32.

LEAGUE TWO

Top of the table LUTON lost 2-0 away to Chesterfield to get their ninth blank of the season. EXETER are in fifth place as they win 1-0 at home to COVENTRY and are now on 45 goals. Coventry picked up their eleventh blank of the season. Behind them is LINCOLN CITY. They drew 2-2 at home against Notts County and they are now on 38 goals. In seventh place is MANSFIELD who drew 0-0 away to Cambridge United. Mansfield have failed to score in their lats two games and have now a total of eight blank score sheets. After a two game dry spell, PORT VALE are on 36 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Yeovil. FOREST GREEN lost 1-0 away to Swindon and that is their eleventh blank of the season. COLCHESTER are on 38 goals but lost 3-1 away to Wycombe.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

With no Scottish Prem games as they take their winter break  the other five teams that we have did manage to pick up some goals once more. In the Championship, FALKIRK won 1-0 away to Morton and that was their 34^th goal of the season. In League One RAITH ROVERS who are top, drew 1-1 at home to Ary and they are now on 52 goals.  In League Two PETERHEAD are still in second place as they win 4-3 at home to Stirling. Peterhead have now netted a total of twenty-one goals in their last four games. They are now on a grand total of 72 goals. STENHOUSEMUIR won 3-0 away to Clyde and they are now on 40 goals and in third place. ELGIN CITY are on 38 as they win 1-0 at home to Cowdenbeath.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

MANCHESTER CITY (76) PETERHEAD (72) LUTON (69) Total of 217 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

BIRMINGHAM (22) WEST BROM (24) CRYSTAL PALACE (26) Total of 72 goals

The team with the best run of goals is currently PETERHESD who have scored in all of their last thirteen games.

BIRMINGHAM have all picked up the most number of blank score sheets with a total of fourteen games out of their thirty games played including league and cup competitions.

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 back at the top this weekend after his combination picked him up a total of nine goals for the week. Chris picked up two in midweek and another seven at the weekend. Chris is now in his sixth weekend at the top and his teams are Celtic, Manchester City and Peterhead. Paul Davey has moved back up to second place after picking up a total of three goals for the week. 

At the other end at number 149 we still have COLIN PINDER who is now spending his eleventh consecutive weekend there and now thirteen over the Season. Colin picked up four  goals again from his combination. 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                C. BOOM                                56                   155                211              

          2                 1                P. DAVEY (2013/14)               59                   149                208              

          3                 -                 C. BOLBERY                         58                   142                200              

          4                 -                 G. WARMAN                          62                   135                197

          5                 7                D. GOODSON                         56                   139                195

          6                 5                C. DICKER                              59                   134                193

          7                 6                T. BAXTER                             66                   127                193

          8                 11              P. REEVE (87/88 & 2011/12)  55                   136                191

          9                 -                 B. CLARK                               58                   131                189                                              10              -                  A. DAVEY                               62                   127                189