Blackburn Rovers Extend their Lead

We had eight of our Golden Goals team sin action last night and they all managed to pick up some goals. In the English Championship, HULL drew 1-1 at home to Barnsley and that is their 48^th goal of the season. SHEFFIELD UNITED are on 55 goals as they win 3-1 away to READING who are now on 48 goals.

In League One, BLACKBURN have extend their lead at the top after they won 3-1 away to AFC Wimbledon to take their goals tally up to 75. It’s 70 goals for PETERBOROUGH as they win 2-1 at home against Walsall. 

In League Two COVENTRY won 1-0 away to Wycombe at that is their 48^th goal of the season.

In the Scottish Premiership, RANGERS have gained ground on Celtic at the top as they win 4-1 away to St Johnstone. Rangers are now on a total of 77 goals and they have now scored in all of their last nine games. In League Two, PETERHEAD won 2-1 at home to Clyde to take their goals total to 85.

Week Thirty

In Week Thirty of the competition we are now half way through the second half of this season. This weekend we had a total of five players that picked up the highest score of 9 goals each, but under our competition rules,we only give cash prize money up to four winners, to keep the prize money more attractive. So next weekend we will have another Rollover worth £12. Our five players that missed out on the cash this weekend are DANIEL GOODSON, STUART KEMP, JULIE SOMERVILLE, DAVID STAINES and NATHAN TREADWELL.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Over half of us managed to pick up some more midweek goals this weeks but it was PHIL FRANCKSEN that picked up the most amount of goals with a total of six. They came from Brentford with five goals and one from Fulham. Celtic is his third team. The race for the cash is beginning to thin out a bit this week.

On a total of 87 goals, I’am still in the lead (Me) STEVE REEVE picking up two goals from Wolves. My teams are Manchester United, Rangers and Wolves. In second place this week on 86 goals we have  JAMES BLYTH moving up from three. Down from two to three is ANDY EYLES on a total of 85 goals. In fourth place down from three is ROBERT FREEMAN on 84 goals. In fifth place all on 83 goals we have GEOFF CARTHY down from two while HARRY CORNEY comes down from three. Down from four we have . STEVE CADWELL but joining in the race this week we have BARBARA BARNES (1) and DAVE SOMERVILLE.

WEEKEND RESULTS

This season, changes from one week to another as this weekends average score shot back up to 5 goals. It was not a great week for goals but all but one of us managed to pick up some goals from our teams. We had just three of our teams with out a game this weekend and another eighteen teams that failed to score any goals.

The highest score that we had came from two of our teams with four goals each. They were LIVERPOOL from the English Premiership who beat WEST HAM 4-1 at home. Liverpool are now on a total of 69 goals while West ham picked up goal number 44. The other team to hit four goals was ASTON VILLA from the Championship. They beat Sheffield Wednesday 4-2 away to take their goals tally to 60.

CARABAO CUP FINAL

We had both teams in this final and they are our top two most voted English teams this season, MANCHESTER CITY and ARSENAL. After their exit from the FA CUP in midweek by Wigan, it was Manchester City that won the cup 3-0 to win the League Cup for fifth time. City are now on a total of 96 goals while Arsenal picked up their seventh blank and now two in a row.

PREMIERSHIP

With Manchester City in pole position, MANCHESTER UNITED are in second place after they won 2-1 at home to CHELSEA. Both teams are now on a total of 68 goals as Chelsea drop down to fifth place in the league. Liverpool are in third place after their win with TOTTENHAM in fourth place after they won 1-0 away to CRYSTAL PALACE. Tottenham are now on a total of 64 goals as Palace picked up their thirteenth blank of the season. NEWCASTLE after going two goals up in the first half, drew 2-2 away to BOURNEMOUTH. Newcastle are on a total of 32 goals while Bournemouth take their’s up to 42. LEICESTER CITY are on 58 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Stoke. EVERTON picked up their tenth blank of the season as they lost 1-0 away to Watford. WEST BROM lost 2-1 at home to Huddersfield but they are now on a total of 32 goals.

CHAMPIONSHIP

WOLVES are still on top here after they lost 2-0 away to FULHAM. As Wolves picked up their eighth blank of the season, Fulham take their goals total to 59. CARDIFF in second place won 1-0 at home to Bristol City to cut Wolves lead down to just six points. Cardiff take their goals tally to 57. In the play-off zone, we have two teams still in. They are Aston Villa in third place and FULHAM in fifth place.

Meanwhile BIRMINGHAM lost 2-0 at home to Barnsley and that is their eighteenth blank of the season and they have now failed to score in their last four games. BURTON ALBION also picked up their eighteenth blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 at home to Millwall. Burton have scored just four goals in their last seven games. It’s 60 goals for LEEDS UNITED as they win 1-0 at home to BRENTFORD who picked up their eleventh blank of the season. NORWICH drew 0-0 at home to BOLTON and that is their ninth blank of the season while Bolton picked up their fifteenth and now just one goal in their last four games. IPSWICH are on 48 goals as they win 1-0 away to Preston. QUEENS PARK RANGERS lost 5-2 at home to Nottingham Forest, but they are now on 40 goals. READING drew 3-3 at home against Derby and that takes their goals tally to 47. After a two game dry spell, SUNDERLAND are now on 40 goals as they drew 3-3 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH who are now on 54 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

BLACKBURN have moved to the top this week as they win 2-1 away to Walsall. Blackburn are now on a total of 72 goals. WIGAN have dropped down to third place as they win 1-0 at home against Rochdale. Wigan are now on 74 goals. Also in the play-off zone we have SCUNTHORPE still in fifth place after they drew 1-1 away to Bristol Rovers. Scunthorpe are now on a total of 55 goals and they have now scored in all of their last fourteen games. PLYMOUTH are now in sixth place as they win 1-0 at home to BRADFORD. Plymouth are now on 45 goals while Bradford picked up their ninth blank of the season.

Meanwhile CHARLTON lost 2-0 at home to second place Shrewsbury and that is their eighth blank of the season. FLEETWOOD TOWN are now on 51 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to MK DONS. The Dons are on 43 goals. PETERBOROUGH are on 68 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to AFC Wimbledon. PORTSMOUTH lost 2-0 at home to Blackpool and that is their tenth blank score sheet of the season. DONCASTER lost 2-1 away to Rotherham and they are now on 57 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

LUTON are still top after they drew 2-2 at home against Cheltenham. Luton take their goals tally up to 81 goals. In the play-off zone we have MANSFIELD in fifth place who drew 1-1 at home to COVENTRY. Mansfield are now on 60 goals while Coventry hit goal number 47. In sixth place is EXETER. They won 1-0 away to Grimsby to take their goals total to 53.

Meanwhile COLCHESTER lost 1-0 at home to Barnet to pick up their tenth blank and now two in a row. FOREST GREEN are now on 44 goals as they win 2-0 at home to Crawley. LINCOLN CITY lost 4-1 at home to Crewe and that is their 47^th goal of the season. PORT VALE picked up their twelfth blank of the season as they drew 0-0 at home to Newport.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Scottish Premiership CELTIC won 2-0 away to ABERDEEN to stay top and to take their goals tally to 79. Aberdeen in third place, picked up their tenth blank score sheet and now two in a row. RANGERS are just nine points behind the,m now as they win 2-0 at home to Hearts. Rangers are now on 73 goals.

In the Championship, FALKIRK drew 0-0 at home to Dumbarton and that was their tenth blank of the season. In League One RAITH ROVERS stay top after they drew 2-2 at home to Arbroath. Raith are now on 64 goals.  In League Two, PETERHEAD are still in second place as they win 2-0 away to Cowdenbeath. Peterhead have picked up five goals this week and they are now on a total of 83. STENHOUSEMUIR are still in fourth place after they lost 2-0 away to Anna. Stenhousemuir have now had a total of six blank score sheets. ELGIN CITY picked up their eleventh blank score sheet as they 4-0 away to Edinburgh.   

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

MANCHESTER CITY (96) PETERHEAD (83) LUTON (81) Total of 260 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

CRYSTAL PALACE (30) BIRMINGHAM (31) BURTON ALBION (31) Total of 92 goals

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

BIRMINGHAM and BURTON ALBION have both picked up the most number of  blank score sheets with a total of eighteen 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 back on top this weekend as his combination picked him up a total of ten goals for the week which moves him two goals clear of Paul Davey in second place. Chris has the combination of Celtic, Manchester City and Peterhead. Chris has now been in the top position for a total of eleven weeks. Last weeks leader Paul Davey picked up a total of seven goals at the weekend from Celtic, Luton and Manchester City.  

At the other end at number 149 we have COLIN PINDER back there for his eighteenth weekend. Colin failed to get any goals from his combination of Colchester, Crystal Palace and Southend. John Wood’s LUUCIFER teams picked him up a total of eight goals for the week. Lucifer has Aston Villa, Bolton and Burton Albion. 

        Here is how the top ten looks this weekend halfway through the second half of the season.

             THIS      LAST                                                       M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

    WEEK     WEEK             NAME                               GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

         1             2                C. BOOM                              75                   183                258              

          2                 1                P. DAVEY (2013/14)            76                   180                256                                                   3                 -                 C. BOLBERY                       73                   176                249              

         4                 -                 G. WARMAN                       80                   167                247

         5                 7                D. GOODSON                      70                   174                244

         6                 -                 C. DICKER                           77                   166                243

         7                 5                B. CLARK                            79                   164                243              

         8                 7                P. REEVE (87/88 & 11/12)   70                   169                239              

         9                 8                T. BAXTER                           80                   159                239                               

        10                -                B. BARNES (1)                      83                   153                236                      

Hull move up to 20th Place

In the English Championship HULL won their seventh league game out of the thirty-three that they have played to date, as they beat SHEFFIELD UNITED 1-0 at home. The single goal takes Hull’s goals total to 47 while United picked up their eleventh blank of the season

Wolves Still Top

In the English Championship, WOLVES drew 2-2 at home to NORWICH which takes their goal tally to 64 while Norwich are on 46. CARDIFF have cut down Wolves lead to just nine points after they beat IPSWICH 1-0 away. Cardiff are now on 56 goals as Ipswich picked up their eleventh blank of the season. FULHAM drew 1-1 away to Bristol City and they are now on a total of 57 goals. LEEDS UNITED are on 59 as they drew 2-2 away to Derby.

In League One, MK DONS picked up their twelfth blank of the season as they drew 0-0 away to Rochdale. The Dons have now scored just three goals in their last eight games.

High Scoring Brentford

In the English Championship, ASTON VILLA drew 1-1 at home to Preston and that is their 56^th goal of the season. After a two game dry spell for goals, BURTON ALBION are now on 31 goals as they win 2-1 away to Barnsley. BOLTON also picked up some goals after a two game dry spell and they won 1-0 at home to SUNDERLAND who picked up their thirteenth blank score sheet and now two in a row. BRENTFORD picked up their highest score of the season after they won 5-0 at home to BIRMINGHAM. Brentford are now on a total of 58 goals while Birmingham picked up their seventeenth blank score sheet and now just one goal in their last four games. MIDDLESBROUGH won 3-1 at home against HULL. Brough are now on a total of 51 goals while Hull picked up goal number 46. READING are on 44 goals as they drew 1-1 away to Nottingham Forest.

SHEFFIELD UNITED won 2-1 at home to QUEENS PARK RANGERS to take their goals tally to 52 while Rangers are on 38.

In League One, It’s 50 goals for FLEETWOOD TOWN as they lost 2-1 at home to PORTSMOUTH who are now on a total of 43.

In League Two EXETER won 2-1 away to Crewe and that takes their goals total up to 52.

In the Scottish League Two, PETERHEAD are now on a total of 81 goals as they drew 3-3 away to Anna and they are now our highest scoring Scottish team.

City Out of FA Cup

In the FA CUP Fifth Round game last night we had another cup shocker as League One WIGAN beat Premiership Champions MANCHESTER CITY 1-0 at home. Wigan have now taken their goals tally to 73 while City picked up their third blank score sheet of the season.

In League One BLACKBURN are now on a total of 70 goals as they win 2-0 at home to Bury.

Week Twenty-Nine

In Week Twenty-Nine of the competition we had two winners this weekend to share the £6 Cash Weekend Jackpot on a score of 8 goals. One of our winners is there first win of the season and that is me STEVE REEVE. The other winner is John Wood with his second win with his ZIGGY combination. I now become our thirty-seventh winner of the season. 

I became Champion in the 2008/09 Season winning on a total of 290 goals winning a total of  £53. That score has left me in twenty-seventh place in our Champions League. Since them I have had to change my combination and I have had this one for quite a few seasons now. Last season I finished in 128^th place out of 136 on a total of 226 goals. This season I have picked up a total of five blank score sheets at the weekend and my highest position is 13^th in Week Four.

Ziggy/John Wood has been with Golden Goals for a long while now and we thank him and his family for their support. Although John became Champion last season, Ziggy (the dog) has not just yet. With this selection, John finished in 129^th place last season on total of 129 goals. This season, he has been as high as 9^th place in Week One. He has picked up just one blank score sheet to date. Our winners combinations are

Me  MANCHESTER UNITED 2, RANGERS 5, WOLVES 1

Ziggy  RANGERS 5, SCUNTHORPE 2, STENHOUSEMUIR 1

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Half of us managed to pick up some more midweek goals this weeks ANDY EYLES picking up the most amount of goals with a total of nine. They came from Chelsea’s two games with seven goals and two from Blackburn. Celtic is his third team. So there has been a big change in the race for the cash this week.

On a total of 85 goals, I’am still in the lead (Me) STEVE REEVE but none of my teams were in action this week. My teams are Manchester United, Rangers and Wolves. In second place this week all on 83 goals we have  BARBARA BARNES (3), GEOFF CARTHY and ANDY EYLES, all coming straight in this week. In joint third place on 82 goals we have BOB SOPER down from two, JAMES BLYTH and ROBERT FREEMAN both up from four, while GEOFF DOCKERILL our 1994/95 Champion and HARRY CORNEY both coming back in. In joint fourth place all on 81 goals we have RAYMOND HARROD and MIKE PEPPERRELL both down from three with STEPHEN LEADER who has remained there. STEVE CADWELL, MICK LIDDLE and  ALICE STUBBS our 2012/13 Champion have all moved up to join them.

WEEKEND RESULTS

After a great week last weekend, we come down with  a bump as most of our big teams did not have any games over the weekend. So this weekends average score came to just 2 goals which is well below the seasons average score. The reason for this is that most of you have Celtic and Manchester City as part of your combinations as I said last week where Celtic failed to score in their game and City had now game. But that also went for Arsenal and Chelsea.

We had seventeen of our teams with out a game this weekend and another eleven teams that failed to score any goals.

The highest score that we had came from the Scottish Premiership again from RANGERS as they win 5-3 away to Hamilton. Rangers have taken their goals tally to 71 goals with fourteen goals coming from their last four games.

FA CUP Fifth Round

We already know that two of our teams are through to the next round of the cup and they are Chelsea and Leicester City. But we had another four in action over the weekend but only one has made it through to the next round. That team is MANCHESTER UNITED who won 2-0 away to Huddersfield. United are now on a total of 66 goals. TOTTENHAM might be another one of our teams through if they can win the replay after they drew 2-2 away to Rochdale. Tottenham are now on 63 goals. COVENTRY go out as they lost 3-1 away to Brighton. The goal gives Coventry a total of 46. WEST BROM are also out as they lost 2-1 at home to Southampton. West Brom picked up goal number 31.

CHAMPIONSHIP

WOLVES remain on top here after they drew 1-1 away to Preston after going a goal down. Wolves are now on a total of 62 goals. CARDIFF are back in second place after they won 1-0 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH.  Cardiff take their goals tally to 55. In the play-off zone, ASTON VILLA have moved down to third place after they lost 2-0 away to FULHAM. Villa picked up their ninth blank of the season while Fulham now in fifth place are now on a total of 56 goals.

Meanwhile LEEDS UNITED drew 2-2 at home after going two down to take their goals tally to 57. NORWICH drew 1-1 at home to IPSWICH to give them a total of 44 goals to Ipswich’s 47. BIRMINGHAM picked up their sixteenth blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 at home to Millwall. Birmingham have now failed to score in their last two games. BURTON ALBION drew 0-0 at home to Nottingham Forest and that is their seventeenth blank of the season and now two in a row. Burton have scored just three goals in their last seven games. QUEENS PARK RANGERS are now on 37 goals as they win 2-0 at home against BOLTON who picked up their fourteenth blank score sheet and also two in a row now. BRENTFORD win 2-0 away to SUNDERLAND to take their goals total to 53. Sunderland picked up their twelfth blank of the season.

LEAGUE ONE

Wigan have dropped down to second place as they had no game over the weekend. But we do have three teams that are in the play-off zone. They are Blackburn in third place with SCUNTHORPE in fifth place after they drew 2-2 at home to Northampton. Scunthorpe are now on a total of 54 goals and they have now scored in all of their last thirteen games. CHARLTON are in sixth place as they win 2-1 away to MK DONS. Charlton take their goals tally to 50 while the Dons are now on 42 goals.

Meanwhile PLYMOUTH just outside the play-offs, won 2-0 away to Oxford. Plymouth after picking up four goals in midweek, are now on 44 goals. PETERBOROUGH are now on 67 goals as they drew 1-1 away to Blackpool. DONCASTER won 3-0 at home to FLEETWOOD TOWN and they are now on 56 goals while Fleetwood picked up their ninth blank score sheet. SOUTHEND won 3- 1 at home to PORTSMOUTH to take their goals total to 42 while Portsmouth are on 41.

LEAGUE TWO

Luton are still top after their game in midweek but we had two teams in the play-off zone. They are MANSFIELD who won 1-0 away to EXETER. Mansfield are now on 59 goals while Exeter picked up their eighth blank of the season. LINCOLN CITY are in seventh place as they lost 3-1 away to Crawley. Lincoln are now on 46 goals.

Meanwhile COLCHESTER lost 1-0 away to Crewe to pick up their ninth blank of the season. FORERST GREEN are on 42 goals as they drew 1-1 away to Morecombe. PORT VALE are on 43 goals after they lost 3-2 away to Swindon.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Scottish Premiership CELTIC picked up their fourth blank of the season after they drew 0-0 at home to St Johnstone. Celtic are still top and now nine points clear of rivals Rangers in second place. ABERDEEN are third as they lost 2-0 away to Hibernian. Aberdeen picked up their ninth blank of the season.

In the Championship, FALKIRK are now on 46 goals as they win 1-0 away to Brechin. In League One RAITH ROVERS stay top after they drew 2-2 away to Albion . Raith are now on 62 goals.  In League Two, PETERHEAD are still in second place after they drew 1-1 at home to Berwick.  Peterhead picked up their 78^th goal of the season. STENHOUSEMUIR are still in fourth place as they win 1-0 at home to Edinburgh City. Stenhousemuir are now on a total of 45 goals. ELGIN CITY are also on 45 goals as they drew 2-2 at home to Montrose.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

MANCHESTER CITY (93) LUTON (79) PETERHEAD (78) Total of 250 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

BURTON ALBION (29) NEWCASTLE (30) CRYSTAL PALACE (30) Total of 89 goals

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

BURTON ALBION have picked up the most number of  blank score sheets with a total of seventeen out of thirty-six games played this season.

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 back on top this weekend as his combination picked him up a total of four goals but they all came from midweek. Paul only had Celtic playing at the weekend and they failed to score in their game. Paul is now in his ninth weekend at the top over the season and his teams are Celtic, Luton and Manchester City. Paul is just one goal in front of  last weeks leader Chris Boom who picked up just one goal at the weekend from Peterhead. His other teams are Celtic and Manchester City.  

At the other end at number 149 there is a new name down for this season and that is LUCIFER (John Wood). John becomes the fourth player  to land there this season. In this combination John has Aston Villa, Bolton and Burton Albion who all failed to score at the weekend. Colin Pinder who has spent a total of seventeen weeks there over the Season, moves up on goal difference. Colin’s combination is  Colchester, Crystal Palace and Southend. 

Here is how the top ten looks this weekend

    THIS      LAST                                                          M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

   WEEK     WEEK             NAME                                 GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

        1             2                P. DAVEY (2013/14)               76                   173                249              

        2                 1                C. BOOM                                 72                   176                248                                                  3                 -                 C. BOLBERY                          72                   170                242              

        4                 -                 G. WARMAN                          78                   160                238

        5                 9                B. CLARK                               79                   158                237

        6                 -                 C. DICKER                             77                   159                236

        7                 5                D. GOODSON                        70                   165                235              

        8                 7                P. REEVE (87/88 & 11/12)     70                   163                233              

       9                 8                T. BAXTER                             78                   154                232                        

                10              23               B. BARNES (1)                       83                   147                230

FA CUP Fifth Round

We have had the first games of the fifth round of the FA CUP where we had four of our Golden Goals teams in action. Out of them two have made it through to the next round. they are CHELSEA  after they won 4-0 at home to HULL. Chelsea have picked up seven goals this week and they are now on a total of 67 goals. Hull picked up their eleventh blank of the season. LEICESTER CITY are also through as they win 1-0 at home to SHEFFIELD UNITED. Leicester are now on 56 goals while Sheffield picked up their tenth blank score sheet and now just two goals in their last four games.

Great Night for Golden Goals

In the English Championship, CARDIFF won 2-0 at home against BOLTON. Cardiff are now on a total of 54 goals while Bolton picked up their thirteenth blank of the season.

In League One, WIGAN have dropped down to second place here as they lost 2-0 at home to Blackpool to pick up their sixth blank score sheet. SOUTHEND drew 0-0 away to Bury and that is their tenth blank of the season. CHARLTON drew 1-1 at home to BRADFORD to pick up goal number 48 while Bradford hit goal number 55.  FLEETWOOD lost 2-1 at home to Shrewsbury and that takes their goal tally to 49. MK DONS picked up another blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 away to Oldham. The Dons have now had a total of eleven blank score sheets and now just two goals in their last six games. PETERBOROUGH have taken their goals tally to 66 as they drew 2-2 at home against SCUNTHORPE who are now on 52 goals. PLYMOUTH have picked up another four goals in their 4-2 home win against AFC Wimbledon. Plymouth are now on a total of 43 goals and they have now scored in all of their last fourteen games. BLACKBURN won 2-1 away to PORTSMOUTH and they are now on a total of 68 goals while Portsmouth picked up goal number 40. DONCASTER lost 4-2 away to Walsall and they are now on a total of 53 goals.

In League Two, COLCHESTER are now on 46 goals as they win 2-1 at home to COVENTRY who are now on 45 goals. FOREST GREEN won 3-1 at home to Stevenage and they are now on a total of 41 goals. LINCOLN CITY beat Cheltenham 1-0 at home to pick up goal number 45. LUTON won 4-1 at home to Crawley and that takes their goals tally up to 79 goals. MANSFIELD have scored their highest result of the season as they win 5-0 at home to Newport County. Mansfield are now on a total of 58 goals.

Chelsea Moving Up

In the English Premiership, CHELSEA have moved up to fourth place after they beat WEST BROM 3-0 at home. Chelsea have taken their goals tally to 63 while West Brom picked up their eleventh blank of the season and they remain rock bottom of the table.

Week Twenty-Eight

In Week Twenty-Eight of the competition and we have  had a total of four winners which we have not had since Week One. Out of the four winners, two are first time winners which now brings our winners total to thirty-six. Our four winners will share this Weekends Jackpot of £6 on a score of 11 goals each. This weekends winners are BARBARA BARNES (1), CORRINE MULLINS, BOB SOPER and MALCOLM STUBBS.                                                           

Corrine is in her very second season with Golden Goals and she becomes our sixth lady winner this season. Corrine finished in 78^th place on a total of 280 goals last season and she had one shared weekend win. Corrine has dropped Aston Villa this season and picked up Everton. This season, Corrine has picked up three blank score sheets at the weekend and this is her personal highest score of the season. The highest that Corrine has been is 36^th place in Week Twenty-One. Malcolm has been with us for twenty-three years and is still waiting to be champion. Last season Malcolm finished in 131^st place on a total of 207 goals. This season, Malcolm has been as high as 21^st place and he has picked up three blank score sheets. Bob has picked up his third win of the season and he last won in Week thirteen. Since then Bob is at his highest position of the season and he has had four blank score sheets to date. Barbara has picked up her second win of the season but this is her first with her first choice of teams. Barbara won some cash in Week Three with her third choice. Barbara has had three blank score sheets with this one. All of our winners have Manchester City as their best team and here are their combinations.

Barbara  CHELSEA -, MANCHESTER CITY 5, RANGERS 6

Corrine  CELTIC 3, EVERTON 3, MANCHESTER CITY 5

Bob  ARSENAL 0, MANCHESTER CITY 5, RANGERS 6

Malcolm  CELTIC 3, MANCHESTER CITY 5, SUNDERLAND 3

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

Only fifty-five of us managed to pick up some more midweek goals this weeks and the race for the cash has change just a bit this week.  

On a total of 85 goals, I’am still in the lead (Me) STEVE REEVE as I picked up the two goals from Rangers again. Manchester United and Wolves are my other teams. In second place up from three on 82 goals we have  BOB SOPER. In joint third place on 81 goals we have RAYMOND HARROD and MIKE PEPPERRELL both moving down from two. On 80 goals all in joint fourth place this week we still have JAMES BLYTH, MATT DORAN,  ROBERT FREEMAN, STEPHEN LEADER, GRAHAM PHILLIPS and TERRY WARWICK all coming down from three of  last week.

WEEKEND RESULTS 

We had a great week with our teams this week but I am surprised that the weekends average score of 5 goals is not higher as most of you have Celtic and Manchester City as part of your combinations.

We had six of our teams with out a game this weekend and another nine teams that failed to score any goals but it was a high scoring weekend.

The highest score that we had came from the Scottish WILLIAM HILL CUP Fifth Round games where RANGERS won 6-1 away to Ayr after going a goal down in the first eleven minutes of the first half. Rangers are now on a total of 66 goals.

Rangers was our fourth most voted Scottish team in our first season of 1983/84. In that season they finished on a score of 97 goals. In the 1992/93 Season they finished on their highest score of 126 goals. Last season they finished on a total of 86 goals. This is their 34^th Season with Golden Goals as they missed out on our 1985/86 Season as no-one voted for them. Over the seasons they have scored a total of 3284 goals which gives them an average score of 96 goals per season. They have just nine votes this season.

PREMIERSHIP

Champions MANCHESTER CITY won 5-1 at home to LEICESTER CITY which take their goals tally to 93 and they are well on their way to another 100 goals. City have now scored in all of their last ten games. Leicester hit goal number 56. Sixteen points behind them this weekend is MANCHESTER UNITED who lost 1-0 away to NEWCASTLE. That was United’s fifth blank of the season and now just two goals in their last three games. Newcastle picked up their 30^th goal of the season. In third place is still LIVERPOOL who won 2-0 away to Southampton to take their goals total to 65. TOTTENHAM are now in fourth place after they beat north London rivals ARSENAL 1-0 at home. Tottenham have now scored in all of their last eighteen games and they are now on a total of 61 goals. Arsenal picked up their sixth blank of the season. We have not had a big score from EVERTON for a while but they won 3-1 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE. Everton are now on 37 goals while Palace picked up goal number 30. WEST HAM picked up their seventh league win of the season as they win 2-0 at home to Watford. West Ham are now on 43 goals. It’s 40 goals for BOURNEMOUTH after they lost 4-1 away to Huddersfield.

CHAMPIONSHIP

WOLVES remain well on top here as they win 2-1 at home to QUEENS PARK RANGERS. Wolves are now on a total of 61 goals while Rangers are on 35. Wolves are twelve points clear of second place ASTON VILLA after they won 2-0 at home to BIRMINGHAM. Villa have now scored in all of their last ten games and they are on a total of 55 goals. Birmingham picked up their fifteenth blank of the season. In the Play-off zone we have just two of the four teams. They are Cardiff in fourth place after their draw in midweek and FULHAM. They drew 1-1 away to BOLTON and that is their 54^th goals while Bolton picked up their 34^th. After a two game dry spell for goals, BRENTFORD are now on 51 as they drew 1-1 at home to Preston. SUNDERLAND are on 37 goals as they drew 3-3 away to Bristol City. NORWICH drew 1-1 away to Derby to take their goals tally to 43. IPSWICH picked up their tenth blank as they drew 0-0 at home to bottom of the table BURTON ALBION. As Albion picked up their sixteenth blank of the season, they have now scored just three goals in their last six games. MIDDLESBROUGH are on 48 goals after a three game dry spell as they won 2-1 at home to READING. Reading are now on 43 goals. HULL won 2-0 away to Nottingham Forest and they take their goals total to 45. It’s 50 goals for SHEFFIELD UNITED after a tow game dry spell as they win 2-1 at home to LEEDS UNITED. Leeds picked up goal number 55.

LEAGUE ONE

WIGAN are still top here still two points clear of Shrewsbury as they lost 3-1 away to SOUTHEND. Wigan are now on 72 goals while Southend are now on 39. We have three of the four teams in the Play-off zone. BLACKBURN are still in third place after they drew 2-2 at home to Oldham. Blackburn are now on a total of 66 goals. SCUNTHORPE are still in fourth place as they lost 2-1 at home to Rotherham. Scunthorpe are now on 50 goals and they have now scored in all of their last eleven games. BRADFORD are still in sixth place after they drew 2-2 at home to Bury. Bradford are now on 54 goals. DONCASTER are now on 51 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to CHARLTON who are on 47 goals this week. PETERBOROUGH drew 1-1 away to Gillingham and they are now on 64 goals. After a two game dry spell for goals, MK DONS are now on 41 as they lost 2-1 at home to PORTSMOUTH who are now on 39. PLYMOUTH are also on 39 goals as they win 2-1 away to Shrewsbury.

LEAGUE TWO

Top of the table LUTON drew 1-1 away to Stevenage and that was their 75^th goal of the season. We have just two teams in the Play-off zone and they are MANSFIELD in sixth place as they lost 1-0 away to Swindon. That was Mansfield’s  ninth blank of the season. In seventh place is EXETER who drew 1-1 at home to Wycombe to pick up their 50^th goal of the season. COLCHESTER are on 44 goals after they drew 1-1 away to Carlisle. PORT VALE are on 41 goals as they lost 5-1 away to Cheltenham. COVENTRY picked up their twelfth blank of the season as they lost 2-0 at home to Accrington.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Scottish WILLIAM HILL CUP Fifth Round, we already know that Rangers have mad it through to the next round but we also have CELTIC who won 3-2 at home to Partick. Celtic are now on a total of 77 goals. ABERDEEN are also through after they won 4-2at home to Dundee United. Aberdeen are now on 52 goals. FALKIRK will join them as they win 3-1away to non-league Cove Rangers. Falkirk are now on a total of 45 goals.

In League One RAITH ROVERS won 2-1 at home to Aidrie to stay top. Raith are now on 60 goals. In League Two, PETERHEAD are still in second place after they drew 0-0 away to Edinburgh. Peterhead picked up their fourth blank of the season and just three goals in their last four games. STENHOUSEMUIR are down to fourth place as they lost 1-0 away to Montrose. Stenhousemuir picked up their fifth blank of the season. ELGIN CITY won 2-1 at home to Annan and they are now on a total of 43 goals. 

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

MANCHESTER CITY (93) CELTIC (77) PETERHEAD (77) Total of 247 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

BURTON ALBION (29) NEWCASTLE (30) CRYSTAL PALACE (30) Total of 89 goals

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

BURTON ALBION have picked up the most number of  blank score sheets with a total of sixteen out of thirty-five games.

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 top again this weekend as his combination picked him up a total of eight goals. All of them came from the weekend. Chris is now in his tenth weekend at the top and his teams are Celtic, Manchester City and Peterhead. Just two goals behind him is Paul Davey as he remains 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 fifteenth consecutive weekend there and now seventeen over the Season. Colin picked up another five goals this week  from his combination of  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             -                 C. BOOM                             72                  175                247              

              2                 -                 P. DAVEY (2013/14)           72                  173                245              

              3                 -                 C. BOLBERY                      72                  170                242              

              4                 -                 G. WARMAN                      76                  160                236

              5                 6                D. GOODSON                     70                  165                235

              6                 5                C. DICKER                          77                  157                234

              7                 10              P. REEVE (87/88 & 11/12)  70                  161                231

             8                 -                 T. BAXTER                          78                  153                231              

              9                 7                B. CLARK                           72                  158                230                                                      10                9                D. HARRINGTON              78                  151                229