Week Thirty-Three

In Week Thirty-Three of the competition and we had a total of five players that picked up the highest score with eight goals, and under our competition rules only up to four can share the cash, so that means that there will be a Rollover coming up. The players that picked up the highest score were JASON COOPER, MARTIN CORBETT, TONY JENKINS, ANTHONEY PIRES and SORAN SEYEDI. All but one had Liverpool as part of their combinations.  But the Rollover will not be paid out next weekend as we have the International games coming up and there will be only some of our teams in action. So in two weeks time, the cash prize money will be a whopping £18 and if we can get just one winner, then they will have won the biggest prize money of the season.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Congratulations to (me) STEVE REEVE as I have now won this season’s 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot with this season’s cash prize money of £40. I needed just three goals from my combination and they all came from Wolves last Tuesday night My other teams are Manchester United and Rangers. JAMES BLYTH came a very close second as he needed eight goals to win. But he picked up three goals also on Tuesday night again from Wolves. His other teams are Blackburn and Celtic.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We were very lucky with the weather over the weekend as the mini beat from the east hit the UK once again. We had a total of ten of our teams that had no game this weekend and another twelve that failed to score any goals. So this weekends average score fell right down to just 3 goals.

The highest score that we had came from the English Premiership where LIVERPOOL won 5-0 at home to Watford. That is the third time that Liverpool have picked up five goals in a game and they are no won a total of 77 goals.The win moves Liverpool up to third place in the league.

Liverpool are just one of four teams that have been in Golden Goals right from the start and they were our highest voted team in our first season where they finished on a total of 103 goals. Two season’s later they picked up their highest score of 127 goals. Last season they picked up a total of 92 goals. Over the seasons they have netted a total of 2907 goals which gives them an average of 83 goals per season to date. This season they have a total of 19 votes and just five blank score sheets. This weekend they have now scored in all of their last eight games.

FA CUP Quarter-Finals

We had five of the eight teams left in the FA Cup and out of them three have made it through to the semi-finals. The highest result came from on form TOTTENHAM as they win 3-0 away to Swansea. Tottenham are now on a total of 79 goals. MANCHESTER UNITED are also through as they win 2-0 at home to Brighton and they are now on 75 goals. We had to wait for extra time to see who would go through between LEICESTER CITY and CHELSEA after they drew 1-1 after full time. Chelsea finally won 2-1 in extra time to take their goals tally to 72 while Leicester are now on 64. WIGAN are out after they lost 1-0 at home to Southampton and that is their seventh blank of the season.

PREMIERSHIP

There were no games for Manchester City in first place or Manchester United still second this weekend. Liverpool have moved up to third place with Tottenham moving down to fourth. Chelsea are in fifth place with Arsenal in seventh. BOURNEMOUTH won 2-1 at home to WEST BROM and that takes them up to 46 goals while West Brom hit goal number 34. CRYSTAL PALACE had a great win over Huddersfield 2-0 away to take their goals tally up to 35. EVERTON won 2-1 away to Stoke and they are now on 42.

CHAMPIONSHIP

WOLVES won 3-1 at home to BURTON ALBION and with six goals in a week, Wolves are now on 74 goals and now six points clear of second place Cardiff who had their game cancelled due to the weather. Burton after four games with out a goal, are now on a total of 32. In the play-off zone, we have still have three of the four teams. They are FULHAM moving up to third place as they drew 2-2 at home against QUEENS PARK RANGERS. Fulham have take their goals tally to 68 while Rangers are now on 47. ASTON VILLA have moved down to fourth place after they lost 1-0 away to BOLTON. That was Villa tenth blank of the season as Bolton picked up goal number 39. MIDDLESBROUGH are in sixth place as they drew 1-1 away to BRENTFORD. Both teams are now on a total of 62 goals each.

Meanwhile BIRMINGHAM won 3-0 at home to HULL which takes their goals total to 37. Hull picked up their twelfth blank of the season. Things are going bad for IPSWICH as they lost again 1-0 away to Bristol City. Ipswich have now failed to score in their last three games. LEEDS UNITED are on 63 goals but lost 2-1 at home to Sheffield Wednesday. NORWICH won 3-2 at home to READING and they are both now on a total of 53 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED picked up their fourteenth blank as they drew 0-0 at home to Nottingham Forest. SUNDERLAND lost 2-0 at home to Preston to get their sixteenth blank score sheet and now three games in a row.

LEAGUE ONE

Blackburn are still top this week after their game was cancelled. In the play-off zone we still have three teams. Wigan are still in third place with SCUNTHORPE still in fifth place  after they lost to Shrewsbury in second place 2-1 at home. Scunthorpe hit goal number 59. PLYMOUTH are still in sixth place as they win 3-2 at home to Bristol Rovers. Plymouth are now on 49 goals.

Meanwhile PETERBOROUGH lost 2-1 away to Oxford and that is their 76^th goal of the season. After a three game dry spell for goals, SOUTHEND are now on 43 as they drew 1-1 away to Blackpool. CHARLTON drew 0-0 at home to FLEETWOOD TOWN and both teams have now picked up ten blank score sheets this season. MK DONS won 2-1 at home against Bury and they are now on 48 goals while PORTSMOUTH are on 46 after they won 2-0 away to Oldham.

LEAGUE TWO

LUTON are still in second place after they drew 1-1 away to Newport. Luton have taken their goals tally up to 86 goals this week. In the play-off zone we still have three of our teams in this weekend. They are MANSFIELD in fifth place after they drew again 1-1 away to Notts County. Mansfield are now on 63 goals.  COVENTRY have moved up to sixth place as they win 2-1 away to Crewe. Coventry are 53 goals and they have now scored in all of their last seven games. LINCOLN CITY are still in seventh place as they win 3-1 at home to Grimsby and they are now on 54 goals.

Meanwhile EXETER lost 2-1 away to Morecombe and that is their 55^th goal of the season. FOREST GREEN lost 3-1 away to top of the table Accrington and they are now on 49 goals. COLCHESTER picked up their eleventh blank of the season as they lost 1-0 at home against Yeovil. PORT VALE are on 47 as they drew 2-2 at home to Stevenage.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Premiership, there were no goal from the top two as CELTIC drew 0-0 away to Motherwell to pick up their fifth blank of the season and RANGERS picked up their sixth as they lost 1-0 at home to Kilmarnock. ABERDEEN are still in third place as they win 1-0 at home to Dundee to pick up goal number 55.

In the Championship, FALKIRK drew 0-0 away to Livingston to pick up their eleventh blank of the season. In League Two, PETERHEAD have moved down to second place after they lost 3-2 away to Montrose who went top. Peterhead are now on 89 goals and they have now scored in all of their last seven games.  ELGIN CITY are on 49 after they lost to Cowdenbeath 3-1 away. 

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

MANCHESTER CITY (102) PETERHEAD (89) LUTON (86) Total of 277 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

BURTON ALBION (32) WEST BROM (34) CRYSTAL PALACE (35) Total of 101 goals 

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

BURTON ALBION have picked up the most number of  blank score sheets this season with a total of twenty-one out of a total of forty-two 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.  

CHRIS BOOM is still on top this weekend as his combination picked him up a total of five goals for the week. Chris has now been at the top for a total of fourteen weeks. He is once again this week three goals clear of Paul Davey in second place. But there is some good news for Chris as he jumps up to 31^st place in our Champions League this weekend. He has beaten our 1990/91 Champion Robert Houghs score of 274 and Geoff Dockerills score of 274 in our 1994/95 Season’s. He has also just neaten Mike Harrington and David Salmons score of 276 goals in our 1997/98 Season. Chris has the combination of Celtic, Manchester City and Peterhead.  

At the other end at number 149 we still have COLIN PINDER for his twenty-first weekend. Colin picked up a total of three goals all coming from the weekend. Colin has the combination of Colchester, Crystal Palace and Southend. 

Another slight change in the running order this week.

     THIS      LAST                                                         M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

    WEEK     WEEK             NAME                                GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

         1             -                 C. BOOM                                83                  193               276              

          2                 -                 P. DAVEY (2013/14)              83                  190               273                                  3                 4                C. BOLBERY                             79                  188               267              

         4                 3                G. WARMAN                          88                  179               267

         5                 -                 P. REEVE (17/88 & 11/12)     81                  185               266

         6                 7                D. GOODSON                        75                  189               264

         7                 6                C. DICKER                             85                  177               262              

         8                 -                 STEPTOE & SON                  82                  179               261                                  9                 10              T. BAXTER                             91                  170               261                                
         10              9               B. CLARK                      84               175              259