Coventry Win Final Play-Off

We have now played the very last game of our historic 35^th Season and for the English league as the Final of the League Two Play-Offs are now over. The winners are COVENTRY who beat EXETER 3-1 with all the goals coming in the second half. Coventry who will now play in league one next season, finished on a total; of 82 goals while Exeter finished on a total of 77 goals.

Fulham Promoted to Premiership

We had both of the teams in the Championship Play-Off Final where ASTON VILLA played FULHAM. It was Fulham that took the early lead after 23 minutes of play and it remained that score after the full 90 minutes even when Fulham’s Odoi was sent off after a second booking in the 70^th minute. Fulham who finished in third place in the league are now going to play in the premiership. They finished on a total of 84 goals. Aston Villa who finished in fourth place, picked up their fourteenth blank of the season and just one goal in their last four games of the season. They end on a total of 80 goals.

FA CUP Final

CHELSEA have won the FA CUP Final 1-0 against MANCHESTER UNITED at Wembley with a penalty scored by Hazard in the first 22^nd minute of the game. Chelsea dominated the first half but United came out fighting in the second half with end to end football. Chelsea have now won their eighth FA Cup, taking them level with Tottenham. Chelsea have finished this season on a total of 85 goals while United finished on a total of 87 but they have scored just one goal in their last four games of the season.

William Hill Cup Final 2018

CELTIC have won the Scottish Cup after they beat Motherwell 2-0 at Hampden Park and they became the first Scottish team to win successive domestic Trebles. Both of Celtic’s goals came in the first 25 minutes of the first half which now gives them a final goals total of 105 for the season. They now have a record run of scoring 100 or more goals in eight consecutive seasons.

Coventry in Play-Off Final

In the English League Two Semi-Final Play-Off Second Leg, COVENTRY are through to the finals as they beat Notts County 4-1 away, after they drew 1-1 in the first leg, to win 5-2 on aggregate. Coventry have taken their goals tally up to 79. Coventry will play Exeter in the final on Monday 28^th May.

Seven Days Left to Go!

Our second update on what is happening with the Golden Goals World Cup 2018 and after the first week since the entry forms went out, we had a total of 35 that have joined in.

We usually don’t have a big following with the World Cup but I would like to beat our biggest total of 56 in the 2006 Germany World Cup.

Although we have 27 days to the start of the Games, here at Golden Goals you have just seven days left to join in.

With the voting there seems to be just the six nations that players are picking up. With the highest number of votes so far it is still Germany. They have 27 votes. In second place with 23 we still have Brazil. In third place is Argentina with 19 and in fourth place with 17 is France. Next comes Spain with 15 votes each.

And how are England doing? Well they now have 7 votes at the moment. The host Nation Russia have just 3 votes. Out of the 32 nations taking part, we have sixteen of them. We still have a long way to go before closing date of 25^th May. So why not give Golden Goals a go and see if you can be our next Champion. For entry form, email goldengoals1983@gmail.com.

Exeter in Final Play-Off

In the English League Two Semi-Final Play-Off Second Leg, EXETER had drawn against LINCOLN CITY in the first leg 0-0. But it all changed in the second leg as Exeter win 3-1 at home. Exeter are now in the play-off final and they are now on a total of 76 goals while Lincoln’s season is over with 66 goals.

Scunthorpe Remain in One

In the English League One Play-Off Semi-Final Second Leg, SCUNTHORPE drew their first leg game 2-2 at home to Rotherham, but it was a different story in the second leg as Rotherham win 2-0 at home and win 4-2 on aggregate. Scunthorpe after a goal run of eleven games, they picked up their eleventh blank of the season.

Villa in Play-Off Final

In the English Championship Semi-Final Second Leg, ASTON VILLA drew 0-0 against MIDDLESBROUGH at home to win 1-0 on aggregate. Although Villa have picked up their thirteenth blank of the season and they have scored just one goal in their last three games. Brough have picked up their fourteenth and have failed to score in their last two games. Villa will face Fulham in the final to be played on Saturday 26^th May.

Fulham Fight Back

In the English Championship Semi-Final first leg, FULHAM went a goal down against Derby away. But in the second leg, Fulham came back and won 2-0 at home to win 2-1 on aggregate. Fulham have now taken their goals tally up to 83 goals.

Week Forty-One

In Week Forty-One of the competition and we are still on added on time. We still have a few games left but most of our teams have now finished their season. Some of you have picked up ten or more goals over this last week, but it was JASON COOPER who picked up the most with sixteen goals. They came from Liverpool, Rangers and Tottenham.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

There are now two of us out in front this week, with JAMES BLYTH and me (Steve Reeve) both of us are on 110 goals. In second place still with a total of 105 goals is JUNE TIGHE. In joint third place on a total of 101 goals we have TOM BAXTER and JOHN DAVIES. In joint fourth place on 100 goals we have CHRIS SETFORD.   

WEEKEND RESULTS

This weekend was our very last full Premiership league fixtures for both our English and Scottish teams and after our let down last weekend, we had a great finish to the season.

We had thirty-three of our teams without a game over the weekend but most of them have already finished their season. We had, what was left, another eight teams that failed to score any goals.

The highest score that we had came from the English and Scottish Premierships where TOTTENHAM in a nail biting game, won 5-4 at home to LEICESTER CITY. Tottenham have finished the season on a total of 95 goals while Leicester finished on a total of 75. In the Scottish Prem, RANGERS also had a interesting game as they drew 5-5 away to Hibernian.

Rangers finished on a total of 98 goals and third place in the league.

PREMIERSHIP

Well done to Champions MANCHESTER CITY as they win 1-0 away to Southampton although they scored their goal in the very last minute of play. City have once again finished with over 100 goals with 123. MANCHESTER UNITED finished in second place after they won 1-0 at home to Watford. United are on a total of 87 goals. Tottenham finished in third place with LIVERPOOL down to fourth place after they won 4-0 at home to Brighton. Liverpool have finished on a total of 88 goals. CHELSEA finished in fifth place after they lost 3-0 away to NEWCASTLE. Chelsea picked up their tenth blank of the season. Newcastle finished on a total of 44 goals.  ARSENAL finished in sixth place after they won 1-0 away to Huddersfield and a total of 82 goals. BOURNEMOUTH finished on a total of 54 goals after they won 2-1 away to Burnley. WEST HAM won their last game of the season by beating EVERTON 3-1 at home. West Ham finished on a total of 57 goals while Everton finished on 49. CRYSTAL PALACE won 2-0 at home against relegated WEST BROM. Palace finished on a total of 50 goals while West Brom picked up their thirteenth blank of the season.

CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY-OFF

We have three of the four teams here and a good start for ASTON VILLA as they win their first leg clash against MIDDLESBROUGH by winning 1-0 away. That is Villa’s 80^th goal of the season. Brough picked up their thirteenth blank of the season.

LEAGUE ONE PLAY-OFF

We have just two of the four here as SCUNTHORPE drew their first game against Rotherham 2-2 at home. Scunthorpe are now on a total of 71 goals. CHARLTON lost their first leg game against Shrewsbury 1-0 and that was the same result in their second leg game with Shrewsbury winning 2-0 on aggregate. Charlton picked up their fifteenth blank score sheet and they have failed to score in their last three games.

LEAGUE TWO PLAY-OFF

We again have three of the four teams with COVENTRY who drew their first leg game 1-1 away to Notts County. Coventry are on a total of 75 goals. LINCOLN CITY and EXETER are both still in this as they drew 0-0. That is Lincoln’s sixteenth blank to Exeter’s tenth blank score sheets.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Scottish Premiership,  Champion’s CELTIC lost their last league game of the season with second place ABERDEEN winning 1-0 away. Celtic picked up their eighth blank score sheet and now two in a row. Aberdeen finished on a total of 67 goals.

In League One Play-off Final, PETERHEAD won their second leg game against STENHOUSEMUIR 1-0 but lost 2-1 on aggregate. 3-0. Peterhead finished on atotal of 105 goals while Stenhousemuir picked up their tenth blank of the season.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

MANCHESTER CITY (123) WIGAN (106) PETERHEAD (105) Total of 334 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

WEST BROM (41) BURTON ALBION (43 NEWCASTLE (44)) Total of 128 goals

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

We have had just a little change around on the top ten this week.  

      THIS      LAST                                                    M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL    

     WEEK     WEEK             NAME                           GOALS         GOALS        GOALS        

         1             -                 C. BOLBERY                      95                   237                332               

         2                 -                 C. BOOM                             87                   244                331               

         3                 -                 P. DAVEY (2013/14)           89                   238                327               

         4                 5                P. REEVE (87/88 & 11/12)  88                   233                321               

         5                 4                G. WARMAN                      99                   219                318               

         6                 8                D. GOODSON                     78                   236                314              

         7                 -                 C. DICKER                          90                   223                313               

         8                 6                T. BAXTER                         101                212                313               

         9                 -                 B. CLARK                           90                   220                310               

          10              14              STEPTOE & SON               97                   213                310        

Entry Forms are now out!

The first update on what is happening with the Golden Goals World Cup 2018 and after the first day that the entry forms went out, we had a total of 27 that came back which is a very good return in this competition. We usually don’t have a big following here but this does look promising after just one day.

So with the voting there seems to be just six teams that players are picking up. With the highest number of votes so far is Germany. They have 22 votes. In second place with 19 is Brazil. In third place is Argentina with 15 and in fourth place with 13 is France. Next comes’ Belgium and Spain with 10 votes each. And how are England doing? Well they have 5 votes at the moment. We still have a long way to go before closing date of 25^th May. So why not give Golden Goals a go and see if you can be our next Champion. For entry form email goldengoals1983@gmail.com.

Fulham have it all to do

In the English Championship Play-Off Semi-Final, FULHAM go 1-0 down in the first leg game against Derby away. After a goal run of twenty games, Fulham picked up their eighth blank score sheet of the season.

Golden Goals World Cup Entry Forms

Here we go to Russia for the 2018 World Cup. It's fun and you could win some cash at the end of the final game. The Entry Forms are now available and you can get your copy from goldengoals1983@gmail.com

No Goals for Golden Goals Fans

We had a very disappointing night last night as we had three of our Golden Goals teams in action and neither one of them scored any goals.

In the English Premiership, MANCHESTER UNITED drew 0-0 away to WEST HAM and that was their eighth blank score sheet and now two games in a row without a goal. West Ham picked up their twelfth.

In the League One Semi-Final Play-off 1^st leg, CHARLTON picked up their fourteenth blank score sheet and also two in a row as they went down 1-0 at home to Shrewsbury.

Manchester City Top Team of the Season

In the English Premiership, Champions MANCHESTER CITY won 3-1 at home to Brighton to take their goals tally to 122 goals and are now set to be our best team of Season 35. CHELSEA are on 84 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Huddersfield. After a three game dry spell for goals, LEICESTER CITY are now on 71 goals as they win 3-1 at home to ARSENAL. Arsenal picked up goal number 81. It’s 90 goals for TOTTENHAM as they win 1-0 at home against NEWCASTLE. Newcastle picked up their fifteenth blank of the season and now just one goal in their last four games.

In the Scottish Premiership, Champions CELTIC drew 0-0 at home to Kilmarnock and that is their seventh blank score sheet of the season.

In the League One Play-Off Final first leg, STENHOUSEMUIR take the lead in this game 2-0 against PETERHEAD. Stenhousemuir have taken their goals total to 67 while Peterhead picked up their fifth blank of the season after a goal run of fifteen games.

Rangers Failed to Win Vital Points

In the Scottish Premiership, RANGERS have failed to beat ABERDEEN to take second place behind Celtic as they drew 1-1 away. Rangers are still a point behind Aberdeen with only one more game left to play. Rangers are now on a total of 93 goals while Aberdeen take their total to 66.

Week Forty

In Week Forty of the competition and the full 90 minutes is now up but there is some added on time, or in the old days, injury time. We still have a few games left but most of our teams have now finished their season. Our top scorer this week was our 2010/11 Champion Tony Guy with eleven goals from his first choice of teams. They came from Arsenal 5, Celtic 3 and Sheffield United 3.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

JAMES BLYTH is still out in front with his total of 110 goals and I am (Steve Reeve), still in second place still with my total of 109 goals. In third place still on a total of 105 goals we have JUNE TIGHE. In joint fourth place both on 100 goals we have JOHN DAVIES and CHRIS SETFORD.  STEPHEN CADWELL is still in fifth place with 99 goals.  

WEEKEND RESULTS

This weekend was our very last full league fixture for our 35^th Season of Golden Goals and what a let down it was. We had three of our teams without a game over the weekend with another nineteen teams that failed to score any goals. So with the very last weekend now finished the average score fell down to a just four goals each.

The highest score that we had came from the English Premiership where ARSENAL won 5-0 at home to Burnley. Arsenal in sixth place in the league, have now taken their goals tally up to 80 goals.

Arsenal are our 26^th voted English team and they did not start with us until the second season of 1984/85 where they finished on a score of 75 goals. Their highest score came in the 2002/03 Season with 103 goals. Last season they finished on a total of 101 goals. Arsenal are now in their thirty-third season with Golden Goals and over the seasons they have scored a total of 2753 goals which gives them an average score of 83 goals per season to date. This season they have a total of 32 votes.

PREMIERSHIP

Champions MANCHESTER CITY drew 0-0 at home to Huddersfield and that now their fourth blank of the season. MANCHESTER UNITED are still in second place despite their defeat by Brighton in midweek. LIVERPOOL are still in third place after they lost 1-0 away to CHELSEA in fifth place. Liverpool have now had a total of eight blank score sheets and now two in a row. Chelsea picked up goal number 83. After a goal run of thirty games TOTTENHAM picked up their fourth blank score sheet after they lost 1-0 away from bottom of the table WEST BROM. West Brom are now on a total of 41 goals. BOURNEMOUTH are now on 52 goals as they win 1-0 at home to Swansea. LEICESTER CITY lost 2-0 at home to WEST HAM. As Leicester picked up their ninth blank of the season and now three in a row, West Ham have taken their goals tally up to 54. EVERTON drew 1-1 at home to Southampton after going a goal down and they are now on 48 goals. CRYSTAL PALACE went a goal down in the first half but came back to win 2-1 away to Relegated Stoke. Palace are now on a total of 48 goals. After a two game dry spell, NEWCASTLE are now on 41 goals but lost 2-1 away to Watford.

CHAMPIONSHIP

It’s been a very disappointing last couple of games for Champions WOLVES as they have now lost 3-0 away to relegated SUNDERLAND. Wolves have had a total of ten blank score sheets over the season while Sunderland are now on a total of 55 goals. CARDIFF have remained in second place but they are now promoted to the premiership after they drew 0-0 at home against READING. Cardiff have picked up a total of twelve blank score sheets to Readings twenty.

In the play-off zone we still have three teams out of the four. They are  FULHAM in third place still after they lost 3-1 away to BIRMINGHAM. Fulham are now on a total of 81 goals while Birmingham finished on a total of 47. ASTON VILLA still in fourth place lost 1-0 away to Millwall to pick up their twelfth blank of the season. MIDDLESBROUGH are still in fifth place after they drew 2-2 away to IPSWICH. Brough are now on a total of 75 goals while Ipswich finished on a total of 60 goals..

Meanwhile BOLTON won 3-2 at home to Nottingham Forest and that takes their goals total to 45. BRENTFORD finished on a total of 70 goals after they drew 1-1 at home against HULL who finished on a total of 73.SHEFFIELD UNITED finished on 68 goals after they won 3-2 away to Bristol City. LEEDS UNITED won 2-0 at home to QUEENS PARK RANGERS to finish on a total of 72 goals while Rangers picked up a total of thirteen blank score sheets over the season. NORWICH lost their last game 5-1 away to Sheffield Wednesday to finish on a total of 61 goals.BURTON ALBION have been relegated after they lost 2-1 away to Preston but they end the season on a total of 43 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

Champions WIGAN won their last game 1-0 away to DONCASTER. Wigan have finished on a total of 106 goals while Doncaster picked up their twentieth blank for the season and they have failed to score in their last five games. BLACKBURN are promoted after they finished in second place with a 2-1 home win against Oxford. Blackburn end on a total of 92 goals.

In the play-off zone we still have just two of the four teams. They are CHARLTON now in sixth place after they lost 1-0 away to Rochdale. That is Charltons thirteenth blank of the season. SCUNTHORPE move to fifth place after they drew 1-1 at home to BRADFORD. Scunthorpe picked up goal number 69 while Bradford finished on a total of 64 goals. 

Meanwhile PLYMOUTH lost 5-2 away to Gillingham and they end on a total of 60 goals. FLEETWOOD TOWN. Won 2-0 at home to Walsall and they finish on a total of 65 goals. PORTSMOUTH finished on a total of 58 goals after they won 2-0 at home to PETERBOROUGH who finished with a total of nine blank score sheets. SOUTHEND drew 0-0 at home to Bristol Rovers and that was their seventeenth blank of the season. Relegated MK DONS won 1-0 away to Shrewsbury and they end on a total of 54 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

LUTON finished in second place behind Accrington Stanley but they have been promoted as they drew 0-0 away to Notts County. That was their tenth blank of the season.

We have three teams in the play-off zone and they are EXETER in fourth place as they win 1-0 at home to COLCHESTER. Exeter are now on 73 goals while Colchester finished with fifteen blank score sheets. In sixth place we have COVENTRY who drew 0-0 at home to Morecambe picked up their thirteenth blank score sheet. LINCOLN CITY behind them in seventh place drew 1-1 at home to Yeovil.  Lincoln are now on a total of 65 goals.

Meanwhile MANSFIELD drew 1-1 at home to Crawley and they end on a total of 74 goals. FOREST GREEN end with sixteen blank score sheets after they lost 3-0 at home to Grimsby PORT VALE lost 5-0 away to Cambridge to pick up a total of fifteen blank score sheets this season.  

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Scottish Premiership,  CELTIC won 3-1 away to Hearts to take their goals tally up to 103 goals. ABERDEEN in second place drew 0-0 at home to Hibernian and that is their fourteenth blank of the season. RANGERS remain in third place after they won 1-0 at home to Kilmarnock. Rangers are now on a total of 92 goals.

In the Championship Play-off Semi-Final 2^nd leg games  RAITH ROVERS who lost their first leg game 2-0 against Alloa also lost the second leg 2-1 to go out 4-1 on aggregate and finish on a total of 78 goals.

In League One Play-off Semi-Finals, PETERHEAD are in the final after they won their second leg game 3-0 to Stirling to win

4-0 on aggregate. Peterhead are now on a total of 104 goals and they have scored in all of their last fifteen games. STENHOUSEMUIR will be playing Peterhead in the final as they win their second leg game against Queens Park 2-1 to win 3-2 on aggregate. Stenhousemuir are now on a total of 65 goals.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

MANCHESTER CITY (119) WIGAN (106) PETERHEAD (104) Total of 329 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

NEWCASTLE (41) WEST BROM (41) BURTON ALBION (43) Total of 125 goals

BURTON ALBION have picked up the most number of  blank score sheets this season with a total of twenty-two out of a total of fifty 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 BOLBERY is now celebrating his fourth week at the top as he picks up a total of four goals all coming at the weekend. His combination is Celtic, Manchester City and Wigan. Chris has moved up two more places in our Champions League to sixth place. Chris has beaten Ian Sweeney’s total of 326 goals in the 1985/86 Season and Peter Christopher’s score of 327 in our very first season of 1983/84. Chris’s lead has now been cut down to just two goals this week as Chris Boom returns to second place after he picked up a total of seven goals for the week.

At the other end at number 149 we still have COLIN PINDER for his twenty-eighth weekend. Colin picked up just two goals at the weekend from Crystal palace. Colin has the combination of Colchester, Crystal Palace and Southend. Colin has remained at thirty-one in the Losers League. 

We are now down to a few games left for this season but we will have another week up here next week.

      THIS      LAST                                                        M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL    

      WEEK     WEEK             NAME                              GOALS         GOALS        GOALS        

          1             -                 C. BOLBERY                        92                   236                328              

           2                 3                C. BOOM                              84                   242                326               

           3                 2                P. DAVEY (2013/14)             86                   237                323               

          4                 -                 G. WARMAN                        96                   218                314               

          5                 -                 P. REEVE (87/88 & 11/12)    84                   227                311               

          6                 -                 T. BAXTER                           98                   211                309               

          7                 8                C. DICKER                            87                   221                308               

         8                 -                 D. GOODSON                       75                   231                306               

         9                 -                 B. CLARK                              86                   219                305               

          10              -                 B. HAYES                               93                   210                303

Russia World Cup 2018 Coming Soon

Good news today is that we have just 40 days left before the World Cup 2018 kicks off, and even more good news is that the entry forms, including the rules, for Golden Goals World Cup 2018 will be heading your way on Friday the 11^th May. That’s just is just six days to go!

As we have already told you that this will be our eighth tournament. You are invited to join us here on our blog or take part in this great competition. All you have to do in the Golden Goals World Cup 2018 is to pick just four of the thirty-two nations that are in the tournament who will pick you up the most number of goals to win some cash.   

Simple send me your email address now and on the 11^th May, I will send you the entry form and competition rules. For information email to goldengoals1983@gmail.com

Updates on Last Weeks Results

Updates on the results that have been played over last week, In the Scottish Championship Play-off Semi-Finals, RAITH ROVERS are two goal down in their first leg game against Alloa as they lost 2-0 away. That is Rovers eighth blank score sheet and now two in a row.

In League One Play-off Semi-Final, PETERHEAD won 1-0 away to Stirling in their first leg and that is goal number 101 for them.

In the English Premiership, MANCHESTER UNITED lost 1-0 away to Brighton and that is their seventh blank of the season.

Tottenham Catching Up

We have had a couple of our Golden Goals teams in action over the last couple of days and here are their results.

In the English Premiership, TOTTENHAM are just one point behind third place Liverpool with a game in hand after they won 2-0 at home against Watford. Tottenham are still on that goal run after scoring in all of their last thirty games. They are now on a total of 89 goals.

In League One, BRADFORD drew 1-1 at home against Walsall and that is their 63^rd goal of the season while DONCASTER picked up their nineteenth blank and now four in a row as they drew 0-0 at home to AFC Wimbledon. SCUNTHORPE won 2-0 at home to PLYMOUTH to take their goals tally up to 68 while Plymouth picked up their twelfth blank of the season.

In the Scottish League One Play-off Semi-Final, STENHOUSEMUIR are now on 63 goals after they drew 1-1 at home to Queens Park in the first leg.