More Carabao/League Cup 2nd Round

We had another four of our Golden Goals teams in Cup action and out of them we can add another two for the next round. They are EVERTON who won 3-1 at home against ROTHERHAM. Everton have scored their highest result of the season after four games played and they are now on a total of 9 goals, while Rotherham picked up goal number nine. Also through are NOTTINGHAM FOREST. They knocked out Newcastle 3-1 at home to score their highest result of the season so far, and takes their goals tally up to 11 goals. PLYMOUTH are out of the cup after they lost 3-2 away to Millwall. Plymouth are on a total of 7 goals.

Carabao/League Cup Second Round

We had a total of twenty-two of our teams playing in the second round of the Carabao/League Cup and out of them thirteen have made it through to the next round of the cup.

Here are the ones that have made it through to Round Three. We had three of our teams that picked up the highest score of four goals. They were BLACKBURN who beat LINCOLN CITY 4-1 at home which took their goals total up to 15 goals. Lincoln hit goal number 16. DERBY picked up their highest result of the season by beating HULL 4-0 away. Derby have extended their goals run to seven games and they are now on a total of 14 goals. Hull picked up their third blank of the season and now two in a row. LEICESTER CITY won 4-0 at home to Fleetwood Town and with their biggest result of the season to date, City are now on 9 goals. Meanwhile WEST HAM went 1-0 down but fought against ten men AFC Wimbledon 3-1 away. With their highest score of the season, West Ham are now on 5 goals. BOURNEMOUTH also picked up their biggest score as they win 3-0 at home to MK DONS. Bournemouth are now on 9 goals while MK Dons picked up their second blank of the season. BRENTFORD won 1-0 at home against Cheltenham and that is their goal number 15. The shock of the night is where BURTON ALBION beat ASTON VILLA 1-0 at home. Burton are no won a total of 7 goals while Villa picked up their first blank score sheet. FULHAM won 2-0 at home to EXETER and they are now on 7 goals while Exeter picked up their second blank score sheet and now two in a row. ROCHDALE won 1-0 away to Middlesbrough and that is their 9^th goal of the season. WOLVES won 2-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday and they take their goals tally up to 5 goals. STOKE won 2-0 at home to Huddersfield and they are now on 8 goals. WEST BROM won 2-1 at home against MANSFIELD and they are now on 16 goals while Mansfield hit goal number 14. WYCOMBE have made it through after they drew 2-2 at home after full time. They then went on to win 4-3 on penalties.  Wycombe are now on a total of 7 goals.

The teams that also went out was Championship leaders LEEDS UNITED. They lost 2-0 at home to Preston to pick up their first blank of the season. BRISTOL ROVERS lost 3-1 away to Queens Park Rangers and they are now on 8 goals. SWANSEA picked up their third blank and now two in a row as they lost 1-0 at home to Crystal Palace.

Tottenham on the Move

In the English Premiership, MANCHESTER UNITED lost 3-0 at home to TOTTENHAM with all the goals coming in the second half, to pick up their first blank score sheet of the season. Tottenham have taken their goals tally up to 8 after three games. Tottenham have moved up to second place while United have moved down to thirteenth place in the league.

Week Four

In Week Four of the competition and this weekend we had two winners to share the Weekend Jackpot of £6, winning on a total of 8 goals each. One of our winners becomes our third lady to win this season or should I say fourth as the deadly duo AVA & AUBREY CLARK have joined up together. Our other winner is MICK LIDDLE for the boys.

Ava & Aubrey are in their first Golden Goals Season and they have started off very well. This is their second consecutive weekend were they have picked up eight goals at the weekend. Their best team is Sunderland netting twelve of their total of 26 goals.

Mick has been with us for quite a few seasons now and this is his highest position to date. Mick finished in 61^st place on 277 goals last season but failed to win any cash. So a good start for him as well. Mick’s best team is Peterborough with 15 goals. Our winners teams are

A&A  ARSENAL 3, RANGERS 3, SUNDERLAND 2

Mick CHELSEA 2, MANCHESTER CITY 1, PETERBOROUGH 5

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Most of us picked up some more midweek goals this week with four players picking up the highest score with six goals. . They are Martin Corbett, Graham Phillips, Ricky Wood and Ryan Williams.

We have a new leader this week and the player is GARY BROWN with 16 goals, who was second last week. Gary has Ayr Utd, Manchester City and Sunderland. GRAHAM HARRIS moves down to second place still with 15 goals. In third place down from two we have JAMES SOMERVILLE with 12 goals. In fourth place on 11 goals is still JAMES BLYTH and TERRIE WARWICK but they are now joined with MARTIN CORBETT. In fifth place on 10 goals we have RYAN WILLIAMS.

WEEKEND RESULTS

It was more of a quite weekend for goals this week. Our average score for this weekend fell from nine last weekend to 4 goals this weekend. So if your combination picked up more than that, then you have done well.

We had just three teams that had no game over the weekend and another ten that failed to score any goals.

The highest score came from the English League One where PETERBOROUGH picked up their highest result of our 36^th Season with a 5-1 away win over PLYMOUTH.  Peterborough have now taken their goals tally up to 15 goals and are top of the league this weekend having won all of their five league games. Plymouth picked up their fifth goal of the season.

Peterborough became our 90^th voted team in Golden Goals and they are in their 13^th season with us. Borough started with us back in the 1997/98 Season where they finished on a total of 73 goals. Their highest score is 129 goals scored in the 2010/11 Season. Last season they finished on a total of 85 goals. Over the years they have netted a total of 1005 goals which gives them an average score of 77 goals per season. They have just one blank score sheet this season and they have just two votes.

PREMIERSHIP

The Premiership have now played their third league game of the season but it’s all change at the top. After their win against Crystal palace in midweek, LIVERPOOL won their third game with a 1-0 home win against Brighton. Liverpool are now on a total of 7 goals. In second place in the league is still CHELSEA after they won 2-1 away to Newcastle. Chelsea are now on 8 goals and they have also won all of their three games. MANCHESTER CITY have fallen down to fourth place after they drew 1-1 away to WOLVES and after going a goal down in the second half. City have taken their goals total to 9 goals while Wolves picked up goal number three. ARSENAL are on 5 goals as they beat WEST HAM 3-1 with their biggest result of the season to date. West Ham are now rock bottom of the league after they have lost all three games. They are on a total of 3 goals. BURNEMOUTH drew 2-2 at home to EVERTON. Both teams are on 6 goals each. LEICESTER CITY are on 5 goals as they win 2-1 away to Southampton. FULHAM picked up their highest score to date as they win 4-2 at home to Burnley to take their goals tally to 5.

CHAMPIONSHIP

After five games now LEEDS UNITED are top after they win 3-0 away to Norwich. Leeds have kept their 100% scoring record going after six games and they are now on a total of 16 goals. ASTON VILLA drew 1-1 at home to Reading and that is their 11^th goal and they have also scored in all of their six games this season. BLACKBURN are on 11 goals as they win 1-0 at home to BRENTFORD who picked up their first blank of the season. DERBY are also doing well as they win 2-0 at home against Preston and they are now on 10 goals. NOTTINGHAM FOREST picked up another two goals in their 2-2 home draw against BIRMINGHAM. Forest are now on 8 goals while Birmingham, after a four game dry spell for goals, are now on 4 goals. IPSWICH lost 2-1 away to Sheffield Wednesday and they are now on 5 goals but bottom of the league. STOKE are on 6 goals as they win 2-0 at home to HULL who picked up their second blank of the season. SWANSEA also picked up their second blank as they lost 1-0 at home to Bristol City.

LEAGUE ONE

As we have already told you that Peterborough are top here with SUNDERLAND moving up to second place after they won 2-1 away to AFC Wimbledon. PORTSMOUTH are down to third after they drew 0-0 away to Doncaster to pick up their first blank of the season. ACCRINGTON STANLEY drew 1-1 away to Blackpool and they are now on 8 goals while WYCOMBE won their first game, 2-1 away to Bradford and they are on 5 goals. BRISTOL ROVERS lost 1-0 at home to SOUTHEND to get their first blank of the season. Southend scored goal number 8. CHARLTON drew 0-0 at home to Fleetwood to pick up their third blank score sheet and now two in a row. Charlton have now scored just one goal in their last four games. COVENTRY drew 1-1 away to Gillingham to pick up their third goal of the season and now only two goals in their last five games. LUTON scored their highest result to date after they won 3-2 at home to SHREWSBURY. Luton are now on 7 goals while Shrewsbury picked up goal number 4 after at wo game dry spell. BURTON ALBION are on a total of 6 goals after they lost 2-1 away to Oxford Utd. ROCHDALE lost 2-1 at home to Walsall and that is their 8^th goal of the season. SCIUNTHORPE drew 2-2 at home against BARNSLEY and after a two game dry spell for goals are now on 6 goals. Barnslay are now on 13 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

LINCOLN CITY are top here this weekend as they win 3-1 at home to NOTTS COUNTY. Lincoln have scored in all of their six games this season and are now on a total of 15 goals. County are now on 8 goals and bottom of the league. MK DONS are now in second place as they win 1-0 at home to EXETER. Mk Dons are on a total of 8 goals while Exeter move down to third place with their first blank of the season. It’s 10 goals for SWINDON as they drew 1-1 away to Forest Green. MANSFIELD drew 1-1 away to Macclesfield and they are now on 13 goals. OLDHAM won 2-0 away to Morecombe and that takes them up to 7 goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Scottish Premiership, HEARTS remain top as they win 1-0 away to Kilmarnock. Hearts are now on a total of 20 goals and they have scored in all of their eight games played. CELTIC have moved up to second place, which will please our fans here at Golden Goals as they win 1-0 at home to HAMILTON. Celtic picked up goal number 7 while Hmailton picked up their third blank of the season. HIBERNIAN are in third place as they drew-1 at home to ABERDEEN in fifth place. Hibs are now on 8 goals while Aberdeen are on 7. RANGERS could of moved up to second place after they drew 3-3 against Motherwell away. Rangers were 3-2 up with seconds to play. Rangers are now on 9 goals.

In the Championship, AYR UNITED are top as they win 4-1 at home to Dunfermilne to give them a total of 21 goals. FALKIRK lost 3-0 at home to Queen of South and that is their fourth blank of the season. ALLOA drew 2-2 away to Inverness CT and they are now on a total of 10 goals after a three game dry spell for goals. ROSS COUNTY lost 2-1 away to Morton and they are on 13 goals and a goal scoring run of eight games.

In League One, RAITH ROVERS are up to second place after they picked up their biggest score with a 4-3 away win over Airdrieonians. Rovers are now on a total of 11 goals. STENHOUSEMUIR lost 2-0 away to Forfar and that gives them a total of five blank score sheets with just one goal in their last three games. DUMBARTON lost 3-2 away to Brechin and they are now on 8 goals. 

In League Two, PETERHEAD are still top of the league this weekend after they won 2-0 away to Stirling. Peterhead are now on 8 goals.

So lets have a look at our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals. They are

AYR UNITED (21) HEARTS (20) LEEDS UNITED (16) Total of 57 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

WEST HAM (2) COVENTRY (3) WOLVES (3) Total of 8 goals

Our Best team is HEARTS after scoring in all of their eight League and Cup games with a total of 20 goals. 

Our worst team is STENHOUSEMUIR this weekend as they have picked up a total of five blank score sheets out of eight league and cup games played this season.

Our highest goal scorers in our 36^th Season are WEST BROM who won 7-1 at home to Queens Park Rangers in their fourth league game of the season.  

Gary Brown becomes the second player to reach the number one slot this weekend.  Gary moved to the top this weekend after picking up eleven goals this week. Four of the goals came from midweek and the other seven at the weekend from Ayr United, Manchester City and Sunderland. Gary is just three goals in front of last weeks leader Graham Harris who picked up just one goal at the weekend from Hearts.  

At the other end at 133 we have our 2016/17 Champion John Wood who picked up a total of three goals at the weekend. He has Arsenal, Manchester United and Tottenham and becomes the fourth player to stay there this season.

Here are our top ten this week

         THIS      LAST                                                      M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

WEEK     WEEK             NAME                             GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

       1            2                 G. BROWN                         16                   26                   42

       2                 1                G. HARRIS                         15                   24                   39

       3                 -                 JAMES SOMERVILLE     12                   25                   37

       4                 10              A. DAVEY                          4                     29                   33                

       5                 14              M. LIDDLE                        1                     31                   32

       6                 9                M. BILTON                         4                     28                   32

       7                 15              P. DAVEY (2013/14)           6                     26                   32

       8                 13              R. FREEMAN                     1                     30                   31

       9                 11              J. DAVIES                           6                     25                   31

        10              41              RYAN WILLIAMS             10                   21                   31

West Brom Down to Seventh

In the English Championship, WEST BROM lost 1-0 to Middlesbrough with a very late goal in added on time. The goal puts Brough back on top of the league as West Brom pick up their first blank score sheet of the season.

Sunderland Hit Four

In the English Championship ASTON VILLA drew 2-2 at home with BRENTFORD to take their goals tally up to 10 goals, while Brentford are now on 14 goals. It’s 10 goals for BLACKBURN ROVERS as they drew 2-2 at home to Reading. BIRMINGHAM lost 1-0 away to Bolton and that is their fourth straight blank score sheet in a row. Stoke picked up their first blank of the season after three games as they lost 3-0 at home to Wigan.

In League One, SUNDERLAND picked up their highest result of the season so far as they win 4-1 away to Gillingham. Sunderland have moved up to fourth place in the league with a total of 10 goals. SCUNTHORPE lost 5-0 at home to Fleetwood and that is their second consecutive blank score sheet.

Leeds Championship Leaders

LEEDS UNITED have moved to the top of the English Championship as they drew 2-2 away to SWANSEA. Leeds have now scored in all of their first five games and they are now on a total of 13 goals. Swansea have taken their goals tally up to 5. DERBY are also on a 100% scoring record after five games as they win 2-0 at home to IPSWICH. Derby are on a total of 8 goals while Ipswich picked up their second blank score sheet of the season. HULL have picked up their highest score of the season to date, as they win 3-2 away to ROTHERHAM. Hull have doubled their goals tally to 6. Rotherham are on a total of 7 goals.

In League One, PETERBOROUGH have remained top here as they 1-0 away to CHARLTON. Borough are now on a total of 10 goals while Charlton picked up their second blank of the season and now just one goal in their last three games. PORTSMOUTH have kept in second place after they won 2-1 away to BRISTOL ROVERS. Portsmouth also have a 100% scoring record after five games and they are now on 10 goals. Rovers also have scored in all of their games but they are on 7 goals. BARNSLEY have remained in third place as they win 4-0 away to ROCHDALE. Barnsley have taken their goals total up to 11 goals while Rochdale picked up their first blank of the season. COVENTRY have picked up their third blank of the season and now just one goal in their last four games as they lost 2-0 away to Blackpool. BURTON ALBION lost 1-0 away to Bradford to pick up their first blank score sheet. SHREWSBURY picked up their third blank and now two in a row as they drew 0-0 away to Doncaster. LUTON have doubled their goals total to 4 as they win 2-0 at home to SOUTHEND who picked up their first blank score sheet. ACCRINGTON STANLEY picked up their biggest result of the season as they win 3-2 away to Oxford Utd. Accrington have taken their goals tally to 7. Both PLYMOUTH and WYCOMBE have picked up another single goal as they drew1-1. Plymouth are on 4 goals while Wycombe hit goal number 3.

In League Two, EXETER have remained top and keep their goals record going as they win 2-0 away to Cambridge Utd. Exeter are now on 9 goals. LINCOLN CITY are still second after they won 2-1 at home to Bury. City have taken their goals tally up to 12 and keep their 100% goal scoring record going after five games.

SWINDON drew 2-2 away to Crawley and they are now on a total of 9 goals. MK DONS are now on 7 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Grimsby. NOTTS COUNTY lost 3-2 away to Newport County and they are now on a total of 7 goals and are now rock bottom of the league. MANSFIELD picked up their first blank of the season as they drew 0-0 away to Tranmere. OLDHAM drew 0-0 away to Yeovil and that is their second blank of the season.

Liverpool Second

In the English Premiership, LIVERPOOL might think themselves a little bit lucky against Crystal Palace in their 2-0 away win, to move them up to second place in the league. Liverpool was awarded a penalty just before half time to score their first goal. In the second half Palace went down to ten men with fifteen minutes to go, Liverpool scored their second goal in added on time after 90 minutes with the very last kick of the game. Still Liverpool have taken their goals tally up to 6 goals. They have 36 votes this season.

Week Three

Here we are with Week Three of the competition and this weekend we had our first Rollover of the season worth £12. The winner becomes our second lady to win this season with a total of 16 goals. KELLIE STRATTON is that lady and it is our highest score of the season to date. Kellie has been with Golden Goals for four seasons now and in her first season of 2015/16, Kellie finished in 47^th place with a total of 256 goals. Last season she finished in 57^th place on a total of 278 goals. Kellie’s teams are

CELTIC 3, MANCHESTER CITY 6, WEST BROM 7

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Just under half of us picked up some midweek goals for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot of £30 this season. The prize money will go to the first person to reach 100 goals from their three teams.

Taking the lead after week three is our leader again, GRAHAM HARRIS with 15 goals. He has Hearts, Tottenham and W.B.A. In Second place we have GARY BROWN and JAMES SOMERVILLE both with 12 goals each. In third place on 8 goals is still SHARRON BOWN. In fourth place this week we have JAMES BLYTH and TERRIE WARWICK with 7 goals each. In fifth place on 6 goals we have last season’s Champion CHRIS BOLBERY and GRAHAM WARMAN.

WEEKEND RESULTS

What a crazy weekend we had for goals this weekend. Our average score for this weekend was 9 goals which is not a great surprise as so many of you have Celtic/Man City combo. So if your combination picked up more than that, then you have done well. We had seven teams that had no game over the weekend and another eight that failed to score any goals.

The highest score came from the English Championship where WEST BROM picked up the highest result of the season with a 7-1 thrashing of Queens Park Rangers at home. The win puts them third in the league and now on a total of 14 goals. West Brom are our 63^rd voted English team when they started in our 1986/87 Season. They finished with 54 goals. They are in their 12^th season with us and last season they scored just 41 goals which is their lowest number of goals in a season when they were relegated from the prem last season. West Broms highest score is 109 goals which they scored in the 2007/08 Season. Over the seasons they have netted a total of 807 goals which gives them an average score of 67 goals per season.  They have just four votes this season and they have scored in all of their five games played to date.

PREMIERSHIP

The Premiership have played their second league game of the season and again most of them had another good weekend. MANCHESTER CITY have gone straight to the top after they picked up their biggest win of the season with a 6-1 thrashing of Huddersfield at home. In two league games, City have now scored a total of 8 goals. In second place in the league is CHELSEA after they beat their London rivals ARSENAL 3-2 at home. Chelsea are on 6 goals while Arsenal are on 2. It’s 4 goals for EVERTON as they win 2-1 at home to Southampton. LEICESTER CITY won 2-0 at home to WOLVES and they are now on 3 goals while Wolves picked up their first blank of the season. TOTTENHAM won 3-1 at home to FULHAM to put them in fourth place in the league and on a total of 5 goals. Fulham scored their first goal of the season. WEST HAM lost 2-1 at home to BOURNEMOUTH and that is also their first goal of the season while Bournemouth take their goals tally to 4. MANCHESTER UNITED lost their first game of the season as they go down 3-2 away to Brighton. United are now on 4 goals.

CHAMPIONSHIP

After three games now LEEDS UNITED are still in second place behind Middlesbrough after they won 2-0 at home to ROTHERHAM. Leeds have kept their 100% scoring record going after playing four games and they are now on a total of 11 goals. Rotherham picked up their first blank of the season. With West Brom in third place, BRENTFORD are in fourth after they won 2-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday. Brentford have scored in all of their four games and they are now on 12 goals. HULL have picked up their first blank score sheet after they lost 1-0 at home to BLACKBURN who are now on a total of 8 goals. IPSWICH are on 4 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to ASTON VILLA who picked up their 8^th goal of the season. It’s 6 goals for DERBY after they lost 2-1 away to Millwall. STOKE have scored in all of their games as they drew 2-2 away to Preston. Stoke are on 4 goals. NOTTINGHAM FOREST picked up their highest score of the season so far as they drew 2-2 away to Wigan. Forest are now on a total of 6 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

PETERBOROUGH are top here after they won 3-1 at home to LUTON. Borough are now on a total of 9 goals while Luton picked up goal number two. PORTSMOUTH are in second place as they pick up their highest result of the season with a 4-1 home win against Oxford Utd. Portsmouth have taken their goals total to 8. SUNDERLAND picked up their highest score so far as they win 3-0 at home to SCUNTHORPE. Sunderland are on 6 goals while Scunthorpe picked up their first blank of the season. ACCRINGTON STANLEY drew 1-1 at home to CHARLTON after going a goal down in the first half. Both Accrington and Charlton are on 4 goals each. BARNSLEY picked up their first blank of the season after they drew 0-0 at home to AFC Winbledon. BURTON ALBION are on 5 goals as they win 1-0 at home to Doncaster. After a two game dry spell for goals, COVENTRY are now on 2 goals as they win 1-0 at home to PLYMOUTH who picked up their first blank score sheet. ROCHDALE have a 100% scoring run after they drew 2-2 away to Fleetwood. Rochdale after four games are on a total of 7 goals. SHREWSBURY picked up their second blank of the season as they drew 0-0 at home against Blackpool. SOUTHEND won 2-0 at home to Bradford and they are now on 7 goals. WYCOMBE have scored their second goal of the season but lost 2-1 at home to BRISTOL ROVERS who are now on 6 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

EXETER are top here once again this weekend as they drew 1-1 at home to Newport. Exeter are now on 7 goals. LINCOLN CITY are in second place still as they drew 1-1 away to Grimsby. Lincoln are now on 10 goals. MK DONS picked up their first blank score sheet after they drew 0-0 away to Crewe. It’s 12 goals for MANSFIELD as they drew 1-1 at home to Colchester. OLDHAM picked up their biggest result of the season by winning 3-1 at home to Macclesfield and that takes their goals tally to 5. SWINDON won 3-2 at home to Tranmere and they are now on 7 goals this weekend.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

We had the Second Round of the Scottish Betfred/League Cup in where we had seven of our teams in action. ABERDEEN are through to the next round with their biggest result of the season by beating St Mirren 4-0 at home. Aberdeen are now on a total of 6 goals. AYR UNITED are also through as they win 3-0 away to Dundee taking their goals total up to 17 goals. HEARTS are still our best team with a 100% scoring record after seven games as they win 1-0 away to Dunfermilne. CELTIC will be joining them as they win 3-1 away to Partick. Celtic are now on a total of 6 goals. HIBERNIAN won 3-2 at home to ROSS COUNTY and they are now on 7 goals to Ross County’s 12 goals. RANGERS won 3-1 away to Kilmarnock and that takes them up to a total of 6 goals.

In League One, RAITH ROVERS are down to fourth place after they drew 2-2 at home to East Fife. Rovers are now on a total of 7 goals. STENHOUSEMUIR lost 2-1 at home to Airdrie and that gives them a total of 6 goals. DUMBARTON drew 1-1 at home to Arbroath and that is their 6^th goal of the season.

In League Two, PETERHEAD are now top of the league after they won 1-0 at home to Clyde. Peterhead are now on 6 goals.

So lets have a look at our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals. They are

HEARTS (19) AYR UNITED (17) WEST BROM (14) Total of 50 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

FULHAM (1) WEST HAM (1) BIRMINGHAM (2) Total of 4 goals

Our Best team is HEARTS after scoring in all of their seven League and Cup games with a total of 19 goals.

Our worst team is BIRMINGHAM this weekend as they have failed to score in their last three games out of four games played this season.

Our highest goal scorers in our 36^th Season are WEST BROM who won 7-1 at home to Queens Park Rangers in their fourth league game of the season.  

Graham Harris is still at the top this weekend after picking up twelve goals this week. One goal came from midweek and the other eleven at the weekend from Hearts, Tottenham and W.B.A. Graham is still seven goals in front of Gary Brown.

At the other end at 133 we have Peter Porter who picked up a total of 5 goals at the weekend. He has Arsenal, Celtic and Stoke and becomes the third player to stay there.

Here are out top ten this weekend

       THIS      LAST                                                     M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

       WEEK     WEEK             NAME                           GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

           1            -                  G. HARRIS                         15                   23                  38

            2                 -                 G. BROWN                        12                   19                  31

            3                 -                 JAMES SOMERVILLE     12                   19                  31

            4                 26              K. STRATTON                  2                     26                  28                

            5                 16              A. SANSOM                       2                     24                  26

            6                 19              D. BARRETT                     4                     22                  26

            7                 4                C. BOLBERY (2017/18)    6                     20                  26

            8                 37              G. WARMAN                     6                     20                  26

            9                 13              M. BILTON                        2                     23                  25

             10              5                A. DAVEY                         2                     23                  25

Swansea Second For Now

We have had another three of our teams in action and in the English Championship BIRMINGHAM drew 0-0 at home to SWANSEA. Although the point moves Birmingham up to 17^th place and Swansea up to second, Birmingham have picked up their second blank in a week after their defeat in the cup and they have now failed to score in their last three consecutive games. Swansea picked up their first blank of the season.

In League Two NOTTS COUNTY lost 4-0 at home to Yeovil and that is their second blank score sheet.

Sunderland are out

We have had another one of our Golden Goals teams that have been knocked out of the first round of the league cup. They are SUNDERLAND who lost 2-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday with a goal in each half. That is Sunderland’s first blank score sheet of the season and they have a total of 13 votes.

EFL Cup First Round

We had the first round of the EFL Cup or also known as the Carabao Cup, where thirty-three of our teams was in action. Out of the thirty-three, eighteen have made it through to the second round.

The highest result of the night went to MANSFIELD as they beat beat ACCRINGTON STANLEY 6-1. With their biggest score of the season to date, Mansfield are now on a total of 11 goals. Accrington picked up goal number three.

Meanwhile NOTTINGHAM FOREST are through after they drew 1-1 after full time and then won 10-9 on penalties against Bury. But penalties do not count in Golden Goals, so the single goal takes their goal tally up to 4 goals. BLACKBURN ROVERS picked up their highest score of the season so far as they win 5-1 away to Carlisle. Rovers are now on 7 goals. ROCHDALE are through as they win 2-0 away to Grimsby. That takes Rochdale’s goals up to 5. LEEDS UNITED won 2-1 at home to Bolton and they are now on a total of 9 goals. DERBY won 2-0 away to OLDHAM and they are now on 5 goals while Oldham picked up their first blank of the season. LINCOLN CITY are on 9 goals as they win 4-0 away to Port vale with their biggest win to date. EXETER drew 1-1 with IPSWICH after full time and then won 4-2 on penalties. Exeter are on 6 goals while Ipswich are now on 3. ROTHERHAM won 3-1 at home to Wigan and they are now on 5 goals. HULL drew 1-1 after full time with Sheffield United and then won 5-4 on penalties. Hull are now on 3 goals. BURTON ALBION won 2-1 away to SHREWSBURY and they are now on 4 goals while Shrewsbury picked up goal number 2. MK DONS beat CHARLTON 3-0 at home to take their goals tally up to 6 while Charlton picked up their first blank of the season. BRENTFORD won 4-2 away to SOUTHEND and they are now on 10 goals while Southend are on 5. WYCOMBE drew 1-1 with Northampton but then won 7-6 on penalties. That was Wycombe’s first goal of the season. ASTON VILLA won 1-0 away to Yeovil and that goal takes them up to 7 goals. WEST BROM won 1-0 at home to LUTON and they are now on 7 goals while Luton are out with their second blank score sheet.

BARNSLEY go out as they lost 3-1 away to Blackpool after going a goal up. Barnsley are now on a total of 7 goals. NOTTS COUNTY are also out as they drew 3-3 with Middlesbrough at full time but lost 4-3 on penalties. County are now on 5 goals. SCUNTHORPE lost 2-1 at home to Doncaster and they are on a total of 4 goals. COVENTRY picked up their second blank of the season as they lost 2-0 away to Oxford Utd. PORTSMOUTH lost 2-1 at home to AFC Wimbledon and they are now on 4 goals. PETERBOROUGH lost 2-0 away to Q.P.R and that is their first blank of the season. SWINDON lost 1-0 at home to Forest Green and that is also their first blank score sheet. BIRMINGHAM lost 2-0 away to Reading and that is their second consecutive blank score sheet.

Week Two

Here we are with Week Two of the competition and this weekend we had a total of five winners which means that we will have our first Rollover of the season of £12 next weekend as we are only paying out a share up to four players each weekend. All of our five players won on a score of 10 goals and they are ALEX DAVEY, PAUL DAVEY, TONY JENKINS, ADAM SANSOM and CHRIS SMITH.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

At last we can have our first look at who is in the lead for our 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot worth £30 this season. The prize money will go to the first person to reach 100 goals from their three teams.

Taking the lead after week two is our leader at the moment, GRAHAM HARRIS with 14 goals. He has Hearts, Tottenham and W.B.A. In Second place we have JAMES SOMERVILLE and GARY BROWN with 12 goals each while in third place on 8 goals is SHARRON BOWN. In fourth place is last season’s Champion CHRIS BOLBERY with 6 goals. Then we have four players on 5 goals each and they are GARY BOLBERY, BARBARA BARNES (1), JOHN FILTNESS and EMMA NEWMAN.

WEEKEND RESULTS

So we had our very first full weekend fixture and what a good start to the season it was. We had just two teams with no game over the weekend with another thirteen teams that failed to score any goals. So our very first weekend average score was 5 goals. So if your combination picked up more than that, then you have done well.

The Highest score over the weekend was four goals and we had a total of six of our teams that reached that figure. They were LEEDS UNITED, LINCOLN CITY, LIVERPOOL, PETERBOROUGH, PETERHEAD and W.B.A.

PREMIERSHIP

So the Premiership played their first league game of the season and most of them had a great start. LIVERPOOL went straight to the top of the league after they beat WEST HAM 4-0 at home. CHELSEA are in second place as they win 3-0 away to Huddersfield. BOURNEMOUTH are in third place as they win 2-0 at home to Cardiff. In fourth place is Crystal Palace which no-one has voted for this season. They beat FULHAM 2-0 away. TOTTENHAM won 2-0 away to Newcastle while promoted WOLVES drew 2-2 at home to EVERTON. MANCHESTER CITY have started their winning ways with a 2-0 away win over ARSENAL.

CHAMPIONSHIP

After two games now  LEEDS UNITED move up to second place behind Middlesbrough after they won 4-1 away to DERBY. Leeds have picked up a total of 7 goals in their two games, which makes them our best English team. Derby are now on 3 goals. ASTON VILLA are in third place after they picked up another three goals in their 3-2 home win against Wigan. Villa are now on 6 goals. SWANSEA are in fourth place as they win 1-0 at home to Preston and that is their third goal of the season.  BLACKBURN picked up their first blank score sheet as they drew 0-0 at home to Millwall. BIRMINGHAM also picked up their first blank as they lost 1-0 away to Middlesbrough. WEST BROM scored their highest score of the season as they win 4-3 away to Norwich and they are now on 6 goals. NOTTINGHAM FOREST won 1-0 at home to Reading and they are on 3 goals. ROTHERHAM won their first league game of the season as they beat IPSWICH 1-0 at home. They are now on a total of 2 goals while Ipswich picked up their first blank score sheet. HULL are now on two goals as they drew 1-1 away to Sheffield Wednesday. STOKE are also on two goals as they drew 1-1 at home to BRENTFORD who are now on 6 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

BARNSLEY are top here with their second win of the season as they win 2-0 away to Bradford and they are now on 6 goals. PETERBOROUGH are in third place behind Doncaster as they picked up their biggest win of the season so far, with a 4-1 away win over ROCHDALE. Rochdale picked up their third goal of the season. COVENTRY picked up their first blank score sheet as they drew 0-0 away to AFC Wimbledon. PORTSMOUTH won 2-1 away to Blackpool and they are on 3 goals this week. ACCRINGTON STANLEY won their first game and first lot of goals in their 2-1 away win over BRISTOL ROVERS who are now on 2 goals. CHARLTON won 2-1 at home against SHREWSBURY and they are on 3 goals while Shrewsbury are now on the score sheet with their single goal. WYCOMBE lost 3-0 away to Doncaster and that is their second blank score sheet of the season. BURTON ALBION lost 3-1 away to Gillingham and that is their second goal of the season. LUTON scored their first goal of the season after they drew 1-1 at home to SUNDERLAND who are now on 3 goals. PLYMOUTH drew 1-1 at home to SOUTHEND and they are on 2 goals to Southend’s three. SCUNTHORPE drew 1-1 at home to Walsall and that is their third goal of the season.

LEAGUE TWO

EXETER are top here as they win their second game of the season with a 2-0 win over Morecombe away. Exeter are now on 5 goals. LINCOLN CITY are in second place as they win 4-1 at home to SWINDON. With their biggest score to date, Lincoln are now on 5 goals while Swindon are on four. MK DONS are in third place as they win 1-0 at home to Bury. The Dons are now on 3 goals. NOTTS COUNTY picked up their first goals of the season after they lost 3-2 away to Cambridge Utd. OLDHAM drew 1-1 away to Forest Green and they are now on 2 goals. MANSFIELD drew 2-2 away to Yeovil and they are on 5 goals this weekend.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Scottish Premiership, HEARTS are still top after they won their second league game 1-0 at home to CELTIC. Hearts are now on 18 goals and a 100% scoring record after six games and they are our top team this week while, I never thought I would ever say this but, Celtic are down to fifth place with their first blank of the season. HIBERNIAN are in second place as they drew 1-1 away to St Johnstone and that is their fourth goal of the season. RANGERS are in third place as they win 2-0 at home to St Mirren. Rangers are on 3 goals. HAMILTON are on 7 goals as they win 1-0 away to Motherwell. ABERDEEN won 1-0 away to Dundee and that is their second goal of the season.

In the Championship ROSS COUNTY are top after they picked up their highest score of the season with a 3-1 away win over Dunfermline. They also have a 100% scoring record after six games. AYR UNITED picked up their first blank as they drew 0-0 away to Inverness CT. ALLOA lost 2-0 at home to Morton and that is their third consecutive blank score sheet. FALKIRK lost 2-1 away to Partick but they are now on a total of 5 goals.

In League One, RAITH ROVERS are in second place after they won 2-0 at home to STENHOUSEMUIR. Raith are now on 5 goals while Stenhousemuir picked up their fourth blank of the season. DUMBARTON lost 2-0 at home to Forfar and that is their third blank of the season.

In League Two, PETERHEAD are the only team we have here and they scored their highest score of the season by winning 4-0 away to Albion. Peterhead are now on 5 goals and in second place in the league.

So lets have a look at our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals. They are

HEARTS (18) AYR UNITED (14) ROSS COUNTY (10) Total of 42 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

WYCOMBE (0) ARSENAL (0) FULHAM (0) Total of 0 goals

Our Best team is HEARTS after scoring in all of their six League and Cup games with a total of 18 goals.

Our worst teams are  WYCOMBE this weekend as they have failed to score in their first two league games.

Our highest goal scorers in our 36^th Season are AYR UNITED, BRENTFORD and Hearts as all three teams have scored five goals in a game.  

Here is a look at our top ten this weekend.

   THIS      LAST                                                        M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

 WEEK     WEEK             NAME                               GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

       1            -                  G. HARRIS                           14                     12                   26

        2                 3                G. BROWN                          12                     7                     19

        3                 2                JAMES SOMERVILLE       12                     7                     19

        4                 6                C. BOLBERY (2017/18)      6                       9                     15

        5                 56              A. DAVEY                            0                       14                   14

        6                 67              P. DAVEY (2013/14)                                     13                   13

        7                 76              B. HAYES                             3                       10                   13                

        8                 112            A. PIRES                               3                       10                   13

        9                 10              B. BARNES (1)                     5                       8                     13

        10              4                G. BOLBERY                         5                       8                     13