The final whistle has now been blown on our historic 36th
Season of Golden Goals
and what a great season it was for goals. But it was not the season that we managed
to beat our highest ever recorded number of entries with 149 from last season.
The success of this season was all down to you. The good news is that we do not
have to wait long for the next season to start. Although we once again lost a
few friends this season, we have also gained some new ones. Lets hope that we
can continue with this nice run as we have had a lot of success over our full
36 year history of Golden Goals.
This season we have had a few records that have been broken this season, but
more on this later. I hope that you have had a lot of fun watching your name go
up and down the table and as shown above is where your combination of teams
have left you standing in the final position of the season. But before we go
all into that, lets take a look at what happened to the last few games of the
season.
Scottish WILLIAM HILL Cup Final
Champions CELTIC won the Scottish Cup final for the 39th time after they beat HEARTS 2-1 at Hampden Park to become the first Scottish team to win three successive
domestic Trebles. All of the goals came in the second half where Hearts
scored in the 52nd minute from Edwards. Celtic’s goals came in the 62nd
minute with a penalty scored by Edouard. Edouard scored his and Celtic’s second
goal in the 82nd minute. Hearts finished on a total of 72 goals,
which is the same amount of goals when we last saw Hearts in the 2015/16
Season. Their highest score came a season earlier in the 2014/15 Season with 98
goals. They had just one vote this season. Celtic became our second team this
season to finish on 100 goals. They have now scored 100 or more goals in nine
consecutive seasons. They finished the season nine points clear of second place
Rangers in the Premiership. They had a total of 70 votes this season.
Championship
Play-Off Final
DERBY went a goal
down against ASTON VILLA in a very
poor first half with a goal from El Ghazi.
In the second half, Villa scored their second goal in the 59th
minute from Mc Ginn but it took Derby a hell of a long time to get into this
game and scored in the 81st minute from Waghorn. From then on it was
end to end but the score remained 2-1 to Villa after the final whistle. Villa
finished the season on a total of 87 goals, which is a Golden Goals record for
them. They beat their previous highest score of 80 goals from the 2009/10 and
last season of 2017/18. They had a total of six votes this season. Derby picked
up goal number 90 which is their best in our last three seasons. They had a
total of ten votes
League
One Play-Off Final
CHARLTON scored all
three goals in this final, starting with a og from Sorr in the first five
minutes of play to give SUNDERLAND the
lead. Charlton came back to level the score 1-1 at half time with a goal from
Purrington in the 35th minute. The game looked as if extra time was
needed to separate these two teams, but Bauer for Charlton scored in the fourth
minute of added on time to win 2-1. Charlton finished on a total of 85 goals
and had scored in all of their last eleven games. It was their best season
since the 2011/12 with 90 goals. They
had four votes this season. Sunderland also finished on a total of 85 which is
their best since their highest score of 108 goals in the 1998/99 Season. They
had a total of 13 votes this season.
So it’s Congratulations to KELLIE
STRATTON as she now becomes our 36th Champion with Golden
Goals staying
at the top for the last two weeks and ten over the season. She has taken
the winning prize money of a total of
£100 and also picked up one weekends win with a Rollover in Week Three taking her
final lump sum to £112 in cash. We can now add kellie’s name in our history book and in the
Champions League where she finished in 7th place on 331 goals and
becomes our fifth lady to do so. Kellie had the winning combination of CELTIC
(100) MANCHESTER CITY (137) and WEST BROM (94). Just two of her teams
finished in our top best three teams and they were Manchester City and Celtic. Kellie
picked up only four blank score sheets throughout the season and her highest
score was 16 goals in Week Three. In the end she finished just one goal clear
of Bob sawyer who finally finished in second
place with a total of 330 goals.
ROAD TO CHAMPION
So our new Champion’s name, KELLIE STRATTON
is now in our history book, but what about the other people who managed to get
to that magic number one spot. We had a total of just eight players that made
it there is season. We already know that Kellie was at the top for nine weeks who
stayed there the longest. Next came GRAHAM
HARRIS with eight weeks staying there in our first three weeks of the
season. He was also there from weeks 5 to 7 and then another run from weeks 10 and
11. We then had GARY BROWN and JAMIE WOOD
with seven weeks each. Next with six weeks came BOB SAWYER starting from week 31. while JAMES SOMERVILLE was there for four weeks. We then had two players
that picked up a single week each. They were MICHAEL FISHER in week 25 of the season and DAVID
BARRETT in week 32.
Below is the list of our top five champions of Golden Goals.
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
NAME M/W W/E TOTAL
1.
L. KING 116 239 355 2001/02
2. P. DAVEY 132 216 348 2013/14
3.
J. WOOD 92 252 344
2016/17
4. M. PEPPERRELL 91 247 338 2002/03
5.
C. BOLBERY 95 239 334 2009/10
So what happened to our past Champions. Well we had a record total of
fifteen that played in this seasons competition with four finishing in the top twenty-seven
and they were DAVID SOMERVILLE our 2009/10
Champion in 5th place followed by our 2010/11 Champion TONY GUY in 16th place. Our next Champion finished in 21st place who was our 1994/95 Champion GEOFF DOCKERILL and last season’s Champion, CHRIS BOLBERY finished in
23rd place.
At the other end of the table, we had six players that landed on that
rotten number of 133. GRAEME BRITTON
holds the record for the best of our losers league with 214 goals from our
2004/05 season. The player who finished rock bottom this season was JOHN FILTNESS. John was there for a total of thirty-seven weeks
and started in Week 5-7 but was then there from weeks 10 to 43. Over the season
John picked up ten blank score sheets over the season. He had the
combination of BIRMINGHAM (64) HAMILTON
(33) and LIVERPOOL (91) total of 188 goals. John’s combination
finished in 10th place in our losers league and we can
now add’s his name in the history book. Next with just two weeks was Sarah Marshall and she stayed there from
Weeks eight and nine. Sarah was then followed by four players with one week
each. Terry Warwick in Week One, Ray Buckland in Week Two, Peter
Porter in Week Three, and our 2016/17 Champion, John Wood in Week
Four.
100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
The Prize Money for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot of £30 went to GRAHAM HARRIS in
week thirty-six by reaching 100 midweek goals
first. We had a total of just five players to
hit 100 this season, Graham finally finished with a total of 111 goals. The other four were JOHN
DAVIES and ADAM SANSOM both with
107 goals, JUNE TIGHE with 106 and KELLIE STRATTON with 104 goals. Daryl
Nicholls holds the highest midweek record
with 136 goals from our 2016/17 Season.
BEAT THE SCORE
The fantastic sum of £65 cash prize
money for BEAT THE SCORE has not been picked up once again
this season. The prize money will go to the first person who scores 19 goals or
more at the weekend. So I hope that we can add more cash to the pot next season.
The holder of this record is Mark Rymer with 18 goals scored way back in our
1998/99 season, so it’s about time that some-one beat that score?
THE BEST THREE TEAMS FINISHED AS
MANCHESTER CITY (137) CELTIC (100) RANGERS (98) Total of 335 goals.
We had just two teams this season that picked up 100 or more goals. They were
our best team MANCHESTER CITY who
ended the season with another total of 137 goals which equals their best
score from the 2013/14 Season. City have played in 50 games this season which gave
them an average score of 2.7 goals per game. They were our top English team
with 81 votes and they picked up just three blank score sheets. Last season
they finished on 123 goals. This is
their 25th season with Golden Goals and this is their 5th
season with 100 or more goals scored by the end of the season. Over the 25
seasons, they have scored a total of 2090 goals which now gives them an average
score of 83 goals per season. In second place was CELTIC with 100 goals, but this is there worst score in their last
eight seasons. They picked up a total of nine blank score sheets. Last season
they finished on 105 goals. Celtic have also scored 100 or more goals in their
last nine consecutive seasons which is a Golden Goals record. They had a
total of 70 votes this season and the goals gives them a total of 3508 in thirty-six
seasons they have been with us. That now gives them an average score of 97
goals per season. The third best team was RANGERS
who finished on a total of 98 goals which is the same as last seasons total.
Rangers have been with us for thirty-five seasons now and over that time they
have netted a total of 3414 goals. That now gives them an average score of 97
goals per season. They had 17 vote this season and they picked up a total of
eight blank score sheets. Our fourth best team who was just outside of our best
team frame was WEST BROMWICH ALBION.
They have had a great season ending with a total of 94 goals which is a lot
better than 41 last season. They picked up four votes this season and nine
blank score sheets.
So lets see what happened to our other teams to see if they have broken
any records this time round. MANCHESTER UNITED picked up the lowest
score in their last three season’s with a total of 75 goals. Last season they
finished on 87 goals. Their best score was in the 1993/94 Season with 117
goals. They had a total of just eight votes this season. LIVERPOOL was better than last seasons 88 with 91 goals this
season. TOTTENHAM finished on 83
goals which is their lowest in three seasons. ARSENAL finished on a total of 82 goals which is the same as last
years total. WEST HAM finished on 68
goals which is their best in the last three seasons. LEEDS UNITED finished on 79 goals which is their best in the last
seven seasons. PORTSMOUTH finished
on a total of 91 goals which is their best since the 2002/03 Season with 101
goals. MANSFIELD picked up a total
of 78 goals which is now their best score, beating last seasons total of 74. LINCOLN CITY have beat their previous
record of 78 goals in the 2005/06 Season with 84 goals. BARNSLEY have beat their record of 79 goals from their first season
with Golden Goals in 1998/99 with 89 this season. MK DONS picked up their highest score since their record score in
the 2014/15 Season of 115 goals with 75 goals. BURTON ALBION have beaten their record score of 59 goals in their
first season with us in 2015/16 Season with 76 goals.
Our Scottish teams had a great season with DUMBARTON picking up a record 63 goals beating their previous bests
of 53 goals in the 1988/89 Season. ALLOA
also beat their best record score of 47 goals in the 1993/94 Season with 52
goals. RAITH ROVERS picked up a
total of 88 goals which beats their best score of 72 goals in the 2007/08
Season.
THE WORST THREE TEAMS FINISHED AS
HAMILTON (33) IPSWICH (37) FULHAM (40) Total of 110 goals.
Well our worst team for this season finished with just 33 goals in their 4th
appearance with Golden Goals and they were HAMILTON. This is their
worst score by beating their lowest score of 40 goals scored in the season of 1999/00.
They had just two votes this season and they picked up a total of twenty-two
blank score sheets. In fact Hamilton will be in our record books for scoring
the lowest number of goals in a season. Next we had IPSWICH finishing
on 37 goals which is their lowest score in their 22nd appearance’s
with us. They had just one vote this season. FULHAM finished in third
place with their lowest score on record with just 40 goals. They also had just
one vote.
Other teams that picked up
their lowest score on record are NOTTS COUNTY with 51 goals, ROCHDALE
with 59 and ACCRINGTON STANLEY with 57 goals. From our Scottish teams
there were FALKIRK with 43 goals and STENHOUSEMUIR with 46 goals.
Our biggest
result in our 36th Season comes from MANCHESTER CITY as
they win 9-0 at home against league one BURTON
ALBION in the Carabao/League Cup semi-final first leg tie in Week
Twenty-Four.
HAMILTON have picked up the most number of blank score sheets this season with a total
of twenty-two out of a total of forty-three games played.
We have ended up with twenty-seven winners this season and here they all are
FINAL LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK SHEET NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 - K.
STRATTON 104 227 331
2 - B. SAWYER 80 250 330
3 5 B.
BURROUGHS 83 245 328
4 3 B. CLARK 89 239 328
5 6 D. SOMERVILLE (2009/10) 97 230 327
6 4 S. SEYEDI 90 236 326
7 8 C.
SETFORD 67 258 325
8 7 C. BAMBRIDGE 98 227 325
9 - D.
BARRETT 91 233 324
10 11 M.
GREGORY 98 226 324
11 12 S. AYRES 88 234 322
12 18 V. CRUICKSHANK 88 234 322
13 10 A. SANSOM 107 215 322
14 13 C. WEBB 89 231 320
15 14 JAMIE WOOD 95 225 320
16 - T. GUY (2010/11) 87 232 319
17 15 STALKY (2) 96 222 318
18 19 R.
FREEMAN 77 240 317
19 17 B. SOPER 88 229 317
20 - M. BILTON 93 223 316
21 - G. DOCKERILL (1994/95) 86 229 315
22 - G. WARMAN 86 229 315
23 25 C.
BOLBERY (2017/18) 87 227 314
24 27 R.
NETTING 80 233 313
25 23 M. FISHER 89 224 313
26 - GRAHAM PHILLIPS 91 222 313
27 34 J. WISE 91 222 313
26 - GRAHAM PHILLIPS 91 222 313
27 34 J. WISE 91 222 313
