A Draw for Fulham

In the English Championship, it’s now a total of 10 goals for FULHAM as they drew 1-1 away to CARDIFF. Cardiff after a two game dry spell for goals, are now on a total of 7 goals.

More Second Round Carabao/League Cup Results

The last of the Second Round Carabao/League Cup have now all been played. We had another ten of our teams in action and the highest score from last night’s games came from EVERTON who won 4-2 away to LINCOLN CITY. With their highest score of the season, Everton are now on a total of 5 goals while Lincoln have now scored in all of their first seven games and have a total of 13 goals. SUNDERLAND are also through to the next round after they won 3-1 away to Burnley. Sunderland have also scored in all of their seven games and they are now on a total of 15 goals. PORTSMOUTH won 2-0 away to QUEENS PARK RANGERS and they are now on 11 goals. Rangers have picked up their second blank score sheet of the season. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY won 1-0 away to ROTHERHAM and that is goal number eight for them while Rotherham picked up their second blank of the season. FOREST GREEN go out of the cup after they drew 0-0 after full time but then lost 5-4 on penalties to Bournemouth. That is Forest Green’s second blank score sheet. NEWCASTLE are also out after they drew 1-1 against LEICESTER CITY but then went out 5-2 on penalties. Newcastle picked up goal number three while Leicester are on four goals.

Goodbye Bury FC

The news of BURY FC being kicked out of the EFL after a takeover bid collapsed is a very sad day for football. Bury are just one of our longest serving teams in league football as they were formed in 1885. They were promoted to League One last season and have won the FA Cup twice. With so many of the small teams now, money is a big problem for them as the sport has change dramatically over the years. The golden days of football seem to be over for these teams as Bolton are now also in financial trouble as the game has changed from a sport to a money making machine. With teams like Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal who can pay out big wages for their players, how is football going to survive in the future for our little clubs. Bury are the first team to drop out of the EFL since Maidstone's liquidation in 1992.

This would have been Burys 8^th Season with Golden Goals as they had been picked up this season by one of our players. They will now have to change Bury for another team.

Bury started in our very first season in 1983/84 on where they finished on a score of 68 goals. They became our 17^th voted English team to play in our competition. Their highest score came in the 2010/11 Season with 85 goals. The last time that we have seen Bury on our pages was back in the 2014/15 Season with 66 goals. Over the years they have netted a total of 471 goals which gave them an average total of 67 goals per season.

Second Round of the Carabao/League Cup

We had the first set of games in the Carabao/League Cup Second Round where we had a total of fifteen of our Golden Goals teams in action. Out of them, only eight have made it through to the third round but the ones out have kept their scoring record intact.

ASTON VILLA picked up the highest score of the night and their highest of the season as they win 6-1 away to Crewe. Villa have now scored in all of their four games and they have a total of 10 goals.  LUTON are through to the next round as they beat CARDIFF 3-0 away. Luton have now scored six goals in their last two games and that result takes their goals tally up to 14. Cardiff picked up their third blank of the season and now two in a row with just two goals in their last four games. FULHAM are out after they lost 1-0 away to Southampton to pick up their second blank of the season. LEEDS UNITED drew 2-2 at home to STOKE CITY but then lost 5-4 on penalties. Leeds have kept their 100% goal scoring record going after seven games and they are now on a total of 15 goals. Stoke take their goals total up to 8. WEST HAM are through as they win 2-0 away to Newport County. West Ham are now on a total of 6 goals. NOTTINGHAM FOREST won 3-0 at home against DERBY and they are now on 12 goals while Derby picked up their second blank of the season. PLYMOUTH lost 4-2 at home to Reading and they are now on a total of 13 goals. PRESTON drew 2-2 at home to Hull before they won 5-4 on penalties. Preston have now scored in all of their last six games and have a total of 16 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED won 2-1 at home to BLACKBURN ROVERS. United are now on 5 goals while Rovers picked up goal number six. MK DONS are through as they win 4-1 away to SOUTHEND to score their highest result to date. The Dons are now on a total of 11 goals while Southend are now on seven.

Week Four

Here we are with Week Four of the competition and this weekend, we had two winners to share the cash of £6.  They both won on a score of 11 goals each. We have now had a total of seven winners to date. Our winner were JAMES SOMERVILLE and JAMES WISE.

James S has been with us for a very long time. Last season he finished in 37^th place on 307 goals. He was our leader for four weeks last season but failed to win any cash. So a good start for him this season and this is his highest position and he has picked up goals in all four weeks to date.

James W has also been with us for a few seasons now. Last season James finished in the winning frame in 27^th place on a total of 313 goals but he had to share the prize money. This week James is also at his highest position and he has also picked up some goals every week. Their teams are

James S  - CELTIC 3, IPSWICH 5, MANCHESTER CITY 3

James W  - IPSWICH 5, LEEDS UTD 3, MANCHESTER CITY 3

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Again this week most of us have picked up some midweek goals for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot worth £30, but there are still nine players who have yet to get any midweek goals.

In the lead this week we have two players again both on 13 goals each. They are JOHN WOOD (Lucifer) and RYAN WILLIAMS. In Second place we have EMMA SAWYER and joining her is SCOTT THOMSON (2) both on 12 goals. In third place this week with 11 goals each we have COLIN WEBB (2) and RICHARD WILLIAMS. We then have a total of 10 players all on 10 goals each.

WEEKEND RESULTS

This weekend we had five teams with no game over the weekend with another fourteen teams that failed to score any goals. So for our weekends average score for the  second weekend running was 6 goals.

The Highest score over the weekend was five goals and they came from IPSWICH from League One. They won 5-0 away to troubled Bolton to pick up their highest result of the season and they are now on a score of 12 goals. They have now scored in all of their six games this season.

Ipswich became our 52^nd voted English team and they started with Golden Goals in the 1988/89 Season where they finished on a total of 64 goals. Ipswich are in their 23^rd Season and their highest score of 94 goals came in the 1997/98 Season and then again in the 2002/03 Season. Last season they finished on a total of 37 goals which is their lowest score to date. Over the years they have netted a total of 1571 goals which gives them an average score of 68 goals per season.They have a total of four votes this season compared to just one last season.

PREMIERSHIP

LIVERPOOL are still top this week after they won 3-1 at home to ARSENAL. Liverpool have won all three league games and they are now on a total of 9 goals. Arsenal are now on 4 goals and down to third place. MANCHESTER CITY are up to second place after they won 3-1 away to Bournemouth and they are now on a total of 10 goals. NEWCASTLE won their first game after they beat TOTTENHAM 1-0 away. Newcastle picked up their second goal of the season while Tottenham picked up their first blank score sheet. WOLVES drew 1-1 at home against Burnley and that is their second goal of the season while MANCHESTER UNITED lost 2-1 at home to Crystal Palace but they are now on 6 goals. LEICESTER CITY won 2-1 away to SHEFFIELD UNITED to take both teams goals total up to three goals each. CHELSEA won 3-2 away to Norwich to pick up their highest score of the season and to bring their goals total up to four. WEST HAM won 3-1 away to Watford and they have taken their goals tally up to 4 with their biggest win to date.

CHAMPIONSHIP

LEEDS UNITED are top again this weekend after they won their fourth out of five league games. They won 3-0 away to STOKE. Leeds are now on a total of 13 goals and  have scored in all of their six games this season. Stoke after a goal run of five games, picked up their first blank of the season and they are bottom of the league. BIRMINGHAM picked up their third blank of the season after they lost 3-0 away to Swansea. LUTON picked up another three goals in their 3-1 away win over BARNSLEY. Luton are now on 11 goals while Barnsley hit goal number four. BLACKBURN drew 0-0 ar home to CARDIFF. Both teams picked up their second blank score sheet of the season. BRENTFORD lost 1-0 away to Charlton and that is their third blank score sheet and now two in a row. DERBY drew 1-1 at home to WEST BROM and they are now on 7 goals while West Brom are on 8 goals and keep their goals record intact after six games. NOTTINGHAM FOREST won 2-1 away to FULHAM and both teams are now on 9 goals each. HUDDERSFIELD lost 2-0 at home to Reading to pick up their second blank of the season. MIDDLESBROUGH drew 1-1 at home to Millwall and that is goal number seven for them.  PRESTON are now on 14 goals as they win 2-1 at home to SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY who are now on 7 goals. QUEENS PARK RANGERS went a goal down against Wigan but came back to win 3-1 at home. Rangers have taken their goals total up to 10 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

After their big win, Ipswich are top this weekend with BLACKPOOL still in second place after they drew 0-0 away to Rochdale. After a goal run of five games, Blackpool pick up their first blank of the season. DONCASTER are now on 7 goals as they win 2-1 at home to LINCOLN CITY who scored goal number 11 but they have kept their goal scoring run to six games. ACCRINGTON STANLEY lost 2-0 away to Fleetwood to pick up their second blank of the season. PETERBOROUGH picked up their biggest score of the season as they thumbed MK DONS 4-0 away. Borough are now on 9 goals while the Dons picked up their first blank of the season. SUNDERLAND have now scored in all of their six games as they win 3-1 at home to AFC Wimbledon. Sunderland are now on 12 goals. After a two game dry spell for goals, SOUTHEND are now on 6 goals after they lost 4-3 away to Wycombe.

LEAGUE TWO

PLYMOUTH are our highest here in second place after they won 3-0 at home against Walsall. Plymouth are now on 11 goals this week. FOREST GREEN are down to third place as they won 1-0 away to BRADFORD CITY. Forest are now on a total of 5 goals while Bradford picked up their third blank of the season. After a tow game dry spell, OLDHAM are now on 5 goals after they won 2-1 away to Cambridge Utd. SALFORD CITY drew 2-2 away to Carlisle and they are now on 7 goals. LEYTON ORIENT have now scored five goals in their last two games as they lost 3-2 at home to Crawley. Orient are now on a total of 6 goals. SCUNTHORPE lost 1-0 away to Macclesfield and that is their third blank of the season. After a goal run of five games, MANSFIELD picked up their first blank after they drew 0-0 at home to Stevenage.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership, we had all three of our premiership teams playing with CELTIC top as they win 3-1 at home against HEARTS. Celtic keep their 100% scoring record after four games with 17 goals. Hearts are now on 11 goals. RANGERS are in second place after they won 1-0 away to St Mirren. Rangers also have a 100% scoring record after four games and they are now on 12 goals.

In League One, FALKIRK are down to second place here after they lost 1-0 away to Clyde. That was Falkirk’s second blank score sheet of the season. PETERHEAD won 1-0 at home against Forfar and they are now on a total of 7 goals.  

In League Two, new boys COVE RANGERS are still sitting on top of the league after winning their third league game of the season.They won 2-1 away to Stirling and they are now on a total of 20 goals and they have now scored in all of their last six games. STENHOUSEMUIR lost 3-1 at home to Edinburgh City and they are now on 9 goals and they have also scored in all of their last six games.

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

COVE RANGERS (20) CELTIC (17) PRESTON (14) Total of 51 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

EVERTON (1) WOLVES (2) NEWCASTLE (2) Total of 5 goals

 Our Best team is COVE RANGERS after scoring in all of their last six of their League/Cup games with a total of 20 goals.

Our worst team is EVERTON this weekend as they have picked up just one goal in three games played.

Our highest goal scorers in our 37^th Season are CELTIC who won 7-0 against St Johnstone in their first league game in Week One.  

GUY DOWSETT is now in his fourth weekend at the top after picking up eight goals all coming from the weekend once again. Guy’s teams are Celtic, Cove Rangers and Manchester City. Guy is now six goals in front of Cliff Bambridge in second place for his fourth week running. Cliff has Celtic, Falkirk and Manchester City.

At the other end at 123 we have Jacqui Williams with her third weekend there. Jacqui picked up six goals from her teams of Arsenal, Chelsea and Leicester City.

Here are our top ten for this weekend.

             THIS      LAST                                               M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

     WEEK     WEEK             NAME                      GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

          1            -                  G. DOWSETT                6                    41                  47

           2                 -                 C. BAMBRIDGE           6                    35                  41

           3                 4                D. GOODSON               4                    36                  40

           4                 19              J. SOMERVILLE         3                    36                  39

           5                 8                R. HARRINGTON         5                    34                  39

           6                 7                S. PERFECT                   8                    31                  39

           7                 3                S. THOMSON (1)           2                    36                  38 

           8                 11              F. CARTHY                    4                    34                  38

           9                 6                B. SAWYER                   6                    32                  38

            10              5                D. NICHOLLS               4                    33                  37 

Villa's First Points

In the English Prem, ASTON VILLA have won their first league game of the season as they beat EVERTON 2-0 at home. With their biggest score of the season to date, Villa have taken their goals total up to four. Everton have now had two blank score sheet in their three league games played.

Fulham Have a Great Night

In the English Championship, The highest score of the night and in fact of the week so far, is when FULHAM won 4-0 at home to Millwall. They have now doubled their goals total to 8 goals with their highest score to date. CARDIFF won 2-1 at home against HUDDERSFIELD and they are now on 6 goals to Huddersfield’s total of four. NOTTINGHAM FOREST picked up their 7^th goal of the season as they drew 1-1 away to Charlton. Forest have scored in all of their five games. LEEDS UNITED have also kept their goal record going after five games as they win 1-0 at home to BRENTFORD. Leeds are now on a total of 10 goals while Brentford picked up their second blank score sheet. PRESTON won 3-1 at home to STOKE and they are now on a total of 12 goals to Stokes 5 goals but they have now scored in all of their five games played. QUEENS PARK RANGERS lost 3-1 at home to Swansea and that is their 7^th goal of the season. WEST BROM came back from being a goal down to draw 1-1 at home against Reading. West Brom have kept their goals record intact and they are now on a total of 7 goals after five games.

Busy Night For Golden Goals

We had a very busy night here at Golden Goals as most of our lower English league teams were in action.

In the Championship, BIRMINGHAM picked up their highest result to date as they win 2-0 at home to BARNSLEY. Birmingham have doubled their goals tally to four. Barnsley picked up their third blank score sheet and now just two goals in their last four games. DERBY lost 2-1 at home to Bristol City but they are now on a total of 6 goals. BLACKBURN ROVERS are also on 6 goals as they win 1-0 away to Hull. MIDDLESBROUGH are also on 6 goals now after they won 1-0 at home to Wigan. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY won 1-0 at home to LUTON and they are now on 6 goals while Luton picked up their first blank of the season.

In League One, ACCRINGTON STANLEY picked up their highest number of goals but lost 3-2 at home against Shrewsbury. Accrington are now on a total of 4 goals. BLACKPOOL drew 2-2 away to Gillingham and that now gives them a total of 11 goals and their 100% scoring record moves up to five games. IPSWICH have also scored in all of their five games this season after they won 2-1 at home to AFC Wimbledon. MK DONS won 2-1 at home to LINCOLN CITY. The Dons have scored in all of their four games and they are now on 7 goals while Lincoln hit goal number 10 and a goal run of five games. PORTSMOUTH drew 3-3 at home against Coventry and they are now on a total of 9 goals. SUNDERLAND have now scored in all of their five games played after they won 2-1 away to Rochdale. Sunderland are now on a total of 9 goals. PETERBOROUGH won 2-0 away to SOUTHEND. Borough are now on a total of five goals while Southend picked up their third blank and now two in a row.

In League Two, SCUNTHORPE lost 3-2 away to Cambridge Utd and they are now on a total of 5 goals while after three straight blank score sheets, LEYTON ORIENT have picked up their highest result by winning 3-2 away to MANSFIELD. Mansfield have now scored in all of their five games played and they are now on a total of 10 goals. OLDHAM picked up their third blank score sheet and now two in a row as they drew 0-0 at home to Exeter. PLYMOUTH drew 2-2 at home to SALFORD CITY and they are now on 8 goals to Salford’s five. FOREST GREEN picked up their fourth goal of the season as they lost 2-1 away to Port Vale. BRADFORD CITY won 1-0 away to Stevenage and that is their fifth goal of the season.

Wolves First Goal

In the English Premiership, WOLVES drew 1-1 at home against MANCHESTER UNITED. As Wolves pick up their first goal of the season, United take their goals total up to 5 goals and they are now in fourth place in the league.

Week Three

Here we are with Week Three of the competition and this weekend, we had a total of three winners to share the cash of £6.  They all won on a score of 8 goals each which is the lowest of the season. We have now had a total of five winners to date.

Our winner was GRANT PHILLIPS, SCOTT THOMSON (1) and DAVID SOMERVILLE.

Grant has been with us for eight seasons now as he started with us back in the 2012/13 Season where he finished in the winning frame in 10^th place on a total of 295 goals.With three weekend wins, Grant won over £21 in cash. Last season he finished in 79^th place on 280 goals.

Scott has been with us even longer as he started with Golden Goals in the 2006/07 Season where he finished in the winning frame in 17^th place with a total of 261 goals. He won just over £7 in cash. Last season Scott had two combinations. His first finished in 76^th place on 282 goals while his second did better and finished in 43^rd place on 305 goals.

David can do even better and that as he started with us back in the 1995/96 Season. He had to wait till 2009/10 before he became our 27^th Champion by winning on a total of 332 goals. He currently is sixth in the Champions League. Last season he finished in 5^th place taking home a total of £33 in cash including one weekend win. He finished with a total of 327 goals.

All of our three winners are at their highest position to date. Their teams are

Grant -BRADFORD CITY 3, LIVERPOOL 2, RANGERS 3

Scott -CELTIC 2, LINCOLN CITY 4, MANCHESTER CITY 2

David -MANCHESTER CITY 2, NOTTINGHAM FOREST 3, RANGERS 3

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

In Week three most of us have picked up some midweek goals for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot worth £30. The prize money will go to the first person to reach 100 goals from their three teams.

Taking the lead after three weeks of football we have two at the moment both on 10 goals each. They are MICHAEL FISHER and RYAN WILLIAMS. In Second place we have GRAHAM HARRIS, LUCIFER and EMMA SAWYER all with 8 goals each while in third place with 7 goals each we have a total of nine players. They are TOBY BICKNELL, MARTIN CORBETT, SIMON DICKINSON, PETER GASPARELLI, MIKE HARRINGTON, SIMON PERFECT, ADAM SANSOM, JED WEARDEN and PETER WELLARD. We then have a total of 12 players all on 6 goals each.

WEEKEND RESULTS

With our second full weekend fixture we had another fantastic week. We had five teams with no game over the weekend with another nine teams that failed to score any goals. So for our weekends average score was down to 6 goals.

The Highest score over the weekend was four goals and they came from LINCOLN CITY from League One. With their highest score of the season they beat SOUTHEND UNITED 4-0 at home. After four games they have kept their 100% scoring record going. They are now on a total of 9 goals. Southend picked up their second blank of the season.

Lincoln City became our 70^th voted English team and they started with Golden Goals back in the 1988/89 Season where they finished on a score of 71 goals. This is their seventh season with us and they have been in all of the last three seasons. Their biggest score came last season when they netted a total of 84 goals. Over the seasons they have netted a total of 441 goals which gives them an average score of 63 goals per season to date.

PREMIERSHIP

So the Premiership played their second league game of the season and all of them scored goals, but we still are having goals cancelled due to VAR again this week. LIVERPOOL are top this week after they won 2-1 away to Southampton. Liverpool are now on a total of 6 goals. ARSENAL are now in second place after they won 2-1 at home against Burnley. Arsenal are now on 3 goals. MANCESTER CITY are down to third place after they drew 2-2 at home to TOTTENHAM. City are now on 7 goals while Tottenham are on five. SHEFFIELD UNITED won their first game after they beat Crystal Palace 1-0 at home. United are on 2 goals. EVERTON get their first goal of the season by winning 1-0 at home to Watford. LEICESTER CITY drew 1-1 away to CHELSEA for both teams to pick up their first goals of the season. WEST HAM drew 1-1 against Brighton away and that was their first goal of the season. ASTON VILLA lost 2-1 at home to Bourenmouth but it’s their second goal of the season. NEWCASTLE lost 3-1 away to Norwich to pick up their first goal.

CHAMPIONSHIP

LEEDS UNITED are top this weekend after they won 2-0 away to Wigan. Leeds are now on a total of 9 goals and  have scored in all of their four games this season. After a two game dry spell for goals, BARNSLEY drew 2-2 at home to Charlton and that now gives them a total of 3 goals. BLACKBURN ROVERS are now on 5 goals as they win 1-0 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH who picked up their second blank of the season. BRENTFORD drew 1-1 at home to Hull and that is their third goal of the season. QUEENS PARK RANGERS picked up their first blank score sheet after a run of three games as they lost 2-0 away to Bristol City. WEST BROM keep their 100% goals record intact as they win 2-1 away to LUTON. West Brom are now on 6 goals after four games while Luton are now on 8 goals. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY picked up their first blank score sheet after they lost 1-0 away to Millwall. NOTTINGHAM FOREST have picked up their highest score to date by winning 3-0 at home against BIRMINGHAM. Forest have scored in all of their four games and are now on 6 goals while Birmingham picked up their second blank of the season. Both STOKE and DERBY are on 5 goals each after they drew 2-2. PRESTON are on 9 goals but lost 3-2 away to Swansea. CARDIFF lost 3-0 away to Reading and that is their first blank score sheet of the season.

LEAGUE ONE

Lincoln City are top here with their third win of the season with BLACKPOOL down to second place after they won 2-1 at home to Oxford Utd. ACCRINGTON STANLEY drew 1-1 away to AFC Wimbledon to pick up their second goal of the season. ROTHERHAM won 1-0 away to Burton Albion and they are now on a total of 7 goals. DONCASTER picked up their highest result so far as they win 3-2 at home to Fleetwood. After a run of two games with out a goal, PETERBOROUGH drew 2-2 at home to IPSWICH and they are now on 3 goals to Ipswich’s five. SUNDERLAND keep their 100% goal record going after they won 2-1 at home to PORTSMOUTH. Sunderland are now on 7 goals to Portsmouths six. MK DONS are on 5 goals after they lost 3-2 away to Wycombe.

LEAGUE TWO

FOREST GREEN are our highest here in third place after they won 1-0 at home against Grimsby. BRADFORD picked up their highest score to date as they win 3-0 at home against OLDHAM. Bradford are now on 4 goals while Oldham picked up their second blank of the season. MANSFIELD won 2-0 away to Carlisle and they are now on 8 goals. LEYTON ORIENT drew 0-0 at home to Stevenage and that is their third blank of the season and now three in a row. PLYMOUTH picked up their first blank of the season after they lost 1-0 away to Newport. After a run of two games with out a goal, new boys SALFORD CITY drew 1-1 at home to Port Vale. Salford are now on 3 goals. SCUNTHORPE drew 2-2 at home to Crawley and they are now on 3 goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Scottish Betfred Cup Second Round, we had all three of our premiership teams playing in this round and they have all made it through to the next round. We already know about Hearts win played on Friday night but CELTIC had a narrow escape as they won 2-1 at home after extra time against Dunfermline. Celtic keep their 100% scoring record after three games with 14 goals. RANGERS had a comfortable win against East Fife with a 3-0 away win. Rangers also have a 100% scoring record after three games and they are now on 11 goals.

In League One, FALKIRK are now top here after they won 2-1 at home to Montrose. Falkirk are now on a total of 14 goals. PETERHEAD lost 3-2 away to Dumbarton and they are now on a total of 6 goals.  

In League Two, new boys COVE RANGERS are still sitting on top of the league after they won 3-2 at home to Cowdenbeath.  Cove have now scored in all of their last five games and have a total of 18 goals.  STENHOUSEMUIR won 1-0 away to Elgin and they are now on 8 goals and they have also scored in all of their last five games.

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

COVE RANGERS (18) CELTIC (14) FALKIRK (14) Total of 46 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

WOLVES (0) LEYTON ORIENT (1) CHELSEA (1) Total of 2 goals

Our Best team is CELTIC after scoring in all three of their League/Cup games with a total of 14 goals.

Our worst team is LEYTON ORIENT this weekend as they have picked up three consecutive blank score sheets after just four games played.

Our highest goal scorers in our 37^th Season are CELTIC who won 7-0 against St Johnstone in their first league game in Week One.  

GUY DOWSETT is in his third weekend at the top after picking up seven goals all coming from the weekend once again. Guy’s teams are Celtic, Cove Rangers and Manchester City. Guy is now four goals in front of Cliff Bambridge in second place for his third week running. Cliff has Celtic, Falkirk and Manchester City.

At the other end at 123 we have Jacqui Williams with her second weekend there. Jacqui picked up just four goals with her teams of Arsenal, Chelsea and Leicester City.

Well here are our top ten for this week.

        THIS      LAST                                                   M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

        WEEK     WEEK             NAME                          GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

            1            -                  G. DOWSETT                     6                    33                  39

             2                 -                 C. BAMBRIDGE                6                    29                  35

             3                 9                S. THOMSON (1)              1                    29                  30

             4                 6                D. GOODSON                     3                    27                  30

             5                 7                D. NICHOLLS                     2                    27                  29

             6                 10              B. SAWYER                        6                    23                  29

             7                 17              S. PERFECT                        7                    22                  29

             8                 22              R. HARRINGTON              3                    25                  28

             9                 18              C. BOLBERY (2017/18)     4                    24                  28

              10              15              K. STRATTON (2018/19)   1                    26                  27

Hearts Through to Next Round

In the Scottish Betfred Cup Second Round, HEARTS are through to the next round after they won 2-1 away to Motherwell. Hearts are now on a total of 10 goals.

In the English Championship, FULHAM won 2-1 away to HUDDERSFIELD and that takes their goals total 4 while Huddersfield hit goal number three.

Carabao Cup First Round

In the first round of the Carabao/League Cup, we already know that Portsmouth are through to the next round, but who is going to join them. Well we had a total of thirty-one of our teams in action but only half have made it through to the second round.

SUNDERLAND are one of them as they beat ACCRINGTON STANLEY 3-1 away. With their biggest score to date, Sunderland are now on a total of 5 goals while Accrington are out after picking up their first goal of the season. BLACKBURN ROVERS are through as they win 3-2 at home against OLDHAM. Rovers take their goals total up to four goals while Oldham are now on 3. PRESTON won 4-0 away to BRADFORD . Preston with their highest score to date are now on a total of 7 goals. Bradford picked up their second blank out of three games played. LINCOLN CITY won 1-0 away to HUDDERSFIELD and that is their fifth goal of the season as Huddersfield picked up their first blank score sheet. NOTTINGHAM FOREST won 1-0 at home to Fleetwood. Forest have played three games and scored three goals. LEEDS UTD won 3-0 away to SALFORD CITY to take their goals total up to seven while Salford picked up their second blank score sheet in a row. DERBY won 1-0 away to SCUNTHORPE with a very late goal. Derby are on 3 goals while Scunthorpe picked up their second blank score sheet after three games. ROTHERHAM scored their highest result of the season as they win 4-0 away to Shrewsbury. Rotherham have taken their goals total up to 6 goals. STOKE won 1-0 away to Wigan and that is now three goals in three games. MK DONS are through after they drew 2-2 against AFC Wimbledon and then won 4-2 on penalties to go through to round two. The Dons are now on a total of 3 goals. FOREST GREEN drew 0-0 away to Charlton but went on to win 5-3 on penalties. Forest Green picked up their first blank of the season. LUTON won 3-1 at home to IPSWICH and they are now on a total of 7 goals to Ipswich three. PLYMOUTH won 2-0 at home to LEYTON ORIENT and they are now on 6 goals while Orient picked up their second blank score sheet in a row. QUEENS PARK RANGERS drew 3-3 after the full 90 minutes and then went on to win 5-4 in penalties against Bristol City. With their highest score of the season to date, rangers are now on a total of 6 goals. SOUTHEND won 2-1 away to Stevenage and they are now on 3 goals.

The other teams that went out are BARNSLEY after they lost 3-0 at home to Carlisle to pick up their second blank in a row. BLACKPOOL drew 2-2 at home to Macclesfield but then lost 4-2 on penalties. But Blackpool are now on a total of 7 goals. DONCASTER are out after they lost 1-0 away to Grimsby to pick up their first blank of the season. MANSFIELD drew 2-2 against Morecombe but then lost 6-5 on penalties. Mansfield are now on a total of 6 goals. MIDDLESBROUGH drew 2-2 against Crewe and then lost 4-2 on penalties. Brough are now on a total of 5 goals. BRENTFORD drew 1-1 at home to Cambridge Utd but then lost 5-4 on penalties. Brentford’s goal gives them a total of two goals in three games. PETERBOROUGH picked up their second blank score sheet after they lost 1-0 away to Oxford Utd. WEST BROM lost 2-1 at home to Millwall to pick up goal number four.

Please remember that Penalty Shoot-Outs do not count.

Week Two

Here we are with Week Two of the competition and this weekend, we had our second winner of the season who won on a score of 16 goals. Our winner was CLIFF BAMBRIDGE and collects the full £6 cash prize money.

Cliff has been with us for four seasons now as he started in the 2016/17 Season. Last season he finished in 8th place with a total of 325 goals. With one shared weekend win, Cliff won £22 in cash. Cliff  has started off  this season in great style and with the highest weekend score so far for this season. His teams are

CELTIC 5, FALKIRK 6, MANCHESTER CITY 5

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 two weeks of football we have three at the moment all with 7 goals each. They are TOBY BICKNELL, MICHAEL FISHER and JED WEARDEN. In Second place we have CLIFF BAMBRIDGE, GUY DOWSETT and GRAHAM HARRIS all with 6 goals each while in third place with 4 goals each we have a total of 36 players.

WEEKEND RESULTS

So we had our very first full weekend fixture and what a fantastic start to the season. We had just three teams with no game over the weekend with another fifteen teams that failed to score any goals. So for our very first weekend the average score was a massive 8 goals. So if your combination picked up more than that, then you have done very well this week.

The Highest score over the weekend was six goals and we had two of our teams that reached that figure. They were RANGERS from the Scottish Premiership where they won 6-1 at home to Hibernian. Rangers have scored in both of their league games to date and they are now on a total of 8 goals. They have a total of 35 votes. FALKIRK from the Scottish League One won 6-0 at home to Dumbarton to pick up their highest score of the season. Falkirk are now on a total of 12 goals. They have just one vote this season.

The premiership for the very first time is using the “VAR” and it has already been controversial. We first saw this in the World Cup 2018 and it was criticized for the confusion it caused then within stadiums and the time it took to make decisions at this year’s Women's World Cup.

The Premier League has vowed to ensure its use would have minimum impact on the game. That was certainly true at Anfield on Friday night, where its use did not disrupt the flow of the game. But I can see this affecting our top team’s goals totals this year with Manchester City already having a goal disallowed against West Ham on Saturday match and a few others results have now been affected by the VAR.

PREMIERSHIP

So the Premiership played their first league game of the season and most of them had a great start. MANCHESTER CITY went straight to the top of the league after they won 5-0 away to WEST HAM. MANCESTER UNITED are in second place after they won 4-0 at home to CHELSEA. Liverpool are in third place after their Friday game.

ARSENAL picked up their first goal as they win 1-0 away to NEWCASTLE. LEICESTER CITY drew 0-0 at home to WOLVES while SHEFFIELD UNITED drew 1-1 away to Bournemouth. EVERTON drew 0-0 away to Crystal palace. TOTTENHAM won 3-1 at home against ASTON VILLA.

CHAMPIONSHIP

After two games now SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY are top after they win their second game 2-0 at home against BARNSLEY. Wednesday are now on a total of 5 goals while Barnsley picked up their first blank of the season. LEEDS UNITED are in third place after they drew 1-1 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST. Leeds are now on 4 goals to Forest’s 2. BIRMINGHAM drew 1-1 at home to Bristol City to pick up goal number 2. CARDIFF won 2-1 at home to LUTON both teams are on 4 goals each. STOKE lost 3-1 away to Charlton and they are now on 2 goals. DERBY picked up their first blank score sheet after they drew 0-0 at home against Swansea. FULHAM picked up their first goals of the season by winning 2-0 at home to BLACKBURN who picked up their first blank score sheet. BRENTFORD won 1-0 away to MIDDLESBROUGH to pick up their first goals while Brough picked up their first blank sheet. PRESTON picked up their first goals with a 3-0 home win against Wigan. QUEENS PARK RANGERS drew 1-1 at home to HUDDERSFIELD and Rangers are now on 3 goals to Huddersfield’s 2. WEST BROM drew 1-1 at home to Millwall and that was their third goal of the season.

LEAGUE ONE

BLACKPOOL are top here with their second win of the season as they win 3-1 away to SOUTHEND. With their biggest win of the season they are now on 5 goals while Southend hit their first goal of the season. LINCOLN CITY are in second place and they have won both games as they win 2-0 away to ROTHERHAM. Lincoln are now on 4 goals while Rotherham picked up their first blank score sheet. IPSWICH drew 1-1 at home to SUNDERLAND and both teams are now on 2 goals each. MK DONS have played their first game and they won 1-0 at home to Shrewsbury. It’s their first blank score sheet as PETERBOROUGH lost 1-0 away to Oxford Utd. PORTSMOUTH won 2-0 at home to Tranmere and they are now on a total of 5 goals. DONCASTER drew 1-1 away to Rochdale and they are now on 2 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

PLYMOUTH are top here as they win their second game of the season with a 1-0 win over Colchester at home. Plymouth are now on 4 goals. SCUNTHORPE picked up their first goal of the season but lost 4-1 away to Cheltenham. New boys SALFIRD CITY lost their second game 2-0 away to Crawley to pick up their first blank score sheet. BRADFORD drew

1-1 away to Grimsby to pick up their first goal of the season. LEYTON ORIENT picked up their first blank score sheet as they lost 3-0 away to Macclesfield. MANSFIELD drew 2-2 at home to Morecombe and they are now on 4 goals. OLDHAM get their first goal of the season but lost 2-1 at home to Crewe. FOREST GREEN drew 1-1 away to Walsall and they are now on 2 goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Scottish Premiership, CELTIC are still top after they won their second league game 5-2 away to Motherwell. Celtic are now on a total of 12 goals. Just to give you some idea how Celtic are doing, in the first nine league/cup games played last season, they were only on a total of eleven goals. Rangers are in second place. HEARTS drew 0-0 at home to Ross County to pick up their first blank of the season after a goal run of five games.

In League One, FALKIRK have moved up to third place after their big win on Saturday. PETERHEAD drew 1-1 away to East Fife and they are now on a total of 4 goals.  

In League Two, New boys COVE RANGERS are sitting on top of the league after they drew 4-4 away to Albion and they have now scored in all of their last four games and have a total of 15 goals.  STENHOUSEMUIR drew 1-1 away to Queen’s Park and they are now on 7 goals and they have also scored in all of their last four games.

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

COVE RANGERS (15) CELTIC (12) FALKIRK (12) Total of 39 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

ACCRINGTON STANLEY (0) CHELSEA (0) EVERTON (0) Total of 0 goals

Our Best team is CELTIC after scoring in both of their League games with a total of 12 goals.

Our worst team is PETERHEAD this weekend as they have picked up three blank score sheets in six games played.

Our highest goal scorers in our 37^th Season are CELTIC who won 7-0 against St Johnstone in their first league game in Week One.  

GUY DOWSETT is still at the top this weekend after picking up fourteen goals all coming from the weekend. Guy’s teams are Celtic, Ccove Rangers and Manchester City. Guy is now just three goals in front of Cliff Bambridge.

At the other end at 123 we have Jacqui Willimas this week with just one goal. Jacqui has Arsenal, Chelsea and Leicester City.

So this is how the top ten looks this week

        THIS      LAST                                               M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

        WEEK     WEEK             NAME                      GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

             1            -                  G. DOWSETT                6                    26                  32

              2                 -                 C. BAMBRIDGE          6                    23                  29

               3                 47              I. SMITH                        3                    19                  22

              4                 3                F. CARTHY                                           21                  21

              5                 35              C. DICKER                                           21                  21

              6                 5                D. GOODSON                                      21                  21

              7                 12              D. NICHOLLS                                      21                  21                

              8                 15              M. STUBBS                                          21                  21

              9                 16              S. THOMSON (1)                                 21                  21

               10              8                B. SAWYER                   3                    18                  21