Monday, 9 March 2020

Week Thirty-Two

In Week Thirty-Two of the competition and we had just one player to pick up the Cash Prize Money of £6. They become our thirty-fifth winner of the season with a score of 11 goals. Our winner was DOUG MORBEY.
Doug has been with the competition for a total of thirty years and I would like to thank him for his support over the seasons. Doug’s very first season was back in the 1990/91 where he finished in 33rd place out of 52, on a total of 231 goals. Last season he finished in 96th place with a total of  267 goals but he did pick up one weekend win. This season Doug has been as high as 14th place in Week Nineteen. He has had a total of three blank score sheets and this is his personal highest score of the season. His best team is Celtic. Here are our winners combination

CELTIC 5, CHELSEA 4, LIVERPOOL 2

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
Most of us managed to pick up some more goals this week and we had four players that picked up the most amount of goals with six each. There are now just seven players to reach the half way mark of 50 or more midweek goals this week.
This week we still have ANDY EYLES leading with a new total of 92 goals and now needs just eight goals for the cash. Andy has Celtic, Fulham and Liverpool. In second place with 91 goals we still have TOBY BICKNELL. In third place is still MATT DORAN with a total of 88 goals. In fourth place we still have PATRICK O’DONAGHUE but he is now with A&A. CLARK who has moved up from fifth place. They both have a total of 86 goals. In fifth place all coming back in the race, we have BARBARA BARNES (1) IAN SMITH and DAVE WOOD all with a total of 85 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS
We had just three of our teams without a game and another eighteen that failed to score any goals. It’ not good news once again this weekend as the average score has only moved back up from three from last weekend, back to 4 goals this weekend. We had just two players that failed to pick up any goals this weekend.
The highest score that we had this weekend was five goals and we had three of our teams that picked them up. They are BRENTFORD, CELTIC and STOKE  CITY.  

PREMIER LEAGUE
The Champions LIVERPOOL after two games without a goal, won 2-1 at home to Bournemouth after going a goal down in the first half. Liverpool are now on a total of 77 goals. They are still top and are now twenty-five points in front of MANCHESTER CITY in second place, who lost 1-0 away to rivals MANCHESTER UNITED. That is City’s fourth blank of the season. United are now on 62 goals and are now in fifth place. In third place we still have Leicester City who had no game once again. CHELSEA are still in fourth place they won 4-0 at home to EVERTON. Chelsea have taken their total up to 65 goals while Everton picked up their eight blank score sheet after a goal run of seven games. ARSENAL won 1-0 at home to London rivals WEST HAM and that is their 55th goal of the season while West Ham picked up their eleventh blank of the season. TOTTENHAM drew 1-1 away to Burnley after going a goal down and that is their 55th goals and they have now scored in all of their last nine games. SHEFFIELD UNITED won 1-0 at home to bottom of the table Norwich and they are now on a total of 38 goals. NEWCASTLE won 1-0 away to Southampton and they are now on 37 goals.
WOLVES picked up their seventh blank score sheet of the season as they drew 0-0 at home to Brighton.

CHAMPIONSHIP
LEEDS UNITED are back at the top after they won 2-0 at home to HUDDERSFIELD. Leeds are now on a total of 61 goals while Huddersfield picked up their tenth blank score sheet of the season. One point behind Leeds are WEST BROM who drew 0-0 away to Swansea. West Brom have now had a total of five blank score sheets.
In the Play-Offs, we still have all four teams with FULHAM still in third place after they drew 1-1 away to Bristol City. Fulham are now on a total of 54 goals. BRENTFORD have moved up to fourth place after they won 5-0 at home against SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY. Brentford have taken their goals tally up to 66 goals and they have now scored in all of their last eight games. Wednesday picked up their eleventh blank score sheet and now two in a row. Nottingham Forest go down to fifth place this week with PRESTON still in sixth place, as they lost 3-1 away to QUEENS PARK RANGERS after going a goal up. Preston after a two game dry spell for goals are now on 58. Ranger stake their goals total up to 67.
Meanwhile bottom of the table BARNSLEY lost 2-0 at home to CARDIFF and picked up their thirteenth blank score sheet and now two in a row. Cardiff are now on a total of 62 goals. BIRMINGHAM after going a goal up,lost 3-1 at home to Reading. Birmingham hit goal number 52. MIDDLESBROUGH picked up goal number 41 as they win 1-0 away to Charlton. STOKE won 5-1 at home to Hull and that has shot their goals total up to 53. LUTON drew 0-0 away to Wigan and that is their thirteenth blank of the season. DERBY won 3-0 at home against BLACKBURN ROVERS.  Derby are now on a total of 55 goals while Rovers picked up their seventh blank score sheet.

LEAGUE ONE
ROTHERHAM are still our best team here in second place after they lost 3-1 away to Rochdale. Rotherham are now on a total of 74 goals and they have now scored in all of their last seventeen games.
In the Play-Offs, we now have three of the four teams with PETERBOROUGH in fourth place after they won 2-0 at home to PORTSMOUTH now in sixth place. Borough are now on a total of 76 goals and they have now scored in all of their last nine games. Portsmouth picked up their ninth blank score sheet and now two in a row. SUNDERLAND remain in fifth place after they drew 2-2 at home to Gillingham. Sunderland are now on a total of 57 goals.
Meanwhile ACCRINGTON STANLEY lost 2-1 at home to Tranmere and that is goal number 42 for them after a two game dry spell. BLACKPOOL drew 0-0 away to Fleetwood and that is their tenth blank of the season. IPSWICH picked up their thirteenth blank and now two in a row after they lost 1-0 away to leaders Coventry. LINCOLN CITY won 3-2 at home to Burton and they are now on a total of 48 goals. MK DONS lost 1-0 at home to DONCASTER and that is their fourteenth blank score sheet after a goal run of seven games. Doncaster picked up goal number 54. SOUTHEND won 3-1 at home to Bristol Rovers and they are now on a total of 42 goals.

LEAGUE TWO
PLYMOUTH have moved up to third place after they won 3-0 at home to Macclesfield. Plymouth have taken their goals tally to 67. We do not have any teams in the Play-Offs  this week.
Meanwhile OLDHAM picked up their thirteenth blank of the season as they lost 1-0 away to Crawley. LEYTON ORIENT are now on 48 goals as they win 2-1 at home against Cambridge Utd. MANSFIELD won 2-1 away to Northampton and they are now on 51 goals. SALFORD CITY are now on 51 goals as they win 2-0 at home to BRADFORD. Bradford picked up their tenth blank score sheet. SCUNTHORPE lost 2-0 at home to Grimsby and that is their twelfth blank score sheet and now two in a row. FOREST GREEN won 2-0 away to Swindon and they are now on a total of 49 goals. 

SCOTTISH RESULTS
In the Premiership, Champions CELTIC won 5-0 at home to St Mirren and they are now on a total of 108 goals and have now extended their goal run to twenty-seven games. RANGERS won 1-0 away to Ross County and that is their 77th goal of the season after failing to score in their last two games. Rangers are now thirteen points behind their rivals Celtic. HEARTS drew 1-1 at home to Motherwell. Hearts remain bottom of the league with a total of 48 goals.
In League One, RAITH ROVERS are still top after they won 2-1 at home against Forfar. Raith are now on a total of 55 goals. Still just one point behind them is FALKIRK who also won 3-0 at home to PETERHEAD. Falkirk are now on a total of 66 goals while Peterhead picked up their eleventh blank of the season and now just one goal in their last four games.
In League Two, COVE RANGERS are still top here and still ten points clear after they won 3-2 at home against Brechin. Rangers are now on a total of 75 goals. STENHOUSEMUIR drew 0-0 at home to Queen’s park and that is now their ninth blank of the season and now three in a row.

Our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals are

CELTIC (108) MANCHESTER CITY (91) LIVERPOOL (77) Total of 276 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

PETERHEAD (33) STENHOUSEMUIR (36) NEWCASTLE (37) Total of 106 goals

Our on form team this weekend is once again CELTIC after they have scored in all of their last twenty-seven games. They have a total of 108 goals which still gives them an average score of 2.9 goals per game.

Our worst team this week are MK DONS. They have picked up a total of fourteen blank score sheets out of thirty-nine games played. They have a total of 42 goals and two votes.

Our highest goal scorers in our 37th Season is still LEICESTER CITY from Week Thirteen after they won 9-0 away to Southampton in the league.  

BRADLEY CLARK has remained at the top for his second consecutive weekend and now five over the season. Bradley picked up a total of ten goals this week from his combination of  Celtic, Liverpool and Manchester City.
There is more good news for Bradley this week as he moves up our Champions league once more. He has now moved up to 33rd place beating Robert Hough and Geoff Dockerill's score of 274 goals from the 1990/91 and 1994/95 Seasons. He has also moved above Mike Harringtons/ David Salmon’s joint score of 276.
Mike Liddle remains in second place after he also picked up ten goals for the week. Mikes teams are Celtic, Manchester City and Peterborough.
At the other end at 123 The SAINT has remained at the bottom, as he picks up a total of  three goals again this week. This now means that The Saint has been at the bottom for a total of twenty-five weeks. His teams are Barnsley, Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday.

This is how the top ten looks this weekend.

    THIS      LAST                                                    M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL
   WEEK     WEEK             NAME                           GOALS         GOALS        GOALS
                                                                                                                
        1            -                  B. CLARK                            84                192               276
        2                 -                 M. LIDDLE                          75                200               275              
        3                 4                G. DOWSETT                       63                211               274
        4                 3                C. BOLBERY (2017/18)       74                199               273 
        5                 -                 B. BARNES (1)                    85                184               269 
        6                 -                 K. STRATTON (2018/19)    75                193               268 
        7                 9                F. CARTHY                          77                190               267 
       8                 -                 C. BAMBRIDGE                  69                196               265
       9                 10              D. BARRETT                        73                192               265 
       10                7               I. SMITH                               85                180               265 

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