These League Cup rounds are coming around just a bit too quickly but in the very first game of the Carabao Cup Fourth Round, TOTTENHAM drew 1-1 against rivals CHELSEA and then went on to beat them 5-4 on penalties. But the single goal now gives Tottenham a total of 7 goals while Chelsea are now on a total of 13.
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Tuesday, 29 September 2020
Liverpool Move to Second place
In the Premier League, we had four of our teams in action. Last season’s champions LIVERPOOL, won 3-1 at home to ARSENAL. Liverpool have taken their goals total up to 16, which gives them an average score of four goals per game. They are now in second place. Arsenal picked up goal number eight. ASTON VILLA picked up another three goals as they win 3-0 away to FULHAM. Villa are now on a total of 10 goals and are now in fourth place. Fulham picked up their second blank score sheet of the season.
Monday, 28 September 2020
Week Four
Here we are with Week Four of the competition and we have our fourth winner of the season and our second lady to win. That lady was SARAH MARSHALL who won on a score of 12 goals and Sarah takes the full prize money of £6. Sarah’s combo has done very well this week picking up a total of 17 goals. She has had just one blank score sheet in the first weekend and this is the highest that she has been so far. Sarah has been with Golden Goals for a few seasons now and in our last one, she finished in 57th place on 278 goals and a shared weekend win. Sarah’s teams are
LEICESTER CITY 5, MANCHESTER CITY 2, RANGERS 5
100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
All change in the lead for our 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot of £40. The prize money will go to the first person to reach 100 goals from their three teams. BOB SOPER picked up the most number of goals in midweek with a total of 18 goals. They came from Chelsea 6, Liverpool 7 and 5 goals from Manchester City in their two games. Taking the lead this week is LOUIE HARRINGTON with a total of 27 goals. His combo are Celtic, Chelsea and Liverpool. In second place we have LINDA ADKINS with a total of 26 goals. In third place we have RICKY MILES and GRANT PHILLIPS both with a total of 25 goals each. In fourth place we have PAUL MORAN (Mango) with 24goals. We then have a total of five players with 23 goals each.
WEEKEND RESULTS
This weekend we had ten teams with no game over the weekend and another twelve teams that failed to score any goals. But even so the average weekend score went up to 5 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 five goals once again and they went to LEICESTER CITY and Scottish RANGERS. Leicester City with their biggest win of the season, won 5-2 away to Manchester City to take their goals tally up to 12 goals. Manchester City are now on 7 goals. Rangers won 5-1 away to MOTHERWELL and they are now on a total of 22 goals while Motherwell are now on 7 goals.
PREMIERSHIP
Leicester City have remained top of the league after their win against Manchester City. EVERTON are still in second place, after they won 2-1 away to Crystal palace. Everton could be a dark horse here as they are now on a total of 16 goals and have scored in all of their five games played. Arsenal are still in third place even though they had no game. LEEDS UNITED picked up goal number nine as they win 1-0 away to Sheffield United. WEST HAM won 4-0 at home to WOLVES and that has taken their goals tally up to 13 goals. Wolves picked up their second blank of the season. MANCHESTER UNITED won 3-2 away to BRIGHTON and they are now on a total of 7 goals. Brighton have now scored in all of their five games and they are now on a total of 12 goals. CHELSEA drew 3-3 away to WEST BROM after going three down in the first half. Chelsea are now on 12 goals while West Brom are on 10. TOTTENHAM drew 1-1 at home to Newcastle to pick up goal number six.
CHAMPIONSHIP
It’s all change at the top here this weekend as BRISTOL CITY go top on goal difference, after they won 2-0 at home against Sheffield Wednesday. City are now on a total of 12goals. READING drop down to second place after they won 2-1 away to CARDIFF. Reading are now on 9 goals while Cardiff picked up their third. BIRMINGHAM picked up their second goal in four games as they drew 1-1 at home to ROTHERHAM who are now on three goals. DERBY lost 4-0 at home to Blackburn and that is their third blank score sheet. BRENTFORD drew 1-1 away to Millwall and they are now on 9 goals. STOKE won won their first league game 1-0 away to PRESTON. Stoke picked up goal number three while Preston picked up their third blank and now two in a row. MIDDLESBROUGH drew 1-1 away to Q.P.R and that is goal number six for them. WATFORD picked up another single goal in their 1-0 home win against LUTON. Watford are on four goals to Luton's second blank in a week. SWANSEA won 2-0 away to Wycombe and they are now on a total of three goals. BOURNEMOUTH won 1-0 at home to NORWICH and that is goal number six for them while Norwich picked up their first blank of the season.
LEAGUE ONE
Ipswich are still top here this weekend with LINCOLN CITY still in second place after they won 2-0 at home to CHARLTON. Lincoln have now scored in all of their six games and are now on 15 goals. Charlton picked up their second blank of the season. HULL are still in third place after they won 2-0 away to Northampton. Hull have now scored in all of their last five games and are on a total of 7 goals. OXFORD UNITED picked up their biggest win to date with a 4-1 win against ACCRINGTON STANLEY away. That has taken Oxford’s goal total to 6 goals. Accrington are on 5 goals. CREWE won 2-0 at home to MK Dons to win their first league game and they are now on three goals. FLEETWOOD TOWN picked up their first blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 at home to AFC Wimbledon. PLYMOUTH have now scored in all of their five games as they drew 1-1 at home to Shrewsbury. WIGAN won 2-1 away to PORTSMOUTH and they are on 6 goals while Portsmouth after a three goal dry spell, picked up goal number four. SUNDERLAND won 1-0 at home to PETERBOROUGH and they are now on four goals. Peterborough picked up their third blank in four games. SWINDON picked up their highest result to date as they win 4-2 at home to Burton. Swindon are now on 8 goals.
LEAGUE TWO
New boys HARROGATE TOWN are down to sixth place this week after they drew 0-0 away to Port Vale. Harrogate have now picked up two blank score sheets out of five games played. BOLTON picked up their third consecutive blank score sheet after they lost 2-0 at home to Newport. TRANMERE also picked up their third consecutive blank score sheet as they drew 0-0 away to Cambridge. EXETER areon four goals as they win 2-1 away to Mansfield. SALFORD CITY drew 0-0 at home to Forest Green and that is their third blank score sheet. SCUNTHORPE picked up their first win of the season as they win 1-0 at home to Carlsile and they are now on three goals. SOUTHEND went a goal up before they lost 2-1 at home to Morecambe and they are still rock bottom here. Southend After a run of three games without a goal are now on the scoring list.
SCOTTISH LEAGUES
In the Scottish Premiership, Rangers are still top after they big win with rivals CELTIC still in second place and one point behind Rangers as they win 3-0 at home to Hibernian. Celtic have now scored in all of their eight league games and they are now on a total of 22 goals. ABERDEEN picked up their highest result as they win 3-0 away to Ross County. Aberdeen are now on a total of 8 goals.
Our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals. They are
CELTIC (22) RANGERS (22) EVERTON (16) Total of 60 goals
OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE
NOTTINGHAM FOREST (0) BOLTON (1) TRANMERE (1) Total of 2 goals
Our Best team is CELTIC after scoring in all eight of their League games with a total of 22 goals. They are on an average score of 2.7 goals per game.
Our worst team this weekend is NOTTINGHAM FOREST who have failed to score any goals in their four games played.
MOTHERWELL have picked up the most number of blank score sheets with five out of nine games played.
Our highest goal scorers in our 38th Season are now LIVERPOOL who won 7-2 away to LINCOLN CITY in the Carabao Cup in Round Three.
What a fantastic week we had here at Golden Goals for goals. Here are our new top ten.
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 10 L. ADKINS 26 22 48
2 12 L. HARRINGTON 27 20 47
3 1 B. SAWYER 22 22 44
4 9 J. WEARDEN 22 22 44
5 - M. LIDDLE 23 21 44
6 13 MANGO 24 19 43
7 3 T. GUY (2) 20 22 42
8 21 B. CLARK (2019/20) 23 19 42
9 38 M. JOHNSTON 23 19 42
10 19 S. LEGHORN 16 25 41
Saturday, 26 September 2020
Forest Still Firing Blanks
In the Championship, NOTTINGHAM FOREST have still yet to score a goal this season as they lost 1-0 away to Huddersfield. Forest have lost all of their three league games and they are also out of the Carabao Cup. They now have a total of four blank score sheets. They have a total of three votes this season.
Friday, 25 September 2020
Tottenham Get Bye in Carabao Cup
TOTTENHAM have been given a bye into the Carabao Cup fourth round after their tie against Leyton Orient was called off when a number of Orient's players tested positive for Covid-19. Orient returned 17 positive tests for the virus. The EFL has said: "In accordance with Carabao Cup rules, Tottenham Hotspur have been awarded with a bye and will now play Chelsea on Tuesday, 29 September.
Carabao Cup Third Round Continued
Suddenly our season is beginning to look great as we see another set of Cup games with high scores. This time it was last season’s champions LIVERPOOL who have now taken the lead as they win 7-2 away to LINCOLN CITY. Liverpool have doubled their goals total and are now on 13 goals. Lincoln have kept their goal run going after five games and they are now on a total of 13 goals. ASTON VILLA won 3-0 away to BRISTOL CITY and are now on 7 goals. Bristol picked up their first blank of the season after a goal run of four games. MANCHESTER CITY have played their second game in a week as they win 2-1 at home to BOURNEMOUTH. City have netted a total of five goals in their two games while Bournemouth picked up their fifth goal of the season.
Thursday, 24 September 2020
More Carabao Cup Third Round Games
Well we have managed to get another set of the Carabao Cup games played last night. CHELSEA have picked up the highest result of the competition to date as they win 6-0 at home to Barnsley. Not only that, it’s their personal best and that has shot them up to a total of 9 goals after just three games. Also through are EVERTON who won 5-2 away to FLEETWOOD TOWN. Everton have kept their goal run going after four games and they are now on a total of 14 goals. Fleetwood are now on a total of 10 goals and they have scored in all of their five games played this season. FULHAM won 2-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday and that have taken they up to a total of 6 goals. ARSENAL won 2-0 away to LEICESTER CITY and they are now on 7 goals while Leicester picked up their first blank of the season. Its 10 goals for BRIGHTON as they win 2-0 away to PRESTON who have now picked up their second blank score sheet. STOKE won 1-0 at home against Gillingham and that is only their second goal in five games played.
Wednesday, 23 September 2020
Carabao Cup Third Round
As the number of Coronavirus cases rise here in the UK, it was only a matter of time that it would hit the football fixtures. That unfortunately was the case last night as some players from the Leyton Orient were tested positive with the virus. So there cup game against TOTTENHAM was called off. Let’s hope that this is just a one off although with tougher rules from the government means that teams hoping for fans to return to their grounds in October, will now not happen.
So
here are the cup results from last night. We had seven of our teams starting
the games in this round and out of them three have made it through to the next
round. They were MANCHESTER UNITED as they win 3-0 away to LUTON.
United are now on four goals from their two games played. Luton after scoring in
all of their first four games picked up their first blank of the season. WEST
HAM picked up their highest result of the season as they won 5-1 at home to
HULL. West Ham are now on a total of 9 goals while Hull picked up goal
number five. BRENTFORD drew 2-2 away to WEST BROM but then won
5-4 on penalties. Brentford have taken their goals total to 8 goals while West
Brom are on seven. WATFORD go out after they lost 3-1 away to Newport. That
is Watford’s third goal of the season.
Tuesday, 22 September 2020
Manchester City's First Game
In the English Premier League, it’s nice to see MANCHESTER CITY back in action as they are our last English team to start this season. They are straight out of the starting blocks as they win 3-1 away to WOLVES. Wolves picked up their third goal of the season. ASTON VILLA won 1-0 at home against Sheffield United and that is their fourth goal of the season.
Monday, 21 September 2020
Week Three
Well things seem to be okay with the English football for now.
Here we are with Week Three of the competition and we have our very first lady winner of the season SANDRA NICHOLLS. Sandra won on our highest score of the season with 13 goals and takes the full amount of prize money of £6.
Sandra’s combo has done very well this week picking up a total of 21 goals. She has had just one blank score sheet in the first weekend. Sandra has been with Golden Goals for a few seasons now and in our last one, she finished in 117th place on 200 goals. Sandra’s teams are
BRIGHTON 3, EVERTON 5, TOTTENHAM 5
100
MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
All change
in the lead for our 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot worth £40 this season. 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 is MICK LIDDLE with a total of 16 goals. His combo are Celtic, Lincoln City and Manchester City. In second place we have EMMA SAWYER with a total of 15 goals. In third place we have 11 players with 14 goals each and in fourth place we have 12 players with 13 goals each.
WEEKEND
RESULTS
In our second
near full weekend fixture and it was a lot better than last weekend. We had seven
teams with no game over the weekend and another seventeen teams that failed to
score any goals. But even so our second weekend the average score fell to just 4
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 five goals once again and they went to EVERTON and TOTTENHAM from the Premier League. Tottenham won 5-2 away to Southampton to pick up their first goals of the season. Everton won 5-2 at home to WEST BROM to take their goals tally up to 9 goals. West Brom are now on 5 goals and bottom of the league.
PREMIERSHIP
The Premiership have now played their second league game of the season and most of them have done well. LEICESTER CITY are now top of the league after they won 4-2 at home against Burnley. Leicester have now scored a total of 7 goals in two games played. With Everton now in second place, ARSENAL are down to third place after they beat London rivals WEST HAM 2-1 at home. Arsenal are now on a total of 5 goals while West Ham are on four. LIVERPOOL are fourth as they win 2-0 away to CHELSEA. Liverpool have now scored six goals in their two opening games. Chelsea picked up their first blank score sheet. BRIGHTON won 3-0 away to Newcastle to gte their first win and they are now on a total of 8 goals. LEEDS UNITED won 4-3 at home to FULHAM and they have taken their goals total to 8 goals while Fulham are now on four. MANCHESTER UNITED lost their first game 3-1 at home to Crystal Palace.
CHAMPIONSHIP
READING are top this weekend after they won 2-0 at home to Barnsley. BRISTOL CITY are now second as they win 2-0 away to STOKE. City have now scored in all of their four games played and are on 10 goals. Stoke picked up their third blank score sheet out of four games played. LUTON are in third place as they win 2-1 at home against DERBY. Luton are on 7 goals while Derby are on two. BRENTFORD picked up their highest score of the season after they won 3-0 at home to Huddersfield. Brentford are on a total of 6 goals. After a two game dry spell for goals, MIDDLESBROUGH are now on 5 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to BOURNEMOUTH who are now on 4 goals. NORWICH drew 2-2 at home to PRESTON and they are on 4 goals while Preston are now on 8. NOTTINGHAM FOREST have still yet to score as they lost 2-0 at home to CARDIFF. Forest have failed to score in their three games played. Cardiff picked up their first goals this season. ROTHERHAM picked up their first blank score sheet as they drew 0-0 at home to Millwall. WATFORD picked up their second blank as they drew 0-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday. Both SWANSEA and BRIMINGHAM picked up their second blank of the season after they drew 0-0.
LEAGUE ONE
Ipswich are top here this weekend with LINCOLN CITY in second place after they won 2-1 away to MK Dons. Lincoln have now scored in all of their four games and are now on 11 goals. HULL move into third place after they won 1-0 at home to CREWE. Hull are now on 4 goals while Crewe picked up their second blank in a row. PORTSMOUTH picked up their third consecutive blank score sheet after they drew 0-0 away to Rochdale. PLYMOUTH picked up their highest score to date as they drew 4-4 away to AFC Wimbledon. Plymouth are now on 10 goals and have scored in all of their first four games. SWINDON lost 2-0 away to Blackpool and that is their first blank of the season. ACCRINGTON STANLEY lost 2-1 away to Burton and they are now on a total of 4 goals. CHARLTON are now on six goals as they lost 3-1 at home to Doncaster. SUNDERLAND won their first league game 2-0 away to OXFORD UTD. Sunderland are now on three goals while Oxford picked up their second blank score sheet. PETERBOROUGH picked up their first goals as they win 2-1 at home to FLEETWOOD TOWN. Fleetwood are now on 8 goals. WIGAN lost 3-2 at home to Gillingham and they are now on 4 goals.
LEAGUE TWO
New boys HARROGATE TOWN are down to third place after they drew 2-2 at home to Walsall.. Harrogate are now on a total of 7 goals. SOUTHEND lost their second league game 3-0 away to Carlisle and are now foot of the table. They have failed to score in their three games played. BOLTON lost 2-0 away to Colchester and that is their second blank in a row. SCUNTHORPE picked up their first as they lost 1-0 away to Crawley. EXETER lost 2-0 at home to Port Vale to pick up their second blank score sheet. SALFORD CITY picked up their highest result so far as they win 4-0 away to Grimsby. With their highest result to date CHELTENHAM are on 6 goals as they win 3-0 away to TRANMERE ROVERS. Rovers get their second blank of the season and now two in a row.
SCOTTISH
LEAGUES
In the Scottish Premiership, RANGERS are still top after they drew 2-2 away to Hibernian. Rangers are now on a total of 17 goals. CELTIC are now in second place and one point behind Rangers as they win 3-2 at home to Livingston. Celtic have now scored in all of their seven league games and they are now on a total of 19 goals. ABERDEEN lost 3-0 at home to MOTHERWELL and that is their second blank of the season. Motherwell with their highest result to date and their second league win, are now on a total of 6 goals.
Our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals. They are
CELTIC (19) RANGERS (17) LINCOLN CITY (11) Total of 47 goals
OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE
NOTTINGHAM
FOREST (0) SOUTHEND (0) CREWE (1) Total of 1 goals
Our Best team is CELTIC after scoring in all seven of their League games with a total of 19 goals. They are on an average score of 2.7 goals per game.
Our worst team is MOTHERWELL this weekend as they have picked up a total of five blank score sheets in eight games played.
Our highest goal scorers in our 38th Season are now EVERTON who beat WEST BROM 5-2 at home TOTTENHAM won 5-2 away to Southampton. Both From League games in Week Three. CELTIC have scored five twice. They first won 5-0 at home against Hamilton in their first league game and then again against Ross County winning 5-0 away in Week two.
BOB SAWYER has moved to the top this weekend to become the third player this season to do so. Bob picked up
eleven goals with eight of them coming
from the weekend. Bob’s teams are Brentford, Celtic and Liverpool. He is just a
single goal in front of the following pack.
At the other end at 116 we now have
Scott Clark this week and he becomes
our third player to land there. Scott picked up just four goals this week. His teams are Chelsea, Manchester City and
Manchester United.
Here is a look at the top ten this weekend.
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 7 B. SAWYER 13 18 31
2 14 M. ADKINS 11 19 30
3 - T. GUY (2) 11 19 30
4 21 D. WOOD 13 17 30
5 12 M. LIDDLE 16 14 30
6 2 G. BOLBERY 11 18 29
7 4 G. DOCKERILL (1994/95) 11 18 29
8 15 F. CARTHY 13 16 29
9 5 J. WEARDEN 13 16 29
10 13 L. ADKINS 14 15 29
Thursday, 17 September 2020
Carabao Cup Second Round Games
We had another four of our teams playing in the Carabao Cup Second Round. STOKE are through to the next round after they beat WOLVES 1-0 away. Stoke after failing to score in their first two games, picked up their first goal. Wolves picked up their first blank score sheet. BRIGHTON picked up their highest result to date with a 4-0 home win against PORTSMOUTH. Brighton are now on a total of 5 goals. Portsmouth picked up their second consecutive blank score sheet.
More Carabao Cup Second Round
We had more of our teams in the Carabao Cup Second Round games, and out of the nine teams that we had, six have made it through to round three. They are WEST BROM who beat HARROGATE TOWN 3-0 at home. West Brom with their first goals of the season, Harrogate picked up their first blank score sheet of the season. LEEDS UTD drew 1-1 at home to HULL CITY and then lost 9-8 on penalties. Leeds picked up goal number four while Hull number three. EVERTON won 3-0 at home to SALFORD CITY and are now on a total of 4 goals. Salford picked up their second blank in three games. FULHAM won 1-0 away to Ipswich and that is their first goal of the season. BRISTOL CITY picked up their highest result of the season by winning 4-0 at home to Northampton. Bristol are now on a total of 8 goals. BRENTFORD won 2-0 away to Southampton and they are now on three goals.
In
the Scottish Premiership, CELTIC
won 2-1 away to St Mirren after going a goal down. Celtic are now in second
place, three points behind leaders Rangers with a game in hand. Celtic have now
scored in all of their six games and are now on a total of 16 goals.
Wednesday, 16 September 2020
Carabao Cup Second Round
In the Carabao Cup Second Round, we had a total of fifteen of our Teams in action. Out of them only eight have made it through to the next round last night. The teams through are PRESTON who beat DERBY 2-1 away to take their goals total up to 6 goals, while Derby picked up their first of the season. LINCOLN CITY picked up their highest score to date as they win 5-0 away to Bradford City. Lincoln are now on a total of 9 goals in three games. FLEETWOOD TOWN won 2-1 at home to Port Vale and they are now on 7 goals. ASTON VILLA played their first game of the season and won 3-1 away to Burton. LUTON won 1-0 away to READING to pick up goal number five while Reading picked up their first blank of the season. WATFORD drew 1-1 with OXFORD UTD and then won 3-0 on penalties. Both teams picked up their second goal of the season. WEST HAM picked up their first goals as they won 3-0 at home against CHARLTON. That was Charlton’s first blank of the season. BOURNEMOUTH picked up their first blank score sheet as they drew 0-0 with Crystal Palace but then went through 11-10 on penalties.
Teams
that also went out are CHELTENHAM after they lost 3-1 away to Millwall
but it’s their third goal of the season. MIDDLESBROUGH lost 2-0 at home
to Barnsley that is their second consecutive blank score sheet. PLYMOUTH
are also out after they lost 3-2 away to Layton Orient. Plymouth are now on 6
goals.
Tuesday, 15 September 2020
Chelsea and Wolves Win
In the English Premier League, with their first game of the new season, WOLVES won their first game 2-0 against Sheffield United while CHELSEA also won 3-1 away to BRIGHTON. Chelsea have moved up to third place.
Monday, 14 September 2020
Week Two
Here we are with Week Two of the competition and this weekend, we had our first prize money winners of the season. They are GARY BOLBERY and TONY GUY (2) both winning on a score of 12 goals each, to share the £6 weekend prize money this week.
Gary started with us back in the 1998/99 Season on where he finished in the winning frame in 10th place with a total of 293 goals. Although Gary has not been in every season since then, he was last in the 2018/19 Season. There he finished in 110th place with a total of 251 goals. He had one weekend win.
Tony became Champion in the 2010/11 Season winning with a total of 307 goals and £60 in cash in his very first season with Golden Goals. He is currently in 21st place in our Champions League. Tony has been very supportive of the competition taking more than one combination each season. This week it was his second combo that won and this season he has picked a total of five, which is a record for us. It was his second combo that finished the highest last season in 10th place with a total of 312 goals. Our winners teams are
Gary BOURNEMOUTH 3, CELTIC 5, LIVERPOOL 4
Tony ARSENAL 3, CELTIC 5, LIVERPOOL 4
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 £40 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 five players at the moment all with 12
goals each. They are STEVE AYRES, JASON COOPER, DANIEL HUGHES, TONY KING and CHRIS SETFORD. In Second place we have a total
of thirteen players with 11 goals each while in third place with 10 goals each we
have two players.
WEEKEND RESULTS
So we had our very first near full weekend fixture and it was not a very good start. We had twelve teams with no game over the weekend and another eighteen teams that failed to score any goals. So for our very first weekend the average score was a low score of 5 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 five goals and they went to CELTIC from the Scottish
Premiership where they won 5-0 away to Ross County. They have a total of 56
votes.
Celtic are just one of four teams that have played in every season of Golden Goals with 38. The other three are Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United. In our first season in 1983/84 Celtic was our second most voted team for the Scottish and they scored a total of 116 goals. Their highest score came in the 2016/17 Season with 134 goals. They have scored 100 or more goals in nineteen of their thirty-eight seasons. They have score 100 or more in their last ten consecutive seasons.last season they finished on 108 goals. Over the years they have scored a total of 3630 goals which gives them an average score of 95 goals per season to date.
PREMIERSHIP
So the Premiership played their first league game of the season and most of them had a great start. ARSENAL went straight to the top of the league after they won 3-0 away to FULHAM. LEICESTER CITY are in second place after they won 3-0 away to WEST BROM. LIVERPOOL won 4-3 at home to LEEDS UNITED. WEST HAM lost 2-0 at home to Newcastle. EVERTON won 1-0 away to TOTTENHAM.
CHAMPIONSHIP
Q. P. R are top after they won 2-0 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST. Forest have failed to score in their two games. READING are in second place after they won 2-0 away to DERBY. Reading are now on a total of 5 goals while Derby picked up their second blank of the season. BOURNEMOUTH are in third place as they win 3-2 at home to Blackburn. LUTON won 1-0 away to Barnsley and they are now on a total of 4 goals. BIRMINGHAM picked up their first goal of the season as they won 1-0 at home to BRENTFORD who picked up their first blank score sheet. BRISTOL CITY won 2-1 at home to Coventry and they are now on 4 goals. CARDIFF picked up their second blank score sheet after they lost 2-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday. NORWICH won 1-0 away to Huddesfield and they are on a total of 2 goals. STOKE drew 0-0 away to Millwall and that is their second blank of the season. SWANSEA picked up their first goal of the season as they won 1-0 away to PRESTON. That was Preston’s first blank of the season. ROTHERHAM won 1-0 away to Wycombe and they are now on a total of 2 goals.
LEAGUE ONE
SWINDON are top here after they won 3-1 at home against Rochdale. Swindon are now on 4 goals. ACCRINGTON STANLEY are in second place as they win 2-0 at home to PETERBOROUGH. Accrington are now on a total of 3 goals while Brough have failed to score in their two games played. In third place is CHARLTON who won 2-0 away to Crewe. Charlton are on 5 goals while Crewe picked up their first blank score sheet. FLEETWOOD TOWN are now on 5 goals after they won 2-1 at home to Burton. HULL won 2-0 away to Gillingham. LINCOLN CITY won 2-0 at home to OXFORD UTD. Lincoln are now on 4 goals while Oxford picked up their first blank score sheet. PLYMOUTH won 1-0 at home to Blackpool and they are now on a total of 4 goals. PORTSMOUTH drew 0-0 at home to Shrewsbury and that is their first blank of the season. SUNDERLAND score their first goal of the season after they drew 1-1 at home to Bristol Rovers. WIGAN lost 2-0 away to Ipswich and that is their first blank score sheet.
LEAGUE TWO
Newly promoted HARROGATE TOWN are top here as they win their first league game 4-0 away to SOUTHEND. Harrogate are now on a total of 5 goals while Southend picked up their second blank of the season. BOLTON picked up their first blank score sheet after they lost 1-0 at home to Forest Green. CHELTENHAM lost 2-1 at home to Morecombe and they are now on a total of 2 goals. TRANMERE ROVERS drew 0-0 away to Mansfield and that is their first blank of the season. SALFORD CITY drew 2-2 at home to EXETER. Both teams picked up their first goals of the season. SCUNTHORPE drew 1-1 at home to Newport and they are now on 2 goals.
SCOTTISH
LEAGUES
In the Scottish Premiership, RANGERS are still top after they won their sixth league game 4-0 at home to Dundee Utd. With their highest result of the season so far, Rangers are now on a total of 15 goals. CELTIC are now in third place as they win 5-0 away to Ross County. Celtic have now scored in all of their five league games and they are now on a total of 14 goals. ABERDEEN are in fourth place after they won 1-0 at home to Kilmarnock. With their fourth league win of the season, they are now on 5 goals. MOTHERWELL won their first league game in seven played with a 1-0 home win against St Johnstone. After run of three games without a goal, Motherwell picked up their third goal of the season.
So lets have a look at our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals. They are
RANGERS (15)
CELTIC (14) HARROGATE TOWN (5) Total of 34 goals
OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE
PETERBOROUGH (0) CARDIFF (0) STOKE (0) Total of 0 goals
Our Best team is CELTIC after scoring in all five of their League games with a total of 14 goals.
Our worst team is MOTHERWELL this weekend as they have picked up a total of five blank score sheets in seven games played.
Our highest goal scorers in our 38th Season are CELTIC. They first won 5-0 at home against Hamilton in their first league game and have now scored another five this weekend against Ross County winning 5-0 away.
KEITH THOMSON has moved to the top
this weekend after picking up eleven goals all coming from the weekend. Keith’s
teams are Bournemouth, Liverpool and Rangers. Keith is just a single goal in
front of Gary Bolbery and Tony Guy (2).
At the other end at 116 we now have Robert Fuller this week as Peterborough failed to score once again. His other teams are Chelsea and Manchester United who have not played a game yet.
This is how the top ten looks this week.
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 19 K. THOMSON 11 11 22
2 42 G. BOLBERY 9 12 21
3 49 T. GUY (2) 9 12 21
4 25 G. DOCKERILL (1994/95) 9 11 20
5 - J. WEARDEN 11 9 20
6 60 F. COLLINS 9 10 19
7 31 B. SAWYER 9 10 19
8 33 D. SOMERVILLE (2009/10) 9 10 19
9 2 J. WISE 9 10 19
10 15 M. JOHNSTON 11 8 19
Saturday, 12 September 2020
Watford Top for Now
In the very first game in the English Championship, all three points went to WATFORD as they won 1-0 a t home to MIDDLESBROUGH. That is Middlesbrough first blank of the season after two games played.
Monday, 7 September 2020
WeeK One
Well here we are with our 38th Season of Golden Goals and a very big welcome to you all and what a strange season we are going to have once again. This season was on hold for so long that I was not going to run this season’s competition. The coronavirus is still with us and this season could stop as soon as it starts but many thanks for being here with us. As you can see that we have ended up with a total of 116 entries in this seasons competition and I would like to thank everyone who has helped us to get to that magic figure which becomes our sixth best Golden Goals season. It is with regret that we did not reach our previous record of 149 from the 2017/18 Season but I knew that we would not hit that this season. Although we have seen some names missing from last season, we have gained another eleven new ones. So who is going to be our 38th Champion? We will find out in the next forty weeks. but I wish you all the very best of luck.
You will see from the above table that we have a total of sixteen past Champions playing this season which is a record for us including one of our double winners Phil Reeve. Our last season’s Champion is also back and that was Bradley Clark. Bradley has not changed his winning combination from last season and they are once again Celtic, Liverpool and Manchester City. We also have a total of twenty-one ladies playing this season.
So how did the voting of teams for this season finally end up. It was MANCHESTER CITY that picked up the biggest number of votes as they came in with a total of 71. Last season they had a total of 73 and scored a total of 127 goals so there was no surprise that they would be the most voted teams this season once again. CELTIC after picking up just 49 votes last season, this season they are up to 56 votes.
Staying with the Scottish teams the second highest voted team comes from the Scottish Premiership again and they are RANGERS with just 15 votes which is right down from last seasons 35. The Scottish teams had another small turn out with just eight teams once again. We have four from the Scottish Premiership, one from the Championship and two from League One and just one from League Two.
With the English teams things have changed as they always do in this competition. We have a total of 15 Premiership teams in this years competition with MANCHESTER CITY becoming our top team again this season. Next came LIVERPOOL with 30 votes. In third place with 21 votes is CHELSEA who only picked up five votes last season. In fourth place with 18 votes is Championship BRENTFORD who only picked up four votes last season. Our fifth team is PETERBOROUGH with 13 votes. They were our fourteenth most voted team last season with just 4 votes.
In the Championship we have picked up 16 teams compared to 17 last season, while in League One we have 12 with 9 teams taken from League Two.
We have one new team to join Golden Goals this season. They are HARROGATE TOWN in the English League Two and they have just one vote.
Week One in our very first weekend of the new season, here is where you are after just the Scottish Premierships six games and the first round of the EFL Cup. Next weekend we have a full league fixture and our very first weekend to pay out our first £6 weekend prize money for our 38th season.
Out of our 60 teams that have been picked this season, half had no game and another eleven teams failed to score any goals in their first game of the season.
The highest score at the weekend came from the EFL CUP where we had a total of five teams that picked up three goals each. So lets have a quick run down on this weekends results.
EFL CUP First Round
We had a total of thirty of our teams in the first round of which only fourteen have made it through to the second round.They were DERBY who drew 0-0 at home to newly promoted Barrow and then won 3-2 on penalties. LINCOLN CITY won 2-1 away to CREWE. FLEETWOOD TOWN won 3-2 at home to WIGAN. SALFORD CITY drew 1-1 at home to ROTHERHAM and then won 4-2 on penalties. HULL drew 0-0 away to SUNDERLAND and then won 5-4 on penalties.New boys HARROGATE TOWN drew 1-1 away to TRANMERE but then won 8-7 on penalties. PLYMOUTH won 3-2 at home to Q.P.R. BRISTOL CITY won 2-0 at home to EXETER CITY. LUTON won 3-1 at home to NORWICH. OXFORD UTD drew 1-1 at home to AFC Wimbledon and then won 4-3 on penalties. CHELTENHAM won 1-0 away to PETERBOROUGH. READING won 3-1 at home to Colchester. CHARLTON won 3-1 away to SWINDON TOWN. BRENTFORD drew 1-1 at home to Wycombe and then went on to win 4-2 on penalties.Other teams that are out are NOTTINGHAM FOREST who lost 1-0 away to Barnsley. BOLTON lost 2-1 at home to Bradford City. SCUNTHORPE lost 2-1 at home to Port Vale. SOUTHEND lost 1-0 away to Gillingham. BIRMINGHAM lost 1-0 at home to Cambridge Utd. SWANSEA lost 2-0 away to Newport. CARDIFF lost 3-0 away to Northampton.
Our Best Three Teams are this Week
RANGERS
(11) CELTIC (9) PRESTON (4) Total of 24 goals.
First week and our first look at the top ten.
FIRST M/WEEK W/END TOTALWEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 F. CARTHY 9 3 12
2 J. WISE 9 3 12
3 S. REEVE (2008/09) 11 1 12
4 E. SAWYER 11 1 12
5 J. WEARDEN 11 1 12
6 ZIGGY 11 1 12
7 C. SETFORD 12 12
8 S. AYRES 12 0 12
9 M. LIDDLE 2 9 11
10 S. THOMSON (2) 9 2 11
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