Week Thirteen

In Week Thirteen of the competition we had our eleventh winner of the season winning on a score of 13 goals. Our winner this weekend was DANIEL HUGHES .Daniel is in his second season with Golden Goals and last season he finished in 78^th place with a total of 261 goals. So it’s good news for Daniel as he scopes the full £6 prize money and has moved back into the winning frame. His highest position this season is 14^th place in Week One. He has picked up a total of three blank score sheets and this weeks score is his person best of the season to date. His best team is Rangers. Daniel’s teams are

MANCHESTER CITY 5, RANGERS 4, WATFORD 4 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

We had over half of us that picked up some goals this week and it has changed the order slightly in the race for the cash. We had two players that picked up the most number of midweek goals and they were PHIL COLLINS with six. His teams are Brentford, Manchester City and Norwich. RICHARD WILLIAMS also picked up six from Exeter. His other teams are Celtic and Manchester City. So here is the top five this week. In the lead this week we have RYAN FC now with a total of 39 goals. In second place we still have PAUL MORAN (Mango) and BOB SAWYER both on a total of 36 goals. In third place we have JED WEARDEN with CHRIS SETFORD moving down from one. Both are on a total of 35 goals. In fourth place we still have RAYMOND HARROD with a total of 34 goals. In fifth place we still have STEVE REEVE and SANA-CARLA-LYANNA and joining them is STEVE AYRES down from four. All of us are on a total of 33 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS 

This weekend we had eleven of our teams not in action over the weekend with another fourteen of them failing to score any goals. The good news is that all but one of us managed to pick up some goals from their combo’s. The weekends average score went up from four of last weekend to 6 goals this week.  The Highest score over the weekend was six goals and they went to PORTSMOUTH from the Second Round of the FA CUP as they won 6-1 at home against non-league King’s Lynn.  Portsmouth are through to the next round with their highest result of the season. They have now scored in all of their last six games and have a total of 38 goals. 

This is Portsmouth’s 23^rd season and they are our 50^th English team to be voted in to Golden Goals in our third season of 1985/86, where they finished on a total of 82 goals. Their highest score came in the 2002/03 Season with 101 goals. It’s the only season that they have picked up 100 or more goals in a season. last season they finished on a total of 70 goals in our first Covid season. This is their 8^th consecutive season with us and they have scored a total of 1504 goals which gives them a total of 65 goals per season. This season they have just three votes and have picked up a total of five blank score sheets in eighteen games played. 

FA Cup Second Round 

We had a total of ten of our teams in this round including Tranmere who played on Friday night. Out of them another four have made it through to the next round. They are Portsmouth with their big win, EXETER will be joining them as they win 3-2 away to Gillingham. Exeter have had a great week with goals and are now on a total of 31and have extended their goal run to ten games. CHELTENHAM won 2-1 at home to CREWE after extra time and have taken their goals total to 29 and have now scored in all of their last eight games. Crewe picked up their 18^th goal of the season. PLYMOUTH won 2-0 at home to LINCOLN CITY. Plymouth are now on 28 goals while Lincoln picked up their fourth blank score sheet and just one goal in their last three games. The teams that went out are SALFORD CITY who lost 3-0 away to Newport County and picked up their sixth blank of the season. HARROGATE TOWN lost 4-0 at home to Blackpool and that is their sixth blank score sheet. PETERBOROUGH lost 2-1 at home to non-league Chorley. Borough are now on a total of 26 goals. HULL drew 1-1 after extra time away to Stevenage and then lost 6-5 on penalties. Their single goal takes them up to 29 but they have now scored in all of their last seventeen games. 

PREMIER LEAGUE 

TOTTENHAM have remained top of the table still on goals difference after they drew 0-0 away to CHELSEA.  Tottenham picked up their second blank score sheet after a goal run of nine games. Chelsea picked up their third and are still in third place. LIVERPOOL are still in second place after they drew 1-1 away to BRIGHTON. Liverpool are on 29 goals and they have now scored in all of their last seven games. Brighton picked up their 20^th goal of the season. Has the sleeping giant been woken up as MANCHESTER CITY picked up their highest score of the season by beating Burnley 5-0 at home. We have not seen much of City this season but they are now on a total of 20 goals. LEEDS UNITED won 1-0 away to EVERTON. Leeds are now on 16 goals as Everton picked up their second blank of the season. WEST BROM won 1-0 at home to Sheffield United and that is goal number 12 for them. MANCHESTER UNITED won their fifth league game after they won 3-2 away to Southampton after going two down by half time. United are now on 22 goals. WOLVES won 2-1 away to ARSENAL and they are now on a total of 11 goals while Arsenal are on 12 goals after a two game dry spell. 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

NORWICH are top here after they drew 1-1 at home to Coventry.  Norwich are now on 19 goals. BOURNEMOUTH remain in second place after they drew 2-2 away to ROTHERHAM. Bournemouth are now on a total of 24 goals while Rotherham are now on 15 goals. WATFORD are now in third place after they won 4-1 at home to PRESTON. With their biggest result of the season, Watford are now on a total of 21 goals. Preston picked up their 23^rd. BIRMINGHAM drew 0-0 at home to Millwall and that is their seventh blank score sheet. CARDIFF won 4-0 at home to LUTON and with their biggest result of the season, they are now on 17 goals. Luton picked up their sixth blank of the season. MIDDLESBROUGH lost 3-2 away to Huddersfield and they are now on a total of 18 goals. READING won 3-1 at home to BRISTOL CITY. Reading have taken their goals tally to 26 while City picked up goal number 23. STOKE picked up their fifth blank of the season after they drew 0-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday. SWANSEA won 1-0 away to NOTTINGHAM FOREST and that is goal number 16 for them while Forest picked up their eighth blank score sheet and now three in a row. DERBY are still rock bottom of the league after they drew 1-1 at home to Wycombe. After no goals in their last four games, Derby picked up goal number 7. 

LEAGUE ONE 

We had just two games her this weekend where CHARLTON won 2-0 away to IPSWICH which moves them up to third place. Charlton are now on a total of 22 goals. SWINDON won 2-1 away to OXFORD UNITED and are on a total of 20 goals while Oxford are on 18 goals. 

LESGUE TWO 

Just one game here where BOLTON won 3-0 at home against SOUTHEND. It’s 20 goals for Bolton and they have now scored in all of their last six games. Southend picked up their tenth blank score sheet and now two in a row this week. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES 

In the Scottish Betfred Cup Second Round, we had six of our teams in this round and with two already out of the competition, another five will be joining them. Not a very good round for our Scottish teams as RANGERS will be the only team of ours going through to the next round. They won 4-0 away to FALKIRK and are now our very  best team with 45 goals. Rangers have extended their goal run to twelve games. Falkirk picked up their second blank score sheet after a goal run of eight games. The shock of this round is that CELTIC are out as they lost 2-0 at home to Ross County. That is Celtic’s second blank of the season. Also out are HEARTS as they lost 1-0 away to Alloa after extra time. After a goal run of nine games, Hearts pick up their very first blank score sheet. MOTHERWELL lost 2-1 at home to St Johnstone and they are now on 16 goals and have now scored in all of their last eight games. ABERDEEN lost 2-1 away to St Mirren and that is goal number 21 for them. 

In League One, COVE RANGERS are down to second place after they drew 1-1 away to Airdrie and picked up goal number 14. 

In League Two, STENHOUSEMIUR lost 3-1 away to Queen’s Park and are now on a total of 14 goals. 

Our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals. They are 

RANGERS (45) PORTSMOUTH (38) CELTIC (34) Total of 117 goals 

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE 

DERBY (7) NOTTINGHAM FOREST (9) SOUTHEND (9) Total of 25 goals 

Our Best team is HULL after scoring in all of their last seventeen league/cup games out of 18 played. They have a total of 29 goals which gives them an average score of 1.6 goals per game.  

Our worst team this weekend is still DERBY who have scored just four goals in their last ten games played. 

SOUTHEND have picked up the most number of blank score sheets with ten out of sixteen games played. 

Our highest goal scorers in our 38^th Season are RANGERS their 8-0 win at home against Hamilton in the league in Week Ten.

JED WEARDEN has remained at the top again this weekend for his fifth consecutive week. Jed picked up a total of eight goals from the week. Jed’s teams are Brentford, Liverpool and Rangers. He is now four goals in front of Keith Thomson who has moved up to second place this week. At the other end at 116 we still have Jacqui Rattle who has remained there for her sixth weekend running. Jacqui picked up a total of nine goals this week from her teams of Arsenal, Manchester City and Wolves.   

Another week and another change in the top ten this week.

           THIS      LAST                                                M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

            WEEK     WEEK             NAME                      GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

        1            -                  J. WEARDEN               35                   67                  102

        2                 4                K. THOMSON              29                   69                  98

        3                 5                S. AYRES                      33                   65                  98

        4                 3                B. BARNES (2)             27                   69                  96

        5                 9                R. COLLINS                 23                   71                  94

        6                 14              M. JOHNSTON             29                   65                  94

        7                 12              G. PHILLIPS                 29                   65                  94

        8                 18              S. REEVE (2008/09)     33                   60                  93

         9                 2                L. HARRINGTON       32                   60                  92 

          10              21              C. SETFORD               35                   57                  92

Tranmere Through to Next Round of FA Cup

We had another four of our teams in action last night and two of them have played their second game of the week. In the very first game of the FA CUP Second Round, TRANMERE ROVERS won 1-0 at home against non-league Brackley with a very late goal. Tranmere are our first team through to round three and they are now on a total of 21 goals. 

In the Championship, BRENTFORD picked up their second win of the week as they win 2-1 at home to Queens Park Rangers. Brentford are now on a total of 28 goals. 

In League One, FLEETWOOD TOWN drew 1-1 at home against SUNDERLAND and that is goal number 32 for them and 17 for Sunderland. 

Wednesday Results

In the Championship, BRISTOL CITY drew 0-0 at home against WATFORD. Both teams picked up their fourth blanks of the season. CARDIFF picked up their fifth as they lost 1-0 away to Coventry. MIDDLESBROUGH won 3-0 at home to bottom of the table DERBY. Brough have taken their goals tally to 16 while Derby picked up their ninth blank score sheet and now they have failed to score in their last four games. READING drew 1-1 away to Millwall and they are now on 23 goals. SWANSEA drew 1-1 at home to Sheffield Wednesday and they are now on 15 goals. 

In the Scottish Premiership, ABERDEEN are now on 20 goals as they drew 1-1 away to Hamilton. 

30 Teams = 40 Goals

We had a total of thirty teams in action last night and they came up with a total of 40 goals between them.

In the Championship, BRENTFORD picked up goal number 26 after failing to score any goals in their last two games. They won 1-0 away to Barnsley. BOURNEMOUTH won 2-0 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST and they have taken their goals tally to 22 goals. Forest picked up their seventh blank of the season and now two in a row. LUTON drew 1-1 at home to BIRMINGHAM and they are now on a total of 15 goals while Birmingham hit their 10^th goal of the season. PRESTON picked up their sixth blank score sheet after they lost 3-0 at home to Blackburn. ROTHERHAM lost 3-2 away to Q.P.R and they are now on a total of 13 goals. NORWICH won 3-2 away to STOKE and that takes their goals total to 18 while Stoke are on 24 goals. 

In League One, ACCRINGTON STANLEY won 1-0 at home to CREWE and that is goal number 16 for them while Crewe picked up their seventh blank score sheet. Its 20 goals for CHARLTON after they lost 4-2 away to Burton. HULL picked up the highest result in this league as they won 3-0 away to Ipswich. Hull have extended their goal run to sixteen games. They are now on a total of 28 goals. PETERBOROUGH won 1-0 at home to PLYMOUTH and they are on 25 goals while Plymouth picked up their third blank of the season. PORTSMOUTH drew 1-1 at home against OXFORD UNITED. Portsmouth are on a total of 32 goals while Oxford are on 17 goals. LINCOLN CITY won 1-0 away to SWINDON to give them a total of 31 goals. Swindon picked up their sixth blank of the season. WIGAN picked up their seventh blank score sheet after they drew 0-0 at home to Bristol Rovers. 

In League Two, the highest result of the night went to EXETER CITY as they won 6-1 at home to Colchester. With their highest result of the season, Exeter are now on a total of 28 goals and they have now scored in all of their last nine games. CHELTENHAM drew 1-1 at home to Cambridge Utd and they are now on 27 goals and they have now scored in all of their last seven games. HARROGATE TOWN won 1-0 away to Mansfield and they are on 18 goals. SALFORD CITY won 2-1 at home to Morecambe and they are on 23 goals. SCUNTHORPE lost 1-0 at home to BOLTON. Scunthorpe picked up their fifth blank of the season while Bolton picked up gaol number 17. Now it seems funny how SOUTHEND had to cancel their league game over the weekend due to some of the players testing positive for Covid-19 but managed to play last night? They lost 1-0 at home to Forest Green to pick up their ninth blank score sheet. Its 20 goals for TRANMERE as they win 1-0 at home to Carlisle. 

In the Scottish Championship, HEARTS won 3-0 at home to Alloa to keep their 100% scoring record going after nine games. They are now on a total of 21 goals. 

In League One, FALKIRK are now top of the league after they won 3-0 away to Dumbarton. Falkirk have now scored in all of their last eight games and they have a total of 21 goals.

A Point for Wolves

In the Premier League, WOLVES drew 1-1 at home against Southampton to take their goals total up to 9 goals. 

Week Twelve

Here we are with Week Twelve of the competition and we had our second Rollover of the season worth £12 and it went to KEITH THOMSON who becomes our tenth winner of the season. He won on a score of 11 goals. Keith has been with Golden Goals for six seasons now as he started with us back in the 2014/15 Season. In his first season he finished in 27^th place with a total of 270 goals and picked up over £21 with six weekend wins. Last season Keith finished in 112^th place with a total of 215 goals. This season he has picked up three blank score sheets and his highest position is first place in Week Two. His best team is Rangers netting 41 of his total of 89 goals. His teams are 

BOURNEMOUTH 4, LIVERPOOL 3, RANGERS 4 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

We had just seven players that picked up some goals this week and they have changed the order in the race for the cash. So here is the top five this week. In the lead this week we have CHRIS SETFORD moving up from second place with RYAN FC up from three. Both have a total of 34 goals. In second place is last weeks leaders PAUL MORAN (Mango) and BOB SAWYER both still on a total of 33 goals. In third place down from two we have LOUIE HARRINGTON and JED WEARDEN both still on a total of 32 goals. In fourth place down from three we have LINDA ADKINS, A&A CLARK, RAYMOND HARROD and MICK LIDDLE and joining them this week we STEVE AYRES. All are on a total of 31 goals. In fifth place down from four we have HAYLEY ADKINS, BRADLEY CLARK, D HUGHES, RICKY MILES, STEVE REEVE and SANA-CARLA-LYANNA and joining the pack we have FIONA CARTHY all of us are on a total of 30 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS 

This weekend it has been a bit of a mixed match sort of weekend. But we had four of our teams not in action over the weekend with another fifteen of them failing to score any goals. The good news is that all but two players managed to pick up some goals from their combo’s. But despite us having some big scores this week, the average score was just four goals. The Highest score over the weekend was five goals and they went to FLEETWOOD TOWN and TRANMERE ROVERS once again. Both teams have now picked up their biggest result of the season beating last weekends results. In League One, Fleetwood Town won 5-1 at home to PLYMOUTH and they are now on a total of 31 goals. Fleetwood have now scored eleven goals in their last four games. Plymouth are on a total of 26 goals and they have scored in all of their last six games. In League Two, Tranmere Rovers won 5-0 at home to Grimsby and that has taken their goals tally up to 19 with twelve of them coming from their last four games. 

PREMIER LEAGUE 

TOTTENHAM are now top of the table on goals difference after they won 2-0 at home against MANCHESTER CITY. Tottenham are now on a total of 22 goals and they have now scored in all of their last nine games. City after a goal run of nine games, picked up their first blank of the season. LIVERPOOL are in second place as they win 3-0 at home to LEICESTER CITY. Liverpool are on 28 goals and they have now scored in all of their last six games. Leicester picked up their fourth blank score sheet. CHELSEA are in third place as they win 2-0 away to Newcastle. Chelsea are now on a total of 29 goals. WEST HAM have now scored in all of their last eleven games as they win 1-0 away to Sheffield United. They are now on a total of 24 goals. EVERTON won 3-2 away to FULHAM and they are now on a total of 31 goals while Fulham are on 12 goals. BRIGHTON won 2-1 away to ASTON VILLA and they are on 19 goals while Villa picked up their 25^th goal of the season. MANCHESTER UNITED won 1-0 at home to WEST BROM. United are now on 19 goals. West Brom picked up their sixth blank of the season and now three in a row. West Brom have scored just one goals in their last six games. LEEDS UNITED drew 0-0 at home to ARSENAL to pick up their second blank of the season while Arsenal picked up their fifth and now two in a row. Arsenal have netted just one goal in their last five games. 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

BOURNEMOUTH are our highest team here in second place after they won 4-2 at home to READING. With their biggest result of the season, Bournemouth are now on a total of 20 goals. Reading after a two game dry spell for goals are now on 22. BRISTOL CITY are in third place as they win 1-0 at home to DERBY who are now bottom of the league. City are now on a total of 22 goals. Derby picked up their eighth blank score sheet and now three games without a goal. NOTTINGHAM FOREST picked up their sixth blank score sheet as they lost 2-0 away to Barnsley. LUTON drew 1-1 at home to Blackburn and they are now on 14 goals. NORWICH are now on 15 goals as they win 1-0 away to MIDDLESBROUGH. Brough picked up their sixth blank score sheet and now three in a row. CARDIFF drew 1-1 away to Millwall and they are now on a total of 13 goals. PRESTON won 1-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday and they are now on 22 goals. WATFORD drew 1-1 away to QPR and that is goal number 17 for them. STOKE picked up their biggest result to date as they win 4-3 at home to Huddersfield. SWANSEA won 1-0 at home against ROTHERHAM and they are now on a total of 14 goals while Rotherham picked up their fifth blank of the season. BRENTFORD drew 0-0 away to Wycombe and that is their third blank of the season and now two in a row. 

LEAGUE ONE  

HULL are now top after they won 3-1 away to MK Dons. Hull are now on a total of 25 goals and they have now scored in all of their last fifteen games. PETERBOROUGH drop down to second place after they lost 2-1 at home to Blackpool. Peterborough are on a total of 24 goals. ACCRINGTON STANLEY drew 0-0 at home to LINCOLN CITY to pick up their second blank score sheet to Lincoln’s third. CHARLTON are on 18 goals as they drew 1-1 away to Gillingham. PORTSMOUTH won 4-1 at home to CREWE. Portsmouth have taken their goals tally to 31 while Crewe picked up goal number 17. SWINDON won 1-0 at home to Bristol Rovers and that is their 18^th goal of the season. SUNDERLAND drew 1-1 away to Doncaster and they are on a total of 16 goals. OXFORD UNITED won 2-1 away to WIGAN and they are now on 16 goals to Wigan’s 13. 

LESGUE TWO 

CHELTENHAM are our highest team here moving up to second place after they won 3-0 at home to Walsall. Cheltenham are now on a total of 26 goals and they have now scored in all of their last six games. EXETER lost 2-1 at home to Oldham and they are on a total of 22 goals and they have extended their goal run to eight games. HARROGATE TOWN lost 3-0 away to Leyton Orient and that is their fifth blank of the season. SALFORD CITY won 3-0 at home against Bradford. Salford have taken their goals total up to 21 goals. SCUNTHORPE drew 1-1 at home to Morecambe to pick up their 11^th goal of the season. BOLTON won 2-1 away to Stevenage and they are now on 16 goals. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES 

In the Premiership, RANGERS won 4-0 at home to third place ABERDEEN. Rangers have extended their goal run to eleven games and they are now on a total of 41 goals. Aberdeen picked up their fourth blank of the season. CELTIC are now eleven points behind Rangers after they drew 2-2 away to Hibernian. Celtic were two down at half time but they are now on a total of 34 goals. MOTHERWELL drew 1-1 away to St Johnstone and that is their 15^th goal of the season and they have now scored in all of their last seven games. In League One, second place FALKIRK beat top of the table COVE RANGERS 1-0 at home to take their goals total to 18 and they have now scored in all of their last seven games. Rangers picked up their second blank of the season. In League Two, STENHOUSEMIUR drop down to fourth place after they lost 2-1 at home to Annan. Stenhousemiur are on a total of 13 goals. 

Our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals. They are 

RANGERS (41) CELTIC (34) PORTSMOUTH (31) Total of 106 goals 

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE 

DERBY (6) NOTTINGHAM FOREST (9) BIRMINGHAM (9) Total of 24 goals 

Our Best team is HEARTS after scoring in all of their eight league/cup games keeping their 100% record with a total of 18 goals. They are on an average score of 2.2 goals per game. 

Our worst team this weekend is still DERBY who have scored just three goals in their last eight games played. 

DERBY and SOUTHEND have both picked up the most number of blank score sheets with eight out of fourteen games played. Our highest goal scorers in our 38^th Season are RANGERS their 8-0 win at home against Hamilton in the league in Week Ten.  

JED WEARDEN has remained at the top again this weekend for his fourth consecutive week. Jed picked up a total of seven goals all coming from the weekend. Jed’s teams are Brentford, Liverpool and Rangers. He is still three goals in front of Louie Harrington in second place. At the other end at 116 we still have Jacqui Rattle who has remained there for her fifth weekend running. Jacqui picked up her fourth blank of the season. Two of her teams failed to score and the third had no game this week. Jacqui teams of  Arsenal, Manchester City and Wolves. 

It's all change at the top except for the top two this week.

           THIS      LAST                                                M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

  WEEK     WEEK             NAME                       GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

        1            -                  J. WEARDEN                32                   62                   94

        2                 -                 L. HARRINGTON        32                   59                   91

        3                 4                B. BARNES (2)             27                   62                   89

        4                 13              K. THOMSON             27                   62                   89

        5                 9                S. AYRES                      31                   58                   89

         6                 3                MANGO                       33                   55                   88

         7                 5                A. WELLARD             27                   60                   87

          8                 6                B. SAWYER               33                   54                   87                            

          9                 12              R. COLLINS               20                   66                   86                

           10              7                S. THOMSON (1)       27                   59                   86

100% Hearts

In the Championship, BIRMINGHAM CITY picked up their sixth blank of the season after they drew 0-0 away to Coventry.

In the Scottish Championship, HEARTS lost 2-1 away to Dunfermline but kept their 100% scoring record in-tack as they have now scored in all of their eight games this season. they are now on a total of 18 goals.

Accrington Moving Up

We had another five of our Golden Goals teams in action and here are the results. In League One, ACCRINGTON STANLEY won 3-0 away to SWINDON and have moved up to 10^th place in the league. Accrington with their biggest result of the season, are now on a total of 15 goals and have now won six of their nine league games. Swindon picked up their fifth blank score sheet of the season. CREWE won 2-0 away to OXFORD UNITED and they are now on a total of 16 goals while Oxford picked up their sixth blank score sheet

In League Two, SCUNTHORPE won 1-0 away to Port Vale to take their goals total to 10. Scunthorpe have won both of their last two league games and have moved out of the bottom two places. They have won just three of their ten league games to date.

 

A Point For Plymouth

In League One, PLYMOUTH drew 2-2 at home to PORTSMOUTH to take their goals total to 25 while Portsmouth are now on a total of 27 goals.

Week Eleven

Here we are with Week Eleven of the competition and we did not have any cash to pay out this week because of the International games and so a lack of teams playing this weekend. But we did have three players that picked up the highest amount of goals with four each. They were TONY GUY (5) from Fleetwood Town. His other teams are Arsenal and Rotherham. DARYL NICHOLLS from Tranmere he also has Celtic and Manchester City. JOHN WOOD (Ziggy) from Scunthorpe and Stenhousemuir with two goals each,. His other team is Rangers. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

We had just four players that picked up some goals this week so there is not really any change in the race for the cash. PAUL MORAN (Mango) and BOB SAWYER remain in front with both on a total of 33 goals. In second place this week we still have JED WEARDEN, LOUIE HARRINGTON and CHRIS SETFORD. They are all on a total of 32 goals. In third place we still have LINDA ADKINS, A&A CLARK, RAYMOND HARROD and MICK LIDDLE. RYAN FC moves back into the race. All are on a total of 31 goals. In fourth place we still have HAYLEY ADKINS, BRADLEY CLARK, D HUGHES, RICKY MILES, STEVE REEVE and SANA-CARLA-LYANNA all of us are on a total of 30 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS 

This weekend it has been a very quite week for our teams due to the International games being played. We had just fifteen of our teams in action over the weekend with just one of them failing to score any goals. That was good news for the fifteen players who managed to pick up some goals from their combo’s. The Highest score over the weekend was four goals and they went to FLEETWOOD TOWN and TRANMERE ROVERS. FLEETWOOD from League One won 4-1away to Bristol Rovers and that has taken their goals tally up to 26 goals. Newly promoted TRANMERE won 4-3 away to Port Vale. With their highest result of the season to date, Tranmere are now on a total of 14 goals. 

Fleetwood Town became our 107^th voted English team and they started with us in the 2012/13 Season where they finished on a total of 60 goals. In the following season they finished on their highest score of 73 goals. The last time that Fleetwood played was in our 2017/18 Season where they finished on a total of 65 goals. This is Fleetwood’s fourth season with Golden Goals and over the four seasons they have netted a total of 224 goals. That now gives them a total of 56 goals per season. They have just one vote this season and they have picked up a total of four blank score sheets after a total of sixteen games. 

Tranmere became our 48^th voted English team and they first appeared in our 1985/86 Season where they finished on a total of 80 goals. Their highest number of goals in a season is 90 and that was in the 1993/94 Season. The last time that we saw Tranmere on our pages was back in the 2009/10 Season where they finished on a total of 53 goals. This is their 18^th Season with us and they have netted a total of 1250 goals. That now gives them an average score of 69 goals per season. They also have just one vote and in their total of fourteen games, they have picked up a total of seven blank score sheets. 

LEAGUE ONE 

PETERBOROUGH are top here but they lost 2-0 away to CREWE. That was Borough’s fourth blank of the season after a goal run of nine games. Crewe are now on a total of 14 goals. HULL moved into second place after they won 2-0 at home to Burton. Hull are now on a total of 22 goals and they have now scored in all of their last fourteen games. ACCRINGTON STANLEY won 1-0 away to Northampton and that is goal number 12 for them. SWINDON drew 3-3 away to Shrewsbury and they are now on a total of 17 goals. SUNDERLAND lost 2-1 at home to MK Dons and they are now on 15 goals. 

LESGUE TWO 

CHELTENHAM are our highest team here in third place as they win 2-1 away to Carlisle. Cheltenham are now on a total of 23 goals and they have now scored in all of their last five games. EXETER remain in fourth place after they drew 2-2 away to Bradford City. Exeter are now on a total of 21 goals and they have extended their goal run to seven games. HARROGATE TOWN picked up their 17^th goal of the season as they drew 1-1 at home to Crawley Town. SCUNTHORPE won 2-0 away to Oldham and they are now on a total of 9 goals. SOUTHEND UNITED have won their first league game by winning 1-0 away to Walsall. Southend are also on 9 goals this week. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Betfred Cup group stages, in Group B, COVE RANGERS won their first group game with a 1-0 home win against Forfar. Rangers are now on a total of 13 goals. In Group H, after going two goals up by half-time, STENHOUSEMUIR then lost 4-2 away to Alloa. Stenhousemuir have still to win a game in the cup and they are now bottom of the group. They are on a total of 12 goals. 

Our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals. They are 

RANGERS (37) CELTIC (32) LINCOLN CITY (30) Total of 99 goals 

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE 

DERBY (6) SCUNTHORPE (7) SOUTHEND (9) Total of 22 goals 

Our Best team is MANCHESTER CITY after scoring in all of their nine league games keeping their 100% record with a total of 15 goals. They are on an average score of 1.6 goals per game. 

Our worst team this weekend is still DERBY who have scored just three goals in their last seven games played. 

SOUTHEND have picked up the most number of blank score sheets with eight out of fourteen games played. 

Our highest goal scorers in our 38^th Season are RANGERS their 8-0 win at home against Hamilton in the league in Week Ten.  

JED WEARDEN has remained at the top again this weekend for his third week running. Jed like so many of us, had none of his teams inaction this week. Jed’s teams are Brentford, Liverpool and Rangers. He is still three goals in front of Louie Harrington in second place.

At the other end at 116 we still have Jacqui Rattle who has remained there for her fourth weekend. Jacqui also did not have any of her teams in action this week.  Her teams of  Arsenal, Manchester City and Wolves.

No change in the top ten this week but that might all change on next weeks table.

           THIS      LAST                                                    M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

WEEK     WEEK             NAME                           GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

     1            -                  J. WEARDEN                     32                   55                   87

     2                 -                 L. HARRINGTON             32                  52                    84

     3                 -                 MANGO                             33                   51                   84

     4                 -                 B. BARNES (2)                  27                  55                   82

     5                 -                 A. WELLARD                    27                   55                   82

     6                 -                 B. SAWYER                       33                   49                   82

     7                 -                 S. THOMSON (1)              27                   53                   80      

     8                 -                 K. SETNA (2005/06)         28                   52                   80           

     9                 -                 S. AYRES                           29                   51                   80                

              10               -                 L. ADKINS                         31                  49                   80

Bolton Now up to Fifteenth

In League Two, BOLTON won 2-0 at home to SALFORD CITY to take their goals tally up to 14 while Salford picked up their fifth blank of the season.

 

Betfred Cup First Round Group Stage

 

More games in the Scottish BETFRED CUP First Round Group Stages, we have four of our teams in play. They are in Group A, HEARTS who won 3-2 away to East Fife. Hearts are still top and they have won all four of their group games. They are on a total of 17 goals and have now scored in all of their seven games this season.

In Group B, COVE RANGERS lost 3-0 away to Dundee. Rangers have failed to win any of their three cup games and have dropped down to fourth place in the group. So after a goal run of six games, they have now picked up their first blank of the season.

In Group E, FALKIRK are still top as they win 4-0 away to Dumbarton. Falkirk have won three out of their four group games and they are now on a total of 17 goals. They have now scored in all of their last six games this season.

In Group H, STENHOUSEMUIR are in fourth place in this group after they lost 4-0 at home to Livingston. Stenhousemuir have also failed to win any of their three group games. That is their second blank score sheet of the season.

Week Ten

 Here we are with Week Ten of the competition and we are half way through the first half of the season. This weekend we see our second play to win twice this season and they are BARBARA BARNES (2). Barbara first won some cash in Week Seven with a shared Rollover with her second combo. But this time round Barbara has picked up the highest score of the season with 15 goals. Barbara first started with us back in the 2000/01 Season and finished with a total of 277 goals in 49^th place. Last season she finished in the winning frame with her first combo in 5^th place on a total of 318 goals. This season she has still had just two blank score sheets and we can see Barbara in her highest position to date with her personal best result. Barbara’s teams are 

CHELSEA 4, MANCHESTERUNITED 3, RANGERS 8 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

We had a total of two players that picked up the most number of goals this week with six goals each once again. They are REBECCA HARRINGTON with her combo of Brentford, Charlton and Nottingham Forest and JOHN WOOD (Lucifer) with Accrington Stanley, Charlton and Preston. The race for the cash has had a bit of a change this week. PAUL MORAN (Mango) and BOB SAWYER remain in front with both on a total of 33 goals. In second place this week we still have JED WEARDEN with LOUIE HARRINGTON moving down from one. Also CHRIS SETFORD has moved up from four. They are all on a total of 32 goals. In third place we still have RAYMOND HARROD and MICK LIDDLE but they are now joined with LINDA ADKINS gown from two and A&A CLARK joins in the race. All are on a total of 31 goals. In fourth place we still have STEVE REEVE but I am now joined with BRADLEY CLARK and RICKY MILES coming down from three with HAYLEY ADKINS, D HUGHES and SANA-CARLA-LYANNA moving in. All of us are on a total of 30 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS 

This weekend we had just five of our teams without a game over the weekend with another twelve that failed to score any goals. The good news is that we all but one player managed to pick up some goals from our combo’s. The average score for this weekend moves up from just three goals from last weekend to 6 goals this week. The Highest score over the weekend was eight goals and they went to Scottish Premiership where RANGERS won 8-0 at home against Hamilton. Rangers have taken their goals tally up to 37 goals and they have extended their goal run to ten games. It’s our highest result of our 38^th Season and they have a total of fourteen votes. Rangers became our fourth voted Scottish team in our first season of 1983/84. In that season they finished on a total of 97 goals. This is Rangers 37^th Season with Golden Goals missing the 1985/86 Season. They have scored 100 or more goals in fifteen of their outings and their highest score came in the 1992/93 Season with 126 goals. Last season Rangers finished on a total of 77 goals in which became a stop and go season. Over the years they have scored a total of 3528 goals which gives them an average score of 95 goals per season to date. This season they have picked up just one blank score sheet and they have now scored a total of 13 goals in their last four games. 

FA CUP First Round 

We had twenty of our teams in cup action and we know that Harrogate Town are our first team to reach the second round from Friday night. Out of the twenty teams only ten will join Harrogate. The highest score that we had came from LINCOLN CITY where they won 6-2 at home against Forest Green. That is Lincoln’s highest result of the season and they are now on a total of 30 goals. CREWE are through after they won 3-2 away to BOLTON. Crewe after a dry spell of goals in their last three games, are now on a total of 12 goals. Bolton are out and also on 12goals. PLYMOUTH won 1-0 away to CHARLTON and that is their 23^rd goal of the season. Charlton picked up their fourth blank score sheet after a goal run of six games. CHELTENHAM won 3-1 at home to non-league South Shields and they are now on a total of 21 goals. EXETER won 2-1 at home to non-league AFC Fylde after going a goal down. Exeter are now on a total of 19 goals and they have now scored in all of their last six games. It’s 20 goals for HULL and a place in the next round after they won 2-0 at home to FLEETWOOD TOWN. Hull have extended their goal run to thirteen games. Fleetwood picked up their fourth blank of the season. PORTSMOUTH won 3-2 away to Ipswich and they are now on 25 goals. PETERBOROUGH won 2-1 away to OXFORD UNITED and they are on 23 goals and a goal run of nine games. Oxford picked up goal number 14. SALFORD CITY won 2-0 at home to non-league Hartlepool and they are now on a total of 18 goals. It’s 10 goals for TRANMERE ROVERS as they win 2-1 at home to ACCRINGTON STANLEY.  Accrington are back in action and that is their 11^th goal of the season. So in this crazy season, there are no replays but there are extra time and penalties. Just to remined you that penalties do not count. Here are the teams that went out. SCUNTHORPE are also back in action but they lost their restart game 3-2 at home to non-league Solihull Moors. They are now on a total of 7 goals. WIGAN lost 3-2 at home to non-league Chorley after extra time but it takes their goals tally to 12. SOUTHEND drew 3-3 after extra time and then lost 4-3 on penalties to non-league Boreham Wood. With their highest result of the season, Southend are now on a total of 8 goals. After a goal run of six games, SUNDERLAND picked up their third blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 at home to Mansfield. SWINDON lost 2-1 at home to non-league Darlington and they are on a total of 14 goals. PREMIER LEAGUE LEICESTER CITY are back on top of the Premier League after they won 1-0 at home to WOLVES.  Leicester are now on a total of 18 goals. TOTTENHAM are still in second place after they won 1-0 away to WEST BROM. Tottenham are now on a total of 20 goals and they have now scored in all of their last eight games. West Brom picked up their fifth blank score sheet and now two in a row. LIVERPOOL are down to third place after they drew 1-1 away to MANCHESTER CITY. Liverpool are on a total of 25 goals while City picked up goal number 15 to keep their 100% record in tact after nine games played. WEST HAM won 1-0 at home to FULHAM and that is their 23^rd goal of the season and a goal run of ten games. Fulham picked up their fifth blank score sheet. CHELSEA won 4-1 at home to Sheffield Utd and they are now on a total of 27 goals. LEEDS UNITED lost 4-1 away to Crystal Palace as they hit goal number 15. MANCHESTER UNITED won 3-1 away to EVERTON. After a two game dry spell, United are now on a total of 18 goals while Everton are on 28. ASTON VILLA won 3-0 away to ARSENAL and they are now on a total of 24 goals while Arsenal picked up their fourth blank score sheet and now just one goal in their last four games. 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

READING are still top here after they lost again 3-0 at home to STOKE. Reading picked up their fourth blank of the season and now two in a row. Stoke are now on a total of 18 goals. WATFORD have moved into second place and a point behind Reading as they win 3-2 at home to Coventry. Watford are now on a total of 16 goals. NORWICH are in third place as they win 1-0 at home to SWANSEA. Norwich are on a total of 14 goals while Swansea picked up their third blank of the season after they had scored in all of their last eight games. BOURNEMOUTH won 3-1 away to BIRMINGHAM to take their goals tally to 16 while Birmingham are on 9. BRENTFORD after a goal run of twelve games, picked up their second blank of the season after they drew 0-0 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH. Brough picked up their fifth blank and now two in a row. DERBY lost 2-0 at home to Barnsley and that is their seventh blank score sheet and two in a row, they are also now bottom of the league. LUTON drew 1-1 away to HUDDERSFIELD and they are now on a total of 13 goals. NOTTINGHAM FOREST are now on 9 goals after they won 2-0 at home to Wycombe. ROTHERHAM won 2-1 at home to PRESTON and after a two game dry spell for goals, Rotherham are now on 11 goals. Preston picked up goal number 21. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES  

In the Premiership, after Rangers big win they are still nine points clear of rivals CELTIC who won 4-1 away to MOTHERWELL. Celtic are now on a total of 32 goals while Motherwell picked up goal number 14 and a goal run of six games. 

In the Championship, HEARTS are in third place after they won 2-1 at home to Inverness CT and they are now on a total of 14 goals and have extended their 100% goal run to six games. 

In League One, COVE RANGERS are still top after they won 3-0 at home to Forfar. Rangers are now on a total of 12 goals and a 100% goal run of six games. In second place is still FALKIRK after they drew 2-2 away to Partick and they are now on 13 goals. 

In League Two STENHOUSEMUIR have moved up to third place after they won 2-0 at home to Edinburgh City. Stenhousemuir are now on a total of 10 goals. 

Our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals. They are 

RANGERS (37) CELTIC (32) LINCOLN CITY (30) Total of 99 goals 

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE 

DERBY (6) SCUNTHORPE (7) WOLVES (8) Total of 21 goals 

Our Best team is MANCHESTER CITY after scoring in all of their nine league games keeping their 100% record with a total of 15 goals. They are on an average score of 1.6 goals per game. 

Our worst team this weekend is DERBY who have scored just three goals in their last seven games played. SOUTHEND have picked up the most number of blank score sheets with eight out of thirteen games played. 

Our highest goal scorers in our 38^th Season are this weekend RANGERS as they win 8-0 at home against Hamilton in the league in Week Ten.  

JED WEARDEN has remained at the top this weekend for his second weekend. Jed picked up another single goal in midweek and another nine goals at the weekend. Jed’s teams are Brentford, Liverpool and Rangers. He is now three goals in front of Louie Harrington who has moved back into second place. 

At the other end at 116 we still have Jacqui Rattle who has remained there for her third weekend. Jacqui picked up just one goals from the weekend. Her teams of  Arsenal, Manchester City and Wolves. 

All change again in the top ten.

         THIS      LAST                                                 M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

WEEK     WEEK             NAME                        GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

      1            -                  J. WEARDEN                 32                   55                   87

      2                 3                L. HARRINGTON          32                   52                   84

      3                 4                MANGO                         33                   51                   84

      4                 11              B. BARNES (2)              27                   55                   82

     5                 9                A. WELLARD                 27                   55                   82

     6                 2                B. SAWYER                    33                   49                   82

     7                 8                S. THOMSON (1)           27                   53                   80

      8                 7                K. SETNA (2005/06)     28                   52                   80                

      9                 15              S. AYRES                       29                   51                   80                

                10              5                L. ADKINS                    31                   49                   80