Reading Fourth for Now

In the Championship, READING won 3-1 at home against BOURNEMOUTH and that has taken their goals tally up to 43 while Bournemouth hit goal number 46. 

In League Two, SCUNTHORPE are no 31 goals as they win 1-0 away to Colchester United.

 

Liverpool Moving up Again

In the Premier League, LIVERPOOL have moved back up to fourth place after they beat TOTTENHAM 3-1 away. Liverpool are now on a total of 53 goals while Tottenham’s single goal gives them a total of 46 but they have now scored in all of their last eight games.

Manchester United Drop Points

It’s all going on in the Premier League as MANCHESTER UNITED lost 2-1 at home to bottom of the league Sheffield United. With Sheffield picking up their only second league win of the season, Manchester United picked up their 49^th goal and remains one point behind Manchester City. LEICESTER CITY drew 1-1 away to EVERTON after going a goal down. Leicester have remained in third place on a total of 43 goals. Leicester have now scored in all of their last nine games. Everton picked up goal number 46. It’s 40 goals for ASTON VILLA after they lost 3-2 away to Burnley. CHELSEA drew 0-0 at home to WOLVES to pick up their sixth blank of the season while Wolves picked up their seventh. BRIGHTON drew 0-0 at home to FULHAM. Brighton have now had a total of seven blank score sheet to Fulham’s eleven. Fulham have now failed to score in their last two games and now just one goal in their last four games. 

In the Championship, SWANSEA have moved up to second place after they drew 1-1 at home to BRENTFORD in fourth place. Swansea are on a total of 37 goals and they have now scored in all of their last five games. Brentford hit goal number 50. CARDIFF drew 2-2 away to Barnsley and they are on a total of 32 goals. ROTHERHAM won 3-0 away to MIDDLESBROUGH and they are now on a total of 28 goals and they have now scored in all of their last seven games. Middlesbrough picked up their eleventh blank score sheet and now two games in a row without a goal. 

In the Scottish Premiership, RANGERS have kept their 23 point lead over Celtic after they won 1-0 away to Hibernian in fourth place. Rangers have extended their goal run to twenty-four games and now have a total of 72 goals. CELTIC in second place are now on 50 goals after they won 2-0 at home to bottom of the table Hamilton. ABERDEEN in third place drew 0-0 away to St Johnstone to pick up their seventh blank of the season. MOTHERWELL won 2-1 away to Ross County and they are now on a total of 22 goals.

Manchester City Top of Premier League

We had a load of our Golden Goal teams in action last night and we had some high scores. The last of the FA CUP Fourth Round has now been played where BOURNEMOUTH are through to the next round after they win 2-1 at home to Crawley Town. After they have failed to score in their last two games, Bournemouth are now on a total of 45 goals. They will be playing Burnley away in the fifth round. 

In the Premier League, MANCHESTER CITY move to the top after they won 5-0 away to WEST BROM. City have taken their goals tally up to 53 goals and have extended their goal run to twelve games. West Brom picked up their tenth blank of the season. WEST HAM have moved up to fourth place after they beat London rivals Crystal Palace 3-2 away. West Ham are now on a total of 44 goals with ten of them coming from their last four games. LEEDS UNITED won 2-1 away to Newcastle and they are on a total of 35 goals after failing to score in their previous three games. ARSENAL won 3-1 away to Southampton and they are on 31 goals. 

In the Championship, BRISTOL CITY won 2-1 at home to Huddersfield and they are now on a total of 40 goals. WATFORD picked up their ninth blank of the season after they drew 0-0 away to Millwall.  

In League One, LINCOLN CITY go back to the top after they won 1-0 away to PORTSMOUTH. Lincoln are on a total of 50 goals and have now scored in all of their last six games. Portsmouth picked up their ninth blank and now two in a row. HULL have dropped down to second place after they lost 2-0 away to ACCRINGTON STANLEY. As Hull pick up their fourth blank of the season, Accrington have taken their goals tally to 31 goals after failing to score in their last two games. CREWE lost 4-1 away to Gillingham and that is their 39^th goal of the season. CHARLTON won 1-0 away to MK Dons and that is goal number 41 for them. PETERBOROUGH drew 0-0 at home to Bristol Rovers and that is their sixth blank of the season. OXFORD UNITED won 4-3 away to Rochdale and they are now on a total of 39 goals and they have now scored in all of their last six games. PLYMOUTH won 2-0 away to SWINDON and they are on 45 goals and a goal run of ten games. Swindon picked up their ninth blank of the season. WIGAN picked up their tenth blank score sheet and now two games in a row after they lost 5-0 at home to Blackpool. FLEETWOOD TOWN drew 0-0 at home to Northampton and that is their tenth blank and now two in a row. Fleetwood have scored just one goal in their last four games. It’s 30 goals for SUNDERLAND as they win 1-0 away to Ipswich.

In League Two, we have a few games here cancelled due to the bad weather we are going through. EXETER lost 2-0 at home to Morecambe. CHELTENHAM won 2-0 at home to Oldham and they are on a total of 44 goals. It’s 30 goals for SCUNTHORPE after they won 2-0 at home against Port Vale. SOUTHEND picked up goal number 19 but lost 3-1 at home to Bradford. TRANMERE ROVERS won 3-2 at home to HARROGATE TOWN and they are now on a total of 35 goals to Harrogate’s 29.

In the Scottish Championship, HEARTS won 4-0 away to Raith Rovers and they are now on a total of 46 goals and a goal run of seven games.

FA CUP Fourth Round

 

In the FA CUP Fourth Round, TOTTENHAM scored three very late goals to beat Wycombe 4-1 away. Tottenham are now on a total of 45 goals and they have now scored in all of their last seven games.

Week Twenty-One

In Week Twenty-One of the competition and it’s the start of the second half for us here at Golden Goals. This weekend we had a total of four players to share the cash Prize Money of £6 and two of them have won before. With two new winners this weekend we have now had a total of twenty-one winners to date and the four picked up just £1.50 pence each. Our winners are BARBARA BARNES (2), MICHAEL FISHER, SARAH MARSHALL and GRANT PHILLIPS they all won on a score of 11 goals each.

Barbara has picked up her fourth win with combo two which still makes her our highest winner this season. The last time that Barbara won was in Week Fourteen with another shared win. Her combo has still had just three blank weekend score sheets and third place is still her highest.

Sarah has picked up her second win of the season and she last won some cash in Week Four with her highest score of 12 goals. Sarah’s highest position is eighth place which is now her second weekend there. She has picked up three blank score sheets to date.

With their first win of the season, Michael started with us back in the 2014/15 Season on where he finished in 96^th place with a total of 221 goals. Last season Michael finished in 48^th place with 283 goals. This season he has also picked up three blank score sheets at the weekends and this is the highest that he has been to date.

Grant has been with us since the 2012/13 Season where he finished in the winning frame in 10^th place with a total of 285 goals. In that season he picked up three weekend wins taking his winnings for the season to just under £22 in cash. Last season he finished in 11^th place with 218 goals picking up just one shared weekend win. This season he has been as high as fifth place in Week Fourteen. This is his third consecutive week at number six. Grant has picked up three blank score sheets. Their winning teams are 

Barbara  CHELSEA 3, MANCHESTER UNITED 3, RANGERS 5

Michael MANCHESTER CITY 3, MANCHESTER UNITED 3, RANGERS 5

Sarah LEICESTER CITY 3, MANCHESTER CITY 3, RANGERS 5

Grant CHELSEA 3, MANCHESTER CITY 3, RANGERS 5  

100 MIDWEEK GOALS

Most of us picked up some goals this week once again and it has changed the order in the race for the cash. We now have fifty-five players that are on or over the halfway stage to the cash. We had three players that picked up the most number of goals with eight each. They are STEVE AYRES, SIMON DICKINSON and CHRIS SETFORD. So here are the top five places this week. In the lead this week we have two players. RAYMOND HARROD remains there but now with CHRIS SETFORD moving up from four. Both are on a total of 59 goals. In second place both down from number one of last weekend we have STEVE REEVE and BOB SAWYER both of us are on a total of 57 goals each. In third place we have PAUL MORAN (Mango) down from two with SANA-CARLA-LYANNA moving up from five. Both are on a total of 56 goals. In fourth place we still have RICHARD WILLIAMS but joining him this week we have JED WEARDEN down from one, ANDY EYLES and ALICE STUBBS both down from three and MICHAEL JACOBSON up from five. We also have A&A, CLARK, SIMON DICKINSON, MARK GREGORY and JAMES SOMERVILLE. All nine players are on a total of 55 goals. In fifth place we still have LINDA ADKINS and BADLEY CLARK. Joining them this week we have TIM WOOD and DEAN ZANIOUS both down from four. Coming back in the race we have STEVEN STUBBS all on a total of 54 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

This weekend we still have the coronavirus and the weather interfering with the fixtures. We had a total of seventeen of our teams without a game over the weekend with another eleven that failed to score any goals. The good news is that only one player failed to pick up any goals at the weekend. So not a great weekend again as this weekends average score came up from four of last weekend back to 5 goals this weekend. The Highest score over the weekend was five goals and we had two teams that picked them up. They came from the FA CUP Fourth Round where SWANSEA won 5-1 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST. With their biggest result of the season, Swansea are now on a total of 36 goals. Forest picked up goal number 22 and they have now scored in all of their last six games. The other team to hit five was RANGERS from the Scottish Premiership where they won 5-0 at home to Ross County.  Rangers are now on a total of 71 goals and they have now scored in all of their last twenty-three games.

Swansea became our 60^th voted English team and they started with Golden Goals back in the 1986/87 Season and finished with a total of 72 goals. Their highest score came in the 2007/08 Season with 96 goals. Last time out was back in the 2018/19 Season and finished on a total of 78 goals. This is their eleventh season with us and over the years they have scored a total of 766 goals which gives them an average score of 69 goals per season. This season they have just one vote. 

FA CUP Fourth Round

We now know that we have two of our teams through to the next round and they are Swansea and Wolves. But out of the eighteen teams that we had in cup action over the weekend, only eight have made it through to the next round.

They are LEICESTER CITY who won 3-1 away to BRENTFORD after going a goal down. Leicester are now on a total of 42 goals and they have now scored in all of their last eight games. Brentford picked up goal number 49. CHELSEA are through as they win 3-1 at home to LUTON. Chelsea are now on a total of 47 goals while Luton are on 27 goals. EVERTON won 3-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday and they are now on a total of 45 goals. MANCHESTER UNITED won 3-2 at home to LIVERPOOL. United are now on a total of 48 goals while Liverpool are out with 50 goals. BRIGHTON won 2-1 at home to Blackpool and they are on 31 goals. MANCHESTER CITY went a goal down to CHELTENHAM away and with only ten minutes left of the game, they came back to win 3-1. City are now on a total of 48 goals and they have now scored in all of their last eleven games. Cheltenham picked up goal number 42. BRISTOL CITY won 3-0 away to Millwall and they are on 36 goals. WEST HAM won 4-0 at home to Doncaster Rovers. West Ham are now on a total of 41 goals.

Other teams that went out are FULHAM who lost 3-0 at home to Burnley and that is their tenth blank of the season. NORWICH lost 1-0 away to Barnsley and that is their fifth blank score sheet. ARSENAL picked up their ninth blank score sheet after they lost 1-0 away to Southampton. PLYMOUTH lost 2-1 away to Sheffield United and they are on 43 goals and they have now scored in all of their last nine games. 

PREMIER LEAGUE

Just the one game here as ASTON VILLA  moved up to eighth place after they won 2-0 at home to Newcastle. Villa are on a total of 38 goals. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

Norwich are still top with SWANSEA in second place. Both were playing in the cup this weekend.

In the Play-Off’s we still have all four teams with Watford now in third place after their win on Friday. Brentford are in fourth place with READING are now in fifth place after they drew 0-0 away to PRESTON. Reading picked up their seventh blank while Preston picked up their tenth. Bournemouth are down to sixth place this week.

Meanwhile MIDDLESBROUGH lost 1-0 at home to Blackburn Rovers and that is their tenth blank score sheet. DERBY won 1-0 away to QPR and they are on 17 goals. 

LEAGUE ONE

HULL are top on goal difference after they won 4-0 away to PORTSMOUTH. Hull are now on 45 goals this week while Portsmouth picked up their eighth blank of the season.  LINCOLN CITY are down to second place after they won 2-1 at home to Northampton. Lincoln are on a total of 49 goals.

In the Play-off’s we still have three of our teams out of the four with PETERBOROUGH now in third place after they won 1-0 away to Ipswich. Borough are now on a total of 39 goals and they have now scored in all of their last six games. Portsmouth are down to fourth place with CHARLTON still in sixth place after they drew 2-2 at home to SWINDON. Charlton are on 40 goals while Swindon are on 32 and they have also now scored in all of their last six games.

Meanwhile CREWE have extended their goal run to eleven games after they drew 1-1 at home to Huddersfield. Crewe are now on a total of 38 goals. OXFORD UNITED are back in action and they won 2-0 at home to Bristol Rovers. Oxford are on 35 goals. SUNDERLAND won 1-0 at home to Shrewsbury and they are on 29 goals. WIGAN drew 0-0 at home to FLEETWOOD TOWN. Both teams have now had ninth blank score sheet to date. 

LEAGUE TWO

We still have two teams here in the Play-off’s who are Salford City still in fifth place with Cheltenham in sixth place.

Meanwhile EXETER won 3-1 at home to Sevenage and they are now on a total of 49 goals. After a two game dry spell for goals, SCUNTHORPE won 3-0 at home to Grimsby. Scunthorpe are now on a total of 28 goals. SOUTHEND lost their fourteenth league game as they lost 1-0 at home to Mansfield. Southend have now had a total of fourteen blank score sheets. TRANMERE won 2-1 at home to BOLTON and they are on 32 goals to Bolton’s 31. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership, Rangers are now 23 points in front of Celtic in second place, although Celtic have three games in hand of Rangers. ABERDEEN won 2-0 at home to MOTHERWELL. Aberdeen are now back up to third place and with a total of 32 goals. Motherwell picked up their tenth blank of the season.

In the Championship, HEARTS are still top after they lost 3-2 at home to Raith Rovers. Hearts are now on a total of 42 goals and they have now scored in all of their last six games.

All Scottish football below Championship level has been suspended for three weeks due to the Coronavirus. 

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

RANGERS (71) PORTSMOUTH (50) LIVERPOOL (50) Total of 171 goals 

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE 

DERBY (17) BIRMINGHAM (18) SOUTHEND (18)  Total of 53  goals 

Our Best team this week are RANGERS after they have now scored in all of their last twenty-three league/cup games. They have scored a total of 71 goals which now gives them an average score of 2.6 goals per game. 

Our worst team this weekend is BIRMINGHAM CITY who have scored just four goals in their last nine games played. 

DERBY have picked up the most number of blank score sheets with fifteen out of their twenty-eight league/cup games. 

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 after he picked up a total of nine goals this week. Jed has now been at the top for a total of twelve weeks and now six weeks in a row. His teams are once again Brentford, Liverpool and Rangers. Mark Johnston has remained second place as he picks up a total of twelve goals for the week. Mark is just one goal behind Jed this week. Mark’s teams are Liverpool, Manchester City and Rangers.

At the other end at 116 we still have John Nicholls who has now been there for five consecutive weeks. Johns teams picked up five goals this week from Bristol City, Fulham and West Brom. 

Here are our top ten for this weekend.

        THIS      LAST                                                M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

       WEEK     WEEK             NAME                       GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

            1             -                 J. WEARDEN                55                 115                170

             2                 -                 M. JOHNSTON             52                 117                169

             3                 4                S. REEVE (2008/09)     57                 111                168

             4                 -                 M. FISHER                  53                 114                 167                 

             5                 -                 B. BARNES (2)            50                 116                 166              

             6                 -                 G. PHILLIPS               51                 115                 166              

              7                 3                K. THOMSON             51                 113                 164

             8                 -                 S. MARSHALL           44                 117                 161

             9                 -                 C. WEBB                      46                 112                158

             10               12              D. HUGHES                 53                 98                   151         

    

Start of FA Cup Fourth Round

In the start of the FA CUP Fourth Round games, WOLVES are our first team through to the next round after they beat non-league Corley 1-0 away. Wolves are on a total of 23 goals. 

In the Championship, WATFORD won 2-1 away to STOKE. Watford are on 32 goals while Stoke are on 35. 

In League Two, SALFORD CITY drew 2-2 at home to HARROGATE TOWN. Salford are on a total of 33 goals while Harrogate are on 27 goals. 

Trouble at Liverpool?

 

In the Premier League what is going on with LIVERPOOL. They lost their third league game 1-0 at home to Burnley. That is their fifth blank score sheet and now two in a row. In fact Liverpool have scored in just one of their last five games and have not won in their last five games. They are now fourth in the league.

Who Will Be Champion?

In the Premier League, It’s all change at the top with MANCHESTER UNITED going back on top as they win 2-1 away to FULHAM after going a goal down. United are on a total of 45 goals while Fulham hit goal number 20. MANCHESTER CITY move into second place as they win 2-0 at home to ASTON VILLA. City have extended their goal run to ten games. They now have a total of 45 goals while Villa picked up their fourth blank of the season. 

In the Championship, NORWICH now have a seven point lead as they win 2-0 at home to BRISTOL CITY. Norwich are on a total of 38 goals while Bristol picked up their ninth blank of the season. BRENTFORD won 1-0 at home to LUTON and that is goal number 48 for Brentford as Luton picked up their twelfth blank score sheet. CARDIFF picked up their ninth blank score sheet after they lost 1-0 at home to QPR. MIDDLESBROUGH won 2-1 away to NOTTINGHAM FOREST and they are now on a total of 35 goals while Forest are on 21. BIRMINGHAM lost 1-0 at home to PRESTON and that is their thirteenth blank as Preston picked up goal number 38. 

In the Scottish Premiership, CELTIC are losing ground on rivals Rangers after they drew again 2-2 away to Livingston. Celtic are on a total of 48 goals. 

Leicester City Top for Now

In the Premier League, LEICESTER CITY move to the top after they won 2-0 at home against CHELSEA. Leicester have now scored in all of their last seven games and they are now on a total of 39 goals. Chelsea After a goal run of seven games picked up their fifth blank of the season. WEST HAM won 2-1 at home to WEST BROM. West Ham have moved up to seventh place with a total of 37 goals. West Brom are on 22 goals.

In the Championship, after a three game dry spell, DEBRY won 1-0 at home to BOURNEMOUTH to pick up goal number 16 while Bournemouth picked up their seventh and now two games in a row without a goal. It’s 40 goals for READING as they win 3-0 at home to Coventry. ROTHERHAM drew 3-3 at home to STOKE and they are now on a total of 25 goals and have now scored in all of their last six games. Stoke are on 34 goals. It’s 30 goals for WATFORD as they win 1-0 at home to Barnsley. 

In League One, HULL have moved to the top after they won 3-0 at home to ACCRINGTON STANLEY. Hull are on 41 goals while Accrington picked up their fifth blank and now two in a row. PETERBOROUGH won 2-1 at home to CHARLTON after going a goal down. Both Borough and Charlton are on a total of 38 goals each. CREWE won 3-2 at home to Bristol Rovers and they are now on a total of 37 goals. Crewe have now scored in all of their last ten games. FLEETWOOD lost 3-1 away to MK Dons but they are now on a total of 36 goals. It’s 50 goals for PORTSMOUTH as they won 4-0 at home to AFC Wimbledon. SUNDERLAND lost 2-1 at home to PLYMOUTH and they are on 28 goals to Plymouth’s 42. 

In League Two, CHELTENHAM drew 1-1 at home to Newport and that is their 41^st goal of the season. HARROGATE picked up their tenth blank of the season after they drew 0-0 at home to EXETER. Exeter picked up their fifth blank of the season. SOUTHEND are on 18 goals as they lost 2-1 at home to Cambridge Utd. After two games without a goal, TRANMERE won 3-2 at home to Forest Green. Tranmere are now on a total of 30 goals. 

Arsenal up to Tenth Place

In the Premier League, ARSENAL have now won four out of their last five league games as they win 3-0 at home to Newcastle, which now takes their goals tally to 28 goals. 

Week Twenty

In Week Twenty of the competition and it’s half  time here at Golden Goals. It would be nice to see the rest of the season out but with more teams getting affected by the virus each week, we are keeping our fingers crossed that we can continue.

This weekend we had our nineteenth winner of the season who picked up the full Weekend  Jackpot Prize Money of £6 and that all went to COLIN WEBB on a score of just 8 goals. Colin started with us back in the 2007/08 Season where he finished in 77^th place with a total of 227 goals. It was ten season’s later that Colin finished in the winning frame in 21^st place with 302 goals in the 2017/18 season. Last season he had two combos which finished in 77^th place with 261 goals and 86^th place with 255 goals. He did pick up one shared win last season. This season, Colin has picked up two blank weekend score sheets and this is his highest position so far. His best team is Rangers. His winning teams are 

MANCHESTER CITY 4, PETERBOROUGH 3, RANGERS 1 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS

Most of us picked up some goals this week once again and it has changed the order in the race for the cash. We now have nineteen players that are on or over the halfway stage to the cash. It was JAMES WISE that picked up the most number of midweek goals with a total of six goals. They came from Celtic 1, Charlton 4, Manchester City 1. James is now on a total of 46 midweek goals.

So here are the top five places this week. In the lead this week we have four players who are last weeks leader JED WEARDEN. Moving up from two we have STEVE REEVE and BOB SAWYER and from third place RAYMOND HARROD. All of us are on a total of 54 goals each. In second place we have PAUL MORAN (Mango) moving up from three with 53 goals. In third place we have ANDY EYLES and ALICE STUBBS both moving up from fourth place with a total of 52 goals. In fourth place up from five we have KEITH THOMSON, TIM WOOD and DEAN ZANIOUS. They are joined by GARY BOLBERY, MARK JOHNSTON and CHRIS SETFORD all up from six last week. RICHARD WILLIAMS also joins them. All are on a total of 51 goals. In fifth place we have SANA-CARLA-LYANNA and EMMA SAWYER up from sixth place and joining them this week we have LINDA ADKINS, BADLEY CLARK and MICHAEL JACOBSON. All on a total of 50 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

This weekend we still have the coronavirus and the weather interfering with the fixtures. We had a total of thirteen of our teams without a game over the weekend with another fifteen that failed to score any goals. The good news is that only six player’s failed to pick up any goals at the weekend.

So not a great weekend as this weekends average score fell from five of last weekend back to 4 goals this weekend.

The Highest score over the weekend came from the Premier League where MANCHESTER CITY won 4-0 at home to Crystal Palace. Manchester City have moved up to second place with a total of 43 goals. They have now scored in all of their last nine games.

 PREMIER LEAGUE

MANCHESTER UNITED are top this weekend as they drew 0-0 away to LIVERPOOL who are down to fourth place. United picked up their fifth blank of the season while Liverpool picked up their fourth. With Manchester City in second place, LEICESTER CITY are in third as they win 2-0 at home to Southampton. Leicester have taken their goals tally to 37 and have now scored in all of their last six games. TOTTENHAM are in fifth place as they win 3-1 away to Sheffield United. Tottenham are now on 41 goals and they have now scored in all of their last six games. WEST BROM won 3-2 away to WOLVES and they are now on a total of 21 goals while Wolves are on 22. LEEDS UNITED lost 1-0 at home to BRIGHTON and that is their fifth blank and now three games in a row without a goal. Brighton hit goal number 29. WEST HAM are on 35 goals after they won 1-0 at home against Burnley. CHELSEA won 1-0 away to FULHAM and they are on 44 goals and a goal run of seven games. Fulham picked up their ninth blank of the season. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

NORWICH are still top as they win 2-1 away to CARDIFF. Norwich are on a total of 36 goals while Cardiff picked up their 30^th of the season. SWANSEA are in second place as they win 2-0 away to Barnsley.Swansea are now on a total of 31 goals.

In the Play-Off’s we have all four teams with BOURNEMOUTH in third place after they lost 1-0 at home to LUTON. Bournemouth picked up their sixth blank score sheet while Luton are on 26 goals. Brentford are in fourth place but their game was cancelled due to the Virus. WATFORD are in fifth place after they won 2-0 at home to Huddersfield. Watford are now on a total of 29 goals. Reading are in sixth place as their game was cancelled.

Meanwhile STOKE drew 1-1 away to Blackburn and that is their 31^st goal after a two game dry spell. BRISTOL CITY won 2-0 at home to PRESTON and they are on 33 goals while Preston picked up their ninth blank of the season. DERBY picked up their fifteenth blank and now three in a row after they lost 1-0 at home to ROTHERHAM. Rotherham are on 22 goals. After failing to score in their last four games, BIRMINGHAM won 1-0 away to MIDDLESBROUGH. Birmingham picked up goal number 18 while Brough picked up their ninth blank score sheet.  It’s 20 goals for NOTTINGHAM FOREST and their biggest win of the season, as they win 3-1 at home to Millwall. 

LEAGUE ONE

Lincoln City have remained top after their game was cancelled. HULL are still in second place after they drew 1-1 at home to Blackpool. Hull are now on 38 goals this week.

In the Play-off’s we still have three of our teams out of the four with PORTSMOUTH in third place after they won 1-0 away to FLEETWOOD TOWN. Portsmouth are on 46 goals while Fleetwood picked up blank number eight. PETERBOROUGH are still in fifth place as they win 3-0 at home to MK Dons. Peterborough are now on a total of 36 goals. CHARLTON have moved in to sixth place after they won 1-0 away to Bristol Rovers. Charlton are on 37 goals.

Meanwhile SUNDERLAND won 3-0 away to AFC Wimbledon and they have taken their goals tally to 27. ACCRINGTON STANLEY lost 1-0 at home to Gillingham and that is their fourth blank of the season. PLYMOUTH drew 1-1 at home to CREWE and they are on 40 goals and a goal run of seven games. Crewe picked up their 34^th goal and they have now scored in all of their last nine games. WIGAN are back in play and drew 3-3 away to Rochdale. Wigan are now on 28 goals. 

LEAGUE TWO

SALFORD CITY are our highest team here now in fifth place in the Play-off’s as they drew 0-0 away to Newport. Salford picked up their ninth blank of the season. CHELTENHAM are in sixth place as they drew 1-1 away to BOLTON. Cheltenham picked up their 40^th goal of the season while Bolton picked up their 30^th.

Meanwhile SCUNTHORPE picked up their tenth blank and two in a week after they lost 1-0 away to Barrow. SOUTHEND are still bottom of the league after they drew 0-0 away to Grimsby. Southend have now had a total of thirteen blank score sheets. TRANMERE drew 0-0 away to Stevenage and that is their eleventh blank score sheet and now two in a row. Tranmere have netted just one goal in their last four games. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership, RANGERS drew 1-1 away to MOTHERWELL after going a goal down. Rangers are now on a total of 66 goals and they have now scored in all of their last twenty-two games. Rangers are now 21 points in front of Celtic in second place. Motherwell picked up their 20^th goal of the season. CELTIC drew 0-0 at home to Livingston. That is Celtic’s fourth blank of the season and now just one goal in their last three games. ABERDEEN lost 4-1 away to Ross County. Aberdeen are now down to fourth place and with a total of 30 goals.

In the Championship, HEARTS are still top after they won 3-1 away to Alloa. Hearts are now on a total of 40 goals.

All Scottish football below Championship level has been suspended for three weeks from midnight last Monday due to the Coronavirus. 

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

RANGERS (66) LIVERPOOL (48) LINCOLN CITY (47) Total of 161 goals 

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE 

DERBY (15) SOUTHEND (17)  BIRMINGHAM (18) Total of 50  goals 

Our Best team this week are RANGERS after they have now scored in all of their last twenty-two league/cup games. They have scored a total of 66 goals which now gives them an average score of 2.5 goals per game. 

Our worst team this weekend is BIRMINGHAM CITY who have scored just four goals in their last eight games played. 

DERBY have picked up the most number of blank score sheets with fifteen out of their twenty-six league/cup games. 

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 after he picked up a single goal at the weekend. Jed has now been at the top for a total of eleven weeks and now five weeks in a row. His teams are once again Brentford, Liverpool and Rangers. Mark Johnston has moved up to second place on goal difference this week, as he picks up a total of six goals for the week. Mark is just four goals behind Jed. Mark’s teams are Liverpool, Manchester City and Rangers.

At the other end at 116 we still have John Nicholls who has now been there for four consecutive weeks. Johns teams picked up six goals this week from Bristol City, Fulham and West Brom.

All change once again for the top ten

      THIS      LAST                                                M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

     WEEK     WEEK             NAME                       GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

          1             -                 J. WEARDEN                54                  107                161

           2                 3                M. JOHNSTON             50                  107                157

           3                 2                K. THOMSON              51                  106                157

           4                 5                S. REEVE (2008/09)     54                  102                156              

           5                 4                B. BARNES (2)             48                  105                153              

           6                 -                 G. PHILLIPS                 49                  104                153              

           7                 -                 M. FISHER                    49                  103                152

           8                 9                S. MARSHALL             40                  106                146

           9                 10              C. WEBB                      42                  103                145

           10                8               B. SAWYER                 54                   87                  141 

Motherwells Six Goals Deducted

 

Kilmarnock and St Mirren have won their appeal against defeats handed down due to Covid-19 regulation breaches. A Scottish FA judicial panel overturned walkover wins awarded to MOTHERWELL by an SPFL tribunal last month. This now means that Motherwell’s two games of which they had 3-0 victories awarded to them have been taken away as the games will now be played later on in the season.

Arsenal Blue's

In the Premier League, ARSENAL drew 0-0 at home to Crystal Palace and that is their eighth blank of the season after they had scored in all previous seven games. Arsenal have won just seven out of their eighteen league games.

 

Manchester City up to Third

In the Premier League, MANCHESTER CITY have moved up to third place after they win 1-0 at home to BRIGHTON. The first half goal now gives City a total of 39 goals and a goal run of eight games. Brighton picked up their sixth blank score sheet of the season.  TOTTENHAM drew 1-1 at home to FULHAM and are on a total of 41 goals to Fulham’s total of 19. 

In the Championship, Brentford’s game against Bristol City was cancelled due to Brentford’s team testing positive for the virus. 

In the Scottish Premiership, Aberdeen’s game against Livingston was cancelled due to a waterlogged pitch. 

Manchester United go Top

In the Premier League, MANCHESTER UNITED are now top of the league after they won 1-0 away to Burnley. United are on a total of 43 goals. EVERTON moved up to fourth place after they won 2-1 away to WOLVES. Everton are now on a total of 42 goals while Wolves hit goal number 20. 

In the Championship, LUTON lost 2-0 at home to QPR and picked up their 11^th blank of the season. BOURNEMOUTH drew 1-1 at home to Millwall and they are on 43 goals. 

In League One, CHARLTON after a two game dry spell for goals, are now on a total of 36 as they drew 4-4 at home to Rochdale.

In League Two, EXETER CITY drew 1-1 at home to BOLTON. Exeter are on a total of 46 goals to Bolton’s 29. SALFORD CITY won 1-0 away to SCUNTHORPE with a late goal. Salford are on 31 goals while Scunthorpe picked up their ninth blank of the season. The Harrogate Town v Carlisle game was cancelled due to floodlight failure. 

The Scottish WILLIAM HILL CUP Second Round games were all cancelled due to the rising number of coronavirus cases.

All Scottish football below Championship level has been suspended for three weeks from midnight Monday for the same reason.

 

West Ham Through to Round Four

In the FA CUP third round our very last game has been played. WEST HAM are through with just a 1-0 away win over non-league team Stockport County with a late goal. West Ham are on a total of 34 goals. West Ham are home to Doncaster in the fourth round. 

In the Premiership after going a goal up, CELTIC drew 1-1 at home to Hibernian to pick up goal number 46. Celtic are 21 points behind rivals Rangers but they have three games in hand of them.

  

Week Nineteen

In Week Nineteen of the competition, we had our eighteenth winner of the season who picked up the full Weekend  Jackpot Prize Money of £6 and that all went to GRAHAM HARRIS on a score of 12 goals. Graham is in his third season with Golden Goals as he started in our 2018/19 Season. In that season Graham finished in 114^th place with a total of 249 goals. Last season he finished in 95^th place with 244 goals. This season Graham has picked up a total of three blank score sheets at the weekends and this is his personal best score. This is also his highest position to date and the first season for him to pick up some cash. His winning teams are 

BOURNEMOUTH 4, MANCHESTER CITY 3, TOTTENHAM 5 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS

Most of us picked up some goals this week once again and it has changed the order in the race for the cash. We now have ten players that are on or over the halfway stage to the cash. It was NYE COOPER and KAREN SMITH that picked up the most number of midweek goals with a total of seven goals each. For Nye they came from Liverpool 4, Manchester City 2 and Wolves 1. Karen’s came from Aston Villa 1, Liverpool 4 and Manchester City 2. So here are the top six places this week. In the lead this week we have JED WEARDEN moving up from three. Jed's teams are Brentford, Liverpool and Rangers and he now has a total of 54 goals. In second place we still have STEVE REEVE but joining me now is BOB SAWYER up from four. Both os us are on a total of 53 goals. In third place we still have RAYMOND HARROD but he is now joined with PAUL MORAN (Mango) down from one. Both are now on a total of 52 goals. In fourth place we have ALICE STUBBS down from two and ANDY EYLES comes back in both with a total of 51 goals each. In fifth place we still have TIM WOOD and DEAN ZANIOUS but now with KEITH THOMSON coming back in with 50 goals each. In sixth place all on 49 goals we still have SANA-CARLA-LYANNA with CHRIS SETFORD but they are now with. EMMA SAWYER down from five and joining them this week we have GARY BOLBERY and MARK JOHNSTON. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

This weekend we still have the coronavirus and the weather interfering with the fixtures. We had a total of sixteen of our teams without a game over the weekend with another nine that failed to score any goals. The good news is that everyone of us managed to pick up some goals from our combo’s, which means that this weekends average score shot up from three of last weekend back to 5 goals this weekend. The Highest score over the weekend came from the FA Cup third round where TOTTENHAM won 5-0 away to non-league Marine. It’s the second time that Tottenham have scored five goals in a game and they are now on a total of 40 goals. 

FA CUP Third Round

We had a total of thirty-two of our teams in cup action over the weekend and this is where most of the goals were scored. Out of the thirty-two, eighteen have made it through to the next round. We had a few shock results in this third round and this is how it went over the weekend. Starting with the teams that went through to round four are BRISTOL CITY as they win 2-1 at home to PORTSMOUTH. City are on 31 goals while Portsmouth hit goal number 45. CHELSEA won 4-0 at home to Morecambe and they have now scored in all of their last six games and are now on a total of 43 goals. CHELTENHAM won 2-1 at home to Mansfield after extra time. Cheltenham are on a total of 39 goals. MANCHESTER CITY won 3-0 at home to BIRMINGHAM after being three up at half time. City have now scored in all of their last seven games and are now on a total of 38 goals. Birmingham picked up their twelfth blank of the season and now four games without a goal. ARSENAL won 2-0 at home to Newcastle and they are on 25 goals. Arsenal have now scored in all of their last seven games. BOURNEMOUTH won 4-1 at home to Oldham and are now on a total of 42 goals. BRENTFORD won 2-1 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH and they are on 47 goals while Brough picked up goal number 33. Brough have now scored in all of their last six games. It’s 40 goals for EVERTON as they win 2-1 at home to ROTHERHAM after extra time. Rotherham are on 21goals. PLYMOUTH won 3-2 away to Huddersfield and they are now on a total of 39 goals and a goal run of six games. LUTON won 1-0 at home to READING and they are on 25 goals while Reading picked up their sixth blank of the season. MANCHESTER UNITED won 1-0 at home to WATFORD and they are on 42 goals while Watford picked up their eighth blank score sheet. NORWICH won 2-0 at home to Coventry and they are on 34 goals. NOTTINGHAM FOREST won 1-0 at home to CARDIFF to pick up goal number 17 while Cardiff picked up their eighth blank score sheet. FULHAM won 2-0 away to QPR after extra time and they are now on a total of 18 goals. SWANSEA won 2-0 away to Stevenage and they are on a total of 29 goals. LEICESTER CITY won 4-0 away to STOKE and they have taken their goals tally to 35 while Stoke picked up their tenth blank and now two in a row. BRIGHTON drew 1-1 away to Newport after extra time and then won 4-3 on penalties. Brighton picked up goal number 28.

Other teams that went out of the cup are LEEDS UNITED as they lost 3-0 away to Crawley. Leeds picked up their fourth blank score sheet and now two in a row. TRANMERE lost 2-0 away to Barnsley and that is their tenth blank score sheet. WEST BROM drew 2-2 away to Blackpool after extra time and then lost 3-2 on penalties. West Brom are now on a total of 18 goals after failing to score in their last two games. DERBY lost 2-0 away to non-league Chorley and that is their fourteenth blank and now two in a row. EXETER lost 2-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday and that is their fourth blank of the season after a goal run of fifteen games. PRESTON lost 4-1 away to Wycombe and that is their 37^th goal of the season. 

LEAGUE ONE

Not many of our teams were in action over the weekend here again this weekend due to cup games. LINCOLN CITY are top after they drew 1-1 at home to PETERBOROUGH. Lincoln are on a total of 47 goals while Borough are on 33. HULL are still in second place after they drew 1-1 away to SUNDERLAND. Hull are now on 37 goals while Sunderland picked up goal number 24.

In the Play-off’s we still have three of our teams out of the four with Portsmouth in third place, Peterborough in fifth place with Accrington Stanley in sixth.

Meanwhile SWINDON won 3-2 away to Ipswich and they are now on a total of 29. CREWE drew 3-3 away to Rochdale and they are now on a total of 33 goals and they have now scored in all of their last eight games. 

LEAGUE TWO

Cheltenham are our highest team here now in fifth place and the only team in the Play-off’s still.

Meanwhile HARROGATE TOWN lost 2-1 away to Cambridge Utd and they are on 25 goals. SOUTHEND are still bottom of the league but they won their fifth league game 1-0 at home to Barrow. Southend are on 17 goals. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the WILLIAM HILL CUP Second Round, we only managed to get one of our teams playing due to the weather. They were COVE RANGERS and they won 3-2 away to Allo. Rangers are now on a total of 22 goals.

In the Premiership, RANGERS won 2-1 away to ABERDEEN. Rangers are now on a total of 65 goals and they have now scored in all of their last twenty-one games. Rangers are now 22 points in front of Celtic in second place, while Aberdeen remain in third place with a total of 29 goals. MOTHERWELL drew 1-1 away to St Mirren and they are on a total of 25 goals after a two games without a goal. 

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

RANGERS (65) LIVERPOOL (48) LINCOLN CITY (47) Total of 160 goals 

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE 

BIRMINGHAM (17) NOTTINGHAM FOREST (17) SOUTHEND (17) Total of 51 goals

Our Best team this week are RANGERS after they have now scored in all of their last twenty-one league/cup games. They have scored a total of 65goals which gives them an average score of 2.6 goals per game. 

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

DERBY have picked up the most number of blank score sheets with fourteen out of their twenty-five league/cup games. 

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 after he picked up a total of eight goals this week. Jed has now been at the top for a total of ten weeks and now four weeks in a row. His teams are once again Brentford, Liverpool and Rangers. Keith Thomson is still in second place and now five goals behind Jed. Keith picked up a total of ten goals this week and his teams are Bournemouth, Liverpool and Rangers.

At the other end at 116 we still have John Nicholls who has now been there for three consecutive weeks. Johns teams picked up six goals this week from his teams of Bristol City, Fulham and West Brom.

Here are out top ten for this weekend

     THIS      LAST                                                 M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

    WEEK     WEEK             NAME                       GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

         1             -                 J. WEARDEN                 54                  106                160

         2                 -                 K. THOMSON                50                  105                155

         3                 5                M. JOHNSTON               49                  102                151

         4                 3                B. BARNES (2)               47                  103                150              

         5                 4                S. REEVE (2008/09)       53                  97                   150              

         6                 7                G. PHILLIPS                   48                  98                   146              

         7                 6                M. FISHER                      47                  98                   145

         8                 -                 B. SAWYER                   53                  87                   140

         9                 13              S. MARSHALL              39                  99                   138

         10              -                 C. WEBB                        41                  95                   136