Monday, 11 January 2021

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 114th place with a total of 249 goals. Last season he finished in 95th 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 37th 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 38th 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              

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