Monday 18 January 2021

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 77th place with a total of 227 goals. It was ten season’s later that Colin finished in the winning frame in 21st place with 302 goals in the 2017/18 season. Last season he had two combos which finished in 77th place with 261 goals and 86th 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 30th 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 31st 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 34th 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 40th goal of the season while Bolton picked up their 30th.

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 20th 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 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 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 

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