Week Twenty-Five

In Week Twenty-Five of the competition we had a total of four winners this weekend to share the £6 cash prize money. Three of them have already won some cash this season and one becomes our twenty-sixth winner of the season with them all winning on a score of 8 goals. Our winners are BARBARA BARNES (2) who picks up her fifth win of the season, MICHAEL FISHER and COLIN WEBB both picked up their second win with ROSE COLLINS picking up her first.

Barbara has once again won with her second combo and has now won £21 in cash. The last time that Barbara won was in Week Twenty-One with her second shared win. Third place is still her best position to date being there a total of five weeks over the season. She still has the highest scoring recorded for this season with 15 goals in Week Ten and has still had a total of three blank score sheets. Michael also last won in Week Twenty-One with that shared win. Michael has now been at number two for the last two weeks and has also had a total of three blank score sheets. Colin last won in Week Twenty picking up the full amount. Ninth is still his highest position and he has had a total of just two blank score sheets. Ross is in her third season with us and in her very first of 2018/19 Season, Rose finished in 56^th place with a total of 296 goals. Last season Rose finished in 52^nd place with 280 goals but she picked up two weekend wins worth a total of £15. This season she has been as high as fifth place back in Week Thirteen and has picked up just two blank score sheets. Their winning teams are 

Barbara CHELSEA 1, MANCHESTER UNITED 3, RANGERS 4

Rose  PETERBOROUGH 3, RANGERS 4, SALFORD CITY 1

Michael  MANCHESTER CITY 1, MANCHESTER UNITED 3, RANGERS 4 

Colin  MANCHESTER CITY 1, PETERBOROUGH 3, RANGERS 4 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS

All but three of us picked up some goals this week once again and it has changed the order in the race for the cash again. We have just four players left to hit the magic 50 goal mark this week. The highest midweek score that we had was 9 goals and they went to JAMES SOMERVILLE. They came from Celtic 1, Hull 5 and Manchester City 3. So here are the top six places this week. In first place with 91 goals we still have last weeks leader RAYMOND HARROD. Ray needs just nine more goals to win the cash. In second place moving down from one last weekend we have MARK GREGORY with a total of 90 goals. In third place moving down from two we have CHRIS SETFORD on a total of 89 goals. In Fourth place on 86 goals is MICHAEL JACOBSON down from three. Moving in to fifth place this week we have JAMES SOMERVILLE with 84 goals. In sixth place we have CHRIS BOLBERY and CHRIS DICKER both moving down from four with A&A. CLARK moving back in to the race all with a total of 83 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

Spring is nearly in the air and we had just one game cancelled due to the weather this weekend. We had a total of nine of our teams without a game over the weekend with another sixteen that failed to score any goals. The good news is that only four players failed to pick up any goals at the weekend. After getting yet another fantastic set of midweek results, the teams seem to be having a rest at the weekends. The weekends average score fell from five of last weekend down to just 2 goals this weekend. The Highest score over the weekend was four goals and we had two teams that picked them up. They came from the Championship where CARDIFF CITY won 4-0 at home to PRESTON. Cardiff are now on a total of 46 goals and have now scored in all of their last seven games. Preston picked up their thirteenth blank and now two in a row.  RANGERS won 4-1 at home to Dundee United and they are now on a total of 79 goals and look set in getting another 100 goals this season. 

PREMIER LEAGUE

We now have the top twelve teams here with MANCHESTER CITY remaining at the top after they won 1-0 away to ARSENAL. City are now on a total of 70 goals and have extended their goal run to nineteen games. Arsenal picked up their twelfth blank of the season. MANCHESTER UNITED are still in second place after they won 3-1 at home to Newcastle. United are now on a total of 66 goals. LEICESTER CITY are still in third place after they won 2-1 at away to ASTON VILLA. Leicester are now on a total of 52 goals while Villa picked up goal number 44. WEST HAM are now in fourth place after they beat their London rivals TOTTENHAM 2-1 at home. West Ham and Tottenham are both on a total of 53 goals. CHELSEA drew 1-1 away to Southampton after going a goal down. Chelsea are on a total of 56 goals but they have now scored in all of their last six games. WEST BROM picked up their twelfth blank of the season as they drew 0-0 away to Burnley. FULHAM won 1-0 at home to Sheffield United and they are on 26 goals. EVERTON beat LIVERPOOL 2-0 in this local derby and Everton are now on a total of 59 goals. Liverpool picked up their seventh blank of the season. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

NORWICH are still top here and now seven points ahead after they won 1-0 at home to ROTHERHAM. Norwich are on a total of 45 goals. Rotherham picked up their ninth blank and now two in a week. BRENTFORD are still in second place but they have lost their third league game 2-0 away to Coventry. Brentford picked up their seventh blank score sheet.

In the Play-Off’s we still have all four teams with Watford moving up to third place after their win on Friday night. SWANSEA dropped down to fourth place after they lost 4-1 away to Huddersfield. Swansea are on 45 goals but they have extended their goal run to ten games. READING are still in fifth place after they lost 2-0 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH. As Reading picked up their ninth blank of the season, Brough are now on 41 goals. BOURNEMOUTH remained in sixth place this week after they lost 2-1 away to QPR. Bournemouth are on a total of 54 goals.

Meanwhile BRISTOL CITY lost 1-0 at home to Barnsley and that is their fifteenth blank and they have now failed to score in their last five games. After not scoring in their last two games, NOTTINGHAM FOREST won 1-0 at home to Blackburn and they are on 28 goals. After a two game dry spell for goals, BIRMINGHAM are on 22 goals as they win 1-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday. STOKE won 3-0 at home against LUTON and they are on 41 goals while Luton picked up their fifteenth blank and now two in a row. 

LEAGUE ONE

LINCOLN CITY are still top after they won 2-1 away to WIGAN. Lincoln are on 57 goals while Wigan picked up goal number 33. PETERBOROUGH remained in second place as they win 3-1 at home to AFC Wimbledon. Borough are now on a total of 49 goals.

In the Play-off’s we still have three of our teams out of the four with HULL still in third place after they drew 3-3  away to Doncaster in fourth place. Hull are now on a total of 54 goals. PORTSMOUTH are still in fifth place as they lost 1-0 at home to Blackpool. Portsmouth picked up their tenth blank of the season. SUNDERLAND are still in sixth place after they won 3-0 away to Burton. Sunderland are now on a total of 42 goals and have now scored in all of their last ten games.

Meanwhile ACCRINGTON STANLEY drew 1-1 at home to Shrewsbury and they are on 41 goals. It’s 40 goals for FLEETWOOD TOWN after they drew 1-1 at home to CHARLTON. Charlton are on 47 goals and have now scored in all of their last nine games. After a goal run of fourteen games, PLYMOUTH picked up their sixth blank score sheet after they drew 0-0 away to Rochdale. After scoring just one goal in their last five games, OXFORD UNITED drew 0-0 away to Ipswich and after scoring in their last ten games, Oxford picked up blank number nine. SWINDON won 2-1 at home to CREWE. Swindon are on 35 goals to Crewe’s 42. 

LEAGUE TWO

The highest team that we have here is CHELTENHAM after they lost 2-0 at home to Bradford. Cheltenham picked up their seventh blank of the season and they are in third place. 

In the Play-off’s we have just two teams now with SALFORD CITY in now fifth place after they drew 1-1 at home to Carlisle. Salford are on 40 goals. TRANMERE in down to sixth place after they drew 2-2 at home to Oldham. Tranmere are on 41 goals.

Meanwhile SCUNTHORPE are back in play and they won 3-1 at home to HARROGATE TOWN. Scunthorpe are on 34 goals while Harrogate picked up goal number 36. BOLTON won 1-0 away to SOUTHEND and are on 39 goals and have now scored in all of their last eight games. Southend picked up their sixteen blank and now two games in a row. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership Rangers after their big win have now scored in all of their last twenty-eight games. Rangers are still 18 points in front of Celtic. CELTIC missed the chance to catch up with Rangers after they lost 1-0 away to Ross County. That is Celtic’s fifth blank of the season.  ABERDEEN after failing to score in their last six games, picked up goal number 33 as they win 1-0 at home to Kilmarnock. MOTHERWELL lost 3-0 at home to St Johnstone and that is their eleventh blank of the season.

All Scottish football below Championship level are still suspended but they are hoping to restart play on 6^th March. 

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

RANGERS (79) MANCHESTER CITY (70) BRENTFORD (68) Total of 217 goals 

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

SOUTHEND (21) BIRMINGHAM (22) COVE RANGERS (22) Total of 65 goals

Our Best team this week are RANGERS after they have now scored in all of their last twenty-eight league/cup games. They have scored a total of 79 goals which now gives them an average score of 2.4 goals per game. 

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

DERBY and SOUTHEND have both picked up the most number of blank score sheets with sixteen each. 

Our highest goal scorers in our 38^th Season are MANCHESTER UNITED after they won 9-0 win at home against Southampton in the league in Week Twenty-Three.  

STEVE REEVE has remained at the top this weekend as I managed to pick up a total of just nine goals once again this week. It’s three weeks at the top for me this week. My teams are Brentford, Manchester City and Rangers. Michael Fisher is still in second place as he picked up a total of eleven goals for the week. Michael is just two goals behind me this week. His teams are Manchester City Manchester United and Rangers.

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

So here are the top ten for this week.

      THIS      LAST                                                  M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

     WEEK     WEEK             NAME                          GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

          1             -                 S. REEVE (2008/09)        80                   137                217

           2                 -                 M. FISHER                     79                   136                215              

            3                 4                M. JOHNSTON               70                   137                207              

            4                 3                J. WEARDEN                  68                   137                205

            5                 6                G. PHILLIPS                   70                   135                205              

            6                 5                R. HARROD                    91                   111                202              

            7                 8                S. MARSHALL                63                   138                201

            8                 9                B. BARNES (2)               67                   134                201

            9                 7                M. GREGORY                 90                   110                200 

            10               17              C. WEBB                         66                   132                198