In Week Twenty-Three of the competition we had our twenty-fourth winner of the season winning on a score of 11 goals once again. It was MIKE HARRINGTON our joint 1997/98 Champion who picked up this weekends cash prize money of £6. Mike started with us back in the 1995/96 Season and it was not long before he became champion. Two seasons later in the 1997/98 Season, he became joint champion with David Salmon as they both finished on a total of 276 goals. They became the second pair to be joint winners and we have not had any since. Mike is ranked as 34th in our Champions League. Last season he finished in 101st place with 230 goals. This season Mike has picked up four blank score sheets at the weekends and this is the highest that he has been all season. This is his personal best score to date and his best team is Brentford. His winning teams are
BRENTFORD 4, MANCHESTER CITY 4, NOTTINGHAM FOREST 3
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MIDWEEK GOALS
All but one of us picked up some goals this week once again and it has changed the order in the race for the cash. We had another seven players that have scored 50 or more midweek goals, taking our total up to 105 players that are on or over the halfway stage to the cash. It was MARK GREGORY that picked up the most number of midweek goals with a total of 15 goals. They came from Celtic 4, Manchester City 2, Manchester United 9. Mark is now on a total of 78 midweek goals this week which puts him firmly at the top. So here are the top six places this week. So as I have just said that MARK GREGORY is top moving up from five now with a total of 78 goals. In second place moving down from number one of last weekend we have RAYMOND HARROD with a total of 76 goals. In third place down from two is CHRIS SETFORD with a total of 75 goals. In fourth place with 73 goals we have CHRIS DICKER moving back into the race. In fifth place we have MICHAEL JACOBSON moving down from three with MICHAEL FISHER joining the race this week. Both have a total of 72 goals. In sixth place with 71 goals we have MARTIN CORBETT and STEVE STUBBS back in the race.
WEEKEND
RESULTS
This weekend we had the weather interfering with our games again this weekend. We had a total of fourteen of our teams without a game over the weekend with another sixteen that failed to score any goals. The good news is that only one player failed to pick up any goals at the weekend. After getting another fantastic set of midweek results, it was even better at the weekend. The weekends average score shot up from three of last weekend up to 6 goals this weekend. The Highest score over the weekend was four goals and they came from the Premier League where MANCHESTER CITY beat LIVERPOOL 4-1 away and from the Championship BRENTFORD won 4-1 away to MIDDLESBROUGH.
PREMIER LEAGUE
We now have the top eleven teams here with MANCHESTER CITY remaining at the top after they won 4-1 away to LIVERPOOL. City are now on a total of 60 goals and have extended their goal run to fifteen games. Liverpool picked up goal number 57 and they are now back down to fourth place. MANCHESTER UNITED are still in second place after they drew 3-3 at home to EVERTON. United have picked up a total of 12 goals this week and they are now on a total of 61. Everton have moved up to seventh place with a total of 51 goals. LEICESTER CITY are up to third place after they drew 0-0 away to WOLVES. Leicester after a goal run of eleven games, picked up their sixth blank of the season. Wolves picked up their ninth and now just two goals in their last four games. CHELSEA are now in fifth place after they won 2-1 away to Sheffield United. Chelsea are on 52 goals. FULHAM drew 0-0 at home to WEST HAM and that is their thirteenth blank and now two in a row while West Ham after a goal run of eight games, picked up their fourth blank of the season. ASTON VILLA won 1-0 at home to ARSENAL and that is goal number 43 for them as Arsenal picked up their eleventh blank of the season. BRIGHTON drew 1-1 away to Burnley and they are on 34 goals while TOTTENHAM won 2-0 at home to WEST BROM. Tottenham after failing to score in their last two games, are now on a total of 48 goals. West Brom picked up their eleventh blank of the season.
CHAMPIONSHIP
Norwich are still top here after their game on Friday night. BRENTFORD have moved into second place after their 4-1 away win against MIDDLESBROUGH. Brentford are now on a total of 64 goals and have now scored in all of their last seven games. Brough after now goals in their last three games are now on a total of 36 goals.
In the Play-Off’s
we still have all four teams with Swansea now down to third place
with READING up to fourth place after they drew 0-0 away to STOKE.
Reading picked up their eighth blank of the season to Stoke’s eleven. WATFORD
are down to fifth place after they drew 0-0 away to Coventry. That is Watford’s
tenth blank of the season. BOURNEMOUTH
remained in sixth place this week after they won 3-2 at home to BIRMINGHAM.
Bournemouth are now on a total of 50 goals while Birmingham are on 21 goals
this week.
Meanwhile CARDIFF won 2-0 away to BRISTOL CITY and they are on 35 goals while Bristol picked up their eleventh blank score sheet. LUTON drew 1-1 at home to Huddersfield and they are on 28 goals. ROTHERHAM are on 34 goals as they win 3-1 away to PRESTON. Rotherham have now scored in all of their last ten games while Preston picked up their 39th goal of the season. NOTTINGHAM FOREST won 3-0 away to Wycombe and they are now on a total of 27 goals.
LEAGUE ONE
Lincoln City are back on top after their
win in midweek.
In the Play-off’s we still have three of our
teams out of the four with HULL
moving down to third place after they lost 1-0 away to Burton. PETERBOROUGH are down to fourth place after
they won 2-0 at home to CREWE. After
a two game dry spell for goals, Borough are now on 41 goals. Crewe picked up
their eighth blank of the season after a goal run of fourteen games. PORTSMOUTH are still in fifth place as
they drew 2-2 at home to PLYMOUTH. Portsmouth
are on 55 goals while Plymouth are on 49 and have extended their goal run to
twelve games.
Meanwhile ACCRINGTON STANLEY picked up their sixth blank of the season as they drew 0-0 at home to Northampton. OXFORD UNITED lost 3-2 away to Doncaster and they are now on a total of 42 goals and have now scored in all of their last eight games. FLEETWOOD TOWN drew 0-0 at home to Bristol Rovers and that is their twelfth blank of the season and now four in a row. SUNDERLAND drew 2-2 away to MK Dons and they are on 34 goals and a goal run of seven games. CHARLTON won 2-0 away to Rochdale and they are on a total of 44 goals and a goal run of seven games. SWINDON lost 1-0 at home to Shrewsbury and that is their eleventh blank and now just one goal in their last four games. It’s 30 goals for WIGAN after they lost 3-2 at home to AFC Wimbledon.
LEAGUE TWO
TRANMERE have moved up to third place after
they won 3-0 at home to Port Vale. Tranmere are now on a total of 39 goals.
In the Play-off’s we have just one team left in
for now and they are EXETER. They
won 3-2 at home to Bradford and they are now on a total of 53 goals.
Meanwhile most of the games here were cancelled in this league due to the weather with only HARROGATE TOWN managing to play. They won 3-1 away to Crawley and they are now on a total of 34 goals.
SCOTTISH
LEAGUES
In the Premiership RANGERS failed to beat bottom of the table Hamilton as they drew1-1
away. Rangers are on a total of 74 goals and have now scored in all of their
last twenty-six games. Rangers have also scored just three goals in their last
three games. They are now are 21 points in front of Celtic who have two games
in hand of Rangers. CELTIC won 2-1 at
home to MOTHERWELL. Celtic are on a
total of 57 goals while Motherwell are on 25 goals. ABERDEEN lost 2-0 away to Hibernian to pick up their tenth blank
score sheet and now four games without a goal. Aberdeen are back down to fourth
place.
All Scottish football below Championship level are still suspended but they are hoping to restart play on 20th February.
Our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals. They are
RANGERS (74)
BRENTFORD (64) MANCHESTER UNITED (61) Total of 199 goals
OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE
DERBY (18) SOUTHEND
(20) BIRMINGHAM (21) Total of 59 goals
Our Best team this week are RANGERS after they have now scored in all of their last twenty-six league/cup games. They have scored a total of 74 goals which now gives them an average score of 2.4 goals per game.
Our worst team this weekend is FLEETWOOD TOWN who have scored just four goals in their last twelve games played.
DERBY have picked up the most number of blank score sheets with sixteen out of their thirty league/cup games.
Our highest goal scorers in our 38th Season are MANCHESTER UNITED after they won 9-0 win at home against Southampton in the league in Week Twenty-Three.
STEVE REEVE has become our sixth player to reach the top this season. I managed to pick up a total of thirteen goals this week and am really surprised that I have reached the top. My teams are Brentford, Manchester City and Rangers. Jed Wearden has moved down to second place as he picked up a total of ten goals for the week. Jed is three goals behind me this week. His teams are once again Brentford, Liverpool and Rangers.
At the other end at 116 we still have
John Nicholls who has now been there
for seven consecutive weeks. Johns teams picked up just three goals this week
from Bristol City, Fulham and West Brom.
So it's all change at the top this weekend
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 2 S. REEVE (2008/09) 70 128 198
2 1 J. WEARDEN 64 131 195
3 5 M. FISHER 72 123 195
4 3 M. JOHNSTON 64 127 191
5 8 B. BARNES (2) 63 124 187
6 4 G. PHILLIPS 61 125 186
7 6 K. THOMSON 60 121 181
8 9 A. EYLES 69 112 181
9 12 R. HARROD 76 105 181
10 7 S. MARSHALL 56 124 180
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