In Week Twenty-Nine of the competition we had three winners this
weekend to share the £6 cash prize money. Our winners all won on a score of just 7 goals. Our winners are LEE CLARK, TONY GUY
(3) and RICKY WOOD. We have now had a total of 31 winners
as two of our winners are first timers for this season. Lee has been with us for six season’s now as he started with us back in the
2015/16 Season. In his first season he finished in 40th place with
258 goals and had one weekend win. Last season Lee finished in 90th
place with a total of 248 goals. This season he has picked up five blank score
sheets and this is the highest that he has been this season. Ricky is in his sixteenth season with Golden Goals. He started in our 2005/06
Season where he finished in the winning frame in 20th place with 262
goals. He also picked up one weekend win. It was in the 2007/08 Season that
Ricky became joint Champions with Gerry Kyei with a total of 293 goals. He is
currently 29th in our Champions table. Last season Ricky finished in
92nd place with a total of 247 goals. He picked up one weekend win. This
season he has been as high as 29th place in Week Ten for two weeks.
He has picked up three blank score sheets. Tony has already won some cash with his second combo in Week Two. With his
third combo this is the highest that this one has reached. Combo three has
picked up four blank score sheets to date. Our winning teams are
Lee CHELSEA
2, MANCHESTER CITY 2, WATFORD 3
Tony ARSENAL
3, CHELSEA 2, MANCHESTER CITY 2
Ricky CELTIC
1, PETERBOROUGH 3, WATFORD 3
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MIDWEEK GOALS
Most of us once
again picked up some goals this week but the race for the cash is now over for
this season. We are now looking at beating the highest midweek score of 136
goals set by Daryl Nicholls in the 2016/17 Season. It was TONY KING that picked up the most number of goals with 7. They came
from Bournemouth 3 and Watford 4. Rangers is his third team and he
is now on a total of 81 midweek goals. This week we now have a total of six
players that are on or over 100 goals. They are RAYMOND HARROD with a total of 106 goals. His teams are Brentford,
Celtic and Manchester City. SANSA-CLARA-LYANNA
with a total of 105 goals. A&A.
CLARK, MICHAEL JACOBSON and DEAN ZANIOUS all with 101 goals. CHRIS SETFORD has stayed with 100
goals this week. We are also now looking to beat the number of players to reach
100 midweek goals in a season. Last season due to the Covid outbreak and the
stop start of the season, we had a record breaking 51 players that reached the
100 or more midweek goals.
WEEKEND
RESULTS
We had a
total of just five of our teams without a game over the weekend with another fifteen
that failed to score any goals. The good
news is that all but one players picked up some goals this weekend. It was not
a particular great weekend for goals but this weekends average score moved up from
three of last weekend to 4 goals this weekend. The Highest score that we had over
the weekend was three goals and we had a total of seven teams that picked them
up over the weekend.
FA CUP
Quarter-Finals
We had six of our teams in cup action over the weekend and
out of them three have made it through to the semi-finals. They are MANCHESTER
CITY who won 2-0 away to EVERTON and they are now on a total of 86
goals. Everton picked up their eighth blank of the season. CHELSEA won
2-0 at home to Sheffield United and they are on a total of 61 goals. LEICESTRER
CITY won 3-1 at home to MANCHESTER UNITED and they have taken their
goals tally up to 64 goals and have now scored in all of their last eight games.
United are on 70 goals. BOURNEMOUTH go out after they lost 3-0 at home
to Southampton. That is Bournemouths ninth blank score sheet after a goal run
of eight games.
PREMIER LEAGUE
WEST HAM scored five goals in their 3-3
home draw against London rivals ARSENAL. What I hear you cry. Well West
Ham went three goals up before they gave Arsenal two own goals, just to help
them out. Still West Ham are still in fifth place with a total of 59 goals.
Arsenal in ninth place, are on a total of 45 goals. ASTON VILLA picked
up their eighth blank score sheet and now just one goal in their last four
games, after they lost 2-0 at home to TOTTENHAM. Tottenham are in sixth
place with a total of 68 goals and a goal run of six games. BRIGHTON
have not had a big win since Week Eighteen as they win 3-0 at home to
Newcastle. Brighton are now on a total of 41 goals.
CHAMPIONSHIP
Champion’s NORWICH are still top here and now 12 points
ahead after they drew 1-1 at home to Blackburn Rovers. Norwich are now on a
total of 59 goals and they have now scored in all of their last ten games. WATFORD are still in second place after
they won 3-0 at home to BIRMINGHAM CITY. Watford are now on a total of
57 goals while Birmingham picked up their nineteenth blank score sheet.
In the Play-Off’s
we still have three of the four teams with SWANSEA in third
place after they lost 1-0 at home against CARDIFF CITY. Swansea picked
up their eighth blank score sheet and now two in a row. BRENTFORD are still
in fourth place as they drew 1-1 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST. Brentford
are on 77 goals to Forest’s 32. READING are down to sixth place after
they drew 1-1 at home to QPR. Reading are
on a total of 54 goals.
Meanwhile BRISTOL CITY lost 2-0 at home to ROTHERHAM and that is their
eighteenth blank and now two in a row while Rotherham are on a total of 40
goals. MIDDLESBROUGH lost 1-0 away to Millwall and that is their thirteenth
blank of the season. PRESTON lost 1-0 at home to LUTON and they
picked up their seventeenth blank and now three in a row while Luton picked up goal
number 37. STOKE after a two game dry spell are now on 46 goals as they
win 1-0 at home against DERBY. Derby picked up their twenty-first blank
score sheet and now just two goals in their last six games.
LEAGUE ONE
HULL are still top here a after they drew
1-1 away to Shrewsbury. Hull are on
a total of 67 goals and have now scored in all of their last six games. PETERBOROUGH remained in second place
after they drew 3-3 away to Rochdale. Borough are now on a total of 60 goals.
In the Play-off’s we now have three of our
teams out of the four with SUNDERLAND now
up to third place after they drew 1-1 at home to LINCOLN CITY. Sunderland are
on a total of 54 goals and a goal run of seventeen games. Lincoln have dropped
down to fourth place with a total of 69 goals. CHARLTON have moved up to sixth place as they drew 2-2 away to AFC
Wimbledon. Charlton are on a total of 57 goals.
Meanwhile ACCRINGTON STANLEY won 3-1 at home to WIGAN and they are on 51 goals. Wigan picked up goal number 43. FLEETWOOD TOWN lost 2-0 at home to SWINDON. Fleetwood have now had a total
of sixteen blank score sheets while Swindon are now on 44 goals. CREWE are on 49 goals as they win 1-0
away to Northampton. OXFORD UNITED lost 2-0 at home to Blackpool
and that is their fourteenth blank of the season. PLYMOUTH won 2-0 at home to Bristol Rovers and they are on a total
of 59 goals. After failing to score in their last two games, PORTSMOUTH are on 64 goals after they
won 2-1 at home to Ipswich.
LEAGUE TWO
CHELTENHAM are still top after
they won 2-0 at home to SALFORD CITY.
Cheltenham are now on a total of 58 goals while Salford picked up their thirteenth
blank and now now goals in their last three games.
In the Play-off’s we have just two teams now with
TRENMERE ROVERS up to fourth place after
they won 2-1 at home to EXETER.
Tranmere are on a total of 52 goals while Exeter picked up goal number 63. BOLTON are now in fifth place after
they won 2-1 at home to Walsall. Bolton are on 50 goals and they have now
scored in all of their last fifteen games.
Meanwhile HARROGATE TOWN lost 1-0 at home to Morecambe and that is their thirteenth
blank of the season. SCUNTHORPE picked
up goal number 39 as they drew 1-1 at home to SOUTHEND. Southend after
failing to score in their last five games, picked up goal number 25.
SCOTTISH
LEAGUES
In the Premiership Champions RANGERS drew 1-1 after going a goal
down against rivals CELTIC. Rangers
have now scored in all of their last thirty-one games and they are on a total
of 84 goals. Celtic picked up goal number 66. ABERDEEN lost 1-0 away to Dundee United and that is their fifteenth
blank of the season and now three in a row. MOTHERWELL lost 4-1 away to Kilmarnock and they picked up goal
number 33.
In the
Championship HEARTS after a goal run
of fourteen games have now picked up their second blank of the season after
they drew 0-0 away to Arbroath. Hearts are 16 points in front of second place Raith
Rovers who are a game behind.
At last we
can restart our two lower Scottish leagues, so here we go with League One. If you can think back that FALKIRK were top of the league and they
still are, after they won 2-0 at home to Montrose. Falkirk are on a total of 29
goals. COVE RANGERS are in second
place after they drew 1-1 away to Partick. Rangers are on a total of 23 goals. In League Two STENHOUSEMUIR won 2-0 at home to Albion and they are on a total of
24 goals.
Our BEST three teams this week with Golden
Goals. They are
MANCHESTER
CITY (86) RANGERS (84) BRENTFORD (77)
Total of 241 goals
OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE
COVE
RANGERS (23) STENHOUSEMUIR (24) SOUTHEND (25) Total of 72 goals
Our Best
team this week are RANGERS after they have now scored in all of their last thirty-one league/cup games.
They have scored a total of 84 goals which still gives them an average score of
2.4 goals per game.
Our worst
team this weekend is ABERDEEN who have scored just five goals in their last fourteen
games played.
DERBY and SOUTHEND have both picked up the most number of blank score sheets this
season with twenty-one each.
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 remained at the
top this weekend, as I managed to pick up a total of six goals this week. So
now it’s seven weeks in a row 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 just four goals for the week. Michael is is
now seven 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 thirteen consecutive weeks. Johns teams picked up just one goal this week
from his combo of Bristol City, Fulham and West Brom.
Not much has changed in the top ten this weekend but here they are
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 - S. REEVE (2008/09) 96 151 247
2 - M. FISHER 89 151 240
3 - S. MARSHALL 74 160 234
4 - M. JOHNSTON 81 150 231
5 - G. PHILLIPS 83 148 231
6 - C. WEBB 81 149 230
7 - R. HARROD 106 123 229
8 11 D. HUGHES 91 136 227
9 8 A. EYLES 95 129 224
10 13 TIM WOOD 97 127 224