Monday 22 March 2021

Week Twenty-Nine

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

100 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 

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