Week Thirty-Five

In Week Thirty-Five of the competition we had our very last Weekend Jackpot of £6 prize money to give away and it was shared by two players who have already won some cash this season. They are STUART KEMP (1) and COLIN WEBB and they won on a score of 9 goals each. Stuart picks up his fourth win, but his second with combo one. He last won some cash in Week Thirty-Three with combo two. This is the highest that Stuart has been with his first combo and it has picked him up three blank weekend score sheets. His best team is Manchester City. Colin picks up his third win of the season and he last won back in Week Twenty-Five. Colin has still had just two blank weekend score sheets and his best team is Rangers. Their winning teams are 

Stuart  MANCHESTER CITY 2, OXFORD UNITED 3, TOTTENHAM 4 

Colin  MANCHESTER CITY 2, PETERBOROUGH 3, RANGERS 4 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS

Under half of us picked up some goals this week as we are now looking at beat that highest midweek score of 136 goals set by Daryl Nicholls in the 2016/17 Season. This week we now have a total of 26 players that are on or over the 100 goals mark. In the lead this week we still have MICHAEL JACOBSON with Bournemouth, Celtic and Manchester City with a total of 115 goals. In second place both with a total of 114 goals we still have SANSA-CLARA-LYANNA with Brentford, Manchester City and Watford and DEAN ZANIOUS with Brentford, Manchester City and Oxford United. EMMA NEWMAN is still in third place with a total of 112 goals.  

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had all but nine of our teams that played over the weekend and out of the ones that did, eleven failed to score any goals. It was a far better weekend than last weeks as the average score went up slightly from two goals of last weekend to 4 goals this weekend. The highest score that we had over the weekend was four goals and we had four teams that picked them up. They came from CARDIFF CITY, NORWICH, RANGERS and TOTTENHAM. 

PREMIER LEAGUE

Champions MANCHESTER CITY won 2-0 away to Crystal Palace and they are on a total of 94 goals this weekend. Manchester United are still in second place after their game against Liverpool was called off. Leicester City are still in third place after their draw on Friday night. CHELSEA have remained fourth place after they won 2-0 at home to FULHAM. Chelsea are on a total of 71 goals while Fulham picked up their eighteenth blank of the season and look set to be relegated. BRIGHTON won their eighth league game as they win 2-0 at home to LEEDS UNITED. Brighton after failing to score in their previous three games are now on a total of 44 goals. Leeds picked up their eleventh blank score sheet and now two in a row. TOTTENHAM won 4-0 at home to relegated Sheffield United. Tottenham have taken their goals tally up to 79 goals. EVERTON lost 2-1 at home to ASTON VILLA and they are now on a total of 67 goals while Villa are on 55 goals. ARSENAL won 2-0 away to Newcastle and they are on a total of 51 goals. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

Champions NORWICH  won 4-1 at home to READING and they have taken their goal tally to 76 goals. Reading picked up goal number 62. Promoted WATFORD are still in second place as they lost 2-0 away to BRENTFORD in third place. Watford picked up their thirteenth blank of the season while Brentford are on a total of 88 goals.

In the Play-offs we still have three of the four teams here with Brentford in third place and SWANSEA now in fourth place. They won 2-1 at home to DERBY and are on a total of 64 goals to Derby’s total of 34. BOURNEMOUTH have moved down to fifth place after they lost 1-0 away to bottom of the table Wycombe. Bournemouth picked up their eleventh blank of the season and now two in a row.

Meanwhile CARDIFF won 4-0 away to BIRMINGHAM and they are on a total of 65 goals while Birmingham picked up their twenty-first blank of the season. LUTON drew 1-1 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH and they are on a total of 46 goals to Brough’s total of 60. BRISTOL CITY lost 4-1 away to Millwall and they are on a total of 56 goals. PRESTON won 2-0 at home to Barnsley and they are on 54 goals. NOTTINGHAM FOREST drew 0-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday and that is their twelfth blank and now just two goals in their last five games. After a two game dry spell for goals, ROTHERHAM drew 1-1 at home to Blackburn and they are on a total of 45 goals. STOKE picked up their seventeenth blank as they lost 2-0 at home to QPR. 

LEAGUE ONE

Champions HULL won 3-1 at home against WIGAN. Hull are now on a total of 85 goals and have extended their goal run to fourteen games. Wigan picked up goal number 55 and they have now scored in all of their last six games. PETERBOROUGH are second and promoted as they drew 3-3 at home to LINCOLN CITY. Borough are on a total of 82 goals and Lincoln are now on a total of 83 goals and have a goal run of nine games.

In the Play-offs we still have three of the four teams. They are SUNDERLAND in third place as they win 3-1 away to PLYMOUTH. Sunderland are now on a total of 69 goals and Plymouth are on a total of 65 goals. Lincoln City are still in fourth place with PORTSMOUTH moving up to sixth place after they won 3-1 away to AFC Wimbledon. Portsmouth are now on a total of 78 goals this week.

Meanwhile, ACCRINGTON STANLEY drew 1-1 at home against CHARLTON and that is goal number 64 for them and 69 for Charlton. CREWE won 1-0 away to Bristol Rovers and they are on a total of 58 goals. FLEETWOOD TOWN are on 55 goals after they drew 1-1 at home to MK Dons. OXFORD UNITED won 3-2 away to Shrewsbury and they are now on a total of 76 goals and they have now scored in all of their last nine games. Relegated SWINDON lost 2-1 at home to Ipswich and they are on a total of 52 goals. 

LEAGUE TWO

CHELTEHAM are still on top after they lost 1-0 away to Newport. That is Cheltenham’s eleventh blank of the season. BOLTON are still in third place after they lost 2-1 at home to EXETER. Bolton are on a total of 58 goals and have now scored in all of their last six games. Exeter are on 75 goals.

In the Play-offs we still have just one team of the four and they are TRANMERE. They are down to sixth place after they lost 2-1 away to Forest Green. Tranmere are on a total of 59 goals.

Meanwhile SCUNTHORPE drew 0-0 away to Bradford and they have now had a total of twenty blank score sheets this season and now four in a row. SALFORD CITY picked up their seventeenth blank as they lost 1-0 away to Colchester. Although SOUTHEND won their tenth league game 2-1 away to Barrow, Southend are relegated with a total of 31 goals. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership  Champions RANGERS have beaten their rivals again 4-1 at home against CELTIC. Rangers have taken their goals tally up to 98 goals while Celtic picked up goal number 77. ABERDEEN are in fourth place after they won 2-1 away to Livingston. Aberdeen are on a total of 40 goals. MOTHERWELL won 2-0 at home to Kilmarnock and they are on a total of 45 goals and have extended their goal run to nine games. 

In League One COVE RANGERS are in second place after they lost 2-0 at home to Airdrie and that is their seventh blank of the season. FALKIRK are down to fourth place after they lost 2-1 at home to Montrose. Falkirk are on a total of 40 goals. 

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

RANGERS (98) MANCHESTER CITY (94) BRENTFORD (88) Total of 280 goals 

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE 

FULHAM (30) SOUTHEND (31) STENHOUSEMUIR (33) Total of 94 goals

Our Best team this week are still RANGERS after they have now scored in all of their last thirty-seven league/cup games. They have scored a total of 98 goals which now gives them an average score of 2.2 goals per game. 

Our worst team this weekend is SOUTHEND who have scored just 7 goals in their last fifteen games played. 

SOUTHEND have also picked up the most number of blank score sheets this season with twenty-six after forty-seven games played. 

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 again this weekend as I picked up a total of 9 goals for the week. It’s now thirteen weeks in a row at the top for me this week. My teams are Brentford, Manchester City and Rangers. But this week I have managed to move up in our Champions League this week. I have jumped into 34^th place as I over take Rob Houghs 1990/91 and Geoff Dockerills 1994/95 score of 274 goals each. I have also moved above Mike Harrington/David Salmon’s joint 1997/98 score of 276 goals. Colin Webb is now in second place as he picked up 11 goals for the week. Colin is six goals behind me this week. His teams are Manchester City, Peterborough and Rangers.

At the other end at 116 we still have John Nicholls who has now been there for nineteen consecutive weeks. Johns teams picked him up just one goal from his combo of Bristol City, Fulham and West Brom. John could pick up our lowest score ever as the season is rapidly coming to a close. 

The season is coming to an end and here are our top ten for this weekend.

          THIS      LAST                                                    M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

        WEEK     WEEK           NAME                             GOALS         GOALS        GOAL 

            1             -               S. REEVE (2008/09)            101                 179                280           

              2                 3             C. WEBB                              92                   182                274               

              3                 2             M. FISHER                           92                   178                270              

             4                 -              S. MARSHALL                     83                   182                265              

              5                 7            T. BICKNELL (2014/15)       107                 157                264              

             6                 5             G. PHILLIPS                          86                  177                263              

             7                 6             M. JOHNSTON                      85                  175                260             

             8                 -              R. HARROD                          111                148                259

             9                 15           P. COLLINS                           108                150                258              

            10               11            D. ZANIOUS                         114                144                258