Monday 9 August 2021

Week One

So how did the voting of teams for this season finally end up. It was MANCHESTER CITY that picked up the biggest number of votes once again but they came in with just a total of 39 votes. Last season they had a total of 72 and scored a total of 106 goals. So this was no surprise that they would be the most voted teams this season again. 

With our Scottish teams the highest voted team comes from the Scottish Premiership again and they are RANGERS with 54 votes which is a lot better than last seasons of  just 16. Celtic could only pick up a total of 9 votes due to last seasons performance of  just 81 goals. 

The Scottish teams had another poor turn out this season with a total of  just seven teams being picked. We have four from the Scottish Premiership, with just one from the Championship and two from League Two.

With the English teams things have changed as they always do in this competition. We have a total of  13  Premiership teams in this years competition with MANCHESTER CITY becoming our top team again this season.  Next came MANCHESTER UNITED with 30 votes. They were our sixth most voted team last season with 12 votes. In third place with 29 votes  we have LIVERPOOL. They were our second most voted team last season with 30 votes. In fourth place down from three last season is CHELSEA. They have 20 votes compared to 21 last season. Our fifth team is BOURNEMOUTH with 18 votes. They were our eighth most voted team last season with 10 votes. 

In the Championship we have picked up 14 teams compared to 17 last season,  while in League One we have 13 with 7 teams taken from League Two. 

We have two news teams to join Golden Goals this season. They are  SUTTON UNITED from the English League Two and KELTY HEATRS from the Scottish League Two. Both have one vote each. 

Week One in our very first weekend of the new season, we are already starting to pay out the prize money as we had just the one winner for our first £5 weekend prize money for this season. Our winner is our 2017/18 Champion CHRIS BOLBERY who picked up this weekends highest score with a total of 8 goals. Chris is currently in fifth place in our Champions League after he won with a total of 334 goals. Chris’s teams are  

BOURNEMOUTH – CELTIC 6, SUNDERLAND 2 

WEEKEND RESULTS 

The lower English leagues were all in action in our first weekend of the new season as the Scottish played their second game. We had a good start to the season with CELTIC picking up the highest score over the weekend with six goals. They won 6-0 at home to Dundee. Celtic who lost their first league game have moved up to fourth place and are now on a total of 7 goals. Celtic this season have only picked up a total of 9 votes which other players might regret as the season progresses. Last season Celtic scored just 81 goals. Celtic have been in every thirty-nine seasons with Golden Goals and this must be the lowest votes that they have ever had. Over the years they have netted a total of 3704 goals which gives them an average score of 94 goals per season. 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

HULL are top after they picked up the highest score here with a 4-1 away win against PRESTON. SWANSEA lost 2-1 away to Blackburn Rovers while CARDIFF drew 1-1 at home to BARNSLEY. DERBY drew 1-1 at home to Huddersfield and PETERBOROUGH lost their first game 3-0 away to Luton. READING lost 3-2 away to Stoke. SHEFFIELD UNITED lost 1-0 away to Birmingham while FULHAM drew 1-1 at home to Middlesbrough. NOTTINGHAM FOREST lost 2-1 away to Coventry. 

LEAGUE ONE 

ROTHERHAM are top after they won their first league game 2-0 at home to PLYMOUTH. BOLTON drew 3-3 at home to MK Dons. OXFORD UD drew 1-1 away to Cambridge Utd. PORTSMOUTH won 1-0 away to Fleetwood while LINCOLN CITY drew 1-1 away to Gillingham. IPSWICH drew 1-1 at home to Morecambe. BURTON won 1-0 away to Shewsbury. WYCOMBE won 2-1 at home to Accrington. SUDERLAND won 2-1 at home to WIGAN. CHARLTON drew 0-0 at home to SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY. 

LEAGUE TWO 

SWINDON are top here after they won 3-1 away to SCUNTHORPE. EXETER drew 0-0 at home to Bradford. New boys SUTTON UTD lost 2-1 away to Forest Green. SALFORD drew 1-1 at home to Leyton Orient. STEVENAGE won 1-0 at home to Barrow. CARLISLE drew 0-0 at home to Colchester. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES 

In the Premiership ABERDEEN are now in second place after they won their second league game 2-1 away to Livingston. Aberdeen are on a total of 4 goals in two games. After winning their first game, RANGERS are down to 5th place as they pick up their first blank score with with a 1-0 defeat against Dundee Utd away. HEARTS won  2-1 away to St Mirren and they are now on a total of 12 goals and a goal run of six games. 

In the Championship KILMARNOCK are our only team here this season and they won 1-0 away to Queen of the South. Kilmarnock are now on a total of 10 goals and they have extended their goal run to six games. 

In League Two, new boys KELTY HEARTS are top as they win their second league game 3-1 away to Stirling. Kelty are now on a total of 13 goals. STENHOUSEMUIR drew 2-2 away to Albion and they are on a total of 7 goals.  

Our Best Three Teams this Week are  

KELTY HEARTS (13) HEARTS (12) KILMARNOCK (10) Total of 35 goals. 

Here are our top ten for the first week.

        FIRST                                                              M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

          WEEK              NAME                                    GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

               1                C. BOLBERY (2017/18)              8                     8                    16

                  2                G. DOWSETT (2)                        13                   3                    16

                   3                R. WOOD (2007/08)*                 14                   1                    15

                   4                N. TREADWELL                        8                     6                    14

                   5                A. NEWMAN                              10                   2                    12

                   6                P. PORTER                                  10                   2                    12

                   7                G. CARTHY                                12                   0                    12

                   8                LUCIFER                                    10                   1                    11

                   9                B. SAWYER                                10                   1                    11

                           10               G. BOLBERY                              9                     1                    10 

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