Monday 16 May 2022

Week Forty-One

In Week Forty-One of the competition it was STALKY (Bob Burgin) that picked up the highest score with a total of 10 goals. His teams are LEICESTER CITY 5, RANGERS 3 and WEST HAM 2. 

All but two players (which have all of their teams finished for the season) picked up some more goals this week as the season comes down to the final games.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

The race is now on to see how many of us can get to that 100 or more midweek goals and to beat the best midweek score of 136 goals which is currently held by Daryl Nicholls from the 2016/17 Season. We now have a total of thirteen players that have joined the 100 goals club this week. It was MARK JOHNSTON and JULIA WOOD that picked up the most amount of midweek goals with a total of 10 goals each.  

So we have LYANNA GRIMWOOD still leading the way as she now takes her total up to 131 goals. Her teams are Fulham. Manchester City and Sunderland. In second place we now have PETER WELLARD with a total of 112 goals. In third place we now have JAMIE WOOD with a total of 111 goals. In fourth place this week we now have KEAMUS SETNA and BOB SOPER and both with a total of 110 goals. In fifth place with 108 goals we now have LOUIE HARRINGTON and MANGO (Paul Moran). In sixth place this week we have SAMUEL STEPHENS and COLIN WEBB both on 107 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS 

The highest score we had was six goals and they came from CELTIC after they won 6-0 at home to Motherwell. With their last game of the season, Celtic have finished on a total of 111 goals and they had scored in all of their last twelve games. 

FA CUP FINAL 

We ended up with both of the teams in the 141st FA Cup final and they were CHELSEA and LIVERPOOL. After an entertaining first 90 minutes of football it finished 0-0. In extra time the two teams could still not be split and again it finished 0-0. Liverpool then went on to win 6-5 on penalties. Chelsea picked up their sixth blank of the season while Liverpool after a goal run of thirteen games, picked up their fourth blank of the season. 

PREMIER LEAGUE 

MANCHESTER CITY are are now four points in front of Liverpool in second place this weekend as they drew 2-2 away to WEST HAM. City are now on a total of 118 goals and they have scored in all of their last ten games. West Ham are on a total of 66 goals. Chelsea are still in third place with TOTTENHAM now in fourth place as they win 1-0 at home to Burnley. Tottenham picked up goal number 75. Arsenal are down to fifth place as they had now game at the weekend. ASTON VILLA drew 1-1 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE and they are on a total of 56 goals while Palace are on 57 goals. BRIGHTON are on a total of 48 goals after they drew 1-1 away to Leeds Utd. WATFORD lost 5-1 at home to LEICESTER CITY to pick up goal number 36 after they had failed to score in their previous two games. Leicester have taken their goals tally up to 70 with their biggest result of the season. WOLVES drew 1-1 at home to bottom of the table Norwich and they are on a total of 46 goals. BRENTFORD won 3-2 away to Everton and they have taken their goals total to 64. 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

In the Play-offs we have just two of the four teams. They are NOTTINGHAM FOREST who won 2-1 away to SHEFFIELD UNITED in their first leg game. Forest are on a total of 84 goals while Sheffield United picked up their 67th goal and have now scored in all of their last six games. 

LEAGUE TWO 

In the Play-Offs we have just one out of the four teams and they are SWINDON. They won their first leg game 2-1 at home to Port Vale. Swindon are on a total of 85 goals and have now scored in all of their last seven games. 

Our BEST three teams this week are 

MANCHESTER CITY (118) LIVERPOOL (112) CELTIC (111) Total of 341 goals

Our WORST three teams are

SCUNTHORPE (29) WATFORD (36) BARNSLEY (38) Total of 103 goals 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the very last game of the Premiership, Champions Celtic finished four points in front of rivals RANGERS in second place. Rangers won their last league game 3-1 away to HEARTS after going a goal down. Rangers are now on a total of 100 goals to become our fifth team to reach 100 goals this season and they have now scored in all of their last seventeen games. Hearts are on a total of 75 goals. ABERDEEN drew 0-0 at home to St Mirren and that is their eleventh blank of the season and no goals from their last two games of the season. 

Our on-form team this week are RANGERS as they have now scored in all of their last seventeen League/Cup games. 

Our worst team are PETERBOROUGH after they picked up a total of twenty-five blank score sheets out of a total of fifty league/cup games. 

Our highest goal scorers in our 39th Season are FULHAM who have scored seven goals three times this season. They first won 7-0 away to Blackburn Rovers in the league in Week Fourteen and they have also won 7-0 away to Reading in the league in Week Twenty-Four. They have now added a 7-0 home win against Luton in Week Forty. CELTIC who won 7-0 at home to St Johnston in the league in Week Thirty-Six. OXFORD UNITED won 7-2 away to Gillingham in the league in Week Twenty-Six. MANCHESTER CITY won 7-0 at home to Leeds Utd in the league in Week Twenty. CHELSEA won 7-0 at home to Norwich in the league in Week Twelve. BRENTFORD won 7-0 at home to Oldham in the third round of the Carabao/League Cup in Week Eight. 

JULIA WOOD is in her fourth consecutive weekend at the top after she picked up a total of 12 goals this week. Julia’s teams are Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City. Julia has moved up the table again this weekend in our Champions League to 11th place as she has taken over another three past Champions including Tony Patman’s score of 322 goals in the 1999/00 Season. Peter Wellard is still in second place as he picked up a total of 10 goals from his teams of Chelsea, Fulham and Manchester City over the week.  

At the other end at 113 we still have ZIGGY (John Wood) this weekend which is now his 35th consecutive weekend at the bottom and now thirty-seven over the season. Ziggy picked up a just one goal again this week. Ziggy has remained at 37th place in our Losers League for the fifth weekend running. Ziggy teams are Crystal Palace, Scunthorpe and Stenhousemuir.

We have just one more New Sheet to give you in our 39th Season of Golden Goals. Looks very much likely that we will have our fifth lady Champion.

          THIS      LAST                                                 M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL         

 WEEK     WEEK         NAME                            GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

       1            -              JULIA WOOD                   91                   233                324               

       2                 -             P. WELLARD                    112                210                322                

       3                 4            K. SETNA (2005/06)         110                209                319                

       4                 3            S. THOMSON (2)              96                   222                318                

       5                 6            S. STUBBS                        85                   232                317                 

       6                 5            L. GRIMWOOD                131                186                317           

       7                 -             M. UNSTEAD                  97                   214                311                 

       8                 -             D. MORBEY                    87                   219                306                 

       9                 10          M. JOHNSTON                90                   215                305                 

                 10              9            MANGO                           108                196                304                

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