Monday 9 May 2022

Week Forty

In Week Forty of the competition we did not have any more weekend cash prize money to offer our winner. But it was PHILIP REEVE our two time Champion that picked up the highest score with a total of 11 goals. Phil first became Champion in the 1987/88 Season with a total of 302 goals and then again in the 2012/13 Season with a total of 308 goals. Phil's teams are CHELSEA 2, MANCHESTER CITY 5 and WEST BROM 4.

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 nine players that have reach 100 goals or more this week. It was SAMUEL STEPHENS that picked up the most amount of midweek goals with a total of 10.  

So we have LYANNA GRIMWOOD still leading the way as she now takes her total up to 125 goals. Her teams are Fulham. Manchester City and Sunderland. In second place we have BOB SOPER and JAMIE WOOD both with a total of 106 goals. In third place we now have PETER WELLARD with a total of 104 goals. In fourth place with 103 goals we have COLIN WEBB. In fifth place with have LOUIE HARRINGTON, KEAMUS SETNA and SAMUEL STEPHENS all on 102 goals. In sixth place this week we have MANGO with 101 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

With our League One now finished except for the Play-Offs, we have a couple of players with just one team left in play but most of us still have two or even three still in action. Despite this we had a very good weekend for goals as our average score over the weekend went up from four goals from last weekend back to 5 goals this weekend. The highest score we had was five goals and we had two of our teams that picked them up. they were MANCHESTER CITY and PETERBOROUGH. 

PREMIER LEAGUE

MANCHESTER CITY are are now three points in front of Liverpool in second place this weekend as Manchester City won 5-0 at home to Newcastle. City are now on a total of 111 goals and they have scored in all of their last eight games. LIVERPOOL drew 1-1 at home to TOTTENHAM in fifth place. Liverpool are on a total of 110 goals and they have now scored in all of their last twelve games. Tottenham picked up goal number 71. CHELSEA are still in third place after they drew 2-2 at home to WOLVES. Chelsea are on a total of 91 goals while Wolves after a three games dry spell for goals are now on a total of 44 goals. ARSENAL are still in fourth place after they won 2-1 at home against Leeds. Arsenal are on a total of 72 goals. BRENTFORD after they failed to score in their last two games are now on a total of 61 goals after they won 3-0 at home to Southampton. With their biggest result of the season, BRIGHTON thrashed MANCHESTER UNITED 4-0 at home and they have taken their goals total up to 47. United's season has melted away as they pick up their ninth blank of the season. ASTON VILLA won 3-1 away to Burnley and they are now on a total of 54 goals. CRYSTAL PALACE won 1-0 at home to WATFORD and they are on a total of 56 goals. Watford picked up their seventeenth blank of the season and are relegated to the Championship. LEICESTER CITY lost 2-1 at home to EVERTON and they are on a total of 62 goals. WEST HAM are on a total of 64 goals after they won 4-0 away to Norwich. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

Champions FULHAM have had a fantastic season even though they lost their last game 4-0 away to SHEFFIELD UNITED. As Fulham picked up their seventh blank of the season, Sheffield take their goals total up to 66 goals. BOURNEMOUTH finished in second place after they won 1-0 at home to Millwall. Bournemouth finished on a total of 82 goals.

In the Play-offs we still have just two of the four teams. They are NOTTINGHAM FOREST now in fourth place after they drew 1-1 away to HULL. Forest are on a total of 82 goals while Hull finished on a total of 44 goals.  Sheffield United finished in fifth place after their win against Fulham.  

Meanwhile  we have all three teams that have been relegated from the Championship and they are BARNSLEY who lost 4-0 away to WEST BROM and picked up their twenty-second blank of the season. West Brom finished the season with 53 goals. DERBY also lost their last game 1-0 at home to CARDIFF CITY. Derby picked up a total of fifteen blanks over the season. Cardiff finished on a total of 56 goals. PETERBOROUGH won their ninth league game 5-0 at home against Blackpool. With their biggest result of the season, Borough finished on a total of 47 goals. Staying in the league are READING who lost their last game 1-0 away to Luton. Reading had a total of seventeen blank score sheets and failed to score in their last three games. PRESTON won 4-1 at home to Middlesbrough and they finished on a total of 64 goals. SWANSEA lost their last game 1-0 at home to QPR. Swansea picked up their fifteenth blank of the season. 

LEAGUE ONE Play-Offs

In the Play-Offs we have three teams who are Sheffield Wednesday, Sunderland and Wycombe.

WYCOMBE won their first leg game 2-0 against MK Dons but in the second leg they lost 1-0. The good news is that Wycombe won 2-1 on aggregate and are in the final after they picked up their twelfth blank of the season. 

LEAGUE TWO

Congratulations to EXETER CITY in being promoted to league one after they lost their last game 1-0 at home to Port Vale. Exeter have had a total of twelve blank score sheets.

In the Play-Offs we have just one out of the four teams and they are SWINDON in sixth place. They won 3-0 away to Walsall and they are on a total of 83 goals and have now scored in all of their last six games.

Meanwhile relegated SCUNTHORPE UNITED lost 7-0 away to Bristol Rovers and that is their last league game with a total of twenty-four blank score sheets. CARLISLE lost 2-0 away to Bradford and that is their twenty-first blank of the season. SUTTON UNITED won their last game 2-0 away to Harrogate and they finished on a total of 73 goals. STEVENAGE won their last game 4-2 at home to SALFORD CITY. With their highest result of the season, Stevenage finished on a total of 53 goals while Salford finished on 66 goals. 

Our BEST three teams this week are 

MANCHESTER CITY (111) LIVERPOOL (110) FULHAM (110) Total of 331 goals 

Our WORST three teams are 

SCUNTHORPE (29) WATFORD (35) BARNSLEY (38) Total of 102 goals 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership, Champions CELTIC won 4-1 at home to HEARTS after going a goal down in the first three minutes. Celtic are now on a total of 104 goals and they have now scored in all of their last ten games. Hearts are on a total of 73 goals. Second place RANGERS won 2-0 at home to Dundee United and they are on a total of 93 goals and they have now scored in all of their last fifteen games. ABERDEEN drew 1-1away to Hibernian and they are on a total of 46 goals. 

Our on-form team this week are RANGERS as they have now scored in all of their last fifteen 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 third weekend at the top by goal difference after she picked up a total of 8 goals all from the weekend. Julia’s teams are Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City. Julia has moved up the table again in our Champions League to 14th place as she has taken over twelve past Champions including Janice Conway score of 312 goals in the 1996/97 Season. Peter Wellard has moved up to second place as he picked up a total of 14 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 34th consecutive weekend at the bottom and now thirty-six over the season. Ziggy picked up a just one goal this week. Ziggy has remained at 37th place in our Losers League for the fourth weekend running. Ziggy teams are Crystal Palace, Scunthorpe and Stenhousemuir.  

Not long now before we will know our 39th Golden Goals Champion as the season.

    THIS      LAST                                               M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL         

   WEEK     WEEK          NAME                         GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

       1            -               JULIA WOOD                  81                   231                312               

        2                 5             P. WELLARD                  104                208                312                

        3                 2             S. THOMSON (2)            89                  220                309               

        4                 3             K. SETNA (2005/06)       102                207                309                 

        5                 6             L. GRIMWOOD              125                184                309                  

        6                 4             S. STUBBS                      79                   226                305          

        7                 -              M. UNSTEAD                 90                   212                302                 

        8                 -              D. MORBEY                   78                   216                294                  

        9                 14           MANGO                          101                193                294                

        10              -               M. JOHNSTON               80                  212                292  

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