At last the final
whistle has now been blown on our historic 39th Season of Golden Goals
and another covid season has passed without too much trouble this time round. But it was not the
season that we managed to beat our highest ever recorded number of entries of 149
players. The success of this season was all down to you. The good news is that
we do not have to wait long for the next season to start. Although we once
again lost a few friends this season, we have also gained some new ones. Lets
hope that we can continue with this nice run as we have had a lot of success
over our full 39 year history of Golden Goals.
We did have a couple of
records that have been broken this season, but more on this later. I hope that
you have had a lot of fun watching your name go up and down the table and as
shown above is where your combination of teams have left you standing in the
final position of the season. But before we go all into that, lets take a look
at what happened to the last few games of the season.
PREMIER LEAGUE
What a crazy Sunday we
had for our very last Premier League games of the season. Congratulations to MANCHESTER CITY on being this seasons
Champions. They won their last game of the season 3-2 at home to ASTON VILLA after going down 2-0 at
half time. City finished on a total of 121 goals and a goal run of eleven
games. They had a total of 41 votes. Villa finished on a total of 58 goals. One
point behind City came LIVERPOOL who
also won their last game 3-1 at home to WOLVES
after going a goal down. Liverpool finished on a total of 117 goals while
Wolves finished on a total of 47. CHELSEA
finished in third place after they won 2-1 at home to WATFORD. Chelsea finished on a total of 97 goals while relegated
Watford finished on a total of 37. TOTTENHAM
finished in fourth place as they won 5-0 away to Norwich. Tottenham finished on
a total of 80 goals. After failing to score in their previous two games, ARSENAL won 5-1 at home to Everton and
finished the season on a total of 77 goals. BRENTFORD lost 2-1 at home to Leeds Utd and they finished on a
total of 65 goals. BRIGHTON won 3-1
at home to WEST HAM and finished on
a total of 51 goals while West Ham finished on 67 goals. CRYSTAL PALCE finished on a total of 60 goals as they win 1-0 at
home against MANCHESTER UNITED.
United picked up their 10th
blank score sheet and a they finished with a total of 59 goals. LEICESTER CITY won 4-1 at home to
Southampton and they finished on a total of 74 goals.
Championship
Play-Offs
We had had just two of the
four teams playing for a place in the Premier League and they had to play each
other. NOTTINGHAM FOREST won 2-1
against SHEFFIELD UNITED from the
first leg but it was Sheffield Utd that won the second leg 2-1 away. This meant
that the teams drew 3-3 on aggregate and even after extra time there was no
shift in the score line. So it went to penalties where Forest won 3-2.
Sheffield United finished on a total of 69 goals and they had scored in all of
their last seven games.
In
the Final, Nottingham Forest played
Huddersfield in the final after Huddersfield won their tie 2-1 on aggregate
against Luton. Forest will be playing in the premier league next season as
Huddersfield scored an own goal just before first half in which they gave Forest
the game as they won 1-0. Forest finished the season on a total of 86 goals.
League One Play-Offs
We had
three of the four teams here with SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY, SUNDERLAND and WYCOMBE Sheffield
Wednesday lost 2-1 on aggregate in their two
games against Sunderland. Wednesday finished on a total of 81 goals and
they had three votes. Wycombe won their play-offs 2-1 on aggregate
against MK Dons.
In
the Final, SUNDERLAND took on WYCOMBE and won 2-0 to
get promoted back into the Championship. Sunderland finished on a total of 91
goals and had scored in all of their last six games. They had a total of 11
votes. Wycombe picked up their 13th blank and two in a row. They
finished on a total of 82 goals and they had just one vote.
League Two Play-Offs
Only
one of our teams made it through to the play-offs here and they were SWINDON
TOWN. They won their first leg game 2-1 at home against Port Vale and lost
the second leg 1-0 away. Meaning the game finished 2-2 on aggregate. That score
remained after extra time. Swindon then lost 6-5 on penalties. Swindon had a
total of nine blank score sheets and finished their season on a total of 85
goals and they had one vote.
SCOTTISH CUP FINAL
RANGERS have won the Scottish Cup for the first time in 13 years. Rangers took on HEARTS and won 2-0 in
extra time after they drew 0-0 in normal time. Rangers finished on a total of
102 goals and a goal run of eighteen
games. They had a total of 54 votes. Hearts picked up their 9th
blank score sheet and finished with a total of 75 goals. They had just one
vote.
So it’s
Congratulations to JULIA WOOD as she now becomes our 39th Champion
with Golden Goals and she becomes our fifth lady to win. Julia stayed
at the top for the last five weeks of the season. So we can now add her
name in our history book and in the Champions League where Julia finished in fifth
place on 335 goals. Her winning combination was
CHELSEA (97) LIVERPOOL (117) and MANCHESTER CITY (121) Julia picked up six blank score sheets
throughout the season. In the end she finished just 6 goals clear of our 2005/06 Champion Keamus Setna who finally
finished in second place with a total of 329 goals.
ROAD TO CHAMPION
Our new Champion’s name,
JULIA WOOD is now in our history book,
but what about the other people who managed to get to that magic number one
spot. We had a fantastic total of ten players that made it there is season.
We already know that Julia Wood was at the top for just five
weeks from 38 to 42. But it was CHRIS
BOLBERY that picked up the most number of weeks with ten. Chris started in week 1 and then from
weeks 3-11. Then we had SCOTT THOMSON
(2) for six weeks from weeks 30 to 35. LYANNA GRIMWOOD came next with a total of five weeks staying there in week 12 and then again
from weeks 25 and 26 and again from weeks 28 and 29. We then had GUY DOSWETT (2) and KEAMUS SETNA both had four weeks each. Guy had week 1 and 13. He
then also has weeks 19 and 20.
Keamus our 2005/06 Champion stayed top in weeks 21 to 24. MANGO (Paul Moran) had three weeks from weeks 14 to16. For two
weeks we had ANN WELLARD and STEVE STUBBS. Ann was there in weeks 17
and 18 while Steve was from weeks 36 and 37. We then had one player that had
just one week and that was PETER WELLARD
in week 27.
Below is the list of our top five champions of Golden Goals.
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
NAME M/W W/E
TOTAL
1.
L. KING 116 239 355 2001/02
2. P. DAVEY 132 216 348 2013/14
3.
J. WOOD 92
252
344
2016/17
4. M. PEPPERRELL 91 247 338 2002/03
5.
J. WOOD (Mrs) 94 241 335 2021/22
So what happened to our
past Champions. Well we had just fourteen that played this season and only two
finished in the top twenty-five. They were KEAMUS SETNA
2005/06 Champion in 2nd place
and our 2002/03 Champion MICHAEL PEPPERRELL in
25th place. We then had two more
that finished in the top 50 and they were in 36th
place CHRIS BOLBERY our 2017/18 Champion and followed
by MIKE HARRINGTON our joint 1997/98 Champion in
41st place. Our lowest Champion
finished in 105th place who was our two time Champion STEVE REEVE (ME) Yup, winning in the 2008/09 Season
and in our last season of 2020/21. It all went wrong for me this time and that
was mainly Hull with only 44 goals and Manchester United that finished with a
very disappointing 59 goals. So thanks to Rangers 102 goals that kept me near
bottom on the second page.
At the other end of the
table, we had just four players that landed on number 113. The player who
finished rock bottom this season was ZIGGY (John
Woods) John was there for the
last 36 weeks but 38 over the season. John stayed there in weeks 4 and 5 and
the from weeks 7to 42. Over the season John picked up six blank score
sheets. He had the combination of CRYSTAL PALACE (60) SCUNTHORPE (29) and STENHOUSEMUIR
(55) total of 145 goals.
John’s combination
finished in 38th place in our losers league and we can
now add his name in the history book. John has beaten our previous lowest record score of 131 goals by John
Nicholls in the 2020/21 covid Season. John has now finished bottom for
three seasons and now equals Freda Hillier and John Nicholls records. John’s other seasons were the 2011/12 and
2019/20.
With the other players, Sam Leghorn stayed there for two weeks from
week 2-3. June Tighe was there in our first
week and Sandra Nicholls was there
also for a week in week 6. GRAEME
BRITTON holds the record for the highest score of our losers league
with 214 goals from our 2004/05 season.
100 MIDWEEK
GOALS JACKPOT
The Prize Money for the
100 Midweek Goals Jackpot was worth £25 this season and it went to LYANNA GRIMWOOD in Week 32 by reaching 100 midweek
goals first. Lyanna finally reached a total of 131midweek goals. Bob Soper
came next with a total of 117 goals. We had a total of 16 players to hit 100
this season. The Golden Goals
record for the number of players reaching 100 midweek goals came from last
season with a total of 63. Daryl Nicholls holds the highest midweek
record with 136 goals from our 2016/17 Season.
BEAT THE
SCORE
The fantastic sum
of £65 cash prize money for BEAT
THE SCORE has not been picked up once again this season. The
prize money will go to the first player who scores 19 goals or more at the
weekend. So I hope that we can add more cash to the pot next season. The holder
of this record is Mark Rymer with 18 goals scored way back in our
1998/99 season, so it’s about time that some-one beat that score now.
THE TOP THREE TEAMS FINISHED AS
MANCHESTER CITY (121) LIVERPOOL (117) CELTIC (111) Total of 349 goals.
We had five teams that
picked up 100 or more goals this season. Our top three were MANCHESTER CITY who ended the season
with a total of 121 goals. City have played in 45 league/cup games this season
which gave them an average score of 2.6 goals per game. They were our top
English team with 41 votes and they picked up just five blank score sheets throughout
the season. Last season they finished on 106 goals and they have now scored over
100 goals in their last five consecutive seasons. This is their 8th Season out of 28
that they have scored 100 or more goals scored by the end of the season. Over
the 27 seasons, they have now scored a total of 2444 goals which now gives them
an average score of 87 goals per season. In second place was LIVERPOOL with 117 goals and they had a
total of 30 votes. They picked up a total of four blank score sheet from their
total of 50 league/cup games. This is their second best score after they scored
a total of 127 goals back in the 1985/86 Season. This is their 7th
Season out of the full 39 that they have scored 100 or more goals. Liverpool
have now scored a total of 3303 goals which now gives them an average score of
84 goals per season. Our third team finished with Champions CELTIC who finished on a total of 111
goals. They have played a total of 45 league/cup games and had a total of five
blank score sheets. They had scored in all of their last 12 games and had a
total of 9 votes. They have been with us for the full 39 seasons now and this
is their Golden Goals record breaking 20th time that they
have scored 100 or more goals in a season. Over that time they have netted a
total of 3808 goals and that now gives them an average score of 97.5 goals per
season.
So lets see what has
happen to our other teams that did well this season. FULHAM have made another Golden Goals record by beating their
top score of 105 goals in the 2000/01 Season. It’s their second season of
netting 100 goals in a season. They had eight votes this season. CHELSEA finished on a total of 97 goals
which is their best since the 2016/17 Season on where they finished on a total
of 109 goals. SUNDERLAND finished on
a total of 91 goals which is their best since their highest score of 108 goals
in the 1998/99 Season. NOTTINGHAM FOREST
finished on a total of 86 goals which is their best since the 1997/98 Season
with 95 goals. PLYMOUTH finished on
their biggest score of 80 goals beating their previous best score of 78 goals
in the 1995/96 Season. SALFORD CITY
picked up their highest score with 66 goals beating last seasons covid score of
56 goals. RANGERS have picked up
their 17th 100 goals in 38 seasons with a total of 102 goals.
New Boys Kelty Hearts became Champions in league wo and finished on a grand
total of 82 goals. Sutton United finished
on a total of 73 goals. Both teams had just one vote each.
THE WORST THREE TEAMS FINISHED AS
SCUNTHORPE
(29) WATFORD (37) BARNSLEY (38) Total of 103 goals
Our worst teams finished
as SCUNTHORPE in their 13th
appearance with Golden Goals and it will go down as their worst season as
they finished on their lowest score of just 29 goals. They are relegated to National League football
and they had just 1 vote. Next came WATFORD
with 22 appearance’s finished on a total of 37 goals which is their lowest
recorded score. They had just one vote. Our third worst team was BARNSLEY finishing
on 38 goals which is their lowest score in their 8th appearance’s with us. They
also had just one vote this season. Other teams that picked up their lowest score on
record are MANCHESTER UNITED with 59 goals. HULL with 44 goals. CARLISLE
UNITED with 42 goals. PETERBOROUGH with 47 goals.
Our biggest
result in our 39th Season came from FULHAM
who have scored 7 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.
PETERBOROUGH have picked up the most number of blank score sheets
this season with 25 out of their 50 league/cup games played.
Well that’s it, another season of GOLDEN GOALS has finally finished. I still can not believe
that I have been doing this competition for 39 year’s and after a hell of a lot
of work this season not only with 113 players taking part, but also with the
virus that hit our football again in the early part of the season, I will still
be looking forward to the next big one and hoping that we can beat our record
of 149 players from the 2017/18 Season.
We have finally ended up with a total of 25 winners all picking up some cash. Here they are
FINAL LAST M/WEEK W/END
TOTAL
WEEK SHEET NAME GOALS GOALS
GOALS
1 - JULIA WOOD 94 241 335
2 3 K. SETNA (2005/06) 112 217 329
3 2 P.
WELLARD 113 215 328
4 - S.
THOMSON (2) 98 228 326
5 - S. STUBBS 88 237 325
6 - L.
GRIMWOOD 131 191 322
7 - M.
UNSTEAD 100 220 320
8 9 M.
JOHNSTON 92 226 318
9 8 D. MORBEY 90 226 316
10 11 V.
CRUICKSHANK 100 209 309
11 10 MANGO 109 200 309
12 - R. NETTING 94 214 308
13 - M. ADKINS 84 221 305
14 15 D. HARRINGTON 105 200 305
!5 14 G.
DOWSETT (2) 81 220 301
16 17 A.
WELLARD 96 205 301
17 16 J. BLYTH 88 212 300
18 - GRAHAM PHILLIPS 90 210 300
19 - C. DICKER 88 209 297
20 - G. BOLBERY 90 207 297
21 - S. SEYEDI 87 209 296
22 26 C.
SETFORD 98 198 296
23 25 T. GUY (2) 90 205 295
24 22 G. DOWSETT (1) 82 212 294
25 28 M. PEPPERRELL (2002/03) 106 188 294
