Week Fourteen

Here we are with Week Fourteen of the competition and we had just one player to pick up the full £5 Weekend Jackpot this weekend. Our winner won on a score of 13 goals and they are DAVE WOOD which now means that we have had a total of nineteen winners in our 40^th Season. 

Dave has been with us for a long time now but being away from home this week, I am unable to tell you when. But last season Dave finished in 87^th place with a total of 240 goals. This season he has been as high as 9^th place in Week Four. Dave has picked up just one blank weekend score sheet and Rangers are his best team. His winning teams are 

ARSENAL 5, CHARLTON 4, RANGERS 4

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

Just under half of us managed to pick up some midweek goals this week which means just a slight change in the top five. JAMES BLYTH picked up the most number of goals with a total of 4. They came from Ipswich, Manchester City and Sheffield Wednesday. We have three joint leaders for the cash this week and they are HAYLEY ADKINS, NICK HORTON and up from two and JACQUI RATTLE.  All with a total of 31 goals each. In second place we still have  RICK WOOD our 2007/08 Champion with a total of 30 goals. In third place we still have STEVE AYRES and MARK GREGORY but joining them this week we have GEOFF CARTHY up from five. All are on a total of 28 goals. In fourth place all on 27 goals we still  have BARBARA BARNES (2), GUY DOWSETT (1) and TERENCE WARWICK both down for third place but joining them we have coming in to the race. In fifth place we have JAMES BLYTH with a total of 26 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS 

We had all but one of our teams without a game this weekend and we had twelve teams that failed to score any goals. We had another fairly good weekend once again as the average score for this weekend went up from five goals last weekend to 6 goals this weekend. Well done if your teams picked up more than that. 

The highest score that we had was five goals and they came from the Premier League ARSENAL who picked up their biggest result of the season by winning 5-0 at home to Nottingham Forest. Arsenal are now on a total of 30 goals and they have kept their 100% scoring record in twelve league games. In League two SWINDON TOWN picked up their biggest result of the season by winning 5-2 away to MANSFIELD TOWN.  Swindon have taken their goals tally to 23 goals while Mansfield are on 26 goals. 

PREMIER LEAGUE 

Arsenal have remained on top again this week and are still two points in front of MANCHESTER CITY who won 1-0 away to LEICESTER CITY. City are now on a total of 37 goals while Leicester picked up their 4^th blank of the season. TOTTENHAM are still in third place after they won 3-2 away to BOURNEMOUTH. Tottenham are now on a total of 26 goals while Bournemouth are on 14 goals. BRIGHTON won 4-1 at home against CHELSEA. Brighton have taken their goals total to 22 while Chelsea hit goal number 17. CRYSTAL PALACE won 1-0 at home to Southampton and they are on a total of 15 goals. FULHAM drew 0-0 at home to EVERTON and that is blank number three for them after a goal run of nine games. Everton picked up their 5^th. LIVERPOOL lost 2-1 at home to LEEDS UNITED and picked up goal number 23. Leeds are on 18 goals. NEWCASTLE won 4-0 at home to ASTON VILLA. Newcastle are now on a total of 26 goals as Villa picked up their 6^th blank of the season. MANCHESTER UNITED won 1-0 at home to WEST HAM and that is goal number 17 for them as West Ham picked up their 6^th blank score sheet. 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

BURNLEY now at the top of the league after they won 2-1 at home to READING. Burnley are on a total of 33 goals and they have extended their goal run to sixteen games. Reading are on 21 goals. SWANSEA lost 2-1 away to Bristol City and they are on a total of 25 goals. HUDDERSFIELD are on 18 goals after they won 1-0 at home to Millwall. LUTON drew 1-1 at home to SUNDERLAND. Luton are on 23 goals while Sunderland are on 22. It’s 30 goals for NORWICH after they won 3-1 at home to Stoke. MIDDLESBROUGH lost 2-1 away to Preston and they are on a total of 20 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED won 2-0 away to WEST BROM and they are on a total of 28 goals as West Brom picked up their 6^th blank of the season. WATFORD won 1-0 away to Wigan and they are on a total of 24 goals. 

LEAGUE ONE

 Plymouth are still the top of the table here with IPSWICH in second place. They drew 4-4 away to CHARLTON to get their biggest result of the season. Ipswich are now on a total of 35 goals. Charlton have taken their goals tally to 29. FOREST GREEN ROVERS lost 2-0 away to Barnsley and that is their 7^th blank of the season. It’s 20 goals for OXFORD UNITED after they won 3-1 away to Bolton. MK DONS drew 0-0 away to Cheltenham and that is their 8^th blank of the season. DERBY picked up their biggest score of the season as they win 4-2 at home to BRISTOL ROVERS. Derby are now on a total of 22 goals while Rovers are on 27 and have now scored in all of their last seven games. PETERBOROUGH won 1-0 at home to Cambridge Utd and they are on a total of 34 goals and a goal run of eight games. LINCOLN CIOTY lost 1-0 away to Port Vale and that is their 6^th blank of the season. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY have now scored in all of their last ten games as they win 4-2 at home against Burton. 

LEAGUE TWO 

The highest team that we have here are now Swindon Town in fourth place. AFC WIMBLEDON won 3-2 at home to Harrogate and that is their biggest result of the season. Wimbledon are now on a total of 20 goals. BRADFORD CITY drew 1-1 at home to CRAWLEY  TOWN. Bradford are on 24 goals while Crawley are on 21 goals. GILLINGHAM lost 1-0 away to Doncaster and they have now had a total of eleven blank score sheets and now two in a row. SALFORD CITY picked up their 5^th blank of the season as they lost 1-0 away to top of the table Leyton Orient. STOCKPORT COUNTY picked up their biggest win of the season after they won 3-0 at home to SUTTON UNITED. Stockport are now on a total of 22 goals and have now scored in all of their last seven games. Sutton picked up their 7^th blank score sheet.

SCOTTISH LEAGUE RESULTS 

In the Premiership  CELTIC are still four points in the lead as they win 3-0 away to Livingston. Celtic are now on a total of 50 goals and they have now scored in all of their last six games. RANGERS are still in second place after they won 4-1 at home to ABERDEEN. Rangers are on a total of 35 goals and a goal run of seven games. Aberdeen have move back down to fourth place with a total of 43 goals. HIBERNIAN are now in third place after they won 3-0 at home to St Mirren. Hibs are now on a total of 27 goals. It’s 20 goals for HEARTS after they won 2-1 away to Ross County. 

In League One it’s 30 goals for ALLOA won 2-1 at home to Clyde. KELTY HEARTS lost 2-1 away to  Dunfermline and they are on a total of 15 goals. 

In League Two BONNYRIGG ROSE lost 2-1away to Stirling and they are on a total of 22 goals and a goal run of six games. STENHOUSEMUIR drew 2-2 away to Albion and they are on a total of 31 goals. Stenhousemuir have now scored in all of their last ten games. 

Our BEST three teams this week 

CELTIC (50) ABERDEEN (43) SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY (38) Total of 131 goals 

Our WORST three teams are 

GILLINGHAM (8) WEST HAM (11) EVERTON (12) Total of 31 goals 

Our best performing team are BURNLEY as they have now scored in all of their last sixteen league/cup games played. They have a total of 33 goals. That gives them an average score of 1.7 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is GILLINGHAM this weekend as they have picked up eleven blank score sheets out of eighteen League/Cup games played. 

Our highest goal scorers in our 40^th Season are CELTIC who won 9-0 away to Dundee Utd in the league and LIVERPOOL who won 9-0 at home to Bournemouth in the league both from Week Five. 

TONY GUY our 2010/11 Champion with his second selection, becomes our 6^th player to reach number one this season. Tony picked up a total of 13 goals this week from his teams of Arsenal, Celtic and Sheffield Wednesday. Mark Gregory has once again dropped down to second place this weekend, after he picked up a total of  7 goals from the weekend. His teams are Celtic, Manchester City and Norwich. 

At the other end at 108 we still have MANDY WRIGHT who picked up just 5 goals again for the week. Mandy has now been here for two weeks and now ten weeks over the season. Mandy’s teams are Bournemouth, Swansea and West Ham. 

We have another slight change in our top ten this week.

           THIS      LAST                                               M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

WEEK     WEEK         NAME                          GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

      1             2            T. GUY (2)                         22                   96                 118

       2                 1            M. GREGORY                 28                   89                 117

       3                 -             GRANT PHILLIPS         19                   95                 114

      4                 -             S. DICKINSON                23                   88                 111                              

      5                 8            J. BLYTH                          26                   84                 110                              

      6                 11          B. BURROUGHS (1)        13                   93                 106

      7                 9            T. GUY (2010/11)              17                   88                 105

      8                 6            MANGO                            21                   84                 105 

      9                 13          J. WISE                              24                   81                 105                       

     10           -                  R. WOOD (2007/08)*       30                   75                 105  

Brazil in the Lead

The first update on what is happening with the Golden Goals World Cup 2022 and after the first day that the entry forms went out, we had a total of 20 that came back which is a lot less than the 2018 World Cup. We usually don’t have a big following here but this does not look promising after just one day.

With the voting there seems to be just fourteen nations out of 32 that players are picking up.

The highest number of votes so far is Brazil with 19 votes. In second place with 11 is France. In third place is Argentina and Germany with 9 votes each and in fourth place with 8 is England.

We still have a long way to go before closing date of 11th November. So why not give Golden Goals a go and see if you can be our next Champion. For entry form email goldengoals1983@gmail.com.

Entry Forms are Out Today

Here we go for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The most famous football competition in the world could win you some cash at the end when the final game has been played. The tournament kicks off on Sunday, 20 November with the opening game from Group A between the host Qatar and Ecuador. They kick-off at 7pm UK time. The Entry Forms are now available and the entry fee is just £6. You can get your copy from goldengoals1983@gmail.com 

Wednesday Remain in Third Place

In League One SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY drew 1-1 at home to BRISTOL ROVERS. Wednesday have remained in third place in the league and are on a total of 34 goals and have now scored in all of their last nine games. Rovers picked up goal number 25 and they have scored in all of their last six games.

Burnley go Top

In the Championship BURNLEY won 1-0 at home to NORWICH which sent them to the top of the league. Burnley have extended their goal run to Fifteen games. They are on a total of 31 goals. Norwich picked up their 2^nd blank score sheet of the season. 

In League One PLYMOUTH are still top here as they win 2-1 at home against Shrewsbury after going a goal down in the first half. Plymouth are on a total of 32 goals and they have now scored in all of their last fourteen games. IPSWICH are in second place as they win 3-2 away to Port Vale and they are now on a total of 31 goals. LINCOLN CITY won 1-0 away to Barnsley and that is goal number 22 for them. MK DONS won 2-0 away to CHARLTON and are on a total of 18 goals while Charlton picked up their 3^rd blank of the season. DERBY drew 0-0 at home to Exeter and they have now had a total of six blank score sheets and now two games in a row. FOREST GREEN ROVERS drew 1-1 away to Fleetwood and they are on a total of 17 goals. PETERBOROUGH won 3-1 at home against Accrington and have taken their goals total to 33 and they have now scored in all of their last seven games. OXFORD UNITED drew 1-1 away to Portsmouth and they are on a total of 17 goals. 

In League Two AFC WIMBLEDON drew 1-1 at home to Crewe and they are on a total of 17 goals. BRADFORD CITY drew 1-1 at home against SWINDON and that is goal number 23 for them and 18 for Swindon. Its 20 goals for CRAWLEY TOWN after they drew 1-1 away to Colchester. After failing to score in their last two games, it’s 20 goals for SALFORD CITY as they win 2-0 away to Hartlepool. GILLINGHAM lost 2-0 away to Leyton Orient and they have now had a total of ten blank score sheets. MANSFIELD TOWN drew 0-0 at home to Newport and they have now had a total of four blank score sheets after a goal run of six games. SUTTON UNITED drew 2-2 away to Northampton and they are on a total of 16 goals. STOCKPORT COUNTY won 2-0 at home to Carlisle and they are on a total of 19 goals. Stockport have now scored in all of their last six games. 

West Ham Win Again

In the Premier League WEST HAM have won their fourth league game out of twelve played and have moved up to 10^th place in the league, after they won 2-0 at home against BOURNEMOUTH. West Ham are on a total of 11 goals while Bournemouth picked up their 7^th blank of the season and have now failed to score in their last two league games. 

Qatar World Cup 2022 Coming Soon

 

Good news today is that we have just 20 days left before the World Cup 2022 kicks off, and even more good news is that the entry forms, including the rules, for Golden Goals World Cup 2022 will be heading your way on Friday the 28^th October. That’s just is just four days to go!

As we have already told you that this will be our ninth tournament. You are invited to join us here on our blog or take part in this great competition. All you have to do in the Golden Goals World Cup 2022 is to pick just four of the thirty-two nations that are in the tournament who will pick you up the most number of goals to win some cash.   

Simple send me your email address now and on the 28^th October and I will send you the entry form and competition rules. For information email to goldengoals1983@gmail.com

Week Thirteen

Here we are with Week Thirteen of the competition and we  had another two players to share the £5 Weekend Jackpot this weekend. Our winners won on a score of 9 goals each and they are MARK GREGORY and SARAH MARSHALL which now means that we have had a total of eighteen winners in our 40^th Season.

Mark started with us back in the 2008/09 Season on where he finished in 49^th place with a total of 251 goals. Although Mark has not been in every season since then, Mark has been active in these past ten season’s. Last season Mark finished in 77^th place with 249 goals. This season he has been top for a total of six weeks and has picked up two weekend blank score sheets. His best team is Celtic.

Sarah becomes our sixth lady winner so far and she started with Golden Goals back in the 2016/17 Season. Unfortunately we have lost the records for that season but in the following season, Sarah finished in 54th place with 280 goals. Last season Sarah finished in 70^th place with a total of 254 goals. This season this week is her highest position and Sarah has also picked up a total of two weekend blank score sheets. Celtic is also her best team. Our winners teams are 

 Mark  CELTIC 4, MANCHESTER CITY 3, NORWICH 2

Sarah  CELTIC 4, TOTTENHAM 1, WATFORD 4

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Most of us managed to pick up some midweek goals this week which means that the race has changed quite a lot this week. ALICE STUBBS our 2012/13 Champion picked up the most number of goals with a total of 8. They came from Celtic, Chelsea and Middlesbrough.

We have a new joint leaders for the cash this week and they are HAYLEY ADKINS up from four and NICK HORTON up from three. Both share the lead this week with a total of 31 goals each. In second place down from one we now have  RICK WOOD our 2007/08 Champion and JACQUI RATTLE up from five both with a total of 29 goals. In third place we now have STEVE AYRES down from two and MARK GREGORY up from six place. Both are on a total of 28 goals. In fourth place all on 27 goals we have, GUY DOWSETT (1) and TERENCE WARWICK both down for third place but joining them we have BARBARA BARNES (2) coning in to the race. In fifth place we now have LOUIE HARRINGTON up from six and coming in this week, we have GEOFF CARTHY both with a total of 25 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had five of our teams without a game this weekend and we had nine teams that failed to score any goals. We had a fairly good weekend once again as the average score for this weekend went up from three goals last weekend to 5 goals this weekend. Well done if your teams picked up more than that. The highest score that we had was four goals and they came from five of our teams. They include ASTON VILLA, BURNLEY,  CELTIC, LEICESTER CITY and WATFORD. 

PREMIER LEAGUE

ARSENAL have remained on top again this week and now just two points in front after they drew 1-1 away to Southampton. Arsenal keep their 100% scoring record going after eleven games played and they are on a total of 25 goals. MANCHESTER CITY are still in second place after they won 3-1 at home against BRIGHTON. City are now on a total of 36 goals. Brighton after they had failed to score in their last three games, picked up goal number 18. TOTTENHAM are still in third place after they lost 2-1 at home to NEWCASTLE. Tottenham are on a total of 23 goals while Newcastle are on 22 goals. CHELSEA drew 1-1 at home to MANCHESTER UNITED and both teams are on a total of 16 goals. After two blank score sheets EVERTON picked up their biggest win of the season as they win 3-0 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE. Everton are now on a total of 12 goals as Palace picked up their 4^th blank of the season. LIVERPOOL lost 1-0 away to the bottom of the table Nottingham Forest. Liverpool picked up their 2^nd blank of the season. ASTON VILLA who had failed to score in their previous two games, won 4-0 at home to Brentford. Villa have taken their goals tally up to 15 goals. FULHAM won 3-2 away to LEEDS UNITED. Fulham have now scored in all of their last nine games and have taken their goals total to 22. Leeds are on a total of 16 goals after a two game dry spell. LEICESTER CITY won 4-0 away to Wolves and are now on a total of 21 goals. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

It’s 30 goals for BURNLEY in third place now after they won 4-2 away to SUNDERLAND. Sunderland  are on a total of 21 goals.  MIDDLESBROUGH drew 0-0 at home to HUDDERSFIELD and picked up their 6^th blank score sheet to Huddersfield 5^th and now two games in a row. WEST BROM lost 2-1 away to Millwall and picked up goal number 21. It’s 20 goals for READING as they win 2-0 at home to Bristol City. SHEFFIELD UNITED drew 2-2 at home to NORWICH and they are on a total of 26 goals. Norwich are on a total of 27 goals. SWANSEA won 2-0 at home to Cardiff and they are on a total of 24 goals. WATFORD won 4-0 at home against LUTON and they are now on a total of 23 goals. Luton picked up their 5^th blank score sheet. 

LEAGUE ONE

PLYMOUTH are still the top of the table after they drew 2-2 away to BRISTOL ROVERS. Plymouth are now on a total of 30 goals and have extended their goal run to thirteen games. Rovers are on a total of 24 goals. Ipswich are in second place. FOREST GREEN ROVERS lost 1-0 at home to Portsmouth and that is their 6^th blank of the season.  LINCOLN CITY drew 1-1 at home to SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY and they are on a total of 21 goals to Wednesday’s total of 33 and a goal run of eight games now. MK DONS are bottom of the table after they lost 1-0 at home to Wycombe. The Dons have now had a total of seven blank score sheets and now just one goal in their last three games. It’s 30 goals for PETERBOROUGH after they won 2-1 away to OXFORD UNITED. Borough have now scored in all of their last six games. Oxford are on 16 goals this week. CHARLTON won 1-0 away to Shrewsbury and they are on a total of 25 goals. 

LEAGUE TWO

The highest team that we have here are still MANSFIELD TOWN in fourth place after they lost 3-2 away to CRAWLEY TOWN. Mansfield are on a total of 24 goals and have now scored in all of their last six games. Crawley have taken their goals tally to 18. GILLINGHAM drew 1-1 at home to Barrow and they are on a total of 8 goals. BRADFOED CITY picked up their 5^th blank of the season as they drew 0-0 away to Grimsby. . AFC WIMBLEDON won 2-1 away to Rochdale and they are on a total of 16 goals. STOCKPORT COUNTY won 2-0 away to SALFORD CITY and they are on a total of 17 goals. Salford picked up their 4^th blank and now two in a row. SUTTON UNITED drew 1-1 at home to Walsall and they are on a total of 14 goals. SWINDON won 2-1 at home against Hartlepool and they are on a total of 17 goals. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUE RESULTS

In the Premiership  CELTIC are now four points in the lead after they won 4-3 away to HEARTS. Celtic are now on a total of 47 goals. Hearts are now on a total of 18 goals. RANGERS are still in second place after they drew 1-1 at home to Livingston and they are on a total of 31 goals and a goal run of six games. ABERDEEN won 2-1 away to Motherwell to move back in to third place. Aberdeen are on a total of 42 goals.

In League One ALLOA won 2-0 away to Peterhead and they are on a total of 28 goals. KELTY HEARTS won 3-2 away to  Falkirk and they are now on a total of 14 goals. 

In SCOTTISH CUP Second Round we had just the two teams in this round and only on of them are through to the next round and they are STENHOUSEMUIR. They won 2-1 at home against East Fife and they are on a total of 29 goals and they have now scored in all of their last nine games. BONNYRIGG ROSE are out of the competition after they lost 3-2 away to non-league Sauchie Juniors. Bonnyrigg are on a total of 21 goals. 

Our BEST three teams this week 

CELTIC (47) ABERDEEN (42) MANCHESTER CITY (36) Total of 125 goals 

Our WORST three teams are 

GILLINGHAM (8) WEST HAM (9) EVERTON (12) Total of 29 goals 

Our best performing team are BURNLEY as they have now scored in all of their last fourteen league/cup games played. They have a total of 30 goals. That gives them an average score of 1.7 goals per game. 

Our worst performing team is GILLINGHAM this weekend as they have picked up nine blank score sheets out of sixteen League/Cup games played. 

Our highest goal scorers in our 40^th Season are CELTIC who won 9-0 away to Dundee Utd in the league and LIVERPOOL who won 9-0 at home to Bournemouth in the league both from Week Five.

MARK GREGORY has remained at the number one spot once again this weekend, after he picked up a total of  13 goals from the week. This is his second weekend at the top and now six weeks over the season. His teams are Celtic, Manchester City and Norwich. In second place now five goals behind Mark we still have our 2010/11 Champion Tony Guy with his second selection. Tony picked up a total of 10 goals from his teams of Arsenal, Celtic and Sheffield Wednesday.

At the other end at 108 we now have back MANDY WRIGHT who picked up just 5 goals for the week. Mandy has now been here for nine weeks over the season. Mandy’s teams are Bournemouth, Swansea and West Ham. 

We have five past Champions in the top twenty-five this week as the top ten settles down.

       THIS      LAST                                               M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

       WEEK     WEEK        NAME                           GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

           1             -             M. GREGORY                  28                  82                  110

            2                 -             T. GUY (2)                          21                  84                  105

            3                 -             GRANT PHILLIPS            18                  85                  103

            4                 -             S. DICKINSON                  22                  80                  102

            5                 6            H. ADKINS                         31                  69                  100

            6                 9            MANGO                              19                  80                  99

            7                 11          G. DOWSETT (2)                22                  76                  98

            8                 5            J. BLYTH                            22                  75                  97         

            9                 12          T. GUY (2010/11)                17                  79                  96 

           10                7            R. WOOD (2007/08)*         29                  67                   96           

Ipswich Still Second

In League One IPSWICH remained in second place in the table after they won 1-0 at home to DERBY. Ipswich are on a total of 28 goals while Derby picked up their 5^th blank of the season. 

In the Scottish Premiership HIBERNIAN lost 2-1 at home against St Johnstone. Hibs are on a total of 24 goals. 

Leicester City's Second League Win

In the Premier League FULHAM won 3-0 at home to ASTON VILLA to take their goals tally to 19. Fulham have now scored in all of their last eight games. Villa have now had a total of five blank score sheets and now just two goals in their last five games. LEICESTER CITY won their second league game 2-0 at home against LEEDS UNITED. Leicester are on a total of 17 goals with Leeds picked up their 4^th blank of the season and now just one goal in their last four games. 

No Goals for Chelsea and Tottenham

In the Premier League CHELSEA picked up their 2^nd blank of the season after they drew 0-0 away to Brentford. LIVERPOOL won 1-0 at home to WEST HAM. Liverpool are on a total of 22 goals while West Ham picked up their 5^th blank of the season. BOURNEMOUTH lost 1-0 at home to Southampton and they have now had a total of six blank score sheets. It’s 20 goals for NEWCASTLE as they win 1-0 at home to EVERTON. Everton picked up their 4^th blank of the season and now two games without a goal. MANCHESTER UNITED won 2-0 at home against TOTTENHAM. United are on a total of 15 goals while Tottenham after a goal run of ten games, picked up their very first blank of the season. 

In the Championship BURNLEY have extended their goal run to thirteen games after they drew 1-1 away to Birmingham. Burnley are on a total of 26 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED lost 1-0 away to Coventry and they have now had a total of four blank score sheets. MIDDLESBROUGH picked up their biggest result of the season by winning 4-1 away to Wigan. Brough have taken their goals tally to 19. WATFORD picked up their 4^th blank of the season after they went down 3-0 away to Millwall. 

In the Quarter-Finals of the Scottish League Cup, all of our teams are through to the semi-finals they are CELTIC as they win 4-0 away to Motherwell. Celtic are now on a total of 43 goals. RANGERS won 1-0 at home to Dundee and they are on 30 goals. It’s 40 goals for ABERDEEN as they win 4-1 at home to Partick. 

Norwich Goals Run Ends

In the Premier League BRIGHTON drew 0-0 at home to Nottingham Forest and they have now had a total of four blank score sheets and now they have failed to score in their last three games. CRYSTAL PALACE won 2-1 at home to Wolves and they are on a total of 14 goals.

In the Championship, NORWICH’S goal run of fifteen games have finally come to an end as they lost 1-0 at home to LUTON. Norwich picked up their 2^nd blank of the season while Luton picked up goal number 22. HUDDERSFIELD lost 1-0 at home to Preston and after scoring in all of their last six games, Huddersfield picked up their 4^th blank of the season. SWANSEA won 3-2 at home to READING and they are now on a total of 22 goals. Reading are on 18 goals. SUNDERLAND picked up their 6^th blank of the season after they lost 2-0 away to Blackburn. WEST BROM lost 2-0 at home to Bristol City and they have now had a total of five blank score sheets. They have now scored just two goals in their last four games. 

In the Scottish League One ALLOA lost 3-1 away to Falkirk and they are now on a total of 26 goals.

 

Another Win for Charlton

In League One, CHARLTON have won their fourth league game as they win 3-0 at home against Portsmouth. Charlton are now on a total of 24 goals with seven of them coming from their last two games. 

Week Twelve

Here we are with Week Twelve of the competition and we had just one player to pick up the full £5 Weekend Jackpot this weekend. Our winner won on a score of 11 goals and they are BAILEY MORAN who has now become our sixteenth winner in our 40^th Season.

Bailey is in his third season with Golden Goals as he started in the 2020/21 Season on where he finished in 68^th place with a total of 246 goals. Last season he finished in 81^st place with 246 goals but he did get a shared weekend win. This season as he picks up his first full weekend win, Bailey has just two blank score sheets and 24^th place is his highest position in Week One. His winning teams are 

CELTIC 6, CHELSEA 2, DERBY 3

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Only thirteen of us managed to pick up some midweek goals this week which means that the race has remained much the same as last week. Out in the lead is RICK WOOD our 2007/08 Champion still on a total of 29 goals. In second place we still have STEVE AYRES with a total of 28 goals. In third place all on 27 goals we have NICK HORTON, GUY DOWSETT (1) and TERENCE WARWICK. In fourth place we still have HAYLEY ADKINS still with a total of 26 goals. In fifth place we now have JACQUI RATTLE with 25 goals. In sixth place we still have,  MARK GREGORY and LOUIE HARRINGTON both on a total of 24 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had just two of our teams without a game this weekend and we had fourteen teams that failed to score any goals. We had a good Saturday but Sunday really let us down and brought us back down with a thump. The average score for this weekend was just 3 goals down from seven from last weekend. Well done if your teams picked up more than that.

The highest score that we had was six goals and they came from the Scottish Premiership from CELTIC.  Celtic won 6-1 at home to HIBERNIAN. Celtic are now on a total of 39 goals. Hibs are on a total of 23 goals. 

PREMIERSHIP

ARSENAL have remained on top again this week and now four points in front after they won 1-0 away to LEEDS UNITED. Arsenal keep their 100% scoring record going after ten games played and they are on a total of 24 goals. Leeds picked up their 3^rd blank of the season. MANCHESTER CITY are still in second place after they lost their first league game 1-0 away to LIVERPOOL. City who had scored in all of their nine league games, picked up their first blank score sheet. Liverpool picked up goal number 21. TOTTENHAM are still in third place as they win 2-0 at home to EVERTON. Tottenham have also scored in all of their first ten league games and are on a total of 22 goals. Everton picked up their 3^rd blank of the season. FULHAM drew 2-2 at home to BOURNEMOUTH and are on a total of 16 goals and a goal run of seven games. Bournemouth are on a total of 12 goals. LEICESTER CITY drew 0-0 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE and that gives both teams their 3^rd blank score sheet. CHELSEA won 2-0 away to ASTON VILLA and they are on a total of 15 goals and they have now scored in all of their last six games. Villa picked up their 4^th blank of the season. After a goal run of six games, MANCHESTER UNITED picked up their 2^nd blank score sheet as they drew 0-0 at home to NEWCASTLE. Newcastle have now had a total of three blank score sheets. WEST HAM drew 1-1 away to Southampton and that is goal number 9 for them. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

BURNLEY are are now top here on goal difference after they win 4-0 at home to SWANSEA. Burnley are now on a total of 25 goals and have now scored in all fo their last twelve games. Swansea picked up their 4^th blank of the season. SHEFFIELD UNITED are in second place after they drew 3-3 at home to Blackpool. United are now on a total of 24 goals. LUTON won 3-1 at home against QPR and they are now on a total of 21 goals. MIDDLESBROUGH lost 2-1 at home to Blackburn and they are on a total of 15 goals. Brough have scored just two goals in their last five games. WEST BROM won 2-0 away to READING and after a two game dry spell, West Brom are on a total of 20 goals. Reading picked up their 5^th blank of the season. HUDDERSFIELD lost 2-1 away to Rotherham and they are on a total of 17 goals and a goal run of six games. SUNDERLAND won 2-1 at home to Wigan and they are on a total of 19 goals. WATFORD won 2-1at home to NORWICH and they are on a total of 19 goals. Norwich are on 25 goals and a goal run of fifteen games.     

LEAGUE ONE

PLYMOUTH are still the top of the table after they picked up their biggest win of the season by winning 4-1 away to MK DONS. Plymouth are now on a total of 28 goals and have extended their goal run to twelve games. MK Dons are on a total of 16 goals. IPSWICH are still in second place and four points behind Plymouth as they lost 1-0 at home to LINCOLN CITY. Ipswich after  a goal run of eleven games,  picked up their 2^nd blank score sheet. Lincoln are on a total of 20 goals after a two game dry spell. DERBY picked up their biggest result to date after they won 3-0 away to Accrington. Derby have taken their goals total to 18. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY have extended their goal run to seven games as they win 2-0 away to Cambridge Utd. Wednesday are on a total of 32 goals. BRISTOL ROVERS won 4-1 away to Cheltenham and they have taken their goals tally to 22. OXFORD UNITED picked up their biggest result as they win 4-2 away to Exeter. Oxford are now on a total of 15 goals. FOREST GREEN ROVERS drew 2-2 away to Port Vale and they are on a total of 16 goals. PETERBOROUGH lost 2-1 away to Wycombe and they are on a total of 28 goals. 

LEAGUE TWO

The highest team that we have here are now MANSFIELD TOWN in fourth place after they won 2-1 at home to Walsall. Mansfield are on a total of 22 goals. SUTTON UNITED won 1-0 away to AFC WIMBELDON and that is goal number 13 after a three games without a goal. Wimbledon picked up their 6^th blank of the season. CRAWLEY TOWN picked up their second win of the season after they won 2-1 at home to Newport. Crawley are on a total of 15 goals. GILLINGHAM are on 7 goals after they drew 1-1 at home to Stevenage. BRADFORD CITY won 1-0 away to SALFORD CITY and they are on a total of 22 goals while Salford picked up their 3^rd blank of the season. STOCKPORT COUNTY lost 3-1 at home to Grimsby and they are on a total of 15 goals. SWINDON won 1-0 at home to Colchester and they are on a total of 15 goals. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUE RESULTS

In the Premiership RANGERS are still in second place won 2-1 away to Motherwell and they have take their goals tally up to 29 goals. ABERDEEN won 2-0 at home to HEARTS and have taken their goals total to 36 while Hearts picked up their 5^th blank of the season.

In League One ALLOA won 2-0 at home to Airdrie and they are on a total of 25 goals. KELTY HEARTS won 2-1 at home against Clyde and they are on a total of 11 goals.

In League Two STENHOUSEMUIR are down to fourth place after they lost 3-1 at home to Stirling. Stenhousemuir are on a total of 27 goals and they have now scored in all of their last eight games. BONNYRIGG ROSE lost 4-1 at home to East Fife. Bonnyrigg take their goals tally to 19 goals. 

Our BEST three teams this week 

CELTIC (39) ABERDEEN (36) MANCHESTER CITY (33) Total of 108 goals 

Our WORST three teams are 

GILLINGHAM (7) EVERTON (9) WEST HAM (9) Total of 25 goals 

Our best performing team are NORWICH as they have now scored in all of their last fifteen league/cup games played. They have a total of 25 goals. That gives them an average score of 1.5 goals per game. 

Our worst performing team is GILLINGHAM this weekend as they have picked up nine blank score sheets out of fifteen League/Cup games played. 

Our highest goal scorers in our 40^th Season are CELTIC who won 9-0 away to Dundee Utd in the league and LIVERPOOL who won 9-0 at home to Bournemouth in the league both from Week Five. 

MARK GREGORY has returned to the number one spot once again this weekend,  after he picked up a total of  7 goals all coming from the weekend. This is his fifth weekend at the top over the season. His teams are Celtic, Manchester City and Norwich. In second place two goals behind Mark we have our 2010/11 Champion Tony Guy with his second selection. Tony picked up a total of 9 goals from his teams of Arsenal, Celtic and Sheffield Wednesday.

At the other end at 108 we still have SANDRA NICHOLLS who picked up just one goal for the week. Sandra has now been here for two weeks and now three over the season. Sandra’s teams are Aston Villa, Crystal Palace and Leicester City.

It's all change at the top again this week. 

       THIS      LAST                                                   M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

       WEEK     WEEK         NAME                             GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

            1             2            M. GREGORY                      24                  73                   97

              2                 5            T. GUY (2)                           17                  78                   95

              3                 7            GRANT PHILLIPS              14                  79                   93

              4                 9            S. DICKINSON                    17                  75                   92

              5                 1            J. BLYTH                              21                  71                   92                

              6                 3            H. ADKINS                           26                  64                   90

             7                 4            R. WOOD (2007/08)*           29                  61                   90                

              8                 6            T. BICKNELL (2014/15)      23                  66                   89

              9                 11          MANGO                                15                  73                   88

               10              8            T. CROWTHER                    16                   71                  87