We have had another two of our Golden Goals teams in action with the second round of the League Cup. But we can only add one more name to the list for the third round. They are CHELSEA who won 2-1 at home against AFC WIMBLEDON. Chelsea are on a total of 7 goals while Wimbledon picked up goal number 10 and a goal run of six league/cup games. NOTTINGHAM FOREST picked up their first blank score sheet after they lost 1-0 at home against Burnley.
Thursday, 31 August 2023
Wednesday, 30 August 2023
Carabao Cup Second Round
In the second round of the League Cup, we had a total of 20 of our teams in action. Out of them 10 are through to round three.
The teams that are through are MIDDLESBROUGH who won 3-1 away to Bolton and are now on a total of 9 goals. STOKE picked up the biggest result of the night and their personal best as they win 6-1 at home to Rotherham. Stoke are on a total of 13 goals. SALFORD CITY drew 1-1 at home to LEEDS UNITED and then won 9-8 on penalties. Salford are on a total of 11 goals while Leeds are on 10. BOURNEMOUTH won 3-2 away to SWANSEA and have taken their goals total to 5 while Swansea are on 10 goals. NORWICH won 1-0 away to BRISTOL CITY and are on a total of 15 goals and have now scored in all of their six league/cup games. City picked up their second blank score sheet. FULHAM drew 1-1 with TOTTENHAM and then won 5-3 on penalties. Fulham are on a total of 4 goals while Tottenham are on 7 goals. CRYSTAL PALACE won 4-2 away to PLYMOUTH and picked up their biggest result of the season. Palace are now on a total of 6 goals while Plymouth are on 9 goals. PETERBOROUGH drew 1-1 away to Portsmouth and then won 5-4 on penalties. Borough are on a total of 9 goals. SUTTON UNITED won 1-0 away to Wycombe and are on a total of 10 goals. IPSWICH drew 2-2 away to READING and then won 3-1 on penalties. Ipswich are on a total of 12 goals and have kept their 100% scoring after six league/cup games. Reading are on a total of 10 goals.
Teams that went out are SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY after they drew 1-1 after full time and with no extra time, they then lost 5-4 on penalties to Mansfield. Wednesday picked up goal number 6. BLACKPOOL lost 5-0 away to Wolves and that is their fifth blank of the season and now they have failed to score in their last five league/cup games. WERXHAM drew 1-1 with Bradford and then lost 4-3 on penalties. Wrexham are on a total of 11 goals.
Monday, 28 August 2023
Week Four
Here we are with Week Four of the competition and this weekend we had our fourth winner of the season. Our winner was ALBERT SPENCER who won on a score of just 9 goals. Albert has won himself the full £5 this weekend. Albert is just one of the ten new players with Golden Goals this Season. This is his personal best weekend score and this is the highest position that he has been to date. Albert's best team is Leeds United scoring 9 of his total of 23 goals. His teams for this season are
ASTON VILLA 3, LEEDS UNITED 4, LIVERPOOL 2
100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
Here is how the race for our 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot worth a total of £25 this season is now looking. The prize money will go to the first person to reach 100 goals from their three teams. We have had a couple of more players that have started their race for the cash this week but the leaders remain near the same.
In the lead we still have our 2015/16 Champion RICHARD WILLIAMS now with 27 goals. In second place we now have last weeks leader CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) still with a total of 25 goals. Still in third place with 14 goals we still have MIKE LIDDLE. In fourth place we still have DAVID BARRETT and GUY DOWSETT (2) both with 10 goals. In fifth place all with 9 goals we now have CHRIS BOLBERY, BAILEY MORAN, ABBEY NEWMAN and SAMUEL STEPHENS this week.
WEEKEND RESULTS
We had just two of our teams with no game over the weekend with another eight of our teams that failed to score any goals. So that means that our weekend the average score was just 5 goals up from four last weekend. So if your combination picked up more than that, then you have done very well this weekend. The Highest score over the weekend was 5 goals and we had a total of four teams that picked that score up.
PREMIER LEAGUE
For the first time this season, MANCHESTER CITY are now in top place after they won 2-1 away to Sheffield Utd. City are on a total of 6 goals and have won all three opening league games. WEST HAM have moved up to second place after they won 3-1 away to BRIGHTON. West Ham are now on a total of 7 goals while Brighton are now on 9 goals. TOTTENHAM are in third place after they won 2-0 away to BOURNEMOUTH. Tottenham are on a total of 6 goals while Bournemouth picked up their first blank of the season. ARSENAL drew 2-2 at home to FULHAM and are on a total of 5 goals while Fulham are on 3. CRYSTAL PALCE drew 1-1 away to Brentford and picked up their second goal of the season. MANCHESTER UNITED won 3-2 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST and are now on a total of 4 goals. Forest are on 5 goals. ASTON VILLA won 3-1 away to Burnley and are now on a total of 8 goals. Ten men LIVERPOOL won 2-1 away to NEWCASTLE after going a goal down. Both teams are on a total of 6 goals each.
CHAMPIONSHIP
LEICESTER CITY are top here this weekend after they won 2-1 away to Rotherham. Leicester are on a total of 9 goals and have now scored in all of their five league/cup games played. NORWICH are now in second place after they won 4-0 away to Huddersfield. Norwich have taken their goals tally to 14 and they have also scored in all of their five league/cup games played. PLYMOUTH lost 2-1 away to Birmingham and are on a total of 7 goals while SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY lost 2-1 away to Cardiff and are on a total of 5 goals. SUNDERLAND picked up their first blank of the season after they drew 0-0 away to Coventry. LEEDS UNITED picked up their biggest result of the season by winning 4-3 away to IPSWICH. Leeds are now on a total of 9 goals while Ipswich are on 10 goals and a goal run of five games. STOKE lost 1-0 away to Millwall and that is their second blank of the season. SWANSEA lost 2-1 away to Preston and are on a total of 8 goals and a goal run of five league/cup games. SOUTHAMPTON won 2-1 at home to QPR and are on a total of 11 goals and a goal run of five league/cup games. MIDDLESBROUGH lost 4-2 away to West Brom and are on a total of 6 goals.
LEAGUE ONE
BRISTOL ROVERS lost 2-1 at home to Wycombe and are on a total of 5 goals. READING lost 2-1 away to Exeter and picked up goal number 8. BLACKPOOL lost 3-0 away to Lincoln City and that is their fourth blank score sheet and they have now failed to score in their last four games. CHARLTON lost 2-1 away to Oxford Utd and they are on a total of 6 goals. DERBY won 4-2 away to PETERBOROUGH. With their biggest result of the season, Derby are now on a total of 9 goals while Borough are on a total of 8 goals. BARNSLEY won 2-0 away to Wigan and are on a total of 14 goals and a goal run of six league/cup games.
LEAGUE TWO
The highest team that we have here are MK DONS now in top place. They won 2-1 at home against Doncaster. The dons are on a total of 12 goals. AFC WIMBLEDON drew 1-1 at home to Forest Green and they are on a total of 10 goals and a goal run of five league/cup games. It’s 10 goals for WREXHAM as they drew 1-1 away to Barrow. After they had failed to score in their last two games, SUTTON UNITED lost 3-1 away to Newport and are on a total of 10 goals. NOTTS COUNTY won 2-1 at home to Tranmere and are on a total of 11 goals. SALFORD CITY lost 2-1 at home to Accrington and they are on a total of 10 goals.
SCOTTISH LEAGUES
In the Premiership after they were kicked out of the League Cup last weekend, CELTIC have lost their first league game as they drew 0-0 at home to St Johnston. Two blanks in two games, what has gone wrong with last season’s champions? RANGERS won 2-0 at home against ROSS COUNTY and are on a total of 8 goals. County after a goal run of 7 league/cup games, picked up their first blank score sheet. HIBERNIAN lost 3-2 at home to Livingston and are on a total of 7 goals. KILMARNOCK lost 2-1 away to Motherwell and are on a total of 12 goals. ABERDEEN drew 2-2 away to St Mirren and are on a total of 5 goals.
In League One the highest team with have here are FALKIRK in second place. They won 4-1 away to Alloa and have taken their goals tally to 20 goals and a goal run of five league/cup games. KELTY HEARTS lost 1-0 away to Stirling and picked up their second blank of the season. COVE RANGERS lost 1-0 at home to Queen of the South and they are now on a total of 16 goals.
In League Two, CLYDE lost 1-0 away to Stranraer and picked up their third blank of the season. STENHOUSEMUIR lost 4-2 at home to Dumbarton. Stenhousemuir are on a total of 7 goals. EAST FIFE picked up their fifth goal of the season after they drew 1-1 away to Elgin.
So lets have a look at our BEST three teams this week
ROSS COUNTY (21) FALKIRK (20) COVE RANGERS (16) Total of 57 goals
Our WORST three teams are
AFC BOURNEMOUTH (2) CRYSTAL PALACE (2) BLACKPOOL (4) Total of 8 goals
Our Best performing team is BARNSLEY after they have now scored in all of their six league/cup games. They have a total of 14 goals which gives them an average score of 2 goals per game.
Our worst performing team is EAST FIFE this weekend as they have picked up five blank score sheets in their 8 league/cup games.
Our highest goal scoring team in our 41st Season are BARNSLEY. They won 7-0 at home to Port Vale in the first league game of the season in Week One.
RICHARD WILLIAMS our 2015/16 Champion is at the top for his third weekend after he picked up a total of 9 goals from the week. Richards teams are Falkirk, Manchester City and Ross County. He is now pulling away from the pack and now 7 goals clear of Charlie Farley (John Wood) in second place with Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir. At the other end at 110 we now have JACQUI RATTLE who picked up just 5 goals for the week. Jacqui has Crystal Palace, Liverpool and Manchester City.
Here are our top ten players for this weekend
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 - R. WILLIAMS (2015/16) 27 20 47
2 - CHARLIE FARLEY 25 15 40
3 - D. BARRETT 10 23 33
4 5 B. BURROUGHS (1) 4 28 32
5 4 R. WOOD (2007/08)* 6 26 32
6 - P. PORTER 5 25 30
7 8 A. EYLES 8 21 29
8 7 M. GREGORY 6 21 27
9 16 A. WELLARD 6 21 27
10 9 M. LIDDLE 14 13 27
Saturday, 26 August 2023
Chelsea 8th Place for Now
In the Premier League CHELSEA have won their first league game after three games as they beat Luton 3-0 at home. Chelsea are on a total of 5 goals.
In the Championship BRISTOL CITY drew 1-1 away to Hull and they are on a total of 8 goals.
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
Falkirk Now in Second Place
In the Scottish League One, FALKIRK won 3-0 at home to Stirling. Falkirk are now on a total of 16 goals and they have now scored in all of their last four league/cup games.
Arsenal Move up to Third Place
In the Premier League ARSENAL have won their second league game 1-0 away to London rivals CRYSTAL PALACE. Arsenal are on a total of 3 goals while Palace picked up their first blank of the season.
Monday, 21 August 2023
Week Three
Here we are with Week Three of the competition and this weekend we had our third winner of the season. Our winner was CHRIS NUNN who won on a score of just 9 goals. Chris has won himself the full £5 this weekend. Chris started with Golden Goals back in the 1992/93 Season on where he finished in 39th place with a total of 213 goals. He picked up two weekend wins then. I thank him for his loyal support over the years. Last season Chris finished in 30th place with a total of 284 goals. This season he has picked up his highest weekend score. His best team is Wrexham picking up a total of 9 goals out of his total of 17. His teams for this season are
LIVERPOOL 3, MANCHESTER CITY 1, WERXHAM 5
100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
Here is how the race for our 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot worth a total of £25 this season is now looking. The prize money will go to the first person to reach 100 goals from their three teams. We have had a couple of more players that have started their race for the cash this week. In the lead after three weeks of football we still have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) out in front with a total of 25 goals. In second place we still have our 2015/16 Champion RICHARD WILLIAMS with 24 goals. In third place with 14 goals we still have MIKE LIDDLE. In fourth place is DAVID BARRETT and GUY DOWSETT (2) both with 10 goals. In fifth place all with 9 goals we have CHRIS BOLBERY, BAILEY MORAN and SAMUEL STEPHENS this week.
WEEKEND RESULTS
We had six of our teams with no game over the weekend with another eleven of our teams that failed to score any goals. So that means that our weekend the average score was just 4 goals down from five last weekend. So if your combination picked up more than that, then you have done very well this weekend. he Highest score over the weekend was 5 goals and they came from League Two where WERXHAM coming back in to the football league, drew 5-5 at home to Swindon Town. With their biggest result of the season to date, Wrexham are now on a total of 9 goals. They have a total of 9 votes this season. Wrexham became our 99th English team back in 2002/03 Season on where they finished on a total of 84 goals which is their highest end of season score. This is their third season with Golden Goals and the last time that we had them was in the 2005/06 Season. They finished that season on a total of 62 goals. Over the three season’s they have netted a total of 155 goals which gives them an average score of 51 goals per season to date.
PREMIER LEAGUE
So the Premier League played their second league game of the season and most of them had a good start. BRIGHTON are now in top place after they won 4-1 away to Wolves. Brighton have now scored 8 goals in their two league games. MANCHESTER CITY have also won both their two opening games. They won just 1-0 at home to NEWCASTLE. City now in second place, are on a total of 4 goals while Newcastle picked up their first blank of the season. FULHAM lost 3-0 at home to Brentford and that is also their first blank score sheet. LIVERPOOL won their first league game 3-1 at home to BOURNEMOUTH. With their biggest win to date, Liverpool are now on a total of 4 goals while Bournemouth picked up their 2nd. TOTTENHAM won 2-0 at home to MANCHESTER UNITED and they are on a total of 4 goals as United picked up their very first blank of the season. ASTON VILLA picked up their biggest result so far as they win 4-0 at home against Everton. Villa are now on a total of 5 goals. WEST HAM beat London rivals CHELSEA 3-1 at home which is their biggest result to date. West Ham are now on a total of 4 goals while Chelsea are on 2.
CHAMPIONSHIP
After three games now, IPSWICH TOWN are top here with three wins out of three after they won 1-0 away to QPR. Ipswich are on a total of 6 goals. LEICESTER CITY are still in second place after they won their third game, 2-1 at home to Cardiff. Leicester are on a total of 7 goals. PLYMOUTH lost 2-1 at home to SOUTHAMPTON. Plymouth are on a total of 6 goals while Southampton are on 9 goals. BRISTOL CITY lost 1-0 at home to Birmingham and that is their first blank of the season. MIDDLESBROUGH drew 1-1 at home to Huddersfield and are on a total of 4 goals. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY lost 1-0 at home to Preston and that is their first blank of the season. STOKE won 1-0 at home to Watford and picked up goal number seven. SUNDERLAND won 2-1 at home to Rotherham and are now on a total of 5 goals. SWANSEA drew 1-1 at home to Coventry and they are on a total of 7 goals. NORWICH won 3-1 at home to Millwall ans they have taken their goals tally to 10 goals.
LEAGUE ONE
PETERBOROUGH are our highest team here now in third place after they lost 1-0 away to Northampton. That is Borough’s first blank of the season after a goal run of four league/cup games. BARNSLEY lost 3-1 at home to Oxford Utd and have taken their goals total to 12 goals. BLACKPOOL drew 0-0 at home to Leyton Orient and that is their third blank score sheet and now three in a row. BRISTOL ROVERS lost 2-0 away to Cambridge Utd and that is their second blank score sheet. CHARLTON lost 3-2 at home to Port Vale and they are on a total of 5 goals. DERBY won 1-0 at home to Fleetwood and they are on a total of 6 goals. READING won 2-0 at home to Stevenage and are on a total of 7 goals.
LEAGUE TWO
The highest team that we have here are MK DONS down in second place. They won 3-2 away to Colchester. The dons are on a total of 10 goals. AFC WIMBLEDON are in third place after they picked up their biggest win of the season by winning 3-0 away to SUTTON UNITED. Wimbledon are on a total of 8 goals while Sutton picked up their second blank score sheet and now two in a row. NOTTS COUNTY won 3-1 away to Doncaster and are now on a total of 7 goals. SALFORD CITY also picked up their biggest win to date, 4-3 away to Tranmere. Salford have taken their goals tally to 9.
SCOTTISH LEAGUES
In the Scottish League Cup second round, we had a total of 5 of our Scottish teams in action. Out of them 5 have made it through to the second round including Aberdeen. RANGERS are through after they won 2-1 at home against Morton. Rangers are on a total of 6 goals. ROSS COUNTY will be there after they drew 3-3 away to Airdrie after the full 90 minutes and then won 4-3 after extra time. County are now on a total of 21 goals and have now scored in all of their of seven league/cup games. HIBERNIAN won 2-1 at home to Raith Rovers. Hibs are on a total of 5 goals. CELTIC are out of the cup after they lost 1-0 away to KILMARNOCK. Kilmarnock are on a total of 11 goals while Celtic pick up their first blank of the season.
In League One the highest team with have here are KELTY HEARTS in fourth place. They won 2-1 at home to Alloa. Kelty have taken their goals total to 15 goals. COVE RANGERS won 3-0 away to Montrose and they are now on a total of 15 goals.
In League Two, CLYDE lost 2-1 at home to Peterhead and picked up their 6th goal of the season. STENHOUSEMUIR won 2-1 away to EAST FIFE. Stenhousemuir are on a total of 6 goals after they had failed to score in their last two games. East Fife picked up their fifth blank of the season and now just one goal in their last five games.
So lets have a look at our BEST three teams this week
ROSS COUNTY (21) COVE RANGERS (15) KELTY HEARTS (15) Total of 51 goals
Our WORST three teams are
FULHAM (1) MANCHESTER UNITED (1) CRYSTAL PALACE (1) Total of 3 goals
Our Best performing team is ROSS COUNTY after they have now scored in all of their seven league/cup games. They have a total of 21 goals which gives them an average score of 3 goals per game.
Our worst performing team is EAST FIFE this weekend as they have picked up five blank score sheets in their 7 league/cup games.
Our highest goal scoring team in our 41st Season are BARNSLEY. They won 7-0 at home to Port Vale in the first league game of the season in Week One.
RICHARD WILLIAMS our 2015/16 Champion is at the top for his second weekend after he picked up up just 5 goals from the weekend. Richards teams are Falkirk, Manchester City and Ross County. He is now just 2 goals clear of Charlie Farley (John Wood) in second place with Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir.
At the other end at 110 we still have RYAN FC (Richard Williams) who picked up just 4 goals for the week. Ryan FC has Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United.
Here are the top ten for this weekend.
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 - R. WILLIAMS (2015/16) 24 14 38
2 - CHARLIE FARLEY 25 12 37
3 4 D. BARRETT 10 21 31
4 3 R. WOOD (2007/08)* 6 22 28
5 6 B. BURROUGHS (1) 4 22 26
6 5 P. PORTER 5 21 26
7 - M. GREGORY 6 17 23
8 10 A. EYLES 8 15 23
9 12 M. LIDDLE 14 9 23
10 18 J. WISE 3 19 22
Saturday, 19 August 2023
Forest Win First Premier League Game
In the Premier League Nottingham Forest won 2-1 at home against Sheffield United and have taken their goals total to 3 goals after two games.
In the Championship LEEDS UTD drew 1-1 at home to West Brom and they are on a total of 5 goals.
In the Scottish League Cup, the first game of the second round has been played where ABERDEEN won 2-1 away to Stirling and are through to the third round. Aberdeen are on a total of 3 goals.
Thursday, 17 August 2023
Norwich Move on in Carabao Cup
We had the very last first round game of the League Cup as NORWICH CITY took on Queens Park rangers and won 1-0 away. Norwich are on a total of 7 goals. They will be playing Bristol City away in the second round on 29 August.
Wednesday, 16 August 2023
Peterborough best on the Night
We had 12 of our teams in action and here are their results.
In League One, PETERBOROUGH have moved up to second place after they won 3-1 away to BARNSLEY. With their biggest result of the season so far, Peterborough are now on a total of 6 goals. Barnsley picked up their 11th goal of the season. BLACKPOOL drew 0-0 at home to Port Vale and that is their 2nd blank of the season and now two games in a row with out a goal. CHARLTON lost 2-1 at home to BRISTOL ROVERS and they have now scored three goals in four games. Rovers with their biggest result of the season are on a total of 4 goals. DERBY lost 2-1 at home to Oxford Utd and hit goal number five. READING won 1-0 at home to Cheltenham and are on a total of 5 goals.
In League Two AFC WIMBLEDON won 2-0 away to Colchester and have taken their goals tally to 5 goals. MK DONS lost 2-1 away to Crawley and are on a total of 7 goals. SALFORD CITY lost 2-0 away to Grimsby and that is their first blank of the season. NOTTS COUNTY drew 0-0 away to Morecambe and that is their 2nd blank of the season. SUTTON UNITED lost 1-0 at home to Gillingham to pick up their very first blank of the season.
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
United Move up to 7th Place
In the Premier League MANCHESTER UNITED have finally got their season under-way and have picked up their first goal with a 1-0 home win against Wolves. United have 12 votes this season.
Monday, 14 August 2023
Week Two
Here we are with Week Two of the competition and this weekend we had a full league fixture, which gave us our second winner of the season. Our winner was BARRY BURROUGHS (1) who won on a score of 11 goals. Barry has won himself £5 this weekend. Barry started with us back in the 2010/11 Season on where he finished in 20th place with a total of 284 goals and picked up one shared weekend win. For a few years now, Barry has entered two combinations with his first combo winning this weekend. Last season he finished in the winning frame with his first combination with 309 goals. His second finished in 42nd place with 273 goals. He picked up one weekend win. His teams for this season are
CELTIC 3, NORWICH 4, SOUTHAMPTON 4
100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
We can now have our first look at who is in the lead for our 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot worth a total of £25 this season. The prize money will go to the first person to reach 100 goals from their three teams.
Taking the lead after two weeks of football we have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) out in front with a total of 25 goals. In second place we have our 2015/16 Champion RICHARD WILLIAMS with 24 goals. In third place with 14 goals we have MIKE LIDDLE. In fourth place is DAVID BARRETT with 10 goals. GUY DOWSETT (1) is in fifth place with a total of 9 goals.
WEEKEND RESULTS
So we had our very first full weekend fixture and not a bad start to the season. We had just two teams with no game over the weekend with another eleven of our teams that failed to score any goals. So for our very first weekend the average score was 5 goals. So if your combination picked up more than that, then you have done very well this weekend.
The Highest score over the weekend was 5 goals and they came from the Premier League where NEWCASTLE won 5-1 at home to Aston Villa. Newcastle became our 6th voted team in our very first season of 1983/84. In that season they finished on a total of 87 goals. Their highest score came in the 1992/93 Season with 105 goals. Last season they finished on a total of 77 goals. This is their 32nd Season with Golden Goals and they have scored a total of 2115 goals. This gives them an average score of 66 goals per season to date. They have a total of 11 votes this season.
Lets get on with the results to see how your teams have performed this weekend.
PREMIER LEAGUE
So the Premier League played their first league game of the season and most of them had a good start. Newcastle go straight to the top after their win against Aston Villa. BRIGHTON are in second place after they won 4-1 at home to Luton. ARSENAL won 2-1 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST and BOURNEMOUTH drew 1-1 at home to WEST HAM. FULHAM won 1-0 away to Everton. CRYSTAL PALCE won 1-0 away to Sheffield Utd. TOTTENHAM drew 2-2 away to Brentford while CHELSEA drew 1-1 at home to LIVERPOOL.
CHAMPIONSHIP
After two games now, IPSWICH TOWN are top after they won their second league game 2-0 at home to STOKE CITY. Ipswich are on a total of 6 goals while Stoke picked up their first blank of the season. LEICESTER CITY are second after they won 1-0 away to Huddersfield. Leicester are on a total of 5 goals. MIDDLESBROUGH lost 3-0 away to Coventry and picked up their second blank score sheet after three games. LEEDS UTD lost 1-0 away to Birmingham and picked up their first blank of the season. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY lost 4-2 away to Hull and they are on a total of 4 goals. BRISTOL CITY won 1-0 away to Millwall and they are on a total of 7 goals. SUNDERLAND lost 2-1 away to Preston and they have now picked up 3 goals in three games. SOUTHAMPTON picked up their highest result to date after they drew 4-4 at home to NORWICH. Southampton are now on a total of 7 goals while Norwich also with their biggest score to date, are now on a total of 6 goals. PLYMOUTH picked up their first blank score sheet after they drew 0-0 away to Watford. SWANSEA lost 3-2 away to West Brom and they have taken their goals total to 6.
LEAGUE ONE
PETERBOROUGH are our highest team here in fourth place after they won 1-0 at home to CHARLTON. Borough are on a total of 3 goals as Charlton picked up their first blank of the season. BRISTOL ROVERS drew 1-1 at home against BARNSLEY and they are on a total of 2 goals while Barnsley have taken theirs to 10 goals. DERBY won 3-0 away to Burton and they are on a total of 4 goals. BLACKPOOL drew 0-0 away to Exeter and that is their first blank score sheet. READING lost 1-0 away to Port Vale and that is their second blank score sheet after three games.
LEAGUE TWO
The highest team that we have here are MK DONS in first place. They won their second league game 1-0 at home to Tranmere. The dons are on a total of 6 goals. AFC WIMBLEDON drew 1-1 at home to WREXHAM and are on 3 goals while Wrexham are on 4 goals. SUTTON UTD lost 2-1 away to Barrow and have taken their goals total to 8. NOTTS COUNTY picked up their biggest result with a 3-2 home win against Grimsby. County are on a total of 4 goals. SALFORD CITY drew 1-1 at home to Crawley and are on a total of 5 goals.
SCOTTISH LEAGUES
In the Premiership CELTIC are top on goal difference after they won their second game 3-1 away to ABERDEEN. Celtic are now on a total of 7 goals. Aberdeen picked up their first goal of the season. KILMARNOCK are in fifth place after they drew 0-0 away to Hearts. Kilmarnock after a goal run of five league/cup games, picked up their first blank score sheet. RANGERS are in sixth place after they won 4-0 at home to Livingston. ROSS COUNTY won 2-0 at home against St Johnston. County are on a total of 17 goals and a goal run of six league/cup games. HIBERNIAN lost 2-1 away to Motherwell and are on a total of 3 goals.
In League One after two league game the highest team that we have here are FALKIRK in third place. They drew 2-2 away to COVE RANGERS and they are now on a total of 13 goals while Cove Rangers are on a total of 12 goals. KELTY HEARTS lost their first game 2-0 at home to Hamilton. Kelty after a goal run of five games, picked up their first blank of the season.
In League Two, CLYDE picked up their second blank score sheet after they lost 2-0 at home to Bonnyrigg. STENHOUSEMUIR drew 0-0 away to Peterhead and picked up their third blank of the season. EAST FIFE drew 1-1 away to Stranraer and are on a total of 4 goals after they had failed to score in their last three games.
So lets have a look at our BEST three teams this week
ROSS COUNTY (17) FALKIRK (13) KELTY HEARTS (13) Total of 43 goals
Our WORST three teams are
MANCHESTER UNITED (0) LIVERPOOL (1) CHELSEA (1) Total of 2 goals
Our Best performing team is ROSS COUNTY after they have now scored in all of their six league/cup games.
Our worst performing team is EAST FIFE this weekend as they have picked up four blank score sheets in their first six games of the season.
Our highest goal scoring team in our 41st Season are BARNSLEY. They won 7-0 at home to Port Vale in the first league game of the season in Week One.
At the other end at 110 we had Tim Wood there last weekend but we now have RYAN FC (Richard Williams) who picked up just 3 goals this weekend. Ryan FC has Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United.
Here is how our top ten are looking this week.
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 2 R. WILLIAMS (2015/16) 24 9 33
2 1 CHARLIE FARLEY 25 5 30
3 5 R. WOOD (2007/08)* 5 19 24
4 3 D. BARRETT 10 13 23
5 4 P. PORTER 4 18 22
6 13 B. BURROUGHS (1) 3 17 20
7 - M. GREGORY 5 15 20
8 - J. WOOD (2016/17) 2 17 19
9 22 A. STUBBS (2012/13) 5 13 18
10 - A. EYLES 7 11 18
Saturday, 12 August 2023
City Start Their Season
We had the very first league game for the Premier League last night where last seasons Champions MANCHESTER CITY won their first game 3-0 away to Burnley. City have a total of 44 votes this season.
Thursday, 10 August 2023
More Carabao First Round Results
Most of the League Cup first round have now been played, with just one more game to be played. We had another 6 of our teams in action with 5 of them going through to the next round.
LEEDS UTD are through as they win 2-1 at home to Shrewsbury. Leeds are on a total of 4 goals. LEICESTER CITY are also on a total of 4 goals after they won 2-0 away to Burton. AFC WIMBLEDON won 2-1 at home to Coventry and picked up their first goals of the season. BRISTOL CITY picked up their highest score to date after they won 5-1 at home to Oxford Utd. City are now on a total of 6 goals. IPSWICH won 2-0 at home against BRISTOL ROVERS. Ipswich are on a total of 4 goals while Rovers picked up their first blank of the season.
Wednesday, 9 August 2023
Carabao Cup First Round Games
We had the first round of the League Cup played and we here at Golden Goals had a total of 18 of our teams in action. Out of them only 10 have made it through to round two.
The teams that are through to the next round are MIDDLESBROUGH who picked up their first goals of the season as they won 3-2 away to Huddersfield. BLACKPOOL are through as they win 2-0 away to DERBY. Blackpool are on a total of 4 goals while Derby picked up their first blank of the season. SALFORD CITY drew 2-2 away to Preston and then went on to win 4-2 on penalties. Salford are on a total of 4 goals. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY drew 1-1 against Stockport and then won 4-1 on penalties and have a total of 2 goals. STOKE won 2-0 at home to West Brom and they are on a total of 6 goals. PETERBOROUGH drew 1-1 at home to Swindon and then won 4-1 on penalties. They are on a total of 2 goals. SWANSEA picked up their highest score to date as they win 3-0 at home to Northampton. Swansea are now on a total of 4 goals. READING are on the score sheet after they won 4-0 away to Millwall. PLYMOUTH won 2-0 at home to Leyton Orient and they are on a total of 5 goals. SUTTON UTD drew 2-2 at home to Cambridge and then won 6-5 on penalties. Sutton are on a total of 7 goals.
Teams that went out are BARNSLEY drew 2-2 after full time but then went out 7-6 on penalties with Tranmere. NOTTS COUNTY lost 2-0 at home to Lincoln City and picked up their first blank of the season. SUNDERLAND drew 1-1 at home against Crewe and then lost 5-3 on penalties. Sunderland are on 2 goals. CHARLTON lost 3-1 away to Newport County and they are on a total of 2 goals. SOUTHAMPTON lost 3-1 away to Gillingham. Southampton are on a total of 3 goals. MK DONS lost 2-0 at home to Wycombe and that is their first blank score sheet of the season.
Monday, 7 August 2023
Week One
Well here we are with our 41st Season of Golden Goals and a very big welcome to you all and what a season we are going to have once again. We have ended up with a total of 109 entries in this seasons competition and I would like to thank everyone who has helped us to get to that magic figure which just managed to get in to the top ten best season’s of Golden Goals once again. It is with great regret that we did not reach our record total of 149 from the 2017/18 Season. Although we have seen some names missing from last season, we have gained another nine new ones. So who is going to be our 41st Champion and win that £100 prize money? We will find out in the next forty-two weeks time but I wish you all the very best of luck.
We have a total of fifteen past Champions playing this season. Our last season Champion is also back and that was Tony Guy. Tony has changed his winning combination from last season to Arsenal, Celtic and Liverpool. We also have a total of 21 ladies playing this season competition.
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 with a total of 44. Last season they had a total of 56 and scored a total of 118 goals so this was no surprise that they would be the most voted teams this season. With our Scottish teams, CELTIC after picking up 25 votes last season, they picked up more this season but with just 39.
Staying with the Scottish teams the second highest voted team comes from the Scottish Premiership again and they are RANGERS with just 15 votes which is down from last seasons total of 17. The Scottish teams had a good turn out this season with a total of 12 teams being picked. We have six teams from the Scottish Premiership, and 3 each from League One and Two.
With the English teams things have changed as they always do in this competition. We have a total of just 13 Premiership teams in this years competition with MANCHESTER CITY our top team again this season. Next comes ARSENAL with 37 votes. They were our sixth most voted team last season with 12 votes. In third place with 28 votes we have LIVERPOOL. They were our second most voted team last season with 51 votes. In fourth place up from seventeen last season is LEICESTER CITY. They have 18 votes compared to 3 last season. Our fifth voted teams are MANCHESTER UNITED and MIDDLESBROUGH with 12 votes each.
In the Championship we have picked up 12 teams compared to 10 last season, while in League One we have 7, with 6 teams taken from League Two.
We have the two teams that are back into the football league this season. They are NOTTS COUNTY and WREXHAM.
Week One we had our very first winner of the new season who won on a total of 13 goals to win the first £5 weekend prize money. Our winner is PETER PORTER. Peter started with Golden Goals in our 7th Season of 1989/90. In that season he finished in 40th place with 182 goals and picked up a shared weekend win. Last season Peter finished in 56th place with a total of 261 goals and one weekend win. So it’s a good start for Peter and his teams for this season are
BARNSLEY 7, CELTIC 4, LEICESTER CITY 2
WEEKEND RESULTS
The lower English leagues were all in action in our first weekend of the new season as the Scottish played their first full league fixture. We had a good start to the season with plenty of goals but we had one of our team picking up the highest score over the weekend with 7 goals. They were from League One BARNSLEY. Barnsley won their first league game 7-0 at home to Port Vale. This is Barnsley’s 9th Season with Golden Goals and they became our 91st voted English team when they started with us in the 1998/99 Season where they finished on a total of 79 goals. Their highest score was in the 20108/19 Season with a total of 89 goals. Last time out was in the 2021/22 Season where they finished on a total of 38 goals. Over the years they have now netted a total of 518 goals which gives them an average score of 57 goals per season. They have a total of 8 votes this season. So lets see how the rest of our teams that were in action, got on over the weekend.
CHAMPIONSHIP
In no particular order, BRISTOL CITY drew 1-1 at home to Preston. MIDDLESBROUGH lost 1-0 at home to Millwall. NORWICH won 2-0 at home to Hull. PLYMOUTH won 3-1 at home to Huddersfield. STOKE won 4-0 at home against Rotherham while SWANSEA drew 1-1 at home to Birmingham. LEICESTER CITY won 2-1 at home to Coventry. LEEDS UTD drew 2-2 at home to Cardiff City. SUNDERLAND lost 2-1 at home to IPSWICH.
LEAGUE ONE
We already know about Barnsley’s big win, but BLACKPOOL won 2-0 at home to Burton. CHARLTON won 1-0 at home to Leyton Orient while DERBY lost 2-1 at home to Wigan. BRISTOL ROVERS drew 1-1 away to Portsmouth and READING lost 1-0 at home to PETERBOROUGH.
LEAGUE TWO
SALFORD CITY won 2-0 away to Forest Green and AFC WIMBLEDON drew 0-0 away to Grimsby. SUTTON UTD won 5-1 at home to NOTTS COUNTY. WREXHAM lost 5-3 against MK DONS on their opening game.
SCOTTISH RESULTS
Now you might already know that the Scottish have already played their first round of their League Cup, if you have been following our blog and with their group format once again, so most of our teams have already played more than four games this weekend. But here is the results of their first league games.
In the Premiership last season Champions CELTIC won their opening game 4-2 at home against ROSS COUNTY. County have now scored in all of their five games played which includes the league cup games. They are now on a total of 15 goals.
RANGERS lost their first game 1-0 away to KILMARNOCK. Kilmarnock have now extended their goal run to five games and are on a total of 10 goals. ABERDEEN drew 0-0 away to Livingston. HIBERNIAN lost 3-2 at home to St Mirren.
In League One FALKIRK won 3-0 at home to Annan and that has taken their goals total to 11. COVE RANGERS lost 1-0 away to Hamilton and that is now their 2nd blank of the season. KELTY HEARTS won 2-0 away to Montrose and have a goal run of five games. They are on a total of 13 goals.
In League Two EAST FIFE lost their first league game 3-0 at home to Peterhead and that id their 4th blank score sheet. STENHOUSEMUIR drew 0-0 at home to Forfar. Stenhousemuir picked up their 2nd blank score sheet. CLYDE drew 1-1 away to The Spartans and they are on a total of 5 goals.
Here is our top ten in the first week. This will all change next week as the Premier League starts.
FIRST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 CHARIE FARLEY 25 3 28
2 R. WILLIAMS (2015/16) 21 5 26
3 D. BARRETT 10 7 17
4 P. PORTER 13 13
5 R. WOOD (2007/08)* 2 11 13
6 M. LIDDLE 11 2 13
7 M. GREGORY 11 11
8 J. WOOD (2016/17) 11 11
9 J. WISE 10 10
10 A. EYLES 9 9
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