In the Championship LEEDS UNITED played their second game of the week. After their win against Middlesbrough earlier on in the week, They then lost 4-0 away to QPR. Leeds maybe on a total of 92 goals but they have now had a total of nine blank score sheets.
Saturday 27 April 2024
Friday 26 April 2024
City Close Gap on Arsenal
In the Premier League MANCHESTER CITY have move above Liverpool to second place after they won 4-0 away to BRIGHTON. City are now on a total of 95 goals while Brighton picked up their 10th blank of the season.
This is how our top ten teams are looking today in our 41st Season of Golden Goals. Each team has their previous personal best end of season score in BOLD Red numbers.
103 FALKIRK 92
102 LIVERPOOL 127
100 LEICESTER CITY 98
98 PETERBOROUGH 129
97 IPSWICH 113
95 MANCHESTER CITY 137
94 CELTIC 143
94 NOTTS COUNTY 106
94 SOUTHAMPTON 99
92 RANGERS 126
Thursday 25 April 2024
Liverpool's Title Hopes Fade
In the Premier League LIVERPOOLS chance for the title have now been lost after they lost 2-0 away to Everton. That is now Liverpool's 3rd blank of the season. MANCHESTER UNITED won 4-2 at home to bottom of the league Sheffield United. United have taken their goals tally up to 68 and have now extended their goals run to 20 league/cup games. BOURNEMOUTH won 1-0 away to Wolves and picked up goal number 63 and have now scored in all of their last 8 games. CRYSTAL PALACE won 2-0 at home against NEWCASTLE and are on a total of 48 goals while Newcastle, picked up their 6th blank of the season.
Wednesday 24 April 2024
Arsenal Thump Chelsea to go Top
In the Premier League ARSENAL won 5-0 at home to London rivals CHELSEA and go back to the top of the league. Arsenal have taken their goals tally to 84 while Chelsea picked up their 10th blank of the season and now 2 games in a row without a goal.
In the Championship LEICESTER CITY won 5-0 at home against SOUTHAMPTON. City have now become our third team to hit 100 goals this season. Southampton picked up their 5th blank of the season.
In League One PETERBOROUGH currently in the play-offs, lost 2-0 away to Cheltenham and picked up their 6th blank score sheet of the season.
Tuesday 23 April 2024
Championship Race Back On
In the Championship It’s 80 goals for MIDDLESBROUGH after they lost 4-3 at home to LEEDS UNITED. Middlesbrough have now scored in all of their last 6 league games. After they had failed to score in their last 2 games, Leeds have taken their goals tally up to 92 and have moved up to second place.
This is how our top ten teams are looking today in our 41st Season of Golden Goals. Each team has their previous personal best end of season score in BOLD Red numbers.
103 FALKIRK 92
102 LIVERPOOL 127
98 PETERBOROUGH 129
97 IPSWICH 113
95 LEICESTER CITY 98
94 CELTIC 143
94 NOTTS COUNTY 106
94 SOUTHAMPTON 99
92 RANGERS 126
92 LEEDS UNITED 97
Monday 22 April 2024
Golden Goals Highest Goals Scored
CELTIC holds the record for the highest number of goals scored at the end of a season with 143 goals set in the 2022/23 Season.
In that season they had played a total of 47 league and cup games which gave them an average score of 3 goals per game. Their highest score came in Week Five when they beat Dundee Utd 9-0 away in a league game. Also in that season they picked up just two blank score sheets. They had a total of 25 votes.
Celtic started in our very first season of 1983/84 where they finished on a score of 116 goals. They were our 2nd voted Scottish team. They have scored 100 or more goals in 21 of their 40 seasons played. Over the seasons they netted a total of 3951 goals which gives them an average score of 98 goals per season.
Week Thirty-Eight
In Week Thirty-Eight of the competition we had our 7th Rollover of the season worth £10 and that was won on a score of 10 goals. The prize money went to our 34th winner of the season, ANNE HAMMOND.
Anne is in her very first season with Golden Goals and this is her personal best score of the season. Anne as been as high as 61st place in Week Thirty. She as picked up a total of 6 blank weekend score sheets. Anne’s best team is Liverpool. Here ate her winning combination.
CRYSTAL PLACE 5, LIVERPOOL 3, RANGERS 2
100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
Only 30 of us have managed to pick up a goal or two this week as the race for the record hots up. We now have a total of 15 players that have now reached 100 or more goals and we hope there will be a couple more next week. The record to beat is 136 midweek goals and the record holder is Daryl Nicholls from the 2016/17 Season.
Leading the race for the record this week we still have TONY KING now with a total of 117 goals. In second place we have MARK JOHNSTON and ANN WELLARD with a total of 112 goals. In third place we have BAILEY MORAN with a total of 110 goals. In fourth place we have GEOFF CARTHY, DOUG MORBEY and JAMES SOMERVILLE all with a total of 107 goals. In fifth place with 106 goals, we have ANDREW HAMMOND.
WEEKEND RESULTS
We had all but 9 of our teams in action again over the weekend and the ones that did play, 5 of them failed to score any goals. What a crazy weekend we had again with our teams and that is once again reflected in the table this week. The average score for the weekend remained the same as last week of just 5 goals.
The highest score that we had was 5 goals, and they came from two of our teams. They are CRYSTAL PALACE and MK DONS.
FA CUP Semi-Finals
In this round we had three of the four teams. MANCHESTER CITY won 1-0 against CHELSEA and are on a total of 91 goals. Chelsea after a goal run of 8 league/cup games, pick up their 9th blank of the season. MANCHESTER UNITED drew 3-3 against Coventry City after full time and that score remained after extra time. United who were 3-0 up with 20 minutes to go, then won 4-2 on penalties. United are now on a total of 64 goals and have now scored in all of their last 19 league/cup games. It’s the old firm final between City and United on 25 May.
PREMIER LEAGUE
ARSENAL are at the top this weekend after they won 2-0 away to Wolves and are on a total of 79 goals. LIVERPOOL are now in second place after they won 3-1 away to FULHAM and are now on a total of 102 goals which makes them our second team to reach 100 goals this season. Fulham picked up goal number 60 Manchester City are in third place. ASTON VILLA in fourth place, won 3-1 at home against AFC BOURNEMOUTH and they are now on a total of 74 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league games. Bournemouth are on a total of 62 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league games. CRYSTAL PALACE picked up their biggest result of the season as they beat London rivals WEST HAM 5-2 at home. Palace are now on a total of 46 goals. West Ham are on a total of 60 goals. NOTTINGHAM FOREST lost 2-0 away to Everton and picked up their 12th blank of the season.
CHAMPIONSHIP
LEICESTER CITY are back on top after they won 2-1 at home to West Brom. City after they had failed to score in their last 2 games, are now on a total of 95. Ipswich are back down to second place as they had no game this weekend.
In the Play-offs we have three of the four teams. In third place we still have Leeds United who had no game this weekend.
SOUTHAMPTON are still in fourth place after they lost 2-1 away to Cardiff. Southampton are now on a total of 94 goals. NORWICH are still in sixth place after they drew 1-1 at home against BRISTOL CITY. Norwich are on a total of 86 goals and have now scored in all of their last 16 league/cup games. Bristol City are on 59 goals.
Meanwhile SWANSEA picked up their biggest result of the season after they won 4-0 away to Huddersfield. Swansea have taken their goals tally to 64. STOKE won 3-0 at home to PLYMOUTH and are now on a total of 54 goals while Plymouth, picked up their 13th blank of the season. SUNDERLAND picked up their 17th blank of the season after they lost 1-0 at home to Millwall. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY won 3-1 away to Blackburn Rovers and are now on a total of 47 goals.
LEAGUE ONE
DERBY are still our highest team here in second place after they won 1-0 away to Cambridge Utd. Derby are on a total of 79 goals.
In the Play-offs we still have two teams with PETERBOROUGH still in fourth place after they won 2-0 away to BRISTOL ROVERS. Peterborough are on a total of 98 goals while Rovers picked up their 13th blank of the season. BARNSLEY are in fifth place after they lost 3-2 away to BLACKPOOL. Barnsley are on a total of 89 goals while Blackpool are now on a total of 74 goals.
Meanwhile CHARLTON drew 1-1 at home to Shrewsbury and are on a total of 72 goals. READING lost 3-2 away to Burton and are on a total of 74 goals and have now scored in all of their last 19 league/cup games.
LEAGUE TWO
WREXHAM are down to third place after they won 3-0 away to Crewe and have taken their goal tally to 91.
In the Play-offs we now have one team and they are MK DONS, who are still in fourth place after they won 5-3 away to Harrogate. The Dons have taken their goals total to 81.
Meanwhile SALFORD CITY won 1-0 away to Newport and are on a total of 73 goals. NOTTS COUNTY won 1-0 at home against Colchester and are on a total of 94 goals and have now scored in all of their last 10 league games. SUTTON UNITED drew 2-2 at home to Crawley and are on a total of 65 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 7 league games. AFC WIMBELDON lost 3-2 away to Tranmere and are on a total of 73 goals.
SCOTTISH RESULTS
In the SCOTTISH CUP Semi-Finals we had three of the four teams. CELTIC drew 3-3 against ABERDEEN after extra time and then went on to win 6-5 on penalties. Celtic are now on a total of 94 goals and have scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. Aberdeen, after they had failed to score in their last 2 league games, are now on a total of 50 goals. RANGERS won 2-0 against Hearts and are on a total of 92 goals. The final between Celtic and Rangers is to be played on 25 May.
In League One Champions FALKIRK top of the table drew 2-2 at home to KELTY HEARTS. Falkirk are on a total of 103 goals and have now scored in all of their last 21 league/cup games. Kelty are on a total of 60 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league games. It’s 70 goals for COVE RANGERS after they lost 3-2 at home against Alloa and they have now scored in all of their last 7 league games.
In League Two STENHOUSEMUIR top of the table, drew their seventh consecutive league game 2-2 away to bottom of the table CLYDE. Stenhousemuir are on a total of 52 goals while Clyde are on a total of 60 goals. EAST FIFE lost 2-1 away to Forfar and are on a total of 48 goals.
Our BEST three teams this week
FALKIRK (103) LIVERPOOL (102) PETERBOROUGH (98) Total of 303 goals
Our WORST three teams are
CRYSTAL PALACE (46) SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY (47) NOTTINGHAM FOREST (48) Total of 141 goals
Our Best performing team are now FALKIRK after they have now scored in all of their last 21 league/cup games. They have a total of 103 goals which gives them an average score of 2.5 goals per game.
Our worst performing team is SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY this week as they have picked up 19 blank score sheets out of their 48 league/cup games.
Our highest goal scoring teams in our 41st Season are NEWCASTLE UNITED after they won 8-0 away to Sheffield United in Week Eight. BARNSLEY, BRISTOL ROVERS, COVE RANGERS, CELTIC and FALKIRK have all pick up our second highest score with 7 goals each. Barnsley won 7-0 at home to Port Vale in the first league game of the season in Week One. Bristol Rovers won 7-2 at home to non-league Whitby Town in the first round of the FA CUP in Week Fourteen. Cove Rangers won 7-2 at home to Edinburgh City in the league in Week Twenty-One. Celtic won 7-1 at home to Dundee in the league in Week Thirty-One. FALKIRK won 7-1 away to Montrose in the league in Week Thirty-Five.
JOHN FILTNESS is at the top again this weekend as he picks up a total of 6 goals from the weekend. John has now been at the top for a total of 11 weeks throughout the season. His teams are Leicester City, Liverpool and Manchester City. John has now beaten our 2006/07 Champion Adam Porters score of 284 goals in our “Champions League”. Scott Thomson (1) is still in second place with his 1st combination. Scott picked up a total of 7 goals from the week with his teams of Liverpool, Manchester City and Notts County. Scott is just 1 goal behind John.
At the other end at 110 we still have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) for his 19th consecutive weekend. John picked up a total of 2 goals this weekend. John has Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir. John has remained in 33rd place in our “Losers League” this week.
Here is our top ten this weekend and the race is still wide open. Who is going to win the £100?
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 - J. FILTNESS 100 188 288
2 - S. THOMSON (1) 100 187 287
3 6 J. SOMERVILLE 107 180 287
4 3 GRAHAM PHILLIPS 90 196 286
5 4 C. NUNN 81 203 284
6 7 B. MORAN 110 174 284
7 8 S. THOMSON (2) 88 195 283
8 5 A. STUBBS (2) 95 187 282
9 10 D. MORBEY 107 174 281
10 9 A. HAMMOND 106 174 280
Friday 19 April 2024
FA Cup News
FA Cup replays will be scrapped from the first round onwards in the coming2024/25 competition, which might effect our teams end of season totals for our 42nd Season.
All rounds of the FA Cup will also be played on weekends, including the fifth round which has been played in midweek for the past five seasons. The changes come as part of a new six-year agreement between the Football Association (FA) and the Premier League.
The good news is that the Premier League has also removed its mid-season break from the calendar.
Thursday 18 April 2024
Rangers Blown Title Race
In the Scottish Premiership, second place RANGERS drew 0-0 away to Dundee and that has ended their goal run of 34 league/cup games. Rangers have now had just 3 blank score sheets so far this season. Rangers have failed to win their last two league games and have now given Celtic the title.
This is how our top ten teams are looking today in our 41st Season of Golden Goals. Each team has their previous personal best end of season score in BOLD Red numbers.
101 FALKIRK 92
99 LIVERPOOL 127
97 IPSWICH 113
96 PETERBOROUGH 129
93 LEICESTER CITY 98
93 NOTTS COUNTY 106
93 SOUTHAMPTON 99
91 CELTIC 143
90 MANCHESTER CITY 137
90 RANGERS 126
Wednesday 17 April 2024
Play-offs for Southampton Improve
In the Championship SOUTHAMPTON won 3-0 at home against Preston and are now on a total of 93 goals.
In League One BRISTOL ROVERS won 1-0 at home to Cambridge Utd and are on a total of 65 goals. PETERBOROUGH won 4-1 at home to Fleetwood and have taken their goals tally to 96 goals. BARNSLEY lost 3-2 away to Portsmouth and are on a total of 87 goals.
In League Two NOTTS COUNTY lost 5-2 at home to Stockport and are on a total of 93 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 9 league games.
Tuesday 16 April 2024
Another Six for Chelsea
In the Premier League CHELSEA won 6-0 at home against Everton and have taken their goals tally up to 87 goals. They have extended their goal run to 8 league games.
This is how our top ten teams are looking today in our 41st Season of Golden Goals. Each team has their previous personal best end of season score in BOLD Red numbers.
101 FALKIRK 92
99 LIVERPOOL 127
97 IPSWICH 113
93 LEICESTER CITY 98
92 PETERBOROUGH 129
91 CELTIC 143
91 NOTTS COUNTY 106
90 MANCHESTER CITY 137
90 RANGERS 126
90 SOUTHAMPTON 99
Monday 15 April 2024
Week Thirty-Seven
In Week Thirty-Seven of the competition we had a total of five players that picked up a total of 11 goals each. So under our competition rules, we can only have four winners. That now means that we will have our 7th Rollover of the season worth £10 next weekend. The players that missed out this week are STEVE AYRES, DAVID BARRETT, MICHAEL FISHER, TONY GUY (2) and CHRIS NUNN.
100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
Most of us have managed to pick up a goal or two this week and although the race for the cash is over, there is a record to beat still. We now have a total of 12 players that have now reached 100 or more goals and there will be a couple more in the coming week. The record to beat is 136 midweek goals and the record holder is Daryl Nicholls from the 2016/17 Season. Leading the race for the record this week we have TONY KING now with a total of 107 goals. In second place we have MARK JOHNSTON and BAILEY MORAN with a total of 106 goals. Next we have ANN WELLARD with a total of 104 goals. Following Ann we have ANDY EYLES and JAMES SOMERVILLE both with a total of 103 goals.
WEEKEND RESULTS
We had all but 3 of our teams in action again over the weekend and the ones that did play, 8 of them failed to score any goals. What a crazy weekend we had with our teams and that is reflected in the table this week. The average score for the weekend fell from seven goals last week to just 5 goals this weekend. The highest score that we had was 6 goals, and they came from League Two where WREXHAM won 6-0 at home against bottom of the table Forest Green Rovers. Wrexham have taken their goals total to 88.
PREMIER LEAGUE
MANCHESTER CITY are at the top this weekend after they won 5-1 at home against Luton. City have had some good results over the last couple of weeks as they take their goals tally to 90. ARSENAL move down to second place after they lost 2-0 at home to ASTON VILLA. As Arsenal pick up their 6th blank of the season, Villa are on a total of 71 goals and have moved up to fourth place. LIVERPOOL are down to third place after they lost 1-0 at home against CRYSTAL PALACE. Liverpool who had a goal run of 22 games, have now picked up their 2nd blank of the season. Palace are on 41 goals. TOTTENHAM now in fifth place lost 4-0 away to NEWCASTLE. As Tottenham picked up their 3rd blank of the season, Newcastle have taken their goals tally to 80. After they had failed to score in their last two games, BRIGHTON drew 1-1 away to Burnley and are on a total of 61 goals.NOTTINGHAM FOREST drew 2-2 at home against Wolves and are on a total of 48 goals. AFC BOURNEMOUTH drew 2-2 at home against MANCHESTER UNITED. Bournemouth are on a total of 61 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 games. United are also on a total of 61 goals and have now scored in all of their last 18 league/cup games. WEST HAM lost 2-0 at home to FULHAM and picked up their 8th blank of the season after a goal run of 7 games. Fulham are on 59 goals.
CHAMPIONSHIP
IPSWICH are back on top after they drew 1-1 at home against MIDDLESBROUGH. After they had failed to score in their last two games, Ipswich are on a total of 97 goals. Middlesbrough are on a total of 77 goals. Leicester City are back in second place.
In the Play-offs we have three of the four teams. In third place we still have LEEDS UNITED who lost 1-0 at home to Blackburn Rovers. Leeds picked up their 8th blank of the season and now two in a row. SOUTHAMPTON are still in fourth place after they won 3-2 at home to Watford. Southampton are now on a total of 90 goals. NORWICH are still in sixth place after they won 1-0 away to Preston. Norwich are on a total of 85 goals and have now scored in all of their last 15 league/cup games.
Meanwhile BRISTOL CITY drew 1-1 at home against Huddersfield and are on a total of 58 goals. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY drew 1-1 at home to STOKE and are on a total of 44 goals while Stoke are on 51 goals. After they had failed to score in their previous two games, SWANSEA are on a total of 60 goals after they won 1-0 at home to Rotherham. SUNDERLAND had failed to score in their last two league games, won 1-0 away to West Brom and are on a total of 53 goals.
LEAGUE ONE
DERBY are still our highest team here in second place after they won 3-0 at home to Leyton Orient. Derby have taken their goals total to 78.
In the Play-offs we have two teams with PETERBOROUGH still in fourth place after they lost 5-0 away to Oxford Utd. That is their 5th blank of the season. BARNSLEY are in fifth place after they drew 2-2 at home to READING. Barnsley are on a total of 85 goals while Reading 72 goals and have now scored in all of their last 18 league/cup games.
Meanwhile CHARLTON drew 1-1 away to Cambridge Utd and are on a total of 71 goals. BLACKPOOL won 1-0 away to Carlisle and are on a total of 71 goals. After they had failed to score in their last 7 league games, BRISTOL ROVERS won 3-1 away to Cheltenham. Rovers are now on a total of 64 goals.
LEAGUE TWO
Wrexham are still in second place after their big win.
In the Play-offs we now have one team and they are MK DONS, who are down to fourth place after they lost 4-1 at home to Mansfield. The Dons are on a total of 76 goals.
Meanwhile SUTTON UNITED drew 2-2 away to Harrogate and are on a total of 63 goals. SALFORD CITY lost 2-1 at home against Bradford and are on a total of 72 goals. AFC WIMBELDON lost 3-2 away to Swindon and are on a total of 71 goals. NOTTS COUNTY won 3-1 away to Walsall and are now on a total of 91 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league games.
SCOTTISH RESULTS
In the Premiership CELTIC are still top this weekend after they won 3-0 at home to St Mirren. Celtic have taken their goals total to 91. RANGERS remain in second place with that game in hand, but have they made Celtic the Champions? After they lost 3-2 away to ROSS COUNTY. Rangers are on a total of 90 goals and have now scored in all of their last 34 league/cup games. County are now on a total of 50 goals. ABERDEEN drew 0-0 at home to Dundee and that is their 16th blank of the season and now two games in a row. HIBERNIAN drew 1-1 away to Motherwell and are on a total of 54 goals. KILMARNOCK won 2-0 away to St Johnstone and are on a total of 59 goals and have now scored in all of their last 18 league/cup games.
In League One Champions FALKIRK are still top of the table after win 2-0 away to Hamilton. We congratulate Falkirk on being our first team to reach 100 goals. They are now on a total of 101 goals and have now scored in all of their last 20 league/cup games. COVE RANGERS lost 3-2 away to Annan and are on a total of 68 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 6 league games. KELTY HEARTS won 1-0 at home against Stirling and are on a total of 58 goals.
In League Two STENHOUSEMUIR are still top of the table after they drew their sixth consecutive league game 1-1 at home to Elgin City. Stenhousemuir after they had failed to score in their last three games, are on a total of 50 goals. EAST FIFE lost 4-1 at home to Bonnyrigg Rose and are on a total of 47 goals. CLYDE who are back at the bottom of the league, after they lost 1-0 away to Dumbarton. That is Clyde's 12th blank of the season.
Our BEST three teams this week
FALKIRK (101) LIVERPOOL (99) IPSWICH (97) Total of 297 goals
Our WORST three teams are
CRYSTAL PALACE (41) SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY (44) ABERDEEN (47) Total of 132 goals
Our Best performing team are RANGERS after they have now scored in all of their last 34 league/cup games. They have a total of 90 goals which gives them an average score of 2.3 goals per game.
Our worst performing team is SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY this week as they have picked up 19 blank score sheets out of their 47 league/cup games.
Our highest goal scoring teams in our 41st Season are NEWCASTLE UNITED after they won 8-0 away to Sheffield United in Week Eight. BARNSLEY, BRISTOL ROVERS, COVE RANGERS, CELTIC and FALKIRK have all pick up our second highest score with 7 goals each. Barnsley won 7-0 at home to Port Vale in the first league game of the season in Week One. Bristol Rovers won 7-2 at home to non-league Whitby Town in the first round of the FA CUP in Week Fourteen. Cove Rangers won 7-2 at home to Edinburgh City in the league in Week Twenty-One. Celtic won 7-1 at home to Dundee in the league in Week Thirty-One. FALKIRK won 7-1 away to Montrose in the league in Week Thirty-Five.
JOHN FILTNESS is still at the top this weekend as he picks up a total of 5 goals from the weekend. John has now been at the top for a total of 10 weeks throughout the season. His teams are Leicester City, Liverpool and Manchester City. John has now beaten our 1988/89 Champion Alec Short score of 280 goals in our “Champions League”. Scott Thomson (1) has moved up to second place with his 1st combination. Scott picked up a total of 8 goals from the weekend with his teams of Liverpool, Manchester City and Notts County. Scott is just 2 goals behind John.
At the other end at 110 we still have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) for his 18th consecutive weekend. John picked up a a total of 6 goals this weekend. John has Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir. John has moved up to 33rd place in our “Losers League” this week.
This is how the top ten stands this weekend.
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 - J. FILTNESS 100 182 282
2 3 S. THOMSON (1) 98 182 280
3 5 GRAHAM PHILLIPS 87 191 278
4 12 C. NUNN 81 196 277
5 2 A. STUBBS (2) 95 182 277
6 4 J. SOMERVILLE 103 173 276
7 - B. MORAN 106 169 275
8 30 S. THOMSON (2) 84 187 271
9 8 A. HAMMOND 100 170 270
10 6 D. MORBEY 101 169 270
Friday 12 April 2024
Leicester in Trouble for Promotion
In the Championship it’s all going wrong for LEICESTER CITY as they have now lost 3 of their last 5 league games with a 1-0 away defeat by PLYMOUTH. Leicester have now had a total of 6 blank score sheet and now 2 in a row. Plymouth picked up their 67th goal of the season.
Thursday 11 April 2024
Championship Wide Open
In the Championship IPSWICH have moved back into second place after they drew 0-0 at home against Watford. Ipswich have now had a total of 6 blank score sheets and now two in a row. The biggest result of the night and so far the week is where BRISTOL CITY won 5-0 at home against Blackburn Rovers. City have taken their goals tally up to 57 goals. After they had failed to score in their last two league games, SWANSEA won 3-0 at home to STOKE. Swansea are now on a total of 59 goals while Stoke, picked up their 18th blank of the season. MIDDLESBROUGH are on 76 goals after they drew 2-2 away to Hull.
In League One DERBY in second place drew 0-0 away to Wycombe and picked up their 7th blank of the season. PETERBOROUGH in the play-offs, won 3-0 at home to Port Vale and have taken their goals total to 92.
This is how our top ten teams are looking today in our 41st Season of Golden Goals. But are they going to score 100 goals this season? Each team has their personal best end of season score in BOLD Red numbers.
99 FALKIRK 92
99 LIVERPOOL 127
96 IPSWICH 113
93 LEICESTER CITY 98
92 PETERBOROUGH 129
88 CELTIC 143
88 RANGERS 126
88 NOTTS COUNTY 106
88 LEEDS UTD 97
87 SOUTHAMPTON 99
Wednesday 10 April 2024
Leicester and Leeds Falter
In the Championship top of the table LEICESTER CITY lost 1-0 away to Millwall and that is their 5th blank of the season. LEEDS UNITED are up to second place after they drew 0-0 at home to SUNDERLAND. Leeds after a goal run of 19 league/cup games, picked up their 7th blank of the season while Sunderland picked up their 16th. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY drew 2-2 at home against NORWICH and are on a total of 43 goals. Norwich are on a total of 84 goals and have extended their goal run to 14 league /cup games. SOUTHAMPTON won 2-1 at home against Coventry and are on a total of 87 goals. PLYMOUTH drew 1-1 at home against QPR and are on a total of 66 goals.
In League One it’s 70 goals for BLACKPOOL after they won 1-0 at home to Fleetwood. BRISTOL ROVERS lost 2-0 at home against READING and picked up their 12th blank of the season and now they have failed to score in their last 7 league games. Reading are on a total of 70 goals and have now scored in all of their last 17 league/cup games. It’s 70 goals for CHARLTON as they drew 2-2 at home to Wigan. BARNSLEY lost 2-1 away to Stevenage and are on a total of 83 goals.
In League Two WREXHAM in second place won 4-1 at home to Crawley and have taken their goals total to 82.
Monday 8 April 2024
Week Thirty-Six
In Week Thirty-Six of the competition we had our first double Rollover worth £15 and it was won on a score of 10 goals. The prize money went to SAM LEGHORN with her second win of the season. The last time that Sam won was a shared win in Week Five. Since then she has picked up another 5 blank score sheets bringing her total to 6. Sam’s highest position is still 25th place in Week Five. Her winning teams are
ARSENAL 3, MANCHESTER CITY 4, TOTTENHAM 3
100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
Congratulations to TONY KING and JAMES SOMERVILLE on reaching 100 midweek goals first this season. Although Tony needed just 2 goals to win and James 5 goals, both had their teams in action on Easter Monday and both reached their target. Tony received his goals from Peterborough, while James from Leicester City and Peterborough. So The Midweek Prize Money of £25 was shared between the two. The last time that the Midweek Prize Money was shared was back in the 2020/21 Season.
Most of us have managed to pick up a goal or two this week and although the race for the cash is over, there is a record to beat still. There are 10 players that have now reached 100 or more goals and there will be a few more in the coming weeks. The record to beat is 136 midweek goals and the record holder is Daryl Nicholls from the 2016/17 Season.
So the race now takes on a whole new meaning. Leading for the record this week we have MARK JOHNSTON with 106 goals. Next we have TONY KING with a total of 104 goals. Then we have BAILEY MORAN and ANN WELLARD with a total of 103 goals each. ANDY EYLES follows with a total of 102 goals. With 101 goals we have GEOFF CARTHY and DOUG MORBEY. Then following them we have JOHN FILTNESS, ANDREW HAMMOND and JAMES SOMERVILLE all on 100 goals.
WEEKEND RESULTS
We had all but 3 of our teams in action over the weekend and the ones that did play, 13 of them failed to score any goals. The good news is that we all picked up some goals as the average score for the weekend was 7 goals.
The highest score that we had was 5 goals, and would you believe it they came from the Scottish League One from FALKIRK once again for the third weekend running. They won 5-1 at home against COVE RANGERS and that has taken them way past their best end of season score of 92 goals back in the 2002/03 Season. Falkirk are now on a total of 99 goals and have extended their goal run to 19 league/cup games. Falkirk have now score a total of 786 goals in 11 seasons, which now gives them an average score of 71 goals per season. Cove Rangers are on a total of 66 goals.
PREMIER LEAGUE
ARSENAL are back at the top after they won 3-0 away to BRIGHTON. Arsenal are now on a total of 77 goals while Brighton picked up their 9th blank score sheet and now two games in a row. LIVERPOOL in second place drew 2-2 away to MANCHESTER UNITED. Liverpool are on a total of 99 goals have now scored in all of their last 22 league/cup games. United are on a total of 59 goals and have now scored in all of their last 17 league/cup games. MANCHESTER CITY who are still in third place, won 4-2 away to CRYSTAL PALACE. City are now on a total of 85 goals, while Palace are on 40 goals. TOTTENHAM have moved up to fourth place after they won 3-1 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST. Tottenham are now on a total of 67 goals while Forest are on 46 goals. ASTON VILLA drew 3-3 at home against Brentford and are now on a total of 73 goals. WEST HAM won 2-1 away to Wolves and are on a total of 58 goals. AFC BOURNEMOUTH lost 2-1 away to Luton and are on a total of 59 goals. After a goal run of 9 league/cup games, FULHAM picked up their 11th blank of the season as they lost 1-0 at home to NEWCASTLE. Newcastle are on a total of 76 goals. CHELSEA drew 2-2 away to bottom of the table Sheffield United and are on a total of 81 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games.
CHAMPIONSHIP
LEICESTER CITY are back on top after they won 2-1 at home against Birmingham and are on a total of 93 goals. IPSWICH are in second place after they lost 1-0 away to NORWICH. After a goal run of 16 league/cup games, Ipswich picked up their 5th blank of the season. Norwich are in sixth place and on a total of 82 goals and have now scored in all of their last 13 league/cup games.
In the Play-offs we have three of the four teams. In third place we now have LEEDS UNITED who lost 2-1 away to Coventry. Leeds are on a total of 88 goals and have now scored in all of their last 19 league/cup games. SOUTHAMPTON are in fourth place after they drew 0-0 away to Blackburn Rovers and picked up their 4th blank of the season. Norwich are sixth.
Meanwhile MIDDLESBROUGH won 2-0 at home against SWANSEA CITY and are on a total of 74 goals while Swansea picked up their 10th blank of the season and now two games in a row. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY won 2-0 away to QPR and are on a total of 41 goals. It’s 50 goals for STOKE after they drew 2-2 at home to West Brom. SUNDERLAND drew 0-0 at home to BRISTOL CITY and picked up their 15th blank score sheet. City picked up their 17th blank of the season.
LEAGUE ONE
Derby are our highest team here, still in second place after they had no game at the weekend.
In the Play-offs we have two teams with Peterborough in fourth place and BARNSLEY in fifth place after they lost 2-1 away to CHARLTON. Barnsley are on a total of 82 goals while Charlton are on 68 goals.
Meanwhile after they had failed to score in their last three games, BLACKPOOL won 1-0 at home against Cambridge Utd and are on a total of 69 goals. BRISTOL ROVERS picked up their 11th blank score sheet after they lost 2-0 at home to Bolton. Rovers have now failed to score in their last 6 league games. READING drew1-1 at home to Lincoln City and are on a total of 68 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 16 league/cup games.
LEAGUE TWO
WREXHAM are in second place after they won 2-1 away to Colchester and are on a total of 78 goals. MK DONS are in third place as they win 2-0 away to bottom of the table Forest Green. The Dons are on a total of 75 goals.
Meanwhile AFC WIMBELDON won 1-0 at home to SALFORD CITY and are on a total of 69 goals. Salford picked up their 11th blank score sheet of the season after a goal run of 6 league games. NOTTS COUNTY won 3-0 at home to Harrogate and are now on a total of 88 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league games. SUTTON UNITED lost 3-1 to top of the table Stockport and are on a total of 61 goals.
SCOTTISH RESULTS
In the Premiership in the old firm game, CELTIC are still top this weekend after they drew 3-3 away to RANGERS. Celtic have taken their goals total to 88 while RANGERS remain in second place with that game in hand, are also now on a total of 88 goals and have now scored in all of their last 33 league/cup games. HIBERNIAN lost 2-1 at home to St Johnstone and are on a total of 53 goals. KILMARNOCK won 1-0 at home to ROSS COUNTY and are on a total of 57 goals and have now scored in all of their last 17 league/cup games. County picked up their 17th blank of the season. ABERDEEN drew 0-0 away to Livingston and that is their 15th blank of the season.
In League One Falkirk are still top of the table after yet another big win. KELTY HEARTS won 2-1 away to Queen of the South and are on a total of 57 goals.
In League Two STENHOUSEMUIR are still top of the table after they drew their fifth consecutive league game 0-0 at home to EAST FIFE. Stenhousemuir picked up their 8th blank of the season and now three games in a row. East Fife after they had scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games, picked up their 14th blank of the season. CLYDE who are joint bottom of the league, won their 11th league game 1-0 at home against Stranraer and are on a total of 49 goals.
Our BEST three teams this week
FALKIRK (99) LIVERPOOL (99) IPSWICH (96) Total of 294 goals
Our WORST three teams are
CRYSTAL PALACE (40) SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY (41) EAST FIFE (46)
Total of 127 goals
Our Best performing team are RANGERS after they have now scored in all of their last 33 league/cup games. They have a total of 88 goals which gives them an average score of 2.3 goals per game.
Our worst performing team is SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY this week as they have picked up 19 blank score sheets out of their 45 league/cup games.
Our highest goal scoring teams in our 41st Season are NEWCASTLE UNITED after they won 8-0 away to Sheffield United in Week Eight. BARNSLEY, BRISTOL ROVERS, COVE RANGERS, CELTIC and FALKIRK have all pick up our second highest score with 7 goals each. Barnsley won 7-0 at home to Port Vale in the first league game of the season in Week One. Bristol Rovers won 7-2 at home to non-league Whitby Town in the first round of the FA CUP in Week Fourteen. Cove Rangers won 7-2 at home to Edinburgh City in the league in Week Twenty-One. Celtic won 7-1 at home to Dundee in the league in Week Thirty-One. FALKIRK won 7-1 away to Montrose in the league in Week Thirty-Five.
At the other end at 110 we still have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) for his 17th consecutive weekend. John picked up a single goal this weekend. John has Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir. John remains in 37th place in our “Losers League” again this week.
The season is rapidly coming to an end and the race to be our next Champion, is still on going. Who will pick up the prize money of £100.
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 2 J. FILTNESS 100 177 277
2 3 A. STUBBS (2) 95 177 272
3 6 S. THOMSON (1) 98 174 272
4 1 J. SOMERVILLE 100 170 270
5 - GRAHAM PHILLIPS 85 183 268
6 4 D. MORBEY 101 167 268
7 9 B. MORAN 103 164 267
8 21 A. HAMMOND 100 165 265
9 10 TIM WOOD 77 187 264
10 14 G. CARTHY 101 163 264
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