Monday 29 January 2024

Week Twenty-Six

In Week Twenty-Six of the competition we had our 28th winner of the season to picked up the full £5 weekend prize money. The cash goes to me, STEVE REEVE winning on a total of 10 goals. That has come as a complete shock to me as I am having a rubbish season up till now. I became Champions twice with the first time being in the 2008/09 Season and ended with a total of 290 goals. The second time was in the 2020/21 Season and finished with a total of 307 goals. Last season I finished in 39th place with 275 goals. This season I have picked up a total of four blank weekend score sheets and this is the highest that I have been all season. This is also my personal best weekend score. My winning teams are 

                          LIVERPOOL 5,  MANCHESTER UNITED 4, RANGERS 1

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Most of us have managed to pick up a goal or two this week and the race for the cash has changed this week. We now have a total of 33 players that are over the half-way mark this week. We had two players that picked up the most amount of midweek goals and they are DOUG MORBEY and ANN WELLARD with 10 goals each.

In first place this week we still have PETER PORTER but joining him this week we have ANN WELLARD who comes straight back in to the race. Both are now on a total of 70 goals. In second place this week we have MARK GREGORY now on a total of 69 goals. In third place down from two we have JAMES SOMERVILLE  and joining him we have TONY KING. Both are now with a total of 68 goals. In fourth place with 66 goals we have GEOFF CARTHY and GRANT PHILLIPS who came down from three. In fifth place down from four we have ANDY EYLES now with a total of 65 goals. In sixth place we have our 2017/18 Champion CHRIS BOLBERY down from fifth place with a total of 64 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had 37 of our teams in action over the weekend and out of them, only 6 teams failed to score any goals. Once again we did not have a full fixture this weekend. The average score for this weekend went down from five goals from last weekend to 4 goals this weekend.

The highest score that we had came from three of our teams with 5 goals each. They are BRIGHTON and LIVERPOOL in the FA CUP fourth round and FALKIRK from the Scottish League One. Here are all of the weekends results. 

FA CUP Fourth Round

In this round we had another 11 of our teams in action. We already know that Bournemouth and Manchester City are through to the next round. Well we can now add another 5 of our teams that are through. They are LEICESTER CITY who won 3-0 at home to Birmingham City and they have taken their goals tally to 67 goals and a goal run of 14 league/cup games. BRIGHTON won 5-2 away to Sheffield Utd and have taken their goals tally up to 47 goals. NEWCASTLE won 2-0 away to FULHAM and are on a total of 51 goals. Fulham picked up their 10th blank of the season. LIVERPOOL won 5-2 at home to NORWICH and they have taken their goals tally to 67 and they have extended their goal run to 9 league/cup games. Norwich are on 55 goals. With their biggest result of the season, MANCHESTER UNITED won 4-2 away to Newport and they are now on a total of 33 goals.

Team that went out of the cup are IPSWICH TOWN after they lost 2-1 at home to Non-league Maidstone Utd. Ipswich are on a total of 63 goals.

More of our teams are in replays and they are LEEDS UNITED who drew 1-1 at home to PLYMOUTH. Leeds are on a total of 57 goals while Plymouth hit goal number 55. SOUTHAMPTON drew 1-1 away to Watford and are on a total of 59 goals and a goal run of 23 league/cup games. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

We had just one game here this weekend where SUNDERLAND won 3-1 at home against STOKE CITY. Sunderland are now on a total of 41 goals while Stoke are on 38 goals. 

LEAGUE ONE

Our highest team here are in the Play-offs where PETERBOROUGH moved down to third place after they drew 0-0 away to Lincoln City. Borough picked up their 3rd blank of the season. DERBY are down to fourth place after they won 2-1 at home to Cheltenham. After they failed to score in their last two games, Derby are now on a total of 55 goals. It’s 60 goals for BARNSLEY who are still in fifth place after they lost 2-1 at home to Exeter. Barnsley have now scored in all of their last 13 league/cup games.  

Meanwhile BLACKPOOL drew 1-1 at home to CHARLTON and are on a total of 58 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. Charlton are on 51 goals. BRISTOL ROVERS won 3-1 at home to Oxford Utd and they are now on a total of 52 goals. READING drew 1-1 at home to Leyton Orient and are on a total of 45 goals. 

LEAGUE TWO

Wrexham are still our highest team here in second place even though they had no game this weekend.

In the Play-offs we have two of the four teams. They are MK DONS up to sixth place after they won 2-1 at home to Gillingham. The Dons are on a total of 49 goals. NOTTS COUNTY are down to seventh place after they drew 1-1 at home against Barrow. County are on a total of  66 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 12 league/cup games.

Meanwhile AFC WIMBLEDON won 2-1 at home to Mansfield and are on a total of 58 goals. SALFORD CITY won 3-2 away to Crewe and are on a total of 48 goals. SUTTON UNITED drew 1-1 away to Walsall and are on a total of 42 goals. 

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Premiership leaders CELTIC won 1-0 at home to ROSS COUNTY and are on a total of 59 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. County picked up their 12th blank of the season and now three in a row. Second place RANGERS won 1-0 away to St Mirren and are on 59 goals and have extended their goal run to 22 league/cup games. ABERDEEN lost 2-0 away to Hearts and picked up their 11th blank of the season. KILMARNOCK drew 2-2 at home to HIBERNIAN and are on a total of 39 goals while Hibs are on 35 goals. 

In League One top of the table FALKIRK won 5-0 away to Alloa and have taken their goals tally up to 68 goals and now have a goal run of 9 league/cup games. COVE RANGERS lost 2-0 at home to Queen of the South. Rangers picked up their 6th blank of the season and now three games with out a goal. KELTY HEARTS lost 5-0 away to Stirling and picked up their 6th blank of the season and now two in a row. 

In League Two top of the table STENHOUSEMUIR lost their second league game 2-1 away to Peterhead. Stenhousemuir have now scored in all of their last 13 league/cup games with a total of 42 goals. EAST FIFE won 1-0 away to Stranraer and are on a total of 31 goals. CLYDE drew 1-1 away to The Spartans and are on a total of 32 goals. 

Our BEST three teams this week 

FALKIRK (68) LIVERPOOL (67) LEICESTER CITY (67) Total of 202 goals 

Our WORST three teams are 

CRYSTAL PALACE (26) SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY (29) ABERDEEN (30) Total of 85 goals 

Our Best performing team are now SOUTHAMPTON after they have now scored in all of their last 23 league/cup games. They have a total of 59 goals which gives them an average score of 1.9 goals per game. 

Our worst performing team is SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY this week as they have picked up 13 blank score sheets out of their 32 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 and BRISTOL ROVERS have both pick up our second highest score with 7 goals. 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. 

JAMES SOMERVILLE remains at the top this weekend as he picks up a total of just 5 goals from the week. James has now been at the top for a total of 5 weeks through  the season. He’s teams are Celtic, Leicester City and Peterborough.

John Filtness has moved to second place this weekend as he picked up a total of 11 goals this week. John is just 4 goals behind James. John has Leicester City, Liverpool and Manchester City.

At the other end at 110 we still have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) for his seventh weekend. John picked up another 3 goals this weekend. John has Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir.

We have had a really good week for goals and here is how the top ten is looking this week.

    THIS      LAST                                    M/WEEK    W/END       TOTAL

   WEEK   WEEK   NAME                     GOALS      GOALS      GOALS 

          1             -        J. SOMERVILLE         68               124              192

          2            6        J. FILTNESS                 58              130              188

          3            4        S. THOMSON (1)         52              135              187

          4            2        B. MORAN                   63              124              187

          5            -         P. PORTER                   70              116              186

          6            7         J. WEARDEN              62             122              184

          7            3         S. THOMSON (2)       49              133              182

          8            12      M. LAVER                   57              124              181

          9            19      ZIGGY                         63              118              181

         10            9       A. EYLES                    65              116              181 

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