Last Games of the FA CUP Fifth Round

 

We have now had the last of the FA CUP fifth round games where we had 7 of out teams in action. Out of them just 3 managed to get to the quarter-finals. The teams that made it through are CHELSEA who won 3-2 at home to LEEDS UNITED. Chelsea have taken their goals total to 64 goals while Leeds are on 76 goals and have extended their goal run to 12 league/cup games. MAMCHESTER UNITED won 1-0 away to NOTTINGHAM FOREST and are on a total of 46 goals and have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games. Forest after a goal run of 6 games, picked up their 9^th blank of the season. LIVERPOOL won 3-0 at home to SOUTHAMPTON and are now on a total of 87 goals and have a goal run of 16 league/cup games. Southampton after a goal run of 30 games, picked up their 3^rd blank of the season. BRIGHTON go out after they picked up their 6^th blank of the season after they lost 1-0 away to Wolves. 

In the Scottish Premiership, top of the able RANGERS won 2-1 away to KILMARNOCK and are on a total of 79 goals. Rangers have now scored in all of their last 29 league/cup games. Kilmarnock picked up goal number 47 and have now scored in all of their last 12 league/cup games. Second place CELTIC picked up their biggest win of the season after they won 7-1 at home to Dundee and have taken their goals tally up to 75 and a goal run of 12 league/cup games. ABERDEEN lost 2-0 at home against St Johnston and picked up their 13^th blank of the season and now two in a row. HIBERNIAN drew 1-1 away to Hearts and hit goal number 44.

FA CUP Fifth Round

 

In the first Batch of the FA CUP Fifth Round, we had four of our teams in action. Out of them 3 of our Golden Goals teams are through to the quarter-finals.

The teams through are MANCHESTER CITY after they won 6-2 away to Luton. City have taken their goals tally to 71 and have now scored in all of their last 14 league/cup games. LEICESTER CITY won 1-0 away to AFC BOURNEMOUTH after extra time. City are on a total of 82 goals and they have extended their goal run to 21 league/cup games. Bournemouth picked up their 7^th blank of the season and now two in a row. NEWCASTLE drew 1-1 away to Blackburn Rovers after extra time and then went on to win 4-3 on penalties. Newcastle are on a total of 65 goals and have extended their goal run to 11 league/cup games. 

In League One DERBY lost 2-1 at home against CHARLTON and they are on a total of 63 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. Charlton are on a total of 57 goals. BLACKPOOL picked up their 12^th blank of the season after they lost 1-0 away to Leyton Orient. 

In League Two WREXHAM picked up their 64^th goal of the season after they drew 1-1 away to Forest Green. It’s 50 goals for SUTTON UNITED after they won 4-3 away to NOTTS COUNTY. County have taken their goals total to 74 goals. SALFORD CITY drew 1-1 at home to Colchester and are on a total of 61 goals and have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. 

In the Scottish Premiership ROSS COUNTY drew 1-1 at home against St Mirren and are on a total of 42 goals.

West Ham Hammer Brentford

In the Premier League WEST HAM after they had failed to score in their previous 3 games,  they picked up their biggest result of the season by winning 4-2 at home against Brentford. West Ham have now taken their goals tally up to 46. 

This is how our top ten teams are looking today in our 41^st Season of Golden Goals. But who is going to score 100 goals first? 

LIVERPOOL               84

LEICESTER CITY       81

IPSWICH                      80

RANGERS                    77

FALKIRK                     75

LEEDS UTD                74

SOUTHAMPTON        74

PETERBOROUGH      73

NOTTS COUNTY       71

NORWICH                   68

Week Thirty

In Week Thirty of the competition we are half-way through the second half of the season and we had just one winner to pick up the full £5 prize money this weekend. Our winner is NORA HAMMOND who won on a total of 12 goals and now becomes our 31^st winner of the season.

Nora lives in Canada with the rest of the Hammond family. Nora has picked up a total of 55 goals over the last four weeks and you might be surprised that she has been higher than 9^th place. In Week Fifteen, Nora was in 2^nd place. She has picked up a total of three blank score sheets to date.  Ipswich is her best team. Nora's winning teams are

                                            ARSENAL 4, IPSWICH 3, RANGERS 5 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Most of us have managed to pick up a goal or two again this week and the race for the cash has changed again this week. We can now add another 9 players who are over the half-way mark this week bringing our total to 82. The highest amount of goals collected this week came from our 2012/13 Champion ALICE STUBBS with her second combination with 8 goals. That now gives her second combo a total of 69 midweek goals. Her teams are Leeds Utd, Liverpool and Manchester City.

In first place this week we still have ANN WELLARD but she is now joined with DOUG MORBEY up from third place. Both now with a total of 83 goals, which means they need just 13 goals for the cash. In second place this week we still have TONY KING and joining him we have  MARK JOHNSTON up from third place. Both are on a total of 81 goals. In third place we now have GEOFF CARTHY and PETER PORTER both up from fourth place with  ANDY EYLES up from five. Coming back in we have JOHN FILTNESS and ZIGGY (John Wood) all are on a total of 79 goals. In fourth place we now have GRANT PHILLIPS and JAMES SOMERVILLE both up from sixth place with JAMES BLYTH and BAILEY MORAN both coming back into the race all on a total of 77 goals. In fifth place we now have ANDREW HAMMOND, STUART KEMP (1) and RICHIE WILLIAMS all with a total of 74 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had all but four of our teams in action over the weekend and we had 8 teams that failed to score any goals. We had another full fixture this weekend and the goals are still coming in thick and fast. Although the average score for this weekend went down again from six goals from last weekend down to 5 goals this weekend.

The highest score that we had was 6 goals and we had a total of three teams that picked up that score. They came from the Scottish League Two where CLYDE won 6-1 away to top of the table Stenhousemuir. Clyde with their biggest result of the season have now taken their goals tally up to 42. Stenhousemuir are on a total of 47 goals and have now scored in all of their last 17 league/cup games.

Clyde started with Golden Goals back in the 2004/05 Season on where they became the 29^th Scottish team to join in. In their first season they finished on a total of 41 goals. Their highest score and the last time that they appeared with us, was in the 2015/16 Season with 60 goals. So this is their 3^rd season with us and over the years they have netted a total of 143 goals to date. That now gives them an average score of 47 goals per season. This season they again have just one vote and they have picked up a total of ten blank score sheets. Here are all of the weekends results. 

LEAGUE CUP Final

LIVERPOOL have won the Carabao Cup for the 10^th time, after they won 1-0 against CHELSEA in the dying minutes of extra time. Liverpool have taken their goals total of 84 goals and have now scored in all of their last 15 league/cup games. Chelsea picked up their 8^th blank score sheet of the season. 

PREMIER LEAGUE

Liverpool have remained top of the table with MANCHESTER CITY back in second place after they won 1-0 away to AFC BOURNEMOUTH. City are on a total of 65 goals and have now scored in all of their last 13 league/cup games. Bournemouth picked up their 6^th blank of the season. ARSENAL are in third place after they won 4-1 at home against NEWCASTLE. Arsenal have taken their goals tally up to 64 goals and have extended their goal run to 6 league/cup games.

Newcastle picked up their 64^th goal of the season and have now scored in all of their last after a goal run of 10 league/cup games. ASTON VILLA are still in fourth place after they won 4-2 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST. Villa are on a total of 59 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games.  Forest are on a total of 40 goals and they have also scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. BRIGHTON drew 1-1 at home to Everton and they are on a total of 58 goals. CRYSTAL PALACE won 3-0 at home against Burnley and they are now on a total of 35 goals. MANCHESTER UNITED lost 2-1 at home to FULHAM and are on a total of 45 and have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. Fulham are on a total of 46 goals. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

We still have Leicester City at the top here with Leeds United still in second place on goal difference.

In the Play-offs we have two of the four teams with IPSWICH TOWN now in third place after they won 3-1 at home to Birmingham. Ipswich are now on a total of 80 goals and have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. SOUTHAMPTON are in fourth place after they lost 2-1 at home against Millwall and are on a total of 74 goals and have now scored in all of their last 30 league/cup games.

Meanwhile NORWICH drew 1-1 away to Blackburn Rovers and are on a total of 68 goals and have scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. STOKE lost 2-1 away to Cardiff and are on a total of 41 goals. MIDDLESBROUGH lost 2-0 at home to PLYMOUTH and picked up their 8^th blank of the season after a goal run of 8 league/cup games. Plymouth are on a total of 62 goals after they had failed to score in their last 2 games. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY won 2-1 at home against BRISTOL CITY and are on a total of 36 goals. City picked up their 47^th goal of the season. SUNDERLAND lost 2-1 at home to SWANSEA and are on a total of 47 goals while Swansea are on 50. 

LEAGUE ONE

Our highest team here is still DERBY in second place. They lost 2-1 away to BARNSLEY. Derby are on a total of 62 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. Barnsley are on 68 goals and have now scored in all of their last 18 league/cup games.

In the Play-offs again we still have two teams and they are Barnsley in fourth place with PETERBOROUGH are still in fifth place after they won 1-0 away to Cambridge Utd and are on 73 goals.

Meanwhile BLACKPOOL won 4-1 at home against Bolton and have taken their goals tally to 65. It’s 60 goals for BRISTOL ROVERS after they won 2-1 at home to Carlisle. CHARLTON drew 0-0 at home to Portsmouth and that is their 9^th blank of the season. READING lost 3-2 at home to Shrewsbury and are on a total of 55 goals and have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. 

LEAGUE TWO

In the Play-offs we are back to having two of the four teams. They are WREXHAM now down to fourth place after they lost 1-0 away to Gillingham. Wrexham picked up their 7^th blank of the season. MK DONS are still in fifth place after they won 3-0 at home to Newport. The Dons are on a total of 57 goals.

Meanwhile AFC WIMBLEDON lost 1-0 away to Doncaster and picked up their 12^th blank of the season and now two in  a row. SUTTON UNITED drew 1-1 at home to Colchester and they are on a total of 46 goals. SALFORD CITY lost 5-1 away to Mansfield. Salford are on a total of 60 goals and have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. NOTTS COUNTY lost 3-1 at home to Crewe and are on a total of 71 goals. 

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Premiership RANGERS are still top of the league after they won 5-0 at home to Hearts and are on a total of 77 goals and have extended their goal run to 28 league/cup games. CELTIC in second place scored two very late goals to beat Motherwell 3-1 away.  Celtic are on a total of 68 goals and have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games. KILMARNOCK in fourth place won 2-0 at home against ABERDEEN and are on a total of 46 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games. Aberdeen after they had scored in their last 6 league/cup games, picked up their 12^th blank of the season. HIBERNIAN won 2-1 at home against Dundee and are on a total of 43 goals. ROSS COUNTY second from bottom won 3-2 at home to bottom of the table Livingston. County are now on a total of 41 goals. 

In League One top of the table FALKIRK won again 1-0 away to KELTY HEARTS. Falkirk are now on a total of 75 goals and have now scored in all of their last 12 league/cup games. Kelty picked up their 8^th blank of the season. COVE RANGERS won 2-1 at home Anna and are on a total of 56 goals. 

In League Two Stenhousemuir are still top of the table even after their biggest defeat of the season. EAST FIFE drew 1-1 at home to Forfar and are on a total of 35 goals. 

Our BEST three teams this week 

 LIVERPOOL (84) LEICESTER CITY (81) IPSWICH (80) Total of 245 goals 

Our WORST three teams are 

EAST FIFE (35) CRYSTAL PALACE (35) SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY (36) Total of 106 goals 

Our Best performing team are still SOUTHAMPTON after they have now scored in all of their last 30 league/cup games. They have a total of 74 goals which gives them an average score of 2 goals per game. 

Our worst performing team is SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY this week as they have picked up 16 blank score sheets out of their 39 league/cup games. 

Our highest goal scoring teams in our 41^st 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.

JOHN FILTNESS celebrates his 4th weekend at the top as he picks up a total of 8 goals from the week. He’s teams are Leicester City, Liverpool and Manchester City. Tim Wood moves in to second place this weekend as he picked up a total of 14 goals this week. Tim is now 5 goals behind John. Tim's teams are Arsenal, Liverpool and Rangers.

At the other end at 110 we have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) for his 11^th consecutive weekend. John picked up 6 goals this weekend. John has Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir. We have some good news for John in that he has started to climb up our “Losers League”. He is now in 40^th place beating John Nicholls finished score of 131 goals in the 2020/21 Season. 

This is how our top ten is looking this week.

         THIS     LAST                                     M/WEEK      W/END      TOTAL

       WEEK   WEEK   NAME                       GOALS       GOALS      GOALS 

             1              -        J. FILTNESS                  79                151               230

             2             10      TIM WOOD                   61                 164              225

             3              5        A. STUBBS (2)              69                154               223

             4              8        ZIGGY                            79               144               223

             5              4        GRAHAM PHILLIPS     66               156               222

             6              7        C. STEPHENS                 68               154              222

             7              2         J. SOMERVILLE            77               145              222

             8              9         D. MORBEY                   83               139              222

             9              21       N. HAMMOND              62               159              221

                    10            6          S. THOMSON (1)           71                149             220

Leicester Drop More Points

In the Championship, top of the table LEICESTER CITY lost 3-1 away to LEEDS UNITED.  City are on a total of 81 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 20 league/cup games. Leeds are back into second place and are  now on a total of 74 goals and have extended their goal run to 11 league/cup games.

This is how our top ten teams are looking today in our 41^st Season of Golden Goals. 

LIVERPOOL               83

LEICESTER CITY       81

IPSWICH                      77

FALKIRK                     74

LEEDS UTD                74

SOUTHAMPTON        73

RANGERS                    72

PETERBOROUGH       72

NOTTS COUNTY        70

NORWICH                    67

Liverpool on Form

In the Premier League, top of the table LIVERPOOL won 4-1 at home to Luton after going a goal down in the first half. Liverpool are on a total of 83 goals and have extended their goal run to 14 league/cup games. They have scored a total of 12 goals in their last four games.

Manchester City Second

In the Premier League MANCHESTER CITY have moved up to second place after they won 1-0 at home against Brentford. City are on a total of 64 goals and have now scored in all of their last 12 league/cup games. 

In the Championship IPSWICH TOWN moved in to third place after they won 4-3 at home to bottom of the league Rotherham. Ipswich have taken their goals total to 77 goals and have extended their goal run to 9 league/cup games. SOUTHAMPTON lost 2-1 at home to Hull and are on a total of 73 goals and have taken their goal run to 29 league/cup games. PLYMOUTH lost 3-0 at home to West Brom and picked up their 8^th blank of the season and now two in a row. 

In League One READING won 2-0 at home against Port Vale. Reading are on a total of 53 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. 

In League Two WREXHAM in third place drew 1-1 away to MK DONS and are on a total of 63 goals. The Dons are on 54 goals. AFC WIMBLEDON lost 1-0 at home to Crawley and that is their 11^th blank of the season. 

Scottish League One top of the table FALKIRK won 3-0 at home to Montrose and have taken their goal tally to 74 and they have now scored in all of their 11 league/cup games. 

League Two bottom of the table CLYDE lost 2-0 at home to Forfar and they have now had a total of 10 blank score sheets to date.

Palace, One Goal, One Point

In the Premier League, CRYSTAL PALACE drew 1-1 away to Everton and that is goal number 32 for them.

This is how our top ten teams are looking today in our 41^st Season of Golden Goals. 

LEICESTER CITY    80

LIVERPOOL                79

IPSWICH                      73

SOUTHAMPTON        72

RANGERS                    72

PETERBOROUGH       72

LEEDS UTD                 71

FALKIRK                     71

NOTTS COUNTY        70

NORWICH                    67

Week Twenty-Nine

In Week Twenty-Nine of the competition we had just one winner to pick up the full £5 prize money this weekend. Our winners total still stands at 30 as this weeks winner has picked up his second win of the season. Our winner is TIM WOOD who won on a total of 12 goals. Tim last won in Week Twenty-Five with a shared weekend win. This week we can see Tim at his highest position so far as he has picked up a total of 15 goals in a week. Our winners teams are once again

                                           ARSENAL 5, LIVERPOOL 4, RANGERS 3 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Most of us have managed to pick up a goal or two this week again and the race for the cash has changed again this week. We can now add another 6 players who are over the half-way mark this week bringing our total to 73.

In first place this week we still have ANN WELLARD up from second place now with a total of 83 goals, which means she needs just 13 goals for the cash. Ann’s teams are Barnsley, Chelsea and Rangers. In second place this week we still have TONY KING now on a total of 81 goals. In third place we still have  MARK JOHNSTON but he is now joined with DOUG MORBEY up from four. Both are on a total of 79 goals. In fourth place we still have GEOFF CARTHY but joining him this week we have PETER PORTER down from two. Both are on a total of 78 goals. In fifth place down from three we have ANDY EYLES with a total of 77 goals. In sixth place we  GRANT PHILLIPS both down from five and JAMES SOMERVILLE down from three both on a total of 76 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had all but two of our teams in action over the weekend and we had just 7 teams failed to score any goals once again. We had another full fixture this weekend and the goals are starting to come in thick and fast now. Although the average score for this weekend went down from seven goals from last weekend back to 6 goals this weekend. The highest score that we had was 5 goals and we had a total of three teams that picked up that score. They where ARSENAL , BRIGHTON and SALFORD CITY. Here are all of the weekends results.

PREMIER LEAGUE

LIVERPOOL have remained top of the table, after they won 4-1 away to Brentford. Liverpool have taken their goals total of 79 goals and have now scored in all of their last 13 league/cup games. In second place this weekend we have ARSENAL back there after they won 5-0 away to Burnley. Arsenal have taken their goals tally up to 60. MANCHESTER CITY have moved down to third place after they drew 1-1 at home to CHELSEA. City are on a total of 63 goals and have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games. Chelsea are on 61 goals. ASTON VILLA are now in fourth place after they won 2-1 away to FULHAM. Villa are on a total of 55 goals while Fulham are on 44. NEWCASTLE drew 2-2 at home to AFC BOURNEMOUTH and are on a total of 61 goals and have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. Bournemouth are on 45 goals. NOTTINGHAM FOREST won 2-0 at home to WEST HAM and are on a total of 38 goals. West Ham picked up their 7^th blank score sheet and now three games with out a goal. TOTTENHAM lost 2-1 at home to Wolves and picked up goal number 54. BRIGHTON won 5-0 away to bottom of the table Sheffield United. Brighton have taken their goals tally to 57. MANCHESTER UNITED won 2-1 away to Luton and are on a total of 44 and have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games.

CHAMPIONSHIP

We still have LEICESTER CITY at the top here after they lost their fifth league game 2-1 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH. As City picked up their 80^th goal of the season and they have extended their goal run to 19 league/cup games. Brough are on a total of 63 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. LEEDS UNITED are now in second place after they won 2-0 away to PLYMOUTH. Leeds are on a total of 71 goals and have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. Plymouth after a goal run of 12 league/cup games, picked up their 7^th blank of the season.

In the Play-offs Southampton are now in third place with IPSWICH TOWN still in fourth place after they won 2-1 away to SWANSEA CITY. Ipswich are on a total of 73 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. Swansea hit goal number 48.

Meanwhile SUNDERLAND lost 2-1 away to Birmingham and are on a total of 46 goals. BRISTOL CITY picked up their 14^th blank of the season after they lost 1-0 at home to QPR. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY won their 8^th league game after they won 2-0 away to Millwall. Wednesday are on a total of 34 goals. NORWICH picked up another four goals after they won 4-1 at home against Cardiff. Norwich have taken their goals tally to 67 goals. STOKE lost 1-0 at home to Coventry and that is their 15^th blank of the season.

LEAGUE ONE

Our highest team here is still DERBY in second place after they won 1-0 at home to Stevenage. Derby are on a total of 61 goals.

In the Play-offs we still have two teams and they are BARNSLEY in fourth place after they won 2-1 away to Fleetwood. Barnsley are on a total of 66 goals and have now scored in all of their last 17 league/cup games. PETERBOROUGH are in fifth place after they lost 2-1 at home against BLACKPOOL.  Borough are on 72 goals while Blackpool are on 61 goals.

Meanwhile CHARLTON drew 3-3 away to Bolton and they have taken their goals total to 55. BRISTOL ROVERS lost 3-1 away to Northampton and are on a total of 58 goals. READING lost 4-1 away to Portsmouth and picked up goal number 51 and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games.

LEAGUE TWO

WREXHAM are back up to third place after they won 1-0 at home to NOTTS COUNTY and are on a total of 62 goals while County picked up their 6^th blank of the season.

In the Play-offs we now have just one of the four teams. They are MK DONS now in fifth place after they won 2-1 away to Swindon. The Dons are on a total of 53 goals.

Meanwhile AFC WIMBLEDON drew 1-1 at home to Morecambe and are on a total of 61 goals. SUTTON UNITED lost 1-0 away to Bradford and picked up their 10^th blank of the season. SALFORD CITY picked up their biggest result of the season after they won 5-3 at home to Barrow. Salford are now on a total of 59 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Premiership RANGERS go top of the league after they won 2-0 at home to Ayr Utd and are on a total of 72 goals and have extended their goal run to 27 league/cup games. CELTIC drew 1-1 at home to KILMARNOCK and are on a total of 65 goals and have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. Kilmarnock are on 44 goals and they have also scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. ABERDEEN drew 2-2 at home against HIBERNIAN and are on a total of 40 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. Hibs are on a total of 41 goals. ROSS COUNTY lost 2-0 away to Dundee and picked up their 15^th blank of the season.

In League One top of the table FALKIRK are back in play and they won 3-2 at home to Hamilton. Falkirk are now on a total of 71 goals. KELTY HEARTS lost 4-2 away to Montrose and are on a total of 48 goals. COVE RANGERS lost 4-1 away to Allo and are on a total of 54 goals.

In League Two top of the table STENHOUSEMUIR drew 2-2 away to Elgin City and are on a total of 46 goals and have now scored in all of their last 16 league/cup games. EAST FIFE won 2-0 away to Bonnyrigg Rose and are on a total of 34 goals. CLYDE won their third league game 2-0 at home against Dumbarton.  Clyde are on a total of 36 goals but they are still bottom of the league.

Our BEST three teams this week

 LEICESTER CITY (80) LIVERPOOL (79) IPSWICH (73) Total of 232 goals

Our WORST three teams are

CRYSTAL PALACE (31) EAST FIFE (34) SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY (34) Total of 99 goals

Our Best performing team are still SOUTHAMPTON after they have now scored in all of their last 28 league/cup games. They have a total of 72 goals which gives them an average score of 2 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY this week as they have picked up 16 blank score sheets out of their 38 league/cup games.

Our highest goal scoring teams in our 41^st 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.

JOHN FILTNESS celebrates his third weekend at the top as he picks up a total of 8 goals from the week. He’s teams are Leicester City, Liverpool and Manchester City. James Somerville is still in second place this weekend as he picked up a total of just 5 goals this week. James is now 5 goals behind John. James teams are Celtic, Leicester City and Peterborough.

At the other end at 110 we have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) for his tenth consecutive weekend. John picked up another 4 goals this weekend. John has Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir.  

Although the top four have remained the same this week, the rest are catching up on them.

         THIS     LAST                                    M/WEEK      W/END       TOTAL

WEEK   WEEK   NAME                      GOALS       GOALS      GOALS 

       1             -        J. FILTNESS                 73                149              222

       2             -       J. SOMERVILLE           76                141              217

       3             -       B. MORAN                    75                140              215

       4             -       GRAHAM PHILLIPS    60               153               213

       5             7       A. STUBBS (2)              61               152               213

       6             5       S. THOMSON (1)          66               146               212

       7             12     C. STEPHENS               67               145               212

       8             13     ZIGGY                           75               137               212

       9             16     D. MORBEY                 79                133               212

              10           18     TIM WOOD                 57                154               211

Southampton Back to Second Place

In the Championship SOUTHAMPTON are back up to second place after they won 2-0 away to West Brom. Southampton are on a total of 72 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 28 league/cup games.

Celtic or Rangers as Champions?

In the Championship IPSWICH TOWN are still in fourth place after they won 4-0 away to Millwall and have taken their goals tally to 71 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. It’s 60 goals for PLYMOUTH after they drew 2-2 at home against Coventry.  Plymouth have now scored in all of their last 13 league/cup games. SUNDERLAND lost 1-0 away to Huddersfield and picked up their 11^th blank of the season. MIDDLESBROUGH lost 2-1 away to Preston ans that is goal number 61 for them. Brough have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. It’s 40 goals for STOKE after they won 1-0 at home against QPR. 

In the Scottish Premiership RANGERS won 3-1 at home to ROSS COUNTY to go joint top with Celtic. Rangers have now scored a total of 69 goals and now have a goal run of 26 league/cup games. County after they had failed to score in their last two games, picked up goal number 38. ABERDEEN drew 3-3 at home to Motherwell and they have taken their goals total to 38 goals.

This is how our top ten teams are looking today in our 41^st Season of Golden Goals. 

LEICESTER CITY    79

LIVERPOOL                75

IPSWICH                      71

PETERBOROUGH       71

NOTTS COUNTY        70

SOUTHAMPTON         70

LEEDS UTD                 69

RANGERS                    69

FALKIRK                     68

CELTIC                        64

Leicester 12 pts Lead Over Leeds

In the Championship top of the table LEICESTER CITY won 2-0 at home against SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY. City are on a total of 79 goals and have now scored in all of their last 18 league/cup games. Wednesday picked up their 16^th blank of the season. LEEDS UNITED have moved up to second place after they won 4-0 away to SWANSEA CITY. Leeds have taken their goals total to 69 and have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. Swansea picked up their 7^th blank of the season.  It’s 70 goals for SOUTHAMPTON after they lost 3-1 away to BRISTOL CITY. Southampton have extended their goal run to 27 league/cup games. City have taken their goals total to 46. NORWICH won 4-2 at home against Watford and have taken their goals tally up to 63 goals. 

In League One it’s 60 goals for DERBY in second play after they won 3-0 away to Exeter. After they had failed to score in their last two games, CHARLTON are on a total of 52 goals after they drew 1-1 at home to Lincoln City. BLACKPOOL lost 2-0 away to Cheltenham and that is their 11^th blank of the season. It’s 50 goals for READING after they drew 1-1 away to Fleetwood. BARNSLEY drew 1-1 away to Shrewsbury and they are on a total of 64 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 16 league/cup games. BRISTOL ROVERS won 3-2 away to Stevenage and are now on a total of 57 goals. 

In League Two AFC WIMBLEDON lost 2-0 away to Accrington and picked up their 10^th blank of the season. It’s now eight blank score sheets for MK DONS after they lost 4-0 away to Bradford City. It’s 70 goals for NOTTS COUNTY after they won 3-1 away to Newport. SALFORD CITY drew 2-2 at home against Doncaster. SUTTON UNITED lost 2-1 at home to WREXHAM and are on a total of 45 goals while Wrexham are on 61 goals. 

In the Scottish League One KELTY HEARTS won 3-2 at home to Edinburgh City and they are now on a total of 46 goals.

Two Late Goals Secure Chelsea Win

In the Premier League CRYSTAL PALCE lost 3-1 at home against CHELSEA and are on a total of 31 goals. Chelsea are now on a total of 60 goals.

Week Twenty-Eight

In Week Twenty-Eight of the competition we had another two winners to share the £5 weekend prize money. Both of our winners have picked up their second win of the season, our winners total stands at 30. Our winners are MANGO (Paul Moran) and our 2002/03 Champion MIKE PEPPERRELL both winning on a total of 13 goals, which is both their personal best weekend score. 

Mango, Paul, first won in Week Twenty-Five and that was also a shared win. Although Paul has jumped up to 38^th place this weekend, 14^th place in Week Two is still his best position to date.

Mike last won some cash in Week Twenty, once again although he has moved up to 43^rd place, Week Five saw him at his highest in 36^th place to date. Our winners teams are once again

                                 Paul  ARSENAL 6,  CELTIC 2, SOUTHAMPTON 5

                       Mike  ARSENAL 6, MANCHESTER CITY 2, SOUTHAMPTON 5

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 once again this week. We can now add another 13 players who are over the half-way mark this week bringing our total to 67. In first place this week we now have ANN WELLARD up from second place with a total of 76 goals. Ann’s teams are Barnsley, Chelsea and Rangers. In second place we now have last weeks leader PETER PORTER with TONY KING up from four. Both are on a total of 75 goals. In third place both down from second place we have ANDY EYLES and JAMES SOMERVILLE and up from five MARK JOHNSTON all on a total of 74 goals. In fourth place we still have BAILEY MORAN he is now joined with GEOFF CARTHY down from three and DOUG MORBEY up from five. All are on a total of 73 goals. In fifth place we still have JOHN FILTNESS but he is now joined with MARK GREGORY and GRANT PHILLIPS both down from four. All three are on a total of 71 goals. In sixth place we still have JAMES BLYTH and our 2017/18 Champion CHRIS BOLBERY  both with a total of 70 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had all but six of our teams in action over the weekend and we had just 7 teams failed to score any goals. It was once again a full fixture this weekend and with some high scoring games. The average score for this weekend went up from five goals from last weekend back up to 7 goals this weekend.

The highest score that we had came from the Premier League with 6 goals where ARSENAL beat London rivals WEST HAM 6-0 away. With their biggest result of the season, Arsenal have taken their goals tally up to 55 goals while West Ham picked up their 6^th blank of the season and now two in a row.

Arsenal joined Golden Goals in our second season of 1984/85. They became our 26^th English team and ended the season with a total of 75 goals. Their highest score came in the 2003/04 Season with 103 goals. Last season they finished with a total of 92 goals. This is their 39^th Season with us and over the years they have netted a total of 3198 goals. That gives them an average score of 82 goals per season to date. This season they have a total of 37 votes and they have picked up just four blank score sheets. Here are all of the weekends results.

PREMIER LEAGUE

LIVERPOOL have remained top of the table, after they won 3-1 at home to Burnley and are now on a total of 75 goals and have now scored in all of their last 12 league/cup games. In second place we now have MANCHESTER CITY after they won 2-0 at home to Everton. City are on a total of 62 goals and have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. With Arsenal in third place TOTTENHAM are in fourth place after they won 2-1 at home to BRIGHTON. Tottenham are on a total of 53 goals while Brighton are on 52 goals. FULHAM won 3-1 at home to BOURNEMOUTH and are on a total of 43 goals while Bournemouth are on 45. NOTTINGHAM FOREST lost 3-2 at home to NEWCASTLE and are on a total of 36 goals. Newcastle have taken their goals tally up to 61 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. ASTON VILLA lost 2-1 at home to MANCHESTER UNITED and picked up goal number 53. United are on 42 and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games.

CHAMPIONSHIP

We still have LEICESTER CITY at the top here after they won 2-1 away to Watford and they are on a total of 77 and have now scored in all of their last 17 league/cup games. SOUTHAMPTON are still in second place after they won 5-3 at home to Huddersfield. Southampton have taken their goals tally up to 69 goals and have extended their goal run to 26 league/cup games.

In the Play-offs in third place we still have LEEDS UNITED after they won 3-0 at home against bottom of the table Rotherham. Leeds are now on a total of 65 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. IPSWICH TOWN are still in fourth place after they drew 2-2 at home to West Brom. Ipswich are on a total of 67 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games.

Meanwhile STOKE lost 3-1 away to Blackburn Rovers and are on a total of 39 goals. SWANSEA won 1-0 away to Hull and picked up goal number 47. MIDDLESBROUGH lost 2-1 at home to BRISTOL CITY and are on a total of 60 goals while City are on 43 goals. NORWICH drew 2-2 away to QPR and are on 59 goals. SUNDERLAND won 3-1 at home to PLYMOUTH and are on a total of 45 goals. Plymouth hit goal number 58 and have now scored in all of their last 12 league/cup games.

LEAGUE ONE

Our highest team here is still DERBY in second place after they drew 1-1 at home to Shrewsbury. Derby are on a total of 57 goals.

In the Play-offs we still have two teams and they are BARNSLEY now in fourth place after they won 2-1 at home against Leyton Orient. Barnsley are on a total of 63 goals and have now scored in all of their last 15 league/cup games. PETERBOROUGH are down to fifth place after they lost 5-2 away to Wycombe. Borough are on 71 goals.

Meanwhile BLACKPOOL drew 1-1 at home to Oxford Utd and are on a total of 59 goals. BRISTOL ROVERS lost 2-1 at home to Burton and they are on a total of 54 goals. READING won 2-0 at home to CHARLTON and are on a total of 49 goals while Charlton picked up their 8^th blank score sheet and now two in a row.

LEAGUE TWO

In the Play-offs we are back to  two of the four teams. They are WREXHAM now in fifth place after they lost 1-0 at home to Bradford City. Wrexham picked up their 6^th blank of the season. MK DONS are still in sixth place after they won 2-1 at home to Accrington. The Dons are on a total of 51 goals.

Meanwhile it’s 60 goals for AFC WIMBLEDON after they won 2-0 at home to Barrow. After a goal run to 7 league/cup games, SUTTON UNITED lost 1-0 away to Morecambe and picked up their 9^th blank of the season. SALFORD CITY drew 1-1 away to Swindon and are on a total of 52 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

SCOTTISH CUP Fifth Round. We had 6 of our teams in action and out of them 5 have made it through to the next round. Teams through are ABERDEEN after they won 2-0 at home against Bonnyrigg Rose and are on a total of 35 goals. HIBERNIAN won 3-1 away to Inverness CT and are now on a total of 39 goals. KILMARNOCK won 2-0 at home against COVE RANGERS and are on a total of 43 goals and have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. Rangers picked up their 7^th blank of the season. RANGERS won 2-0 at home to Ayr Utd and are on a total of 66 goals and have extended their goal run to 25 league/cup games. CELTIC won 2-0 away to St Mirren and are on a total of 64 goals and have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games.

In League One top of the table Falkirk had no game again this week. So the only team to play here are KELTY HEARTS who drew 0-0 at home to Queen of the South. Kelty have now had a total of seven blank score sheets.

In League Two top of the table STENHOUSEMUIR drew 1-1 away to EAST FIFE and hit goal number 44 and have now scored in all of their last 15 league/cup games. Fife after they had failed to score in their last two games, they picked up goal number 32. CLYDE lost 2-1 away to Stranraer and picked up their 9^th blank of the season and they are still rooted to the bottom of the league.

Our BEST three teams this week

 LEICESTER CITY (77) LIVERPOOL (75) PETERBOROUGH (71) Total of 223 goals

Our WORST three teams are

CRYSTAL PALACE (30) SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY (32) EAST FIFE (32) Total of 94 goals

Our Best performing team are now SOUTHAMPTON after they have now scored in all of their last 26 league/cup games. They have a total of 69 goals which gives them an average score of 2 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY this week as they have picked up 15 blank score sheets out of their 36 league/cup games.

Our highest goal scoring teams in our 41^st 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.

JOHN FILTNESS celebrates his second weekend at the top as he picks up a total of 10 goals from the week. He’s teams are Leicester City, Liverpool and Manchester City. James Somerville is still in second place this weekend as he picked up a total of 9 goals this week. James is now just 2 goals behind John. James teams are once again Celtic, Leicester City and Peterborough.

At the other end at 110 we have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) for his ninth consecutive weekend. John picked up another 4 goals this weekend. John has Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir. 

We had yet another good weekend for goals and but the top ten has only slightly changed.

         THIS     LAST                                      M/WEEK    W/END      TOTAL

WEEK   WEEK    NAME                      GOALS      GOALS     GOALS 

       1             -         J. FILTNESS                 71               143             214

       2             -         J. SOMERVILLE          74               138             212

       3             -         B. MORAN                   73               137             210

       4            12       GRAHAM PHILLIPS   57               148             205

       5            -         S. THOMSON (1)          63               141             204

       6            4        P. PORTER                     75               129             204

       7           18       A. STUBBS (2)              57               145             202

       8           6         A. EYLES                      74               128             202

       9          10        R. NETTING                 57               143             200

              10         7           J. WEARDEN              68               131             199