Luton Still Yet to Win

In the Championship, After LUTON lost to QPR in the league cup on penalties during the week, they then took them on in the league. They  lost again 2-1 at home. Luton are on a total of 3 goals now. 

More Carabao/League Cup 2nd Round Results

 

Other 8 of our teams in cup action and we can add another 4 teams to the next round making a total of 10 of our teams in the next round, plus the rest of the Premier League teams.

The ones that are through are SOUTHAMPTON as they picked up their first goals of the season after they won 5-3 away to Cardiff City. WEST HAM have booked a place with a very late goals to beat AFC BOURNEMOUTH 1-0 at home. West Ham are on a total of 4 goals while Bournemouth picked up their first blank of the season. AFC WIMBLEDON drew 2-2 against IPSWICH TOWN and then won 4-2 on penalties. Wimbledon are on a total of 9 goals while Ipswich are on now on 3 goals. NEWCASTLE UNITED drew 1-1 away to Nottingham Forest and then they won 4-3 on penalties. Newcastle are on a total of 3 goals.

Other teams that went out are BURNLEY who lost 2-0 away to Wolves and picked up their second consecutive blank score sheet. SWANSEA CITY lost 1-0 at home against Wycombe and picked up their second blank of the season. 

Carabao/League Cup 2nd Round

We had 15 of our teams in the first batch of cup action and out of them 6 have made it to the next round.

They are BARNSLEY who won 1-0 at home to SHEFFIELD UNITED and are on a total of 7 goals. United picked up their first blank of the season. BLACKPOOL won 2-1 away to Blackburn Rovers and are on a total of 11 goals. PRESTON NE picked up their highest result to date as they win 5-0 away to Harrogate Town. Preston have taken their goals tally to 8 goals. LEICESTER CITY picked up their biggest score this season as they won 4-0 at home to Tranmere Rovers. City are now on a total of 6 goals. After they had failed to score in their last two games, BOLTON won 2-0 away to Shrewsbury and are on a total of 5 goals. CRYSTAL PALACE picked up their biggest result to date as they win 4-0 at home to NORWICH CITY. Palace are now on a total of 5 goals as Norwich picked up their second blank of the season.

Teams that also went out are MIDDLEBROUGH who lost 5-0 at home to Stoke City. That is their second blank of the season. OXFORD UNITED lost 1-0 away to Coventry City and that is their first blank of the season. DONCASTER ROVERS picked up their first blank score sheet as they lost 3-0 away to Everton. MILLWALL lost 1-0 at home against Leyton Orient and that is their second consecutive blank score sheet. HUDDERSFIELD lost 3-2 away to Walsall and are on a total of 10 goals and have now scored in all of their first 5 games. BIRMINGHAM CITY lost 2-0 at home against Fulham and picked up their first blank score sheet. LUTON TOWN had failed to score in their previous 2 games, but they drew 1-1 against QPR and then lost 4-1 on penalties. Luton picked up goal number 2.

Week Three

Here we are with Week Three of the competition and this weekend we had another full league fixture, which gave us our 3^rd winner of the season. Our winner was KEITH RATTLE who won on a score of 15 goals which is our highest score so far in Season 42. Keith has picked up the £5 this weekend.

Keith started with Golden Goals back in the 2020/21 Season on where he finished in 101^st place with 220 goals. Last season Keith finished in 91^st place with 272 goals. This season with his personal best weekend score, gives him is very first weekend win. Rangers are his best team to date. His teams for this season are

                                        CHELSEA  6, RANGERS 6, WREXHAM 3

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

There was only a small change in the race for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot worth a total of £25 this week. 

Taking the lead after two weeks of football, we have DAVID BARRETT out in front with a total of 24 goals. In second place we have BARBARA BARNES (2) with 18 goals. In third place with 17 goals we have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) In fourth place with 15 goals we now have GUY DOWSETT (1) and in fifth place down one, is GUY DOWSETT (2) with a total of 14 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had another full weekend fixture and it’s a lot better than last weekend. We had just 2 teams with no game over the weekend with another 10 of our teams that failed to score any goals. So for our third weekend the average score went up to 7 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 6 goals and they came from two of our teams. They are from the Scottish Premiership RANGERS  who won 6-0 at home against ROSS COUNTY and from the Premier League where CHELSEA won 6-2 away to Wolves.

Let’s get on with the results to see how your teams have performed over the weekend. 

PREMIER LEAGUE

The Premier League have played their second game of the season and last season’s champions MANCHESTER CITY are back on top after they picked up their biggest result of the season by winning 4-1 at home against IPSWICH TOWN. City are now on a total of 6 goals while Ipswich picked up their first goal of the season. MANCHESTER UNITED lost 2-1 away to Brighton and picked up their second goal of the season. WEST HAM picked up their first win of the season with a 2-0 away win against CRYSTAL PALACE. West Ham are on a total of 3 goals while Palace picked up their first blank score sheet. LEICESTER CITY lost 2-1 away to Fulham and are on a total of 2 goals. SOUTHAMPTON picked up their second blank score sheet after they lost 1-0 at home to Nottingham Forest. TOTTENHAM picked up their highest score to date after they won 4-0 at home to Everton. Tottenham are on a total of 5 goals. ASTON VILLA lost 2-0 at home to ARSENAL and picked up their 1^st blank of the season. Arsenal are on a total of 4 goals. AFC BOURNEMOUTH drew 1-1 at home to NEWCASTLE and both teams have now picked up 2 goals in 2 games. CHELSEA won 6-2 away to Wolves and with their biggest result to date, and they picked up their first goals of the season. LIVERPOOL won 2-0 at home against Brentford and are on a total of 4 goals. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

MILLWALL drew 0-0 away to Hull and picked up their first blank of the season. OXFORD UNITED lost 2-1 away to Blackburn Rovers and are on a total of 7 goals. MIDDLESBROUGH drew 2-2 at home against PORTSMOUTH. Brough are on a total of 6 goals while Portsmouth, after they had failed to score in their previous 2 games, are now on a total of 5 goals. NORWICH CITY drew 1-1 at home to SHEFFIELD UNITED and are on 7 goals. United are on 9 goals. PRESTON NE won 1-0 at home to LUTON TOWN and are on 3 goals. Luton picked up their 2^nd consecutive blank score sheet. BURNLEY picked up their first blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 away to Sunderland. SWANSEA CITY drew 1-1 at home against Cardiff. Swansea are on a total of 7 goals. 

LEAGUE ONE

HUDDERSFIELD are our highest team here still in 2^nd place after they won their 3^rd league game, 1-0 at home to Shrewsbury. Huddersfield are on a total of 8 goals. BARNSLEY drew 2-2 at home to Northampton and are on a total of 6 goals. BLACKPOOL picked up another four goals in their 4-4 draw away to Cambridge Utd. Blackpool are now on a total of 9 goals. CHARLTON picked up their biggest result of the season as they won 2-0 at home to BOLTON and are on a total of 4 goals while Bolton picked up their 2^nd blank score sheet and now 2 in a row. PETERBOROUGH won 2-1 away to Exeter and are on a total of 6 goals. BIRMINGHAM won 2-1 away to Leyton Orient and are on a total of 7 goals. WREXHAM won 3-0 at home against Reading and are now on a total of 8 goals. 

LEAGUE TWO

BROMLEY lost their first league game 3-1 away to Bradford City.  Bromley are on a total of 6 goals. AFC WIMBLEDON won 1-0 away to Cheltenham and picked up gaol number 7. CHESTERFIELD drew 1-1 at home to Salford City are now on a total of 8 goals. DONCASTER ROVERS won 1-0 at home to Morecambe and are on 8 goals. After they had failed to score in their last two games, MK DONS picked up their biggest result to date as they win 3-0 at home against Carlisle Utd and have taken their goals total to 4. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership CELTIC have now had three wins in 3 games as they win 3-0 away to St Mirren. Celtic have taken their goals tally up to 12 goals. RANGERS are in 2^nd place after they picked up their biggest win of the season 6-0 at home to ROSS COUNTY.  Rangers are now on a total of 10 goals while County picked up their 3^rd blank score sheet and now two in a row. DUNDEE drew 2-2 away to Hibernian and are on a total of 31 goals and have extended their goal run to 8 league/cup games. HEARTS lost 3-1 away to Motherwell and are on a total of 2 goals. KILMARNOCK lost again 2-0 away to Aberdeen. Kilmarnock have now picked up four consecutive blank score sheets. 

In the Championship FALKIRK have won all 3 league games and are in second place after they won 2-1 at home against Partick Thistle. Falkirk have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games and are on a total of 19 goals. 

In League One STENHOUSEMUIR won 3-2 at home against COVE RANGERS. After they had failed to score in their last 2 games, Stenhousemuir are now on a total of 10 goals. Rangers are on a total of 8 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. 

In League Two, PETERHEAD are still top of the table after 4 games as they drew 0-0 away to The Spartans and picked up their 3^rd blank of the season. CLYDE lost 2-1 away to Bonnyrigg Rose and are on a total of 11 goals. EAST FIFE won 4-0 away to Stirling and are now on a total of 18 goals and a goal run of 6 league/cup games. 

So let’s have a look at our BEST three teams this week 

DUNDEE (31) FALKIRK (19) EAST FIFE (18) Total of 68 goals 

Our WORST three teams are 

KILMARNOCK (0) SOUTHAMPTON (0) LUTON TOWN (1) Total of 1 goal 

Our best performing team is DUNDEE after they have now scored in all of their 8 league/cup games. They have a total of 31 goals which gives them an average score of 3.8 goals per game. 

Our worst performing team is KILMARNOCK this weekend after they picked up 4^th blank score sheets in their first 4 games of the season. 

Our highest goal-scoring team in our 42^nd Season are DUNDEE. They won 7-1 away to Bonnyrigg Rose in the Scottish League Cup in the very first game in the first round group stages.

DAVID BARRETT is at the top for his third weekend after picking up 6 goals from the weekend. David’s teams are Burnley, Dundee and Manchester City. He is now 12 goals clear of  GUY DOWSETT (2) with his teams of  Arsenal, Celtic, and East Fife.

At the other end at 114 we still have ANNE HAMMOND for the second week running. Anne picked up 7 goals this week. Anne’s teams are Arsenal, Crystal Palace and Tottenham.

This is how our top 10 looks this week

    THIS     LAST                                     M/WEEK     W/END      TOTAL

  WEEK    WEEK      NAME                   GOALS      GOALS      GOALS 

        1               -           D. BARRETT             24                22               46             

        2               3          G. DOWSETT (2)       14               20                34

        3               2          B. BARNES (2)          18               15                33

        4               -          G. DOWSETT (1)       15               13                28

        5              10        S. THOMSON (2)        6                20                26

        6              7          M. LIPMAN                 5                20                25

        7              35        A. STUBBS (2)            5                20                25

        8              5          M. JACOBSEN            8               17                25

        9              72        K. RATTLE                2                22               24

       10             8          L. GRIMWOOD          6                18               24

Leeds Fourth for Now

In the Championship, LEEDS UNITED have won their first league game 2-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday.  After they had failed to score in their last two games, in which one was in the League Cup, Leeds are on a total of 5 goals. They have a total of 25 votes this season.

County's First League Win

In the League Two, NOTTS COUNTY picked up their first win of the season and their biggest result to date, after they won 4-1 at home to Grimsby Town. County are now on a total of 9 goals.

County became our 49^th voted team to enter Golden Goals back in the 1985/86 Season on where they finished with a total of 90 goals. Their highest score came in the 2009/10 Season with a total of 106 goals. Last season they finished with a total of 94 goals. This is their 9^th season with us and they have now scored a total of 596 goals, which gives them an average score of 66 goals per season to date. They have just 1 vote this season once again.

  

Leicester's 1st Game

In the Premier League, all of our teams have now played their first game as LEICESTER CITY drew 1-1 at home against TOTTENHAM.

Week Two

Here we are with Week Two of the competition and this weekend we had our first full league fixture, which gave us our second winner of the season. Our winner was DAVID BARRETT who won on a score of 13 goals. Wins himself £5 this weekend. David joined Golden Goals in the 2017/18 Season on where he finished in the winning frame in 16^th place with 305 goals. Last season he finished in 85^th place with a total of 276 goals. He did manage to win a Rollover of £10. His teams for this season are 

                               BURNLEY 5, DUNDEE 6, MANCHESTER CITY 2

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. It was PHIL COLLINS that picked up the most goals in midweek with a total of 9 goals. They came from Burnley, Luton and Sheffield United.

Taking the lead after two weeks of football we have DAVID BARRETT out in front with a total of 24 goals. In second place we have BARBARA BARNES (2) with 18 goals. In third place with 17 goals we have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) In fourth place is with 14 goals we have GUY DOWSETT (2) and in fifth place we have GUY DOWSETT (1) with a total of 13 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

So we had our very first full weekend fixture and not a bad start to the season. We had just 4 teams with no game over the weekend with another 18 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 6 goals and they came from the Scottish League Cup 2^nd round where DUNDEE won 6-1 against Airdrieonians. 

Dundee became our 21^st voted Scottish team back in the 1987/88 Season and finished with a total of 62 goals. Their best end of season score came in the 2009/10 Season with 65 goals. Last time out was back in the 2010/11 Season with 59 goals. This is their fourth season with Golden Goals and they have now netted a total of 215 goals. This gives them an average score of 53 goals per season to date. They have just 1 vote this season. Let’s get on with the results to see how your teams have performed over the weekend.

PREMIER LEAGUE

So the Premier League have played their first game of the season and most of them had a good start. LIVERPOOL won 2-0 away to IPSWICH TOWN. ARSENAL won 2-0 at home to Wolves. NEWCASTLE won 1-0 at home against SOUTHAMPTON. AFC BOURNEMOUTH drew 1-1 away to Nottingham Forest. WEST HAM lost 2-1 at home to ASTON VILLA. CRYSTAL PALACE lost 2-1 away to Brentford. Last season’s champions, MANCHESTER CITY won their 1^st game 2-0 away to CHELSEA.

CHAMPIONSHIP

After two games now, BURNLEY are top here after they won their second league game 5-0 at home to Cardiff City. With their biggest result to date, Burnley have taken their goals total to 9. MIDDLESBROUGH lost 1-0 away to Derby and picked up their 1^st blank of the season. PORTSMOUTH drew 0-0 at home to LUTON TOWN and they picked up their 2^nd blank score sheet while Luton picked up their 1^st. LEEDS UNITED picked up their 2^nd consecutive blank score sheet as they drew 0-0 away to WBA. With their biggest result of the season, MILLWALL lost 4-3 away to Bristol City and are now on a total of 6 goals. NORWICH drew 2-2 at home to Blackburn and are on a total of 6 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED drew 2-2 at home against QPR and are on a total of 8 goals. SWANSEA won 3-0 at home to PRESTON NE. Swansea are now on a total of 6 goals while Preston picked up their 2^nd blank of the season.

LEAGUE ONE

HUDDERSFIELD are our highest team here in 2^nd place after they won 2-1 at home to Stevenage. Huddersfield are on a total of 7 goals. CHARLTON won 1-0 at home to Leyton Orient and are on a total of 2 goals. PETERBOROUGH picked up their first goals as they win 4-1 away to Shrewsbury. BLACKPOOL picked up their 1^st blank score sheet after they lost 3-0 at home to Stockport. BARNSLEY won 2-1 away to Lincoln City and are on a total of 4 goals. BIRMINGHAM picked up their biggest win to date as they win 3-2 away to Wycombe. Birmingham are on a total of 5 goals. BOLTON drew 0-0 at home to WREXHAM which means that both teams have picked up their 1^st blank of the season.

LEAGUE TWO

The highest team that we have here are our new boys, BROMLEY in 3^rd place. They won their second league game 2-0 at home to AFC WIMBLEDON. Bromley are on a total of 5 goals. Wimbledon picked up their 1^st blank of the season. MK DONS lost 2-0 away to Colchester and picked up their second consecutive blank score sheet. CHESTERFIELD picked up their biggest result with a 5-0 away win over Crewe. Chesterfield are now on a total of 7 goals. DONCASTER ROVERS lost 3-1 away to Newport and are on 7 goals. NOTTS COUNTY drew 2-2 at home to Fleetwood and are on a total of 5 goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Scottish League Cup Second Round, we had 7 of our teams in action out of them 4 have made it through to the next round. DUNDEE have kept their 100% scoring record after they won 6-1 at home to Airdrieonians and have now taken their goals tally up to 29 goals after a total of 7 league/cup games. FALKIRK won 2-0 at home to HEARTS and are on a total of 17 goals and a goal run of 5 games. Hearts picked up their 2^nd blank in 3 games. RANGERS won 2-0 at home to St Johnston and are on a total of 4 goals. CELTIC won 3-1 at home against Hibernian and are now on a total of 9 goals. ROSS COUNTY are out after they lost 1-0 away to The Spatans and picked up their 2^nd blank of the season. KILMARNOCK lost 1-0 away to Motherwell after extra time and that is their 3^rd consecutive blank score sheet.

In League One STENHOUSEMUIR lost 1-0 away to Alloa and picked up their 4^th blank of the season. COVE RANGERS drew 1-1 at home against Dumbarton and are on a total of 6 goals.

In League Two, PETERHEAD are top of the table after they won 1-0 at home to Stranraer and are on a total of 9 goals. CLYDE picked up their 3rd blank of the season after they lost 2-0 at home to Stirling. EAST FIFE won 2-1 at home to Forfar and are on a total of 14 goals after they had failed to score in their last 5 games.

So let’s have a look at our BEST three teams this week

DUNDEE (29) FALKIRK (17) EAST FIFE (14) Total of 60 goals

Our WORST three teams are

KILMARNOCK (0) CHELSEA (0) SOUTHAMPTON (0) Total of 0 goals

Our best performing team is DUNDEE after they have now scored in all of their 7 league/cup games. They have a total of 29 goals which gives them an average score of 4 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is KILMARNOCK this weekend after they picked up 3^rd  blank score sheets in their first 3 games of the season. 

Our highest goal-scoring team in our 42^nd Season are DUNDEE. They won 7-1 away to Bonnyrigg Rose in the Scottish League Cup in the very first game in the first round group stages. 

DAVID BARRETT is at the top for his second weekend after picking up 17 goals from the week. David’s teams are Burnley, Dundee and Manchester City. He is already 13 goals clear of  BARBARA BARNES (2) with her teams of Celtic, Falkirk and Manchester United.

At the other end at 114 we had Abbey Newman there last weekend but we now have ANNE HAMMOND who picked up just 3 goals this weekend. Anne’s teams are Arsenal, Crystal Palace and Tottenham.

In our second week, things have really changed since last weekend in our top ten

 THIS       LAST                                        M/WEEK    W/END      TOTAL

WEEK    WEEK      NAME                      GOALS      GOALS      GOALS 

      1               -          D. BARRETT                24                16               40             

      2               -          B. BARNES (2)              18                9                 27

      3               4         G. DOWSETT (2)           14                11               25

      4               3         G. DOWSETT (1)           13                9                 22

      5               37       M. JACOBSEN               8                 12               20

      6              39        S. MARSHALL               8                 12               20

      7              25        M. LIPMAN                    5                 13               18

      8              29         L. GRIMWOOD             6                12                18

      9              -           GRANT PHILLIPS         6                12                18

     10            14          S. THOMSON (2)          6                 12                18

United Win 1st League Game

In the very first game of the Premier League in Season 42, MANCHESTER UNITED won 1-0 at home against Fulham with a very late goal. 

In the Championship, OXFORD UNITED lost their first league game 3-2 away to Coventry. Oxford are on a total of 6 goals. 

Middlesbrough Beat Leeds in League Cup

 

MIDDLESBROUGH are through to the second round of the Carabao/League Cup, after they beat LEEDS UNITED 3-0 away with their biggest win to date. Middlesbrough are now on a total of 4 goals while Leeds picked up their first blank of the season.

Carabao/League Cup 1st Round Results

In the Carabao/League Cup first round, we had 21 of our teams in action and out of them 13 have made it through to the next round.

They are AFC WIMBLEDON who won 2-1 away to BROMLEY and are on a total of 6 goals while Bromley are on 3 goals. BLACKPOOL picked up their biggest result as they win 4-0 away to Burton and have taken their goals total to 5. BIRMINGHAM CITY won 1-0 away to CHARLTON and are on a total of 2 goals. Charlton picked up their first blank score sheet. HUDDERSFIELD picked up their biggest result of the season by winning 3-0 at home against Morecambe. NORWICH CITY also picked up their biggest result to date and their first goals of the season, as they win 4-3 at home to Stevenage. OXFORD UNITED won 2-0 at home against PETERBOROUGH and are on a total of 4 goals. Peterborough have failed to score in both their games this season. MILLWALL won 1-0 away to PORTSMOUTH and are on a total of 3 goals. Portsmouth picked up their first blank score sheet. PRESTON NE picked up their first goals of the season by winning 2-0 at home against Sunderland. DONCASTER ROVERS won 2-0 away to Salford and are on a total of 6 goals. SWANSEA CITY picked up their first goals as they win 3-1 at home to Gillingham. SHEFFIELD UNITED picked up their biggest result as they win 4-2 at home against WREXHAM. Sheffield are now on a total of 6 goals while Wrexham are on 5 goals. BOLTON drew 1-1 at home to Mansfield and as there is no extra time this year, Bolton won 5-4 on penalties. Bolton are on a total of 3 goals. BARNSLEY drew 1-1 away to Wigan and then won 4-2 on penalties. Barnsley are on a total of 2 goals.

The other teams that went out are CHESTERFIELD who lost 2-1 away to Derby and are on a total of 2 goals. NOTTS COUNTY picked up their first goals as they win 3-3 away to Shrewsbury but then lost 4-3 on penalties. MK DONS picked up their first blank of the season after they lost 5-0 away to Watford. 

Bad Start for Luton

 In the Championship, LUTON TOWN lost their first league game 4-1 at home to BURNLEY.

Week One

Here we are with our 42^nd Season of Golden Goals and a very warm welcome to you all, and what a season we are going to have once again. 

As you can see that we have ended up with a total of 114 entries in this season’s competition and I would like to thank everyone who has helped us to get to that magic figure, which just managed to get into the top ten best seasons 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 some names missing from last season, we have gained another 7 new ones and a couple of old ones. So who is going to be our 42^nd Champion and win the £100 prize money? We shall find out in the next 42 weeks but I wish you all the very best of luck.

You will see from the above table that we have a total of 16 past Champions playing this season including 3, two time winners. Our last season joint Champions are also back, and they were John Filtness and Andrew Hammond. John has changed his winning combination from last season, but Andrew has kept the same teams with Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City. We also have a total of 20 ladies playing in this season’s competition. 

So how did the voting of teams for this season finally end up with. It was MANCHESTER CITY that picked up the biggest number of votes once again with a total of 46. Last season they had a total of 44 votes and scored a total of 112 goals, so this was no surprise that they would be the most voted team again this season. With our Scottish teams, CELTIC after picking up 39 votes last season, they picked up more votes this season with 40. 

Staying with the Scottish teams, the second highest voted team comes from the Scottish Premiership again, and they are RANGERS with just 14 votes which is down from last season’s total of 15. The Scottish teams had a good turnout this season with a total of 12 teams once more being picked. We have just 6 teams from the Scottish Premiership, 1 from the Championship, 2 from League One and 3 from League Two.

With the English team’s things have changed as they always do in this competition. We have a total of 14 Premiership teams once again in this year’s competition with MANCHESTER CITY our top team again this season.  Next comes ARSENAL with 45 votes. They were also our 2^nd most voted team last season with 37 votes. In third place with 27 votes, we have LIVERPOOL. They were again our 3^rd most voted team last season with 29 votes. In fourth place, up from 10 last season is LEEDS UNITED. They have 25 votes compared to 9 last season. Our fifth voted team is PETERBOROUGH UNITED with 14 votes. They had a total of just 6 votes last season in 14^th place. In the Championship we have picked up 11 teams compared to 12 last season, while in League One we have 8, and 6 teams taken from League Two. 

We have the one team that came back into the football league this season. They are CHESTERFIELD with new comers in to the professional league, BROMLEY.

So on with the competition and this week’s sheet shows you all the games that have been played up to and including the 11^th August. Any games that have been played before and up to Friday the 9^th August have all been counted as midweek goals, so some of you have a bit of a lead already for the Midweek Cash Jackpot of £25. 

In the opening games of the season we had the first round of the Scottish League Cup where we had eight of our 12 teams in action. Plus, the first games of their leagues.

Our first English league games played last Friday night where in the Championship, SHEFFIELD UNITED won their first league game 2-0 away to PRESTON NE.

In League One BARNSLEY lost their first league game 2-1 at home to Mansfield Town.

In League Two CHESTERFIELD drew their first comeback game 1-1 at home against Swindon Town.

Week One we had our very first winner of the new season who won on a total of 7 goals to win the first £5 weekend prize money. Our winner is our joint 2007/08 Champion RICKY WOOD.

Ricky started with Golden Goals in our 23^rd Season of 2005/06. In that season he finished in the winning frame in 20^th place with 262 goals and picked up a shared weekend win. Ricky became joint Champion in 2007/08 Season with a total of 293 goals which is our 33^rd best end of season score. He won just over £150 including a shared weekend win. Last season he finished in 30^th place with a total of 304 goals. So it’s a good start for Ricky and his team’s this season are..

                                                BOLTON 2, CELTIC 2, LEEDS UNITED 3

WEEKEND RESULTS

The lower English leagues were all in action in our first weekend of the new season as the Scottish played their second full league fixture. We had a good start to the season with plenty of goals but we had two of our teams that picked up the highest score over the weekend with 4 goals each. They are AFC WIMBLEDON and DONASTER ROVERS.

So let’s see how the rest of our teams that were in action, got on over the weekend.

CHAMPIONSHIP

In no particular order, MILLWALL lost their opening game 3-2 at home to Watford. LEEDS UNITED drew 3-3 at home to PORTSMOUTH. MIDDLESBROUGH won 1-0 at home against SWANSEA CITY. OXFORD UNITED won 2-0 at home to NORWICH CITY.

LEAGUE ONE

BIRMINGHAM CITY drew 1-1 at home against Reading. BLACKPOOL lost 2-1 away to Crawley. CHARLTON have won 1-0 away to Wigan. PETERBOROUGH lost 2-0 at home to HUDDERSFIELD TOWN. WREXHAM won 3-2 at home to Wycombe. BOLTON won 2-1 away to Leyton Orient.

LEAGUE TWO

In their opening games, AFC WIMBLEDON won 4-2 at home against Colchester. BROMLEY scored their first professional goals as they win 2-0 away to Harrogate. DONCASTER ROVERS won 4-2 at home to Accrington. MK DONS lost 2-1 at home to Bradford City. NOTTS COUNTY drew 0-0 away to Tranmere.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

Now you might already know that the Scottish have already played their first round of their League Cup and their first league games, if you have been following our blog. So most of our teams have already played more than four games this weekend. But here are the results of their second league matches.

In the Premiership last season’s Champions CELTIC won their second league game 2-0 away to Hibernian. Celtic are on a total of 6 goals. ROSS COUNTY drew 1-1 at home to Dundee Utd and are on a total of 11 goals. RANGERS drew their first league match 0-0, but have won their second game 2-1 at home against Motherwell. DUNDEE won 3-1 against HEARTS and have kept their 100% scoring after 6 games, which include their 4 cup matches. They are now on a total of 23 goals. Hearts picked up their first goal of the season. KILMARNOCK lost 3-0 at home to St Johnstone and have failed to score in their first two game’s of the season.

In the Championship FALKIRK won their 2^nd league game 2-0 away to Dunfermline and are on a total of 15 goals.

In League One COVE RANGERS lost 2-1 away to Queen of the South and they are on a total of 5 goals. STENHOUSEMUIR picked up their 3^rd blank of the season after they lost 2-0 away to Kelty Hearts.

In League Two PETERHEAD won their 2^nd league game 2-1 at home to Forfar and are on a total of 8 goals. EAST FIFE won their first league game, 2-0 at home to Edinburgh City and are on a total of 12 goals. CLYDE also won their first game 1-0 at home to Stranraer and they are on a total of 10 goals. 

So here are our top ten in our very first weekend in our 42nd Season of Golden Goals.

 FIRST                                                 M/WEEK     W/END       TOTAL

WEEK   NAME                                    GOALS       GOALS      GOALS

     1        D. BARRETT                              20                  3                  23

      2       B. BARNES (2)                           17                  4                  21

      3       G. DOWSETT (1)                        13                 6                  19

      4       G. DOWSETT (2)                        14                 4                  18

      5       CHARLIE FARLEY                     17                1                  18

      6       R. WOOD (2007/08)*                   4                 7                  11

      7        J. BLYTH                                      4                 6                  10

      8        J. SOMERVILLE                          4                 6                  10

      9        GRANT PHILLIPS                       5                 5                  10

             10       B. BURROUGHS                         4                  5                   9

English Games Begin

In the very first games of the English Championship, SHEFFIELD UNITED won their first league game 2-0 away to PRESTON NE. 

In League One BARNSLEY lost their first league game 2-1 at home to Mansfield Town. 

In League Two CHESTERFIELD drew their first come back game 1-1 at home against Swindon Town.

Scottish League Results

Our Scottish teams have started their new season. In the Premiership, last season’s Champions CELTIC won 4-0 at home to KILMARNOCK. DUNDEE drew 2-2 away to Dundee Utd and are on a total of 20 goals and have now scored in all of their first 5 games. HEARTS drew 0-0 at home to RANGERS. ROSS COUNTY also drew their game 0-0 away to Motherwell.    

In League One, COVE RANGERS lost 3-1 at home to Annan and have a total of 4 goals. STENHOUSEMUIR won 2-1 at home against Arbroath and are on a total of 7 goals.

In League Two, PETERHEAD won 1-0 away to Bonnyrigg Rose and are on a total of 6 goals. EAST FIFE lost 4-2 away to Elgin City and are on a total of 10 goals. CLYDE drew 0-0 away to Forfar and picked up their 2^nd blank of the season.

First League Game for Season 42

In the Scottish Championship, FALKIRK have played their very first league game and won 2-1 at home to Queen's Park. Falkirk are on a total of 13 goals of which 11 of them came from the Scottish League cup first round group games.