Rovers Return

In League Two DONCASTER ROVERS have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games, as they win 3-1 away to Barrow. Rovers are now on a total of 46 goals and have moved into 2nd place in the table.

Birmingham City Still Top

In the Championship PORTSMOUTH lost 1-0 at home to MILLWALL and picked up their 13th blank of the season. Millwall are on a total of 32 goals. 

In League One it’s 50 goals for top of the table BIRMINGHAM CITY after they won 1-0 away to HUDDERSFIELD TOWN. Huddersfield picked up their 7th blank score sheet and now 2 in a row. BOLTON won 3-1 at home to Northampton Town and are now on a total of 48 goals and have extended their goal run to 9 league/cup games. CHARLTON won 2-0 at home to Bristol Rovers and are on a total of 43 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. BLACKPOOL won 2-0 away to Lincoln City and are on a total of 48 goals and a goal run of 5 league/cup games. PETERBOROUGH won 1-0 at home to Wigan and are on a total of 52 goals. WREXHAM lost 3-2 at home to Stevenage and are on a total of 43 goals and have extended their goal run to 13 league/cup games. BARNSLEY lost 2-1 away to Wycombe and are on a total of 46 goals. 

In League Two NOTTS COUNTY have moved up to 2nd place after they won 1-0 at home to Carlisle United. County are on a total of 54 goals and a goal run of 8 league/cup games. CHESTERFIELD won 3-0 at home to BROMLEY and are now on a total of 47 goals and a goal run of 5 league/cup games. Bromley picked up their 5^th blank of the season. AFC WIMBLEDON drew 1-1 away to Crewe and hit goal number 45. MK DONS won 2-1 at home to Harrogate Town and are on a total of 41 goals.

Nervous Leeds Drop Points

In the Championship leaders LEEDS UNITED drew 0-0 away to 3rd place BURNLEY. Leeds after a goal run of 11 league/cup games, picked up their 7^th blank of the season. Burnley have now had a total of 12 blank score sheets.

Week Twenty-Five

In Week Twenty-Five of the competition, we had our fourth Rollover of the season worth £10 and it was shared between 2 players. They are MICK LIDDLE and MALCOLM STUBBS winning on a score of 11 goals. Both are first time winners to the season which now brings our winners total up to 27.

Mick started with Golden Goals back in the 1996/97 Season on where he finished in 92nd place with 206 goals. He picked up one weekend win. Last season, Mick finished in 66th place with a total of 286 goals. This season he has been as high as 39 position in Week Six and has picked up just 2 blank weekend score sheets. His best team is Liverpool.

Malcolm started with us before the 1995/96 Season, but we have lost the records for that year. Last season, Malcolm finished in 89th place with 274 goals. Malcolm has finished in the winning frame in the 2019/20 Season in 9th place with 315 goals. He also had one weekend win. This season he has been as high as 69th place in Week Six. He has picked up 4 weekend blank score sheets to date. His best team is Manchester City. Here are our winners teams. 

                   Mick  COVE RANGERS 4, LIVERPOOL 4, MANCHESTER CITY 3

                 Malcolm  MANCHESTER CITY 3, NEWCASTLE 3, NORWICH CITY 5

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Over half of us managed to pick up some more goals during midweek, so the race for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot has changed slightly from last week. We now have a total of 28 players that are on or over the halfway mark. The highest score went to PHIL COLLINS with a total of 9 goals each. They came from Burnley, Luton and Sheffield United and Phil is now on a total of 51 midweek goals. 

Leading the race this week we still have BARBARA BARNES (2) but also back we have ALFIE DIMMOCK up from two. Both are now on a total of 58 goals. In second place up from three we have MARTIN CORBETT on a total of 56 goals. In third place we still have PETER WELLARD but he is now joined with BARRY BURROUGHS up from four, RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion, up from five and DAVID BARRETT comes back in the race this week all with a total of 55 goals. In fourth place we still have CHRIS SETFORD but joining him this week, we have BRUCE SELF down from three with LOUIE HARRINGTON up from five. All three are on a total of 54 goals. In fifth place, all on a total of 53 goals, we still have TOBY BICKNELL our 2014/15 Champion. Behind our leaders, we have a total of 6 players all on 52 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had 7 of our teams without a game this weekend and we had another 9 teams that failed to score any goals. Although it seems that we had a few high scores this weekend, we had a very bad weekend as the average score fell from seven of last weekend to just 4 goals this weekend. So if you have done better than that? Well done. The highest score over the weekend was 5 goals, and we had two of our teams that reached that number. One came from the Premier League with AFC BOURNEMOUTH and the other from the Championship, with NORWICH CITY. Here are the rest of the weekend results.

PREMIER LEAGUE 

Top of the table LIVERPOOL won 4-1 at home to IPSWICH TOWN. Liverpool are on a total of 68 goals while Ipswich are on 26 goals. In second place we have ARSENAL who won 1-0 away to Wolves and picked up goal number 56. AFC BOURNEMOUTH won 5-0 at home to Nottingham Forest and have taken their goal tally to 43 goals and have scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. NEWCASTLE won 3-1 away to bottom of the table SOUTHAMPTON and are now on a total of 53 goals and have now scored in all of their last 14 league/cup games. Southampton picked up goal number 29. MANCHESTER CITY won 3-1 at home to CHELSEA and are now on a total of 58 goals and they have extended their goal run to 11 league/cup games. Chelsea are on 55 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. CRYSTAL PALCE lost 2-1 at home to Brentford and picked up goal number 37 and a goal run of 6 league/cup games. TOTTENHAM lost 2-1 at home to LEICESTER CITY and are on a total of 58 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. After they had failed to score in their last 2 games, Leicester are now on a total of 37 goals and it is their first league win in 6 games. ASTON VILLA drew 1-1 at home against WEST HAM and are on a total of 39 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. West Ham are on 31 goals. MANCHESTER UNITED won 1-0 away to Fulham and are on a total of 44 goals and a goal run of 5 league/cup games.

CHAMPIONSHIP

Leeds United are top of the table with Sheffield United still in second place. Both teams had no game over the weekend.

In the Play-offs we now have two of the 4 teams and they are Burnley in third place and MIDDLESBROUGH in sixth place. They lost 2-1 away to PRESTON NE and are on a total of 50 goals. Preston are on 42 goals.

Meanwhile LUTON TOWN lost 1-0 at home to MILLWALL and picked up their tenth blank of the season. Millwall are on 31 goals. After they had failed to score in their previous 3 games, NORWICH CITY won 5-1 at home to  SWANSEA CITY. Norwich have taken their goals tally up to 52 goals while  Swansea hit goal number 35. After a goal run of 8 league/cup games, OXFORD UNITED drew 0-0 away to Stoke City and picked up their eighth blank of the season. PORTSMOUTH lost 5-1 away to WBA and are on a total of 36 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

Top of the table Birmingham City had no game over the weekend.

In the Play-offs we have three of the four teams. In third place we still have Wrexham with HUDDERSFIELD TOWN in fourth place. They lost 1-0 at home to BOLTON and picked up their sixth blank of the season. Bolton are on 45 goals and have extended their goal run to 8 league/cup games. BARNSLEY are down to sixth place after they lost 1-0 at home to Stevenage and picked up their eighth blank of the season after a goal run of 5 league/cup games.

Meanwhile  CHARLTON won 1-0 at home to Shrewsbury Town and are on a total of 41 goals. BLACKPOOL won 3-1 away to Exeter City and are now on a total of 46 goals. PETERBOROUGH lost 5-1 away to Lincoln City and are on a total of 51 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

The highest team that we have here are DONCASTER ROVERS in third place. They won 1-0 at home to Harrogate Town and are on a total of 43 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games.

In the Play-offs we have just two of the 4 teams. They are AFC WIMBLEDON down to fifth place after they drew 0-0 away to MK DONS. Wimbledon picked up their ninth blank of the season, while the Dons picked up their tenth. NOTTS COUNTY down to sixth place after they drew 1-1at home to BROMLEY. County are now on a total of 53 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. Bromley picked up goal number 44.

Meanwhile CHESTERFIELD drew 1-1 at home to Port Vale and are on a total of 44 goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership Celtic remain top after they had their game cancelled over the weekend. RANGERS are in second place after they won 3-1 away to Dundee United. Rangers are now on a total of 62 goals and have extended their goal run to 18 league/cup games. HEARTS won 3-2 at home to KILMARNOCK and are now on a total of 32 goals. Kilmarnock are on a total of 28 goals. ROSS COUNTY drew 1-1 at home to Hibernian and picked up gaol number 36 and have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games.

In the Championship top of the table FALKIRK won 2-0 away to Raith Rovers and are on a total of 58 goals

In League One STENHOUSEMUIR are down to second place after they lost 4-0 at home to COVE RANGERS. Stenhousemuir have now had a total of thirteen blank score sheets and now 3 games without a goal. Rangers are now on a total of 41 goals.

In League Two EAST FIFE are still top after they won 4-1 at home to Edinburgh City and are now on a total of 57 goals and have extended their goal run to 6 league/cup games. PETERHEAD in second place lost 1-0 away to The Spartans and picked up their eighth blank of the season. CLYDE picked up their eighth blank score sheet after they drew 0-0 at home to Elgin City. They have now failed to score in all of their last 3 games.

Our BEST three teams this week

CELTIC (83) LIVERPOOL (68) RANGERS (62) Total of 213 goals

Our WORST three teams are

  IPSWICH TOWN (26) LUTON TOWN (28) KILMARNOCK (28) Total of 82 goals

Our best performing team this weekend are still RANGERS after they have now scored in all of their last 18 league/cup games. They have a total of 62 goals which gives them an average score of 2.2 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is now STENHOUSEMUIR this weekend as they have had a total of 13 blank score sheet from 28 league/cup games. They have a total of 39 goals.

Our highest goal-scoring team that we have in our 42nd Season are MANCHESTER CITY after they won 8-0 at home to Salford City in the FA Cup 3rd Round in Week Twenty-Three.

GEOFF DOCKERILL our 1994/95 Champion, is celebrating his fourth weekend at the top after his teams picked him up a total of 5 goals from the weekend. Geoff’s teams are Arsenal, Celtic and Liverpool. Luke Hammond is still in second place, now just 2 goals behind Geoff. Luke picked up a total of 8 goals from the week and his teams are Celtic, Chelsea and Liverpool.

At the other end at 114 we still have CHARLIE FARLEY with his eleventh consecutive weekend. Charlie’s teams picked up just 3 goals again all from the weekend. His teams are Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir. 

Not much has changed in the top ten this weekend   

 THIS     LAST                                                M/WEEK     W/END       TOTAL              

WEEK  WEEK     NAME                                GOALS      GOALS      GOALS 

       1             -         G. DOCKERILL (1994/95)     52               155          207      

       2             -         L. HAMMOND                       49               157          206

       3             -         J. WEARDEN                          45              157          202

       4             -         C. STEPHENS                         49              151          200

       5             -         G. DOWSETT (2)                    49              146          195

       6             -         D. SOMERVILLE (2009/10)   49              146          195

       7             8        A. DAVEY                                51              143          194

       8             7        B. BURROUGHS                    55               138         193

       9             -         M. GREGORY                        47               143         190

       10          11        A. EYLES                               52               137         189

Sheffield United Drop Points

In the Championship SHEFFIELD UNITED have reamined in second place, after they lost their 5th league game of the season, 3-0 at home to Hull City. That is United’s seventh blank of the season.

City Remain Top After Draw

In League One top of the table BIRMINGHAM CITY drew 1-1 away to WREXHAM and are on a total of 49 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. Wrexham picked up gaol number 41 and they have now scored in all of their last 12 league/cup games.

Advantage Leeds United

In the Championship it’s beginning to look like a tennis match as LEEDS UNITED go back on top after they won 2-0 at home against NORWICH CITY. Leeds are on a total of 54 goals and have now scored in all of their 11 league/cup games. Norwich picked up their tenth blank score sheet and have now failed to score in their last 3 games. BURNLEY moved up to third place after they won 5-0 away to Plymouth. Burnley have taken their goals tally to 39. PORTSMOUTH won their seventh league game 3-1 at home to Stoke City and are now on a total of 35 goals.

Sheffield United are Back

In the Championship SHEFFIELD UNITED go back on top after they won 2-1 away to SWANSEA CITY and are on a total of 44 goals. Swansea, after they had failed to score in their previous 2 games are now on a total of 34 goals. MIDDLESBROUGH won 2-0 at home to WBA and are in the play offs in fifth place. They are on a total of 49 goals. OXFORD UNITED won 3-2 at home to LUTON TOWN. Oxford are now on a total of 36 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. Luton after they had failed to score in their previous 2 games, are now on a total of 30 goals. It’s 40 goals for PRESTON NE after they won 2-1 away to Watford. It’s 30 goals for MILLWALL after they drew 2-2 at home to Coventry City. 

In League One BOLTON lost 2-1 at home to CHARLTON and are on a total of 44 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. Charlton are on 40 goals. After they had failed to score in their last three games, PETERBOROUGH drew 1-1 at home to Exeter. Borough are on 50 goals. 

In League Two MK DONS lost 2-1away to Fleetwood Town and are on a total of 39 goals.

Dundee Makes Five

In the last game to be played in the SCOTTISH CUP Fourth Round, DUNDEE won 1-0 at home to Dundee United and are on a total of 62 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. We now have five of our teams in the next round of the cup. 

In the Premier League CHELSEA have moved in to fourth place after they won 3-1 at home against Wolves. Chelsea are now on a total of 54 goals.

Week Twenty-Four

In Week Twenty-Four of the competition, we had a total of 10 players that picked up this weekends highest score of 11 goals each. So under the competition rules, which is only 4 players can win the jackpot, then we will have our fourth Rollover of the season worth £10 for next weekend. The players that picked up the 11 goals this week are GARY BOLBERY, BOB BURGIN (Stalky 2) TONY KING (1) ROBERT NETTING, DARYL NICHOLLS, our 2005/06 Champion KEAMUS SETNA, our 2012/13 Champion ALICE STUBBS, SCOTT THOMSON (1) MARK UNSTEAD and JAMES WISE.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

All but two of us managed to pick up some more goals during midweek, so the race for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot has changed slightly from last week. We now have a total of 18 players that are on or over the halfway mark. The highest score went to OLIVIA HAMMOND, BRUCE SELF and JANE STUBBS all with a total of 8 goals each.

Leading the race this week we have back, BARBARA BARNES (2) up from two now with a total of 52 goals. Her teams are Celtic, Falkirk and Manchester United. In second place we now have last weeks leader ALFIE DIMMOCK now with a total of 55 goals. In third place we still have MARTIN CORBETT, but he is now joined with BRUCE SELF, coming back in with PETER WELLARD up from five, all with a total of 54 goals. In fourth place we now have BARRY BURROUGHS and CHRIS SETFORD both up from five now on a total of 53 goals. In fifth place, all on a total of 52 goals, we have TOBY BICKNELL our 2014/15 Champion, GEOFF DOCKERILL our 1994/95 Champions, LOUIE HARRINGTON, MARK LAVER and  RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion, moves down from four.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had 6 of our teams without a game this weekend and we had another 11 of our teams that failed to score any goals. We had some really high scores once again this weekend and we all picked up some goals, but the average score fell from our high nine of last weekend to 7 goals this weekend. So if you have done better than that? Well done.

The highest score over the weekend was 6 goals, and they came from the Premier League where MANCHESTER CITY who won 6-0 away to IPSWICH TOWN. For the third weekend running City have picked up the weekend’s highest score. They are now on a total of 55 goals and have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. Ipswich picked up their ninth blank of the season and now 2 games in a row. Here are the rest of the weekend results.

PREMIER LEAGUE 

Top of the table LIVERPOOL won 2-0 away to Brentford with 2 late goals. Liverpool are on a total of 64 goals. In second place we have ARSENAL who drew 2-2 at home to ASTON VILLA. Arsenal are on a total of 55 goals while Villa are on 38. Villa have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. NEWCASTLE lost 4-1 at home to AFC BOURNEMOUTH and picked up goal number 50 and have now scored in all of their last 13 league/cup games. Bournemouth have taken their goals tally to 38 and have scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. LEICESTER CITY lost 2-0 at home to Fulham and that is their seventh blank of the season and now 2 in a row. In the London derby, WEST HAM lost 2-0 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE and picked up their fifth blank of the season. Palace are on a total of 36 goals and have a goal run of 5 league/cup games. MANCHESTER UNITED lost 3-1 at home to Brighton and are on a total of 43 goals. TOTTENHAM lost 3-2 away to Everton and are on a total of 57 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. Bottom of the table SOUTHAMPTON lost 3-2 away to Nottingham Forest and are on a total of 28 goals.

CHAMPIONSHIP

LEEDS UNITED are top of the table as they win 3-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday. Leeds are now on a total of 52 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. In second place we have SHEFFIELD UNITED who won 2-0 at home to NORWICH CITY and are on a total of 42 goals. Norwich picked up their eighth blank score sheet and now 2 in a row.

In the Play-offs we only have one of the 4 teams and they are Burnley in third place.

Meanwhile SWANSEA CITY lost 3-0 away to Cardiff City and picked up their twelth blank of the season and now just 1 goal in their last 4 games. MILLWALL picked up their eleventh blank of the season after they lost 1-0 at home to Hull City. LUTON TOWN drew 0-0 at home to PRESTON NE and picked up their ninth blank score sheet and now 2 games in a row. Preston have now had a total of eight blank score sheets after a goal run of 10 league/cup games. OXFORD UNITED won 1-0 at home to Blackburn Rovers and hit goal number 33. they have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. After they failed to score in their previous 3 games, PORTSMOUTH won their sixth league game 2-1 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH. Portsmouth are now on a total of 32 goals while Middlesbrough hit goal number 47.

LEAGUE ONE

Top of the table BIRMINGHAM CITY won 1-0 at home against Exeter City and are on a total of 48 goals.

In the Play-offs we have three of the four teams. In third place we still have Wrexham with HUDDERSFIELD TOWN in fourth place. They drew 2-2 away to BLACKPOOL and are on a total of 44 goals. Blackpool are on 43 goals. BARNSLEY are in fifth place and lost 3-1 away to Bristol Rovers and picked up goal number 45.

Meanwhile  PETERBOROUGH drew 0-0 at home to Leyton Orient and picked up their tenth blank of the season and now 3 games without a goal. BOLTON drew 2-2 at home to Cambridge Utd and are on a total of 43 and have now scored in all of their last 6 league games. CHARLTON lost 4-2 away to Rotherham and are on a total of 38 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

In the Play-offs we have three of the 4 teams. They are AFC WIMBLEDON in fourth place after they won 2-0 at home to Tranmere and are on a total of 44 goals. NOTTS COUNTY in fifth place won 3-0 away to Accrington and are now on a total of 52 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. DONCASTER in sixth place won 1-0 away to Gillingham and picked up goal number 42 and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games.

Meanwhile BROMLEY lost 1-0 at home to Colchester and that is their fourth blank of the season after a goal run of 6 league/cup games. CHESTERFIELD drew 1-1 away to Grimsby and are on a total of 43 goals. MK DONS lost 4-2 away to Walsall and are on a total of 38 goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the SCOTTISH CUP  4^th Round we had 7 of our teams in action. Out of them only 3 have made it throught o the next round. They are COVE RANGERS who won 2-0 at home to Forfar and are on a total of 37 goals. CELTIC won 2-1 at home to KILMARNOCK and are on a total of 83 goals. Kilmarnock after they had failed to score in their previous 2 games, hit goal number 26. RANGERS won 5-0 at home to non-league Fraserburgh to reach the next round of the cup. Rangers are on a total of 59 goals and have extended their goal run to 18 league/cup games.

Teams that went out of the cup are STENHOUSEMUIR after they lost 3-0 away to Dunfermline and have now had a total of twelve blank score sheets and now 2 in a row. ROSS COUNTY lost 3-2 after extra time against Livingston and are on a total of 35 goals. FALKIRK lost 2-1 at home to Raith Rovers after extra time and hit goal number 56.

In League Two EAST FIFE are still top after they won 2-0 away to Stranraer and are on a total of 53 goals. PETERHEAD in second place won 3-2 at home to Stirling and are on a total of 43 goals.

Our BEST three teams this week

CELTIC (83) LIVERPOOL (64) DUNDEE (61) Total of 208 goals

Our WORST three teams are

  IPSWICH TOWN (25) KILMARNOCK (26) LUTON TOWN (28) Total of 79 goals

Our best performing team this weekend are still RANGERS after they have now scored in all of their last 18 league/cup games. They have a total of 59 goals which gives them an average score of 2.5 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is now SWANSEA CITY this weekend as they have had a total of 12 blank score sheet from 30 league/cup games. They have a total of 33 goals.

Our highest goal-scoring team that we have in our 42^nd Season are MANCHESTER CITY after they won 8-0 at home to Salford City in the FA Cup Third Round in Week Twenty-Three.

GEOFF DOCKERILL our 1994/95 Champion, is celebrating his third weekend at the top after his teams picked him up a total of 12 goals from the week. Geoff’s teams are Arsenal, Celtic and Liverpool. Luke Hammond is still in second place, now 4 goals behind Geoff. Luke picked up a total of 10 goals from the week and his teams are Celtic, Chelsea and Liverpool.

At the other end at 114 we still have CHARLIE FARLEY with his tenth consecutive weekend. Charlie’s teams picked up just 3 goals from the weekend. His teams are Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir.

Well even with the best result of the weekend, it did not have any effect on our top ten this weekend.

 THIS     LAST                                                   M/WEEK    W/END       TOTAL

WEEK  WEEK     NAME                                   GOALS      GOALS      GOALS 

       1             -         G. DOCKERILL (1994/95)       52                150             202       

       2             -         L. HAMMOND                         46                152             198

       3             -         J. WEARDEN                           44                152             196

       4             -         C. STEPHENS                          48                147             195

       5            6         G. DOWSETT (2)                     49                141             190

       6            5         D. SOMERVILLE (2009/10)    49                141             190

       7            9        B. BURROUGHS                      53                137             190

       8            7        A. DAVEY                                 48                141             189

       9            8        M. GREGORY                           46               141             187

      10           11      S. DICKINSON                         50               136             186

Hearts in Next Round of Cup

In the SCOTTISH CUP 4^th Round, HEARTS are our first team through after they won 4-1 away to non-league Brechin City. Hearts have now taken their goals tally up to 29 goals. 

In League Two CLYDE lost 2-0 at home to Edinburgh City and picked up their seventh blank of the season and now 2 in a row. 

In the English Championship BURNLEY drew 0-0 at home to Sunderland and picked up their eleventh blank of the season. Burnley have remained in second place behind Leeds United.

Southampton Unlucky to Win

In the Premier League IPSWICH TOWN lost 2-0 at home against Brighton and picked up their 8^th blank of the season. MANCHESTER UNITED won 3-1 at home to bottom of the table SOUTHAMPTON after going a goal down by half time. With 3 late goals, United have taken their goals total to 42 while Southampton hit goal number 26. 

In League One it’s 40 goals goals for WREXHAM after they lost 2-1 away to Shrewsbury Town.

Arsenal in Second Place

In the Premier League in the north London derby, ARSENAL won 2-1 at home to TOTTENHAM and are on a total of 53 goals while Tottenham are on 55 goals and a goal run of 5 games. ASTON VILLA won 1-0 away to Everton and picked up goal number 36. CRYSTAL PALACE won 2-0 away to LEICESTER CITY and are on a total of 34 goals. City picked up their 6^th blank of the season. NEWCASTLE UNITED won 3-0 at home to Wolves and are now on a total of 49 goals and have now scored in all of their last 12 league/cup games. 

In the Championship PORTSMOUTH picked up their 12^th blank of the season after they lost 3-0 away to Plymouth. Portsmouth have now failed top score in all of their last 3 games. 

In the Scottish Premiership RANGERS won 3-0 at home to Aberdeen and are now on a total of 54 goals. Rangers have now scored in all of their last 17 league/cup games.

Preston Still in FA Cup

In the FA CUP 3^rd Round games, we had another 2 of our teams in action and they had to play each other. PRESTON NE will be going into the next round after they won 2-1 at home to CHARLTON. Preston are on a total of 38 goals and have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. Charlton picked up goal number 36. 

In the Premier League, top of the table LIVERPOOL drew their fifth league game 1-1 away to Nottingham Forest and are on a total of 62 goals. CHELSEA drew 2-2 at home against AFC BOURNEMOUTH and are on a total of 51 goals. Bournemouth are on 34 goals. MANCHESTER CITY day to Brentford and are on a total of 49 goals and have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. It’s 30 goals for WEST HAM as they win 3-2 at home to Fulham. 

In the Championship OXFORD UNITED drew 1-1 away to Plymouth and hit goal number 32 and now have a goal run of 6 league/cup games. 

In the Scottish Premiership, top of the table CELTIC drew their third league game, 3-3 away to DUNDEE. Celtic are now on a total of 81 goals while Dundee, are now on a total of 61 goals and a goal run of 5 league/cup games.

In League Two it’s 40 goals for PETERHEAD after they won 1-0 at home against Stranraer.

Millwall Advance in Cup

Continuing with the FA CUP 3^rd Round games, MILLWALL won 3-0 at home to non-league Dagenham and Redbridge and they are now on a total of 28 goals.

Week Twenty-Three

In Week Twenty-Three of the competition, we had our 25^th winner of the season as we had one player to win the Weekend Jackpot of £5. That went to KYLE HAMMOND who won on this season’s top score of 18 goals, which is his personal best score for this season. 

Kyle started with Golden Goals last season where he finished in 108^th place with a total of 236 goals. Kyle did pick up one shared weekend win. This season, Kyle has been as high as 61^st place back in Week Six. He has picked up a total of 3 blank weekend score sheets and Liverpool is his best team to date. Kyle’s winning teams are

                        LEICESTER CITY 6, LIVERPOOL 4, MANCHESTER CITY 8

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Over half of us managed to pick up some more goals during midweek, so the race for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot has changed slightly from last week. We still have just 3 players that are on or over the halfway mark. The highest score went to GUY DOWSETT (2) with a total of 6 goals. They came from Arsenal, Celtic and East Fife. Guy is now on a total of 44 goals.

Staying out in front this week we have ALFIE DIMMOCK still with a total of 53 goals. His teams are Arsenal, Bolton and Leeds United. In second place we now have BARBARA BARNES (2) up from three now with a total of 52 goals. In third place we have MARTIN CORBETT down from two still with a total of 51 goals. In fourth place with 49 goals we now have RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion, moves up from fifth place now with a total of 49 goals. In fifth place, all on a total of 48 goals, we have ANTHONEY POMERANTZ moves down from four, with BARRY BURROUGHS, CHRIS SETFORD and PETER WELLARD all coming back in to the race.

WEEKEND RESULTS

The weather had a big impact on our football over the weekend once again. We therefor had 19 of our teams without a game this weekend, but we had another 8 of our teams that failed to score any goals. With the FA CUP third round games, we had some really high scores. So we had a great weekend once again. The average score this weekend shot up from last week's six to 9 goals, which is the highest for this season so far. So if you have done better than that? Well done. The highest score over the weekend was 8 goals, which is our highest score of the season. They came from the FA CUP Third Third Round where MANCHESTER CITY won 8-0 at home to Salford City. Here are the rest of the weekend results.

FA CUP Third Round

We had a total of 22 of our teams in this round playing over the weekend. We had 15 that have made it through to the next round. They are BIRMINGHAM CITY after they won 2-1 at home to Lincoln City and are on a total of 47 goals, LIVERPOOL won 4-0 at home to Accrington Stanley and are now on a total of 61 goals, LEICESTER CITY won 6-2 at home to QPR. Leicester with their biggest win of the season, have now taken their goals tally to 35. CHELSEA won 5-0 at home to Morecambe and have taken their total to 49 goals. AFC BOURNEMOUTH won 5-1 at home against WBA and with their biggest result of the season, have taken their goals tally up to 32 goals. BURNLEY won 3-1 away to Reading after extra time. Burnley are now on a total of 34 goals. LEEDS UNITED won 1-0 at home to Harrogate Town and are on a total of 49 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. With their highest result of the season, MANCHESTER CITY won 8-0 at home to Salford City and have taken their goals tally to 47 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. DONCASTER ROVERS drew 1-1 after the full 90 minutes and that score remained after extra time. Doncaster then won 5-4 on penalties. Doncaster are on a total of 41. TOTTENHAM won 3-0 in extra time away to non-league Tamworth, which now takes their goals total to 54. ARSENAL drew 1-1 at home to 10 men MANCHESTER UNITED after the 90 minutes and thats how it finished after extra time. Arsenal are on a total of 51 goals while United hit goal number 39. United won 5-3 on penalties. CRYSTAL PALACE won 1-0 at home to Stockport County and picked up gaol number 32. IPSWICH TOWN won 3-0 at home to Bristol Rovers and are now on a total of 25 goals. NEWCASTLE UNITED won 3-1 at home to BROMLEY and are now on a total of 46 goals and a goal run of 11 league/cup games. Bromley are on 43 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. SOUTHAMPTON won 3-0 at home to SWANSEA CITY and are now on a total of 25 goals. Swansea picked up their eleventh blank of the season.

Other teams that went out are MIDDLESBROUGH after they lost 1-0 at home to Blackburn Rovers and picked up their eighth blank of the season. OXFORD UNITED lost 3-1 away to Exeter City. Oxford are on a total of 31 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. NORWICH CITY lost 4-0 at home to Brighton and picked up their eighth blank of the season after a goal run of 6 league/cup games. LUTON TOWN lost 2-0 away to Nottingham Forest and that is their eighth blank of the season.

LEAGUE ONE

We only managed to have 1 game played here this weekend. Birmingham City remain at the top.

In the Play-offs we have three of the four teams. In third place we still have Wrexham with Huddersfield Town in fourth place. Barnsley are in fifth place.

Meanwhile  the only game played here is where BOLTON lost 3-1 away to Rotherham and picked up goal number 41 and have now scored in all of their last 5 league games.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership, Champions CELTIC remained top after they won 4-1 away to ROSS COUNTY. Celtic have taken their goals total to 78 goals. County are on a total of 33 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. RANGERS remain in second place after they won 3-1 at home to St Johnstone. Rangers are on a total of 51 goals and have now scored in all of their last 16 league/cup games. HEARTS drew 0-0 away to Aberdeen and after scoring in all of their last 5 league/cup games, Hearts picked up their seventh blank of the season.

In the Championship, top of the table FALKIRK drew their 4^th league game 0-0 at home to Queen’s Park. After a goal run of 6 games, Falkirk picked up their fifth blank of the season.

In League One, STENHOUSEMUIR are still in second place after they drew 0-0 away to Kelty Hearts Stenhousemuir have now had a total of eleven blank score sheets.

In League Two EAST FIFE are still top after they won 3-0 at home to CLYDE. Fife are now on a total of 51 goals while Clyde picked up their sixth blank score sheet after a goal run of 7 league/cup games. PETERHEAD in second place won 1-0 away to Edinburgh City and are on a total of 39 goals.

Our BEST three teams this week

CELTIC (78) LIVERPOOL (61) DUNDEE (58) Total of 197 goals

Our WORST three teams are

  KILMARNOCK (25) MILLWALL (25) SOUTHAMPTON (25) Total of 75 goals

Our best performing team this weekend are RANGERS after they have now scored in all of their last 16 league/cup games. They have a total of 51 goals which gives them an average score of 1.9 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is now PORTSMOUTH this weekend as they have had a total of 11 blank score sheet from 26 league/cup games. They have a total of 30 goals.

Our highest goal-scoring team that we have in our 42^nd Season are MANCHESTER CITY after they won 8-0 at home to Salford City in the FA Cup 3^rd Round in Week Twenty-Three.

GEOFF DOCKERILL our 1994/95 Champion, is celebrating his second weekend at the top after his teams picked him up a total of 11 goals from the week. Geoff’s teams are Arsenal, Celtic and Liverpool. Luke Hammond has moved up to second place, just 2 goals behind Geoff. Luke picked up a total of 15 goals from the week and his teams are Celtic, Chelsea and Liverpool.

At the other end at 114 we still have CHARLIE FARLEY with his ninth consecutive weekend. Charlie’s teams picked up just 1 goal from the weekend. His teams are Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir.

The table is still settling down, but what a great weekend for goals. Here is our top ten this weekend.

  THIS    LAST                                                  M/WEEK     W/END       TOTAL

 WEEK  WEEK     NAME                                 GOALS      GOALS      GOALS 

        1             -         G. DOCKERILL (1994/95)    46                 144             190      

        2             4        L. HAMMOND                       40                148             188

        3             2        J. WEARDEN                          40                148            188

        4             3        C. STEPHENS                         44                142            186

        5             6        D. SOMERVILLE (2009/10)   45                137            182

        6             15      G. DOWSETT (2)                    44                135            179

        7             13      A. DAVEY                               41                137            178

        8             5        M. GREGORY                         41                137            178

        9             7        B. BURROUGHS                    48                130            178

                10           8        A. WELLARD                          42                134           176