Another Win For West Ham

In the Premier League WEST HAM won their 9^th league game of the season as they win 2-0 at home against LEICESTER CITY. West Ham are on a total of 35 goals while Leicester have now won just 1 game in their last 6 league games and picked up their 11^th blank of the season. Leicester have now failed to score any goals in their last 3 games.

Liverpool Extend Their Lead

In the Premier League top of the table LIVERPOOL won 2-0 at home to NEWCASTLE UNITED and are on a total of 84 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. Newcastle picked up their 5^th blank of the season. ARSENAL in second place drew 0-0 away to Wolves and picked up their 7^th blank of the season and now 2 games without a goal. MANCHESTER CITY won 1-0 away to TOTTENHAM and picked up goal number 66. Tottenham picked up their 6^th blank of the season. 10 men MANCHESTER UNITED won 3-2 at home to IPSWICH TOWN and are now on a total of 51 goals. Ipswich are on a total of 35 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. 

In the Scottish Premiership, second placed RANGERS won 4-2 away to KILMARNOCK and have taken their goals tally to 73, while Kilmarnock are on a total of 34 goals. DUNDEE lost 2-1 away to Motherwell and are on a total of 69 goals. ROSS COUNTY picked up their 12^th blank of the season after they lost 1-0 away to St Johnstone. HEARTS won 3-1 at home to St Mirren and are now on a total of 45 goals and have extended their goal run to 7 league/cup games.

Here is a look at our 10 top teams this season. The numbers in red after the teams name, in brackets, are their best end of season score with Golden Goals. 

106 CELTIC (143)

84 LIVERPOOL (127)

73 RANGERS (126)

72 LEEDS UNITED (97)

69 DUNDEE (65)

68 FALKIRK (108)

66 MANCHESTER CITY (137)

66 TOTTENHAM (109)

63 NEWCASTLE UNITED (105)

63 CHELSEA (128)

Celtic Could Break Goals Record

In the Premier League AFC BOURNEMOUTH lost 2-1 away to Brighton and picked up goal number 49. CRYSTAL PALACE won 4-1 at home to ASTON VILLA and have taken their goals total to 48 and they have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games. Villa are on 47 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. CHELSEA won 4-0 at home to bottom of the table SOUTHAMPTON. Chelsea have taken their goals tally up to 63 while Southampton picked up their 13th blank of the season and now 2 in a row. 

In the Championship MIDDLESBROUGH won 3-1 away to Stoke City and are now on a total of 57 goals. 

In League One top of the table BIRMINGHAM CITY won 2-0 at home to Leyton Orient and are on a total of 61 goals. BARNSLEY won 2-1 away to Northampton Town and are on a total of 49 goals. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN lost 2-1 away to Wigan and picked up their 50th goal of the season. 

In League Two BROMLEY lost 1-0 at home to Bradford City and that is their 7th blank of the season. 

Scottish Premiership, Champions CELTIC won 5-1 at home to Aberdeen and have taken their goals tally to 106. they have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games.

Leeds Take Control

In the Championship it was the clash of the giants as 2^nd place SHEFFIELD UNITED took on leaders LEEDS UNITED at home. After Sheffield went a goal up at half time, Leeds came back to win 3-1. Sheffield are on a total of 52 goals and have extended their goal run to 5 games. Leeds have taken their goals tally to 72.

Week Twenty Nine

In Week Twenty-Nine of the competition, we had another £5 Weekend Jackpot and we had just the one winner who picked up his second win of the season MALCOLM STUBBS. 

Malcolm won on a score of 8 goals and he last won the cash back in Week Twenty-Five on his best score of 11 goals. His best position this season is still 69th place in Week Six. His best team is still Manchester City. Malcolm's winning teams are.  

                 MANCHESTER CITY 0, NEWCASTLE UNITED 4, NORWICH CITY 4

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Most of us managed to pick up some more goals during midweek once again, so the race for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot has changed again from last week. The highest score this week went to SARAH MARSHALL with a total of 6 goals. They came from Aston Villa, Burnley and Celtic. Sarah is now on a total of 58 midweek goals.

We have new leaders this week with RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion remaining there with MARTIN CORBETT up from three. Both are now with a total of 72 goals. In second place we still have JAMES BLYTH on a total of 71 goals. In third place we now have BARBARA BARNES (2), BARRY BURROUGHS and ALFIE DIMMOCK all moving up from four. All now with a total of 69 goals. In fourth place we have up from fifth place, CARLA STEPHENS on a total of 67 goals. In fifth place we have GRANT PHILLIPS down from six on a total of 67goals. We then have five players all on a total of 66 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had just 6 of our teams with out a game this weekend and we had another 15 teams that failed to score any goals. We then had a very bad weekend from our teams with their results. We had a total of 17 players that failed to pick up any goals from their teams at the weekend. The average score therefore went down from six goals of last weekend to just 2 goals this weekend. So if you have done better than that? Well done. The highest score over the weekend was 4 goals, and they we had 3 teams that picked up that score. They came the Premier League NEWCASTLE UNITED and TOTTENHAM and from the Championship NORWICH CITY. Here are the rest of the weekend results.

PREMIER LEAGUE

Top of the table LIVERPOOL now have a 11 points lead after they won 2-0 away to MANCHESTER CITY. Liverpool are on a total of 82 goals. City after a goal run of 14 league/cup games, picked up their 3rd blank of the season. ARSENAL are still in 2dn place after they lost 1-0 at home to London rivals WEST HAM UNITED. Arsenal have picked up their 6th blank of the season as West Ham picked up their 33rd goal of the season. AFC BOURNEMOUTH lost 1-0 at home to Wolves and picked up their 7th blank score sheet. CRYSTAL PALACE won 2-0 away to Fulham and are on a total of 44 goals and have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. IPSWICH TOWN lost 4-1 at home to TOTTENHAM and are on a total of 33 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. Tottenham have taken their goals total to 66. MANCHESTER UNITED drew 2-2 away to Everton and are on a total of 48 goals. Bottom of the table SOUTHAMPTON lost 4-0 at home to Brighton and that is their 12th blank of the season. ASTON VILLA won 2-1 at home against CHELSEA and are on a total of 46 goals. Chelsea hit goal number 59. NEWCASTLE won 4-3 at home to Nottingham Forest and have taken their goals tally up to 63.

CHAMPIONSHIP

Leeds United are back on top with Sheffield United down to 2nd place. Both teams had no game over the weekend.

In the Play-offs we still have just one of the 4 teams and they are Burnley sill in 3rd place.

Meanwhile MILLWALL won 1-0 away to Derby County and are on a total of 40 goals and have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. PRESTON NE lost 2-1 away to Coventry City and are on a total of 46 goals. NORWICH CITY won 4-2 at home to Stoke City and are on a total of 59 goals. PORTSMOUTH won 2-1 at home to QPR and are on a total of 43 goals. It’s 40 goals for SWANSEA CITY after they won 3-0 at home to Blackburn Rovers. OXFORD UNITED lost 2-0 away to WBA and picked up their 12th blank of the season and have now failed to score in all of their last 4 games. LUTON TOWN lost 2-0 away to Watford and picked up their 13th blank of the season.

LEAGUE ONE

BIRMINGHAM CITY remain top of the table this week after they drew 0-0 away to Reading and picked up their 4th blank of the season after a goal run of 10 league/cup games.

In the Play-offs we still have two of the 4 teams. In 3rd place we still have WREXHAM who have now scored a total of 50 goals after they won 2-1 away to Mansfield town. Wrexham have extended their goal run to 17 league/cup games. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN are still in 5th place after they lost1-0 at home to PETERBOROUGH UNITED. Huddersfield picked up their 9th blank of the season while Borough hit goal number 56 and have extended their goal run to 7 league/cup games.

Meanwhile  BARNSLEY won 1-0 away to Rotherham Utd and are on a total of 49 goals.  BLACKPOOL won 3-1 at home to Crawley Town and are now on a total of 57 goals. BOLTON won 2-1 at home to Leyton Orient and are on a total of 57 goals. CHARLTON won 3-0 at home to Exeter City and are now on a total of 52 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

The highest team that we have are DONCASTER ROVERS who have moved back up to 2place after they won 2-1 away to Accrington. Rovers are on a total of 54 goals. AFC WIMBLEDON are 2nd down to 3rd place after they drew 1-1 away to Colchester Utd and picked up their 51st goal of the season.

In the Play-offs we have just one of the 4 teams. They are NOTTS COUNTY still in 4th place, as they win 2-1 at home to Tranmere Rovers. County are on a total of 61 goals.

Meanwhile  MK DONS lost 2-0 away to Bradford City and picked up their 12th blank of the season. BROMLEY won 2-0 at home to Harrogate Town and are on a total of 51 goals. CHESTERFIELD lost 1-0 away to Swindon Town and picked up their 8th blank of the season.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership Champions CELTIC lost their second league game 2-1 away to Hibernian. They are on a total of 101 goals and have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. RANGERS in 2nd place lost 2-0 at home to St Mirren and picked up their 5th blank of the season. KILMARNOCK lost 1-0 away to Aberdeen and picked up their 11th blank of the season. ROSS COUNTY won 3-1 at home to DUNDEE and are now on a total of 42 goals. while Dundee hit goal number 68. HEARTS won 2-1 away to St Johnstone and are on a total of 42 goals and have extended their goal run to 6 league/cup games.

In League One COVE RANGERS move to the top of the table after they won 2-1 at home to Dumbarton. Rangers are on a total of 47 goals. STENHOUSEMUIR in 2nd place won 2-0 at home against Arbroath and are on a total of 46 goals.

In League Two EAST FIFE are still top after they drew again 0-0 at home to PETERHEAD in 2nd place. Fife picked up their 6th blank of the season while Peterhead picked up their 9th blank score sheet. CLYDE lost 2-0 at home to the Spartans and have now had a total of 9 blank score sheets.

Our BEST three teams this week

CELTIC (101) LIVERPOOL (82) LEEDS UNITED (69) Total of 252 goals

Our WORST three teams are

  LUTON TOWN (32) SOUTHAMPTON (32) KILMARNOCK (32) Total of 96 goals

Our best performing team this weekend are now WREXHAM after they have now scored in all of their last 17 league/cup games. They have a total of 50 goals which gives them an average score of 1.4 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is now BURNLEY this weekend as they have had a total of 14 blank score sheet from 36 league/cup games. They have a total of 47 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 8th weekend at the top after his teams picked him up a total of 5 goals from the week. Geoff’s teams are Arsenal, Celtic and Liverpool. Luke Hammond has moved back to second place, 4 goals behind Geoff. Luke picked up a total of 6 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 15th consecutive weekend. Charlie’s teams picked up 5 goals again, all from the weekend. His teams are Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir.

Here is how our top ten is looking after a very disappointing weekend

 THIS     LAST                                                 M/WEEK     W/END       TOTAL

WEEK  WEEK     NAME                                 GOALS      GOALS      GOALS 

       1             -        G. DOCKERILL (1994/95)     66                 180              246      

       2             3       L. HAMMOND                        65                177              242 

       3             2       C. STEPHENS                         68                 174              242

       4             -        J. WEARDEN                          61                 178              239

       5            6        D. SOMERVILLE (2009/10)   66                 168              234

       6            5        B. BURROUGHS                    69                 164              233

       7            10      S. STUBBS (2)                        66                 163              229

       8            7        J. BLYTH                                 71                158              229

       9           11       R. WOOD (2007/08)*              72                155              227

      10          15       J. FILTNESS (2023/24)*          59               167              226

Leicester 1 Win in 6 League Gmes

In the Premier League LEICESTER CITY lost 4-0 at home to Brentford and picked up their 10^th blank of the season. City have now failed to score in their last 2 legaue games. 

In the Championship, MIDDLESBROUGH lost 2-1 away to Bristol City and are on a total of 54 goals. BURNLEY won 4-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday and have taken their goals tally to 47.

In the Scottish Championship, top of the table FALKIRK won 2-0 away to Greenock Morton and are on a total of 68 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 6 league games.

Another draw for Liverpool

In the Premier League top of the table LIVERPOOL drew their 7th league game 2-2 away to ASTON VILLA. Liverpool  are on a total of 80 goals while Villa are on 42. 

In the Championship bottom of the table LUTON TOWN, after they had failed to score in their previous 2 games, drew 1-1 at home to Plymouth and are now on a total of 32 goals.

All but one team scored

In the Championship PRESTON NE drew 1-1 at home to MILLWALL and are on a total of 45 goals. Millwall are on 39 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. 

In League One WREXHAM lost 2-1 at home to Leyton Orient and picked up goal number 48 and they have now scored in all of their last 16 league/cup games. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN won 1-0 away to Shrewsbury Town and are on a total of 49 goals. 

In League Two AFC WIMBLEDON in 2nd place, drew 0-0 away to Fleetwood Town and picked up their 11th blank of the season. DONCASTER ROVERS in 3rd place won 1-0 away to Morecambe. NOTTS COUNTY in 4th place drew 1-1 at home to Colchester United and are on a total of 59 goals.

Lucky Leeds

In the Championship LEEDS UNITED have moved back to the top on goal difference, after they won 2-1 at home against Sunderland with 2 very late goals. Leeds are on a total of 69 goals.

Here is a look at our 10 top teams this season. The numbers in red after the teams name in brackets are their best end of season score with Golden Goals. 

100 CELTIC (143)

78 LIVERPOOL (127)

69 RANGERS (126)

69 LEEDS UNITED (97)

67 DUNDEE (65)

66 FALKIRK (108)

65 MANCHESTER CITY (137)

63 ARSENAL (103)

62 TOTTENHAM (109)

59 BIRMINGHAM CITY (95)

Week Twenty-Eight

In Week Twenty-Eight of the competition, we had another £5 Weekend Jackpot but we had 3 winners which means that they won £1.66 each. This weekends winners are MICK LIDDLE, LUCIFER (John Wood) and our 2016/176 Champion JOHN WOOD. All won on a score of 9 goals, That now means that we have had a total of 30 winners this season.

Mick picks up his second win of the season as he won some cash back in Week Five. His highest position is still 39th in Week Six. Since Christmas he has started to pick upo the goals from his seletion. His best team is Liverpool.

John wins twice this weekend first as a Champion and then with Lucifer. John started with Golden Goals back in the 1997/98 season and finished in 87th place with a total of 209 goals, he picked up a shared weekend win. John became Champion in the 2016/17 winning on a score of 344 goals. That currently finds him in 3rd place in our Champions league. Last season John finished in 46th place with 297 goals. His other combination, Lucifer finished in 60th place with 291 goals. You might not know that John has 4 combinations in the comoetition for the last few season’s. John this season has been as high as 44th place in Week Nine. He has picked up just 3 blank weekend score sheets. Our winners teams are.

                  Mike  COVE RANGERS 3, LIVERPOOL 2, MANCHESTER CITY 4

                      Lucifer  BOLTON 3, LIVERPOOL 2, MANCHESTER CITY 4

                           John  ARSENAL 2, BOLTON 3, MANCHESTER CITY 4

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Most of us managed to pick up some more goals during midweek, so the race for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot has changed again from last week. We had another 7 players that have now reached the half-way mark which now brings our total to 72 players that have hit the 50 mark. The highest score this week went to MIKE HARRINGTON our 1997/98 Champion with a total of 10 goals. They came from Birmingham City, Charlton and Leeds United.

We have a new leader this week with RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion moving up from second place, now with a total of 70 goals. In second place we have JAMES BLYTH up from five on a total of 69 goals. In third place up from four we have MARTIN CORBETT now with a total of 68 goals. In fourth place we have BARRY BURROUGHS and ALFIE DIMMOCK down from third place, but joining  them, we have last weeks leader BARBARA BARNES (2) also we have . All now on a total of 67 goals. In fifth place we have PETER WELLARD down from two and joining the race CARLA STEPHENS, both on a total of 66 goals. In sixth place we have GRANT PHILLIPS down from five on a total of 65 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had just 4 of our teams without a game this weekend and we had another 10 teams that failed to score any goals. We had a couple of good results from our top teams this weekend. The average score went up from four goals of last weekend to 6 goals this weekend. So if you have done better than that? Well done. The highest score over the weekend was 4 goals, and they came the Premier League where MANCHESTER CITY won 4-0 at home to NEWCASTLE UNITED. City have taken their goals tally to 65 goals and have now scored in all of their last 14 league/cup games. Newcastle after a goal run of 17 league/cup games, picked up their 4th blank of the season. Here are the rest of the weekend results.

PREMIER LEAGUE

Top of the table LIVERPOOL are now 7 points clear after they won 2-1 at home to Wolves. Liverpool are on a total of 78 goals. ARSENAL are still in 2nd place after they won 2-0 away to LEICESTER CITY and are on a total of 63 goals. Leicester picked up their 9th blank of the season. ASTON VILLA drew 1-1 at home to IPSWICH TOWN and are on a total of 42 goals. Ipswich hit goal number 32. AFC BOURNEMOUTH won 3-1 away to bottom of the table SOUTHAMPTON and are now on a total of 48 goals. Southampton are on 32 goals. WEST HAM UNITED lost 1-0 away to Brentford and picked up their 6blank of the season. CRYSTAL PALACE lost 2-1 at home to Everton and are on a total of 42 goals and th have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. TOTTENHAM won 1-0 at home against MANCHESTER UNITED and are on a total of 62 goals. United picked up their 10th blank of the season.

CHAMPIONSHIP

SHEFFIELD UNITED are now top of the table after they won 1-0 away to LUTON TOWN. United are on a total of 51 goals while Luton, picked up their 12th blank of the season and now 2 in a row and they are bottom of the table. Leeds United drop down to second place with a game in hand.

In the Play-offs we still have just one of the 4 teams and they are BURNLEY in 3rd place. They drew 0-0 away to PRESTON NE. Burnley picked up their 14th blank of the season while Preston picked up their 10th.

Meanwhile PORTSMOUTH won 2-0 away to OXFORD UNITED and are on a total of 41 goals. Oxford picked up their 11th blank score sheet and now 3 games without a goal. NORWICH CITY drew 1-1 away to Hull City and are on a total of 55 goals. MIDDLESBROUGH picked up their 9th blank of the season after a goal run of 5 games, as they lost 1-0 at home to Watford. MILLWALL drew 1-1 at home top WBA and are on a total of 38 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. SWANSEA CITY lost 3-1 away to Stoke City and are on a total of 37 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

BIRMINGHAM CITY remain top of the table this week after they won 1-0 at home to CHARLTON. City are on a total of 59 goals and a goal run of 10 league/cup games. Charlton after a goal run of 8 league/cup games, picked up their 8th blank of the season.

In the Play-offs we now have two of the 4 teams. In 3rd place we still have WREXHAM who won 2-0 away to Northampton Town. Wrexham are on 47 goals and have extended their goal run to 15 league/cup games. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN are still in 5th place after they won 2-1 away to BARNSLEY. Huddersfield are on a total of 48 goals while Barnsley also hit goal number 48. 

Meanwhile  BLACKPOOL drew 3-3 at home to Mansfield Town and are now on a total of 54 goals. BOLTON won 3-2 away to Shrewsbury Town and are now on a total of 55 goals. PETERBOROUGH drew 1-1 away to Stevenage and picked up gaol number 55. They have now scored in al of their last 6 games.

LEAGUE TWO

The highest team that we have are AFC WIMBLEDON who have moved up to 2nd place after they won 1-0 at home to Salford City. Wimbledon are on a total of 50 goals.

In the Play-offs we have two of the 4 teams. They are Notts County are down to 4th place while DONCASTER ROVERS are down to 6th place after they lost 2-1 at home to Grimsby Town and are on a total of 51 goals.

Meanwhile  BROMLEY won 1-0 at home to Fleetwood Town and are on a total of 49 goals. MK DONS drew 1-1 away to Tranmere Rovers and are on a total of 44 goals. CHESTERFIELD lost 3-1 away to Walsall and are on a total of 53 goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership Champions CELTIC won 3-0 at home to Dundee Utd and they become our first team to hit 100 goals this season. They have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. RANGERS in 2nd  place won 3-1 away to HEARTS. Rangers are now on a total of 69 goals while Hearts pick up goal number 40 and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. DUNDEE lost 2-1 at home to Aberdeen and picked up goal number 67. KILMARNOCK won 3-1 at home to St Johnstone and are now on a total of 32 goals. ROSS COUNTY won 3-0 away to Motherwell and are now on a total of 39 goals.

In the Championship, top of the table FALKIRK drew 2-2 at home to second place Ayr Utd and are on a total of 66 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games.

In League One COVE RANGERS are now in 2nd place after they won 3-1 at home to Annan. Rangers are on a total of 47 goals.

In League Two EAST FIFE are still top after they drew 1-1 at home to Bonnyrige Rose and they are on a total of  59 goals PETERHEAD remained in second place after they drew 2-2 at home to CLYDE. Peterhead are on a total to 51 goals while Clyde are on 40 goals.

Our BEST three teams this week

CELTIC (100) LIVERPOOL (78) RANGERS (69) Total of 247 goals

Our WORST three teams are

  LUTON TOWN (31) WEST HAM (32) SOUTHAMPTON (32) Total of 95 goals

Our best performing team this weekend are now MANCHESTER CITY after they have now scored in all of their last 14 league/cup games. They have a total of 65 goals which gives them an average score of 2.2 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is now BURNLEY this weekend as they have had a total of 14 blank score sheet from 36 league/cup games. They have a total of 43 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 7th weekend at the top after his teams picked him up a total of 9 goals from the week. Geoff’s teams are Arsenal, Celtic and Liverpool. Carla Stephens has moved up to second place now, just 4 goals behind Geoff. Carla picked up a total of 12 goals from the week and her teams are Birmingham City, Celtic and Liverpool.

At the other end at 114 we still have CHARLIE FARLEY with his 14th consecutive weekend. Charlie’s teams picked up just 2 goals again all from the weekend. His teams are Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir.

Here are our top ten for this weekend.

  THIS    LAST                                                M/WEEK     W/END      TOTAL

WEEK  WEEK      NAME                               GOALS      GOALS      GOALS 

       1             -         G. DOCKERILL (1994/95)    64               177              241      

       2            3         C. STEPHENS                        66               171              237

       3            2          L. HAMMOND                      63              173              236

      4             -          J. WEARDEN                         59              174              233

      5             -          B. BURROUGHS                   67              163              230

      6             -          D. SOMERVILLE (2009/10)  64              163              227

      7            10        J. BLYTH                                69              157              226

      8            12       S. DICKINSON                       62              160              222

      9            11       A. WELLARD                         62              160              222

      10          9         S. STUBBS (2)                        64              158              222

No Goals For Chelsea

In the Premier League CHELSEA in 4th place, lost their 6th league game 3-0 away to Brighton. Chelsea picked up their 5th blank of the season after a goal run of 7 league/cup games and have now won just 2 of their last 6 league games.   

Here is a look at our 10 top teams this season. The numbers in red after the teams name, in brackets, are their best end of season score with Golden Goals. 

97 CELTIC (143)

76 LIVERPOOL (127)

67 LEEDS UNITED (97)

66 RANGERS (126)

66 DUNDEE (65)

64 FALKIRK (108)

61 MANCHESTER CITY (137)

61 ARSENAL (103)

61 TOTTENHAM (109)

59 NEWCASTLE UNITED (105)

County Lose Ground on Leaders

In League Two second place NOTTS COUNTY lost 1-0 away to Port Vale, and picked up their 7th blank of the season after a goal run of 10 league/cup games.

 

Liverpool Derby Draw

In the Premier League LIVERPOOL drew 2-2 away to Everton in this Merseyside derby and are on a total of 76 goals. 

In the Championship second place SHEFFIELD UNITED won 3-1 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH and are on a total of 50 goals. Middlesbrough are on 53 goals. BURNLEY won 2-0 at home to Hull City and are on a total of 43 goals. MILLWALL lost 5-1 away to Plymouth and are on a total of 37 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. LUTON TOWN lost 2-0 away to Sunderland and picked up their 11^th blank of the season. SWANSEA CITY lost 1-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday and they have now had a total of 14 blank score sheets.

Leeds and Birmingham Still Top

In the Championship top of the table LEEDS UNITED won 4-0 away to Watford and have taken their goals tally to 67. OXFORD UNITED picked up their 10^th blank of the season and now 2 in a row after they drew 0-0 away to Derby County. PORTSMOUTH won 2-1 at home to Cardiff City and are on a total of 39 goals. PRESTON NE won 1-0 away to NORWICH CITY and are on a total of 44 goals. Norwich picked up their 11^th blank of the season. 

In League One top of the table BIRMINGHAM CITY won 4-0 at home to Cambridge United and have taken their goals tally up to 58. Birmingham have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. BLACKPOOL drew 0-0 at home to Rotherham United and picked up their 8^th blank of the season after a goal run of 7 league/cup games. CHARLTON won 2-1 at home to PETERBOROUGH UNITED and are on a total of 49 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. Peterborough picked up their 54^th goal of the season and have now scored 5 goals in their last 5 games. 

In League Two AFC WIMBLEDON won 3-0 at home to Crewe and are now on a total of 49 goals. MK DONS lost 2-1 away to Barrow and are on a total of 43 goals. 

Scottish League One COVE RANGERS drew 1-1 at home to Montrose and picked up goal number 44. 

Domestic Cup Action

In our last game of the FA CUP 4^th Round, CRYSTAL PALACE won 2-0 away to DONCASTER ROVERS and are on a total of 41 goals. Rovers picked up their 8^th blank of the season after a goal run of 9 league/cup games. 

In the SCOTTISH CUP 5^th Round, HEARTS drew 1-1 against St Mirren away after the full 90 minutes. That score remained the same even after extra time . Hearts went on to win  4-2 on penalties. Hearts are on a total of 39 goals.

Week Twenty-Seven

In Week Twenty-Seven of the competition, we had another £5 Weekend Jackpot. This weekends winner was PETER WELLARD winning on a score of 12 goals, which is his personal best score. Peter becomes our 29th winner of the season. 

Peter started with Golden Goals back in the 2004/05 and finished in 57th place with a total of 261 goals. He picked up 2 shared weekend wins. Last season Peter finished in 55th place with 293 goals and again he picked up 2 shared weekend wins. This season he has been as high as 20th place in Week One. He has picked up 3 blank weekend score sheets and Celtic are his best team. Here are his winners teams. 

                                              BOLTON 4, CELTIC 5, NEWCASTLE 3

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Most of us managed to pick up some more goals during midweek, so the race for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot has changed again from last week. We had another 30 players that have now reached the half-way mark which now brings our total to 65 players that have hit the 50 mark. The highest score this week went to GRANT PHILLIPS and DAVE SOMERVILLE with a total of 13 goals each.

Leading the race this week we have BARBARA BARNES (2) back in front moving up from two, now with a total of 67 goals. In second place both up from three we have PETER WELLARD and RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion, both with a total of 66 goals. In third place wenow have last weeks leader ALFIE DIMMOCK with CHRIS SETFORD up from four and BARRY BURROUGHS all now on a total of 63 goals. In fourth place all with a total of 62 goals we now have MARTIN CORBETT up from five and coming back into the race we have GEOFF DOCKERILL our 1994/95 Champion, with BRUCE SELF and DAVE SOMERVILLE our 2009/10 Champion. In fifth place we now have JAMES BLYTH, LUKE HAMMOND and GRANT PHILLIPS, all on a total of 61 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had 15 of our teams without a game this weekend and we had another 9 teams that failed to score any goals. We had some bad scores this weekend on the whole, with some of our top teams picking up blank score sheets. The average score down from seven goals 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 they came from two of our teams. They were from the Scottish Premiership from CELTIC and from the Scottish Championship FALKIRK. Here are the rest of the weekend results.

FA CUP FOURTH Round

We had a total of 14 of our teams in cup action and out of them 8 have made it through to the next round. They are MILLWALL who won 2-0 away to LEEDS UNITED and are on a total of 36 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. Leeds picked up their 8th blank of the season. MANCHESTER CITY won 2-1 away to Leyton Orient and are on a total of 61 goals and have now scored in all of their 13 league/cup games. IPSWICH TOWN picked up their biggest result of the season as they win 4-1 away to Coventry City. Ipswich have taken their goals tally to 31. AFC BOURNEMOUTH won 2-0 away to Everton and are on a total of 45 goals. PRESTON NE drew 0-0 after extra time and then won 4-2 on penalties. Preston picked up their 9th blank of the season. BURNLEY won 1-0 away to SOUTHAMPTON and are on a total of 41 goals. Southampton after a goal run of 5 league/cup games, picked up their 11th blank of the season. NEWCASTLE won 3-2 away to BIRMINGHAM CITY and are now on a total of 59 goals and have now scored in all of their last 17 league/cup games. Birmingham are on a total of 54 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. ASTON VILLA won 2-1 at home to TOTTENHAM and are on a total of 41 goals. Tottenham are now on a total of 61 goals. Other teams that went out are LIVERPOOL with the biggest shock of the 4th round games as they lost 1-0 away to Plymouth. Liverpool after a goal run of 6 league/cup games, picked up their 3rd blank of the season. CHELSEA who lost 2-1 away to Brighton and are on a total of 58 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games.

CHAMPIONSHIP

Leeds United are top of the table with SHEFFIELD UNITED are still in 2nd place after they won 2-1 at home to PORTSMOUTH. United are on a total of 47 goals while Portsmouth, after they had failed to score in their previous 2 games, picked up goal number 37.

In the Play-offs we still have just one of the 4 teams and they are Burnley in 3rd place.

Meanwhile NORWICH CITY drew 1-1 at home to Derby County and are on a total of 54 goals. SWANSEA CITY won 1-0 away to Bristol City and they are on a total of 36 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

Birmingham City remain top of the table this week.

In the Play-offs we now have three of the 4 teams. In 3rd place we still have Wrexham with HUDDERSFIELD TOWN down to 5th place after they drew 0-0 at home to Reading and that is their 8th blank of the season. CHARLTON have moved up to 6th place after they won 2-0 at home to Stevenage. Charlton are on a total of 47 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games.

Meanwhile  BARNSLEY lost 2-1 away to Stockport County and picked up their 47th goal of the season. BOLTON won 4-3 at home to Crawley Town and have taken their goals total to 52. BLACKPOOL drew 1-1 away to Burton and are on a total of 51 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games.

LEAGUE TWO

The highest team that we have are NOTTS COUNTY who have moved up to 2nd place after they won 2-0 at home to Morecambe. County are now on a total of 58 goals and have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. Doncaster Rovers drop down to 3rd place.

In the Play-offs we have just one of the 4 teams. They are AFC WIMBLEDON down to 5th place after they drew 0-0 away to Accrington. That is Wimbledon’s 10th blank of the season. 

Meanwhile  BROMLEY won 1-0 away to MK DONS and picked up their 48th goal of the season. The Dons picked up their 11th blank of the season.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

SCOTTISH CUP FIFTH Round

we had just 4 of our teams in cup action and out of them 2 have made it through to the next round. They are DUNDEE who after they had failed to score in their last 2 league games, won 4-0 at home to Airdrie. Dundee have taken their goals total to 66 goals. CELTIC won 5-0 at home to Raith Rovers and are now on a total of 97 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. The teams that went out are RANGERS go out of the cup after they lost 1-0 at home to Queen’s Park. After a goal run of 19 league/cup games, Rangers have now had a total of four blank score sheets. COVE RANGERS are out of the cup after they lost 3-0 away to Livingston and they picked up their 6th blank of the season.

In the Championship, top of the table FALKIRK won 5-2 at home to Partick and have taken their goals tally up to 64.

In League One STENHOUSEMUIR are still top after they won 2-1 at home to Queen of the South. Stenhousemuir are on a total of 44 goals.

In League Two EAST FIFE are still top after they won 1-0 away to The Spartans and they have picked up their 58th goal of the season. PETERHEAD remained in second place after they won 4-3 away to Bonnyrigg Rose. Peterhead have taken their goals total to 49 goals. CLYDE won 2-0 at home to Stranraer and are on a total of  38 goals.

Our BEST three teams this week

CELTIC (97) LIVERPOOL (74) RANGERS (66) Total of 237 goals

Our WORST three teams are

  KILMARNOCK (29) LUTON TOWN (31) IPSWICH TOWN (31) Total of 91 goals

Our best performing team this weekend are now NEWCASTLE UNITED after they have now scored in all of their last 17 league/cup games. They have a total of 59 goals which gives them an average score of 1.8 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is now PORTSMOUTH this weekend as they have had a total of 14 blank score sheet from 33 league/cup games. They have a total of 37 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 6th weekend at the top after his teams picked him up a total of 15 goals from the week. Geoff’s teams are Arsenal, Celtic and Liverpool. Luke Hammond is still in second place, now just 3 goals behind Geoff. Luke picked up a total of 18 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 13th consecutive weekend. Charlie’s teams picked up just 2 goals again all from the weekend. His teams are Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir.

Here is our top ten again this week and once again, just a slight change in the table.

 THIS     LAST                                                 M/WEEK     W/END      TOTAL

WEEK  WEEK      NAME                                GOALS      GOALS      GOALS 

       1             -         G. DOCKERILL (1994/95)    62                 170             232       

       2             -         L. HAMMOND                      61                 168             229

       3             4        C. STEPHENS                       60                  165             225

      4              3        J. WEARDEN                        56                  168             224

      5             -         B. BURROUGHS                   63                  158            221

     6             9         D. SOMERVILLE (2009/10)  62                  157            219

     7             -          A. DAVEY                              59                  157            216

     8             6         G. DOWSETT (2)                   55                 160             215

     9             11       S. STUBBS (2)                       60                  154            214

     10           13       J. BLYTH                                61                 153            214