In Week Thirty-One of the competition, we had another £5 Weekend Jackpot which had to be shared between MICHAEL JACOBSEN and SARAH MARSHALL. Both winning on a score of 7 goals. Both are first time winners this season, which now takes our winners total up to 33.
Michael started with Golden Goals back in our 2019/20 Season on where he finished in 68th place with a total of 273 goals. Last season, Michael finished in 57th place on a total of 293 goals. He did pick up one weekend win. This season he has been as high as 5th place in Week Two. He has collected a total of 3 blank weekend score sheets to date. Celtic is his best team.
Sarah started with us back in the 2016/17 Season and finished in 39th place with a total of 304 goals. Last season she finished in 49th place with 296 goals. This season, Sarah has been as high as 6th place in Week Two and has picked up 3 blank weekend score sheets to date. Celtic is also her best team. Our winners teams are.
Michael ARSENAL 1, BURNLEY 4, CELTIC 2
Sarah ASTON VILLA 1, BURNLEY 4, CELTIC 2
100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
Over half of us managed to pick up some more goals during midweek again, so the race for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot has changed again from last week. We have a new leader again this week with RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion, moving back to the top, now with a total of 83 goals. Ricky has Bolton, Celtic and Leeds United. In second place we now have last weeks leader JAMES BLYTH now on a total of 82 goals. Staying in third place we have BARBARA BARNES (2) with a total of 80 goals. In fourth place we have CARLA STEPHENS moving down from three now on a total of 78 goals. In fifth place we now have BARRY BURROUGHS and MARTIN CORBETT down from three both on a total of 77 goals. In sixth place down from four we now have LUKE HAMMOND on a total of 76 goals.
WEEKEND RESULTS
We had 9 of our teams without a game this weekend and we had another 12 teams that failed to score any goals. We then had another very poor weekend from our teams with their results. It is no wonder then that the average score went down from four goals of last weekend to just 3 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 Championship where BURNLEY won 4-0 at home to LUTON TOWN. Burnley are now on a total of 55 goals.
Burnley became our 75th voted English team back in the 1989/90 Season. In their first season they finished on a total of 61 goals. Their biggest score came in the 2022/23, which was their last season with us. They finished on a total of 98 goals. This is their 14th season with Golden Goals and over the years they have scored a total of 1006 goals. This gives them an average of 71.8 goals per season to date. This season they have a total of 8 votes and they have picked up a total of 15 blank score sheets. Here are the rest of the weekend results.
PREMIER LEAGUE
Top of the table LIVERPOOL won 3-1 at home to bottom of the table SOUTHAMPTON and are now on a total of 87 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. Southampton picked up goal number 33 after they had failed to score in their last 2 league games. ARSENAL are in 2nd place still as they drew 1-1 away to MANCHESTER UNITED. Arsenal after they had failed to score in their last 2 games, hit goal number 64. United are on a total of 53 goals. CHELSEA are in 4th place after they won 1-0 at home to LEICESTER CITY. Chelsea are on a total of 64 goals while Leicester picked up their 12th blank of the season and have now failed to score in their last 4 games. MANCHESTER CITY lost 1-0 away to Nottingham Forest and picked up their 4th blank of the season. CRYSTAL PALACE won 1-0 at home to IPSWICH TOWN and hit goal number 52 and have now scored in all of their last 13 league/cup games. Ipswich after a goal run of 7 league/cup games, picked up their 10th blank of the season. It’s 50 goals for ASTON VILLA after they won 1-0 away to Brentford. Villa have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. TOTTENHAM drew 2-2 at home to AFC BOURNEMOUTH and are on a total of 68 goals. Bournemouth are on a total of 52 goals.
CHAMPIONSHIP
LEEDS UNITED are still on top, but on goal difference, after they lost 1-0 away to PORTSMOUTH. As Leeds pick up their 9th blank of the season. Portsmouth are on a total of 44 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED are still in 2nd place as they win 1-0 at home to PRESTON NE and are on a total of 55 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. Preston picked up their 12th blank of the season.
In the Play-offs we still have just one of the 4 teams and they are BURNLEY sill in 3rd place as they won 4-0 at home to LUTON TOWN. Burnley have taken their goals tally up to 55 goals. Luton picked up their 14th blank of the season.
Meanwhile MILLWALL won 2-0 away to Watford and are on a total of 43 goals. SWANSEA CITY won 1-0 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH and are on a total of 41 goals. Middlesbrough picked up their 10th blank of the season.
LEAGUE ONE
BIRMINGHAM CITY remain top of the table this week after they won 1-0 at home to Lincoln City and are on a total of 64 goals.
In the Play-offs we now have three of the 4 teams. In 3rd place we still have WREXHAM who won 1-0 at home to Rotherham United. Wrexham are on a total of 52 goals. CHARLTON are up to 5th place after they drew 0-0 away to Stockport County in 4th place, and picked up their 9th blank of the season. BOLTON are in 6th place after they won 2-1 away to Burton and are on a total of 62 goals.
Meanwhile BARNSLEY lost 3-0 at home to BLACKPOOL and picked up their 11th blank of the season and now 2 games in a row. Blackpool are now on a total of 61 goals. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN lost 1-0 away to Bristol Rovers and picked up their 11th blank score sheet and now 2 in a row. It’s 60 goals for PETERBOROUGH UNITED after they drew 1-1 at home to Wycombe.
LEAGUE TWO
The highest team that we have here are DONCASTER ROVERS still in 3rd place after they drew 2-2 at home to Swindon Town and are now on a total of 59 goals.
In the Play-offs we have two of the 4 teams. They are AFC WIMBLEDON up to 4th place after they won 2-0 at home to NOTTS COUNTY. Wimbledon after they had failed to score in their last 2 games, are on a total of 53 goals. County drop down to 5th place and picked up their 8th blank of the season.
Meanwhile CHESTERFIELD won 2-1 at home to Newport County and are on a total of 56 goals. After they had failed to score in their last 3 league games, MK DONS won 2-1 at home to Morecambe and are on a total of 46 goals. BROMLEY lost 2-1 away to Tranmere Rovers and are on a total of 54 goals.
SCOTTISH LEAGUES
In the SCOTTISH CUP quarter-finals, we already know that Hearts have made it through to the semi-finals, and CELTIC will be joining them as they win 2-0 at home to Hibernian. Celtic are on a total of 113 goals and have now scored in all of their last 13 league/cup games.
In the Championship top of the table FALKIRK won 1-0 at home to Dunfermline and are on a total of 74 goals. Falkirk have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games.
In League One STENHOUSEMUIR in 2nd place won 2-0 away to Annan and are now on a total of 51 goals. COVE RANGERS are still in 3rd place after they won 3-1 at home to Queen of the South and are now on a total of 53 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 5 league games.
In League Two EAST FIFE are still top after they won 2-1 away to CLYDE Fife, after they had failed to score in their previous 2 games, are now on a total of 61 goals. Clyde picked up goal number 42. PETERHEAD in 2nd place drew 0-0 away to Stranraer and picked up their 10th blank of the season.
Our BEST three teams this week
CELTIC (113) LIVERPOOL (87) FALKIRK (74) Total of 274 goals
Our WORST three teams are
SOUTHAMPTON (33) LUTON TOWN (33) KILMARNOCK (34) Total of 100 goals
Our best performing team this weekend are now CELTIC after they have now scored in all of their last 13 league/cup games. They have a total of 113 goals which gives them an average score of 3.1 goals per game.
Our worst performing team is now PORTSMOUTH this weekend as they have had a total of 15 blank score sheet from 38 league/cup games. They have a total of 44 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.
We have 3 players taking the lead this weekend on goal difference. GEOFF DOCKERILL our 1994/95 Champion, is celebrating his 10th weekend at the top after his teams picked him up a total of 6 goals from the weekend. Geoff’s teams are Arsenal, Celtic and Liverpool. Luke Hammond is still in second place after he picked up a total of 6 goals from the weekend and his teams are Celtic, Chelsea and Liverpool. Our 3rd player is Carla Stephens who picked up a total of 7 goals from the week. Carla has Birmingham City, Celtic and Liverpool.
But there is good news for Geoff this weekend and that is he is finally moving up our “Champions League”. Geoff has beaten Phil Mockler's total of 263 goals from our 1989/90 Season.
At the other end at 114 we still have CHARLIE FARLEY with his 17th consecutive weekend. Charlie’s teams picked up just 2 goals from the weekend, as he only had one of them playing. His teams are Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir.
Here is our top ten for this weekend.
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 - G. DOCKERILL (1994/95) 73 191 264
2 - L. HAMMOND 76 188 264
3 - C. STEPHENS 78 186 264
4 - J. WEARDEN 68 192 260
5 - D. SOMERVILLE (2009/10) 74 180 254
6 - B. BURROUGHS 77 173 250
7 - J. BLYTH 82 168 250
8 10 R. WOOD (2007/08)* 83 165 248
9 8 S. STUBBS (2) 75 172 247
10 9 A. WELLARD 72 174 246
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