Week Thirty-Seven

In Week Thirty-Seven of the competition, it was the Easter Weekend and most of the goals came on Easter Sunday. We had 2 players that picked up the highest score with 11 goals each and again we had no prize money due to the lack of teams playing over the weekend. So we will have a double Rollover next weekend of £15 which will be our last weekend prize money of the season. The 2 players were ALEX DAVEY and GUY DOWSETT (2).

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Most of us have managed to pick up some midweek goals once again this week. The highest score from “Good Friday” was 8 goals and they came from MALCOLM STUBBS with his teams of Manchester City, Newcastle United and Norwich City. So the race for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot has changed slightly again this week.

This week’s leader we still have JAMES BLYTH now with a total of 92 goals. James has Birmingham City, Celtic and Leeds United. In second place we still have RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion, with a total of 90 goals. In third place we now have PETER WELLARD moving up from Four with a total of 88 goals. In joint fourth place we now have MIKE HARRINGTON our 1997/98 Champion, GRANT PHILLIPS down from three and STEVE STUBBS (2) up from five. All are now on a total of 86 goals. In fifth place with a total of 85 goals we now have CLARA STEPHENS down from third place.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had most of our teams without a game over the weekend and the ones that did play, 7 of them failed to score any goals. We had a fairly good Easter weekend from our teams as the average score fell from seven goals from last weekend to 5 goals this weekend. The highest score over the weekend was 5 goals, and they came from the SCOTTISH CUP Semi-Finals where CELTIC won 5-0 away to St Johnston. They will play Aberdeen in the final.

PREMIER LEAGUE

Top of the table LIVERPOOL, won 1-0 away to LEICESTER CITY and are on a total of 94 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games. Leicester picked up their 16th blank on the season and are now relegated. ARSENAL in 2nd place won 4-0 away to IPSWICH TOWN and have taken their goals tally up to 73 and have now scored in all of their last 6 league games. Ipswich picked up their 11th blank of the season. NEWCASTLE UNITED in 3rd place lost 4-1 away to ASTON VILLA and are on a total of 77 goals. They have extended their goal run to 8 league/cup games. Villa with their biggest result to date are now on a total of 65 goals and a goal run of 12 league/cup games. MANCHESTER CITY won 2-0 away to Everton and are on a total of 82 goals and are in 4th place in the league. CHELSEA are in 5th place after they won 2-1 away to Fulham and are on a total of 69 goals. CRYSTAL PALACE drew 0-0 at home to AFC BOURNEMOUTH and picked up their 8th blank score sheet and now 2 games in a row. Bournemouth also picked up their 8th blank of the season after a goal run of 8 league/cup games. It’s 40 goals for WEST HAM UNITED after they drew 1-1 at home against relegated SOUTHAMPTON. Southampton are on 37 goals. MANCHESTER UNITED lost 1-0 at home to Wolves and picked up their 13th blank of the season.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

SCOTTISH CUP Semi-Finals

We had just 2 of our teams in cup action and only one has made it to the finals. They are CELTIC who won 5-0 away to St Johnstone. Celtic have taken their goals tally to 128 goals. HEARTS drew 1-1 against Aberdeen at home before they lost 2-1 after extra time. Hearts, after they had failed to score in their last 3 league games, are now on a total of 52 goals.

In the Championship, top of the table FALKIRK lost their 6th league game, 3-1 at home to Raith Rovers. Falkirk are on a total of 87 goals.

In League One, COVE RANGERS are still in 2nd place after they drew 1-1 at home to Alloa. Rangers are on a total of 63 goals. STENHOUSEMUIR are down to 4th place after they drew 1-1 at home to Inverness CT. Stenhousemuir are on a total of 56 goals.

In League Two, PETERHEAD have remained top after they lost 4-0 away to Elgin City. Peterhead picked up their 12th blank of the season. EAST FIFE are still in 2nd place after they won 2-0 at home to Stirling. Fife are on a total of 71 goals. CLYDE lost 2-0 away to The Spartans and and picked up their 11th blank of the season.

Our BEST three teams this week are

CELTIC (128) LIVERPOOL (94) FALKIRK (87) Total of 309 goals

Our WORST three teams are

  SOUTHAMPTON (37) LUTON TOWN (39) LEICESTER CITY (40) Total of 116 goals

Our best performing team again this weekend are ASTON VILLA after they have now scored in all of their last 12 league/cup games. They have a total of 65 goals, which gives them an average score of 1.6 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is now MK DONS this weekend as they have had a total of 19 blank score sheets from 44 league/cup games. They have a total of 51 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.

Our leader CLARA STEPHENS celebrates her 6th weekend at the top as her teams have picked up a total of 6 goals this weekend. Clara has Birmingham City, Celtic and Liverpool. Clara has now moved up to 29th place in our “Champions League”. Clara has now beaten our 2015/16 Champion Richard Willima’s total of 298 goals and Phil Reeve’s score of 302 from the 1987/88 Season. She has also beaten John Fleming’s score of 303 from the 1993/94 Season. Geoff Dockerill our 1994/95 Champion, has moved back to 2nd place and is 8 goals behind Clara, Geoff picked up a total of 10 goals from the weekend. His teams are Arsenal, Celtic and Liverpool.

At the other end at 114, we have CHARLIE FARLEY with his 23rd consecutive weekend. Charlie’s team’s pick him a total of 1 goal once this weekend. His teams are Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir. Charlie this weekend has still remained in 41st place in our “Losers League”  

Here are our Easter top 10.

  THIS    LAST                                                   M/WEEK    W/END      TOTAL         

WEEK  WEEK      NAME                                 GOALS      GOALS      GOALS  

      1             -          C. STEPHENS                          85               218             303            

      2            4          G. DOCKERILL (1994/95)       76              219             295         

      3             -          J. WEARDEN                           75              218             293         

      4            2          J. BLYTH                                  92              201             293         

      5            -           L. HAMMOND                        78              213             291         

      6            -           D. SOMERVILLE (2009/10)    79             208             287         

      7           8           B. BURROUGHS                     83              202            285         

      8           7           A. WELLARD                          82             201             283         

      9           12         S. DICKINSON                       78              204             282         

      10         13         S. STUBBS (2)                        86              196             282