In Week Forty-One of the competition, we are now in injury time. We have a few players with no teams left playing in this season competition, but we do have some players with still all 3 teams in play.
100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
Although the race for the cash is over, there is still that record to beat. That record to beat is 136 midweek goals and the record holder is Daryl Nicholls from the 2016/17 Season.
I can report that we now have 7 players that have reached that 100 goals mark this week. They are JAMES BLYTH now with a total of 112 goals. RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion, with a total of 107 goals. MIKE HARRINGTON our 1997/98 Champion with a total of 106 goals, We then have GRANT PHILLIPS with a total of 105 goals and then STEVE STUBBS (2) with a total of 102 goals. BARRY BURROUGHS and ANNE WELLARD both are on a total of 100 goals,
WEEKEND RESULTS
Most of our teams have finished their season last weekend, so we had just 17 of our teams in action over the weekend and out of them, 7 of them failed to score any goals.
FA CUP FINAL
Congratulations to CRYSTAL PALACE winning the FA Cup for the very first time after they beat MANCHESTER CITY 1-0 at Wembley. The Palace goal was scored by Eberechi Eze in the 16th minute. Palace are on a total of 69 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. City picked up their 7th blank of the season and have now failed to score any goals in their last 2 games.
PREMIER LEAGUE
League Champions Liverpool had no game this weekend while ARSENAL remain in 2nd place after they won 1-0 at home against NEWCASTLE UNITED in 3rd place. Arsenal are on a total of 79 goals and have now scored in all of their last 10 league games. Newcastle after a goal run of 11 league/cup games, picked up their 6th blank of the season. Chelsea are in 4th place with Aston Villa in 5th. WEST HAM UNITED lost 2-1 at home to Nottingham Forest and are on a total of 46 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 7 league games. Relegated LEICESTER CITY won 2-0 at home to relegated IPSWICH TOWN and are on a total of 46 goals. Ipswich picked up their 14th blank and now 2 games without a goal. Relegated and bottom of the league, SOUTHAMPTON lost their 29th league game 2-0 away to Everton. That is now Southampton’s 17th blank of the season and they have now failed to score any goals in their last 3 league games.
LEAGUE TWO
In the Play-off semi-finals 2nd leg, AFC WIMBLEDON won 1-0 at home to NOTTS COUNTY to win 2-0 on aggregate. Wimbledon are on a total of 65 goals. County picked up their 12th blank of the season and failed to score in their last 2 games of the season.
SCOTTISH LEAGUES
In the Premiership Champions CELTIC drew their last league game 1-1 at home to St Mirren and are on a total of 143 goals. Celtic have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. They have now equalled their record with just the SCOTTISH CUP game to go next weekend. RANGERS in 2nd place, drew 2-2 away to Hibernian and have finished on a total of 95 goals and have scored in all of their last 6 league games. HEARTS won 1-0 away to KILMARNOCK and finished on a total of 61 goals while Kilmarnock picked up their 14th blank of the season and finished on a total of 46 goals. ROSS COUNTY drew 1-1 at home to Motherwell and are on a total of 49 goals. DUNDEE won 2-0 away to St Johnstone and finished their season on a total of 87 goals and had scored in all of their last 5 league games.
In the Championship Play-off final COVE RANGERS lost their first leg game 2-1 and then drew 0-0 away to Airdrie. They lost 2-1 on aggregate. Rangers picked up their 11th blank of the season and finished with a total of 72 goals.
Our BEST three teams this week are
CELTIC (143) LIVERPOOL (102) LEEDS UNITED (96) Total of 341 goals
Our WORST three teams are
SOUTHAMPTON (38) IPSWICH TOWN (45) LEICESTER CITY (46) Total of 129 goals
Our best performing team this weekend are LIVERPOOL after they have now scored in all of their last 14 league/cup games. They have a total of 102 goals, which gives them an average score of 2.3 goals per game.
Our worst performing team was MK DONS this weekend as they have had a total of 21 blank score sheets from 47 league/cup games. They have a total of 52 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 10th weekend at the top as her teams have picked up a total of 6 goals this week. Clara has Birmingham City, Celtic and Liverpool. Clara has now moved up to 5th place in our “Champions League”. Clara has now our highest lady to win over the years. She has beaten our previous highest lady Julia Wood from the 2021/22 season with a total of 335 goals. James Blyth has remained in 2nd place this week bu with that 6 goal gap. James picked up a total of 6 goals from the week. His teams are Birmingham City, Celtic and Leeds United.
At the other end at 114, we have CHARLIE FARLEY with his 27th consecutive weekend. Charlie’s team’s pick him up a total of just 2 goals this week. His teams are Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir. Charlie this weekend has now moved up to 37th place in our “Losers League” He has now beaten his own Richard Lloyd’s score of 154 goals in the 1993/94 season.
Next week will be our last post for the Season 42 and our Champion will be announced.
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 - C. STEPHENS 95 242 337
2 - J. BLYTH 112 219 331
3 - G. DOCKERILL (1994/95) 83 241 324
4 - J. WEARDEN 83 238 321
5 - L. HAMMOND 84 235 319
6 7 B. BURROUGHS 100 218 318
7 6 D. SOMERVILLE (2009/10) 85 232 317
8 - GRANT PHILLIPS 105 212 317
9 - A. WELLARD 100 215 315
10 11 S. DICKINSON 90 224 314
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