Week Forty

In Week Forty of the competition, we have reached the full 90 minutes and  are now in injury time. We once again had 2 players that picked the highest score over the weekend with 8 goals each. They were BARBARA BARNES (1) and GUY DOWSETT (2). Their teams are

                                   Barbara  ARSENAL 2, LIVERPOOL 2, RANGERS 4

                                          Guy  ARSENAL 2, CELTIC 3, EAST FIFE 3 

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 still have just 3 players that have reached that 100 goals mark this week. They are JAMES BLYTH now with a total of 107 goals. MIKE HARRINGTON our 1997/98 Champion with a total of 105 goals, RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion, with a total of 102 goals. We then have GRANT PHILLIPS and MARK WALKER both on a total of 99 goals, ALFIE DIMMOCK is on a total of 98 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

Most of our teams have finished their season last weekend. We had just xx of our teams in action over the weekend and out of them only 3 of them failed to score any goals. The highest score over the weekend was 4 goals, and they came from the Scottish Premiership RANGERS.

PREMIER LEAGUE

League Champions LIVERPOOL drew 2-2 at home to ARSENAL and are on a total of 102 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 14 league/cup games. Arsenal remain in 2nd place with a total of 78 goals  and have now scored in all of their last 9 league games. NEWCASTLE UNITED are up to 3rd place after they won 2-0 at home to CHELSEA.  Newcastle are on a total of 88 goals and have a goal run of 11 league/cup games. Chelsea picked up their 8th blank of the season and remain in 5th place. The shock of the weekend is where MANCHESTER CITY drew 0-0 away to relegated SOUTHAMPTON. City after a goal run of 5 league/cup games, picked up their 6th blank of the season. City are down to 4th place now. Southampton picked up their 16th blank and now 2 in a row. AFC BOURNEMOUTH lost 1-0 at home to ASTON VILLA and picked up their 9th blank of the season. Villa hit goal number 68.MANCHESTER UNITED lost 2-0 at home to WEST HAM UNITED and picked up their 14th blank of the season. West Ham are on a total of 45 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league games. After a goal run of 5 league games, TOTTENHAM picked up their 9th blank of the season after they lost 2-0 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE. Palace are on a total of 68 goals. Relegated IPSWICH TOWN lost 1-0 at home to Brighton and picked up their 13th blank of the season. Relegated LEICESTER CITY drew 2-2 away to Nottingham Forest and are on a total of 44 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

In the Play-off semi-finals 1st leg, CHARLTON drew 0-0 away to Wycombe and picked up their 12th  blank of the season.

LEAGUE TWO

In the Play-off semi-finals 1st leg, AFC WIMBLEDON won 1-0 away to NOTTS COUNTY and are on a total of 64 goals. County picked up their 11th blank of the season after a goal run of 5 league games.  CHESTERFIELD lost their 1st leg game 2-0 at home to Walsall and picked up their 13th blank of the season.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership Champions CELTIC won 3-1 at home to Hibernian and have taken their goals tally to 137 goals. Celtic have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. It’s 90 goals for RANGERS in 2nd place, after they won 4-0 at home against Aberdeen. HEARTS won 3-0 at home to Motherwell and are now on a total of 58 goals. KILMARNOCK won 3-2 at home to DUNDEE and are now on a total of 46 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league games. Dundee are on a total of 84 goals. ROSS COUNTY lost 2-1 away to St Johnstone and are on a total of 47 goals.

In the Championship Play-off semi-finals. COVE RANGERS drew their first leg game 0-0 but won their 2nd leg 2-1 at home to Queen of the South to win 2-1 on aggregate. Rangers are on a total of 71 goals. STENHOUSEMUIR lost there’s 1st leg game 3-1 at home to Airdrie. They also lost their 2nd leg game 2-1 away and went out 5-2 on aggregate. Stenhousemuir finished the season on a total of 60 goals.

In the League One Play-off semi-finals. EAST FIFE lost their 1st leg 1-0 away to Edinburgh City but won their 2nd leg game 3-0. Fife won 3-1 on aggregate and are now on a total of 76 goals.

Our BEST three teams this week are

CELTIC (137) LIVERPOOL (102) LEEDS UNITED (96) Total of 335 goals

Our WORST three teams are

  SOUTHAMPTON (38) LEICESTER CITY (44) IPSWICH TOWN (45) Total of 127 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 is now 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 9th weekend at the top as her teams have picked up a total of 5 goals this weekend. Clara has Birmingham City, Celtic and Liverpool. Clara has now moved up to 9th place in our “Champions League”. Clara has now beaten our first Champion Pete Christopher’s score of 327 goals in the 1983/84 season, Last seasons double winners John Filtness and Andrew Hammond’s total of 328 goals in the 2023/24 season. Also Brian Clark’s total of 331 in the 2019/20 season. James Blyth has remained in 2nd place this week but he has fallen behind Clara with 6 goal gap. James picked up a total of 3 goals from the weekend. His teams are Birmingham City, Celtic and Leeds United.

At the other end at 114, we have CHARLIE FARLEY with his 26th consecutive weekend. Charlie’s team’s pick him up a total of 6 goals this week. His teams are Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir. Charlie this weekend has now moved up to 38th place in our “Losers League”  He has now beaten his own Lucifer’s score of 148 goals in the 2019/20 season.

Not long now before we know who will be our Champion of the season and win that £100 prize money. Here is our top ten this weekend.

     THIS     LAST                                                 M/WEEK     W/END      TOTAL      

    WEEK  WEEK      NAME                                GOALS      GOALS      GOALS   

          1             -          C. STEPHENS                        90                241              331             

          2             -          J. BLYTH                               107               218              325         

          3             -         G. DOCKERILL (1994/95)      78               239              317         

          4             -         J. WEARDEN                           78               237              315         

          5             -         L. HAMMOND                         78              234              312         

          6             7        D. SOMERVILLE (2009/10)     80              231             311         

          7             8        B. BURROUGHS                      95              216             311         

          8             6        GRANT PHILLIPS                   99              211             310         

          9             -         A. WELLARD                          95              214             309    

          10           -         S. STUBBS (2)                         97              211             308