More Carabao Cup 2nd Round

 

We had a couple more of our teams playing in the cup last night and just one has made it to the next round. They are BRIGHTON as they picked up their biggest result after two games, as they won 6-0 away to Oxford Utd. Brighton are on a total of 7 goals. BRISTOL CITY went out after they lost 2-0 away to Fuilham and picked up their second blank of the season. MANCHESTER UNITED struggled to draw with league two, Grimsby Town 2-2 after the full 90 minutes. In the penalty shootout, United then lost an unbelievable 12-11. United are on a total of 3 goals.

Carabao/League Cup 2nd Round

We had a total of 15 of our Golden Goals teams in cup action last night and out of them, only 6 have made it through to the next round. They are WOLVES, who failed to score in their two opening league games, beat WEST HAM 3-2 at home. West Ham are on a total of 3 goals. CARDIFF CITY won 3-0 at home against Cheltenham and are now on a total of 12 goals and a goal run of 5 league/cup games. SOUTHAMPTON picked up their biggest result to date after they won 3-0 away to NORWICH CITY. Southampton are now on a total of 8 goals and have now scored in all of their 5 league/cup games. Norwich picked up their first blank score sheet. WREXHAM won 3-2 away to PRESTON NE and are now on a total of 11 goals and a goal run of 5 league/cup games. Preston are on a total of 7 goals and they have also scored in all of their 5 league/cup games. WYCOMBE drew 1-1 away to BROMLEY and then won 5-4 on penalties. Wycombe are on a total of 7 goals while Bromley are on 10 goals and have scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN drew 1-1 away to SUNDERLAND and then won 6-5 on penalties. Huddersfield are on a total of 13 goals and have now scored in all of their 7 league/cup games. Sunderland picked up their fourth goal of the season. 

The other teams that went out are AFC BOURNEMOUTH who lost 2-0 at home to Brentford. That is Bournemouth’s first blank score sheet. BIRMINGHAM CITY lost 1-0 at home to Port Vale and picked up their first blank of the season. STOCKPORT COUNTY after a goal run of 6 league/cup games, picked up their first blank score sheet after they lost 1-0 away to Wigan. PLYMOUTH drew 1-1 away to Swansea but then lost 5-3 on penalties. Plymouth are on a total of 8 goals.

Lucky Win for Liverpool

In the Premier League, 10 men NEWCASTLE get their first goals of the season after they lost 3-2 at home to LIVERPOOL. Liverpool are now on a total of 7 goals after their first two games of the season.

Week Three

In Week Three of the competition we had our fourth winner of the season to take the full £5 weekend prize money. Our winner was BOB SOPER who won on a score of 11 goals making the highest win yet and his personal best weekend score. Bob started with Golden Goals back in the 2000/01 season on where he finished in 97th place out of 102 with a total of 221 goals. Last season Bob finished in 95th place out of 110 with a total of 265 goals. This season we can see Bob at his highest to date and his best team is Celtic. His teams for this season are

ARSENAL 5, BLACKBURN ROVERS 3, CELTIC 3

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

We can take our second look at who is in the lead for our 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot worth a total of £25 this season. The prize money will go to the first person to reach 100 goals from their three teams.

Still in the lead after three weeks of football, we have DAVID BARRETT with 25 goals. In second place we now have EMMAF moving up from three with a total of 23 goals. In third place both down from two we have HAYLEY ADKINS and BISH-BASH-BOSH (Keith Rattle) still both on a total of 22 goals. Still in fourth place with 16 goals we have GUY DOWSETT (1). In fifth place we still have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) and joining him TIM WOOD both with a total of 15 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had another near-full weekend fixture and although we had a few high scores, the season is still very disappointing. We had 6 teams with no game over the weekend with another 11 of our teams that failed to score any goals. So for our second weekend the average score was slightly better from three last weekend up to 4 goals this weekend. If your combination picked up more than that, then you have done very well this weekend.

The highest score over the weekend was 5 goals and they came from the Premier League where ARSENAL after they won 5-0 at home against Leeds. With their biggest result they are now on a total of 6 goals.  Arsenal first appeared with Golden Goals back in our second season of 1984/85. In that season they became our 26th voted English team and they finished on a total of 75 goals. Arsenal have hit 100 or more goals in four of their seasons. Their highest being 103 goals in the 2002/03 season. Last season they finished on a total of 81 goals. Arsenal have been with us for 41 seasons and in that time theu have scored a total of 3323 goals, which gives them an average of 79 goals per season to date. This season they have a total of 26 votes and have started the season well. Let’s get on with the results to see how your teams have performed this weekend.

PREMIER LEAGUE

So the Premier League played their second league game of the season. TOTTENHAM have won their first two games of the season as they beat MANCHESTER CITY 2-0 away. Tottenham are on a total of 5 goals. City with their first loss of the season, picked up their first blank of the season. AFC BOURNEMOUTH won their first league game 1-0 at home to WOLVES. Bournemouth are on a total of 3 goals while Wolves, still yet to win a game, picked up their second consecutive blank scoresheet. ASTON VILLA lost their first league game 1-0 away to Brentford and that is their second consecutive blank scoresheet. SUNDERLAND picked up their first blank scoresheet after they lost 1-0 away to Burnley. Still no win for CRYSTAL PALACE after they picked up their first goal of the season as they drew 1-1 at home against NOTTINGHAM FOREST. Forest are on a total of 4 goals. BRIGHTON lost 2-0 away to Everton and that is their first blank scoresheet. MANCHESTER UNITED drew 1-1 away to Fulham to get their first goal of the season.

CHAMPIONSHIP

After three games now, MIDDLESBROUGH are in second place after they won their third league game 2-1 away to NORWICH CITY. Both teams are on a total of 6 goals each. LEICESTER CITY won 1-0 away to Charlton and picked up goal number 6. BLACKBURN ROVERS picked up their biggest win to date, winning 3-0 away to Hull. Rovers are now on a total of 5 goals. WATFORD drew 1-1 away to Swansea and are on a total of 4 goals. BIRMINGHAM CITY won 1-0 at home against Oxford and are on a total of 6 goals. PRESTON NE won 1-0 at home to  IPSWICH TOWN and are on a total of 5 goals, while Ipswich, who have still yet to win a game, picked up their first blank of the season. SHEFFIELD UNITED lost again 1-0 at home to Millwall and that is their second consecutive blank scoresheet. SOUTHAMPTON lost 2-1 at home to Stoke and are on a total of 5 goals. WREXHAM are still trying to win their first game as they drew 2-2 at home to Sheffield Wednesday. Wrexham are on a total of 8 goals.

LEAGUE ONE 

CARDIFF CITY move to the top of the table after they won 1-0 away to LUTON TOWN. City are on a total of 9 goals while Luton picked up their second blank scoresheet. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN are now in second place after they won 1-0 at home to Stevenage. Huddersfield are on a total of 10 goals and have now scored in all of their 6 league/cup games. BOLTON drew 1-1 at home to Lincoln and picked up goal number 8. Bolton have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. LEYTON ORIENT lost 4-1 away to Mansfield and are on a total of 6 goals. After they had failed to score in their last 2 games, PETERBOROUGH drew 1-1 at home to Bradford and are on a total of 3 goals. PLYMOUTH won their first league game 1-0 at home to BLACKPOOL. Plymouth are on a total of 7 goals while Blackpool picked up their third blank scoresheet and now 2 in a row. STOCKPORT COUNTY won 2-1 at home to Burton and are on a total of 12 goals. Still no wins for WYCOMBE as they drew 2-2 at home to Reading. Wycombe are on a total of 6 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

CREWE are still top of the table after they lost their first league game 1-0 away to GILLINGHAM. After a goal run of 6 league/cup games, Crewe picked up their first blank of the season. Gillingham are on a total of 9 goals. CHESTERFIELD are still in second place after they win 2-1 away to Harrogate. Chesterfield are on a total of 9 goals. MK DONS won 2-1 away to Newport and are on a total of 10 goals. WALSALL won 1-0 at home against Salford to pick up their 5th goal of the season. BARNET won again, 1-0 away to Cheltenham and are on a total of 6 goals. NOTTS COUNTY drew 2-2 at home to BROMLEY. County are on a total of 9 goals while Bromley are also on 9 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. SWINDON TOWN won 2-1 at home to Shrewsbury and are on a total of 9 goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership, CELTIC move to the top of the table after they won their third league game 3-0 at home to Livingston. Celtic are now on a total of 10 goals. HEARTS in second place drew 3-3 at home to Motherwell and have taken their goals tally to 25 goals and have now scored in all of their 8 league/cup games. Still no win for RANGERS after they drew their third league game, 1-1 away to St Mirren and picked up goal number 7.

In the Championship, after they had failed to score in their last 2 games, AYR UNITED drew 2-2 away to Greenock Morton and are on a total of 17 goals. ROSS COUNTY have still yet to win as they lost 3-1 at home to Partick. County are on a total of 14 goals.

In League One EAST FIFE won 2-1 at home to Kelty Hearts and are on a total of 10 goals. COVE RANGERS are still looking for their first win as they lost 3-1 away to Peterhead. Rangers are on a total of 9 goals. After a goal run of 5 league/cup games, STENHOUSEMUIR drew 0-0 at home to Queen of the South and that is their third blank of the season.

In League Two, CLYDE are still waiting for their first league win after they drew 1-1 away to Stranraer. Clyde are on a total of 9 goals. DUMBARTON picked up their biggest result after they won 4-3 away to Annan and have taken their goals tally to 11 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games.

Our BEST three teams are

HEARTS (25) AYR UTD (17) ROSS COUNTY (14) Total of 56 goals

Our WORST three teams are

ASTON VILLA (0) WOLVES (0) NEWCASTLE UNITED (0) Total of 0 goals 

Our best performing team are HEARTS after they have now scored in all of their 8 league/cup games. With a total of 25 goals, their average score is still 3 goals per game. 

Our worst performing team is PETERBOROUGH UNITED this weekend as they have picked up 3 blank scoresheets in their 6 games of the season. They have just 3 goals. 

Our highest goal scoring team in our 43rd Season are ROSS COUNTY. They won 8-0 at home against Edinburgh City in the first round group stages of the Scottish League Cup in Week One.

DAVID BARRETT is at the top again this weekend for the third weekend running after he picked up 6 goals from the weekend. David’s teams are Celtic, Hearts and Liverpool. He is now 4 goals clear of Hayley Adkins in second place. Hayley picked up a total of 3 goals and her teams are Hearts, Liverpool and Manchester City.

At the other end at 111 we still have MANDY WRIGHT for the third weekend running as she picked up just 2 goals for the week. Mandy has AFC Bournemouth, Brighton and West Ham.

Another week has past but our teams are still warming up. Here is our top 10 this week.

 THIS      LAST                                          M/WEEK   W/END     TOTAL

WEEK   WEEK    NAME                          GOALS     GOALS     GOALS 

       1             -         D. BARRETT                   25               12               37

       2             3        BISH-BASH-BOSH         22               11               33

       3             2        H. ADKINS                       22               11              33

       4             5        EMMAF                            23                 6              29

       5           29        GRAHAM PHILLIPS        6                20              26

       6             4       CHARLIE FARLEY         15                11              26

       7             6       TIM WOOD                      15                11              26

       8             9       V. CRUICKSHANK           7                18              25

       9           30       M. WALKER                      7                18              25

     10           49       T. GUY (10/11 & 22/23)     8                17             25

Chelsea's First League Win

In the Premier League WEST HAM suffered their second league defeat against London rivals CHELSEA. Both teams picked up their first goals of the season as Chelsea won 5-1 away to West Ham. 

In the Championship BRISTOL CITY drew 1-1 away to Derby and picked up goal number 7.

Notts County's First Win

In League One BOLTON drew 1-1 at home to Reading and that is their 7^th goal of the season. 

In League Two NOTTS COUNTY won their first league game and picked up their biggest win to date, after they won 4-1 at home against Shrewsbury and have taken their goals tally up to 7 goals.

Season 43 is Warming up

In League One CARDIFF CITY won 1-0 away to AFC Wimbledon and are on a total of 8 goals. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN won 2-0 at home against Doncaster and are on a total of 11 goals. They have now scored in all of their 5 league/cup games played. LUTON TOWN won 1-0 at home to Wigan and picked up goal number five. BLACKPOOL lost 2-0 away to Mansfield and picked up their second blank scoresheet. PETERBOROUGH are still without a win after they lost 1-0 at home to Barnsley. That is their third blank of the season and now 2 in a row. PLYMOUTH still need a win as they lost 1-0 at home to LEYTON ORIENT. Plymouth have now had 2 blank scoresheets while Orient are on a total of 5 goals. STOCKPORT COUNTY lost 2-1 at home to Bradford and are on a total of 10 goals and have scored in all of their 5 league/cup games. WYCOMBE WANDERERS picked up their first blank of the season as they went down 1-0 at home to Exeter. 

In League Two BROMLEY won 2-1 away to Cheltenham and are on a total of 7 goals. MK DONS drew 1-1 away to Crawley and are on a total of 8 goals. CREWE picked up their biggest result to date after they won 4-1 away to Fleetwood and have taken their goals tally to 11 goals. They have now scored in all of their 5 league/cup games. GILLINGHAM have doubled their goals total as they win 4-1 at home to CHESTERFIELD. Gillingham are now on a total of 8 goals and have scored in all of their 5 league/cup games. Chesterfield lost their first game of the season and are on a total of 7 goals. SWINDON TOWN picked up their first blank of the season after they lost 2-0 at home to BARNET. Barnet picked up their first league win of the season and are on a total of 5 goals. WALSALL lost 1-0 at home to Grimsby and picked up their third blank scoresheet.

Week Two

Here we are with Week Two of the competition and this weekend we had a full league fixture, which gave us our third winner of the season. Our winner was STUART KEMP (1) who won on a score of 10 goals making the highest win yet. Stuart has won himself £5 this weekend.

Stuart started with us back in the 2012/13 Season, which was our 30th Season, where he finished in 64th place out of 91 on a total of 251 goals. Last season Stuart finished in 111th place with a total of 207 goals. This season he has had no blank score sheets to date and this is his highest yet. Blackpool is his best team as they have played more games. His teams for this season are

BLACKPOOL 3, MANCHESTER CITY 4, TOTTENHAM 3

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

We can now have our first look at who is in the lead for our 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot worth a total of £25 this season. The prize money will go to the first person to reach 100 goals from their three teams.

Taking the lead after two weeks of football, we have DAVID BARRETT with 25 goals already. In second place we have HAYLEY ADKINS and BISH_BASH_BOSH (Keith Rattle) both on a total of 22 goals. In third place we have EMMAF with 19 goals. In fourth place with 16 goals we have GUY DOWSETT (1). In fifth place we have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) with a total of 15 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had our very first full weekend fixture and although we had a few high scores, the overall was a disappointing start to the season. We had 4 teams with no game over the weekend with another eleven of our teams that failed to score any goals. So for our very first weekend the average score was just 3 goals. If your combination picked up more than that, then you have done very well this weekend.

The highest score over the weekend was 5 goals and they came from League Two where MK DONS won 5-0 at home to Cheltenham Town. With their biggest result to date, the Dons are now on a total of 7 goals.

MK Dons became our 103rd voted English team and they first appeared in the 2007/08 Season, on where they finished on a total of 88 goals. Their highest end of season total came in the 2014/15 Season with 115 goals. This is the only time to date that they have reached 100 goals. Last season they finished with a grand total of 52 goals. This is their 15th season with Golden Goals and over the years they have netted a total of 1024 goals, which gives them an average score of 68 goals per season. This season they have picked up 2 blank score sheets after 4 league/cup games played. They have 3 votes.

Lets get on with the results to see how your teams have performed this weekend.

PREMIER LEAGUE

So the Premier League played their first league game of the season and most of them had a good start. ASTON VILLA drew their opening game 0-0 at home to NEWCASTLE. BRIGHTON drew 1-1 at home to Fulham. SUNDERLAND won 3-0 at home to WEST HAM. TOTTENHAM won 3-0 at home against Burnley. WOLVES lost 4-0 at home to MANCHESTER CITY. CHELSEA drew 0-0 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE. NOTTINGHAM FOREST won 3-1 at home to Brentford. MANCHESTER UNITED lost their opening game 1-0 at home to ARSENAL.

CHAMPIONSHIP

After two games now, MIDDLESBROUGH are in second place after they won their second league game 3-0 away to Millwall. With their biggest win to date, Middlesbrough are now on a total of 4 goals. NORWICH CITY won their first league game 2-1 away to Portsmouth and are on a total of 5 goals. Newly promoted WREXHAM are still trying to win their first game as they lost again 3-2 at home to West Brom. Wrexham are on a total of 6 goals. BIRMINGHAM CITY picked up their first win 2-1 away to BLACKBURN ROVERS. City are on a total of 5 goals while Rovers are on 6 goals. BRISTOL CITY picked up their first blank of the season after they drew 0-0 at home to Charlton. PRESTON NE won their first league game, 2-1 at home to LEICESTER CITY. Preston are on a total of 4 goals while Leicester are on 5 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED lost again 1-0 away to Swnsea and picked up their first blank score sheet. WATFORD won their first league game 2-1 at home to QPR. Watford are on a total of 3 goals. IPSWICH TOWN drew 1-1 at home to SOUTHAMPTON and picked up goal number 3 while Southampton are on 4 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

CARDIFF CITY are our highest team here in second place after they won 3-0 at home to Rotherham. With their biggest result to date, Cardiff are now on a total of 7 goals. BOLTON drew 1-1 away to Barnsley and are on a total of 6 goals. BLACKPOOL won their first game of the season 3-2 at home to HUDDERSFIELD TOWN. Blackpool with their highest result to date are now on a total of 6 goals while Huddersfield are on 9 goals. LUTON TOWN lost 2-1 away to Bradford and picked up goal number 4. WYCOMBE drew 1-1 away to Doncaster and are on a total of 4 goals. LEYTON ORIENT drew 2-2 at home to STOCKPORT COUNTY and are on a total of 4 goals. County are on 9 goals. Still no win for PLYMOUTH after they lost 3-2 away to Lincoln. Plymouth are on a total of 6 goals. PETERBOROUGH UNITED lost again 2-0 away to Wigan and that is their second blank of the season.

LEAGUE TWO

CREWE are top of the table after they won their third game 1-0 at home to Crawley and are on a total of 7 goals. CHESTERFIELD are second as they won 3-1 at home to Bristol Rovers. With their biggest win to date, Chesterfield are on a total of 6 goals. SWINDON TOWN won 2-1 away to Oldham and are on a total of 7 goals. BARNET have still yet to win a league game after they lost 2-1 at home to WALSALL. Barnet are on a total of 3 goals while Walsall are on 4 goals. NOTTS COUNTY lost their third league game 2-1 away to Barrow. County are on a total of 3 goals. BROMLEY drew 2-2 at home to Fleetwood and are on a total of 5 goals. GILLINGHAM drew 1-1 away to Tranmere and are on a total of 4 goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Scottish League Cup 2nd Round, we already know that Celtic are through to the next round. They will be joined with rivals RANGERS after they won 4-2 at home to Alloa and with their biggest result so far, are now on a total of 6 goals. HIBERNIAN won 2-0 away to Livingston and are on a total of 6 goals. Teams that went out are AYR UNITED as they lost 2-0 away to Partick. Ayr picked up their second blank score sheet. HEARTS drew 1-1 away to St Mirren and then lost 5-4 on penalties. Hearts have now scored in all of their 7 league/cup games played and are on a total of 22 goals.

In League One after they had failed to score in their previous 2 games, COVE RANGERS drew 3-3 at home to Montrose and are on a total of 8 goals. EAST FIFE won their first league game 2-1 away to Hamilton and are on a total of 8 goals. STENHOUSEMUIR won 2-1 away to Inverness CT and are on a total of 7 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games.

In League Two, CLYDE are still waiting for their first league win after they lost 3-1 at home against The Spartans. Clyde are on a total of 8 goals. DUMBARTON drew 1-1 at home to Elgin City and picked up goal number 7.

So let’s have a look at our BEST three teams this week

HEARTS (22) AYR UTD (15) ROSS COUNTY (13) Total of 50 goals

Our WORST three teams are

CHELSEA (0) NEWCASTLE (0) MANCHESTER UNITED (0) Total of 0 goals

Our Best performing team is HEARTS after they have now scored in all of their 7 league/cup games. With a total of 22 goals, their average score is 3 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is PETERBOROUGH UNITED this weekend as they have picked up two blank score sheets in their first four games of the season. They have just 2 goals.

Our highest goal scoring team in our 43rd Season are ROSS COUNTY. They won 8-0 at home against Edinburgh City in the first round group stages of the Scottish League Cup in Week One.

DAVID BARRETT is at the top this weekend for the second weekend running after he picked up 9 goals from the week. David’s teams are Celtic, Hearts and Liverpool. He is just 1 goal clear of  Hayley Adkins. Hayley’s teams are Hearts, Liverpool and Manchester City.

At the other end at 111 we have MANDY WRIGHT for the second weekend running as she picked up just 3 goals for the week. Mandy has AFC Bournemouth, Brighton and West Ham.

Here is our top 10 for this week.

 THIS        LAST                                     M/WEEK    W/END     TOTAL

WEEK     WEEK   NAME                      GOALS      GOALS     GOALS 

       1               -       D. BARRETT                25                6                 31

       2               -       H. ADKINS                   22                8                 30

       3               -       BISH-BASH-BOSH      22               7                  29

       4               5      CHARLIE FARLEY     15                8                  23

       5               4      EMMAF                        19                4                 23

       6             16      TIM WOOD                  14                6                 20

       7             10      M. LIDDLE                   14                5                 19

       8               6      G. DOWSETT (1)         16                3                 19

       9             11      V. CRUICKSHANK       6               12                 18

     10             27      J. BLYTH                        9                 9                 18

Premier League Begins

In the very first game of the Premier League, last season’s champions LIVERPOOL won their opening game 4-2 at home to AFC BOURNEMOUTH. 

In the Scottish League Cup 2^nd round (now known as the Premier Sports Cup), holders CELTIC beat newly promoted Falkirk 4-1 at home. Celtic, with their biggest result to date, have taken their goals tally to 7 goals. 

Carabao Cup 1st Round Part 2

In the second batch of the Carabao Cup 1^st round, we had another 5 teams in action. Out of these another 2 have made it through to the second round. That now gives us a total of just12 in round two.

Teams through are BIRMINGHAM CITY after they won 2-1 at home against SHEFFIELD UNITED. Birmingham are on a total of 3 goals while Sheffield are on 2 goals. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN drew 2-2 against LEICESTER CITY and went on to win 3-2 on penalties. Huddersfield are on a total of 7 goals while Leicester are on 4 goals. 

Teams out are BOLTON after they had picked up their highest result to date with a 3-3 home draw against Sheffield Wednesday. They then lost 4-2 on penalties. Bolton are now on a total of 5 goals.

Carabao Cup 1st Round Part 1

In the first round of the Carabao League Cup we had a total of 25 of our teams in action. Out of them, 10 are through to the next round.

Teams through are PRESTON NE who won 1-0 away to Barrow and are on 2 goals now. STOCKPORT COUNTY won 3-1 at home to CREWE and have taken their goals tally to 7 goals. Crewe picked up goal number 6. BRISTOL CITY won 2-0 at home to MK DONS and are on a total of 6 goals. Dons picked up their 2nd blank score sheet. CARDIFF CITY won 2-1 at home against SWINDON TOWN and are on a total of 4 goals. Swindon are on 5 goals. WYCOMBE won 1-0 away to LEYTON ORIENT. Wycombe are on a total of 3 goals while Orient picked up their 2nd blank of the season. SOUTHAMPTON won 1-0 away to Northampton and are on a total of 3 goals. PLYMOUTH picked up their biggest result to date after they won 3-2 at home to QPR and are now on a total of 4 goals. NORWICH CITY won 2-1 away to WATFORD and are on a total of 3 goals. Watford picked up their first goal of the season. WREXHAM picked up their biggest result to date as they drew 3-3 at home to Hull and then won 5-3 on penalties. BROMLEY drew 1-1 against IPSWICH TOWN at home and then won 5-4 on penalties. Bromley are on 3 goals while Ipswich are on 2 goals. 

Teams that are out are MIDDLESBROUGH after they lost 4-0 at home to Doncaster Rovers. That is Middlesbrough 1st blank of the season. PETERBOROUGH UNITED lost 2-1 away to Accrington and are on a total of 2 goals. BLACKBURN ROVERS lost 2-1 at home against Bradford and have picked up their first goal of the season. BLACKPOOL lost 1-0 at home to Port Vale and picked up their 1st blank of the season. CHESTERFIELD lost 2-0 at home to Mansfield and that is their 1st blank of the season. LUTON TOWN lost 1-0 away to Coventry and picked up their 1st blank score sheet. GILLINGHAM drew 1-1 against AFC Wimbledon but then lost 4-2 on penalties as there is no extra time once again this season. Gillingham are on a total of 3 goals. WALSALL drew 0-0 away to Stoke and then lost 4-3 on penalties. Walsall have failed to score in their last 2 games. NOTTS COUNTY lost 1-0 away to Wigan and picked up their 1st blank score sheet.

Week One

Well here we are with our 43rd Season of Golden Goals and a very big welcome to you all and what a season we are going to have once again. We have ended up with a total of 111 entries in this seasons competition and I would like to thank everyone who has helped us to get to that figure which just managed to get in to the top ten best season’s of  Golden Goals once again. It is with great regret that we did not reach our record total of 149 from the 2017/18 Season. Although we have seen some names missing from last season, we have gained another 4 new players this season. So who is going to be our 43rd Champion and win that £100 prize money? We will find out in the next forty-two weeks time but I wish you all the very best of luck.

We have a total of 17 past Champions playing this season including 3 two time winners. Our last season Champion is also back and they were Clara Stephens. Clara has changed her winning combination from last season to Celtic, Leicester City and Plymouth. We also have a total of 22 ladies playing in this season competition.

So how did the voting of teams for this season finally end up. It was LIVERPOOL that picked up the biggest number of votes with a total of 49. Last season they had a total of 27 votes and scored a total of 105 goals, so this was no surprise that they would be the most voted team this season. 

With our Scottish teams, CELTIC after picking up 40 votes last season, they picked up more votes this season with 70. Staying with the Scottish teams the second highest voted team comes from the premiership again and they are RANGERS with just 10 votes which is down from last seasons total of 14. The Scottish teams had a good turn out this season with a total of 11 teams once more being picked. We have just 4 teams from the Premiership and 2 from the Championship. Three from League One and 2 from League Two.

With the English teams things have changed as they always do in this competition. We have a total of 15 premiership teams once again in this years competition with LIVERPOOL being our top team with 49 votes this season.  Next comes ARSENAL with 26 votes. They were also our 2nd most voted team last season with 45 votes. In third place with just 19 votes we have MANCHESTER CITY. They were our top voted team last season with 46 votes. In fourth place came CHELSEA. They have 12 votes compared to 13 last season. Our fifth voted teams are SHEFFIELD UNITED with 11 votes. They had just 1 vote last season. In the Championship we have picked up 12 teams, while in League One we have 10, and 9 teams taken from League Two.

We have one team that are back into the football league and Golden Goals this season and they are National League winners BARNET with 1 vote. Barnet, return to League Two after seven seasons of non-league football. They have appeared in five seasons with Golden Goals. They became our 81st voted English team when they first appeared in the 1992/93 season. finishing on a total of 69 goals which turned out to be their highest end of season goals total. Last time that we had Barnet was back in the 2005/06 season where they finished on a total of 51 goals. In the five seasons they netted a total of 306 goals which gives them an average score of 61 goals per season.

So on with the competition and this weeks sheet shows you all the games that have been played up to and including the 10th August. Any games that have been played before and up to up to Friday the 8th August, have all been counted as midweek goals, so some of you have a bit of a lead already for the 100 Midweek Cash Jackpot of £25.

Week One we had our very first winners of the new season who won on a total  of 6 goals to share the first £5 weekend prize money. Our winners are VINCENT CRUICKSHANK and our 2007/08 Champion RICKY WOOD. 

Vincent started with Golden Goals in our  2010/11 Season and finished in 94th place out of 109. Vincent ended the season with a grand total of 228 goals. Last season he finished in 65th place out of 114 with a total of 264 goals. 

Ricky started in the 2015/16 Season and finished in the winning frame in 20th place with a total of 262 goals. He picked up one weekend shared win. Ricky became joint Champion in the 2007/08 Season with Gerry Kyei on a total of 293 goals. He is ranked 34th in our Champions League. Last season Ricky finished in the winning frame once again in 13th place with a total of 312 goals. He had two weekend wins. Our winners teams are 

                                Vincent  CELTIC 2, MK DONS 2, SOUTHAMPTON 2 

                              Ricky  CELTIC 2, LEICESTER CITY 2, LUTON TOWN 2

WEEKEND RESULTS

The lower English leagues were all in action in our first weekend of the new season. We had a good start to the season with plenty of goals but we had one of our team picking up the highest score over the weekend with 4 goals. They were from the Championship  BRISTOL CITY. 

Bristol city won their first league game 4-1 away to SHEFFIELD UNITED. They started with Golden Goals back in our very first season of 1983/84 where they became our 20th voted English team. In that season they ended with a total of 79 goals. The only time that they have hit 100 goals was back in the 2014/15 season with a grand total of 103. Last time out was in the 2023/24 season and ended with a total of 61 goals. This is their 17th Season with us and over the years they have netted a total of 1141 goals, which gives them an average score of 67 goals per season. They have just 1 vote this season.

So lets see how the rest of our teams that were in action, got on over the weekend.

CHAMPIONSHIP

In no particular order after their first game, NORWICH CITY lost 2-1 at home to Millwall. WATFORD lost 1-0 away to Charlton. SOUTHAMPTON won 2-1 at home to WREXHAM. MIDDLESBROUGH won 1-0 at home against Swansea. PRESTON NE drew 1-1 away to QPR. BLACKBURN ROVERS lost 1-0 away to West Brom. LEICESTER CITY won 2-1 at home to Sheffield Wednesday.

LEAGUE ONE

HUDDERSFIELD TOWN are top of the table after 2 games as they win 2-0 away to Reading. Huddersfield are on a total of 5 goals. PETERBOROUGH lost 2-0 at home to LUTON and picked up their 1st blank of the season. Luton are on a total of 3 goals. BOLTON won their first league game 2-0 at home to PLYMOUTH to get their first goals. Plymouth picked up their 1st blank score sheet. BLACKPOOL lost 4-1 away to Exeter and are on a total of 3 goals. LEYTON ORIENT picked up their first win and goals of the season with a 2-0 home win against Wigan. WYCOMBE lost 2-1 at home against STOCKPORT COUNTY and are on a total of 2 goals. County are on 4 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

After 2 games, CREWE are top of the table after they won 2-0 at home to Accrington. Crew are on a total of 5 goals. NOTTS COUNTY lost their first league game 2-1 at home to Salford City and are on a total of 2 goals. MK DONS get their first win of the season and their first goals, as they beat Barrow 2-0 away. BROMLEY won their first game with their goals, 2-0 at home to BARNET. Barnet have still yet to score a goal in the league and they have now had 2 blank score sheets in a row. CHESTERFIELD have won again 2-0 away to Cheltenham and are on a total of 3 goals. GILLINGHAM won 1-0 at home against WASALL. With their first win of the season, Gillingham are on a total of 2 goals. Walsall picked up their 1st blank score sheet. SWINDON TOWN picked up their biggest win of the season 3-2 at home to Cambridge Utd. Swindon are on a total of 4 goals.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

Now you might already know that the Scottish have already played their first round of their League Cup, if you have been following our blog and with their group format once again, so most of our teams have already played more than four games this weekend. But here is the results of their second league games.

In the Premiership HEARTS are top of the table as they win their second game, 3-2 away to Dundee Utd. Hearts are now on a total of 21 goals and have scored in all of their 6 league/cup games. last season’s Champions CELTIC are in second place also with now two wins after they won 2-0 away to Aberdeen. Celtic are on a total of 3 goals. RANGERS drew again 1-1 at home to Dundee. Rangers are on 2 goals. HIBERNIAN drew 2-2 at home to Kilmarnock and are on a total of 4 goals.

In the Championship, AYR UNITED lost 1-0 at home to Raith Rovers. After a goal run of 5 league/cup games, Ayr Pick uo their 1st blank of the season.

In League One EAST FIFE lost their second league game, 1-0 at home to Alloa and picked up their 2nd blank of the season. STENHOUSEMUIR won their first league game, 1-0 at home to COVE RANGERS. Stenhousemuir are on a total of 5 goals while Rangers picked up their 3rd blank score sheet and now 2 in a row.

In League Two CLYDE drew their first league game 0-0 at home to Forfar and picked up their 2nd blank of the season. DUMBARTON won their second league game 2-1 away to The Spartans and are on a total of 6 goals.

In our very first weekend, here are our top 10 for this week.

FIRST                                      M/WEEK     W/END     TOTAL

WEEK    NAME                       GOALS      GOALS     GOALS 

      1         D. BARRETT                17                5                  22

      2         H. ADKINS                   18                3                  21

      3         BISH-BASH-BOSH      18               3                   21

      4         EMMAF                        18                2                  20

      5        CHARLIE FARLEY      15                1                  16

     6         G. DOWSETT (1)            8                2                  10

     7         J. WISE                            4                5                  9 

     8         G. DOWSETT (2)            5                4                 9

     9         R. WOOD (2007/08)*     2                6                 8

           10         M. LIDDLE                      6                2                 8