FA CUP Third Round

In the very last game of the FA CUP third round, except for the replays, MANCHESTER UNITED are another team through to the next round after they won 2-0 away to Wigan. United are on a total of 27 goals.

Here are our top ten teams are looking now in our 41^st Season of Golden Goals. 

LEICESTER CITY   62

PETERBOROUGH     62

NOTTS COUNTY      60

IPSWICH                    59

FALKIRK                   56

LIVERPOOL              55

AFC WIMBLEDON   55

WREXHAM               55

BARNSLEY               54

CELTIC                      53

Week Twenty-Three

In Week Twenty-Three of the competition we had our fourth Rollover of £10 in cash. We had two winners to share the weekend prize money and they are BARBARA BARNES (1) and MARK JOHNSTON both won on a total of 12 goals. Barbara has now picked up her second win of the season, and now with her first combination of teams. Barbara’s second combo won in Week Twelve with our second Rollover of the season. Barbara’s first combination has picked up a total of four blank score sheets at the weekend’s and the highest with this one, is 33^rd place in Week Five. Her best team is Manchester City. Mark started with Golden Goals back in the 2020/21 season on where he finished in the winning frame in 5^th place with a total of 292 goals. He also had one shared weekend win. In the following season he finished in the winning frame once again in 8^th place with 318 goals. Again he has a shared weekend win. Last season he finished in 59^th place with a total of 259 goals. This season we can see mark at his highest  position to date in 22^nd place. He has picked up three blank score sheets at the weekend’s. His best team is Leicester City. Our winners teams are 

             Barbara  BRIGHTON 4, AFC BOURNEMOUTH 3, MANCHESTER CITY 5

                    Mark  CHJELSEA  4, LEICESTER CITY 3, MANCHESTER CITY 5

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

All but six of us have picked up goals this week and the race for the cash has changed once again this week. We now have a total of 26 players that are over the half-way mark this week. The highest score that we had in midweek came from three players with a total of 10 goals each. They are JAMES SOMERVILLE, BOB SOPER and SCOTT THOMSON (2) 

In first place this week we now have JAMES SOMERVILLE moving up from three now on a total of 67 goals. James teams are Celtic, Leicester City and Peterborough. Remaining in second place we still have PETER PORTER now on a total of 66 goals. In third place down from one we now have MARK GREGORY with a total of 64 goals. In fourth place down from three we now have GRANT PHILLIPS coming back in to the race with a total of 62 goals. In fifth place we have BAILEY MORAN up from six with a total of 61 goals. In sixth place this week we have down from five ANDY EYLES on a total of 60 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had 37 of our teams in action over the weekend and out of them we only had 4 of our teams that failed to score any goals. The average score for the weekend was 5 goals. The highest score that we had came from the FA CUP Third Round  where MANCHESTER CITY won 5-0 against Huddersfield, which was no surprise.  City have taken their goals tally to 50.

Manchester City are one of our original teams from our first season of 1983/84. In that season they became our 15^th voted team and they finished on a total of 73 goals. They have reached their highest score of 137 goals twice. They first scored that amount in the 2913/14 Season and then again in the 2018/19 Season. They have netted 100 or more goals in 9 of their 30 season’s. Last season they finished on a total of 118 goals. They have scored a total of 2612 goals in that time and that now gives them an average score of 87 goals per season to date. This season they have picked up 3 blank score sheets and they have a total of 44 votes.

FA CUP Third Round

We had another 28 of our teams in action in this round and out of them, 7 failed to get through to the next round, so far. 

The teams through are IPSWICH after they won 3-1 away to AFC WIMBLEDON. Ipswich after they had score just one goal in their last 4 games, have now taken their goals total to 59. Wimbledon are on 55 goals. LEICESTER CITY won 3-2 away to Millwall and are now on a total of 62 goals and have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games. NEWCASTLE won 3-0 away to SUNDERLAND and have taken their goals total to 47 goals while Sunderland picked up their 9^th blank of the season. PLYMOUTH won 3-1 at home to SUTTON UNITED and have taken their goals total to 50 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. Sutton are on 38 goals. AFC BOURNEMOUTH won 3-2 away to QPR and are now on a total of 37 goals and a goal run of 13 league/cup games. SOUTHAMPTON won 4-0 at home to Walsall and have taken their goals total to 51 goals and have extended their goal run to 20 league/cup games. BRIGHTON won 4-2 away to STOKE and are now on a total of 42 goals. Stoke are on a total of 35 goals. CHELSEA won 4-0 at home to Preston and are now on a total of 44 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. ASTON VILLA won 1-0 away to MIDDLESBROUGH and picked up goal number 45 and have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. Brough picked up their 7^th blank of the season. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY picked up their biggest win of the season after they won 4-0 at home to Cardiff. They have taken their goals tally to 27 goals. SWANSEA won 2-0 at home against Morecambe and are on a total of 42 goals. LEEDS UNITED won 3-0 away to PETERBOROUGH and have taken their goals total to 51. Borough after a goal run of 26 league/cup games, picked up their 2^nd blank of the season. WREXHAM won 1-0 away to Shrewsbury and are on a total of 55 goals and have  a goal run of 9 league/cup games. LIVERPOOL won 2-0 against ARSENAL away and are on a total of 55 goals while Arsenal picked up their 4^th blank of the season. 

In replays we already have Palace to play but we now have NORWICH after they drew 1-1 at home to BRISTOL ROVERS. Norwich are on a total of 46 goals while Rovers are also on 46 goals and have now scored in all of their last 18 league/cup games. NOTTINGHAM FOREST drew 2-2 at home to BLACKPOOL and are now on a total of 26 goals. Blackpool are on 49 goals. WEST HAM drew 1-1 at home against BRISTOL CITY and picked up their 39^th goal of the season. City after they had failed to score in their last two games, are now on a total of 36 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

Just a couple of games here. DERBY won 3-1 away to Fleetwood and are now on a total of 50 goals and have now scored in all of their last 15 league/cup games. CHARLTON drew 3-3 away to Port Vale and have taken their goal total to 47.

LEAGUE TWO

After they had failed to score in their last two games, SALFORD CITY drew 2-2 at home to Forest Green and are on a total of 43 goals.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In League One FALKIRK are still top of the table after their 1-0 home win against Queen of South and are on a total of 56 goals.  COVE RANGERS are in third place after they drew 2-2 at home to KELTY HEARTS and are on a total of 48 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 15 league/cup games. Kelty are on a total of 39 goals.

In League Two STENHOUSEMUIR are still top of the table after they won 2-1 at home to Forfar. Stenhousemuir are on a total of 38 goals and have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. CLYDE who are still bottom of the table won their second league game 3-2 at home to Bonnyrigg Rose and are on a total of 30 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. EAST FIFE won 2-1 away to Dumbarton and that is their 11^th blank of the season and now two in a row, after they had failed to score in their previous two games. Fife are on a total of 27 goals.

Our BEST three teams this week

LEICESTER CITY (62) PETERBOROUGH (62) NOTTS COUNTY (60) Total of 184 goals

Our WORST three teams are

MANCHESTER UNITED (25) CRYSTAL PALACE (26) NOTTINGHAM FOREST (26)  Total of 77 goals

Our Best performing team are now TOTTENHAM after they have now scored in all of their 22 league/cup games. They have a total of 44 goals which gives them an average score of 2 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is STOKE CITY this week as they have picked up 13 blank score sheets out of their 30 league/cup games.

Our highest goal scoring teams in our 41^st Season are NEWCASTLE UNITED after they won 8-0 away to Sheffield United in Week Eight. BARNSLEY and BRISTOL ROVERS have both pick up our second highest score with 7 goals. Barnsley won 7-0 at home to Port Vale in the first league game of the season in Week One. Bristol Rovers won 7-2 at home to non-league Whitby Town in the first round of the FA CUP in Week Fourteen. 

JAMES SOMERVILLE remains at the top for his third consecutive weekend as he picks up a total of 13 goals from the week. James teams are Celtic, Leicester City and Peterborough. Bailey Moran moves up to second place but 7 goals behind James. Bailey picked up a total of 15 goals this week from his selection of Leicester City, Manchester City and Peterborough.

At the other end at 110 we still have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) for his fourth weekend. John picked up just 3 goals from the week. John has Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir.

We had a slight change in the top ten but there were a lot of changes in the table below them.

         THIS    LAST                                    M/WEEK     W/END       TOTAL

WEEK  WEEK    NAME                    GOALS       GOALS      GOALS 

       1            -         J. SOMERVILLE        67                110              177

       2            3        B. MORAN                 61                113              174

       3            2        S. THOMSON (2)       49                121             170

       4            -         P. PORTER                 66                103             169

       5            10       J. FILTNESS              53                114             167

       6            -         A. EYLES                   60                106             166

       7            -         S. THOMSON (1)       48               117              165

       8            9        GRANT PHILLIPS     62               103              165

       9            20      J. BLYTH                    56               106              162

               10          15      G. CARTHY                59               102              161

More FA CUP 3rd round Results

 

In the FA CUP third round, we had another two of our Golden Goals teams in action and they are both through to the next round of the cup. They are FULHAM won 1-0 at home against Rotherham and they are on a total of 36 goals. TOTTENHAM have kept their 100% scoring record going after a total of 22 league/cup games as they win 1-0 at home to Burnley. Tottenham are on a total of 44 goals.

The Start of the FA CUP Third Round

In the very first games of the FA CUP third round, CRYSTAL PALACE drew 0-0 at home to Everton and picked up their 7^th blank of the season.

Could Celtic Be Champions Again?

In the Premier League WEST HAM drew 0-0 at home to BRIGHTON. Both teams picked up their 3^rd blank of the season. 

In the Scottish Premiership, Leaders CELTIC beat 10-man St Mirren 3-0 away and have taken their goals tally to 53. second place RANGERS won 3-1 at home against KILMARNOCK and have taken their goals total to 51 and have now scored in all of their last 19 league/cup games, while Kilmarnock hit goal number 35. HIBERNIAN drew 2-2 at home to Motherwell and are on a total of 32 goals. ABERDEEEN are on 27 goals after they won 3-0 away to ROSS COUNTY. County have picked up their 10^th blank of the season.

Here are our top ten teams are looking now in our 41^st Season of Golden Goals. 

PETERBOROUGH     62

NOTTS COUNTY      60

LEICESTER CITY     59

IPSWICH                    56

BARNSLEY               54

AFC WIMBLEDON  54

WREXHAM               54

LIVERPOOL              53

CELTIC                      53

MIDDLESBROUGH 52

  

New Year's Day Results

Here are the very first games of 2024 and what a New Years Day fixture it was. We had a total of 27 of our teams in action and we had a few big scores. 

In the Premier League leaders LIVERPOOL won 4-2 at home against NEWCASTLE and they have now taken their goals tally up to 53. Newcastle are on a total of 44 goals. 

In the Championship Top of the table LEICESTER CITY are now 10 points in front after they won 4-1 at home to Huddersfield. City have taken their goals tally to 59 and have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. IPSWICH in second place drew 0-0 away to STOKE. Ipswich picked up their 4^th blank score sheet and now two in a row. Ipswich have scored just one goal in their last four games. Stoke picked up their 13^th blank of the season.

In the Play-offs we have three of the four teams. SOUTHAMPTON are in third place after they drew 1-1 away to NORWICH. Southampton are on a total of 47 goals and have extended their scoring record to 19 league/cup games. Norwich are on a total of 45 goals after they failed to score in their previous two games. LEEDS UNITED are in fourth place as they win 3-0 at home to Birmingham and have taken their goals total to 48. SUNDERLAND are in sixth place after they won 2-0 at home to Preston and they are on a total of 37 goals.  

Meanwhile BRISTOL CITY lost 1-0 at home to Millwall and picked up their 10^th blank of the season and now two in a row. MIDDLESBROUGH lost 3-1 at home to Coventry and are on a total of 52 goals. PLYMOUTH drew against Watford and have taken their goals total to 47. It’s 40 goals for SWANSEA after they won 1-0 at home to West Brom. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY won 3-1 at home to Hull and have taken their goals total to 23. 

In League One the highest teams that we have here are in the Play-offs. They are PETERBOROUGH in third place won 3-2 away to DERBY. Borough are now on a total of 62 goals and have now scored in all of their last 26 league/cup games. Derby in fourth place are on 47 goals and have now scored in all of their last 14 league/cup games. BARNSLEY are in sixth place as they drew 1-1 at home to Wigan. Barnsley are on a total of 54 goals and have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games.

Meanwhile after they had failed to score in their last two games, BLACKPOOL won 2-0 at home to Lincoln City and are on a total of 49 goals. CHARLTON lost 2-1 at home to Oxford Utd and are on a total of 44 goals. READING won 3-2 at home to Exeter and are on a total of 43 goals and have now scored in all of their last 15 league/cup games. BRISTOL ROVERS lost 3-2 away to Wycombe and are on a total of 45 goals and have scored in all of their last 17 league/cup games. 

In League Two WREXHAM are down to third place after they won 4-1 at home to Barrow. Wrexham have taken their goals tally to 54 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games.

In the Play-offs we have just two of the teams. They are NOTTS COUNTY in fifth place after they lost 4-2 away to Tranmere and are on a total of 60 goals and have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. AFC WIMBLEDON are in seventh place as they drew 1-1 away to Forest Green. That is goal number 54 for them.

Meanwhile SALFORD CITY lost 3-0 away to Accrington and picked up their 9^th blank score sheet and now two in a row. MK DONS lost 3-0 away to Doncaster and they picked up their 6^th blank of the season after a goal run of 6 games. SUTTON UNITED drew 1-1 at home to Newport and they are on a total of 37 goals.

Week Twenty-Two

 

In Week Twenty-Two of the competition we have no prize money for the final games of 2023 due to the limited fixture. So we start 2024 with our fourth Rollover coming up next weekend worth £10. The highest amount of goals came from our 2015/16 Champion RICHARD WILLIAMS with a total of 9 goals. His teams are

                            FALKIRK 5, MANCHESTER CITY 2, ROSS COUNTY 2

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

All but one of us have picked up goals this week and the race for the cash has changed slightly again this week. We have 11 players that are over the half-way mark this week. The highest score that we had in midweek came from our 2007/08 Champion  RICKY WOOD with 15 goals. His teams are Barnsley, Celtic and Southampton. Ricky now has a total of 49 midweek goals.

Remaining in first place this week we still have MARK GREGORY leading the pack, now with a total of 59 goals. Mark has Barnsley, Celtic and Middlesbrough. Remaining in second place we still have PETER PORTER now on a total of 58 goals. In third place down from two we now have JAMES SOMERVILLE on a total of 57 goals. In fourth place down from three we now have our 2017/18 Champion CHRIS BOLBERY now with a total of 56 goals. In fifth place we still have ANDY EYLES now on a total of 55 goals. In sixth place this week we have BAILEY MORAN down from five and ANN WELLARD down from two. Both are now on a total of 54 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

Here are the very last games of 2023. We only had 19 of our teams in action over the weekend and out of them we had 2 of our teams that failed to score any goals. The highest score that we had came from the Scottish League One where FALKIRK won 5-0 at home to Stirling. Falkirk are now on a total of  55 goals.

Falkirk became our 27^th Scottish team to enter Golden Goals when they started in the 2002/03 Season. In that season they picked up their highest score of 92 goals. Last time that we had Falkirk was in the 2020/21 Season with them finishing with a total of 40 goals. This is their 11^th Season with Golden Goals and over the years they have netted a total of 736 goals. That now gives them a total average of 66 goals per season. This season they have just one vote and they have picked up a total of three blank score sheets to date. 

PREMIER LEAGUE

Liverpool are now top of the table with ASTON VILLA now in second place after they won 3-2 at home to Burnley and are now on a total of 44 goals and they have now scored in all of their 9 league/cup games. In third place we have MANCHESTER CITY who won 2-0 at home to bottom of the table Sheffield United. City are on a total of 45 goals. CHELSEA won 3-2 away to Luton and are now on a total of 40 goals. CRYSTAL PALACE won 3-1 at home to Brentford and they have taken their goals total to 26. NOTTINGHAM FOREST won 2-1 at home against MANCHESTER UNITED. Forest are on a total of 24 goals while United hit goal number 25. FULHAM won 2-1 at home against London rivals ARSENAL and are on a total of 35 goals while Arsenal are on 39 goals. TOTTENHAM won 3-1 at home against BOURNEMOUTH and are now on a total of 43 goals and they have now extended their 100% scoring record to 21 league/cup games. Bournemouth are on a total of 34 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 12 league/cup games. 

SCOTTISH RESULTS 

In the Premiership top of the table CELTIC won 2-1 at home to second place RANGERS in this local derby. Celtic are on a total of 50 goals while Rangers are on a total of 48 goals and have now scored in all of their last 18 league/cup games. ABERDEEN lost 3-0 at home to St Mirren and that is their 10^th blank of the season. ROSS COUNTY drew 2-2 away to Hearts and are on a total of 35 goals after they had failed to score in their previous two games. KILMARNOCK drew 2-2 at home to Dundee and they are on a total of 34 goals. 

In League One Falkirk are still top of the table after their win.  COVE RANGERS drew 1-1 away to Montrose and are on a total of 46 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 14 league/cup games. 

In League Two STENHOUSEMUIR are still top of the table after they won 2-1 away to CLYDE. Stenhousemuir are on a total of 36 goals and have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. Clyde who are still bottom of the table are on a total of 27 goals. EAST FIFE drew 0-0 away to Forfar and that is their 11^th blank of the season and now two in a row. 

Our BEST three teams this week 

PETERBOROUGH (59) NOTTS COUNTY (58) IPSWICH (56) Total of 173 goals 

Our WORST three teams are 

SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY (20) ABERDEEN (24) NOTTINGHAM FOREST (24)  Total of 68 goals 

Our Best performing team are still PETERBOROUGH after they have now scored in all of their 25 league/cup games. They have a total of 59 goals which gives them an average score of 1.9 goals per game. 

Our worst performing team is STOKE CITY this week as they have picked up 12 blank score sheets out of their 28 league/cup games. 

Our highest goal scoring teams in our 41^st Season are NEWCASTLE UNITED after they won 8-0 away to Sheffield United in Week Eight. BARNSLEY and BRISTOL ROVERS have both pick up our second highest score with 7 goals. Barnsley won 7-0 at home to Port Vale in the first league game of the season in Week One. Bristol Rovers won 7-2 at home to non-league Whitby Town in the first round of the FA CUP in Week Fourteen.

JAMES SOMERVILLE starts 2024 at the top for his second consecutive weekend. James picked up a total of 12 goals from the week. James teams are Celtic, Leicester City and Peterborough.

Scott Thomson (2) remains in second place but now 5 goals behind James. Scott picked up a total of 11 goals this week from his second selection of Celtic, Peterborough, Wrexham.

At the other end at 110 we still have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) for his third weekend. John picked up just 6 goals from the weekend. John has Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir. 

Here are our top ten going into 2024.

       THIS      LAST                                  M/WEEK     W/END      TOTAL

     WEEK    WEEK   NAME                   GOALS       GOALS      GOALS 

             1              -      J. SOMERVILLE       57                 107              164

             2              -      S. THOMSON (2)      39                 120              159

             3              -      B. MORAN                54                 105              159

             4              -      P. PORTER                 58                100               158

             5              -      M. GREGORY            59                95                154

             6              9      A. EYLES                   55                98                153

             7              16    S. THOMSON (1)      42                110               152

             8              6      J. WEARDEN            49                101               150

             9              15    GRANT PHILLIPS    53                97                 150

             10            -       J. FILTNESS              45               104                149

HAPPY NEW YEAR From GOLDEN GOALS