In the Championship, SHEFFIELD UNITED won 2-1 away to Bristol City and are on a total of 22 goals. OXFORD UNITED won 1-0 at home to Hull City and are on a total of 19 goals. NORWICH CITY lost 2-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday and have now had a total of 4 blank score sheets after a goal run of 8 league/cup games. MIDDLESBROUGH picked up their highest result of the season as they won 4-1 away to QPR. Middlesbrough have taken their goals tally to 21 goals. PORTSMOUTH picked up their 6th blank of the season after they lost 1-0 away to Plymouth. SWANSEA CITY won 1-0 at home to Watford and hit goal number 14.
Wednesday 6 November 2024
Monday 4 November 2024
Week Thirteen
In Week Thirteen of the competition we had 2 winner to share the £5 weekend prize money this weekend. Our winner are BARBARA BARNES (2) with her 2nd win of the season and ANN WELLARD, who becomes our 13th winner of the season and now the fifth lady to win. Our winners won on a score of 13 goals.
Barbara won in Week Six with her second combination on a score of 7 goals. This week’s win is her personal best weekend score and she has still only had 1 blank weekend score sheet. Celtic is now her best team. Ann started with Golden Goals back in the 2003/04 Season and finished her first season in 83rd place with a total of 228 goals. Ann did have a shared weekend win that season. Last season Ann finished in 31st place with a total of 304 goals. This season, she has reached as high as 15th place in Week One. Ann has picked up just 1 blank weekend score sheet and this is her personal best weekend score. Celtic is her best team. Our winners teams are
Barbara CELTIC 6, FALKIRK 6, MANCHESTER UNITED 1
Ann CELTIC 6, LEEDS UNITED 3, PETERBOROUGH 4
100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
The race for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot has certainly picked up pace this week. What a week we have had.
BARBARA BARNES (2) has shot out in front with a 6 goal lead as she is now on a total of 35 goals. Her teams are Celtic, Falkirk and Manchester United. In second place down from one we now have DAVID BARRETT with ALFIE DIMMOCK up from three. Both with a total of 29 goals. In third place we now have RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 joint Champion up from fourth place with BRUCE SELF joining the race. Both are on a total of 27 goals. In fourth place both with a total of 26 goals we have CHRIS SETFORD and SCOTT THOMSON (1). In fifth place we have STUART KEMPT (2) and MARTIN CORBETT both with a total of 25 goals.
WEEKEND RESULTS
We had just 3 of our teams without a game over the weekend and another 8 of them failed to score any goals. We had a fairly good weekend for results. The average score for this weekend stayed at 5 goals for the second weekend running. Well done if you have received more than that from your teams. The highest score over the weekend was 6 goals and they came from the Scottish League Cup Semi-Finals where CELTIC won 6-0 against Aberdeen.
FA CUP 1st Round
In the very first round of the FA Cup, we already know that Huddersfield are out and Notts County are through to the second round, but what about the other teams of ours. Well the good news is that most of them are through. They are DONCASTER ROVERS won 1-0 away to Barrow and are on a total of 23 goals. CHESTERFIELD won 3-1 at home to non-league Horsham and are now on a total of 32 goals and have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. BLACKPOOL won 2-0 away to Gillingham and are on a total of 29 goals. PETERBOROUGH won 4-2 away to Newport County and have taken their goals tally up to 29 goals. BARNSLEY won 3-1 away to Port Vale and are now on a total of 26 goals. BROMLEY have picked up their biggest result of the season as they win 4-3 away to Rochdale and have taken their goals tally to 20. CHARLTON won 4-3 away to non-league Southend after extra time. With their biggest result of the season, Charlton are now on a total of 19 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. AFC WIMBLEDON won 2-0 away to MK DONS and are on a total of 24 goals, while the Dons picked up their sixth blank of the season. BIRMINGHAM CITY won 1-0 away to non-league Sutton Utd and are on a total of 25 goals.
Teams that went out are BOLTON after they lost 2-1 away to Walsall and hit goal number 27. WREXHAM lost 1-0 away to Harrogate Town. That is their fifth blank of the season.
PREMIER LEAGUE
We currently now have the top seven teams here with LIVERPOOL going back on top after they won 2-1 at home to Brighton. Liverpool are on a total of 27 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. MANCHESTER CITY are down to second place after they lost their first league game 2-1 away to AFC BOURNEMOUTH. As City picked up their 24th goal of the season and have extended their goal run to 12 league/cup games, Bournemouth are on a total of 13 goals. ARSENAL lost 1-0 away to NEWCASTLE and that is their second blank score sheet while Newcastle picked up goal number 14. IPSWICH TOWN drew 1-1 at home to LEICESTER CITY and are on a total of 12 goals. Leicester are on 20 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. WEST HAM lost 3-0 away to Nottingham Forest and that is their second blank of the season after a goal run of 5 games. SOUTHAMPTON have won their first league game, 1-0 at home to Everton. Southampton are on a total of 16 goals. CRYSTAL PALACE drew 2-2 away to Wolves and are on a total of 16 goals. TOTTENHAM won 4-1 at home to ASTON VILLA and have taken their goals tally to 26. Villa hit goal number 20. MANCHESTER UNITED drew 1-1 at home against CHELSEA and are on a total of 21 goals. Chelsea are on 25 goals.
CHAMPIONSHIP
LEEDS UNITED are in second place this weekend after they won 3-0 at home to Plymouth. Leeds are now on a total of 22 goals. It’s 20 goals for SHEFFIELD UNITED after they won 2-0 away to Blackburn Rovers. After they had failed to score in their previous 5 league games, SWANSEA CITY won 2-1 away to OXFORD UNITED and are on a total of 13 goals. Oxford picked up goal number 18. NORWICH CITY lost 2-1 away to Cardiff City and are on a total of 27 goals and now have scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. MIDDLESBOROUGH picked up their fifth blank of the season as they lost 3-0 at home to Coventry City. PORTSMOUTH drew 1-1 away to Hull City and are on a total of 13 goals and are bottom of the league. PRESTON NE lost 3-1 at home to Bristol City and are on a total of 22 goals. MILLWALL won 1-0 at home to BURNLEY and they are on a total of 17 goals. Burnley picked up their sixth blank score sheet and now 2 in a row.
SCOTTISH LEAGUES
SCOTTISH LEAGUE Cup Semi-Finals, We had 2 of our teams in cup action and both of them have made through to the final. CELTIC won 6-0 at home against Aberdeen and have taken their goals tally up to 43 goals and keep their 100% scoring record after 13 league/cup games. RANGERS won 2-1 away to Motherwell and are on a total of 22 goals. It’s another old firm final to be played next month.
In the Premiership leaders Celtic remain top on goal difference. HEARTS won their second league game 2-1 away to St Johnstone and are on a total of 14 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. ROSS COUNTY drew 0-0 away to St Mirren and picked up their seventh blank score sheet and now 2 in a row. DUNDEE won 3-2 at home against KILMARNOCK. Dundee are now on a total of 41 goals while Kilmarnock are on 15 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games.
In the Championship top of the table FALKIRK won their ninth league game and their biggest result of the season as they win 6-0 at home to Greenock Morton. Falkirk have taken their goals tally up to 40 goals.
In League One, top of the table COVE RANGERS won 3-0 away to Dumbarton and are now on a total of 24. They have now scored in all of their last 13 league/cup games. STENHOUSEMUIR lost 1-0 away to Arbroath and picked up their ninth blank of the season.
In League Two EAST FIFE are top of the table on goal difference as they drew 1-1 at home to Stirling and after they had failed to score in their last 2 games, are now on a total of 33 goals. It’s 20 goals for CLYDE after they drew 2-2 at home to Bonnyrigg Rose. Clyde have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. PETERHEAD won 2-1 at home to The Spartans and are on a total of 25 goals.
Our BEST three teams this week
CELTIC (43) DUNDEE (41) FALKIRK (40) Total of 124 goals
Our WORST three teams are
IPSWICH TOWN (12) SWANSEA (13) PORTEMOUTH (13) Total of 38 goals
Our best performing team is still CELTIC after they have now scored in all of their last 13 league/cup games. They have a total of 43 goals which gives them an average score of 3.3 goals per game.
Our worst performing team is STENHOUSEMUIR this weekend after they picked up their 9th blank score sheet from 16 league/cup games. They have a total of 20 goals.
Our highest goal-scoring teams in our 42nd Season are MANCHESTER UNITED after they won 7-0 at home to BARNSLEY in the Carabao/League Cup 3rd Round in Week Seven. DUNDEE won 7-1 away to Bonnyrigg Rose in the Scottish League Cup in the very first game in the first round group stages.
We have a new leader this week and it’s BARBARA BARNES (2) back at the top for her second time this season. Barbara picked up a total of 20 goals this week. Her teams are Celtic, Falkirk and Manchester United. Guy Dowsett (2) has moved back down to second place this weekend and only 3 goals behind Barbara. Guy’s teams picked up a total of 12 goals this week from Arsenal, Celtic and East Fife.
At the other end at 114 we still have MANDY WRIGHT with her seventh weekend. Mandy’s teams picked up just 4 goals this week. Her teams are Bournemouth, West Ham and AFC Wimbledon.
What a fantastic week we had for goals, so as you can see there was a slight change in the table this weekend.
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 4 B. BARNES (2) 35 69 104
2 1 G. DOWSETT (2) 24 77 101
3 2 L. GRIMWOOD 22 78 100
4 8 J. WEARDEN 21 78 99
5 3 M. LIPMAN 20 77 97
6 7 M. GREGORY 21 76 97
7 9 GRANT PHILLIPS 23 73 96
8 5 S. THOMSON (2) 16 79 95
9 11 L. HAMMOND 19 76 95
10 14 C. STEPHENS 21 74 95
Saturday 2 November 2024
Huddersfield Cup Exit
In the start of the FA CUP first round, HUDDERSFIELD TOWN are our first team to go out of the competition after they lost 1-0 away to non-league Tamworth. Huddersfield have now had a total of four blank score sheets. NOTTS COUNTY are through to the next round after they picked up their highest result of the season 5-0 at home to non-league Alfreton Town. County have taken their goals tally to 30 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games.
In the Championship LUTON TOWN drew 1-1 at home to WBA and are on a total of 16 goals
Thursday 31 October 2024
Carabao/League Cup 4th Round
With the other results in the Carabao/League Cup 4th round games, we had another 11 of our teams in action. The ones that have made it into the quarter-finals are LIVERPOOL after they won 3-2 away to Brighton. Liverpool are now on a total of 25 goals and they have now scored in all of their 7 league/cup games. CRYSTAL PALACE won 2-1 away to ASTON VILLA and are on a total of 14 goals. Villa are on a total of 19 goals. MANCHESTER UNITED win 5-2 at home to LEICESTER CITY and have taken their goals total up to 20 goals. Leicester are on 19 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. NEWCASTLE won 2-0 at home against CHELSEA and are on a total of 13 goals. Chelsea, after a goal run of 9 league/cup games, picked up their second blank of the season. ARSENAL won 3-0 away to PRESTON NE and are now on a total of 25 goals while Preston picked up their fifth blank of the season. TOTTENHAM won 2-1 at home to MANCHESTER CITY, which was probably the shock of the night. Tottenham are on a total of 22 goals while City have kept their 100% scoring record after a run of 11 league/cup games and are on a total of 23 goals.
In the Scottish Premiership, CELTIC are still top on goal difference, after they won 2-0 at home to DUNDEE. Celtic are on a total of 37 goals and have now scored in all of their 12 league/cup games. Dundee picked up their third blank score sheet. HEARTS lost 2-1 at home to KILMARNOCK and are on a total of 12 goals and have extended their goal run to 6 league/cup games. Kilmarnock are on a total of 13 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. ROSS COUNTY drew 0-0 at home to Hibernian and picked up their sixth blank of the season. RANGERS lost their third league game 2-1 away to Aberdeen in second place. Rangers hit goal number 20.
Wednesday 30 October 2024
Southampton Progress in Cup
In the Carabao/League Cup 4th round, SOUTHAMPTON who are struggling in the league, won 3-2 at home against Stoke City. Southampton are now on a total of 15 goals and a place in the quarter-finals.
In League One BOLTON won 4-1 away to Stevenage and have taken their goals tally to 26. They have now won 7 of their 13 league games played.
Tuesday 29 October 2024
Still No Joy for Blackpool
In League One, BLACKPOOL have failed to win any of their last 5 league games. They drew their fourth league game 2-2 at home to Wigan. Blackpool are on a total of 27 goals.
Monday 28 October 2024
Week Twelve
In Week Twelve of the competition we had just one winner to pick up the full £5 prize money this weekend. Our winner is LYANNA GRIMWOOD who becomes our 12th winner of the season and now the fourth lady to win on a score of 10 goals. Lyanna is in her fourth season with Golden Goals and in her first, back in the 2020/21 Season, she finished in 34th place with a total of 267 goals. Last season Lyanna finished in the winning frame in 6th place with a total of 321 goals. She had one weekend shared win. This season she is at her highest position to date. Her best team is Celtic. Her winning teams are
ARSENAL 2, CELTIC 3, CHESTERFIELD 5
100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
The race for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot has changed a bit again from last week. We have joint leaders this week. We still have BARBARA BARNES (2) but now we have DAVID BARRETT now both with a total of 28 goals. In second place we now have MARK WALKER with 23 goals. In third place we still have PHIL COLLINS, ALFIE DIMMOCK and GUY DOWSETT (1). All are now on a total of 22 goals. In fourth place we still have RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 joint Champion but he is now joined with GRANT PHILLIPS and our 2005/06 Champions KEAMUS SETNA both up from five. All are on a total of 21 goals. In fifth place we have a total of 6 players all on 20 goals this week.
WEEKEND RESULTS
We had just 3 of our teams without a game over the weekend and another 8 of them failed to score any goals. We then had a better weekend for results. The average score for this weekend was 5 goals up from four last weekend. Well done if you have received more than that from your teams. The highest score over the weekend was 6 goals and they came from the Scottish Cup 2nd Round where PETERHEAD won 5-3 against non-league Lochee United.
Peterhead became our 32nd Scottish team to join Golden Goals back in the 2005/06 Season. In their first season they finished on a total of 63 goals. Their highest score came in 2017/18 with their highest end of season total of 105 goals. Last time out was in the 2019/20 Season and finished with a total of just 33 goals which is their lowest score. This is their sixth season with us, and over the years they have netted a total of 351 goals to date, which gives them an average score of 58 goals per season. They have just 1 vote again this time round. Here are the rest of the results for the weekend.
PREMIER LEAGUE
We currently have the top five teams here with MANCHESTER CITY going back on top after they won 1-0 at home to bottom of the table SOUTHAMPTON. City still have their 100% scoring record after 10 league/cup games. They are on a total of 22 goals, while poor Southampton are still rock bottom, as they picked up their fourth blank score sheet after a goal run of 5 games. ARSENAL drew 2-2 at home to LIVERPOOL with both teams on a total of 22 goals. Liverpool now in second place, have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. ASTON VILLA drew 1-1 at home against AFC BOURNEMOUTH and are on a total of 18 goals. Bournemouth are on 11 goals. IPSWICH TOWN lost 4-3 away to Brentford. With their personal best score, Ipswich are now on a total of 11 goals. CHELSEA won 2-1 at home to NEWCASTLE and they are on a total of 24 goals and have extended their goal run to 9 league/cup games. Newcastle picked up goal number 11 after a 2 game dry spell. CRYSTAL PALACE have won their first league game 1-0 at home to London rivals TOTTENHAM. Palace are on a total of 12 goals after a 2 game dry spell while Tottenham picked up their second blank of the season after a 5 game goal run. WEST HAM won 2-1 at home to MANCHESTER UNITED and are on a total of 15 goals. United hit goal number 15.
CHAMPIONSHIP
LEEDS UNITED drew 0-0 away to Bristol City and after a goal run of 6 league/cup games, picked up their fourth blank of the season. LUTON TOWN lost 3-2 away to Coventry and are on a total of 15 goals. BURNLEY picked up their fifth blank score sheet after they drew 0-0 at home to QPR. PRESTON NE drew 3-3 away to Plymouth and are now on a total of 21 goals. After they had failed to score in their last 2 games, SHEFFIELD UNITED won 2-0 at home to Stoke and are on a total of 18 goals. OXFORD UNITED lost 2-0 away to Sunderland and picked up their third blank of the season. SWANSEA CITY lost 1-0 at home to MILLWALL and picked up their eighth blank of the season and now 5 games in a row without a goal. Millwall picked up goal number 16. NORWICH CITY drew 3-3 at home against MIDDLESBROUGH and are now on a total of 26 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. Brough are now on a total of 17 goals.
LEAGUE ONE
BIRMINGHAM CITY are still top of the table after they drew 1-1 away to Mansfield Town. Birmingham are on a total of 24 goals. BOLTON won 1-0 at home to PETERBOROUGH and are on a total of 22 goals while Borough picked up their fifth blank of the season. CHARLTON drew 2-2 at home to WREXHAM and are on a total of 15 goals. Wrexham are on 23 goals. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN won 2-0 at home to Exeter and are now on a total of 24 goals. BARNSLEY won 2-0 away to Shrewsbury and are on a total of 23 goals.
LEAGUE TWO
CHESTERFIELD won 5-2 away to Morecambe and have taken their goals tally up to 29 goals. Chesterfield have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. DONCASTER ROVERS won 2-1 away to Bradford City. Rovers are on a total of 22 goals. BROMLEY drew 1-1 at home to Barrow and are on a total of 16 goals. MK DONS won 3-1 away to Grimsby Town and are now on a total of 21 goals. NOTTS COUNTY won 1-0 at home to Harrogate and are on a total of 25 goals. AFC WIMBLEDON lost 3-2 away to Port vale and are on a total of 22 goals.
SCOTTISH LEAGUES
SCOTTISH CUP 2nd Round, We had 3 of our teams in cup action and only 1 of them have made through to the next round. They are PETERHEAD who won 6-3 against non-league Lochee United. After they had failed to score in their last 2 league games, Peterhead have picked up their biggest result of the season and have taken their goals tally to 23. EAST FIFE are out after they lost 1-0 at home to non-league Banks O’Dee. That is Fife’s third blank of the season and now 2 games in a row without a goal. CLYDE drew 1-1 away to Elgin City but then lost 8-7 on penalties. Clyde are on a total of 18 goals.
In the Premiership joint leaders CELTIC won their eighth league game 3-0 away to Motherwell. Celtic are now on a total of 35 goals and keep their 100% scoring record after 11 league/cup games. RANGERS won 2-1 at home to St Mirren and are on a total of 19 goals. HEARTS drew 1-1 away to Hibernian and are on a total of 11 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. DUNDEE lost 2-1 at home to St Johnstone and are on a total of 38 goals. It’s 20 goals for ROSS COUNTY after they won 2-1 at home to KILMARNOCK. Kilmarnock are on 11 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games.
In the Championship top of the table FALKIRK won their eighth league game 2-1 at home against Dunfermline and are on a total of 34 goals.
In League One, COVE RANGERS are now top of the table after they won 2-0 away to Montrose and are on a total of 21. They have now scored in all of their last 12 league/cup games. STENHOUSEMUIR move into second place after they won 2-1 at home to Kelty Hearts and are on a total of 20 goals.
Our BEST three teams this week
DUNDEE (38) CELTIC (35) FALKIRK (34) Total of 107 goals
Our WORST three teams are
SWANSEA (11) NEWCASTLE (11) AFC BOURNEMOUTH (11) Total of 33 goals
Our best performing team is still COVE RANGERS after they have now scored in all of their last 12 league/cup games. They have a total of 21 goals which gives them an average score of 1.4 goals per game.
Our worst performing team is SWANSEA CITY this weekend after they picked up 8th blank score sheet from 14 league/cup games. They have a total of 11 goals.
Our highest goal-scoring teams in our 42nd Season are MANCHESTER UNITED after they won 7-0 at home to BARNSLEY in the Carabao/League Cup 3rd Round in Week Seven. DUNDEE won 7-1 away to Bonnyrigg Rose in the Scottish League Cup in the very first game in the first round group stages.
GUY DOWSETT (2) is at the top for his fifth weekend, but he only picked up 5 goals this weekend. His teams are Arsenal, Celtic and East Fife. Lyanna Grimwood has moved in to second place this weekend cutting down the gap between herself and Guy by 3 goals. Lyanna’s teams picked up a total of 11 goals this week from Arsenal, Celtic, and Chesterfield.
At the other end at 114 we still have MANDY WRIGHT with her sixth weekend. Mandy’s teams picked up 8 goals this week. Her teams are Bournemouth, West Ham and AFC Wimbledon.
We have had a better weekend for goal then, and it has certainly shown that in our top ten this week
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 - G. DOWSETT (2) 19 70 89
2 4 L. GRIMWOOD 17 69 86
3 10 M. LIPMAN 18 66 84
4 2 B. BARNES (2) 28 56 84
5 9 S. THOMSON (2) 14 69 83
6 3 A. STUBBS (2) 16 67 83
7 14 M. GREGORY 16 66 82
8 15 J. WEARDEN 16 66 82
9 17 GRANT PHILLIPS 21 61 82
10 5 A. DAVEY 14 67 81
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