Middlesbrough Back in 2nd Place

In the Championship, MIDDLESBROUGH have moved back into second place after they won 2-1 away to Stoke and are on a total of 43 goals. SOUTHAMPTON won 1-0 at home against SHEFFIELD UNITED and picked up goal number 48. United have now had a total of 10 blank scoresheets and now 2 games without a goal. It’s 40 goals for WATFORD after they drew 1-1 at home against Portsmouth.

Swindon Town Out of Cup

In the very last game of the FA CUP 3^rd Round, SWINDON TOWN are out after they lost 3-2 away to Salford City. Swindon are on a total of 50 goals.

In the Championship, it’s 50 goals for IPSWICH TOWN after they won 2-0 at home against BRISTOL CITY. Ipswich have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. City picked up their 10th blank of the season and now 2 games without a goal. PRESTON NE lost 3-0 at home to Hull and picked up their 7^th blank of the season and now 3 in a row. BIRMINGHAM CITY won 2-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday and are on a total of 43 goals. After they had failed to score in their last 2 games, BLACKBURN ROVERS lost 3-1 away to Swansea and are on a total of 26 goals. NORWICH CITY won 5-0 away to West Brom and have now taken their goals tally to 42. WREXHAM drew 1-1 at home to LEICESTER CITY and are on a total of 52 goals and have now extended their goal run to 10 league/cup games. Leicester picked up goal number 43 and have extended their goal run to 12 league/cup games. 

In League One, it’s now eight blank score sheets for BOLTON WNDERERS after they drew 0-0 away to Stevenage. 

In the Scottish League One, EAST FIFE lost 2-0 at home to Inverness CT. That is their 8th blank of the season and now they have failed to score in their last four games.

A Point for Brighton and Bournemouth

In the Premier League BRIGHTON drew 1-1 at home to AFC BOURNEMOUTH and they are on a total of 46 goals and a goal run of 6 league/cup games. Bournemouth hit goal number 38 and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games.

Well, things have moved since we last published our top 10 teams. Manchester City are still top after they lost their game over the weekend. Celtic moved up to 5th place, while Arsenal have now moved into 6th place. Chelsea are now in 7th place. 

62 MANCHESTER CITY (137)

60 HEARTS (98)

55 CARDIFF CITY (106)

55 MK DONS (115)

53 CELTIC (144)

52 ARSENAL (103)

52 CHELSEA (128)

51 WREXHAM (93)

50 HUDDERSFIELD TOWN (94)

48 IPSWICH TOWN (113)

The numbers in red are their highest end of season goals total with Golden Goals. Teams are in alphabetical order. The goals come from the League, League Cup and FA Cup. The Scottish also come from their League and their two domestic cup competitions. 

Week Twenty-Four

In Week Twenty-Four of the competition, we had just one winner to collect the full £5 Weekend Prize Money. That went to PETER PORTER who picked up his second win of the season. He won on a total of just 7 goals. 

Peter last won in Week Fourteen and becomes the first player to win twice this season. Since then he has now had a total of 4 blank weekend score sheets and his highest position is now 19th place in Week Twenty-One. Celtic is his best team. His teams are once again

                                          CELTIC 2, IPSWICH TOWN 3, LUTON TOWN 2

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Most of us managed to pick up some goals this week, which means that our top five are pulling away from the rest of the field. We now have a total of 16 players who have reached the halfway mark. It was DOUG MORBEY that picked up the most number of goals with 11. They came from Chelsea, Liverpool and Rangers.

Out in front this week we now have KEITH RATTLE moving up from three now with a total of 64 goals. Keith’s teams are Chelsea, Rangers and Wrexham. In second place down from one is BARBARA BARNES (1) now with a total of 63 goals. In third place down from two we have SCOTT THOMSON (1) now on a total of 59 goals. In fourth place we still have MICHAEL FISHER now with a total of 57 goals. In fifth place up from sixth we now have TONY GUY (3) and coming back into the frame. JOHN FILTNESS our joint 2023/24 Champion. Both on a total of 56 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had 7 teams without a game this weekend, plus another 18 of our teams failed to score any goals. The average score was eight goals last weekend but this weekend it fell right down to 4 goals. Well done if your teams picked up more than that.

The highest score over the weekend was 4 goals and they came from the SCOTTISH CUP 4th Round where STENHOUSEMUIR won 4-0 against Greenock Morton.

Let’s get on with the results to see how your teams have performed this weekend.

PREMIER LEAGUE

We have the top six teams here with ARSENAL top after they drew their 5th league game 0-0 away to NOTTINGHAM FOREST. Arsenal have picked up their 3rd blank of the season while Forest have picked up 11 now. In the Manchester derby, it was MANCHESTER UNITED that took all three points as they won 2-0 at home to MANCHESTER CITY. United are on a total of 41 goals and have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games. City in second place, picked up their 4th blank of the season. In third place we still have ASTON VILLA  who lost 1-0 at home to Everton and picked up their 7th blank of the season. LIVERPOOL have moved up to fourth place after they drew 1-1 at home against Burnley and are on a total of 39 goals. CHELSEA won 2-0 at home against Brentford and are on a total of 52 goals and have extended their goal run to 10 league/cup games. SUNDERLAND won 2-1 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE and are on a total of 25 goals. Palace are on a total of 29 goals. WEST HAM UNITED have won their 4th league game by beating London rivals TOTTENHAM 2-1 away. West Ham are on a total of 28 goals while Tottenham hit goal number 35. Bottom of the table WOLVES drew 0-0 at home to NEWCASTLE UNITED and picked up their 11th blank of the season. Newcastle picked up their 7th and now 2 games without a goal.

CHAMPIONSHIP

With Middlesbrough in 2nd place, we have just two teams in the Play-offs, they are IPSWICH TOWN in 3rd place as they won 3-1 at home to BLACKBURN ROVERS and are now on a total of 48 goals. Rovers picked up their 10th blank of the season and now 2 in a row. Rovers have scored just 2 goals in their last 6 games. PRESTON NE in 6th place lost 1-0 at home to Derby and picked up their 6th blank of the season and now 2 in a row.

Meanwhile, LEICESTER CITY lost 2-1 away to Coventry and picked up goal number 42. They have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games. WATFORD, after a goal run of 16 league/cup games, picked up their 5th blank of the season after they lost 2-0 at home to Millwall. SHEFFIELD UNITED lost 1-0 away to Charlton. After a goal run of 5 league/cup games, United picked up their 9th blank of the season. BRISTOL CITY drew 0-0 away to Oxford Utd and picked up their 9th blank scoresheet. SOUTHAMPTON lost 2-1 at home to Hull and are on a total of 47 goals. WREXHAM lost 2-1 at home against NORWICH CITY and are on a total of 51 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. Norwich are on a total of 37 goals. BIRMINGHAM CITY drew 1-1 away to Swansea and are on a total of 41 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

CARDIFF CITY are still top of the table after they won 2-1 away to Bradford and are on a total of 55 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 14 league/cup games.

In the Play-offs, we have three of the four teams. STOCKPORT COUNTY have remained 4th place after they won 3-2 at home to Rotherham and are now on a total of 43 goals. BOLTON WANDERERS moved up to 5th place after they won 1-0 away to Wigan and are on a total of 38 goals. In 6th place we now have HUDDERSFIELD TOWN after they lost 3-1 away to Burton and are on a total of 50 goals.

Meanwhile, BLACKPOOL lost 2-1 away to Barnsley and are on a total of 38 goals. Blackpool have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. It’s 40 goals for LEYTON ORIENT after they won 3-1 at home against Reading. LUTON TOWN drew 2-2 at home to Lincoln are on a total of 43 goals. WYCOMBE WANDERERS won 2-1 away to Northampton and are on a total of 41 goals. After a goal run of 8 league/cup games, PETERBOROUGH UNITED picked up their 8th blank of the season after they lost 1-0 at home to PLYMOUTH. Plymouth hit goal number 37 and have extended their goal run to 8 league/cup games.

LEAGUE TWO  

BROMLEY who are still top of the table after they drew 0-0 away to CHESTERFIELD, After a goal run of 16 league/cup games, Both teams picked up their 4th blank scoresheet. SWINDON TOWN in 2nd place lost 3-2 at home to Salford and are on a total of 48 goals. Third place WALSALL won 3-1 away to Tranmere and are now on a total of 41 goals.

In the Play-offs, we have two of the four teams with MK DONS in 5th  place won 2-0 away to Accrington and are on a total of 55 goals. NOTTS COUNTY in 7th place won 2-1 away to Crawley and are on a total of 40 goals.

Meanwhile, CREWE won 3-1 at home to Barrow and are now on a total of 44 goals. GILLINGHAM won 3-2 at home to Newport and are now on a total of 37 goals. BARNET picked up their 6th blank of the season after they lost 1-0 away to Grimsby.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the SCOTTISH CUP 4th Round, we had 7 of our teams in cup action over the weekend and out of them, only 2 have made it through to the next round. They are STENHOUSEMUIR who won 4-0 at home against Greenock Morton and have taken their goals tally to 39. CELTIC, after they won 2-0 away to non-league Auchinleck Talbot. Celtic are on a total of 53 goals,

Teams that also went out are HIBERNIAN after they lost 1-0 away to Dunfermline and picked up their 7th blank of the season after a goal run of 5 league games. AYR UNITED lost 2-0 away to Dundee Utd and picked up their 7th blank of the season. ROSS COUNTY lost 2-0 away to Motherwell and picked up their 9th blank of the season. COVE RANGERS drew 1-1 away to Kelty Hearts after extra time and then they lost 5-3 on penalties. HEARTS drew 1-1 at home to Falkirk after extra time and then lost 5-4 on penalties. Hearts are on a total of 60 goals and have now scored in all of their last 9 league games.

Our BEST three teams are

 MANCHESTER CITY (64) HEARTS (60) CARDIFF CITY (55) Total of 179 goals

Our WORST three teams are

 EAST FIFE (25) BLACKBURN ROVERS (25) SUNDERLAND (25) Total of 75 goals

Our best performing team is CARDIFF CITY after they have now scored in all of their last 14 league/cup games. With a total of 55 goals, their average score is 1.7 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is COVE RANGERS this weekend, as they have picked up 12 blank scoresheets in their 26 league/cup games.

Our highest scoring team in our 43rd season are MANCHESTER CITY. They won 10-1 at home against Exeter City in the FA CUP 3rd Round, in Week Twenty-Three.

We now have HAYLEY ADKINS back at the top this weekend, which now makes it her eleventh week over the season. She picked up a total of 10 goals from the week. Her teams are Hearts, Liverpool and Manchester City. Graham Phillips moves into second place this weekend as he picks up a total of 8 goals from his teams this week. Graham is 3 goals behind Hayley with his teams of Arsenal, Celtic and MK Dons.

At the other end at 111 we still have CHARLIE FARLEY(John Wood) there for his third consecutive week and now four over the season. John picked up 5 goals this weekend. His teams are Cove Rangers, East Fife and Stenhousemuir.

As you can see, not a great weekend for goals but the top ten has had a slight change this week

  THIS      LAST                                     M/WEEK     W/END     TOTAL

 WEEK   WEEK   NAME                       GOALS      GOALS     GOALS 

        1             3       H. ADKINS                   52                111              163

        2             4       GARHAM PHILLIPS   32                128             160

        3             1       B. BARNES (1)             63                 97              160

        4             2       D. WOOD                      48                111             159

        5             8       T. GUY (2)                     46                111             157

        6             7       T. GUY (3)                     56                100            156

        7             6       V. CRUICKSHANK      36                119            155

        8           13       G. BOLBERY                43                112            155

        9           16       S. STUBBS (2)              49                106            155

              10            11       M. WALKER                34                119            153

Rangers Win Cup 4th Round

In the very first game in the SCOTTISH CUP 4th Round, RANGERS won 5-0 at home to Annan to pick up their biggest result of the season. Rangers have taken their goals tally to 46 and have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games

In the Championship, second place MIDDLESBROUGH won 3-2 away to West Brom and are now on a total of 41 goals.

Arsenal in Final with City?

 

In the other Carabao/League Cup semi-final 1^st leg, CHELSEA played against their London rivals ARSENAL and lost 3-2 at home. Chelsea are on a total of 50 goals and have extended their goal run to 9 league/cup games. Arsenal are now on a total of 52 goals. It’s going to be a good 2nd leg game on the 3rd of February. 

In the Scottish Premiership, top of the table HEARTS won 2-0 at home to St Mirren and are on a total of 59 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. CELTIC move back into second place, on goal difference, after they won 1-0 away to Falkirk. Celtic are on a total of 51 goals.

Advantage City

 

In the Carabao/League Cup semi-final 1^st leg, holders NEWCASTLE UNITED lost 2-0 at home to MANCHESTER CITY. Newcastle have now had a total of 6 blank scoresheets while City are on a total of 64 goals. The 2^nd leg is to be played on the 4th of February.