In Week Sixteen of the competition, we had our third Rollover of the season worth £10 and that went to PATRICK O’DONOGHUE who now becomes our 19th winner of the season. Patrick won on a score of 10 goals which is his personal best weekend score. Patrick joined Golden Goals in the 2017/18 season where he finished the season in 37th place out of 149 players with a total of 288 goals. He picked up one shared weekend win. Last season Patrick finished in 87th place out of 114 and with 248 goals. This season we can see Patrick in his highest position to date and he has had a total of 3 blank weekend scoresheets. Celtic is his best team. His winning teams are
ARSENAL 4, CELTIC 1, SOUTHAMPTON
MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
Only four of us managed to pick up some goals this week, which means that our top five are unchanged again this week. In the lead this week we still have EMMAF with that total of 39 goals. Her teams are Ayr United, Brighton and Crewe. In second place we have DAVID BARRETT with a total of 36 goals. In third place we have SCOTT THOMSON (1) with a total of 35 goals. In fourth place we have HAYLEY ADKINS with a total of 34 goals. In fifth place, we have our joint 2023/24 Champion, JOHN FILTNESS with a total of 33 goals. In sixth place now we have BARBARA BARNES (1) and COURTNEYP both with 32 goals.
WEEKEND RESULTS
We had 6 of our teams without a game over the weekend, and another 9 of them failed to score any goals. Once again there were not many big results this weekend from our teams. The average score was just 4 goals. So if you have managed to pick up the odd goal this weekend, you have done well.
The highest score over the weekend was 5 goals and they came from the Championship where SOUTHAMPTON picked up their biggest result of the season with a 5-1 away win over Charlton. Southampton have taken their goals tally up to 28 goals.
Southampton became our 32nd voted English team back in the 1984/85 season where they finished on a total of 71 goals. Their highest end of season score came in the 2023/34 season with 100 goals, which is the only time that they have reached that total. Last season they finished on a total of 39 goals, which is their lowest score to date. This is their 17th season with Golden Goals and over the years they have netted a total of 1441 goals which gives them an average score of 84 goals per season. This season they have 4 votes and they have picked up a total of 3 blank scoresheets to date.
Let’s get on with the results to see how your teams have performed this weekend.
PREMIER LEAGUE
We have all of the top eleven teams here with ARSENAL who are still top of the league, after they beat north London rivals TOTTENHAM 4-1 at home. Arsenal have taken their goals tally up to 28 and a goal run of 11 league/cup games. Tottenham are on a total of 23 goals. In second place we have CHELSEA who won 2-0 away to Burnley and are on a total of 29 goals and have now scored in all of their last 13 league/cup games. It’s 20 goals for CRYSTAL PALACE after they beat bottom of the table WOLVES 2-0 away. Wolves who have yet to win a game picked up their 7th blank of the season. That’s now 3 games without a goal for Wolves. AFC BOURNEMOUTH drew 2-2 at home to WEST HAM and are on a total of 19 goals. West Ham are on 17 goals. BRIGHTON won 2-1 at home against Brentford and are on a total of 31 goals. SUNDERLAND picked up their 4th blank of the season after they lost 1-0 away to Fulham. NOTTINGHAM FOREST picked up another 3 goals as they beat LIVERPOOL 3-0 away. Forest are now on a total of 15 goals while Liverpool picked up their 3rd blank and now two games in a row without a goal. NEWCASTLE UNITED have won their 4th league game 2-1 at home against MANCHESTER CITY. United are on a total of 19 goals and have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. City picked up goal number 29 and drop down to third place. ASTON VILLA won 2-1 away to Leeds Utd and are on a total of 16 goals.
CHAMPIONSHIP
MIDDLESBROUGH are in second place after they drew 1-1 away to Oxford Utd and are on a total of 20 goals. BRISTOL CITY won 3-0 at home against Swansea and are now on a total of 27 goals. BIRMINGHAM CITY picked up another four goals in their 4-1 home win against NORWICH CITY. Birmingham have taken their goals tally to 26. Norwich are on 17 goals. WATFORD won 3-2 away to Derby and are now on a total of 23 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. IPSWICH TOWN drew 0-0 at home to WREXHAM with both teams picking up their 3rd blank scoresheet. LEICESTER CITY won 2-1 at home against Stoke and are on a total of 22 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED won 3-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday and are now on a total of 15 goals.
LEAGUE ONE
CARDIFF CITY are back at the top after they won 3-1 away to Northampton and are now on a total of 34 goals. PLYMOUTH won 1-0 away to Port Vale and are on a total of 23 goals. LUTON TOWN picked up their 6th blank of the season and now 2 in a row after they lost 5-0 away to Barnsley. BOLTON drew 0-0 at home to Bradford and picked up their 4th blank of the season. LEYTON ORIENT drew 1-1 at home against BLACKPOOL and are on a total of 26 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league games. Blackpool picked up their 18th goal of the season. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN won 3-1 away to Mansfield and are now on a total of 28 goals. WYCOMBE WANDERERS won 3-2 at home against Lincoln and are now on a total of 32 goals.
LEAGUE TWO
WALSALL are back at the top of the table after they won 2-0 away to Harrogate and are on a total of 28 goals. SWINDON TOWN drop down to second place after they drew 2-2 at home to Grimsby and are on a total of 32 goals. BROMLEY have moved up to third place after they won 2-0 at home against Salford and are on a total of 30 goals and have extended their goal run to 7 league/cup games. GILLINGHAM drew 1-1 at home against BARNET and are on a total of 26 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league games. Barnet hit goal number 24. CREWE drew 3-3 at home to CHESTERFIELD and are now on a total of 28 goals. Chesterfield are now on a total of 32 goals and have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games. NOTTS COUNTY lost 3-1 at home to Colchester Utd and are on a total of 31 goals and have extended their goal run to 10 league/cup games. MK DONS drew 2-2 away to Tranmere and are on a total of 36 goals and have now scored in all of their last 12 league/cup games.
SCOTTISH LEAGUES
In the Premiership HEARTS are still top of the table after they lost their first league game 1-0 away to Aberdeen. Hearts after they had scored in all of their last 17 league/cup games, picked up their first blank of the season. CELTIC in second place, won 1-0 away to St Mirren with a very late goal to pick up goal number 32 and a goal run of 5 league/cup games. HIBERNIAN won 2-0 at home to Dundee and are on a total of 25 goals. RANGERS won 2-1 at home against Livingston and are on a total of 24 goals and have now extended their goal run to 9 league/cup games.
n the Championship, AYR UNITED won 1-0 away to Airdrieonians and are on a total of 34 goals.
In League One, STENHOUSEMUIR moved up to second place after they picked up their biggest win of the season 4-1 away to Peterhead. Stenhousemuir have taken their goals tally to 23. EAST FIFE lost 2-1 away to Montrose and are on a total of 24 goals. Bottom of the table COVE RANGERS have moved up a place after they drew 0-0 at home to Alloa. Rangers have picked up their 10th blank of the season.
In League Two, CLYDE have won their fifth league game 1-0 at home against Annan and picked up their 30th goal of the season, DUMBARTON lost 4-1 at home to Forfar and picked up goal number 26.
Our BEST three teams are
HEARTS (46) MK DONS (36) CARDIFF CITY (34) Total of 116 goals
Our WORST three teams are
WOLVES (15) SHEFFIELD UNITED (15) NOTTINGHAM FOREST (15) Total of 38 goals
Our best performing team is now CHELSEA after they have now scored in all of their 13 league/cup games. With a total of 29 goals, their average score is 2 goals per game.
Our worst performing team is now COVE RANGERS this weekend, as they have picked up 10 blank score sheets in their 19 league/cup games.
Our highest scoring team in our 43rd Season is 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.
We have a new leader this weekend and that is GRAHAM PHILLIPS who now becomes the third player to stay there. Graham picked up a total of 7 goals all coming from the weekend. His teams are Arsenal, Celtic and MK Dons. Vincent Cruickshank moves into second place this weekend as he picks up a total of 8 goals from his teams, all coming from the weekend. They are Celtic, MK Dons and Southampton.
At the other end at 111 we still have ANNE HAMMOND making her second weekend there. Anne picked up a total of 4 goals all coming from the weekend. Anne’s teams are Crystal Palace, Rangers and Wolves.
We had a big shake-up with the table this week but here are the top ten this week.
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 3 GRAHAM PHILLIPS 14 82 96
2 4 V. CRUICKSHANK 20 76 96
3 1 D. BARRETT 36 60 96
4 2 H. ADKINS 34 61 95
5 - EMMAF 39 54 93
6 7 M. WALKER 17 75 92
7 10 T. GUY (10/11 & 22/23) 17 73 90
8 13 T. GUY (2) 24 65 89
9 - T. GUY (3) 28 61 89
10 6 B. BARNES (1) 32 57 89