Week Fourteen

In Week Fourteen of the competition we had our 18th winner of the season, picking up the full prize money of £5 and that went to PETER PORTER on a score of 11 goals. That is his personal best weekend score. Peter started with Golden Goals way back in the 1989/90 season on where he finished in 40th place out of 44 players with a total of 182 goals. Last season Peter finished in 99th place out of 114 with a total of 232 goals. This season his first win for a long while, he has picked up three blank weekend scoresheets and Celtic is his best team to date. Pete's highest position is 14th place in Week One. Pete’s winning teams are

                                     CELTIC 4, IPSWICH TOWN 4,  LUTON TOWN 3

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Just under half of us picked up goals this week, which means that our top five have had a slight change again this week. The highest midweek score was 5 goals and they went to STEVE ARYRES and our 1997/98 Champion MIKE HARRINGTON. 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 still have DAVID BARRETT now with 36 goals. Coming straight in third place, we now have SCOTT THOMSON (1) with a total of 35 goals. Down to fourth place we have HAYLEY ADKINS now with a total of 34 goals. In fifth place, we still have our joint 2023/24 Champion, JOHN FILTNESS with a total of 33 goals. In sixth place down from five we have BARBARA BARNES (1) with 32 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had just 2 of our teams not in action over the weekend and another 10 teams that failed to score any goals. The average score this weekend remained as last weekend's score of 6 goals. So if you picked up more than that, you have done well this weekend. The highest score over the weekend was 5 goals and they came from League One where PETERBOROUGH UNITED won their biggest result of the season, 5-0 at home against AFC Wimbledon. Borough have taken their goals tally to 17 and have now scored in all of their last 5 league games.

Peterborough United became our 90th voted English team back in their first season of 1997/98. In that season they finished on a total of 73 goals. Brough have hit 100 goals twice but their first time, and highest score came in the 2010/11 season with 129 which is our third highest score. Last season they finished on a total of 76 goals. This is their 20th season with Golden Goals and over that time they have netted a total of 1560 goals, which gives them an average score of 78 goals per season. This season they have just one vote and they have picked up a total of 5 blank scoresheets to date. 

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

PREMIER LEAGUE

Top of the table ARSENAL drew their second league game 2-2 away to SUNDERLAND and are on a total of 24 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. Sunderland are on a total of 15 goals. MANCHESTER CITY have moved into second place after they won 3-0 at home against LIVERPOOL. City are now on a total of 28 goals while Liverpool picked up their second blank of the season. In third place we have CHELSEA who won 3-0 at home against bottom of the table WOLVES. Chelsea are now on a total of 27 goals and have now scored in all of their last 12 league/cup games. Wolves, who are still without a win, picked up their sixth blank of the season and now two games without a goal. ASTON VILLA picked up their biggest result of the season by winning 4-0 at home against AFC BOURNEMOUTH. Villa have taken their goals tally up to 14 goals while Bournemouth, after a goal run of 5 league/cup games, picked up their third blank of the season. NEWCASTLE UNITED lost 3-1 away to Brentford and are on a total of 17 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. After they had failed to score in their last two games, TOTTENHAM drew 2-2 at home to MANCHESTER UNITED and are on a total of 22 goals. United are on 21 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. WEST HAM UNITED have won their third league game 3-2 at home against Burnley. West Ham are on a total of 15 goals. NOTTINGHAM FOREST have won their second league game, 3-1 at home to Leeds.  Forest are now on a total of 12 goals. CRYSTAL PALACE drew 0-0 at home to BRIGHTON and picked up their fourth blank scoresheet. Brighton picked up their third.

CHAMPIONSHIP

MIDDLESBROUGH are still second in the league, after they won 2-1 at home against BIRMINGHAM CITY. Middlesbrough are on a total of 19 goals while City are on 22 goals. BLACKBURN ROVERS lost 2-1 at home to Derby and are on a total of 15 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 games. PRESTON NE drew 1-1 away to Millwall and are on a total of 23 goals. NORWICH CITY lost 2-1 at home to LEICESTER CITY. Norwich are on a total of 16 goals and are second from bottom. Leicester are on 21 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED drew 0-0 at home to QPR and that is their seventh blank of the season after a goal run of 5 games. SOUTHAMPTON won 3-1 at home to Sheffield Wednesday and are now on a total of 23 goals. IPSWICH TOWN won 4-1 away to Swansea and have taken their goals total to 27 goals. WREXHAM won 1-0 at home to Charlton and picked up goal number 29.

LEAGUE ONE

Top of the table STOCKPORT COUNTY lost their third league game 3-0 at home to LUTON TOWN. County after a goal run of 10 games, picked up their second blank of the season. Luton are now on a total of 22 goals. WYCOMBE WANDERERS picked up their biggest win of the season, 4-1 at home to LEYTON ORIENT. Wycombe have taken their goals tally to 29 goals and have now scored in all of their last 12 league/cup games. Orient picked up their 23rd goal of the season. BLACKPOOL won 3-1 at home to CARDIFF CITY and are now on a total of 17 goals while Cardiff are on 31. BOLTON won 4-0 at home to Port Vale and have taken their goals tally to 28. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN won 3-1 at home to bottom of the table PLYMOUTH. Town are now on a total of 25 goals while Plymouth, after they had failed to score in their last 3 games, are on a total of 22 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

WALSALL are still top of the table after they won 4-2 away to Newport and have taken their goals tally up to 26 goals. SWINDON TOWN are still in second place after they won 2-1 at home against Tranmere. Swindon are on a total of 29 goals. BROMLEY won 2-0 away to Colchester and are on a total of 26 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. CREWE won 3-1 at home against Shrewsbury and are now on a total of 25 goals. BARNET drew 2-2 at home against MK DONS and are on a total of 23 goals while the Dons are on 32 goals and have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. GILLINGHAM won 1-0 away to Bristol Rovers and are on a total of 23 goals. CHESTERFIELD are on a total of 28 goals after they drew 3-3 at home to Accrington.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership, top of the table HEARTS drew 1-1 at home to Dundee Utd. Hearts are now on a total of 46 goals and have kept their 100% record going after playing in 17 league/cup games. CELTIC, in second place, won 4-0 at home against Kilmarnock. Celtic are now on a total of 31 goals. HIBERNIAN remained in third place after they won 3-0 away to St Mirren. Hibs are on a total of 23 goals. RANGERS won 3-0 away to Dundee and are now on a total of 22 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games.

In the Championship, ROSS COUNTY drew 3-3 at home to AYR UNITED and are now on a total of 28 goals. Ayr are now on a total of 32 goals after they had failed to score in their previous two games.

In League One, STENHOUSEMUIR have dropped down to third place after they drew 2-2 at home to Kelty Hearts and are on a total of 19 goals. EAST FIFE lost 3-0 away to Queen of the South and picked up their third blank of the season after they had scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. Bottom of the table COVE RANGERS lost their 10th league game 1-0 away to Inverness CT. Rangers have now picked up their ninth blank of the season.

In League Two, CLYDE drew 0-0 at home to Stranraer and picked up their fifth blank of the season. DUMBARTON won their fifth league game 2-1 at home against Annan and are on 25 goals and have now scored in all of their last 14 league/cup games.

Our BEST three teams are

HEARTS (46) MK DONS (32) AYR UNITED (32)  Total of 115 goals

Our WORST three teams are

NOTTINGHAM FOREST (12) SHEFFIELD UTD (12) COVE RANGERS (14)  Total of 38 goals

Our best performing team is still HEARTS, after they have now scored in all of their 17 league/cup games. With a total of 46 goals, their average score is 2.7 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is still NOTTINGHAM FOREST this weekend, as they have picked up 6 blank score sheets in their 12 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.  

DAVID BARRETT has moved back into first place after picking up a total of 5 goals from the weekend. David has now been top for a total of 8 weeks this season. David’s teams are Celtic, Hearts and Liverpool. Hayley Adkins moves down to second place after picking up a total of 4 goals from the weekend. Hayley is just 1 goal behind David and her teams are Hearts, Liverpool and Manchester City.

At the other end at 111 we have a new name to the list as CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) makes his first weekend at the bottom. Charlie picked up just 2 goals at the weekend from his teams of Cove Rangers, East Fife and Stenhousemuir. 

As you can see that we had a big change in our top ten this week as we had another good week from our teams.   

 THIS      LAST                                        M/WEEK     W/END      TOTAL

WEEK   WEEK   NAME                          GOALS      GOALS     GOALS 

       1             2       D. BARRETT                  36                 59               95

       2             1       H. ADKINS                     34                 60               94

       3             5       GRAHAM PHILLIPS     14                 73               87

       4           12       V. CRUICKSHANK       20                 66               86

       5             3       B. BARNES (1)              32                 54               86

       6             4       EMMAF                         39                 47               86

       7             9       M. WALKER                 17                 67               84

       8             7       T. GUY (3)                     28                 56               84

       9            6        J. BLYTH                       19                 64               83

             10           11       COURTNEYP                 31                52                83

Watford and Bristol City Point Each

In the Championship, WATFORD and BRISTOL CITY played their second game of the week. Watford were at home to Bristol City and drew 1-1. Watford are on a total of 20 goals while City are on 24 goals. 

Norwich Grab Point

More games from the Championship. PRESTON NE have moved up to fourth place after they won 2-1 at home against Swansea. Preston are on a total of 22 goals. It’s 20 goals for SOUTHAMPTON after they won their third league game, 2-1 away to QPR. NORWICH CITY drew 1-1 away to bottom of the table Sheffield Wednesday and picked up goal number 15. WREXHAM drew 0-0 away to Portsmouth and picked up their second blank of the season.

Middlesbrough Remain Third

In the Championship, BIRMINGHAM CITY picked up the biggest result of the night after they won 4-0 at home to Millwall. City have taken their goals tally to 21. BRISTOL CITY lost 1-0 at home against BLACKBURN ROVERS. City, after a goal run of six league/cup games, picked up their fourth blank of the season. Rovers picked up goal number 14. IPSWICH TOWN drew 1-1 at home against WATFORD and are on a total of 23 goals. Watford are on 19 goals. After they had failed to score in their last two games, LEICESTER CITY drew 1-1 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH and are now on a total of 18 goals. Middlesbrough are on 17 goals and in third place in the league. SHEFFIELD UNITED lost 3-1 away to Coventry and are on a total of 12 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games.

Here is how our 10 top teams look in our 43^rd Season. The numbers in red are their highest end of season goals total with Golden Goals. The goals come from the League, League Cup and FA Cup. The Scottish also come from their League and their two domestic cup competitions. 

45 HEARTS (98)

29 AYR UNITED (76)

30 CARDIFF CITY (106)

30 MK DONS (115)

29 BIGHTON (91)

28 CLYDE (60)

28 STOCKPORT COUNTY (94)

28 WREXHAM (93)

27 CELTIC (144)

27 NOTTS COUNTY (106)

Lucky Orient

In the last game of the FA CUP first round, lucky LEYTON ORIENT won 1-0 away to non-league Tamworth with an own goal in the 79^th minute. Orient are on a total of 22 goals. 

In the Premier League, SUNDERLAND drew 1-1 at home to Everton and are on a total of 13 goals and move up to fourth place.

Week Thirteen

In Week Thirteen of the competition we had our 17th winner of the season, picking up the full prize money of £5 and that went to our 1997/98 Champion MIKE HARRINGTON on a score of 10 goals. That is his personal best weekend score. 

Mike started with Golden Goals back in the 1996/97 season where he finished in the winning frame in 12th place on a total of 278 goals. He also picked up one shared weekend win. Mike became joint Champion in the following year with David Salmon. They won on a total of 276 goals. He also picked up three weekend wins. Last season, Mike finished in 65th place out of 114, on a total of 266 goals. He had one weekend win which was a Rollover. This season he has picked up three blank weekend scoresheets and 80th is his highest position in Week Three. His best teams are Arsenal and Ipswich Town. Mike’s winning teams are

                             ARSENAL 2, BIRMINGHAM CITY 4, IPSWICH TOWN 4 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

All but six of us picked up goals this week, which means that our top five have had a slight change again this week. The highest midweek score was 12 goals and they went to JAMES SOMERVILLE. James has Celtic, Chelsea and Luton Town. 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 still have DAVID BARRETT now with 36 goals. In third place we still have HAYLEY ADKINS now with a total of 34 goals. In fourth place, we still have our joint 2023/24 Champion, JOHN FILTNESS with a total of 33 goals. In fifth place we now have BARBARA BARNES (1) down from four with 32 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had 5 of our teams not in action over the weekend and another 10 teams that failed to score any goals. The average score this weekend went up from four goals last weekend to 6 goals. So if you picked up more than that, you have done well this weekend. The highest score over the weekend was 4 goals once again, and they came from BIRMINGHAM CITY, HEARTS and IPSWICH TOWN.

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

FA CUP 1St Round

We had a total of 17 of our teams in cup action where 9 have made it into the second round. The teams through to round two are BLACKPOOL after they won 1-0 at home to non-league Scunthorpe and are on a total of 14 goals. BOLTON won 2-1 at home to HUDDERSFIELD TOWN and are on a total of 24 goals while Huddersfield are on 22 goals. MK DONS won 3-2 away to Colchester and are now on a total of 30 goals and have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. PETERBOROUGH UNITED won 1-0 at home to CARDIFF CITY and are on a total of 12 goals. Cardiff picked up their fourth blank of the season. SWINDON TOWN won 2-1 away to Rotherham and are on a total of 27 goals. CHESTERFIELD won 1-0 away to Stevenage and are on a total of 25 goals and a goal run of 8 league/cup games. STOCKPORT COUNTY won 3-1 away to Tranmere and are now on a total of 28 goals and a goal run of 10 league/cup games. WYCOMBE won 2-0 at home against PLYMOUTH and are on a total of 25 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games. Plymouth picked up their seventh blank of the season, and now three games without a goal. WALSALL won 3-0 away to non-league Eastleigh  and are now on a total of 22 goals.

Teams that went out are BROMLEY after they lost 2-1 at home against Bristol Rovers and are on a total of 24 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. CREWE lost 2-1 at home to Doncaster and are on a total of 22 goals. BARNET lost 2-1 away to Fleetwood and are on a total of 21 goals. GILLINGHAM drew 2-2 away to Newport and then lost 4-3 on penalties. Gillingham are on a total of 22 goals. NOTTS COUNTY drew 2-2 away to non-league Brackley Town and then lost 4-3 on penalties. County are on a total of 27 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games.

PREMIER LEAGUE

Top of the table ARSENAL won 2-0 away to Burnley and are on a total of 22 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 7 league games. MANCHESTER CITY have moved into second place after they won 3-1 at home to AFC BOURNEMOUTH. City are now on a total of 35 goals while Bournemouth are on 17 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. LIVERPOOL moved up to third place after they won 2-0 at home to ASTON VILLA and are on a total of 20 goals. Villa after a goal run of 6 league/cup games, picked up their fifth blank of the season. BRIGHTON won 3-0 at home against Leeds and are now on a total of 29 goals. CRYSTAL PALACE won 2-0 at home to Brentford and are on a total of 18 goals. Bottom of the table WOLVES lost 3-0 away to Fulham and picked up their fifth blank of the season. After they had failed to score in their last 4 games, NOTTINGHAM FOREST drew 2-2 at home to MANCHESTER UNITED and are on a total of 9 goals. United are on 19 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. TOTTENHAM picked up their third blank scoresheet and now two in a row after they lost 1-0 at home to CHELSEA. Chelsea hit goal number 24 and have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games. WEST HAM UNITED have won their second league game 3-1 at home against NEWCASTLE UNITED. West Ham are on a total of 12 goals while Newcastle are on 16 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

MIDDLESBROUGH who are still second in the league, after they lost 3-0 away to WATFORD. Middlesbrough picked up their fourth blank of the season while Watford, with their biggest win of the season, are now on a total of 18 goals. BLACKBURN ROVERS won 2-0 away to LEICESTER CITY and are on a total of 13 goals while Leicester picked up their third blank scoresheet and now two in a row. NORWICH CITY who are now second from bottom, lost 2-0 at home to Hull. Norwich picked up their fifth blank of the season. BIRMINGHAM CITY picked up their biggest win of the season with a 4-0 home win against Portsmouth. Birmingham have taken their goals tally to 17. IPSWICH TOWN won 4-0 away to QPR and have taken their goals total up to 22. SHEFFIELD UNITED lost 3-1 at home to Derby and are on a total of 11 goals. SOUTHAMPTON lost 2-0 at home to PRESTON NE and picked up their third blank of the season. Preston are on a total of 20 goals. BRISTOL CITY lost 5-1 away to Stoke and are on a total of 23 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Scottish League Cup semi-finals, CELTIC beat their 10 men rivals RANGERS 3-1 after extra time and will play St Mirren in the final on 14 December. Celtic are now on a total of 27 goals. Rangers are on 19 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games.

In the Premiership, top of the table HEARTS won their 9th league game 4-o at home to Dundee. Hearts are now on a total of 45 goals and have kept their 100% record going after playing in 16 league/cup games. It’s 20 goals for HIBERNIAN after they remained in third place as they drew 2-2 away to Livingston. Hibs are on a total of 20 goals.

In the Championship, ROSS COUNTY lost 3-0 away to Arbroath and picked up their fourth blank of the season.

In League One, STENHOUSEMUIR have dropped down to second place after they drew 1-1 away to Queen of the South and are on a total of 17 goals. EAST FIFE drew 1-1 at home to Hamilton and picked up goal number 22. They have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. Bottom of the table COVE RANGERS lost 2-1 at home to Peterhead. Rangers are now on a total of 14 goals.

In League Two, CLYDE won 3-1 at home against DUMBARTON and are now on a total of 28 goals. Dumbarton are on 23 goals and have now scored in all of their last 13 league/cup games.

Our BEST three teams are

HEARTS (45) MK DONS (30) CARDIFF CITY (30)  Total of 105 goals

Our WORST three teams are

NOTTINGHAM FOREST (9) ASTON VILL (10) SHEFFIELD UNITED (11) Total of 30 goals

Our best performing team is still HEARTS, after they have now scored in all of their 16 league/cup games. With a total of 45 goals, their average score is 2.8 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is still NOTTINGHAM FOREST this weekend, as they have picked up 6 blank score sheets in their 11 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.

HAYLEY ADKINS remains at the top for her sixth consecutive weekend. Hayley picked up a total of 14 goals from the week. Hayley’s teams are Hearts, Liverpool and Manchester City. David Barrett has moved back into second place after picking up a total of 15 goals from the week. David's teams are Celtic, Hearts and Liverpool.

At the other end at 111 we have ANN WELLARD back there after she picked up just 8 goals from the week. Ann has now been there for eight weeks this season. Ann has Aston Villa, Celtic, and Sheffield United.   

Nice to have a bit fo a change in our top ten this week.

 THIS     LAST                                       M/WEEK     W/END     TOTAL

WEEK   WEEK    NAME                       GOALS      GOALS     GOALS 

       1             -         H. ADKINS                   34                56               90

       2            3         D. BARRETT                36                54               90

       3            4         B. BARNES (1)             32                50               82

       4            2         EMMAF                         39               41               80

       5            6         GRAHAM PHILLIPS   14                65              79

       6            8         J. BLYTH                      19                58              77

       7          14         T. GUY (3)                    28                49              77

       8            5         K. SETNA (2005/06)    30                47              77

       9          11         M. WALKER                17                59              76

             10           31        RYAN FC                      25                51              76

Start of FA CUP 1st Round

In the first game of the FA CUP 1^st Round, LUTON TOWN had a tough game against non-league Forest Green Rovers, scoring a late goal to win 4-3 at home. With their biggest win of the season, Luton have taken their goals tally to 19. 

In the Championship, WREXHAM won their fourth game of the season with a 3-2 home win against Coventry City. Wrexham are now on a total of 28 goals. 

IN the Scottish Championship, AYR UNITED lost 1-0 at home to Dunfermline and picked up their fifth blank of the season. Ayr have now failed to score in their last two league games.