Chelsea Now in 4th Place

In the Premier League CHELSEA won the London derby 1-0 at home to TOTTENHAM. Chelsea are on a total of 65 goals while Tottenham picked up their 8th blank of the season and now 2 in a row.

Champions Liverpool?

In the Premier League, top of the table LIVERPOOL won 1-0 at home to Everton and are on a total of 89 goals and have extended their goal run to 8 league/cup games. It’s 40 goals for IPSWICH TOWN after they won 2-1 away to AFC BOURNEMOUTH. Bournemouth picked up their 55th goal of the season and have now scored in all of their last 6n league games. MANCHESTER CITY won 2-0 at home to LEICESTER CITY and are on a total of 75 goals while Leicester picked up their 14th blank of the season and now 6 games without a goal. Bottom of the table ASTON VILLA are on 56 goals after they won 3-0 away to Brighton and they have now scored in all of their 9 league/cup games. NEWCASTLE won 2-1 at home to Brentford and are on a total of 69 goals. SOUTHAMPTON drew their 4th league game 1-1 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE and are on a total of 35 goals. Palace are on 56 goals and have now scored in all of their last 15 league/cup games. 

In the Championship PRESTON NE lost 2-0 away to Derby County and picked up their 14th blank of the season and now 2 in a row. 

In League Two NOTTS COUNTY won 3-0 at home to MK DONS and are now on a total of 72 goals. The Dons have picked up their 16th blank of the season.

Here is how our 10 top teams are now looking for this season. The numbers in red, after the team’s name in brackets are their best end of season scores with Golden Goals. 

118 CELTIC (143)

89 LIVERPOOL (127)

81 RANGERS (126)

80 FALKIRK (108)

79 LEEDS UNITED (97)

78 DUNDEE (65)

75 MANCHESTER CITY (137)

73 BIRMINGHAM CITY (95)

72 NOTTS COUNTY (106)

71 BLACKPOOL(93)

Another Win for Arsenal

The Premier League are back in action as ARSENAL, who are in 2^nd place, won 2-1 at home against London rivals Fulham and are on a total of 67 goals. WEST HAM lost 1-0 away to Wolves and picked up their 8^th blank of the season. MANCHESTER UNITED lost 1-0 away to Nottingham Forest and they picked up their 11^th blank of the season after a goal run of 5 league/cup games. 

In League One, top of the table BIRMINGHAM CITY won 2-1 away to 2-1 away to Bristol Rovers and are on a total of 73 goals. City have extended their goal run to 8 league/cup games. WREXHAM in 2^nd place, drew 2-2 away to Cambridge Utd and are on a total of 58 goals. BARNSLEY are on a total of 57 goals after they lost 2-1 at home to Exeter City. BLACKPOOL won 3-0 at home to Reading and are now on a total of 71 goals. Blackpool have now scored in all of their last 6 league games. PETERBOROUGH UNITED won 4-3 away to Crawley Town and have taken their goals tally to 69 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league games. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN lost 1-0 away to LIncoln City and picked up their 13^th blank score sheet and now 2 in a row. CHARLTON won 2-1 away to Mansfield Town and are on a total of 64 goals. BOLTON won 1-0 away to Wigan and hit goal number 66. 

In League Two DONCSTER ROVERS in 4^th place drew 2-2 at home to Walsall and thye are on a total of 65 goals. CHESTERFIELD won 2-1 at home against Carlisle Utd and are on a total of 65 goals. It’s 60 goals for BROMLEY as they drew 1-1 away to Newport County. Bromley have now scored in all of their last 7 league games. It’s 60 goals for AFC WIMBLEDON after they lost 2-1 away to Swindon Town.

Week Thirty-Four

In Week Thirty-Four of the competition, we had our 5th Rollover of the season worth £10. The prize money went to our 34th winner of the season MIKE HARRINGTON our 1997/98 joint Champion on 10 goals. Mike started with us back in the 1995/96 season and it did not take him long to become joint Champion in the 1997/98 season with David Salmon, both finished on a total of 276 goals. He picked up 3 weekend wins. Mike is currently in 39th place in our “Champions League”. Last season Mike finished in 84th place with a total of 277 goals. This season Mike has been as high as 45th place in Week One. He has picked up 3 blank weekend score sheets and Leeds United are his best team to date. Mike’s winning teams are

                           BIRMINGHAM CITY 4, CHARLTON 4, LEEDS UNITED 2

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

With just a couple of games being played during midweek due to the Internationals, only 5 of us managed to pick up some midweek goals. So the race for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot has remained the same as last week’s really.

RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion remains at the top, with a total of 87 goals. Ricky has Bolton, Celtic and Leeds United. In second place we have JAMES BLYTH on a total of 86 goals. In third place we have GRANT PHILLIPS with a total of 81 goals. In fourth place we have BARBARA BARNES (2), CLARA STEPHENS and STEVE STUBBS (2). All are on a total of 80 goals. In fifth place we have BARRY BURROUGHS, MARTIN CORBETT and ALFIE DIMMOCK all with a total of 79 goals. In sixth place on 78 goals we now have JAMES SOMERVILLE.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had 12 of our teams without a game over the weekend and out of them, we had 7 teams that failed to score any goals. We had a better weekend from our teams, which means that our average score for this weekend was 4 goals. The highest score over the weekend was 4 goals, and we had 4 of our teams that picked them up. They came from BIRMINGHAM CITY, CHARLTON, EAST FIFE and RANGERS.

FA CUP Quarter-Finals

We had five of the 8 teams in the quarter-finals and only 3 of them have made it through to the semi-finals. They are CRYSTAL PALACE who won 3-0 away to Fulham. Palace have taken their goals tally to 55 and have now scored in all of their last 15 league/cup games. ASTON VILLA won 3-0 away to PRESTON NE and are now on a total of 53 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. Preston picked up their 13th blank of the season. MANCHESTER CITY won 2-1 away to AFC BOURNEMOUTH and are on a total of 73 goals. Bournemouth are on 54 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games.

CHAMPIONSHIP

After their win on Friday night, Sheffield United are now 2 points clear at the top as LEEDS UNITED drew 2-2 at home to SWANSEA CITY now in 2nd place. Leeds are on a total of 79 goals while Swansea, after they had failed to score in their last 2 games, are now on a total of 43 goals.

In the Play-offs we still have just one of the 4 teams. They are BURNLEY in 3rd place as they win 1-0 at home to Bristol City and are on a total of 59 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league games.

Meanwhile LUTON TOWN won 1-0 away to Hull City and picked up goal number 36. MIDDLESBROUGH won 2-1 at home against OXFORD UNITED and are on a total of 62 goals. Oxford are on 43 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 5 league games. NORWICH CITY won 1-0 at home to WBA and are on a total of 65 goals. Norwich have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. PORTSMOUTH won 1-0 at home against Blackburn Rovers and are on a total of 47 goals. MILLWALL lost 1-0 away to Sunderland and picked up their 14th blank of the season.

LEAGUE ONE

BIRMINGHAM CITY have remained top of the table this week after they won 4-1 at home against Shrewsbury Town. City have taken their goals tally to 71 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. WREXHAM are still in 2nd place after they won 2-0 away to Exeter City and are on a total of 56 goals.

In the Play-offs we still have just one of the 4 teams. In 4th place we still have CHARLTON after they won 4-0 at home to HUDDERSFIELD TOWN. Charlton have taken their goals tally to 62. Huddersfield picked up their 12th blank of the season.

Meanwhile BLACKPOOL won 2-1 at home to BOLTON WANDERERS and are on a total of 68 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league games. Bolton are on 65 goals.  PETERBOROUGH UNITED lost 3-1 away to Reading and are on a total of 65 goals. BARNSLEY drew 1-1 away to Wigan and are on a total of 56 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

In the Play-offs we have three of the 4 teams with DONCASTER ROVERS being our highest team in 4th place. They won 3-0 at home against Cralisle United. Rovers are now on a total of 63 goals. AFC WIMBLEDON are down to 5th place after they drew 1-1 away to Walsall. Wimbledon are on a total of 59 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league games. NOTTS COUNTY are still in 6th place after they won 2-0 away to Newport County. County are on a total of 69 goals.

Meanwhile CHESTERFIELD won 1-0 away to Barrow and picked up goal number 63. BROMLEY lost 3-2 at home to Salford City and are on a total of 59 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 6 league games. MK DONS lost 4-2 at home to Fleetwood Town and are on a total of 51 goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership Champions CELTIC won 3-0 at home against HEARTS and are now on a total of 118 goals and a goal run of 15 league/cup games. Hearts after a goal run of 10 games, picked up their 8th blank of the season. RANGERS in 2nd place won 4-3 away to DUNDEE. Rangers have taken their goals tally up to 81 goals while Dundee are now on a total of 78 goals. KILMARNOCK lost 5-1 away to St Mirren and are on a total of 36 goals. ROSS COUNTY lost 1-0 at home to Dundee Utd. County picked up their 14th blank of the season and now 2 in a row.

In League One COVE RANGERS are still in 2nd place after they lost 1-0 away to Arbroath. Rangers have picked up their 8th blank of the season and now 2 in a row. STENHOUSEMUIR are still in 3rd place after they lost 3-2 at home to Montrose. After they had failed to score in their previous 2 games, Stenhousemuir are on a total of 54 goals.

In League Two PETERHEAD have remained top after they drew 0-0 away to Forfar and that is their 11th blank of the season. EAST FIFE are still in 2nd place after they won 4-2 at home to The Spartans. Fife have taken their goals total to 67 goals. CLYDE won 2-1 away to Stranraer and are on a total of 47 goals.

Our BEST three teams this week are

CELTIC (118) LIVERPOOL (88) RANGERS (81) Total of 287 goals

Our WORST three teams are

  SOUTHAMPTON (34) LUTON TOWN (36) KILMARNOCK (36) Total of 106 goal

Our best performing team this weekend are still CELTIC after they have now scored in all of their last 15 league/cup games. They have a total of 118 goals, which gives them an average score of 3.1 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is still SWANSEA CITY this weekend as they have had a total of 17 blank score sheet from 42 league/cup games. They have a total of 43 goals.

Our highest goal scoring team that we have in our 42nd Season are MANCHESTER CITY after they won 8-0 at home to Salford City in the FA Cup 3rd Round in Week Twenty-Three.

Our leader CLARA STEPHENS celebrates her 3rd weekend at the top as her team’s picked up a total of 7 goals this weekend. Clara has Birmingham City, Celtic and Liverpool. So Clara has now moved up to 38th place in our “Champions League”. Clara has now beaten our 1990/91 Champion Robert Hough’s total of 174 and Geoff Dockerill’s score fo 174 from the 1994/95 season. Also Clara has beaten our 1997/98 joint Champions Mike Harrington and David Salmon’s total of 176 goals, Jed Wearden has moved back into 2nd place and is now 6 goals behind Carla, Jed picked up a total of 4 goals all coming from the weekend. His teams are Celtic, Liverpool and Peterborough United.

At the other end at 114, we have CHARLIE FARLEY with his 20th consecutive weekend. Charlie’s team’s pick him a total of 3 goals this weekend. His teams are Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir. Good news for Charlie this weekend and that is he is now moving up our “Losers League” to 41st place. He has now beaten John Nicholls Score of 131 goals back in the 2020/21 season.

We had a slight change to the top ten this weekend and with loads of games being played this week, it could all change next weekend.

   THIS    LAST                                                   M/WEEK     W/END       TOTAL

  WEEK  WEEK      NAME                                 GOALS      GOALS      GOALS 

         1             -         C. STEPHENS                         80                197              277  

         2             3        J. WEARDEN                          68                 203             271   

         3             2        G. DOCKERILL (1994/95)     73                 198             271  

         4             -         L. HAMMOND                       76                 194             270  

         5            6         J. BLYTH                                 86                 182             268 

         6            5         D. SOMERVILLE (2009/10)   76                 189             265  

         7            8         A. WELLARD                          74                188             262

         8            7         B. BURROUGHS                     79                183             262  

         9            -          S. STUBBS (2)                         80                182             262  

         10          -          R. WOOD (2007/08)*              87                175             262 

United Back on Top

In the Championship SHEFFIELD UNITED won 3-1 at home to Coventry City and for now, go top of the table. United are now on a total of 60 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games.

Falkirk Failed To Win

In League Two, MK DONS in 17th place, drew 2-2 away to Carlisle United and are on a total of 49 goals. 

In the Scottish Championship, top of the table FALKIRK after a goal run of 11 league/cup games, lost their 5th league games 1-0 away to Livingston. That is Falkirk’s 4th blank of the season.

Week Thirty-Three

In Week Thirty-Three of the competition, there was no Weekend Jackpot which means that next weekend we will have our 5th Rollover of the season, worth £10. The highest score that we had over the weekend went to three of our players. They were RYAN FC, IAN SMITH and SCOTT THOMSON (2). Each with a score of 4 goals.

                 Ryan FC  BARNSLEY 1, MANCHESTER CITY - PETERBOROUGH 3

                                  Ian  CELTIC- MK DONS 1, PETERBOROUGH 3

                             Scott  CELTIC - PETEREBOROUGH 3, WREXHAM 1

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

With no games being played during midweek due to the Internationals, the race for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot has remained the same as last week’s.

RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion remains at the top, with a total of 87 goals. Ricky has Bolton, Celtic and Leeds United. In second place we have JAMES BLYTH on a total of 86 goals. In third place we have GRANT PHILLIPS with a total of 81 goals. In fourth place we have BARBARA BARNES (2), CLARA STEPHENS and STEVE STUBBS (2). All are on a total of 80 goals. In fifth place we have BARRY BURROUGHS, MARTIN CORBETT and ALFIE DIMMOCK all with a total of 79 goals. In sixth place on 77 goals we have PETER WELLARD.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had just 16 of our teams in action over the weekend and out of them, we had 5 teams that failed to score any goals. We had a very quiet weekend from our teams which means that a lot of us have picked up yet another blank weekend score sheet. The highest score over the weekend was 3 goals, and we had 2 of our teams that picked them up. They came from Scottish League Two with Clyde and English League One PETERBOROUGH UNITED.

LEAGUE ONE

Birmingham City have remained top of the table this week after they had no game this weekend. WREXHAM are still in 2nd place after they won 1-0 at home to Stockport County and are on a total of 54 goals.

In the Play-offs we still have two of the 4 teams. In 4th place we still have CHARLTON after they lost 3-0 away to PETERBOROUGH UNITED. As Charlton pick up their 10th blank of the season, Borough are now on a total of 64 goals Huddersfield Town have remained in 6th place as they also had no game over the weekend.

Meanwhile  BARNSLEY drew 1-1 at home to Cambridge Utd and are on a total of 54 goals. BLACKPOOL won 2-0 away to Northampton Town and are on a total of 66 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

The highest team that we have here are still AFC WIMBLEDON in 3rd place. They drew 2-2 at home to Barrow and are on a total of 58 goals.

In the Play-offs we have two of the 4 teams. They are Doncaster Rovers down to 5th place after they had no game over the weekend. NOTTS COUNTY move down to 6th place after they drew 0-0 at home to Crewe and picked up their 9th blank of the season.  

Meanwhile BROMLEY lost 2-1 away to Carlisle Utd and picked up goal number 57 and have now scored in all of their last 5 league games. MK DONS won 1-0 away to Cheltenham Town and are on a total of 47 goals. CHESTERFIELD drew 0-0 at home to Harrogate Town and picked up their 10th blank of the season.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Championship, it’s 80 goals for top of the table FALKIRK after they won 2-0 at home to Airdrie. Falkirk have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games.

In League One COVE RANGERS are still in 2nd place after they drew 0-0 at home to STENHOUSEMUIR who are still in 3rd place. After a goal run of 7 league games, Rangers picked up their 7th blank of the season. Stenhousemuir picked up their 15th blank and now 2 games without a goal.

In League Two PETERHEAD have moved to the top after they won 2-1 away to Stirling and are on a total of 57 goals. EAST FIFE have dropped down to 2nd place after they lost 5-2 away to Edinburgh City. Fife are on a total of 63 goals. CLYDE won 3-1 at home to Bonnyrigg Rose and have taken their goals total to 45.

Our BEST three teams this week are

CELTIC (115) LIVERPOOL (88) FALKIRK (80) Total of 283 goals

Our WORST three teams are

  SOUTHAMPTON (34) LUTON TOWN (35) KILMARNOCK (35) Total of 104 goals

Our best performing team this weekend are still CELTIC after they have now scored in all of their last 14 league/cup games. They have a total of 115 goals, which gives them an average score of 3.1 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is still SWANSEA CITY this weekend as they have had a total of 17 blank score sheet from 40 league/cup games. They have a total of 41 goals.

Our highest goal scoring team that we have in our 42nd Season are MANCHESTER CITY after they won 8-0 at home to Salford City in the FA Cup 3rd Round in Week Twenty-Three.

Our leader CLARA STEPHENS celebrates her 2nd weekend at the top without any of her teams in action this week. Clara has Birmingham City, Celtic and Liverpool. So Clara remains in 41st place in our “Champions League”. Geoff Dockerill our 1994/95 Champion, in 2nd place is still 2 goals behind Carla, after he also had none of his teams in action over the week. Geoff’s teams are Arsenal, Celtic and Liverpool.

At the other end at 114 we have CHARLIE FARLEY with his 19th consecutive weekend. Charlie’s teams failed to pick him up any goals this weekend. His teams are Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir.

Not much happened over the weekend so the top ten remains near the same as last week

 THIS     LAST                                                M/WEEK    W/END       TOTAL

WEEK  WEEK     NAME                                GOALS      GOALS      GOALS

       1             -        C. STEPHENS                        80                190              270         

       2             -        G. DOCKERILL (1994/95)     73               195              268 

       3            4        J. WEARDEN                          68               199              267  

       4            3        L. HAMMOND                       76               191              267  

       5            -         D. SOMERVILLE (2009/10)  76               184              260

       6            -         J. BLYTH                                86               173              259  

       7            -         B. BURROUGHS                   79               178              257

       8           11        A. WELLARD                       74               182               256  

       9           8         S. STUBBS (2)                       80               176               256  

      10          9         R. WOOD (2007/08)*            87               169               256