No Points For Villa Yet?

In the Premier League, still no goals for ASTON VILLA as they lose their second game 1-0 at home to ARSENAL . Arsenal are on a total of 4 goals after two league games.

Week Four

Here we are with Week Four of the competition and this weekend we had a total of three winners, which take our winners total to six. Our winners are BISH-BASH-BOSH (Keith Rattle), PHIL REEVE our double Champion from 1987/88 and 2011/12, and ANN WELLARD.  All won on a score of 12 goals, which is the highest score to date. and they have a share of the £6 prize money this weekend. All three winners are in their highest position to date. 

Keith, started with his Bish-Bash-Bosh, in the 2023/24 season on where he finished in 98th place out of 110 with a total of 263 goals. Last season he finished in 104th place out of 111 with 213 goals. This season he has already picked up two blank weekend score sheets.

Phil started with us in our very first season of 1983/84 on where he finished in 15th place out of 25 with 256 goals. Phil has been Champion twice. First in the 1987/88 season and then again in the 2011/12. Last season he finished in 42th place out of 111 with 254 goals. Phil picked up two weekend wins.

Ann joined in the 2003/04 season and finished in 83rd place out of 90 with a total of 228 goals. Ann had one shared weekend win. Last season she finished in 92nd place with a total of 228 goals. Their teams are for this season

                           Keith  BRIGHTON 3, MANCHESTER UNITED 5, WOLVES 4

                    Phil  LIVERPOOL 2, MANCHESTER UNITED 5, SOUTHAMPTON 5

                   Ann  CELTIC 2, MANCHESTER UNITED 5, STOCKPORT COUNTY 5

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

All of us are now in the race for the cash, as most of us picked up some great scores in midweek. The £50 prize money will go to the first person to reach 100 goals from their three teams. It was STALKY (1) Bob Burgin that picked up the most goals with a total of 14. they came from Brentford 6, Manchester City 4 and West Ham United 4.

Still in the lead after four weeks of football, we have CHARLIE FRALEY (John Wood) still with a total of 26 goals. His teams are East Kilbride, Rangers and Stenhousemuir. In second place, we have our 2010/11 & 2022/23 double Champion, TONY GUY (3) now with a total of 25 goals. In third place we now have MANDYME26 up from four now on a total of 20 goals. In fourth place, down from three we have CJEXPRESS26 still with a total of 18 goals. In fifth place down from four we have DAVID BARRETT and GUY DOWSETT (1) both on a total of 17 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had a fantastic weekend, with really high scores; so it was another really good weekend for us. We had 9 teams with no game over the weekend, and another 12 of our teams that failed to score any goals. The average score jumped up from three, last weekend to 5 goals, which is our highest score of the season, which is good as we had a total of just 5 players failing to pick up any goals. If your  combination picked up more than that, then you have done very well this weekend. 

The highest score, over the weekend was 7 goals and they came from League One where SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY won 7-2 at home to BROMLEY. With their biggest result to date, Wednesday are now on a total of 10 goals.

Wednesday became our 21st voted team in our very first season, on where they finished with a total of 95 goals. They have hit 100 goals twice, but their highest score came in the 1990/91 season with 101 goals. The last season that we had Wednesday was back in the 2023;24 season with 52 goals. This is their 21st appearance with Golden Goals and over that time they have netted a total of 1550, which gives them an average score of 73 goals per season to date. This season they have a total of 3 votes and played a total of 5 league/cup games of which two are blank score sheets.

lets get on with the results to see how your teams have performed this weekend.

PREMIER LEAGUE

Most of our teams here have now played their second league game. LIVERPOOL have drawn again 2-2 at home against Nottingham Forest. Liverpool are on 4 goals. AFC BOURNEMOUTH drew 1-1 at home to Everton and are on a total of 2 goals. COVENTRY CITY picked up their second blank score sheet after they lost 1-0 at home to Hull. TOTTENHAM lost 2-0 at home against NEWCASTLE UNITED and that is their second blank of the season. Newcastle are on a total of 7 goals. CHELSEA have now won both of their opening games as they win 4-3 at home against BRIGHTON. Chelsea with their biggest result of the season, have taken their goals tally up to 9 goals while Brighton are now on a total of 7 goals. BRENTFORD drew 1-1 away to Leeds and are on a total of 10 goals. MANCHESTER UNITED are now on the score sheet after they won their first game 5-2 at home to IPSWICH TOWN. Ipswich are on a total of 7 goals. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

CHARLTON are top of the table after they have won their third league game 2-1 at home to PRESTON NE. Charlton are on a total of 9 goals and have now scored in all of their 5 league/cup games. Preston picked up their second consecutive blank score sheet and still have no points. WOLVES are in second place after they picked up their biggest result, 4-1 at home against Stoke. Wolves have taken their goals tally to 14 goals and have now scored in all of their 5 league/cup games. DERBY COUNTY lost 3-0 at home to Swansea and that is their first blank of the season. MIDDLESBROUGH won 3-1 at home to West Brom and they are now on a total of 10 goals and they have now scored in all of their 5 league/cup games. BRISTOL CITY won 2-1 at home to Portsmouth. City are on a total of 4 goals. CARDIFF CITY drew 2-2 at home against Sheffield United and are on a total of 9 goals, and have now scored in all of their 5 league/cup games. BURNLEY lost 4-1 away to Norwich and they are on a total of 5 goals. SOUTHAMPTON have picked up their biggest result as they win 5-1 at home against MIllwall. Southampton have taken their goals tally to 12 goals and they have now scored in all of their 5 league/cup games. WEST HAM UNITED drew 1-1 away to Watford and picked up goal number 11, and they have also now scored in all of their 5 league/cup games.

LEAGUE ONE

HUDDERSFIELD TOWN are in second place after they won their second game 2-1 away to CAMBRIDGE UNITED. Huddersfield are on a total of 7 goals while Cambridge are on 7 goals. MK DONS drew 0-0 at home to LEICESTER CITY. Both teams have picked up their first blank of the season. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY picked up their biggest result to date with a 7-2 home win against BROMLEY. Wednesday have taken their goals total to 10 goals while Bromley are on 5 goals. STOCKPORT COUNTY picked up their biggest win to date, 5-1 at home to Wycombe  and have taken their goals tally to 10 goals.  After they had failed to score in their last three games, AFC WIMBLEDON won 1-0 at home to Wigan and are on a total of 2 goals. LUTON TOWN lost 5-2 away to Mansfield and are on a total of 11 goals. 

LEAGUE TWO

BARNET are still top of the table after they drew 2-2 at home against Cheltenham and are on a total of 9 goals. PORT VALE drew 0-0 at home to Crewe and that is their third blank score sheet. CHESTERFIELD lost 2-1 away to Rotherham and they are on a total of 2 goals. BRISTOL ROVERS won their second game 2-0 away to Crawley and they are on a total of 9 goals. GILLINGHAM have picked up their first goal of the season after they drew 1-1 at home to Northampton. GRIMSBY TOWN drew 2-2 at home to Fleetwood and they are on a total of 4 goals. SALFORD CITY lost 1-0 away to Shrewsbury and that is their second consecutive blank score sheet. YORK CITY won 2-1 at home against EXETER CITY and are on a total of 6 goals while Exeter are on 3 goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership, CELTIC are top of the table after they won their third league game 2-1 at home against Falkirk. Celtic are on a total of 12 goals. HEARTS are in second place after they won their second league game 2-1 at home to St Johnstone and are on a total of 13 goals. RANGERS have won their first league game 1-0 away to ABERDEEN. Rangers are on a total of 8 goals as Aberdeen picked up their second blank of the season. HIBERNIAN won 2-1 away to Dundee and are now on a total of 6 goals.

In the Championship top of the table STENHOUSEMUIR, have now won three of their four league games after they won 3-1 at home against Inverness CT. Stenhousemuir are now on a total of 12 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 5 league/cup games. PARTICK are in second place after they drew 0-0 at home to Queen’s Park and picked up their second blank of the season. ARBROATH won 1-0 at home to LIVINGSTON and are on a total of 6 goals. Livingston picked up their third blank of the season. AYR UNITED drew 1-1 at home against Greenock Morton and are on a total of 17 goals.

In League One EAST KILBRIDE have lost 4-0 away to Ross County and picked up their second consecutive blank score sheet.

In League Two, CLYDE have moved down to second place after they drew 3-3 away to The Spartans. Clyde are now on a total of 17 goals.

Let’s have a look at our BEST three teams this week

EAST KILBRIDE (22) CLYDE (17) AYR UNITED (17) Total of 56 goals

Our WORST three teams are

ASTON VILLA (0) GILLINGHAM (1) PORT VALE (1) Total of 2 goals

Our best performing team are WOLVES after they have scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. With a total of 14 goals, out of 5 league/cup games played, their average score is 2.8 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is GILLINGHAM,  this weekend, as they have picked up three blank score sheets in 4 league/cup games of the season. They have a total of 1 goals and have just one vote.

Our highest goal scoring team in our 44th Season are LIVINGSTON. They won 8-0 at home against Forfar in the first round group stages of the Scottish League Cup in Week One.

CHARLIE FARLEY is at the top this weekend for the fourth weekend running. He picked up a total of 4 goals from the weekend. Charlie Farley’s teams are East Kilbride, Rangers and Stenhousemuir. His lead has been cut to 5 goals clear of  Guy Dowsett (2) who is still in second place this week, after his teams picked up 10 goals from the week. Guy’s teams are Celtic, Clyde and West Ham.

At the other end at 124 we now have our 2023/24 Champions back, JOHN FILTNESS as he picked up a total of 4 goals from the week. John has now been there for a total of three weekends. He has Gillingham, Liverpool and Wrexham.

Here is our top ten for this weekend.

THIS      LAST                                                   M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

 WEEK  WEEK   NAME                                    GOALS     GOALS    GOALS 

       1             -       CHARLIE FARLEY                   26               19               45

       2             -       G. DOWSETT (2)                       14               26               40

       3             7      M. JACOBSEN                           12               25               37

       4             3      M. WALKER                               14               23               37

       5             9      M. GREGORY                              6                29              35

       6           32      S. STUBBS (1)                            13               22               35

       7             4      D. BARRETT                              17               18               35

       8             6      J. WEARDEN                               5                29              34

       9           12      G. DOWSETT (1)                       17                17              34

     10           38      M. HARRINGTON (1997/98)*    9                24              33

City Win Second Game

In the Premier League, MANCHESTER CITY have won both their opening league games after they won 4-1 away to CRYSTAL PALACE. With their highest result of the season, City have taken their goals tally to 6 goals. Palace have lost both their opening games as they pick uo their first goal of the season. 

In the Championship, BIRMINGHAM CITY have won their first league game 2-1 away to WREXHAM. City are on a total of 6 goals, while Wrexham have lost their first league game and are on a total of 3 goals. 

In the Scottish League Two, DUNFERMLINE have won their first league game, 1-0 at home to Raith Rovers. Dunfermline are on a total of 13 goals.

Carabao/League Cup 2nd Rd Last Games

 

The last games of the League Cup second round have now been played and we had another three of our teams in action. CHELSEA are through to the next round after they won 2-0 at home against LUTON TOWN. Chelsea are on a total of 5 goals. Luton picked up their first blank of the season. AFC WIMBLEDON are knocked-out of the cup after they lost 3-0 away to Fulham. Wimbledon have now had three consecutive blank score sheets.

More Carabao/League Cup 2nd Round

 

We had another 5 of our teams in  cup action and out of them, only two are through to the next round. NEWCASTLE UNITED won 3-2 at home to West Brom, and they are on a total of 5 goals. TOTTENHAM won 5-1 at home against CHARLTON. With their biggest result of the season, Tottenham are now on the score sheet. Charlton picked up goal number 8.

Other teams that went out are PRESTON NE who lost 4-0 at home to Everton, and picked up their first blank of the season. BURNLEY drew 0-0 away to Bradford City and picked up their first blank score sheet. Burnley lost 4-2 on penalties. 

Carabao/League Cup 2nd Round

 

In the League Cup 2nd Round, we had a total of 13 of our Golden Goals teams in action. Out of 13 teams in cup action, only 7 are through to the next round.

With their biggest win of the season, MIDDLESBROUGH won 3-1 away to Doncaster Rovers and are on a total of 7 goals. IPSWICH TOWN won 3-1 at home to LEICESTER CITY. Ipswich with their biggest result, are now on a total of 5 goals. Leicester picked up yet another single goal, which now gives them 4 goals in 4 league/cup games. COVENTRY CITY have picked up their first goals of the season after they won 4-2 away to Plymouth. It’s 10 goals for WOLVES after they won 2-0 away to SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY. Wednesday picked up their second consecutive blank score sheet. READING won 3-0 away to Stevenage and are now on a total of 7 goals. WEST HAM UNITED have picked up their biggest win of the season, 4-1 away to SOUTHAMPTON. West Ham are on 10 goals while Southampton are on 7 goals. BRENTFORD won 6-1 away to BIRMINGHAM CITY and with their biggest result to date, have taken their goals tally up to 9 goals. Birmingham are on 4 goals.

Other teams that went out are CARDIFF CITY who lost 2-1 at home to Norwich City and picked up goal number seven. CAMBRIDGE UNITED lost 1-0 at home to Millwall and picked up their first blank of the season.

Golden Goals Top 10 Seasons

Here is our best top ten seasons in Golden Goals with the highest number of competitors in that season. Although the numbers of players go up and down over the season’s, in our very first season of 1983/84, we had just 25 players to start the ball rolling. This season we came in fourth place with a total of 124 players. Our Best Season was the 2017/18 with 149.  

                                                                       1 149 - 2017/18

2 136 - 2016/17

3 133 - 2018/19

4 124 - 2026/27

5 123 - 2019/20

6 119 - 2015/16

7 116 - 2020/21

8 114 - 2024/25

9 113 - 2021/22

                                                                     10 111 - 2025/26 &1999/00