Week Thirty-Four

In Week Thirty-Four of the competition, we did not have any prize money this week due to the internationals being played.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Only two players managed to pick up some goals this week, which means that our top six has stayed the same as last week’s table once again. Still out in front again this week we have KEITH RATTLE, with a total of 90 goals and still needs just 10 goals to win the cash. Keith’s teams are Chelsea, Rangers and Wrexham. In second place, we still have BARBARA BARNES (1) on a total of 82 goals. In third place, we still have SCOTT THOMSON (1) on a total of 77 goals. In fourth place, we still have MICHAEL FISHER on a total of 76 goals. In fifth place, we still have JOHN FILTNESS, our 2023/24 joint Champion and TONY GUY (3) both with a total of 75 goals. In sixth place, we have RICHIE WILLIAMS with a total of 73 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had a total of 16 of our teams in action this weekend plus we had another 4 of our teams that failed to score any goals. Due to the international games being played over the week, we were very low on goals. The highest score over the weekend was 4 goals, and we had just one of our teams that reached that score. They were from WYCOMBE WANDERERS. Let’s get on with the results to see how your teams have performed this weekend.

LEAGUE ONE

Cardiff City are still in second place after having no game this weekend.

In the Play-offs, we have just two of the four teams, with Bolton Wanderers still in third place and STOCKPORT COUNTY have moved up to fifth place after they won 3-0 at home to AFC Wimbledon. County are now on a total of 60 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league games.

Meanwhile, BLACKPOOL won 1-0 at home to Burton and picked up goal number 53. After they had scored in all of their previous 8 league/cup games, LEYTON ORIENT drew 0-0 away to Exeter and picked up their 11th blank of the season. WYCOMBE WANDERERS won 4-0 at home against Port Vale. Wycombe have taken their goals tally to 66 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

Top of the table BROMLEY lost 2-1 away to Barrow and are on a total of 66 goals. MK DONS are still in second place after they lost 1-0 away to Salford City. The Dons, after a goal run of 7 league/cup games, picked up their 6th blank of the season. NOTTS COUNTY have moved up to third place after they won 2-0 away to Harrogate and are on a total of 69 goals.

In the Play-offs, SWINDON TOWN are still in fifth place after they drew 1-1 at home to Fleetwood. Swindon are on a total of 73 goals, and they have now scored in all of their last 19 league/cup games. CREWE have moved up to seventh place after they won 2-1 at home against Oldham. Crewe are on a total of 62 goals.

Meanwhile, BARNET won 1-0 at home to Cambridge Utd and are on a total of 53 goals. WALSALL drew 1-1 away to Colchester Utd and are on a total of 55 goals. GILLINGHAM lost 2-0 away to Crawley and picked up their 11th blank of the season. They have now scored just one goal in their last four games.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In League One, STENHOUSEMUIR are still in 2nd place after they drew 2-2 away to EAST FIFE. Stenhousemuir are on a total of 53 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league games. Fife are on a total of 36 goals.

In League Two, CLYDE in third place lost 2-0 away to Elgin City and after a goal run of 5 league games, picked up their 7th blank of the season. DUMBARTON drew 2-2 at home to Forfar and are now on a total of 48 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 6 league games.

Our BEST three teams are

MANCHESTER CITY (89) MK DONS (83) CARDIFF CITY (83) Total of 255 goals.

Our WORST three teams are

SUNDERLAND (35)  EAST FIFE (36) NOTTINGHAM FOREST (36) Total of 107 goals.

Our best performing team is MANCHESTER UNITED after they have now scored in all of their last 20 league/cup games. With a total of just 59 goals, their average score is 1.7 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is BRISTOL CITY this weekend, as they have picked up 16 blank score sheets out of their 43 league/cup games.

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

We have GRAHAM PHILLIPS still at the top this weekend for his 10th week of the season. Graham is still four goals clear. His teams are Arsenal, Celtic and MK Dons. Behind him, we still have Gary Bolbery from his teams of Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City.

At the other end at 111, we still have CHARLIE FARLEY(John Wood) there for his 13th consecutive week and now fourteen over the season. John picked up 4 goals this weekend. His teams are Cove Rangers, East Fife and Stenhousemuir. But there’s good news for John as he is now moving up our losers’ league to 43rd place. He has beaten John Nicholls total of 131 goals from the 2020/21 season.  

As you can see in our top ten this week, that there has been no movment

 THIS      LAST                                       M/WEEK     W/END     TOTAL

WEEK   WEEK   NAME                         GOALS      GOALS     GOALS 

       1             -       GRAHAM PHILLIPS     50                 185             235

       2             -       G. BOLBERY                  61                 170             231

       3             -       V. CRUICKSHANK        61                 168            229

       4             -       T. GUY (2)                       65                 164            229

       5             -       D. WOOD                        66                 163            229

       6             -       S. STUBBS (2)                72                 156            228

       7             -       K. RATTLE                     90                 138            228

       8             -       T. GUY (3)                       75                 152            227

       9             -       P. O’DONOGHUE          65                 161            226

     10             -       M. WALKER                   53                 172            225

No Wins for Ayr or County

In the Scottish Championship, AYR UNITED lost 3-0 away to Raith Rovers and that is their 10^th blank of the season and now they have failed to score in their last two games. ROSS COUNTY lost 3-1 away to Partick Thistle and are on a total of 41 goals.

Notts County Still in Play-offs

In League Two NOTTS COUNTY missed the opportunity to move up to third place after they lost 3-0 away to Oldham. County, after they netted 9 goals in their last two league games, picked up their 8^th blank of the season. 

In the Scottish League Two CLYDE in third place lost 3-1 away to Stranraer and are on a total of 56 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league games.

Here are our top 10 teams this week. Manchester City are still top with Cardiff City still in 2nd place. Arsenal remain in 4th place while Chelsea keep 5th place. Rangers are up to 6th place while Celtic are down to 9th place with 

89 MANCHESTER CITY (137)

83 CARDIFF CITY (106)

83 MK DONS (115)

80 ARSENAL (103)

77 CHELSEA (128)

76 RANGERS (126)

75 WREXHAM (93)

74 SOUTHAMPTON (100)

72 CELTIC (144)

72 SWINDON TOWN (100)

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 Thirty-Three

In Week Thirty-Three of the competition, we had just one player to win the prize money of £5 this weekend, and they are STALKY (2) (Bob Burgin) winning on a score of just 7 goals. This is his second win of the season with his second selection and he becomes our 8th player to do so. Bob last won some cash in Week Twenty-Two. Since then he has now had five blank weekend score sheets and 48th is still his best position. Rangers is his best team. His winning teams are,

                                            BRIGHTON 2, NEWCASTLE 1, RANGERS 4

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Just under half of us managed to pick up some goals this week, which means that our top six have almost stayed the same as last week’s table once again. Still out in front again this week we have KEITH RATTLE, now with a total of 90 goals and now needs just 10 goals to win the cash. Keith’s teams are Chelsea, Rangers and Wrexham. In second place, we still have BARBARA BARNES (1) now on a total of 82 goals. In third place we still have SCOTT THOMSON (1) now on a total of 77 goals. In fourth place we now have MICHAEL FISHER up from five now on a total of 76 goals. In fifth place we now have JOHN FILTNESS, our 2023/24 joint Champion and TONY GUY (3)  both moving down from four now with a total of 75 goals. In sixth place we have RICHIE WILLIAMS down from five with a total of 73 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had 5 of our teams without a game this weekend, plus we had another 17 of our teams that failed to score any goals. It’s was yet another rubbish weekend for goals. Seven of us failed to pick up any goals from our three teams this weekend. The average score was five goals from last weekend, but this weekend it went right back down to just 2 goals. Well done if your teams picked up more than that. The highest score over the weekend was 5 goals once again and we had just one of our teams that reached that score. They were from NOTTS COUNTY. Let’s get on with the results to see how your teams have performed this weekend.

CARABAO/LEAGUE CUP FINAL

We had both teams in the final and they were ARSENAL and MANCHESTER CITY. The first piece of silverware of the season goes to Manchester City as they win 2-0 after 90 minutes. City are on a total of 89 goals and have extended their goal run to 12 league/cup games, while Arsenal after a goal run of 12 league/cup games, picked up their 4th blank of the season. City have now won the League Cup 8 times to Arsenal’s 2 last being in 1983 against Sheffield Wednesday.

PREMIER LEAGUE

Top of the table Arsenal and second place Manchester City both had no league game due to the cup final. Manchester United are still in third place with ASTON VILLA in fourth place. They won 2-0 at home against WEST HAM UNITED. Villa are on a total of 46 goals while West Ham picked up their 10th blank of the season. In fifth place we have LIVERPOOL, who lost 2-1 away to BRIGHTON. Liverpool have not won in their last three league games, are on a total of 62 goals and have now scored in all of their last 13 league/cup games. Brighton are on a total of 55 goals. CHELSEA lost 3-0 away to Everton and picked up their 5th blank of the season and now two in a row. NEWCASTLE UNITED lost 2-1 at home to SUNDERLAND and are on a total of 60 goals and have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games. Sunderland, after they had failed to score in their last two league games, are now on a total of 35 goals. TOTTENHAM lost 3-0 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST. Tottenham after a goal run of 5 league/cup games, picked up their 7th blank of the season. Forest are now on a total of 36 goals.

CHAMPIONSHIP

MIDDLESBROUGH are still in second place after they drew 0-0 away to BLACKBURN ROVERS and picked up their 11th blank of the season. Rovers picked up their 14th blank of the season.

In the Play-offs, we still have two of the four teams this weekend as IPSWICH TOWN remained in third place, after they drew 1-1 at home to Millwall. Ipswich are on a total of 70 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. SOUTHAMPTON have moved up to sixth place after they won 2-0 at home to Oxford Utd. Southampton are on a total of 74 goals and have now scored in all of their last 16 league/cup games.

Meanwhile, BIRMINGHAM CITY lost 1-0 away to Derby and picked up their 11th blank of the season. BRISTOL CITY lost 1-0 at home to West Brom and picked up their 16th blank of the season. NORWICH CITY won 1-0 away to Charlton and are on a total of 62 goals. WATFORD drew 0-0 at home against LEICESTER CITY and picked up their 10th blank of the season. Leicester picked up their 7th blank of the season. WREXHAM won 2-1 away to SHEFFIELD UNITED. Wrexham are on a total of 75 goals and have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. United are on a total of 58 goals and have now extended their goal run to 13 league/cup games.

LEAGUE ONE

CARDIFF CITY are still in second place after they drew 0-0 at home to BLACKPOOL and picked up their 7th blank of the season and now two in a row. Blackpool picked up their 13th blank of the season.

In the Play-offs, we have just two of the four teams with BOLTON WANDERERS still in third place after they lost 1-0 away to Port Vale. Bolton have picked up their 10th blank of the season and now two in a row. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN move up to fifth place after they lost 3-1 away to PLYMOUTH. Huddersfield are on a total of 63 goals while Plymouth are now on a total of 64 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league games.

Meanwhile, LUTON TOWN drew 1-1 at home to STOCKPORT COUNTY and are on 58 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. County are on a total of 57 goals. PETERBOROUGH UNITED drew 1-1 away to AFC Wimbledon and are on a total of 59 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league games. LEYTON ORIENT won 2-0 at home to WYCOMBE WANDERERS and are on a total of 56 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. Wycombe after a goal run of 9 league/cup games, picked up their 10th blank of the season. 

LEAGUE TWO 

Top of the table BROMLEY won 1-0 again, at home to Colchester Utd and are on a total of 65 goals. MK DONS are still in second place after they lost 3-1 at home to BARNET.  The Dons are on a total of 83 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. Barnet are now on a total of 52 goals.

In the Play-offs we still have two of the four teams with NOTTS COUNTY remain in fourth place after they won 5-2 at home to Cheltenham. County are on a total of 67 goals. Chesterfield are now on a total of 62 goals. SWINDON TOWN have moved up to 5th place after they won 1-0 away to Tranmere. Swindon are on a total of 72 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 18 league/cup games.

Meanwhile, CHESTERFIELD won 1-0 away to Accrington and are on a total of 63 goals. After they had failed to score in their last two league games, GILLINGHAM lost 2-1 at home to Bristol Rovers and are on a total of 47 goals. It’s 60 goals for CREWE after they won 4-0 away to Shrewsbury. WALSALL won 2-1 at home to Newport and are on a total of 54 goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership, top of the table HEARTS won 1-0 at home to Dundee and that is their 71st goal of the season. RANGERS have moved back up to second place after they won 4-1 at home to Aberdeen. Rangers are now on a total of 76 goals. CELTIC have dropped down to third place after they lost 2-0 away to Dundee Utd. That is Celtic’s 6th blank of the season. HIBERNIAN drew 0-0 away to Motherwell and picked up their 11th blank of the season and now two in a row.

In the Championship AYR UNITED lost 1-0 at home to Greenock Morton and picked up their 9th blank of the season. After they had failed to score in their last three games, ROSS COUNTY drew 2-2 at home to Dunfermline. County are on a total of 40 goals.

In League One, STENHOUSEMUIR are still in 2nd place after they won 2-0 at home to bottom of the table Kelty Hearts. Stenhousemuir are on a total of 51 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 7 league games. COVE RANGERS drew 2-2 at home to Hamilton and are on a total of 42 goals. EAST FIFE drew 2-2 away to Queen of the South and are on a total of 34 goals.

In League Two, CLYDE in 3rd place won 2-1 at home to Stranraer and are on a total of 55 goals. DUMBARTON won 2-1 at home to Annan and are now on a total of 46 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 5 games.

Our BEST three teams are

MANCHESTER CITY (89) MK DONS (83) CARDIFF CITY (83) Total of 255 goals.

Our WORST three teams are

EAST FIFE (34) SUNDERLAND (35) NOTTINGHAM FOREST (36) Total of 105 goals.

Our best performing team is MANCHESTER UNITED after they have now scored in all of their last 20 league/cup games. With a total of just 59 goals, their average score is 1.7 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is BRISTOL CITY this weekend, as they have picked up 16 blank score sheets out of their 43 league/cup games.

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

We have GRAHAM PHILLIPS still at the top this weekend for his 9th week of the season. Graham picked up a total of just 2 goals from the week and his lead is still four goals clear. His teams are Arsenal, Celtic and MK Dons. Behind him, we now have Gary Bolbery as he picks up a total of just 3 goals from his teams this week. Gary’s teams are Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City.

At the other end at 111 we still have CHARLIE FARLEY(John Wood) there for his 12th consecutive week and now thirteen over the season. John picked up 6 goals this weekend. His teams are Cove Rangers, East Fife and Stenhousemuir.

Once again not much has changed in our top ten this weekend.

         THIS      LAST                                        M/WEEK    W/END      TOTAL

WEEK   WEEK   NAME                          GOALS      GOALS     GOALS 

       1             -       GRAHAM PHILLIPS      50                185             235

       2             3      G. BOLBERY                   61                170             231

       3             6      V. CRUICKSHANK         61                168             229

       4             2      T. GUY (2)                       65                 164             229

       5             4      D. WOOD                        66                 163             229

       6             5      S. STUBBS (2)                72                 156             228

       7           11      K. RATTLE                      90                138             228

       8            7       T. GUY (3)                       75                 152            227

       9            8       P. O’DONOGHUE           65                161            226

             10            9       M. WALKER                   53                171            224

Bournemouth and United Draw

In the Premier League, after they had failed to score in their previous two league games, AFC BOURNEMOUTH drew 2-2 at home against MANCHESTER UNITED. Bournemouth are on a total of 49 goals while United are on a total of 59 goals and they have now scored in all fo their last 20 league/cup games. 

In the Championship, after they had failed to score in their previous two league games, PRESTON NE won 3-1 at home to Stoke City. Preston are now on a total of 48 goals. 

MK Dons Doing Well

In the Champioship, SOUTHAMPTON won 1-0 at home to NORWICH CITY and have moved into the play-offs in 6th place. Southampton are on a total of 72 goals and have extended their goal run to 15 league/cup games. Norwich picked up their 10th blank of the season. 

In League Two, MK DONS in second place won 1-0 at home to Colchester Utd and are on a total of 82 goals  and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. 

Bromley Still Winning

In the Championship, WATFORD won 3-1 at home to WREXHAM and are now on a total of 52 goals. Wrexham are on a total of 73 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. 

In League One, second place CARDIFF CITY lost 2-0 at home to WYCOMBE WANDERERS and picked up their 6th blank of the season. Wycombe are on a total of 62 goals and have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. LEYTON ORIENT won 4-2 away to AFC Wimbledon and have taken their goals tally tp 54 goals. Orient have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. BLACKPOOL won 3-2 at home to Port Vale and they are now on a total of 52 goals. After a goal run of 10 league/cup games, BOLTON picked up their 9th blank of the season as they drew 0-0 at home to Doncaster. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN drew 2-2 at home against Lincoln. Huddersfield are on a total of 62 goals. LUTON TOWN won 3-2 at home to Exeter and they are now on a total of 57 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. PETERBOROUGH  UNITED won 5-0 at home to Rotherham and they have taken their goals tally up to 58. Borough have now scored in all of their last 5 league games. PLYMOUTH won 1-0 at home to Stevenage and are on a total of 61 goals. STOCKPORT COUNTY won 2-1 at home against Northampton and are on a total of 56 goals. 

In League Two, top of the table BROMLEY won 1-0 away to Newport and hit goal number 64. NOTTS COUNTY won 4-0 away to Accrington and have taken their goals tally to 62 goals. CREWE drew 1-1 away to Cheltenham and are on a total of 56 goals. CHESTERFIELD picked up their 6th blank of the season after they lost 3-0 at home to Oldham. BARNET drew 1-1 away to Crawley and are on a total of 49 goals. GILLINGHAM lost 2-0 at home to SWINDON TOWN and picked up their 10th blank scoresheet and now two games without a goal. Swindon are on a total of 71 goals and have now scored in all of their last 17 league/cup games. WALSALL picked up their 14th blank of the season after they drew 0-0 at home to Cambridge Utd.