A Point Each

In the Championship, CARDIFF CITY drew their opening game 1-1 at home to WREXHAM. Wrexham went into the lead inside the first three minutes before Cardiff equalised in the very last kick of the game in injury time.

Scottish League Cup Quarter-Finals Draw

 

Our teams that are left in the cup are in BLOD CAPS

RANGERS v CELTIC

STENHOUSEMUIR v HEARTS

Ross County v HIBERNAIN

Kilmarnock v ABERDEEN

Games to be played on 12 September

Week Two

Here we are with Week Two of the competition and this weekend we had a near full league fixture, which gave us our second winner of the season. Our winner was PETER PORTER who won on a score of 11 goals and has won himself £6 this weekend. Peter started with us back in the 1989/90 Season, where he finished in 40th place out of 44 on a total of 182 goals. He also picked up one shared weekend win. Last season, Peter finished in 41st place out of 111 with a total of 255 goals and had two weekend wins. This season he has picked up his personal best score and has no blank score sheets to date. His teams for this season are

                                        LUTON TOWN 4, RANGERS 5, WEST HAM 2

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

We can now have our first look at who is in the lead for our 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot worth a total of £50 this season. The prize money will go to the first person to reach 100 goals from their three teams.

Taking the lead after two weeks of football, we have CHARLIE FRALEY (John Wood) with 26 goals already. His teams are East Kilbride, Rangers and Stenhousemuir. In second place we have our 2010/11 & 2022/23 double Champion TONY GUY (3) and CJEXPRESS26 both with a total of 18 goals. In third place we have DAVID BARRETT with 15 goals. In fourth place with 14 goals we have MARK WALKER. In fifth place we have MANDYME26 with a total of 13 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had the start of the lower English fixture’s and we had a few high scores, the overall, was a good start to the season. We had 4 teams with no game over the weekend, with another eight of our teams that failed to score any goals and another 14 teams without a game. So for our very first weekend the average score was just 4 goals, which is good as a total of 16 players failed 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 6 goals and they came from the Scottish League Cup 2nd Round where HEARTS won 6-2 at home to Inverness CT. With their biggest result to date, Hearts are now on a total of 11 goals.

Hearts became our 11th voted team back in the 1986/87 season and they finished on a total of 72 goals. Their highest score of 98 goals was reached in the 2014/15 season. Last season they finished on a total of 85 goals. This is their 19th appearance with Golden Goals and over the years they have netted a total of 1249 goals, which gives them an average score of 65 goals per season to date. Hearts have three votes this season and they have started the season well.

As the season begins to pick up pace, let's get on with the results to see how your teams have performed this weekend.

CHAMPIONSHIP

CHARLTON have won their first league game 2-1 at home against DERBY COUNTY. Charlton are on a total of 5 goals while Derby are on 2 goals. MIDDLESBROUGH won 2-1 at home to Lincoln City and are on a total of 3 goals. PRESTON NE lost their opening game 2-1 away to Bolton. Preston are on a total of 2 goals. BRISTOL CITY lost 2-0 at home to Millwall and have now failed to score any goals in their first two games of the season, including their cup game. BRIMINGHAM CITY drew 0-0 away to Sheffield United and picked up their first blank score sheet of the season. SOUTHAMPTON have already started the season with a 4 point deduction, so not the result that they wanted as they lost 2-1 away to Watford. Southampton are on a total of 3 goals. BURNLEY drew their first game 2-2 at home to WEST HAM UNITED. Burnley are on a total of 3 goals while West Ham are on 5 goals.

LEAGUE ONE 

BROMLEY won their first game 1-0 away to Barnsley, and are on a total of 2 goals. LEICESTER CITY drew 1-1 in their opening game against Notts County away. Leicester are on a total of 2 goals. OXFORD UNITED have picked up their first goals in their 2-2 draw against MK DONS at home. The Dons are on a total of 3 goals. LUTON TOWN picked up their biggest win to date as they win 4-3 away to READING. Luton are now on a total of 7 goals, while Reading are on 4 goals. CAMBRIDGE UNITED picked up their biggest result after they won 3-2 at home against Wigan, and are now on a total of 5 goals. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN won 3-0 at home to AFC WIMBLEDON and with their biggest result of the season, they are now on a total of 4 goals. Wimbledon picked up their first blank of the season. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY won 2-1 away to Leyton Orient and are on a total of 3 goals. STOCKPORT COUNTY won their opening game 3-1 away to Plymouth. County are on a total of 4 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

BARNET won their opening game 3-1 at home to SALFORD CITY and are on a total of 4 goals. Salford are on a total of 2 goals. PORT VALE lost their opening game 2-0 away to Oldham, and that is their second blank of the season. CHESTERFIELD have picked up their second blank of the season after they lost 1-0 at home to Fleetwood. GILLINGHAM also picked up their second blank score sheet after they lost 3-0 at home to Walsall. GRIMSBY TOWN won 1-0 at home against EXETER CITY and are on a total of 2 goals. Exeter picked up their second blank of the season. YORK CITY have won their first league game and goals in their 3-2 at home to BRISTOL ROVERS. Rovers also picked up their first goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Scottish League Cup 2nd Round, we already know that Ayr United have been knock-out in this round, but we had another 7 of our teams in action.  ABERDEEN are through to the next round after they won 3-0 at home to Dundee and have taken their goals tally to 16 goals. DUNFERMLINE are out after they lost 2-1 at home to Ross County. Dunfermline are on a total of 12 goals. CELTIC won 4-0 away to Dundee Utd and have taken their goals tally to 10 goals. HEARTS have picked up their biggest win of the season as they win 6-2 at home against Inverness CT. Hearts have taken their goals tally to 11 goals in three games. HIBERNIAN won 1-0 at home to PARTICK THISTLE and are on a total of 4 goals. Partick, after a goal run of 6 league/cup games, picked up their first blank of the season. STENHOUSEMUIR drew 0-0 at home against Motherwell after the full 90 minutes but then won 1-0 in extra time. Stenhousemuir are on a total of 10 goals. RANGERS picked up their biggest result of the season as they win 5-1 at home to St Mirren. Rangers have now taken their goals tally to 7 goals.

In League One EAST KILBRIDE have won their second league game, 3-0 at home to Cove Rangers and are now on a total of 22 goals and a goal run of 7 league/cup games.

In League Two, CLYDE have won their second league game 2-1 away to Annan. Clyde are on a total of 11 goals. 

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

EAST KILBRIDE (22) AYR UTD (16) ABERDEEN (16) Total of 54 goals

Our WORST three teams are

EXETER CITY (0) GILLINGHAM (0) CHESTERFIELD (0) Total of 0 goals

Our best performing team are EAST KILBRIDE after they have scored in all of their 7 league/cup games. With a total of 22 goals, their average score is 3 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is ARBROATH,  this weekend, as they have picked up four blank score sheets in their first six league/cup games of the season. They have a total of 3 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 second weekend running, after he picked up a total of 9 goals from the weekend. Charlie Farley’s teams are East Kilbride, Rangers and Stenhousemuir. He is now 13 goals clear of  Guy Dowsett (2) in second place this week. Guy’s teams are Celtic, Clyde and West Ham.

At the other end at 124 we still have JOHN FILTNESS our joint 2023/24 Champion, for the second weekend running, as he failed to pick up any goals from the weekend. John has Gillingham, Liverpool and Wrexham.

Here are out top ten for this week

 THIS      LAST                                    M/WEEK     W/END     TOTAL

WEEK  WEEK   NAME                       GOALS      GOALS     GOALS 

      1             -       CHARLIE FARLEY     26                 13               39

      2             4      G. DOWSETT (2)         10                 16               26

      3             2      M. WALKER                14                 12               26

      4             5      D. BARRETT               15                   9               24

      5             8      J. WEARDEN                1                  21               22

      6             3      T. GUY (3)                   18                    4               22

      7             6      CJEXPRESS26            18                    3               21

      8             9      M. JACOBSEN             6                  14               20

      9           31      P. PORTER                  1                  18               19

    10           11      M. GREGORY              1                  17               18

Start of the Scottish League Cup 2nd Round

 

In the Scottish League Cup 2nd Round, AYR UNITED go out of the cup after they lost 3-2 away to Kilmarnock. Ayr are on a total of 16 goals and have now scored in all of their 7 league/cup games played. 

In the Championship, after going a goal up, WOLVES drew their open game 2-2 at home to Blackburn Rovers, with a penalty in injury time. Wolves are on a total of 5 goals.

Exeter Out of League Cup

 

In our last game of the first round of the League Cup, EXETER CITY had a player sent off in the 87th minute, and then lost 2-0 away to Plymouth with two late goals in injury time.  

Week One

Well here we are with our 44th Season of Golden Goals and a very big welcome to you all and what a season we are going to have once again. As you can see that we have ended up with a total of 124 entries in this seasons competition, and I would like to thank everyone who has helped us to get to that figure which managed to get in to the top ten best season’s of  Golden Goals in fourth place. It is with great regret that we did not reach our record total of 149 from the 2017/18 season. Although we have seen some names missing from last season, we have gained another 6 new players this season. 

So who is going to be our 44th Champion and win that £110 prize money? We will find out in the next forty-two weeks time but I wish you all the very best of luck.

So here we go once again with another kick-off for our 44th consecutive season of GOLDEN GOALS

You will see from the above table that we have a total of 18 past Champions playing this season, including 3 two time winners. Our last season Champion is also back, and they are Vincent Cruickshank. Vincent has changed his winning combination from last season to Cambridge United, Manchester City and Southampton. We also have a total of 24 ladies playing in this season competition.

So how did the voting of teams for this season finally end up. It was MANCHESTER CITY that picked up the biggest number of votes, with a total of 38. Last season they had a total of 19 votes and scored a total of 113 goals, so this was no surprise that they would be  most voted English team this season.

With our Scottish teams, CELTIC, after picking up 70 votes last season, they picked up just 41 votes this season. Staying with the Scottish teams, the second highest voted team comes from the premiership again and they are RANGERS with just 18 votes, which is up from last seasons total of 10. The Scottish teams had a good turn out this season with a total of 13 teams once more being picked. We have just 5 teams from the Premiership and 6 from the Championship. In League’s One and Two we have 1 team in each league. 

With the English teams things have changed as they always do in this competition. We have a total of 14 Premiership teams in this years competition with MANCHESTER CITY being our top team with 38 votes this season.  Next comes WEST HAM UNITED with 37 votes. Last season they had just 2 votes. In third place with 31 votes we have ARSENAL. They were our second voted team last season with 26 votes. In fourth place came LIVERPOOL. They have 29 votes compared to 49 last season. Our fifth voted teams are CHELSEA with 20 votes. They had 12 vote last season. In the Championship we have picked up 13 teams, while in League One we have 11, and 8 teams taken from League Two.

We have one team that are back into the football league and Golden Goals this season and they are National League winners YORK CITY with 1 vote. York return to League Two after ten seasons of non-league football. They have appeared in seven seasons with Golden Goals. They became our 14th voted English team when they first appeared in our very first season of 1983/84. finishing on a total of 100 goals, which turned out to be their highest end of season goals total. Last time that we had York was back in the 1999/00 season where they finished on a total of 40 goals. In their previous seven seasons, they have netted a total of 493 goals, and that gives them an average score of 70 goals per season.

So on with the competition and this week’s sheet shows you all the games that have been played up to and including the 9th August. Any games that have been played before and up to Friday the 7th August, have all been counted as midweek goals, so some of you have a bit of a lead already for the 100 Midweek Cash Jackpot of £50.

Week One we had our very first winner of the new season, who won on a total of 11 goals to win the first £6 weekend prize money. Our winner is JED WEARDEN. 

Jed started with Golden Goals back in our 2010/11 Season and finished in 73rd place out of 109 players. Jed ended the season with a grand total of 250 goals. Last season he finished in 80th place out of 111 with a total of 235 goals. His winning teams are 

                                        CELTIC 5, LUTON TOWN 3, WEST HAM UNITED 3

WEEKEND RESULTS

We have had a good start to the season with plenty of goals but we had one of our team picking up the highest score over the weekend with 5 goals. They were from the Scottish Premiership  CELTIC, after they won their second league game 5-1 away to Kilmarnock. Celtic started with Golden Goals back in our very first season of 1983/84, where they became our 2nd voted Scottish team. In that season they ended with a total of 116 goals. They have hit 100 or more goals in 23 of their 44 seasons to date. They hold the record for the most goals scored with 144 in the 2024/25 season. So this is their 44th Season with us and over the years they have netted a total of 4309 goals, which gives them an average score of 97 goals per season. They have 41 votes this season.

So lets see how the rest of our teams that were in action, got on over the weekend.

LEAGUE CUP 1st Round

We have already had some of our teams in cup action, and, if you have been following our blog, you will know that four of our teams have been knocked-out. They are Bristol City, Port Vale, Wrexham and York City. We had a total of 25 teams playing in the cup over the weekend and here are the results.

Teams that are through to the next round are CAMBRIDGE UNITED, who won 2-1 at home against BARNET. CARDIFF CITY won 3-2 at home to Swindon Town. LUTON TOWN won 3-0 away to GILLINGHAM. LEICESTER CITY won 1-0 at home against Northampton Town. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY won 1-0 at home to Bolton wanderers. BIRMINGHAM CITY won 1-0 away to Swansea City. WEST HAM UNITED won 3-1 at home to Portsmouth. CHARLTON won 3-1 away to Cheltenham. SOUTHAMPTON won 2-0 away to Colchester Utd. AFC WIMBLEDON drew 1-1 at home against Newport County, and then won 5-4 on penalties. READING drew 1-1 away to BROMLEY and then won 5-4 on penalties. BURNLEY drew 1-1 at home to Notts County and then won -3 on penalties. PRESTON NE drew 1-1 at home to HUDDERSFIELD TOWN and then won 4-3 on penalties. Other teams that went out are BRISTOL ROVERS who lost 1-0 at home to Peterborough Utd. DERBY COUNTY lost 2-1 at home to Lincoln City. CHESTERFIELD lost 1-0 away to Fleetwood Town. GRIMSBY TOWN lost 3-1 at home to Blackpool. OXFORD UNITED lost 2-0 away to Leyton Orient. MK DONS lost 4-1 away to Norwich City. SALFORD CITY drew 1-1 at home to Shrewsbury Town and then lost 4-3 on penalties. STOCKPORT COUNTY drew 1-1 at home to Doncaster Rovers and then lost 5-4 on penalties.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

Now, you might already know that the Scottish have already played their first round of their League Cup, if you have been following our blog and with their group format once again, so most of our teams have already played more than five games this weekend. But here is the results of their second league games.

In the Premiership CELTIC are top of the table after they won their second league game, 5-1 away to Kilmarnock. With their biggest result to date, Celtic are now on a total of 6 goals. After a goal run of 5 league/cup games, ABERDEEN picked up their first blank score sheet, 2-0 away to Dundee. HEARTS have won their first league game 4-0 at home to Dundee Utd. Hearts are now on a total of 5 goals. RANGERS have still yet to win in the opening games, as they lost 2-1 at home to HIBERNIAN. Rangers are on a total of 2 goals, which makes them our worst Scottish team this weekend,  while Hibs are on 3 goals.

In the Championship, ARBROATH drew 0-0 at home to Inverness CT and picked up their fourth blank of the season and now two in a row. DUNFERMLINE drew 1-1 at home to AYR UNITED and picked up their 11th goal of the season. Ayr are on a total of 14 goals and have now scored in all of their six league/cup games played. STENHOUSEMUIR have won their first league game, 2-0 at home to Greenock Morton. Stenhousemuir are on a total of 9 goals.

In League One EAST KILBRIDE drew 1-1 away to Airdrieonians and picked up gaol number 19.  They have now scored in all of their 6 league/cup games played.

In League Two CLYDE lost 1-0 away to Dumbarton and picked up their second blank score sheet.

Here are our top ten in our first week of the season.

         FIRST                                       M/WEEK     W/END     TOTAL

         WEEK    NAME                        GOALS      GOALS     GOALS 

               1        CHARLIE FARLEY       26                  4               30

               2        M. WALKER                  14                  6               20

               3        T. GUY (3)                      18                  1               19

               4        G. DOWSETT (2)           10                  8              18

               5        D. BARRETT                  15                 3               18

               6        CJEXPRESS26               16                  2               18

               7       MANDYME26                13                  0               13 

               8       J. WEARDEN                   1                11               12

              9        M. JACOBSEN                  4                  8               12

                    10        G. DOWSETT (1)              9                  3               12

More League Cup First Round Games

More games have now been played in the first round of the League Cup. WOLVES are our first team through tom the next round, after they won 3-0 at home against PORT VALE. MIDDLESBROUGH will be joining them after they won 1-0 against WREXHAM.

In the Scottish Championship, PARTICK have won their second league game, 2-0 at home to LIVINGSTON. Partick are on a total of 16 goals and have now scored in all of their 6 league/cup games. Livingston have picked up their second blank of the season.