Week Fourteen

Here we are with Week Fourteen of the competition, and we had two winners this week to share the £6 Weekend Jackpot. We also had our 15th winner of the season and they are MARTIN CORBETT, as our other winner pick’s up his second win of the season and that is JOHN WOOD. Both have won with their personal best weekend score of 10 goals. 

Martin joined Golden Goals back in the 2017/18 season where he finished in 128th place out of 149 with 239 goals. He did managed to pick up one weekend win. Last season, Martin finished 102nd place with 214 goals and shared a weekend win. This season, he has been as high as 51st place in Week Three. He has picked up two blank weekend score sheets. Cardiff City is his best team. 

John picked up his second win with Lucifer last weekend. Last season John, himself, finished in 70th place with a total of 242 goals. This season he has been as high as 25th place in Week One. Celtic is his best team. Our winner’s winning teams are

                            Martin  CARDIFF CITY 5, LIVERPOOL 3, RANGERS 2

                       John  CARDIFF CITY 5, CELTIC 1, MANCHESTER UNITED 4

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Nearly all of us picked up some midweek goals this week, and we now have a total of 10 players that have reached the half-way mark. so the top five has slightly changed from last week’s News Sheet. We had 4 players that managed to pick up the most amount of goal’s with 7 each. They are JAMES BLYTH, CHRIS BOOM, SIMON DICKINSON and SCOTT THOMSON (1).

In the lead this week we are back with TIM WOOD now with a total of 55 goals. His teams are Manchester City, West Ham United and Wolves. In second place we now have CHRIS BOOM up from four, now with a total of 54 goals. In third place down from one, we have STALKY (1) now on a total of 53 goals. In fourth place we now have ASHLEY LEGG down from two with SIMON DICKINSON coming back in. Both are on a total of 52 goals. In fifth place, we still have MICHAEL JACOBSEN but he is now joined with MARK LIPMAN down from three, MIKE HARRINGTON our 1997/98 Champion, down from fourth place. All are on a total of 51 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had 6 of our teams without a game this weekend and another 11 that failed to score any goals. Once again our top teams had some very disappointing results over the weekend. The average score from last weekend was just three goals, this weekend we went up a little to 4 goals. So if you scored more than that with your teams, then you have done very well this week. The highest score that we had over the weekend was 5 goals, and we had two of our teams that reached that score. They are CARDIFF CITY and READING. 

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

FA CUP 1^st Round

We had a total of 17 of our teams in cup action and out of them 10 have made it to round two this weekend. The team’s that are through to the next round are BARNET who won 3-0 at home to Tranmere and are now on a total of 32 goals. They have now scored in all of their 15 league/cup games. CHESTERFIELD won 4-3 at home to non-league Yeovil and they have taken their goals tally to 28 goals. EXETER CITY won 2-1 away to HUDDERSFIELD TOWN and are on a total of 13 goals. Huddersfield are on 30 goals and have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. LUTON TOWN won 2-0 at home against non-league Forest Green Rovers and are on a total of 32 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. MK DONS won 2-1 at home against Swindon and they are on a total of 25 goals. PORT VALE won 4-2 against non-league Scunthorpe and have taken their goals tally to 14 goals. YORK CITY won 4-0 at home to Northampton and they have taken their goals tally to 28 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. After they had failed to score in their last 2 league games, READING won 5-0 away to Peterborough and thye have taken their goals tally to 35 goals. GRIMSBY TOWN drew 3-3 after extra time against non-league Stafford Rangers. Grimsby then won 3-2 on penalties. They are now on a total of 28 goals. STOCKPORT COUNTY won 3-2 against non-league Gray Wanderers after extra time. County are now on a total of 30 goals. 

Other teams that went out are BROMLEY who lost 2-0 at home to Rotherham. That is Bromley’s 5th blank of the season. SALFORD CITY lost 1-0 away to non-league Carlisle Utd and picked up their third blank of the season after a goal run of 11 league/cup games. AFC WIMBLEDON lost 2-1 away to Crewe and are on a total of 11 goals. GILLINGHAM, after a goal run of 5 league games, picked up their 6th blank of the season after they lost 1-0 at home to non-league Barrow. OXFORD UNITED lost 1-0 at home to Stevenage and that is their third blank of the season. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY lost 2-1 away to Oldham after extra time. Wednesday are on a total of 24 goals.

PREMIER LEAGUE

ARSENAL are still top after they won 1-0 at home to Hull. Arsenal are on a total of 20 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. BRIGHTON have moved up to second place after they won 2-0 at home against BRENTFORD. Brighton are on a total of 31 goals while Brentford picked up their first blank of the season after a goal run of 12 league/cup games. MANCHESTER CITY are now in third place after they lost their 3rd consecutive league game 3-1 away to Nottingham Forest. City have picked up their 28th goal of the season. CRYSTAL PALACE lost 3-1 at home to LIVERPOOL and picked up goal number 13. Liverpool are now on a total of 18 goals. It’s 20 goals for IPSWICH TOWN after they lost 2-1 at home to AFC BOURNEMOUTH. Bournemouth are on a total of 23 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. CHELSEA lost 1-0 away to Sunderland and that is their third blank of the season. MANCESTER UNITED drew 4-4 at home against ASTON VILLA and that takes their goals tally to 16 after they had failed to score in their last 2 games. Villa have taken their goals tally to 17. After a goal run of 6 league/cup games, TOTTENHAM picked up their 5th blank of the season after they lost 1-0 away to Leeds Utd. NEWCASTLE UNITED drew 1-1 away to Fulham and picked up their 18th goal of the season.

CHAMPIONSHIP

BIRMINGHAM CITY are now top of the table after they won 2-1 at home to Swansea and they are now on a total of 30 goals. MIDDLESBROUGH are down to second place after they drew 0-0 away to Watford and picked up their third blank score sheet and now 2 in a row. BRISTOL CITY lost 5-0 at home against Norwich and that is their 7th blank of the season. WREXHAM drew 1-1 at home against WOLVES and they are on a total of 18 goals. Wolves are on 31 goal sand have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. WEST HAM UNITED lost again 2-1 away to Blackburn and are on a total of 46 goals and have extended their goal run to 18 league/cup games. CARDIFF CITY won 5-4 at home to BURNLEY.  Cardiff have taken their goals tally up to 31 goals, while Burnley have taken their goals tally to 23 goals. After they had failed to score in their last 2 league games, CHARLTON won 2-1 at home against Sheffield Utd. Charlton are on a total of 17 goals. Bottom of the table PRESTON NE won their second league game 1-0 at home to SOUTHAMPTON. Preston are on a total of 14 goals while Southampton picked up their second blank of the season.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Premiership, CELTIC remain on top after they won 1-0 at home to Kilmarnock. Celtic are on a total of 32 goals. RANGERS in second place won 2-0 away to St Mirren and are on a total of 30 goals and have now scored in all 15 league/cup games. ABERDEEN have lost their 3rd consecutive league game 4-0 at home against HIBERNIAN. Aberdeen have picked up their 8th blank of the season and now 3 in a row. Hibs have picked up their biggest result of the season and they have taken their goals tally to 21 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games.

In the Championship, PARTICK THISTLE are still top after they won 1-0 away to Queen’s Park. Partick are on a total of 31 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. After they had failed to score in their last 3 games, ARBROATH picked up their biggest result of the season by winning 4-1 at home against AYR UNITED.  With their 4th win of the season, Arbroath have taken their goals tally up to 14 goals. Ayr are on a total of 27 goals. After they had failed to score in their last 3 games, STENHOUSEMUIR lost 4-3 away to Greenock Morton. Stenhousemuir are now on a total of 23 goals.

In League One EAST KILBRIDE won 2-1 away to Queen of the South and are on a total of 36 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games.

In League Two CLYDE are still in second place after they won 3-2  at home to The Spartans and are now on a total of 37 goals.

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

WEST HAM UNITED (46) CLYDE (37) HEARTS (36) Total of 119 goals 

Our WORST three teams are

AFC WIMBLEDON (11) CRYSTAL PALACE (13) EXETER CITY (13) Total of 37 goals

Our best performing team is WEST HAM UNITED after they have scored in all of their 18 league/cup games. With a total of 46 goals, their average score is 2.5 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is EXETER CITY this weekend, as they have picked up 7 blank score sheets in 16 league/cup games. They have a total of 13 goals.

Our highest goal-scoring team in our 44th Season, are LIVINGSTON. They won 8-0 at home against Forfar in the 1st round group stages of the Scottish League Cup in Week One.

GUY DOWSETT (2) is celebrating his tenth weekend at the top this week with his second selection once again, He picked up a total of 8 goals once again from the week. Guy’s teams are Celtic, Clyde and West Ham United. In second place this weekend we still have Mike Harrington our 1997/98 Champion who picked up a total of 5 goals all from the week. Mikes teams are Middlesbrough, Southampton and West Ham United.

At the other end at 124 we still have CJEXPRESS26, who has now been there of a third weekend. Her teams picked up 8 goals from the week and her teams are Arbroath, Ayr United and Preston NE.

Here are our top ten this week as the table start's to settle down a bit. 

  THIS    LAST                                                     M/WEEK    W/END    TOTAL

WEEK  WEEK   NAME                                       GOALS     GOALS    GOALS 

       1             -       G. DOWSETT (2)                         46               69              115

       2             -       M. HARRINGTON (1997/98)*    51               61              112

       3             -       M. LIPMAN                                  51               61              112

       4             5       G. DOWSETT (1)                         50               61              111

       5             4      M. GREGORY                               43               67              110

       6             -       J. WEARDEN                               45               65              110

       7             9      M. JACOBSEN                             51               58              109

       8             7      T. WARWICK                               42               66              108

       9            11      P. PORTER                                   44               64             108

     10            12      I. SMITH (1)                                40               66             106

Some FA CUP 1st Round Results

In the first games of the FA CUP 1st Round, BRISTOL ROVERS won 2-0 at home to CAMBRIDGE UNITED and are on a total of 19 goals. Cambridge picked up their 3rd blank and now 2 in a row. LEICESTER CITY won 4-2 away to OXFORD UNITED and have taken their goals tally to 28 goals and have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. Oxford are on a total of 24 goals. 

In the Premier League COVENTRY CITY lost their 7th league game 3-1 away to Everton. Coventry are on a total of 15 goals. 

In the Championship, DERBY COUNTY won 3-1 at home to Bolton and are now on a total of 15 goals. 

In the Scottish Championship DUNFERMLINE drew 0-0 away to Raith Rovers. Dunfermline have picked up their 5th blank of the season.

West Ham Fight Back For Point

In the Championship, CARDIFF CITY drew 3-3 at home against WEST HAM UNITED, after going 3-0 up by half time. Cardiff are now on a total of 26 goals while West Ham are now on a total of 45 goals. They have now scored in all of their 17 league/cup games.  After they had failed to score in their last 2 league games, WREXHAM have won their 4th league game 2-0 at home against MIDDLESBROUGH.  Wrexham are on a total of 17 goals while Middlesbrough, after a goal run of 8 league/cup games, picked up their second blank of the season. WOLVES have moved up to second place after they won 2-1 away to BRISTOL CITY. Wolves are on a total of 30 goals while City hit goal number 16. 

In League One, OXFORD UNITED won 2-0 at home to READING to move up to 3rd place. Oxford are on a total of 22 goals while Reading picked up their fourth blank and now 2 in a row. 

Birmingham Now in Second Place

In the Championship, BIRMINGHAM CITY have moved in to second place after they won 3-0 at home to Millwall, and they are now on a total of 28 goals. BURNLEY drew 1-1 away to QPR and are on a total of 19 goals. CHARLTON lost 1-0 at home to Bolton and that is their 6th blank of the season and now 2 in a row. DERBY COUNTY lost 4-0 at home to Norwich and that is their 5th blank of the season. PRESTON NE lost 3-2 at home against Sheffield United and are on a total of 13 goals. SOUTHAMPTON drew 1-1 away to West Brom and they are on a total of 32 goals. 

In League One top of the table HUDDERSFIELD TOWN drew 1-1 at home against LUTON TOWN. Huddersfield are on a total of 29 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. Luton are on 30 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. 

Newcastle Struggling for Points

In the Premier League NEWCASTLE UNITED lost 1-0 at home against Everton and they have picked up their second blank of the season. Newcastle have lost 4 of their 9 league games.

Here are our top 10 teams so far from season 44. The numbers in red are their highest end of season goals total with Golden Goals. Teams are in alphabetical order. The goals came from the League, League Cup and the FA Cup. The Scottish also came from their League and their two domestic cup competitions. 

42 WEST HAM UTD (91)

34 CLYDE (73)

34 HEARTS (98)

34 EAST KILBRIDE (-)

34 MIDDLESBROUGH (92)

31 CELTIC (144)

31 SOUTHAMPTON (100)

30 READING (111)

30 PARTICK (46)

29 BARNET (73)

Week Thirteen

Here we are with Week Thirteen of the competition, we have had our 14th winner of the season to win the full £6 Weekend Prize Money. The cash went to LUCIFER (John Wood) who won with his personal best weekend score of 10 goals. John/Lucifer started with Golden Goals back in the 1997/98 season where he finished in 87th place out of 103 with a total of 209 goals. Over the years John has added more entries to the competition and he became Champion in the 2016/17 season, winning with a total of 344 goals which put’s him in 3rd place in our “Champions League”. Last season his Lucifer finished in 57th place with a total of 248 goals. This season his Lucifer, has had one blank weekend score sheet and his highest position is 36 in Week Three. Southampton is his best team. His winning teams are

                            CAMBRIDGE UNITED 0, MK DONS 6, SOUTHAMPTON 4

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Nearly all of us picked up some midweek goals this week, so the top five has slightly changed from last week’s News Sheet. We had 2 players that managed to pick up the most amount of goals with 7 each. They are BARBARA BARNES (1) and ZIGGY.

In the lead this week we are back to two players who have reached the halfway mark. They are STALKY (1) up from three and TIM WOOD last weeks leader, both on a total of 50 goals. In second place we now have ASHLEY LEGG up from three with 49 goals. In third place, we still  have MARK LIPMAN now on a total of 48 goals. In fourth place we still have GUY DOWSETT (1) and he is now joined with MIKE HARRINGTON our 1997/98 Champion, down from second place and coming back in to the race CHRIS BOOM. All are on a total of 47 goals. In fifth place we still have ROBERT NETTING but joining him we have back in MICHAEL JACOBSEN. Both are on a total of 46 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had 5 of our teams without a game this weekend and another 14 that failed to score any goals. We had a total of 4 players that failed to pick up any goals over the weekend. Our top teams crashed over the weekend which was very disappointing. The average score last weekend was five goals this weekend we went down to just 3 goals. So if you scored more than that with your teams, then you have done very well this week. The highest score over the weekend was 6 goals and they came from League One, where MK DONS won 6-1 at home against Doncaster Rovers.

MK Dons started with Golden Goals back in the 2007/08 season on where they became our 103rd voted English team. In that season they finished on a total of 88 goals. They have reached 100 goals twice, and their highest score came in the 2014/15 season with 115 goals. Last season they finished on a total of 93 goals. This is their 16th season with us and over the years they have scored a total of 1133 goals, which gives them an average score of 70 goals per season to date. This season they have picked up 2 blank score sheets and they have just 1 vote this time round.

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

PREMIER LEAGUE

ARSENAL have moved up to the top after they won 1-0 away to LIVERPOOL. Arsenal are on a total of 19 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. Liverpool picked up their third blank of the season. MANCHESTER CITY are down to second place after they lost their 2nd consecutive league game 1-0 at home to BRIGHTON. After they had scored in all of their first 10 league/cup games, City have picked up their 1st blank of the season. Brighton are on a total of 29 goals and no win third place. AFC BOURNEMOUTH who have won their 3rd league game 2-0 at home against Leeds Utd.. Bournemouth are on a total of 21 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. BRENTFORD won 2-0 at home to Nottingham Forest and are on a total of  26 goals. They have  now scored in all of their 12 league/cup games. CHELSEA won 2-0 at home against MANCESTER UNITED and are on a total of 28 goals. United picked up their fourth blank of the season and now 2 in a row. COVENTRY CITY won 3-1 at home to Sunderland and are now on a total of 14 goals. IPSWICH TOWN drew 2-2 away to Hull and are on a total of 19 goals. TOTTENHAM have won their third consecutive league game 2-0 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE. Tottenham are on a total of 16 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. Palace picked up their 5th blank score sheet. ASTON VILLA drew 1-1 at home to Fulham and they are on a total of 13 goals.

CHAMPIONSHIP

MIDDLESBROUGH at the top of the table won 3-0 at home to CHARLTON and are now on a total of 34 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. Charlton picked up their 5th blank of the season. BIRMINGHAM CITY won 3-1 away to Lincoln and they are now on a total of 25 goals. After they had failed to score in their last 3 league games, BRISTOL CITY won 3-2 away to Bolton and are now on a total of 15 goals. BURNLEY after a goal run of 10 league/cup games, picked up their second blank of the season after they drew 0-0 at home to Portsmouth. DERBY COUNTY lost 4-1 away to Millwall and are on a total of 12 goals. SOUTHAMPTON won 4-1 at home against QPR and have taken their goals tally to 31. WEST HAM UNITED lost 3-1 at home to West Brom and are on a total of 42 goals and have extended their goal run to 16 league/cup games. WOLVES won 3-0 at home to CARDIFF CITY and are now on a total of 28 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. Cardiff picked up their third blank of the season after a goal run of 5 league/cup games. Bottom of the table PRESTON NE lost 2-0 away to Stoke and picked up their 6th blank of the season.

LEAGUE ONE 

HUDDERSFIELD TOWN are ill top of the table after they won 3-0 away to Bradford. Huddersfield are on a total of 28 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. STOCKPORT COUNTY remain in 2nd place after they won 2-1 at home to AFC WIMBLEDON. County are on a total of 27 goals while Wimbledon are on 10 goals. After a goal run of 11 league/cup games, CAMBRIDGE UNITED lost 3-0 away to Leyton Orient. Cambridge picked up their second blank of the season. READING drew 0-0 away to Plymouth and that is their third blank of the season. It’s 20 goals for OXFORD UNITED after they drew 1-1 away to Barnsley. LEICESTER CITY drew 2-2 at home to Stevenage and they are on a total of 24 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. MK DONS have picked up their biggest win of the season after they won 6-1 at home against Doncaster. The Dons have taken their goals tally to 23 goals. LUTON TOWN won 2-0 away to Peterborough and are on a total of 29 goals. Luton have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. BROMLEY lost 3-2 away to Wigan and are on a total of 14 goals. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY drew 1-1 at home against Blackpool and are on a total of 23 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

SALFORD CITY are still top after they won 2-1 at home against EXETER CITY. Salford are on a total of 26 goals and they have extended their goal run to 11 league/cup games. Exeter are on 11 goals. BARNET are still in second place after they drew 1-1 away to Crewe. Barnet are on a total of 26 goals and they have now scored in all of their 13 league/cup games. GRIMSBY TOWN picked up their biggest win of the season after they won 5-2 at home to YORK CITY. Grimsby have taken their goals tally up to 25 goals while York are on 24 goals. York have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. It’s 10 goals for PORT VALE after they picked up their biggest win of the season, 4-2 at home to Rochdale. BRISTOL ROVERS lost 3-1 away to Fleetwood and are on a total of 17 goals. It’s 20 goals for GILLINGHAM after they won 2-1 away to Shrewsbury.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Scottish League Cup Semi-Finals, we had 4 of our teams in action and out of them 2 are through to the finals. They are RANGERS who won 1-0 at home against ABERDEEN and are in the finals. Rangers picked up goal number 28. They have now scored in all of their 13 league/cup games. Aberdeen picked up their 7th blank score sheet and now 2 in a row. HEARTS lost 2-1 at home to HIBERNIAN and they are on a total of 34 goals and have extended their goal run to all 14 league/cup games. Hibs are on a total of 17 goals. Rangers will play Hearts in the final on 13 December.

In the Premiership, CELTIC remain on top after they lost their second league game 2-0 away to Falkirk. Celtic have picked up their third blank of the season. Rangers are still in second place.

In the Championship, PARTICK THISTLE are still top after they lost their second league game 3-2 at home to Greenock Morton. Partick are on a total of 30 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. ARBROATH lost 4-0 at home against Raith Rovers.  Arbroath picked up their 10th blank of the season and now 3 in a row. AYR UNITED won 3-2 at home to Queen’s Park and are now on a total of 26 goals. DUNFERMLINE won 5-1 at home to Inverness CT and have taken their goals tally to 26 goals.

In League One EAST KILBRIDE lost 2-1 at home to Ross County and are on a total of 34 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games.

In League Two CLYDE are in second place after they drew 0-0 away to Stranraer and after a goal run of 10 games, picked up their third blank of the season.

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

WEST HAM UNITED (42) MIDDLESBROUGH (34) HEARTS (34) Total of 110 goals

Our WORST three teams are

AFC WIMBLEDON (10) ARBROATH (10) PORT VALE (10) Total of 30 goals

Our best performing team is WEST HAM UNITED after they have scored in all of their 16 league/cup games. With a total of 42 goals, their average score is 2.6 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is EXETER CITY this weekend, as they have picked up 7 blank score sheets in 15 league/cup games. They have a total of 11 goals.

Our highest goal-scoring team in our 44th Season, are LIVINGSTON. They won 8-0 at home against Forfar in the 1st round group stages of the Scottish League Cup in Week One.

GUY DOWSETT (2) is celebrating his ninth weekend at the top this week with his second selection once again, He picked up a total of just 4 goals once again from the week. Guy’s teams are Celtic, Clyde and West Ham United. In second place this weekend we have Mike Harrington our 1997/98 Champion who picked up a total of 8 goals all from the weekend. Mikes teams are Middlesbrough, Southampton and West Ham United.

At the other end at 124 we still have CJEXPRESS26, who has now been there of a second weekend. Her teams picked up just 3 goals from the weekend and her teams are Arbroath, Ayr United and Preston NE.

We had a very disappointing weekend for goals but it seems that the table below, is settling down abit.

  THIS    LAST                                                    M/WEEK    W/END     TOTAL

WEEK  WEEK   NAME                                      GOALS     GOALS     GOALS 

      1              -       G. DOWSETT (2)                         43              64               107

      2             4       M. HARRINGTON (1997/98)*    47              60               107

      3             2       M. LIPMAN                                  48              59               107

      4             5       M. GREGORY                              39              65               104

      5             3       G. DOWSETT (1)                         47              56               103

      6             8       J. WEARDEN                               41              61               102

      7             9       T. WARWICK                               38              63               101

      8             6       M. WRIGHT (2)                            45             56               101

      9             7       M. JACOBSEN                             46             55               101

    10             -        G. CARTHY                                 43             57               100

Chesterfield and Wrexham lost

In the Championship, WREXHAM lost 1-0 away to Sheffield United and picked up their 5th blank of the season and now 2 in a row. They have now lost five of their league games.

In League Two, CHESTERFIELD lost 4-1 away to Newport and they are on a total of 24 goals.

In the Scottish Championship, LIVINGSTON won 3-0 away to STENHOUSEMUIR and are now on a total of 29 goals. Stenhousemuir have now picked up a total of 6 blank score sheets and have failed to score in their last 3 games.