Middlesbrough Still Second

 In the Championship BIRMINGHAM CITY lost 3-1 at home against second place  MIDDLESBROUGH. City are on a total of 52 goals while Brough are on 55 goals.

Here is our top 10 teams this week. Manchester City are still top with Arsenal still in 3rd place. Rangers are up to 4th place with Chelsea remained in 7th place. Celtic remain in 8th place. Southampton have moved into the top ten this week. 

81 MANCHESTER CITY (137)

78 CARDIFF CITY (106)

75 ARSENAL (103)

71 RANGERS (126)

70 HEARTS (98)

70 MK DONS (115)

69 CHELSEA (128)

67 CELTIC (144)

67 SOUTHAMPTON (100)

67 WREXHAM (93)

Week Thirty

In Week Twenty-Thirty of the competition, we are now halfway through the second half of our season. This weekend we had just one winner and that is PHIL REEVE our double Champion of 1987/88 and 2011/12. Phil won the full amount of prize money of £5 on his best personal score of 12 goals. He now becomes our fifth player to do so. Phil last won some shared cash back in Week-Seven. Since then he has picked up two blank weekend score sheets with 6th place still his best position to date. Celtic is his best team. Phil’s winning teams are,

                                      BOLTON WANDERERS  5, CELTIC 2, LIVERPOOL 5

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Just under half of us managed to pick up some goals this week, which means that our top five have almost stayed the same as last week’s table once again. It was VINCENT CRUICKSHANK who picked up the most midweek goals with a total of 7. His teams are Celtic, MK Dons and Southampton. Out in front again this week we have KEITH RATTLE, now with a total of 82 goals. Keith’s teams are Chelsea, Rangers and Wrexham. In second place, we still have BARBARA BARNES (1) now on a total of 76 goals. In third place, we still have SCOTT THOMSON (1) but he is now joined by RICHIE WILLIAMS up from four. Both are on a total of 69 goals. In fourth place we still have TONY GUY (3) now with a total of 68 goals. In fifth place we still have MICHAEL FISHER now with a total of 67 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had 6 of our teams without a game this weekend, plus we had another 9 of our teams that failed to score any goals. We had a really good weekend for goals this week. The average score was four goals last weekend, but this weekend it went back up to 6 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 two of our teams to reach that score. They came from BOLTON WANDERERS and LIVERPOOL. Let’s get on with the results to see how your teams have performed this weekend.

PREMIER LEAGUE

Top of the table ARSENAL beat London rivals CHELSEA 2-1 at home and are on a total of 75 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. Chelsea are on 69 goals and have now scored in all of their least 5 league/cup games. MANCHESTER CITY are still in 2nd place after they won 1-0 away to Leeds Utd and are on a total of 80 goals. In 3rd place we now have MANCHESTER UNITED after they won 2-1 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE. United are on a total of 53 goals and have now scored in all of their last 17 league/cup games. Palace are on a total of 36 goals and have a goal run of 8 league/cup games. Aston Villa are down to 4th place. LIVERPOOL are now in 5th place after they picked upo their biggest win of the season 5-2 at home to WEST HAM UNITED. Liverpool have taken their goals tally up to 56 goals and have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. West Ham are on a total of 39 goals. AFC BOURNEMOUTH drew 1-1 at home to SUNDERLAND and picked up goal number 47. Sunderland hit goal number 32. NEWCASTLE UNITED lost 3-2 at home to Everton and they are on a total of 55 goals and they have extended their goal run to 7 league/cup games. BRIGHTON won 2-1 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST and are on a total of 52 goals. After they had failed to score in their last two games, Forest are on a total of 31 goals. TOTTENHAM lost 2-1 away to Fulham and are on a total of 42 goals.

CHAMPIONSHIP

Middlesbrough are still in 2nd place after they had no game over the weekend.

In the Play-offs we still have two of the four teams this weekend as IPSWICH TOWN remain in 4th place, after they won 3-0 at home to Swansea and are now on a total of 62 goals. WREXHAM are still in 6th place after they won 1-0 away to Charlton and are on a total of 67 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league games.

Meanwhile, BLACKBURN ROVERS lost 3-1 away to Derby and are on a total of 34 goals. After a goal run of 5 league games, LEICESTER CITY lost 2-0 away to NORWICH CITY and picked up their 6th blank of the season. Norwich are on a total of 57 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league games. PRESTON NE lost 2-0 at home to Millwall and picked up their 10th blank of the season. SHEFFIELD UNITED won 2-0 away to QPR and are on a total of 54 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 8 league games. SOUTHAMPTON are on 67 goals after they won 3-1 away to bottom of the table Sheffield Wednesday. Southampton have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games.

LEAGUE ONE

Top of the table CARDIFF CITY won 4-0 away to Doncaster and have taken their goals tally to 78 goals and they have now extended their goal run to 21 league/cup games.

In the Play-offs, we still have three of the four teams with BOLTON WANDERERS still in 3rd place after they won 5-1 away to Exeter. Bolton with their biggest result of the season, are now on a total of 55 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. STOCKPORT COUNTY are down to 5th place after they lost 2-1 away to Stevenage and are on a total of 53 goals. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN are still in 6th place after they lost 1-0 away to Wigan and picked up their 7th blank scoresheet.

Meanwhile, LEYTON ORIENT lost 3-1 at home to Barnsley and are on a total of 45 goals. PETERBOROUGH UNITED drew 1-1 away to Northampton and are now on a total of 52 goals. BLACKPOOL picked up their 12th blank of the season after they lost 4-0 away to Lincoln. LUTON TOWN drew 1-1 away to Port Vale and picked up goal number 49. After a goal run of 15 league/cup games, PLYMOUTH lost 1-0 away to Rotherham and picked up their 10th blank of the season. WYCOMBE WANDERERS won 3-0 at home to Burton and are now on a total of 56 goals and they have now scored in all fo their last 5 league games.

LEAGUE TWO 

Top of the table BROMLEY won 2-1 at home to Accrington and are on a total of 61 goals. MK DONS have moved up to 3rd place after they drew 1-1 away to Cambridge Utd. The Dons are on a total of 70 goals. 

In the Play-offs, we now have 3 of the four teams with SWINDON TOWN remaining in 4th place after they drew 1-1 at home to Bristol Rovers. Swindon are on a total of 66 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 14 games. In 5th place we now have NOTTS COUNTY down from three. They lost 1-0 at home to Grimsby and picked up their 7th blank of the season. CREWE have moved into 6th place after they won 2-1 at home to Tranmere and are on a total of 54 goals.

Meanwhile, WALSALL won 2-1 away to Shrewsbury and are on a total of 48 goals. BARNET won 1-0 at home to CHESTERFIELD and are on a total of 47 goals. Chesterfield, after a goal run of 7 league games, picked up their 5th blank of the season. After they had failed to score in their last three games, GILLINGHAM won 1-0 away to Barrow and are on a total of 44 goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership, top of the table HEARTS are now 6 points clear after they won 1-0 at home to Aberdeen and are on a total of 70 goals. RANGERS have remained in 2nd place after they drew 1-1 at home to rivals CELTIC. Rangers are on a total of 71 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. Celtic in 3rd place are on a total of 67 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games. HIBERNIAN drew 3-3 away to Dundee and are now on a total of 50 goals.

In the Championship AYR UNITED lost 3-1 away to St Johnstone and picked up goal number 48. ROSS COUNTY who are still bottom of the table, won 2-0 at home to Raith Rovers. County are on a total of 38 goals after they had failed to score in their previous two games.

In League One, STENHOUSEMUIR are still in 2nd place after they won 1-0 at home to COVE RANGERS. Stenhousemuir are on a total of 46 goals while Rangers picked up their 14th blank of the season. EAST FIFE lost 2-0 at home to Alloa and picked up their 11th blank of the season.

In League Two, CLYDE in 3rd place lost 3-1 at home to East Kilbride and are on a total of 51 goals. DUMBARTON drew 1-1 away to Stirling and picked up goal number 38.

Our BEST three teams are

 MANCHESTER CITY (81) CARDIFF CITY (78) ARSENAL (75) Total of 234 goals.

Our WORST three teams are

NOTTINGHAM FOREST (31) EAST FIFE (31) SUNDERLAND (32) Total of 94 goals.

Our best performing team is CARDIFF CITY after they have now scored in all of their last 22 league/cup games. With a total of 78 goals, their average score is 1.9 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is WOLVES this weekend, as they have picked up 15 blank scoresheets out of their 34 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 back at the top on goal difference this weekend. Graham has now been at the top for seven weeks throughout the season. Graham picked up a total of 7 goals from the week. His teams are once again Arsenal, Celtic and MK Dons. Behind him, one goal difference we now have Gary Bolbery as he picks up a total of 8 goals from his teams this weekend. Gury’s teams are Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City.

At the other end at 111 we still have CHARLIE FARLEY(John Wood) there for his 9th consecutive week and now ten over the season. John picked up just 1 goal this weekend. His teams are Cove Rangers, East Fife and Stenhousemuir.  

 THIS      LAST                                      M/WEEK    W/END     TOTAL

WEEK   WEEK   NAME                        GOALS     GOALS     GOALS 

1             3      GRAHAM PHILLIPS    41                171             212

2             4      G. BOLBERY                54                 158             212

3             1      T. GUY (2)                     58                 153             211

4             2      D. WOOD                      61                 150             211

5            11     P. O’DONODGHUE      60                 149             209

6             -      T. GUY (3)                      68                 141             209

7             5     M. WALKER                  48                 160             208

8             -      H. ADKINS                    60                  147            207

9            7      K. RATTLE                    82                  125            207

      10            9      S. STUBBS (2)               62                  144            206

Wolves 2nd Win of the Season

In the Premier League Shock result as bottom of the table WOLVES beat third place ASTON VILLA 2-0 at home. With their second win of the season, Wolves are on a total of 35 goals. Villa have picked up their 9th blank of the season. 

In the Championship, BRISTOL CITY lost 2-1 at home to WATFORD and hit goal number 55. Watford are on a total of 47 goals.

Win for Norwich City

In the Championship BIRMINGHAM CITY lost 3-0 away to Millwall and picked up their 9th blank of the season. NORWICH CITY won 2-0 at home against Sheffield Wednesday and are on a total of 55 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. SHEFFIELD UNITED lost 2-1 at home to Coventry and hit goal number 52. They have now scored in all fo their last 7 league/cup games.

Middlesbrough Missing Chances

In the Championship BLACKBURN ROVERS lost 2-1 at home against BRISTOL CITY and are on a total of 33 goals. City are on a total of 54 goals. MIDDLESBROUGH drew 1-1 at home to LEICESTER CITY and hit goal number 52 and missed the chance to go top. Leicester are on a total of 52 and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. PRESTON NE drew 1-1 away to Swansea and are on a total of 44 goals. WATFORD lost 2-0 at home to IPSWICH TOWN and picked up their 9^th blank of the season. Ipswich are on a total of 59 goals. WREXHAM are on a total of 66 goals after they won 2-1 at home against Portsmouth. SOUTHAMPTON won 5-0 at home to QPR and have taken their goals tally to 64. 

In League One STOCKPORT COUNTY lost 3-0 away to Burton and picked up their 9^th blank of the season. 

In League Two BARNET won 1-0 away to Accrington and are on a total of 46 goals. 

In the Scottish League Two DUMBARTON drew 0-0 at home to CLYDE and picked up their 8^th blank of the season. Clyde, after a goal run of 12 league/cup games, picked up their 6^th blank of the season. 

United Move up to 4th Place

In the Premier League MANCHESTER UNITED won 1-0 away to Everton and picked up goal number 51. United have now scored in all of their last 16 league/cup games. 

In League Two WALSALL lost 2-0 at home to MK DONS and picked up their 11th blank of the season. The Dons are on a total of 69 goals and have moved up to 3rd place.

Things have changed once again since we last published our top 10 teams. Manchester City are still top with Arsenal now moving up to 3rd place. Rangers are up to 6th place with Chelsea having moved down to 7th place. Celtic remain in 8th place. Wrexham have moved into the top ten this week. 

80 MANCHESTER CITY (137)

74 CARDIFF CITY (106)

73 ARSENAL (103)

69 HEARTS (98)

69 MK DONS (115)

69 RANGERS (126)

68 CHELSEA (128)

65 CELTIC (144)

65 SWINDON TOWN (100)

64 WREXHAM (93)

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 Twenty-Nine

In Week Twenty-Nine of the competition, we once again had two winners this weekend winning on a score of 10 goals each. One of our players picked up his third win of the season while the other one picked up his second. Our winners are ANDY EYLES and TONY GUY (3) who share the £5 Weekend Prize Money this weekend.

Andy becomes our first player to win three times this season as he won some cash last weekend as well. Andy has picked up a total of 29 goals in the last 2 weeks.

Tony becomes our fourth player to win twice and the last time that he won was a shared win in Week Twenty-Six. With this selection he has been as high as 5th place in Week Twenty-Two. Arsenal is his best team with this one. Our winners' winning teams are,

                                            Andy  ARSENAL 4, CELTIC 1, PLYMOUTH 5

                                            Tony  ARSENAL 4, CELTIC 1, WREXHAM 5

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Over half of us managed to pick up some goals this week, which means that our top five have almost stayed the same as last week’s table. It was ANDY EYLES who picked up the most midweek goals with a total of 5. His teams are Arsenal, Celtic and Plymouth. Out in front again this week we have KEITH RATTLE, now with a total of 80 goals. Keith’s teams are Chelsea, Rangers and Wrexham. In second place, we still have BARBARA BARNES (1) now on a total of 74 goals. In third place, we still have SCOTT THOMSON (1) now with a total of 67 goals. In fourth place we still have RICHIE WILLIAMS but he is now joined by TONY GUY (3) who has moved up from five. Both are on a total of 66 goals. In fifth place we still have MICHAEL FISHER with a total of 64 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had 5 of our teams without a game this weekend, plus we had another 10 of our teams that failed to score any goals. Although we had a really good weekend last week with plenty of goals, this weekend was a bit slack on the goals front. The average score was six goals last weekend but this weekend it went down to just 4 goals. Well done if your teams picked up more than that. The highest score over the weekend was 5 goals and we had four of our teams to reach that score. They came from CLYDE, NOTTS COUNTY, PLYMOUTH and WREXHAM. Let’s get on with the results to see how your teams have performed this weekend.

PREMIER LEAGUE

Top of the table ARSENAL beat London rivals TOTTENHAM 4-1 away to take their goals tally to 73 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. Tottenham are on 41 goals. MANCHESTER CITY are still in 2nd place after they won 2-1 at home to NEWCASTLE UNITED and are on a total of 80 goals. Newcastle picked up their 53rd goal of the season. In 3rd place, ASTON VILLA drew 1-1 at home to Leeds Utd and are on a total of 42 goals. In 4th place CHELSEA drew 1-1 at home to Burnley and are on a total of 68 goals. Manchester United are in 5th place while LIVERPOOL are in 6th place. They won 1-0 away to NOTTINGHAM FOREST and are on a total of 51 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. Forest picked up their 13th blank of the season and now two games without a goal. After they had failed to score in their last 3 games, BRIGHTON won 2-0 away to Brentford and are on a total of 50 goals. WEST HAM UNITED, who are third from bottom, drew 0-0 at home to AFC BOURNEMOUTH and after they had scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games, picked up their 9th blank of the season. Bournemouth after they had a goal run of 12 league/cup games, picked up their 6th blank of the season. CRYSTAL PALACE won 1-0 at home to bottom of the table WOLVES and are on a total of 35 goals. Palace have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. Wolves picked up their 15th blank of the season and now look set for relegation. SUNDERLAND lost 3-1 at home against Fulham and are on a total of 31 goals.

CHAMPIONSHIP

MIDDLESBROUGH are still in 2nd place after they drew 0-0 at home to Oxford Utd. After a goal run of 8 games, Brough Picked up their 9th blank of the season.

In the Play-offs we still have two of the four teams this weekend as IPSWICH TOWN remain in 4th place, after they lost 5-3 away to WREXHAM. Ipswich are now on a total of 57 goals while Wrexham have moved up to 6th place and have taken their goals tally to 64 goals.

Meanwhile, BRISTOL CITY lost 1-0 away to Swansea and picked up their 12th blank of the season. NORWICH CITY lost 2-1 at home to BIRMINGHAM CITY and are on a total of 53 goals. Birmingham are on a total of 51 goals. LEICESTER CITY drew 2-2 away to Stoke and are now third from bottom with a total of 51 goals. SOUTHAMPTON are on 59 goals after they drew 1-1 at home to Charlton. Southampton have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. WATFORD won 2-0 at home to Derby and are on a total of 45 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED won 2-1 at home to bottom of the table Sheffield Wednesday and are on a total of 51 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 6 league games.

LEAGUE ONE

Top of the table CARDIFF CITY have lost their sixth league game, 5-2 away to PLYMOUTH. Cardiff are on a total of 70 goals and they have now extended their goal run to 21 league/cup games. Plymouth have taken their goals tally to 53 goals and have extended their goal run to 15 league/cup games.

In the Play-offs, we still have three of the four teams with BOLTON WANDERERS still in 3rd place after they drew 2-2 at home to BLACKPOOL. Bolton are now on a total of 50 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. Blackpool are on a total of 46 goals. STOCKPORT COUNTY are still in 4th place after they won 4-2 at home to Wigan and after they had failed to score in their last two games, County are now on a total of 52 goals. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN are still in 6th place after they won 2-1 at home against Barnsley and after they had failed to score in their last two games, are on a total of 59 goals.

Meanwhile, WYCOMBE WANDERERS won 3-1 at home to Stevenage and are on a total of 53 goals. LUTON TOWN drew 1-1 at home to Burton and picked up goal number 48. LEYTON ORIENT won 2-1 away to Northampton and are on a total of 44 goals. PETERBOROUGH UNITED drew 3-3 at home to Exeter and are now on a total of 51 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

Top of the table BROMLEY drew 0-0 to Harrogate and after a goal run of 6 league/cup games, picked up their 5th blank of the season. With their biggest win of the season, NOTTS COUNTY have moved up to 3rd place after they won 5-0 at home to Tranmere and have now taken their goals tally up to 54 goals.

In the Play-offs, we now have all four teams with SWINDON TOWN moving down from three to 4th place after they lost 2-1 at home to CREWE. Swindon are on a total of 65 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 13 games. Crewe are on a total of 52 goals and are now in 6th place. Mk Dons remained in 5th place after they had no game over the weekend. CHESTERFIELD have moved up to 7th place after they drew 1-1 away to Crawley and are on a total of 54 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games.

Meanwhile, BARNET lost 4-1 away to Colchester and picked up their 45th goal of the season. GILLINGHAM lost 3-0 at home to Oldham and picked up their 8th blank scoresheet and they have failed to score in all of their last three games.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership, top of the table HEARTS won 1-0 at home against Falkirk and are on a total of 69 goals. RANGERS have remained in 2nd place after they drew 2-2 away to bottom of the table Livingston. Rangers are on a total of 69 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. In 3rd place we still have CELTIC after they lost their seventh league game, 2-1 at home to HIBERNIAN. Celtic are on a total of 65 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. Hibs are on a total of 47 goals.

In the Championship AYR UNITED drew 0-0 at home to ROSS COUNTY and picked up their 8th blank of the season. County, who are bottom of the table, picked up their 11th blank of the season and now two in a row.

In League One, STENHOUSEMUIR are still in 2nd place after they drew 1-1 away to Inverness CT and are on a total of 45 goals. EAST FIFE lost 3-1 away to Peterhead and are on a total of 31 goals. COVE RANGERS drew 1-1 at home to Kelty Hearts and are on a total of 37 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 5 league games.

In League Two, It’s 50 goals for CLYDE as they won 5-0 at home to Edinburgh City. DUMBARTON .lost 3-1 away to East Kilbride and picked up goal number 37 after they had failed to score in their previous two league games.

Our BEST three teams are

 MANCHESTER CITY (80) CARDIFF CITY (74) ARSENAL (73) Total of 227 goals.

Our WORST three teams are

NOTTINGHAM FOREST (30) SUNDERLAND (31) EAST FIFE (31) Total of 92 goals.

Our best performing team is CARDIFF CITY after they have now scored in all of their last 21 league/cup games. With a total of 74 goals, their average score is 1.8 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is WOLVES this weekend, as they have picked up 15 blank score sheets in their 33 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.

The top ten and the rest of the table have settled down a bit this weekend. The race to become our 43rd Champion is still wide open.

 THIS      LAST                                         M/WEEK     W/END     TOTAL

WEEK   WEEK   NAME                           GOALS      GOALS     GOALS 

       1             2       T. GUY (2)                         58               148              206

       2             3       D. WOOD                          61               145              206

       3             1       GRAHAM PHILLIPS       39               166              205

       4             5       G. BOLBERY                    54               150              204

       5             7       M. WALKER                     48               155              203

       6           12      T. GUY (3)                         66               136              202

       7            8       K. RATTLE                        80               121              201

      8             4       H. ADKINS                        60               140              200

      9             6       S. STUBBS (2)                   62               137              199

            10             -        T. GUY (10/11 & 22/23)    50               147              197