Here we are with Week Three of the competition and this weekend we had our third winner of the season. Our winner was MIKE PEPPERRELL our 2002/03 Champions, who won on a score of just 8 goals, which is the lowest score to date. and has won himself £6 this weekend.
Mike started with us back in the 2000/01 season, where he finished in 89th place out of 102 on a total of 229 goals. He became our 20th Champion, in the 2002/03 season, winning on a total of 338 goals. Mike is in 5th place in our Champions League. Last season, he finished in 45th place out of 111 with a total of 252 goals and had one shared weekend win. This season he has picked up his personal best score and has had no blank score sheets to date. This is his highest position so far this season. His teams for this season are
BRISTOL ROVERS 5, MANCHESTER CITY 2, WEST HAM UNITED 1
100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
A few more of us managed to pick up some goals as the race for the cash, start’s to get going. The £50 prize money will go to the first person to reach 100 goals from their three teams.
Still in the lead after three weeks of football, we have CHARLIE FRALEY (John Wood) still with a total of 26 goals. His teams are East Kilbride, Rangers and Stenhousemuir. In second place we have our 2010/11 & 2022/23 double Champion TONY GUY (3) now with a total of 21 goals. Down to third place we now have CJEXPRESS26 still with a total of 18 goals. In fourth place with 16 goals each we now have DAVID BARRETT down from three and MANDYME26 up from five. In fifth place we have MARK WALKER done from four with a total of 14 goals.
WEEKEND RESULTS
We had the start of the Premier League fixtures this weekend, and we had a few high scores; overall, it was another good Weekend. We had 10 teams with no game over the weekend, and another 12 of our teams that failed to score any goals. The average score fell from four last weekend to just 3 goals this weekend, which is good as a total of 7 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 5 goals and they came from the League Two where BRISTOL ROVERS won 5-3 at home to Newport County. With their biggest result to date, Rovers are now on a total of 7 goals. Rover’s became our 44th voted team back in the 1985/86 season, where they finished on a total of 65 goals. Their highest score of 77 goals was reached in the 2016/17 season. Last time out in the 2023/24 season, they finished on a total of 65 goals. This is their 19th appearance with Golden Goals and over the years they have netted a total of 1104 goals, which gives them an average score of 58 goals per season to date. Rovers have just one vote this season and have picked up just one blank score sheet.
lets get on with the results to see how your teams have performed this weekend.
PREMIER LEAGUE
BRIGHTON go straight to the top of the table after they won 4-0 at home to ASTON VILLA. The shock here in their opening game, is that MANCHESTER UNITED lost 2-0 away to newly promoted Hull City. CRYSTAL PALACE lost their first game 2-0 away to Everton. IPSWICH TOWN won their first game 2-1 at home to Sunderland. BRENTFORD have beaten TOTTENHAM 3-0 at home. MANCHESTER CITY won 2-1 against AFC BOURNEMOUTH at home, with two very late goals. NEWCASTLE UNITED drew 2-2 at home against LIVERPOOL
CHAMPIONSHIP
CHARLTON have won their second league game 2-1 away to WEST HAM UNITED. Charlton are on a total of 7 goals while West Ham are on 6 goals. BIRMINGHAM CITY have drawn their second game 2-2 at home to BRISTOL CITY. Birmingham are on a total of 3 goals while Bristol City picked up their first set of goals. MIDDLESBROUGH have lost their first game 2-1 away to Blackburn Rovers. Brough are on a total of 4 goals. DERBY COUNTY drew 2-2 at home to CARDIFF CITY and are on a total of 4 goals while Cardiff are on 6 goals. PRESTON NE lost 3-1 at home against WOLVES. Preston are on a total of 3 goals while Wolves, picked up their first win of the season and are on a total of 8 goals. SOUTHAMPTON are now -1 point after they won 3-1 at home to Stoke. Southampton are on a total of 6 goals. WREXHAM drew 1-1 at home to Watford and are on a total of 2 goals. BURNLEY lost 3-1 away to West Brom and are on a total of 4 goals.
LEAGUE ONE
HUDDERSFIELD TOWN are in second place after they drew 1-1 away to MK DONS. Huddersfield are on a total of 5 goals while the Dons are on 4 goals. LUTON TOWN drew 2-2 at home against Notts County and are on a total of 9 goals. AFC WIMBLEDON drew 0-0 at home to READING and picked up their second consecutive blank score sheet. Reading picked up their first blank of the season. BROMLEY drew 1-1 at home to CAMBRIDGE UNITED and are on a total of 3 goals. Cambridge are on 6 goals. LEICESTER CITY lost their first league game 2-1 at home against Burton. Leicester are on a total of 3 goals. OXFORD UNITED have won their first league game 2-1 away to Stevenage and are on a total of 4 goals. STOCKPORT COUNTY lost 2-1 at home to Blackpool and are on a total of 5 goals.
LEAGUE TWO
BARNET are top of the table after they won their second league game 3-1 away to Shrewsbury and are now on a total of 7 goals. BRISTOL ROVERS have picked up their biggest result to date with a 5-3 home win against Newport. Rovers have taken their goals tally to 7 goals. SALFORD CITY have lost their second league game 1-0 at home to CHESTERFIELD and picked up their first blank of the season. Chesterfield picked up their first goal of the season. GRIMSBY TOWN drew 0-0 away to Walsall, and picked up their first blank of the season. EXETER CITY have won their first game 2-0 at home to Accrington. They are their first goals of the season. GILLINGHAM have picked up their third consecutive blank score sheet after they drew 0-0 away to Fleetwood. PORT VALE have picked up their first goal of the season after they drew 1-1 at home to Tranmere. YORK CITY drew 1-1 away to Rotherham and are on a total of 4 goals.
SCOTTISH LEAGUES
In the Championship top of the table STENHOUSEMUIR, have won their second league game 2-0 away to Queen’s Park and are on a total of 12 goals. ARBROATH have won their first league game 2-1 away to Greenock Morton and are on a total of 5 goals after they had failed to score in their last two games. LIVINGSTON won 2-0 at home against DUNFERMLINE amd are on a total of 15 goals. Dunfermline picked up their third blank of the season. AYR UNITED lost 2-0 away to Raith Rovers and after a goal run of 7 league/cup games, picked up their first blank of the season.
In League One EAST KILBRIDE have lost their first league game, 3-0 away to Montrose and after a goal run of 7 league/cup games, picked up their first blank of the season.
In League Two, top of the table CLYDE have won their third league game 3-0 at home to Forfar and are now on a total of 14 goals.
Let’s have a look at our BEST three teams this week
EAST KILBRIDE (22) PARTICK (17) ABERDEEN (16) Total of 55 goals
Our WORST three teams are
GILLINGHAM (0) MANCHESTER UNITED (0) TOTTENHAM (0) Total of 0 goals
Our best performing team are STENHOUSEMUIR after they have scored in all of their last 4 league/cup games. With a total of 12 goals, out of 8 league/cup games played, their average score is 1.5 goals per game.
Our worst performing team is ARBROATH, this weekend, as they have picked up four blank score sheets in seven league/cup games of the season. They have a total of 5 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 third weekend running. He picked up a total of 2 goals from the weekend. Charlie Farley’s teams are East Kilbride, Rangers and Stenhousemuir. His lead has been cut to 11 goals clear of Guy Dowsett (2) who is still in second place this week after his teams picked up 4 goals. Guy’s teams are Celtic, Clyde and West Ham.
At the other end at 124 we now have OLIVIA HAMMOND as she picked up her first goals from the weekend. Olivia has Aston villa, Chelsea and Liverpool.
Here is our top ten this weekend
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 - CHARLIE FARLEY 26 15 41
2 - G. DOWSETT (2) 10 20 30
3 - M. WALKER 14 14 28
4 - D. BARRETT 16 12 28
5 6 T. GUY (3) 21 6 27
6 5 J. WEARDEN 1 24 25
7 8 M. JACOBSEN 6 18 24
8 7 CJEXPRESS26 18 6 24
9 10 M. GREGORY 1 21 22
10 9 P. PORTER 1 21 22
