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. City are on 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

Rovers 2 Wins in a Row

In the Championship BLACKBURN ROVERS won 1-0 at home to PRESTON NE and hit goal number 32. Preston picked up their 9th blank of the season. 

Title Race is Now Open

In the Premier League, what a shocker this is, top of the table ARSENAL played bottom of the table WOLVES and drew 2-2 away. Arsenal are on a total of 69 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. Wolves are on a total of 33 goals. Arsenal are now 5 points clear of second place Manchester City who have a game in hand. 

In League One LUTON TOWN lost 1-0 away to Wigan and picked up their 10th blank of the season. 

In League Two WALSALL drew 2-2 away to Grimsby and are on a total of 46 goals.

Cardiff and Bromley still top of their League's

In the Championship, BRISTOL CITY drew 2-2 at home to WREXHAM and are on a total of 52 goals. Wrexham are on a total of 59 goals. 

In League One, top of the table CARDIFF CITY won 4-1 at home against AFC Wimbledon and have taken their goals tally to 72 goals. They have extended their goal run to 20 league/cup games. It’s 50 goals for WYCOMBE WANDERERS after they drew 1-1 away to Exeter. PETERBOROUGH UNITED lost 2-1 away to Barnsley and picked up goal number 48. STOCKPORT COUNTY lost 1-0 away to Bradford and picked up their 8th blank of the season and now two games without a goal. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN lost 1-0 away to Doncaster and picked up their 6th blank of the season and now two games without a goal. After they had failed to score in their last three games, LEYTON ORIENT picked up goal number 42 after they lost 3-1 at home to PLYMOUTH. Plymouth are now on a total of 48 goals and have extended their goal run to 14 league/cup games. BLACKPOOL won 1-0 at home to Mansfield and are on a total of 44 goals. BOLTON WANDERERS drew 1-1 away to Reading and are on a total of 48 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. 

In League Two, top of the table BROMLEY drew 1-1 at home to Cheltenham and are on a total of 59 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. SWINDON TOWN won 2-1 away to BARNET and are on a total of 64 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 12 league/cup games. Barnet are on a total of 44 goals. CHESTERFIELD won 1-0 at home to GILLINGHAM and are on a total of 53 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. Gillingham picked up their 7th blank of the season and now two games without a goal. After a goal run of 5 games. CREWE picked up their 9th blank scoresheet after they lost 1-0 at home to Fleetwood. After a goal run of 8 league/cup games, MK DONS drew 0-0 at home to Crawley and picked up their 5th blank of the season. NOTTS COUNTY lost 1-0 away to Shrewsbury and picked up their 6th blank of the season after a goal run of 7 league/cup games. 

In the Scottish League One COVE RANGERS won 3-1 at home against Morton and are now on a total of 36 goals. EAST FIFE lost 1-0 away to Hamilton and that is their 10th blank of the season. 

In League Two CLYDE won 3-0 away to Stirling and are now on a total of 45 goals. They have extended their goals run to 11 league/cup games.

Middlesbrough Still in the Race

In the Championship, MIDDLESBROUGH are down to second place after they lost 3-1 away to Coventry, who now go back to the top. Middlesbrough are on a total of 51 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games.

Things have changed a little bit from the last published our top 10 teams. Manchester City are still top with Arsenal are now in 4th place. Chelsea have moved up to 5th place. Rangers are down to 7th place with Celtic remain in 8th place. Bromley are hanging on to the top ten once again this week. 

78 MANCHESTER CITY (137)

68 CARDIFF CITY (106)

68 HEARTS (98)

67 ARSENAL (103)

67 CHELSEA (128)

67 MK DONS (115)

67 RANGERS (126)

64 CELTIC (144)

62 SWINDON TOWN (100)

58 BROMLEY (72)

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. 

FA Cup 5th Round Draw

Here is the draw for the fifth round games. Our Golden Goals teams are in bold text.

Fulham v SOUTHAMPTON 

Port Vale or BRISTOL CITY v SUNDERLAND 

NEWCASTLE V MANCHESTER CITY 

Leeds United v NORWICH CITY 

Mansfield Town v ARSENAL 

WOLVES v LIVERPOOL 

WREXHAM v CHELSEA 

WEST HAM v Brentford

Week Twenty-Eight

In Week Twenty-Eight of the competition, we had two winners this weekend winning on a score of 11 goals, but one of our players picked up his second win of the season. The other player picks up his first win of the season, which now brings our winner’s total to 36. Our winners are ANDY EYLES and ZIGGY (John Wood) who share the £5 Weekend Prize Money this weekend.

Andy last won some cash in Week Twenty-Two with a share of the Christmas Jackpot. Since then not much has happened to Andy, although this weekend is his personal best. 10th is still his best position with Arsenal being his best team.

Ziggy started with Golden Goals back in the 2010/11 season, when John had his second selection. In that season Ziggy finished in 108th place out of 109 with a total of 190 goals. Last season he finished in 41st place with 277 goals. This season, we can see Ziggy at his highest position to date. He has picked up three blank weekend score sheets. Our winner’s winning teams are,

                                               Andy  ARSENAL 4, CELTIC 3, PLYMOUTH 4

                                         Ziggy  ARSENAL 4, NORWICH CITY 3, RANGERS 4

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

All but two 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. We can add another 26 players to the race for the cash this week, which brings our total to 55 players who have reached the halfway mark to 100. It was STEVE STUBBS (2) who picked up the most midweek goals with a total of 11. His teams are Celtic, Chelsea and Leicester City. Out in front again this week we have KEITH RATTLE, now with a total of 78 goals. Keith’s teams are Chelsea, Rangers and Wrexham.  In second place, we still have BARBARA BARNES (1) now on a total of 72 goals. In third place, we still have SCOTT THOMSON (1) now with a total of 65 goals. In fourth place we now have RICHIE WILLIAMS moving up from fifth place with a total of 64 goals. In fifth place we still have LUCIFER but joining him this week we have PHIL COLLINS, TONY GUY (3) and MICHAEL FISHER  all down from four, while STEVE STUBBS (2) has come back into the race. All have a total of 62 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had 16 of our teams without a game this weekend, plus we had another 7 of our teams that failed to score any goals. The average score was five goals last weekend but this weekend it went back up to 6 goals even though a lot of our teams had no game over the weekend. Well done if your teams picked up more than that. The highest score over the weekend was 4 goals and we had four of our teams to reach that score. They came from ARSENAL, PLYMOUTH and RANGERS. Let’s get on with the results to see how your teams have performed this weekend.

FA CUP 4th Round

We had a total of 13 teams in cup action over the weekend and out of them 9 are through to the next round. The teams that are through are MANCHESTER CITY after they won 2-0 at home against Salford and are on a total of 78 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. NORWICH CITY won 3-1 at home against West Brom and are now on a total of 52 goals. WEST HAM UNITED after they won 1-0 after extra time, away to Burton. West Ham are on a total of 37 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. SOUTHAMPTON won 2-1 in extra time against LEICESTER CITY and are on a total of 58 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. Leicester are on a total of 49 goals. NEWCASTLE UNITED won 3-1 away to ASTON VILLA and are now on a total of 52 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. Villa are on 41 goals. LIVERPOOL won 3-0 at home to BRIGHTON and are now on a total of 50 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. Brighton picked up their 8th blank scoresheet and have now failed to score in their last three games. WOLVES won 1-0 away to Grimsby and picked up goal number 31. SUNDERLAND won 1-0 away to Oxford Utd and are on a total of 30 goals. ARSENAL won 4-0 at home to Wigan and have now taken their goals tally to 67 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. BIRMINGHAM CITY go out after they drew 1-1 at home against Leeds Utd after the full 90 minutes. In extra time the score remained the same 1-1. In the penalty shootout, Leeds won 4-2. City are on a total of 49 goals.

CHAMPIONSHIP

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

In the Play-offs, we still have just one of the four teams this weekend as Ipswich Town move down to 4th place, after they had no game over the weekend.

Meanwhile, SHEFFIELD UNITED won 1-0 away to Portsmouth and are on a total of 59 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 games. . PRESTON NE drew 2-2 at home to WATFORD and are on a total of 43 goals. Watford, after they had failed to score in their previous three games, are on a total of 43 goals. BLACKBURN ROVERS won 3-1 away to QPR and are now on a total of 31 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

Top of the table CARDIFF CITY won 3-1 at home to LUTON TOWN and are now on a total of 68 goals and have now scored in all of their last 19 league/cup games. Luton pick up goal number 47.

In the Play-offs, we still have three of the four teams with BOLTON WANDERERS still in 3rd place after they drew 1-1 away to Lincoln. Bolton are now on a total of 47 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. Stockport County are still in 4th place after they had no game this weekend. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN have moved down to 6th place after they lost 1-0 away to Stevenage and after a goal run of 5 league/cup games, picked up their 5th blank of the season.

Meanwhile, WYCOMBE WANDERERS lost 3-2 away to Reading and are on a total to 49 goals. PLYMOUTH won 4-0 away to BLACKPOOL and have now taken their goals tally up to 45 goals and have extended their goal run to 13 league/cup games. Blackpool picked up their 11th blank of the season. PETERBOROUGH UNITED lost 2-0 away to Bradford and picked up their 10th blank of the season.

LEAGUE TWO 

Top of the table BROMLEY drew 1-1 at home to NOTTS COUNTY and are on a total of 58 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. County are on a total of 49 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. Still in 3rd place is SWINDON TOWN who lost 3-1 away to Shrewsbury and are on a total of 62 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 11 games.

In the Play-offs, we now have just three of the four teams with Notts County in 4th place with MK DONS now in 5th place after they won 1-0 at home to Newport. The Dons are now on a total of 67 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 games. CREWE are now in 7th place after they won 1-0 at home to GILLINGHAM are on a total of 50 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 games. Gillingham picked up their 6th blank of the season. 

Meanwhile, BARNET drew 0-0 at home to Cheltenham and picked up their 8th blank of the season. CHESTERFIELD drew 1-1 at home to Harrogate and are now on a total of 52 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership, top of the table HEARTS have lost their 4th league game 4-2 away to RANGERS. Hearts are on a total of 68 goals while Rangers, just two points behind them, have taken their goals tally up to 67. In 3rd place we have CELTIC who won 3-2 away to Kilmarnock and are now on a total of 64 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. HIBERNIAN won 2-0 at home to St Mirren and are on a total of 45 goals.

In the Championship we had just one game here with ROSS COUNTY are now bottom of the table after they lost 1-0 at home to Queen’s Park. That is their 10th blank of the season.

In League One, STENHOUSEMUIR are still in 2nd place after they drew 1-1 at home to Montrose and are on a total of 44 goals. It’s 30 goals for EAST FIFE after they won 2-1 at home to COVE RANGERS. Rangers are on a total of 33 goals.

Our BEST three teams are

 MANCHESTER CITY (78) CARDIFF CITY (68) HEARTS (68) Total of 214 goals.

Our WORST three teams are

SUNDERLAND (30) NOTTINGHAM FOREST (30) EAST FIFE (30) Total of 90 goals.

Our best performing team is CARDIFF CITY after they have now scored in all of their last 19 league/cup games. With a total of 68 goals, their average score is 1.8 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is WOLVES this weekend, as they have picked up 14 blank scoresheets in their 31 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 still have GRAHAM PHILLIPS at the top again this weekend on goal difference, which now makes it his 4th weekend and now six over the season. Graham picked up a total of 11 goals from the week. His teams are Arsenal, Celtic and MK Dons. Dave Wood moves back into second place this weekend as he picks up a total of 15 goals from his teams this week. Dave’s teams are Arsenal, Manchester City and Newcastle.

At the other end at 111 we still have CHARLIE FARLEY(John Wood) there for his 7th consecutive week and now eight over the season. John picked up just 4 goals 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             -        GRAHAM PHILLIPS      37                161             198

       2             3        T. GUY (2)                       56                142             198

       3             4       D. WOOD                         59                138             197

       4             2       H. ADKINS                      60                136             196

       5             -       G. BOLBERY                   52                143             195

       6            7       S. STUBBS (2)                  62               133              195

       7            6       M. WALKER                     44               149              193

       8            -        K. RATTLE                       78               113              191

       9          10       V. CRUICKSHANK          44               145              189

             10            9       T. GUY (10/11 & 22/23)    47               142             189