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

The Start of the FA Cup 4th Round

In the start of the FA CUP 4th Round we had just three of our teams in action and two have made it through to the next round. They are CHELSEA who won 4-0 away to Hull City and have taken their goals tally to 67 goals. WREXHAM won 1-0 at home to IPSWICH TOWN and are on a total of 57 goals. Ipswich, after a goal run of 8 league/cup games, picked up their 5th blank of the season.

It's Tough at the Top

In the Premier League top of the table ARSENAL are now just 4 points clear of Manchester City after they drew 1-1 away to Brentford. Arsenal are on a total of 63 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. Arsenal have now had just two wins in their last six league games.

Manchester City keep up the pressure

In the Premier League, second place MANCHESTER CITY won 3-0 at home to Fulham and are now on a total of 76 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. It’s 40 goals for third place ASTON VILLA as they win 1-0 at home against BRIGHTON. Brighton picked up their 7th blank of the season and are now 2 games without a goal. NOTTINGHAM FOREST drew 0-0 at home to bottom of the table WOLVES. Forest have picked up their 12th blank of the season while Wolves picked up their 14th. CRYSTAL PALACE lost 3-2 at home to Burnley and are on a total of 34 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. SUNDERLAND lost 1-0 at home to LIVERPOOL and picked up their 10th blank of the season and now 2 in a row. Liverpool are on a total of 47 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games.

In League Two SWINDON TOWN have moved up to second place after they won 2-0 at home to Newport. Swindon are on a total of 61 goals and have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. 

In the Scottish Premiership, second placed RANGERS drew 1-1 away to Motherwell and are on a total of 63 goals. CELTIC won 2-1 at home to Livingston and are on a total of 61 goals. Celtic have extended their goal run to 8 league/cup games.

Manchester United Remain 4th

In the Premier League CHELSEA drew 2-2 at home to Leeds Utd and are on a total of 63 goals. AFC BOURNEMOIUTH won 2-1 away to Everton and are on a total of 46 goals and have extended their goal run to 12 league/cup games. It’s 40 goals for TOTTENHAM after they lost 2-1 at home to NEWCASTLE UNITED. Newcastle are on a total of 49 goals. WEST HAM UNITED drew 1-1 at home to MANCHESTER UNITED and hit goal number 36. They have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. United picked up their 50th goal of the season and have now extended their goal run to 15 league/cup games. 

In the Championship, LEICESTER CITY lost 4-3 at home to SOUTHAMPTON and are now on a total of 48 goals. Southampton have taken their goals tally to 56 and they have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. NORWICH CITY won 3-0 away to Oxford Utd and are now on a total of 49 goals. After a goal run of 7 league/cup games, BIRMINGHAM CITY picked up their 8th blank of the season as they drew 0-0 at home to West Brom. 

In League One PETERBORUGH UNITED won 2-1 away to Mansfield and are on a total of 47 goals. 

Scottish Premiership, top of the table HEARTS won 1-0 at home against HIBERNIAN and are on a total of 66 goals. Hibs picked up their 9th blank of the season. 

In League Two CLYDE drew 1-1 at home to Elgin City and are on a total of 42 goals and have extended their goal run to 10 league/cup games. DUMBARTON lost 1-0 away to Annan and picked up their 7th blank of the season and now 2 games without a goal.

Middlesbrough go Top

In the Championship SHEFFIELD UNITED lost 2-1 at home to MIDDLESBOROUGH and are on a total of 48 goals. Middlesbrough are on a total of 50 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games.

Things have changed once again since we last published our top 10 teams. Manchester City are still top with Arsenal still in 5th place. Rangers are now in 6th place with Chelsea now down to 7th place. Celtic drop down to 8th place. Bromley are hanging on to the top ten this week. 

73 MANCHESTER CITY (137)

66 MK DONS (115)

65 CARDIFF CITY (106)

65 HEARTS (98)

62 ARSENAL (103)

62 RANGERS (126)

61 CHELSEA (128)

59 CELTIC (144)

59 SWINDON TOWN (100)

57 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. 

Week Twenty-Seven

In Week Twenty-Seven of the competition, we had our second player to have won twice this season. Our winner is RICHIE WILLIAMS who won the full £5 Weekend Prize Money. Richie has won on a score of 14 goals which is our highest number of goals to win by and his personal best weekend result. Richie last won with a shared win in Week Four with just 6 goals. Since then, Richie has three blank weekend scoresheets and this is the highest that he has been all season. His best team is now Rangers. His teams are

                                             BRISTOL CITY 3, CHELSEA  3, RANGERS 8

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Just 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. We can add another 9 players to the race for the cash this week, which brings our total to 29 players who have reached the halfway mark to 100. It was our 2012/13 Champions that picked up the most midweek goals with 8. That was ALICE STUBBS with her second combination with teams of Chelsea, Rangers and Sunderland. Out in front this week we have KEITH RATTLE, now with a total of 70 goals. Keith’s teams are Chelsea, Rangers and Wrexham. In second place, down from one we now have BARBARA BARNES (1) now on a total of 68 goals. In third place, down from two we have SCOTT THOMSON (1) still with a total of 62 goals. In fourth place we still have EMMAF and TONY GUY (3) but joining them this week we have MICHAEL FISHER down from three with PHIL COLLINS moving up from five. STALKY (2) comes back in the race. All are on a total of 58 goals. In fifth place we have JOHN FILTNESS our joint 2023/24 Champion moving down from four with LUCIFER and RICHIE WILLIAMS now in the race. All are on a total of 57 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had 8 of our teams without a game this weekend, plus we had another 10 of our teams that failed to score any goals. The average score was six goals last weekend but this weekend it went down slightly to 5 goals. Well done if your teams picked up more than that. The highest score over the weekend was 8 goals and they came from the SCOTTISH CUP 4th Round where RANGERS picked up their biggest result of the season by winning 8-0 at home to Queen’s Park. Rangers have scored a total of 13 goals this week, which has taken their goals tally up to 62 goals.

Rangers started with Golden Goals in our first season of 1983/84 where they finished on a score of 97 goals. They were our 4th voted Scottish team then. Their highest end of season score came in the 1992/93 season with 126 goals. Rangers have scored 100 or more goals in 18 of their 42 seasons to date. Last season they finished on a total of 95 goals. Over the years Rangers have netted a total of 4069 goals to date which gives them an average score of 96 goals per season. This season they have just 10 votes and they have picked up a total of four blank scoresheets to date. Let’s get on with the results to see how your teams have performed this weekend.

PREMIER LEAGUE

We still have the top six teams here this week with ARSENAL still top after they won 3-0 at home to SUNDERLAND.  Arsenal are on a total of 62 goals. Sunderland picked up their 9th blank of the season. In second place we still have MANCHESTER CITY who won 2-1 away to LIVERPOOL. City are on a total of 73 goals while Liverpool are on 46 and a goal run of 5 league/cup games. In third place we still have ASTON VILLA drew 1-1 away to AFC BOURNEMOUTH and picked up goal number 39. Bournemouth are on 44 goals and have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games. In fourth place we still have MANCHESTER UNITED won 2-0 at home against TOTTENHAM. United are now on a total of 49 goals and have now scored in all of their last 14 league/cup games. Tottenham, after a goal run of 6 league/cup games, picked up their 6th blank of the season. CHELSEA are still in fifth place after they won 3-1 away to bottom of the table WOLVES and are now on a total of 61 goals. Wolves, after they had failed to score in their last three games, are now on a total of 30 goals. WEST HAM won 2-0 away to Burnley and are on a total of 35 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. NEWCASTLE UNITED lost 3-2 at home to Brentford and are on a total of 47 goals. BRIGHTON lost 1-0 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE and picked up their 6th blank of the season after they had scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. Palace are on 32 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games.

CHAMPIONSHIP

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

In the Play-offs, we still have two of the four and they are IPSWICH TOWN now in 3rd place, after they won 2-1 away to Derby. Ipswich are on a total of 54 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. WREXHAM are still in 6th place after they lost 2-0 at home to Millwall after a goal run of 11 league/cup games, and picked up their 5th blank of the season.

Meanwhile, NORWICH CITY won 2-0 at home against BLACKBURN ROVERS and are on a total of 46 goals. Rovers have picked up their 12th blank of the season. SOUTHAMPTON won 1-0 at home to WATFORD and are on a total of 52 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 games. Watford picked up their 8th blank of the season, and now three games without a goal. BIRMINGHAM CITY won 2-1 at home to LEICESTER CITY and are on a total of 48 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. Leicester are on 45 goals. It’s 50 goals for BRISTOL CITY after they won 3-2 away to Hull. PRESTON NE won 1-0 at home to Portsmouth and are on a total of 41 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

Top of the table CARDIFF CITY won 3-0 away to Rotherham and are now on a total of 65 goals and have now scored in all of their last 18 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 3-2 at home to Barnsley. Bolton are now on a total of 46 goals. STOCKPORT COUNTY are still in 4th place after they drew 0-0 at home to LEYTON ORIENT. County after they had scored in all of their last 5 games, picked up their 7th blank of the season. Orient picked up their 10th blank scoresheet and now three in a row. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN have moved up to 5th place after they drew 2-2 at home to BLACKPOOL and are on a total of 57 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. Blackpool are on 43 goals.

Meanwhile, LUTON TOWN won 2-1 at home to Bradford and are on a total of 46 goals. With their biggest result of the season, PETERBOROUGH UNITED won 6-1 at home to Wigan. Borough have taken their goals tally up to 45 goals. PLYMOUTH lost 4-1 at home to Lincoln and are on a total of 41 goals and have extended their goal run to 12 league/cup games. WYCOMBE WANDERERS won 4-0 at home against Doncaster and have taken their goals total to 47.

LEAGUE TWO

Top of the table BROMLEY won 2-1 away to Fleetwood and are on a total of 57 goals. In 2nd place this week we have NOTTS COUNTY who won 2-1 at home against Barrow and are on a total of 48 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. In 3rd place is SWINDON TOWN who won 3-0 at home to Oldham. Swindon are now on a total of 59 goals and have now scored in all of their last 9 games.

In the Play-offs, we now have just two of the four teams with MK DONS still in 4th place after they won 3-2 away to Cheltenham. The Dons are now on a total of 66 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 games. WALSALL are still in 7th place after they lost 3-1 at home to BARNET are on a total of 44 goals while Barnet are on 43 goals. 

Meanwhile, CREWE won 1-0 away to Crawley and are on a total of 49 goals. CHESTERFIELD won 3-2 away to Bristol Rovers and are now on a total of 51 goals. GILLINGHAM won 2-1 at home to Tranmere and are on a total of 43 goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the SCOTTISH CUP 5th Round we had just three of our teams in cup action, one of them is Rangers, and how lucky were CELTIC scoring a very, very late goal to equalise with Dundee 1-1 after the 90-minute period. Celtic went on to win in extra time 2-1. Celtic are on 59 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. STENHOUSEMUIR go out after they lost 2-0 away to Falkirk after extra time. That is their 10th blank of the season after a goal run of 5 league/cup games.

In League One, Stenhousemuir are still in 2nd place after they played in the cup this weekend. EAST FIFE lost 3-0 away to Inverness CT and picked up their 9th blank of the season. COVE RANGERS drew 1-1 at home to Queen of the South and are on a total of 32 goals.

In League Two, Clyde are still in 3rd place after they had no game over the weekend. DUMBARTON lost 2-0 away to Forfar and picked up their 6th blank of the season.

Our BEST three teams are

 MANCHESTER CITY (73)  MK DONS (66) CARDIFF CITY (65) Total of 204 goals

Our WORST three teams are

  EAST FIFE (28) BLACKBURN ROVERS (28) SUNDERLAND (29) Total of 85 goals

Our best performing team is CARDIFF CITY after they have now scored in all of their last 18 league/cup games. With a total of 65 goals, their average score is 1.8 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is WOLVES this weekend, as they have picked up 13 blank scoresheets in their 29 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, which now makes it his 3rd weekend and now five over the season. Graham picked up a total of 9 goals from the week, which moves him 3 goals clear. His teams are Arsenal, Celtic and MK Dons. Hayley Adkins keeps her second place spot this weekend as she picks up a total of 6 goals from her teams this week. Hayley’s teams are Hearts, Liverpool and Manchester City.

At the other end at 111 we still have CHARLIE FARLEY(John Wood) there for his 6th consecutive week and now seven over the season. John picked up just 1 goal this weekend. His teams are Cove Rangers, East Fife and Stenhousemuir. 

Here is our top ten this week and there is not many changes in the running. 

 THIS      LAST                                           M/WEEK     W/END     TOTAL

WEEK   WEEK   NAME                             GOALS      GOALS     GOALS 

       1             -       GRAHAM PHILLIPS         34                153              187

       2             -       H. ADKINS                         55                129              184

       3             -       T. GUY (2)                           47               135              182

       4           11       D. WOOD                           53                129             182

       5             6       G. BOLBERY                     47               134              181

       6             9       M. WALKER                      39               141              180

       7             -        S. STUBBS (2)                   52               128              180

       8           19       K. RATTLE                        70               109               179

       9           10       T. GUY (10/11 & 22/23)    44               134               178

             10             5       V. CRUICKSHANK           38               139               177