Week Twenty-one and the start of the second half of the season

So the whistle has been blown for the start of the second half of this our 32^nd Season of Golden Goals. But it has not been a very good start to this half as the average score fell from five to just 2 goals each. Eighteen of us failed to pick up any goals and this was due to eleven teams that had no game or it was cancelled due to the bad weather and another ten teams that failed to score any goals and some were our highest voted teams.
Our highest score this weekend came from WATFORD as they win 4-2 away to CARDIFF. Watford are now on a total of 45 goals while Cardiff are on 37.
Although Watford have a total of three votes this season, they are one of our original teams from the very first season back in 1983/84. This is Watford's 19^th season with Golden Goals and they have done well over the seasons. Their highest score came in the second season when they finished on a total of 102 goals. The three that have picked Watford as part of their combination will be pleased that this will not be ending on their lowest score as back in our 2006/07 Season they finished on just 41 goals. Last season they finished on a total of 86 goals. They have now scored a total of 1,343 goals to date which gives them an average of 70 goals per season. 

PREMIERSHIP

Top of the table CHELSEA could only draw against Southampton away 1-1. That was Chelsea’s 48^th goal of the season and they have scored in all of their last seven games. MANCHESTER CITY are still second and three points behind Chelsea as they drew 2-2 at home to Burnley. City are on 48 goals. MANCHESTER UNITED remained in third place as they drew 0-0 away to TOTTENHAM. That was United’s 4^th blank score sheet and Tottenham’s 5th. ARSENAL are on 35 goals as they beat London Rivals 2-1 away to West Ham. on 28. QPR drew 0-0 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE to pick up their 8^th blank score sheet and palace their 7^th. EVERTON are now on 29 goal after they lost 3-2 away to Newcastle.  

CHAMPIONSHIP

DERBY have remained in fourth place after their Boxing Day win but they had no game over the weekend. ROTHERHAM are now on 22 goals as they drew 1-1 away to Blackpool while NOTTINGHAM FOREST picked up goal number 37 as they lose 3-1 at home to Birmingham. READING won 2-1 at home to NORWICH to take their goals tally to 34 while Norwich are on 47. WOLVES win again as they beat Brentford 2-1 at home. After picking up their highest score for a very long time, Wolves are on 30 goals going into 2015.  

LEAGUE ONE

BRISTOL CITY are still top here as they win 3-1 away to Gillingham and are now on 46 goals. PRESTON are now third as they drew 1-1 away to Crewe. Preston are on 43 goals. MK DONS moved down to fourth place as they lost 3-0 at home to Walsall. That was the Dons 5^th blank score sheet of the season. COVENTRY drew 0-0 at home to Chesterfield and that was their 7^th blank score sheet and now two games in a row. PETERBOROUGH drew 0-0 at home to DONCASTER to get their 9^th blank and Doncaster get their 8^th.  

LEAGUE TWO

Here all of our teams managed to play. LUTON are still our highest team here but now in fourth place as they drew 1-1 at home to PORTSMOUTH. Luton picked up goal number 35 while Portsmouth picked up goal number 29. BURY won 2-0 at home to Mansfield and are now on 41 goals while STEVENAGE are on 34 as they win 3-2 at home to Cambridge United.

                                                   

SCOTTISH LEAGUES                                                                                                                   
In Scotland we had one team that had no game and another two that failed to score any goals and this is where 81 of us failed to get the goals. CELTIC picked up their 3^rd blank of the season as they drew 0-0 at home to Ross County. RANGERS also picked up their 3^rd as they lost with their biggest defeat of the season 4-0 away to Hibs. Meanwhile STENHOUSEMUIR are on 27 goals as they win 2-0 away to Stranraer. After their win in midweek, HEARTS win again 1-0 away to Livingston. Hearts are on 48 goals. 

THE BEST THREE TEAMS ARE…  

MK DONS (62) DERBY (55) RANGERS (49) Total of 166 goals. 

THE WORST THREE TEAMS ARE…  

QPR (21) ROTHERHAM (22) CRYSTAL PALACE (25) Total of 68 goals. 

QPR are back as our worst team this weekend as they have only picked up just one goal in their last two games played over last week. Rangers have played a total of 20 games and in that time they have picked up a total of eight blank score sheets. 

ROTHERHAM have picked up the most number of  blank score sheets in our 32^nd season.  After a total of 26 games played, Rotherham have picked up twenty-two goals and  had a total of 11 blank score sheets to date.

We have had two teams that have picked up the highest score this season. First MANCHESTER CITY won their Capital One Cup third round tie against Sheffield Wednesday 7-0 at home.  MK DONS won 7-0 at home to Oldham in the league.

 

We are still following Manchester City record breaking end of season score of 137 goals from last season, In Week twenty-one last season, City scored two goals in midweek and one goal at the weekend. Their goals tally has now risen to 64 goals after twenty-two games played. They have still had two blank score sheet’s and their highest score was seven goals against Norwich in the league. 

This season they picked up three goals in midweek and at the weekend they picked up two. So City are now on a total of 48 goals this weekend. They have still had two blank score sheet after twenty-one games played. They are now 16 goals behind last seasons record run. They are at home to Southampton on New Years Eve.

 

Here is our last look at our top five for 2014

                THIS     LAST                                                   M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

               WEEK   WEEK          NAME                             GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

                         1              -               S. THOMSON                       60                  92                152

                     2              7              C. EVANS                             60                  91                151              

                     3              2              J. SOMERVILLE                  56                  94                 150

                     4              9              M. PEPPERRELL (2002/03) 51                  94                145

                     5              4              T. BICKNELL                        53                 92                 145