Monday, 27 April 2015

Week Thirty-Eight

This weekend the average score for the third weekend running remained at  5 goals. We had eleven teams that failed to score any goals over the weekend with some of them being our highest voted teams.
The highest score that we had was four goals and we had two teams that picked that total up. From the Championship we had FULHAM who beat Middlesbrough 4-3 at home. Fulham have scored in all of their last seven games and they are now on a total of 70 goals. The other team to score four came from League One where PETERBOROUGH also won  4-3 at home to Crawley. Its been a long while for Borough to pick up a high score like that and they are now on a total of 54 goals.
 
PREMIERSHIP
CHELSEA are top and still ten  points clear with  a game in hand of Manchester City as Chelsea drew 0-0 away to London rivals ARSENAL. That was Chelsea’s 2nd blank of the season after a goal run of twenty-five games. Arsenal picked up their 3rd blank after a goal run of seventeen games. Arsenal moved down to third place this weekend. MANCHESTER CITY are now second as they won 3-2 at home to Aston Villa. City are now on 79 goals. Fourth are MANCHESTER UNITED but they lost 3-0 away to EVERTON. United picked up their 8th blank and now two games in a row. Everton are now on a total of  47 goals. LIVERPOOL fifth, picked up their 10th blank score sheet as they drew 0-0 away to West Brom. TOTTENHAM are on 72 goals as they drew 2-2 away to Southampton. CRYSTAL PALACE lost 2-0 at home to Hull and that was their 12th blank and now two games without a goal. QUEENS PARK RANGERS drew 0-0 with London  rivals West Ham and picked up their 13th blank and they have failed to score in their last two games.
 
CHAMPIONSHIP
WATFORD are still top here and crowned champions as they win 2-0 away to Brighton. Watford are on 91 goals. We have two of the four teams in the play-off zone and they are NORWICH who drew 1-1 away to ROTHERHAM to pick up goal number 87 while Rotherham are on 46. DERBY are our other team as they drew 3-3 away to Millwall. Derby have now reached 100 goals. CHARLTON picked up their 13th blank of the season as they lost 1-0 away to Birmingham. It’s 64 for CARDIFF as they win 3-2 at home against Blackpool. NOTTINGHAM FOREST lost 2-1 away to Ipswich and that was their 74th goal of the season. READING lost 2-0 at home to Brentford and that was their 20th blank of the season and only one goal in their last five games. LEEDS won 2-1 away to Sheffield Wednesday and they are now on 53 goals while WOLVES hit goal number 71 as they win 1-0 away to WIGAN who picked up their 21st blank score sheet of the season.
 
LEAGUE ONE
Champions BRISTOL CITY won 2-0 away to Chesterfield and they are now on 95 goals while PRESTON in second place won 3-0 at home to Swindon and are now on 93 goals and a goal run now of thirty-five games. In the play-off zone again we have just two of the four teams. MK DONS won 3-2 away to Rochdale and they are now on 110 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED drew 1-1 away to LEYTON ORIENT and picked up goal number 84 while Orient are on 61. BARNSLEY lost 1-0 away to Bradford and that was their 13th blank of the season while DONCASTER are on 63 as they lost 2-1 away to Notts County. It’s 67 for SCUNTHORPE as they win 2-1 at home to Gillingham.
 
LEAGUE TWO
BURY and  STEVENAGE are once again still both in the play-off zone. Bury won 2-0 at home to AFC Wimbledon and they are now on 65 goals while Stevenage are on 63 as they win 1-0 at home to Carlisle. LUTON picked up their 14th blank of the season as they lost 1-0 away to Southend. PORTSMOUTH are on 54 goals after a two games dry spell and won 2-1 away to Mansfield.
 
SCOTTISH LEAGUES                                                                                                           
In Scotland Champions CELTIC won 3-0 away to Dundee Utd and they are now on 99 goals while RANGERS in the Championship, could only draw 2-2 at home to Falkirk and are now on 79 goals while HEARTS won 2-1 away to Cowdenbeath to take their goals tally to 96. DUNFERMLINE picked up goal number 57 as they lost 3-1 at home to Forfar. STENHOUSEMUIR are on 45 as they drew 2-2 at home to Brechin.
 
THE BEST THREE TEAMS ARE…  

MK DONS (110) DERBY (100) CELTIC (99) Total of 309 goals.
 
THE WORST THREE TEAMS ARE…  

QPR (38) WIGAN (40) STENHOUSEMUIR (45) Total of 123 goals.
 
QUEENS PARK RANGERS are still our worst team this weekend as they failed to score against West Ham. Rangers have now had a total of 13 blank score sheets.
 
WIGAN have picked up the most number of blank score sheets this season with a total of 21 to date after playing a total of 47 games.
 
HEARTS have picked up the highest score for this season with a 10-0 home win against Cowdenbeath in the league.
 
Manchester City had that record breaking end of season score of 137 goals last season. In Week thirty-eight last season, City picked up three goals in midweek and another two at the weekend. They are now on a total of 128 goals for the season after forty-six games played. They have had four blank score sheet’s and their highest score was seven goals against Norwich in the league.
This season they picked up three goals at the weekend. So City are now on a total of 79 goals this weekend and they have had a total of five blank score sheet after thirty-seven games played. They are now 49 goals behind last seasons record run.
 
JOHN NICHOLLS at number 106 and that is now his 13th weekend there but he has once again moved up our Losers League  this weekend and another jump he has made. John has now beaten three more of our previous losers. John has beaten Malcolm Cormacks score of 178 goals from last season 2013/14. Peter Porters 182 goals in 1992/93 and Jeremy Hilliers score of again 182 scored in our 1988/89 Season. John has picked up a total of five goals over this week which moved him up to 10th place in our Losers League on 182 goals. John’s combination is Bristol City, Everton and Wigan. He has had a total of just two blank score sheets to date.
 
At the Top TOBY BICKNELL is moving up our Winners League into 24th place. Toby has beaten Alec Shorts total of 280 goals in our 1988/89 Season, Adam Porters score of 284 in our 2006/07 Season and Martyn Gents score of 289 goals in 1984/85 Season. He has also beaten my score of 290 goals in 2008/09 Season. Toby has done well again this week with another fourteen goals added to his total.

Well we are very near to the end of this season and once again we have had a little change in the race to be champion.

   THIS     LAST                                             M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL        PRIZE
 WEEK   WEEK            NAME                      GOALS         GOALS        GOALS      MONEY
 
      1              -                 T. BICKNELL              120                  172               292            £100.00
      2              -                 J. SOMERVILLE         108                  170               278               £50.00
      3              4                G. GOODEY                   73                  201               274               £40.00
      4              3                D. GOODSON                 91                 183               274               £35.00
      5              7                D. DAVIDSON              102                 169               271               £30.00
      6              -                 C. BOLBERY                  92                 177               269               £26.00
      7              5                A. STUBBS (2012/13)     90                 177               267               £22.00
      8              9                S. DICKINSON              101                 161               262               £19.00
      9              8                C. EVANS                        96                 164               260               £16.00  
      10           -                  R. NETTING                    87                 172               259               £14.00

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