Week Forty-One

This weekend we had just the English Premiership playing with a full fixture and some play-off games. The highest score that we had came from MANCHESTER CITY again as they win 4-2 away to Swansea. City have now taken their goals tally to 90 goals and they have now scored in all of their last eight games. 

 

PREMIERSHIP
Manchester City remain in second place with ARSENAL right behind them but now with a five point gap. They drew 1-1 away to MANCHESTER UNITED to pick up their 79^th goal of the season while United hit goal number 71 and keep fourth place. LIVERPOOL lost 3-1at home to CRYSTAL PALACE to pick up goal number 67while Palace are now on 59 goals. QUEENS PARK RANGERS are now on 41 goals as they beat Newcastle 2-1 at home. TOTTENHAM won 2-0 at home to Hull and are now on 74 goals after a two goal dry spell and EVERTON are on 51 as they beat West ham 2-1 away.

 

CHAMPIONSHIP-PLAY-OFF
NORWICH drew their first leg game 1-1 against Ipswich but made sure of being in the final in the second leg game 3-1 at home to ten men Ipswich. Norwich are now on 95 goals and they will face Middlesbrough in the final. 

 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES                                                                                                           
In the Scottish Premiership Play-off RANGERS won their 1^st leg game against Queen Of  South 2-1. In the second leg Rangers drew 1-1. Rangers win 3-2 on aggregate and they now have a total of 84 goals. Rangers will face Hibernian in the two leg final.
In the League One Play-off final , STENHOUSEMUIR drew their second leg final 1-1 against Queen of South and so win 2-1 on aggregate and avoid relegation. Stenhousemuir finish on a grand total of 53 goals. 

 

THE BEST THREE TEAMS ARE…

 

MK DONS (115) CELTIC (105) BRISTOL CITY (103) Total of 323 goals.

 

THE WORST THREE TEAMS ARE…

 

WIGAN (40) QPR (41) ROTHERHAM (48) Total of 129 goals.

 

WIGAN have picked up the most number of blank score sheets this season with a total of 22 after playing a total of 48 games this season and they have now finished as our worst team of the season this weekend.

 

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 and in week forty-one last season, their season was over with that fantastic total of 137 goals for the season after forty-nine games played. They had four blank score sheet’s and their highest score was seven goals against Norwich in the league.
This season they picked up the four goals at the weekend. City are now on a total of 90 goals this weekend and they have had a total of five blank score sheet after forty games played. They are still 47 goals behind last seasons record run.

 

JOHN NICHOLLS  has remained at that number 106 position after he picked up two goals at the weekend from Everton. John’s combination is Bristol City, Everton and Wigan. With a total of 194 goals this weekend and with just Everton still left in action, John is still has our fifth best loser’s score to date.

 

TOBY BICKNELL has remained in the lead this weekend and he has now been there for twelve weekends and now eleven straight weeks at number one. Toby failed to pick up any goals from Celtic in midweek and the only other team that Toby has is Preston and they are still yet to play their final game. He has had four blank score sheets to date and he is now seven goals clear of  James Somerville who remains in second place this weekend. TOBY is still in 22^nd place this weekend. His combination is Celtic, Derby and Preston.

 

We still have just fourteen of our teams left in action over the next week of football. This is the last News Sheet from Golden Goals until the final sheet which will be out after the FA Cup Final against ARSENAL and Aston Villa which will be played on Saturday May 30^th. The very best of luck to you all.



Here is our last look at the top ten before our very last sheet of the season.

                  

THIS     LAST                                                M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL        PRIZE

       WEEK   WEEK            NAME                        GOALS         GOALS        GOALS      MONEY

 

           1              -                 T. BICKNELL                 126                  176                302           £100.00
           2              -                 J. SOMERVILLE            113                  182                295             £50.00
           3              -                 G. GOODEY                     78                  215                293              £40.00
           4              -                 D. DAVIDSON               108                  184                292              £35.00
           5              -                 C. BOLBERY                   97                   190                287              £30.00
           6              -                 A. STUBBS (2012/13)      98                  188                286              £26.00
           7              -                 D. GOODSON                  99                   185                284              £22.00
           8              9                S. DICKINSON               112                  171                283              £19.00
           9              8                R. NETTING                     95                   186                281              £16.00  
           10           11              C. EVANS                          99                   177                276              £14.00