Week One

Well here we go for our New Season of Golden Goals. We have closed the books with 119 entries which is our best to date.
So in our very first weekend to the new season we are already starting to pay out the prize money.This weekend we have produced our very first weekend winner, and that means that the first £5 weekend prize money goes to the ladies, SILVIA FERNANDES who picks up this weekends highest score of  just 8 goals from her combination.Silvia is her third season with Golden Goals and here are her teams for this season                                          

                                                  CELTIC 2, CHELSEA 2, MK DONS 4

Out of our 57 teams that have been picked this season, four had no game and another fourteen teams failed to score any goals. So lets have a quick run down on this weekends results starting with the English Premiership.

PREMIERSHIP

WEST HAM are our highest team here as they win 2-0 away to ARSENAL to put them in third place in the table. Not a great start to the Gunners season. CHELSEA drew 2-2 at home to Swansea while EVERTON drew 2-2 at home to WATFORD. MANCHESTER UNITED won 1-0 at home to TOTTENHAM and LIVERPOOL won 1-0 away to Stoke. NORWICH lost 3-1 at home to Crystal Palace and NEWCASTLE drew 2-2 at home to Southampton.

CHAMPIONSHIP

Here is where we see one of our highest scoring teams this weekend when MK DONS won 4-1 away to Rotherham to go top  of the table. CHARLTON are second as they win 2-0 at home to Q.P.R. In third place is HULL as they win 2-0 at home to Huddersfield. WOLVES won 2-1 away to Blackburn and DERBY drew 0-0 away to BOLTON. BRENTFORD drew 2-2 at home to IPSWICH while CARDIFF drew 1-1 at home to Fulham. LEEDS UTD picked up their first goal with a 1-1 draw at home to BURNLEY and PRESTON drew 0-0 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH. BRISTOL CITY lost their first game 2-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday.

LEAGUE ONE

SWINDON picked up the highest score here with a 4-1 home win against Bradford which put them in second place in the table. CHESTERFIELD are third as they win 3-1 at home to Barnsley. BURTON ALBION won 2-1 at home to SCUNTHORPE while BLACKPOOL drew 2-2 away to Colchester. WIGAN picked up their first blank in their first game as they lost 2-0 away to Coventry. PORT VALE drew 0-0 away to Crewe and SOUTHEND drew 1-1 away to Fleetwood. SHEFFIELD UNITED lost 4-0 away to Gillingham and PETERBOROUGH lost 2-0 away to Rochdale. MILLWALL won 2-1 away to Shrewsbury.

LEAGUE TWO

PORTSMOUTH are our highest team here in week one as they win 3-0 at home to Redbridge. WYCOMBE are third as they win 3-0 at home to York. PLYMOUTH won 2-0 away to AFC Wimbledon while LUTON drew 1-1 away to Accrington. EXETER won 3-2 at home against Yeovil and LEYTON ORIENT won 2-0 at home to Barnet. STEVENAGE lost 2-0 at home to Notts County.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Scottish Premiership, CELTIC are top after two games as they win game number two against Partick winning 2-0 away.  They have now scored four goals. ABERDEEN are second as they also win their second game 2-0 at home to Kilmarnock. Aberdeen have scored three goals. HEARTS are third and yes, the have also won both games. This weekend they won 2-1 away to Dundee and with the goals in the cup, Hearts are now on 10 goals and are our best team.

Meanwhile with the others, HIBERNIAN are on four goals but lost their first league game 2-1 away to Dumbarton. FALKIRK drew their first game and with the goals in the cup are now on six goals. They drew 1-1 against Morton away. QUEEN OF THE SOUTH won 3-1 against Alloa and they are now on seven goals. STENHOUSEMUIR picked up their first goals of the season as they drew 2-2 away to Peterhead. BERWICK won 3-1 at home to Montrose and they are on five goals. CLYDE also picked up their first goal of the season as they win 1-0 away to Stirling. QUEENS PARK picked up their second blank score sheet of the season as they lost 1-0 at home to Annan Athletic.Queens are our worst team so far.

As you can see that most of us have picked some goals in our first week of football. MICK LIDDLE is out in front by one goal with his combination of Hearts, Manchester United and Rangers.

Blow is how the first week of football look's for our top ten.

      FIRST                                                       M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

     WEEK          NAME                                   GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

          1                M. LIDDLE                               14                     3                     17

          2                G. PAIN                                     10                     6                     16

          3                M. HOWARD                            8                       6                     14

          4                S. CADWELL                            9                       4                     13

          5                K. THOMSON                           6                       5                     11

          6                S. FERNANDES                       2                       8                     10

          7                C. EVANS                                  8                       2                     10

          8                R. WILLIAMS                           9                       1                     10

          9                M. DORAN                                3                       6                     9

          10              D. MORBEY                              6                       3                     9