Week Thirty-Four

RICHARD WILLIAMS has remained top once again this weekend and this is his Sixth weekend in a row and 13th  over the season. Richard’s combination picked him up a total of four goals over the weekend. All of the four goals came from Rangers as Hibernian and Manchester City had no games over the weekend. BOB SOPER still finds himself in second place again this weekend  and still three goals behind Richard. Bob’s teams also picked him up a total of four goals for the week from Rangers as Arsenal and Manchester City had no games.

At the other end, Steptoe & Son are no longer at number 119 as JOHN NICHOLLS moves back down to the foot of the table after his combination had no games all week. John who has been at 118 for the last nine weeks, finds himself back at 119 for his twenty-fourth week this season. His teams are Arsenal, Bolton and Newcastle. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

Only twenty-six of us picked up some more midweek goals this week but non of the top five picked up any goals.

The highest score this week was four goals and we had five players who picked them up from Portsmouth and Wigan.

So the race to the £40 Midweek Jackpot remains the same as last weeks with DANIEL GOODSON still four goals in front on a total of 81 goals. In joint second place this week we still have JOHN DAVIES, and JAMES HUNTER both on a total of 77 goals. In third place we have CRAIG EVANS, TONY KING,  MICK LIDDLE and CHRIS SETFORD all on 73 goals. In fourth place we have TOM MACDONALD and RICHARD WILLIAMS both on 72 goals. In fifth place we still have ADRIAN BEW on a total of 71 goals. 

Now we had no cash to win this weekend as only ten of our teams played over the weekend. So it is  a shame that STEVE CADWELL picked up the highest score with just six goals from his combination. They came from Berwick Rangers 2 and Rangers 4. His third team is Leyton Orient. Steve moved up from 70^th Place to 51.

WEEKEND RESULTS

                                

We have had a really funny Easter fixture this year as usually this is a busy period for me with games over the weekend and Bank holiday Monday, but due to the Internationals being played only a hand full of our teams actually played this weekend and all on the Saturday. The highest score that we had, from just ten of our teams is four goals and they all went to Sottish RANGERS. They become our very first team, this season, to pick up 100 goals and they won that against QUEEN OF THE SOUTH 4-3 at home. This is their 15th season of scoring 100 or more goals in the thirty-two seasons that they have been in. Last season they picked up just 87 goals. Over the thirty-two appearances with Golden Goals they have netted a total of 3119 goals which gives them an average score of 97 goals per season to date. Congratulations to the twenty-one players who have picked them as part of their combinations this season and well done to the six people who voted for them in our poll. Queen of the South are now on a total of 41 goals. 

LEAGUE ONE

BURTON ALBION failed to score any goals against Oldham at home and the 0-0 draw means that they have now picked up a total of ten blank score sheets to date. MILLWALL also picked up their 10^th blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 away to Bradford. CHESTERFIELD drew 0-0 at home to Fleetwood Town and that was their 14^th blank score sheet of the season. So no goals from our English teams this weekend. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

We had better luck with our Scottish teams as the seven teams that did play, each and every one of them picked up some goals. We already know about Rangers and Queen of South but also in the Championship FALKIRK lost 2-1 at home to Livingstone. Falkirk picked up their 62^nd goal of the season.

In the lower leagues, STENHOUSEMUIR finally won 2-1 at home to Forfar and that now gives them a total of 44 goals. BERWICK are on 43 goals as they win 2-0 at home against Elgin. CLYDE are now on 46 goals as they lost 2-1 at home to Arbroath. It’s 43 for QUEENS PARK as they drew 1-1 away to East Fife.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS ARE THIS WEEKEND

RANGERS (100) CELTIC (86) MANCHESTER CITY (78) Total of 264 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

NEWCASTLE (33) WATFORD (35) BLACKPOOL (36) Total of 104 goals

BLACKPOOL have picked up the most number of blank score sheets this season with a total of nineteen out of forty-one games played.

The highest scoring team in our 33^rd Season is CELTIC from the Scottish Premiership, when they beat Hamilton

8-1 at home in a midweek league game in week twenty-five.

      THIS     LAST                                            M/WEEK        W/END        TOTAL

    WEEK    WEEK             NAME                   GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

        1                 -                 R. WILLIAMS           72                   171                243                                2               -                   B. SOPER                   68                   172                240              

        3                 5                L. KING (2001/02)     63                   176                239

        4                 3                J. DAVIES                   77                   162                239              

        5                 4                S. DICKINSON          66                   171                237              

        6                 -                 D. GOODSON            81                   153                234              

        7                 10              JA. WOOD                  68                   165                233                               8                 7                J. WISE                        71                   162                233                               9                 -                 C. BOLBERY              66                   163                229                               10               11              T. MACDONALD        72                   157               229