Well here we are with our 35th
Season of Golden Goals and a
very big welcome to you all and what a season we are going to have.
As you can see that we have ended
up with 149 entries into this seasons competition and I would like to thank
everyone who has helped us to get to
that magic figure which is a New Golden Goals Record after beating
our previous record of 136 from last Season. Although we have seen some names
missing from last season, we have gained another twenty-seven new ones. So who
is going to be our 35th Champion? We will find out in the next forty-two
weeks time but I wish you all the very best of luck.
So how did the voting of teams for
this season finally end up. Well CELTIC have picked up the biggest
number of votes as they came in with a total of 113. Last season they had a
total of 69 and scored a total of 134 goals which is their very best with Golden
Goals. So this was no surprise that they would be the most voted teams
this season.
Staying with the Scottish teams the
second highest voted team comes from the Scottish Premiership again and they
are RANGERS with just 9 votes which
is a lot lower than last seasons of 31.
The Scottish teams did well again this
season with eight teams being picked. We have just three from the Scottish Premiership,
one from the Championship and League One with three from the League Two..
With the English teams things have
changed as they always do in this competition. We have a total of thirteen Premiership teams in this years competition
with MANCHESTER CITY becoming our top team again this season with just 40
votes, ten less than last season. Next comes ARSENAL with 30 votes. They were our fourth most
voted team last season with 16.
In third place with 27 votes is CHELSEA. They were our fifth most
voted team last season with just 15 votes. I was expecting them to pick up more
votes as they scored a total of 109 goals last season. In fourth place down
from three last season is MANCHESTER
UNITED. They have 23 votes compared to 26 last season. Our fifth team is TOTTENHAM
with just 22 votes. They were our eighth most voted team last season with 14
votes but they netted a total of 109 goals.
In the Championship we have picked
up 17 teams compared to 12 last season,
while in League one we have 12 with 8 teams picked once again from
League two.
Week One in our very first weekend of the new season we are already starting to
pay out the prize money, but here is my first error of the season. Although we
had five winners, two of them have the same combination which is all my fault
as I did not put one players name on my team sheets. So not to do anyone out of
money I have split the £6 winnings as if
four have won. Our five winners will pick up £1. 50 pence each.
So this weekend we have produced
our very first weekend winners, and that means that the first £6 weekend prize
money will go to GARY BROWN, PAUL DAVEY, PATRICK O’DONOGHUE with JAMES SOMERVILLE and JED WEARDEN all
picked up this weekends highest score of 12 goals from just two of their teams.
Gary and Patrick are in their very first season
with Golden
Goals just two of our twenty-seven new players this season. We wish
them all the best. Paul is our 2013/14 champion
and has been with the competition for a while now. James
and Jed have also been with us for a few
season’s now. But here are their combinations
Gary CELTIC 4, LUTON 8, TOTTENHAM –
Paul CELTIC 4, LUTON 8, MANCHESTER CITY –
Patrick/James ARSENAL – CELTIC 4, LUTON 8
Jed CELTIC 4, LUTON 8, MAN CHESTER UNITED -
Out of our
58 teams that have been picked this season, fourteen had no game and another seven
teams that failed to score any goals in their first game. So lets have a quick
run down on this weekends results starting with the English Championship.
CHAMPIONSHIP
ASTON VILLA
drew 1-1 at home to Hull
while CARDIFF beat BURTON ALBION 1-0 away. FULHAM drew 1-1
at home to NORWICH. IPSWICH won 1-0 at home to BIRMINGHAM. QUEENS
PARK RANGERS are in second place as they win 2-0 at home to READING
who are now at the foot of the table. SHEFFIELD UNITED won 1-0 at home
to BRENTFORD while WOLVES win 1-0 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH.
LEEDS UTD are in their place after they won 3-2 away to
BOLTON.
LEAGUE ONE
FLEETWOOD
TOWN have won their first
league game to place them top of the league by winning 2-0 at home to
Rotherham.PORTSMOUTH are in third place as they also win 2-0 at home to
Rochdale. BRADFORD won 2-1 at home to Blackpool while CHARLTON won
1-0 at home to Bristol Rovers. DONCASTER picked up their first blank of
the season as they drew 0-0 at home to Gillingham. MK DONS lost 1-0 at
home to WIGAN and SCUNTHORPE drew 1-1 at home to AFC Wimbledon. PETERBOROUGH
won 2-1 at home to PLYMOUTH. SOUTHEND beat BLACBURN 2-1 at home.
LEAGUE TWO
LUTON are our highest scoring team in
week one as they win 8-2 at home to Yeovil. Luton have a total of five votes
this season. COLCHESTER lost 3-1 away to Accrington while COVENTRY
won 3-0 at home against Notts County. PORT VALE won 3-1 away to Crawley
and MANSFIELD drew 2-2 away to Crewe. EXETER won 1-0 at home to
Cambridge and FOREST GREEN in their first football league game drew 2-2
at home to Barnet. LINCOLN CITY back into professional football drew 2-2
away to Wycombe.
SCOTTISH
LEAGUES
Now you
might know that the Scottish have already played their first round of the
League Cup and with the new group format once again, so most of our teams have
already played more than four games this weekend. But here is the results of
the first league games.
In the Scottish
Premiership, we have just three teams this season which is a surprise as
CELTIC go straight on top as they win
4-1 at home to Hearts while rivals RANGERS
won 2-1 away to Motherwell to go in third place. ABERDEEN won 2-0 at home to Hamilton and are in third place.
In the
Championship we have just one team and they are FALKIRK. They have started the season well by winning all their
group cup games but lost their first league game 3-1 away to St Mirren. Falkirk
are on a total of 14 goals scoring in all five games played. In League One, RAITH ROVERS picked up their 10th
goal of the season as they drew 1-1 away to Alloa. In League Two we have three
teams this season. they are PETERHEAD
who won 2-1 away to Annan and with their 100% scoring record after five games
are now on a total of 9 goals. STENHOUSEMUIR
lost 3-2 at home against Stirling but they are now on a total of 5 goals. The
new boys to the Scottish League ELGIN
CITY drew their first game 1-1 at home to Cowdenbeath and that takes them
up to three goals.
As you can
see that most of us have picked some goals in our first week of football except
the ones with English premiership teams, but AMANDA MORRISON is out in front by a single goal with her
combination of Falkirk, Manchester City and Scunthorpe.
Here are our top ten in the first week.
FIRST
M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 A. MORRISON 13 2 15
2 G. BOLBERY 9 5 14
3 C.
BOOM 7 6 13
4 G. BROWN 12 12
5 P. DAVEY (2013/14) 12 12
6 P. O’DONOGHUE 12 12
7 JAMES SOMERVILLE 12 12
8 J. WEARDEN 12 12
9 ZIGGY 3 5 8
10 S. BOLAND 7 7
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