Week Twenty-Four

In Week Twenty-Four of the competition and we had another player to pick up the full amount of cash once again this weekend.  With their second win of the season it went to TONY JENKINS who won on a score of 11 goals.

Tony last won in week eight where he had to share some of the winnings. Since then Tony has picked up another two blank score sheet from the weekend taking his total to four. His best team is still Manchester City and for the first time this season, Tony has made it to the winning frame. Over the last four weeks, Tony’s combination has picked him up a total of 54 goals.

His teams are once again

LIVERPOOL 4, MANCHESTER CITY 3, TOTTENHAM 4

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

We have now added another six players that are on 50 or more midweek goals and that takes our total to 122 out of 149. With not many midweek games being played this week, over forty of you did pick up some goals. It was RICKY MILES and AMANDA MORRISON who picked up the most number of goals with three each.  Ricky’s goals came from Manchester City and Crystal Palace. His third team is Celtic. Amanda’s goals came from Falkirk and Manchester City. Her third team is Scunthorpe. So the race for the cash has remained unchanged from last weeks leaders.

In the lead on a total of 72 goals we have STEPHEN LEADER. In second place on 71 goals we  have  JAMES BLYTH and MATT DORAN. In third place all on 70 goals we have STEPHANIE CHRISTIE, (Me) STEVE REEVE and CHRIS SETFORD.  In fourth place we have ROB FREEMAN, TONY GUY (1) and  DAVE WOOD all on a total of 69 goals . In fifth place all on 68 we have PHIL FRANCKSEN, TONY GUY (2), BOB SAWYER and JUNE TIGHE.

WEEKEND RESULTS

The start of 2018 is not what we want as only a few of our teams are still netting the goals. But this weekends average score has moved up to the highest this year to 3 goals.  This weekend we had five teams without a game but we also had another eighteen teams that failed to score any goals.

The highest score that we had over the weekend was four goals and we had a total of five teams that picked them up. We had a lot of us once again that failed to pick up any goals.

PREMIERSHIP 

MANCHESTER CITY lost their first league game of the season after twenty-three played as they lost 4-3 away to LIVERPOOL. City are still fifteen points in front of rivals Manchester United in second place and they have now taken their goals total to 76. Liverpool who have moved up to third place, are now on 56 goals. CHELSEA are down to fourth place after they picked up their third consecutive blank score sheet and now seven over the season as they drew 0-0 at home to LEICESTER CITY. City picked up their sixth blank score sheet and now two in a row. TOTTENHAM are in fifth place as they win 4-0 at home to EVERTON. Tottenham are now on a total of 52 goals while Everton picked up their ninth blank score sheet and now just two goals in their last six games. ARSENAL are down to sixth place after they lost 2-1 away to BOURNEMOUTH. Arsenal are now on a total of 47 goals and Bournemouth are now on 33 goals. WEST HAM picked up their biggest win of the season as they win 4-1 away to Huddersfield. West Ham are now on 37 goals. CRYSTAL PALACE won 1-0 at home to Burnley to take their goals tally to 26. NEWCASTLE are also on 26 goals after they drew 1-1 at home to Swansea. WEST BROM are second from bottom but they won 2-0 at home to Brighton and they are now on 24 goals.

CHAMPIONSHIP

WOLVES are still top but they picked up their second consecutive blank score sheet and now six over the season as they drew 0-0 away to Barnsley. Wolves are ten points clear of second place Blackpool. CARDIFF are in third place as they win 4-0 at home to SUNDERLAND. That is Cardiff’s biggest win of the season and they are now on 43 goals as Sunderland picked up their tenth blank and now three in a row. ASTON VILLA are in fourth place as they win 1-0 away to Nottingham Forest to take their goals total to 46. BIRMINGHAM picked up their fourteenth blank score sheet after they drew 0-0 at home to Derby. BRENTFORD won 2-0 at home to BOLTON to take their goals tally to 49 after a tow game dry spell for goals. Bolton picked up their twelfth blank of the season. NORWICH are on 38 as they win 1-0 away to Bristol City. QUEENS PARK RANGERS picked up their biggest score of the season as they won 3-1 away to BURTON ALBION. Rangers are now on 33 goals while Albion hit goal number 27. HULL drew 0-0 at home to READING who have now had a total of eight blank score sheets to Reading’s twelve and now three in a row producing just two goals in their last seven games.IPSWICH are on 43 goals as they win 1-0 at home to LEEDS UNITED who picked up their eighth blank score sheet. MIDDLESBROUGH picked up their eighth as they lost 1-0 at home to FULHAM who are now on a total of 42 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

WIGAN are still top here and three points in front of second place Shrewsbury after they drew 0-0 at home to PETERBOROUGH. Wigan picked up their fifth blank of the season to Borough’s six. BLACKBURN are in third place after they won 3-1 at home to Shrewsbury. That takes Blackburn's goal tally to 58. In fourth place is SCUNTHORPE who drew 1-1 away to PORTSMOUTH to pick up goal number 42 while Portsmouth are on 35. In fifth place is BRADFORD as they lost 2-1 at home to Northampton. Bradford are on 50 goals. CHARLTON are in sixth place as they win 1-0 away to Bury. Charlton are now on 41 goals. DONCASTER are on 44 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to PLYMOUTH who are now on 32 goals. MK DONS picked up their eighth blank as they drew 0-0 at home to AFC Wimbledon. FLEETWOOD won 2-1 away to SOUTHEND and that gives them a total of 44 goals to Southend's 32.

LEAGUE TWO

Top of the table LUTON lost 2-0 away to Chesterfield to get their ninth blank of the season. EXETER are in fifth place as they win 1-0 at home to COVENTRY and are now on 45 goals. Coventry picked up their eleventh blank of the season. Behind them is LINCOLN CITY. They drew 2-2 at home against Notts County and they are now on 38 goals. In seventh place is MANSFIELD who drew 0-0 away to Cambridge United. Mansfield have failed to score in their lats two games and have now a total of eight blank score sheets. After a two game dry spell, PORT VALE are on 36 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Yeovil. FOREST GREEN lost 1-0 away to Swindon and that is their eleventh blank of the season. COLCHESTER are on 38 goals but lost 3-1 away to Wycombe.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

With no Scottish Prem games as they take their winter break  the other five teams that we have did manage to pick up some goals once more. In the Championship, FALKIRK won 1-0 away to Morton and that was their 34^th goal of the season. In League One RAITH ROVERS who are top, drew 1-1 at home to Ary and they are now on 52 goals.  In League Two PETERHEAD are still in second place as they win 4-3 at home to Stirling. Peterhead have now netted a total of twenty-one goals in their last four games. They are now on a grand total of 72 goals. STENHOUSEMUIR won 3-0 away to Clyde and they are now on 40 goals and in third place. ELGIN CITY are on 38 as they win 1-0 at home to Cowdenbeath.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

MANCHESTER CITY (76) PETERHEAD (72) LUTON (69) Total of 217 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

BIRMINGHAM (22) WEST BROM (24) CRYSTAL PALACE (26) Total of 72 goals

The team with the best run of goals is currently PETERHESD who have scored in all of their last thirteen games.

BIRMINGHAM have all picked up the most number of blank score sheets with a total of fourteen games out of their thirty games played including league and cup competitions.

Our highest goal scoring team in our 35^th Season is PETERHEAD from the Scottish League Two. They picked up our highest score in week eleven as they won 9-0 at home to non-league team Colville Park in the WILLIAM HILL CUP Second Round. 

CHRIS BOOM  is back at the top this weekend after his combination picked him up a total of nine goals for the week. Chris picked up two in midweek and another seven at the weekend. Chris is now in his sixth weekend at the top and his teams are Celtic, Manchester City and Peterhead. Paul Davey has moved back up to second place after picking up a total of three goals for the week. 

At the other end at number 149 we still have COLIN PINDER who is now spending his eleventh consecutive weekend there and now thirteen over the Season. Colin picked up four  goals again from his combination. His teams are Colchester, Crystal Palace and Southend.

Here is how the top ten looks this week. 

    THIS      LAST                                                           M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

   WEEK     WEEK             NAME                                  GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

         1             2                C. BOOM                                56                   155                211              

          2                 1                P. DAVEY (2013/14)               59                   149                208              

          3                 -                 C. BOLBERY                         58                   142                200              

          4                 -                 G. WARMAN                          62                   135                197

          5                 7                D. GOODSON                         56                   139                195

          6                 5                C. DICKER                              59                   134                193

          7                 6                T. BAXTER                             66                   127                193

          8                 11              P. REEVE (87/88 & 2011/12)  55                   136                191

          9                 -                 B. CLARK                               58                   131                189                                              10              -                  A. DAVEY                               62                   127                189