Week Twenty-Three

In Week Twenty-Three of the competition and we had just one player to pick up the full amount of cash once again this weekend.  With their second win of the season it went to AMANDA MORRISON who won on her personal best score with 10 goals.

Amanda first won in week thirteen with a shared win on 8 goals. After her win she fell all the way down to 132 but she has been slowly moving back up the table . Amanda has still scored every weekend and her best team is Manchester City. Her teams are once again

FALKIRK 6, MANCHESTER CITY 4, SCUNTHORPE -

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

We have now added another twenty-nine players that are on 50 or more midweek goals and that takes our total to 116 out of 149. It was STUART KEMP  that picked up the most with 11 goals.  They came from Liverpool four from two games, Manchester City three and Manchester United with again four goals from their two games. So with the big scores that we had once again the race for the cash has changed quite a lot this week.

We have a new leader in first place this week on a total of 72 goals we have STEPHEN LEADER who has moved up from three last week. In second place on 71 goals we now have last weeks joint leader JAMES BLYTH and up from four MATT DORAN. In third place all on 70 goals we have STEPHANIE CHRISTIE up from four, (Me) STEVE REEVE up from five and back in the race CHRIS SETFORD.  In fourth place down from two we have ROB FREEMAN and TONY GUY (1) and  DAVE WOOD from joint first place. All of them are on 69 goals. In fifth place all on 68 we have PHIL FRANCKSEN and TONY GUY (2) both down from four while BOB SAWYER and JUNE TIGHE have remained in their position.

WEEKEND RESULTS

The first fixture of 2018 was as last year ended being very quite this weekends average score remained at just 2 goals.  This weekend we had ten teams without a game and another twenty teams that failed to score any goals.

The highest score that we had over the weekend was six goals once again and they came from the Scottish Championship where FALKIRK won 6-1 at home to Dundee United. Falkirk who have not been playing all that well this season picked up their highest score to date and are now on a total of 32 goals.

This is Falkirks seventh Season with Golden Goals and they started with us back in the 2002/03 Season to be our 27^th voted Scottish team in. They finished with a total of 92 goals which is their best to date.  Last season they finished on 65 goals. Over the years they have netted a total of 506 goals which gives them an average score of 72 goals per season. They have just one vote this season.

FA CUP Third Round

We already know that two of our teams are through to the next round and they are Liverpool and Manchester United who played on Friday night. But we had another thirty-seven of our teams in action over the weekend. Out of them only eleven have also added their name to that list.

We had loads of shocks in this round which we will tell you as we go along with the results. The ones that are through are TOTTENHAM who won 3-0 at home to AFC Wimbledon and they are now on a total of 48 goals. MANCHESTER CITY won 4-1 at home to Burnley after going a goal down in the first half. City are now on a total of 71 goals and it looks as though they will add another 100 goals to their records. PETERBOROUGH won 3-1 away to ASTON VILLA again going a goal down in the first half. Borough are now on 59 goals as Villa picked up gaol number 45. BIRMINGHAM beat BURTON ALBION 1-0 at home to go through. Birmingham are on 22 goals while Albion picked up their thirteenth blank of the season. HULL who have not been doing well in the league, won 1-0 away to BLACKBURN. Hull are now on 40 goals while Blackburn picked up their fifth blank of the season and stops their goal run of fourteen games. COVENTRY beat Stoke 2-1 at home and are now on a total of 36 goals. WEST BROM won 2-0 away to EXETER and they take their goals tally to 22. Exeter picked up their sixth blank of the season. SHEFFIELD UNITED knocked out IPSWICH 1-0 away to get goal number 45. Ipswich get their eighth blank score sheet and now just two goals in their last five games. MIDDLESBROUGH are on 43 goals as they win 2-0 at home to SUNDERLAND who picked up their ninth blank and now two in a row. NEWCASTLE beat LUTON 3-1 at home to take their goals tally to 25 while Luton are on 69. MK DONS won 1-0 away to QUEENS PARK RANGERS and they are now on 39 goals. Rangers picked up their eighth blank of the season.

Teams that went out and the shock of the day is Nottingham Forest knocking out ARSENAL 4-2 at home. Arsenal are now on 46 goals. Also out is LEEDS UNITED. They lost 2-1 away to Newport. Leeds are on 50 goals. BOLTON lost 2-1 at home to Huddersfield and that was goal number 31 for them. BRENTFORD picked up their eighth blank and now two in a row as they went out 1-0 at home to Notts County. DONCASTER lost 1-0 at home to Rochdale and that is their thirteenth blank of the season. FULHAN lost 1-0 at home to Southampton and that was their seventh blank score sheet. BRADFORD lost 2-0 away to Yeovil and that is their sixth blank of the season. 

Now we have a total of eleven teams that will be in replays. They are WEST HAM who drew 0-0 away to Shrewsbury in a very disappointing game for them. West Ham picked up their ninth blank score sheet. BOURNEMOUTH drew 2-2 at home to WIGAN and they are now on 31 goals to Wigan’s 61. CARDIFF drew 0-0 at home to MANSFIELD and both teams have now had a total of seven blank score sheets. FLEETWOOD drew 0-0 at home to LEICESTER CITY to get their seventh blank while City picked up their fifth. CHELSEA drew 0-0 away to NORWICH and that is their fifth and Norwich’s eighth blank score sheet. READING picked up their eleventh and now two in a row as they drew 0-0 away to Stevenage.  WOLVES drew 0-0 at home to Swansea and that is blank number five for them.

LEAGUE ONE

It’s 40 for CHARLTON as they win 1-0 at home to Oldham. SOUTHEND lost 3-1 away to Northampton and they are now on 31 goals while PLYMOUTH are also on 31 goals as they win 3-0 at home against Bury.

LEAGUE TWO

COLCHESTER lost 4-1 at home against Cheltenham and they are now on 37 goals after a two game dry spell for goals. FOREST GREEN are on 31 goals as they win 1-0 at home to PORT VALE who picked up their tenth blank and now two in a row.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

There are no Scottish Prem games as they take their winter break  but in the Scottish League One RAITH ROVERS are now on 51 goals as they win 2-1 at home to Forfar. In League Two PETERHEAD are in second place as they win 4-1 away to STENHOUSEMUIR. Peterhead have now netted a total of twenty goals in their last four games. They are now on a grand total of 68. Stenhousemuir are on 37. ELGIN CITY are on 37 as they win 2-1 at home to Clyde.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

MANCHESTER CITY (71) LUTON (69) PETERHEAD (68) Total of 208 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

BIRMINGHAM (22) WEST BROM (22) CRYSTAL PALACE (24) Total of 68 goals

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

BIRMINGHAM, BURTON ALBION and DONCASTER have all picked up the most number of blank score sheets with a total of thirteen games each.

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. 

Our 2013/14 Champion PAUL DAVEY  is now in his eighth consecutive weekend at  the top. Paul’s combination picked him up seven goals in midweek and another five from the weekend. Paul has Celtic, Luton and Manchester City. Chris Boom has moved back up to second place after picking up a total of eighteen goals for the week. 

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

Not a great start to the New Year but the top ten has changed once again

   THIS      LAST                                                     M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

  WEEK     WEEK             NAME                            GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

        1             -                 P. DAVEY (2013/14)          57                  146                203

        2                 3                C. BOOM                            54                  148                202              

        3                 2                C. BOLBERY                     56                  139                195              

        4                 -                 G. WARMAN                     60                  129                189

        5                 6                C. DICKER                         57                  131                188

        6                 5                T. BAXTER                        64                  124                188

        7                 9                D. GOODSON                    54                  132                186

        8                 7                J. WEARDEN                     61                  125                186

        9                 10              B. CLARK                          56                  128                184                                  

        10               8                A. DAVEY                         60                   124                184