Week Thirty-Five

In Week Thirty-Five of the competition and we had a Double Rollover worth £18 this weekend but it was not claimed as we had five players that picked up the highest score of 9 goals each. They were CHRIS BOOM, BOB BURGIN (Stalky (1), DANNY HARRINGTON, our double Champion PHIL REEVE and KAREN SMITH.

So for the very first time in our Golden Goals 35 year history, we will have a Triple Rollover worth £24 next weekend.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Although the race for the cash is over, we are now trying to beat the record number of midweek goals scored by Daryl Nicholls from last season with a total of 136 goals.There is a slim chance that we could do this as I (STEVE REEVE) now have a total of 102 goals with two goals from Wolves on Good Friday. JAMES BLYTH in second place has a total of 99 goals with his combination of Blackburn, Celtic and Wolves. In third place on 93 goals we have TOM BAXTER and in fourth place with 92 goals is BARBARA BARNES (1). STEPHEN CADWELL is in fifth place with 91 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

Over the Easter weekend, we had just 50% of our teams in action but the weekends average score was 6 goals which is very good with the few teams that we had playing. This is mainly down to the Celtic and Manchester City combo that most of you have. The highest score that we had came from the Scottish Premiership where ABERDEEN won 4-1 at home to St Johnstone. That is the sixth time this season that Aberdeen have scored four goals in a game and they are now on a total of 59 goals.

Aberdeen have just two votes this season, but in our very first season of 1983/84, they were our most voted Scottish team and they scored their highest number of goals with 112. Last season they picked up a total of 89. This is their nineteenth season with us and over the years they have scored a total of 1436 goals, which gives them an average score of 75 goals per season to date.

PREMIERSHIP

MANCHESTER CITY won 3-1 away to EVERTON to keep them well in front of the rest of the pack. City are now on a total of 105 goals while Everton picked up goal number 43. Some sixteen points behind them is MANCHESTER UNITED who won 2-0 at home to Swansea. United are now on a total of 77 goals. In third place is LIVERPOOL as they win 2-1 away to CRYSTAL PALACE after going a goal down. Liverpool are now on a total of 79 goals while Palace are on 36. In fourth place is TOTTENHAM. They won 3-1 away to London rivals CHELSEA again after going a goal down. Tottenham are now on 82 goals while Chelsea in fifth place are on 73.In sixth place is ARSENAL as they win 3-0 at home to Stoke. Arsenal are on 66 goals.LEICESTER CITY are also on 66 goals as they win 2-0 away to Brighton.NEWCASTLE won 1-0 at home to Huddersfield and they are on 36 goals. BOURNEMOUTH drew 2-2 away to Watford and they are on 48 goals. WEST HAM have taken their goals tally to 48 as they win 3-0 at home to Southampton. Bottom of the table WEST BROM lost 2-1 at home to Burnley. West Brom are now on a total of 35 goals.

CHAMPIONSHIP

In the play-off zone ASTON VILLA have moved in to fourth place after they drew 0-0 away to HULL. That is Villas eleventh blank score sheet and now two in a row. Hull picked up their thirteenth and also two in a row now. BIRMINGHAM CITY have taken their goals tally up to 38 as they win 1-0 at home to troubled  IPSWICH. Ipswich have now failed to score in their last four games giving them a total of fifteen blank score sheets to date. 

LEAGUE ONE

We only have one result to give you this weekend in where PORTSMOUTH won 1-0 away to Walsall. That is Portsmouth 50^th goal of the season.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Scottish Premiership, CELTIC are now twelve points clear of second place Rangers as they win 3-0 at home to Ross County. Celtic are now on a total of 88 goals. RANGERS failed to close the gap on Celtic as they drew 2-2 away to Motherwell after going two goals down in the first half.  Rangers are now on 85 goals. Aberdeen remain in third place after their win against St Johnstone.

In the Championship FALKIRK won 3-0 at home to Brechin and they are now on a total of 53 
goals. In League One RAITH ROVERS are still in second place in the league as they win 2-0 
at home to Albion. Rovers are now on a total of 71 goals. In League Two, Top of the table PETERHEAD won 3-0 at home to Clyde and they are now on 93 goals and they have now 
scored in all of their last nine games. ELGIN CITY have now moved in to fourth place after 
they won 3-0 at home against Stirling. Elgin are now on a total of 56 goals. STENHOUSEMUIR 
drew 1-1 away to Cowdenbeath and that is their 51^st goal of the season.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

MANCHESTER CITY (105) PETERHEAD (93) LUTON (89) Total of 287 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

BURTON ALBION (33) WEST BROM (35) NEWCASTLE (36) Total of 101 goals

The team with the best run of goals is currently TOTTENHAM who have scored in all of their last twenty-five games.

BURTON ALBION have picked up the most number of  blank score sheets this season with a total of twenty-one out of a total of forty-two games played.

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 still on top this weekend as his combination picked him up a total of nine goals all coming from the weekend. They came from Celtic, Manchester City and Peterhead with three goals each. Chris has now been at the top for a total of sixteen weeks. He has now four goals clear of Paul Davey in second place who picked up a total of seven goals from his combination. With his total of 286 goals, Chris has moved up our Champions League to twenty-ninth place by beating our 1988/89 Champion Alec Shorts score of 280 goals and Adam Porters score of 284 goals in the 2006/07 Season.

At the other end at number 149 we still have COLIN PINDER for his twenty-third weekend. Colin picked up a total of three goals again coming from two midweek and one weekend goals. Colin has the combination of Colchester, Crystal Palace and Southend and so far has the lowest score on record.  

Here are this weekends top ten

     THIS      LAST                                                      M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

    WEEK     WEEK             NAME                             GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

         1             -                 C. BOOM                             83                  203                286               

          2                 -                 P. DAVEY (2013/14)           84                  198                282               

          3                 -                 C. BOLBERY                      85                  196                281               

          4                 5                P. REEVE (87/88 & 11/12)  81                  194                275               

          5                 4                G. WARMAN                       90                  185                275               

          6                 -                 D. GOODSON                     75                  197                272               

          7                 -                 C. DICKER                          85                  185                270               

          8                 -                 STEPTOE & SON               84                  185                269               

          9                 -                 T. BAXTER                         93                  176                269              

           10              11              T. JENKINS                         69                  197                266