Week Thirty-One

In Week Thirty-One of the competition we have taken our winners total up to thirty-two as we had two winners to share the £6 cash prize money this weekend. They are BARRY BURROUGHS and TONY GUY (2) who both won on a total of 8 goals.

Barry started with Golden Goals back in the 2010/11 Season where he finished in the winning frame in 20^th place on a total of 284 goals. He had one shared weekend win and took home over £8 in winnings. Barry then missed three seasons during his time which were from 2012/13 to 2014/15. Last season Barry finished in 40^th place on a total of 286 goals and again had a shared win at the weekend. This season he has been as high as sixth place and he has picked up just two blank weekend score sheets. His best team is Manchester City.

Tony also started in our 2010/11 season where he became our champion finishing the season on a total of 307 goals and is currently 19^th in our Champions League. He won the top prize of £60. Last season Tony had two combinations with his first finishing in 102^nd place on 255 goals and his second in 113^th place with 248 goals. This season, Tony has three combos and he is doing well with his first combo. But his second selection has been as high as 41^st place in Week Thirteen. He has picked up two blank score sheets and his best team here is Celtic. Our winners teams are

Barry  CELTIC 2, MANCHESTER CITY 1, PORTSMOUTH 5

Tony  ARSENAL 1, CELTIC 2, PORTSMOUTH 5

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

All but one of us managed to pick up some goals in midweek this week. The highest score that we had was with twelve goals and they went to RAYMOND HARROD. Raymond has Arsenal, Celtic and Liverpool which takes his midweek total up to 68 goals. The race for the cash has had a big change around this week. This week we have added another five more players with 50 or more midweek goals and this week it has moved up to a total of 124.

This week we still have GRAHAM HARRIS at the top and he now needs just ten goals to win the cash as he picks up a single goal from Hearts. Graham has Hearts, Tottenham and West Brom and a total of 90 goals. JUNE TIGHE has remained in second place again with a total of 86 goals. June has Derby, Manchester City and Tottenham. In joint third place this week we have KELLIE STRATTON and JAMIE WOOD who have both moved up from four place with DANNY HARRINGTON moving back up from five. All three are on a total of 85 goals. In joint fourth place all on 84 goals we have down from three JOHN DAVIES but coming back in the race we have KAREN SMITH and STALKY (2).

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had most of our teams in action over weekend with fifteen of them failing to score any goals. We had another eight teams that had no game. So the weekends average score fell from last weekend’s total of five to just 4 goals this weekend. All but one of us managed to pick up some goals this weekend but there has been another change for Champion this week.

The highest score that we had came from the English League One where PORTSMOUTH won 5-1 at home against Bradford. Portsmouth are now on a total of 68 goals.

Portsmouth started with Golden Goals in our third season of 1985/86 and they became our 50^th voted English team to join. In their first season they finished on a total of 82 goals. This is their 21^st season with us and last season they finished on a total of 58 goals. Their highest score is of 101 goals scored in the 2012/13 Season. This season they have just four votes. They have now scored a total of 1373 over the years which gives them an average score of 65 goals per season.

PREMIERSHIP

MANCHESTER CITY are back on top this weekend after they won 1-0 away to BOURNEMOUTH. City have taken their goals total to 108 goals but the goal scoring machine is slowing down with just two goal in their last three games. Bournemouth picked up their eleventh blank score sheet and just two goals in their last five games. LIVERPOOL are down to second place and one point behind City after they drew 0-0 away to EVERTON. That is Liverpool’s third blank of the season while Everton picked up their eighth. TOTTENHAM have remained in third place after they drew 1-1 at home to London rivals ARSENAL. Tottenham are now on 72 goals while Arsenal in fifth place hit goal number 70. MANCHESTER UNITED are in fourth place as they win 3-2 away to Southampton and they are now on a total of 67 goals. CHELSEA are in sixth place after they won 2-1 away to FULHAM. Chelsea are now on 62 goals while Fulham picked up goal number 33. WOLVES move up to seventh place after they won 2-0 at home against Cardiff. Wolves are now on a total of 47 goals. WEST HAM are on 53 goals after they won 2-0 at home against Newcastle. LEICESTER CITY are now on 41 goals but they lost 2-1 at away to Watford.

CHAMPIONSHIP

Leeds United are in second place after their big win on Friday night. West Brom come next still in fourth place. ASTON VILLA won 4-0 at home to DERBY and that has taken their goals tally up to 62 goals. Derby picked up their tenth blank score sheet and now three games in a row. BRENTFORD are on 72 goals as they win 3-0 at home to Queens Park Rangers. HULL won 2-0 at home to BIRMINGHAM and they are now on 52 goals as Birmingham picked up their eleventh blank of the season. Bottom of the table IPSWICH, lost 2-1 at home to Reading but it’s their 28^th goal of the season. It’s 40 goals for ROTHERHAM as they win 3-2 at home to BLACKBURN ROVERS. Rovers are now on 61 goals. STOKE won 2-0 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST and they are now on 44 goals while Forest picked up their twelfth blank of the season with one goal in their last three games. SWANSEA won 2-0 at home to Bolton and they are now on 56 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

We still have the top five here with LUTON still top after they won 2-0 at home against ROCHDALE. Luton have taken their goals tally up to 72 goals and have now scored in all of their last eight games. Rochdale picked up their tenth blank score sheet. Five points behind Luton is BARNSLEY who won 3-0 away to SOUTHEND. After a two game dry spell for goals, barnsley are now on 71 goals while Southend picked up their tenth blank of the season. SUNDERLAND are still in third place after they won 2-0 at home against PLYMOUTH. Sunderland are now on 54 goals and have now scored in all of their last fifteen games. Plymouth picked up their eleventh blank score sheet. Portsmouth come next in fourth place with CHARLTON still in fifth place as they drew 1-1 away to Doncaster to pick up goal number 57. It’s 40 goals for COVENTRY as they win 1-0 away to ACCRINGTON STANLEY who picked up their thirteenth blank of the season. BRISTOL ROVERS have picked up their biggest result of the season by winning 4-0 at home to Blackpool. Rovers are now on a total of 40 goals. BURTON ALBION picked up their twelfth blank score sheet and now three in a row after they drew 0-0 at home against Walsall. SCUNTHORPE lost 2-1 away to Oxford Utd and that was their 45^th goal of the season. PETERBOROUGH picked up another four goals in their 4-2 home win against WYCOMBE. Borough are now on 65 goals to Wycombe’s 50. SHREWSBURY drew 0-0 at home to AFC Wimbledon and that was their twelfth blank score sheet.

LEAGUE TWO

LINCOLN CITY are still on top after they won 2-1 away to Forest Green. Lincoln are now on a total of 73 goals and they have now scored in all of their last twenty-two games. MANSFIELD are still in third place after they won 4-2 at home against Cheltenham. Mansfield are now on 61 goals. MK DONS are down to fourth place after they won 1-0 at home to Crawley. The Dons are now on a total of 60 goals. EXETER are in fifth place after they lost 1-0 away to Tranmere. Exeter picked up their eleventh blank of the season. It’s 60 goals for OLDHAM as they drew 1-1 at home to Stevenage.  SWINDON won 3-0 at home to Colchester and they are now on a total of 44 goals. NOTTS COUNTY picked up their fifteenth blank of the season as they drew 0-0 at home to Port Vale and that is their second consecutive blank score sheet and they are rock bottom of the league.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the WILLIAM HILL CUP Quarter-Finals we have just one team through at the moment and they are CELTIC. They won 2-0 away to HIBERNIAN and they are now on 84 goals while Hibs picked up their tenth blank of the season. RANGERS went a goal down in the first half through a penalty by ABERDEEN but drew 1-1 after full time. Rangers picked up their 80^th goal of the season to Aberdeen’s 60.

In League One, RAITH ROVERS are down to third place after they drew 2-2 away to Stranraer. Rovers are now on a total of 67 goals. DUMBARTON are now on 47 goals after they won 2-0 at home against Arbroath. STENHOUSEMUIR are bottom of the league as they drew 1-1 at home to Brechin. They are now on 36 goals.

In League Two, PETERHEAD are back on top after they won 1-0 at home to Elgin City and that is their 53^rd goal of the season.

Our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals are

MANCHESTER CITY (108) CELTIC (84) RANGERS (80) Total of 272 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

HAMILTON (22) IPSWICH (28) FULHAM (33) Total of 83 goals

Our Best teams this week are LINCOLN CITY after they have scored in all of their last twenty-two League and Cup games out of forty played. They have a total of 73 goals which gives them a average score of 1.8 goals per game.

Our worst team this week is back to HAMILTON as they have now picked up a total of eighteen blank score sheets out of thirty-three league and cup games played this season. They have now scored just two goals in their last three games.

Our biggest result in our 36^th Season is MANCHESTER CITY as they win 9-0 at home against league one BURTON ALBION in the Carabao/League Cup semi-final first leg tie in Week Twenty-Four.

BOB SAWYER is at the number one this weekend which is our seventh player to do so this season but on goal difference.

Bob picked three goals in midweek and another five goals at the weekend. Bob’s combination is Celtic, Luton and Manchester City.  Good news for Bob is that he has started to climb up or Champions League be beating Phil Mockler’s score of 263 goals in our 1989/90 Season. David Barrett is in second place after he collected a total of nine goals for the week. David has the combination of  Brentford, Celtic and Manchester City.

At the other end at 133 we still have John Filtness at the bottom for a total of twenty-two consecutive weekend as his teams pick him up nine goals all from midweek. He has now had twenty-five weeks at the bottom but he is now just two goals adrift  this weekend. His teams are  Birmingham, Hamilton and Liverpool.

Here is how our top ten looks this weekend.

      THIS      LAST                                             M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

     WEEK     WEEK             NAME                    GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

          1             3                B. SAWYER               70                   194                264

           2                 4                D. BARRETT             78                   186                264

           3                 1                K. STRATTON           85                   179                264 

           4                 2                JAMIE WOOD           85                   179                264              

           5                 6                T. GUY (2010/11)      76                   186                262  

           6                 8                B. BURROUGHS     67                   193                260  

           7                 5                STALKY (2)              84                   176                260  

           8                 7                C. SETFORD             57                   202                259 

           9                 12              C. DICKER                74                   185                259 

           10               11              B. CLARK                 74                   184                258