Monday, 18 March 2019

Week Thirty-Three

In Week Thirty-Three of the competition and we had just one winner to take the full £6 cash prize money with 8 goals, and it went to PHIL REEVE our two time Champion from the 1987/88 Season and then again in the 2011/12 Season. This is his second win of the season and he last won some cash in Week Fourteen. Since then he has picked up just one more blank score sheet to give him a total of three to date. His best team is still Manchester City.

CELTIC 1, MANCHESTER CITY 3, WEST HAM 4

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
Nearly half of us managed to pick up some goals in midweek this week. The highest score that we had was with six goals and they went to JAMES BLYTH and TERRY WARWICK. James teams are Aston Villa, Celtic and Notts County which took his midweek total up to 70 goals. Terry has Aston Villa, Manchester City and Notts County and he is now on 75 midweek goals. The race for the cash has had a little change this week.
This week we have not added any new players name to the list with 50 or more midweek goals and this week and we remain with a total of 125 that have reached that mark.
So once again we still have GRAHAM HARRIS at the top and he now needs just four goals to win the cash as he picks up five goals. Graham has Hearts, Tottenham and West Brom and a total of 96 goals. JUNE TIGHE has remained in second place again with a total of 88 goals but she is now joined with KELLIE STRATTON who has moved up from third place. In third place this week up from four is JOHN DAVIES with a total of 87 goals. In fourth place down from three we have DANNY HARRINGTON on a total of 86 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS
We had most of our teams in action over weekend with fifteen of them failing to score any goals once again. We had another fourteen teams that had no game but some of these are due to the bad weather we had over the weekend. So the weekends average score for the third weekend running remained at 4 goals. All but one of us managed to pick up some goals this weekend. The highest score that we had came from the English Premiership where WEST HAM won 4-3 at home against Huddersfield. That has taken their goals tally up to 57 goals.
West Ham are one of our original teams that started in our very first season of 1983/84. They became our 7th voted team and they finished on a total of 79 goals. This is their 29th Season with Golden Goals and their biggest total was in the 1989/90 Season with 91 goals. Last season they scored a total of 57 goals. Over the years they have scored a total of 1862 goals which gives them an average score of 64 goals per season. This season they have just three votes and they have had twelve blank score sheets to date.

FA CUP Quarter-Finals
We had just four of the eight teams that were left in the FA Cup. But they had to play against each other which means we could end up having none of our teams in the final. SWANSEA went 2-0 up against MANCHESTER CITY by half-time, but once again City turned the game around and won 3-2 away. Swansea after  a two game dry spell for goals are now on a total of 58. City take their goals tally up to 114. WOLVES beat MANCHESTER UNITED 2-1 at home to give them a total of 50 goals while United picked up their 68th goal of the season.
The draw for the Semi-Finals are Watford v WOLVES and MANCHESTER CITY v Brighton. Games to be played on 6/7 April at Wembley.

PREMIERSHIP
LIVERPOOL are back on top this weekend for now, after they won 2-1 away to FULHAM. Liverpool are now on 72 goals while Fulham picked up goal number 35. Manchester City are now second and just two points behind Liverpool with a game in hand. CHELSEA are still in sixth place after they lost 2-0 away to EVERTON. That was Chelsea’s eleventh blank of the season while Everton take their goals total up to 51. BOURNEMOUTH drew 2-2 at home to Newcastle and they are now on 52 goals. LEICESTER CITY won 2-1 away to Burnley and they are now on 46 goals.

CHAMPIONSHIP
LEEDS UNITED are down to third place in the play-off zone after they lost 1-0 at home to Sheffield United. That is Leeds fifth blank of the season. Also in the Play-off zone we have another two teams. They are WEST BROM still in fourth place after they won 1-0 away to BRENTFORD. West Brom are now on 77 goals while Brentford picked up their eighth blank score sheet and now two in a row. ASTON VILLA have moved up to sixth place after they won 3-0 at home against Middlesbrough. Villa are on 69 goals with eleven goals coming from their last four games.
Meanwhile HULL drew 2-2 at home to Queens Park Rangers and they are now on a total of 56 goals. Bottom of the table IPSWICH drew 1-1 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST and they are now on 31 goals. Forest hit goal number 61. BIRMINGHAM lost 1-0 away to Preston and that is their fourteenth blank score sheet and now no goals in their last four games. ROTHERHAM lost 2-1 at home to league leaders Norwich. Rotherham picked up goal number 43. BLACKBURN ROVERS lost 4-2 away to Sheffield Wednesday and they are now on 66 goals. STOKE picked up their fourteenth blank score sheet after they drew 0-0 at home to Reading. They have now failed to score in their last three  games.

LEAGUE ONE
We are still doing well here with LUTON still on top after they drew 2-2 at home against Gillingham. Luton are now on a total of 75 goals. In second place and still five points behind Luton is Barnsley. In the Play-off zone, SUNDERLAND are in third place as they won 2-1 at home to Walsall and they are now on a total of 67 goals. PORTSMOUTH are in fourth place as they win 2-0 at home to SCUNTHORPE. Portsmouth are now on 74 goals while Scunthorpepicked up their fifteenth blank of the season. CHARLTON who are in fifth place drew 0-0 away to BRISTOL ROVERS. That is Charlton’s ninth blank of the season to Rovers fifteenth.
Meanwhile BURTON ALBION are on 58 goals after they won 3-0 at home against Blackpool. PLYMOUTH lost 2-0 away to Fleetwood and that is their thirteenth blank score sheet and now just two goals in their last four games. COVENTRY won 2-1 away to PETERBOROUGH and they are now on 45 goals and they have now scored in all of their last eight games. Borough are on 67 goals. SHREWSBURY won 2-1 at home against WYCOMBE and they are now on 56 goals to Wycombe’s 53. SOUTHEND picked up their eleventh blank score sheet after they lost 1-0 at home to AFC Wimbledon.

LEAGUE TWO
Lincoln City are still on top with MK DONS still in third place after they drew 1-1 at home to Stevenage. The Dons are now on a total of 66 and they have extended their goals run to ten games. We have just one team in the Play-off zone and they are Mansfield in fourth place and EXETER in seventh place after they won 3-0 at home to Colchester. Exeter are now on 53 goals.  
Meanwhile NOTTS COUNTY drew 0-0 at home to Morecambe and that is their sixteenth blank of the season. SWINDON drew 0-0 at home to Port Vale to pick up their fifteenth blank and now two in a row.  

SCOTTISH LEAGUES
In the Premiership, top of the table CELTIC got a last minute goal against Dundee in their 1-0 win away. Celtic are now on 85 goals. RANGERS are still in second place but now ten points behind Celtic as they drew 1-1 at home to Kilmarnock. Rangers picked up goal number 82. ABERDEEN are still in third place after they drew 1-1 at home to Livingston. Aberdeen are now on 63 goals. HEARTS lost 1-0 away to HAMILTON. HIBERNIAN won 2-0 at home to Motherwell and they are now on 55 goals.
In the Championship, FALKIRK are now third from bottom after they drew 1-1 at home to Partick to pick up goal number 37 and they have extended their goals run to twelve games.
In League One, RAITH ROVERS are down to third place after they won 1-0 at home to STENHOUSEMUIR who are bottom of the league. Rovers are now on 69 goals while Stenhousemuir picked up their tenth blank score sheet.

Our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals are

MANCHESTER CITY (114) CELTIC (85) RANGERS (82) Total of 281 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

HAMILTON (25) IPSWICH (31) FULHAM (35) Total of 91 goals

Our Best teams this week are LINCOLN CITY after they have scored in all of their last twenty-four League and Cup games out of forty-two played. They have a total of 76 goals which still gives them a average score of 1.8 goals per game.

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

Our biggest result in our 36th Season comes from 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.

KELLIE STRATTON is back at the number one this weekend which is her fifth weekend for this season.
Kellie picked up eight goals which include three from midweek. She is now two goals clear and her teams are once again
Celtic, Manchester City and West Brom. Kellie has moved up our Champions League to 33rd place by beating our 1990/91 Champion Robert Hough and our 1994/95 Champion Geoff Dockerill. Both finished on a total of 274 goals.
Bob Sawyer is back in second place after he collected a total of seven goals for the week. He has Celtic, Luton and Manchester City.
At the other end at 133 we still have John Filtness at the bottom for a total of twenty-four consecutive weekend as his teams pick him up three goals all from the weekend. He has now had twenty-seven weeks at the bottom but he is now ten goals adrift  this weekend. His teams are  Birmingham, Hamilton and Liverpool. But we have some good news for John and that he is now climbing up our Losers League. He has beaten our pub team R.U. Shaw from the 1995/96 Season with 146 goals.

Here is how the top ten looks this weekend.

       THIS      LAST                                           M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL
     WEEK     WEEK             NAME                   GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

          1             2                K. STRATTON           88                  188                276
           2                 4                B. SAWYER               71                  203                274
           3                 8                B. BURROUGHS       70                  203                273
           4                 1                D. BARRETT             78                  195                273              
           5                 3                JAMIE WOOD           85                  187                272  
           6                 -                 B. CLARK                  74                  197                271 
           7                 5                T. GUY (2010/11)       76                  195                271 
           8                 7                STALKY (2)               85                  184                269   
           9                 10              C. SETFORD              57                  211                268  
           10               12              S. SEYEDI                  74                  194                268 

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