Monday, 8 April 2019

Week Thirty-Six


In Week Thirty-Six of the competition we had a total of four winners who won on a score of just 7 goals each. Our winners are CLIFF BAMBRIDGE, SCOTT THOMSON (2), JOHN WOOD (Lucifer), and TIM WOOD.
Cliff is a first time winner this season and we have now had a total of thirty-nine winners to date. Cliff is in his third season with Golden Goals and he started in the 2016/17 Season. Last season he finished in 129th place on a total of 239 goals. This season Cliff has been as high as fourth place and that was in Weeks Fifteen and Eighteen. He has picked up five blank score sheets but he’s back in the winning frame this week.  Scott has picked up his second win of the season as he won back in Week Twenty-Nine with another shared win. Since then he has picked up another blank score sheet to give him four for the season. John also picks up his second win of the season and another shared win from Week Twenty-One.He has also picked up another blank score sheet to give him just two over the season. Tim become the first person to pick up three wins and has now won over £23 in cash. Last time that Tim won was way back in Week Twelve. Since then he has picked up another two blank score sheets to give him four over the season. Our winners teams are

Cliff  DERBY 3, MANCHESTER CITY 1, RANGERS 3
Scott  DERBY 3, MANCHESTER CITY 1, SWANSEA 3
John  ACCRINGTON STANLEY 1, BURTON 3, PETERHESD 3
Tim  MANCHESTER CITY 1, PETERHEAD 3, RANGERS 3

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
Congratulations to GRAHAM HARRIS as he has finally won this season’s 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot with this season’s cash prize money of £30. Graham needed just one goal from his combination and that goal did not come from Hearts but Tottenham last Wednesday night. His other team is West Brom. His total stands at 101 goals but can Graham beat our record held by Daryl Nicholls with 136 goals from the 2016/17 Season. John Davies and Kellie Stratton came a very close second with a total of 95 goals each.

WEEKEND RESULTS
We had most of our teams in action over weekend with ten of them failing to score any goals and another seven teams that had no game. So the weekends average score fell from five to a just 3 goals. It seems that our teams have forgotten how to score goals of late.
The highest score that we had came from the Premiership where LEICESTER CITY won 4-1 away to Huddersfield. That has taken Leicester’s goal total up to 52 goals and they have now scored in all of their last eight games.
Leicester are our 64th English team to play in the competition and this is their fifteenth Season with Golden Goals. They first appeared in our 1987/88 Season and ended on a total of 68 goals. Their highest score came in the 2013/14 Season with 98 goals. This season they have just two votes and have picked up just seven blank score sheets. Over the seasons they have scored a total of 1099 goals which gives them an average score of 73 goals per season.

FA CUP Semi-Finals
We had just two of our teams playing in the semi-finals and they were MANCHESTER CITY who won just 1-0 against Brighton to give them their 119th goal of the season and WOLVES. Wolves had to play Watford and went a goal up at half time. At the end of  90 minutes the score was 2-2. In extra time, Watford won 3-2. The two goals for Wolves, means that they are now on a total of 54 goals. The final is to be played on May 18 between Manchester City and Watford.

PREMIERSHIP
We still have the top nine teams here with Liverpool holding on to top place after their win on Friday night. Not many of our Prem teams played due to the FA Cup semi-finals but ninth place EVERTON beat fourth place ARSENAL 1-0 at home. The single goal gives Everton their 54th of the season while Arsenal picked up their fourth blank of the season after a goal run of ten games. BOURNEMOUTH lost 3-1 at home to Burnley after going a goal up. Bournemouth are now on a total of 53 goals.

CHAMPIONSHIP
In the Play-off zone we still  have three teams with LEEDS UNITED dropping back down to third place as they lost 1-0 away to BIRMINGHAM. That is now Leeds sixth blank of the season. Birmingham are now on 56 goals. WEST BROM are still in fourth place after they lost 2-0 away to Millwall and that is their eighth blank score sheet. ASTON VILLA are still in fifth place after they won 3-1 away to Sheffield Wednesday. Villa are now on a total of 74 goals.
Meanwhile, STOKE won 1-0 away to BLACKBURN ROVERS and after a run of four games with out a goal, Stoke are now on 45 while Rovers picked up their ninth blank of the season. Bottom of the table IPSWICH picked up their fourth league win of the season by beating Bolton 2-1 away. Ipswich are now on a total of 33 goals. BRENTFORD drew 3-3 at home against DERBY and after a four game dry spell for goals, Brentford are now on 77 goals while Derby are on 71. HULL are on 61 goals as they win 3-1 at home to Reading. ROTHERHAM won 2-1 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST and they are now on 46 goals to Forest’s 64. SWANSEA  have picked up six goals in a week after they won 3-1 at home to Middelsbrough. Swansea are now on a total of 65 goals.

LEAGUE ONE
We are still doing well here with LUTON still on top after they drew 2-2 at home to Blackpool. Luton are now on a total of 83 goals. In second place and now eight points behind Luton is BARNSLEY. They lost 3-1 away to BURTON ALBION to pick up their 77th goal of the season while Burton are now on 66 goals.
In the Play-off zone, in third place is SUNDERLAND after they won 2-1 away to ROCHDALE. Sunderland are now on 72 goals while Rochdale are on 54. PORTSMOUTH are down to fourth place as they win 3-2 away to WYCOMBE. Portsmouth have taken their goals tally up to 79 goals while Wycombe are on 56. CHARLTON remain in fifth place as they win 2-0 away to PLYMOUTH. Charlton are now on 64 goals as Plymouth pick up their fourteenth blank of the season.
Meanwhile COVENTRY drew 0-0 at home to BRISTOL ROVERS and that is their tenth blank to Rovers sixteenth. ACCRINGTON STANLEY after a two game dry spell are now on 47 goals after they drew 1-1 away to AFC Wimbledon. SOUTHEND drew 2-2 away to Fleetwood and they are now on 60 goals after a three game dry spell for goals. PETERBOROUGH won 2-0 at home to Gillingham and they have taken their goals total up to 71. SHREWSBURY drew 1-1 at home against SCUNTHORPE and they are on 59 goals to Scunthorpe’s 52.

LEAGUE TWO
We have the top three here with LINCOLN CITY still on top after they  beat third place MK DONS 2-0 away. Lincoln are now on a total of 83 goals and they have extended their goal run to twenty-eight games. The Dons after a goal run of twelve games picked up their sixth blank of the season. MANSFIELD have moved up to second place after they won 1-0 at home to Cambridge United. Mansfield are now on a total of 69 goals.
In the Play-off zone this weekend we have just one team left in it and they are EXETER in seventh place as they drew 1-1 away to Cheltenham. Exeter are now on 56 goals.
Meanwhile OLDHAM are on 67 goals after they won 2-0 away to Colchester. NOTTS COUNTY drew 2-2 at home to Northampton and they are now on 46 goals. SWINDON drew 1-1 at home to Yeovil and they are now on 53 goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES
In the Scottish Premiership, Champions CELTIC drew 0-0 at home to Livingston to pick up their seventh blank of the season. RANGERS won 3-0 away to Motherwell to catch up on rivals Celtic and they are now on 89 goals. ABERDEEN won 2-0 away to Dundee and they are now on a total of 69 goals. HAMILTON drew 1-1 at home to St Mirren and that was their 26th goal of the season. HIBERNIAN won 2-1 away to HEARTS and they are on 59 goals while Hearts are on 64.
In the Championship, bottom of the table ALLOA  won 2-1 away to second of the bottom FALKIRK.  Alloa are now on a total of 46 goals while Falkirk hit goal number 39. AYR UNITED lost 1-0 at home to Inverness CT and that is their twelfth blank of the season. In League One, RAITH ROVERS are still in second place after they drew 1-1 away to bottom of the table STENHOUSEMUIR. Raith are on 76 goals and have now scored in all of their last eight games while Stenhousemuir have taken their goals tally up to 42. DUMBARTON won 2-1 at home to Brechin and they are now on 57 goals and a goal run of eleven games. In League Two, PETERHEAD are still top after they drew 3-3 away to Clyde  to take their goals tally up to 63 goals.

Our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals are

MANCHESTER CITY (119) RANGERS (89) CELTIC (89) Total of 297 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

HAMILTON (26) IPSWICH (33) FULHAM (36) Total of 95 goals

Our Best teams this week are LINCOLN CITY after they have scored in all of their last twenty-eight League and Cup games out of forty-six played. They have a total of 83 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 twenty-one blank score sheets out of thirty-eight League and Cup games played this season. They have now scored just four goals in their last eight 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.

BOB SAWYER is in his third weekend at the number one spot which means that this his is fourth weekend of this season. Bob picked up seven goals for the week from Celtic, Luton and Manchester City. Bob has moved up our Champions League to 28th place by beating our 1984/85 Champions Martyn Gent score of 289 goals  and  my own score of 290 in the 2008/09 Season. Kellie has remained in second place after she picked up a total of five goals for the week. Kellie is now three goal behind Bob. Her teams are once again Celtic, Manchester City and West Brom.
At the other end at 133 we still have John Filtness at the bottom for a total of twenty-seven consecutive weekends as he picks up a total of five goals for the week. He has now had thirty weeks at the bottom but he is now seventeen goals adrift  this weekend. His teams are Birmingham, Hamilton and Liverpool. John has made more progress in our Loser’s League by beating our lowest score in the 1987/88 Season  by Freda Hillier and  Iain Etheridge’s score in the 1999/00 Season both with a total of 156 goals each to move up to 32nd place in our Losers League.

All change in our top ten again this weekend

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

          1            -                  B. SAWYER              75                   216                291                      
           2                 -                 K. STRATTON          95                  193                288              
           3                 4                B. BURROUGHS      74                   211                285              
           4                 5                B. CLARK                 81                   204                285                 
           5                 6                D. BARRETT            82                   203                285                  
           6                 11              S. SEYEDI                 82                   203                285                 
           7                 3                C. SETFORD             61                   223                284               
           8                 7                JAMIE WOOD          91                   193                284               
           9                 13              STALKY (2)              92                   192                284              
            10              8                T. GUY (2010/11)      82                   200                282

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