Week Twenty-Four

In Week Twenty-Four of the competition we had our twenty-fifth winner of the season and it goes to SAMUEL STEPHENS. Samuel won with a score of 9 goals and he picks up the full £5 Weekend Cash Prize Money. Samuel is in his very first season with us and he has moved back in to the winning frame after his win. He has been as high as twentieth place in Week Seven. He has picked up a total of three blank weekend score sheets so far and his best team is Fulham. His winning teams are 

FULHAM 6, MANCHESTER CITY 1, MANCHESTER UNITED 2

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

Over half of us managed to pick up some midweek goals this week and the new leader is pulling away from the rest of the pack. We now have thirty-one players that are nearer to that 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot this week. We now have LYANNA GRIMWOOD in the lead with a new total of 80 goals. Lyanna teams are Fulham. Manchester City and Sunderland. In second place we have last weeks leader LOUIE HARRINGTON with a total of 78 goals. BOB SOPER moves up to third place up from six with a total of 69 goals. In fourth place with 67 goals we now have KEAMUS SETNA down from three. In fifth place we now have PETER PORTER down from four on a total of 66 goals. In Sixth place down from five we have  MICHAEL PEPPERRELL with a total of 64 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS 

We had all but eleven of our teams in action this weekend, but we had a couple of games that were cancelled due to Covid. Out of the ones that did play eleven failed to score any goals. The weekend average score went down from four goals last weekend to just 3 goals this weekend. The highest score came from FULHAM with a total of six goals. They won 6-2 at home to Bristol City. Fulham have had one hell of a week with netting seven in midweek. They are now on a total of 67 goals. 

Fulham are one of our original teams and became our third most voted team in our very first season. They finished on a total of 68 goals. Their highest end of season score came in the 2000/01 Season with 105 goals. It is the only time that they have hit 100 or more goals in a season. Last season which was our covid season, they finished the sort season with just 32 goals. This is Fulham’s seventeenth season with Golden Goals and over the years they have scored a total of 1130 goals to date. That gives them an average score of 66 goals per season. They have a total of eight votes this season.

PREMIER LEAGUE 

MANCHESTER CITY are leading they way as they win 1-0 at home to CHELSEA in third place. City are on a total of 64 goals and have now scored in all of their last thirteen games. Chelsea picked up their third blank of the season after a goal run of seven games. LIVERPOOL are in second place as they win 3-0 at home to BRENTFORD. Liverpool are now on a total of 67 goals while Brentford have now had a total of eight blank score sheets. WEST HAM are in fourth place but they lost 3-2 at home against Leeds. West Ham are on a total of 45 goals and a goal run of seven games. ASTON VILLA drew 2-2 at home to MANCHESTER UNITED after going two goals down. Villa have taken their goals total to 34 while United are on 33 goals. WATFORD drew 1-1 away to Newcastle and they are on 26 goals. WOLVES won 3-1 at home against Southampton. Wolves have taken their goals tally to 26. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

Fulham are top here after their big win with BOURNEMOUTH in second place. They lost 3-2 away to Luton. Bournemouth are on 51 goals now. 

In the Play-Offs we have just one team and they are WEST BROM. They lost 1-0 away to QPR to pick up their tenth blank of the season. 

Meanwhile CARDIFF CITY picked up their twelfth blank of the season as they lost 1-0 at home to Blackburn Rovers. DERBY are now second from bottom after they won 2-0 at home to SHEFFIELD UNITED. Derby are on a total of 29 goals. Sheffield picked up their ninth blank and now two in a row. SWANSEA drew 1-1 away to Huddersfield and they are on a total of 36 goals. READING lost 2-1 away to Middlesbrough and that is goal number 31 for them. NOTTINGHAM FOREST won 1-0 away to Millwall and are on 36 goals. PETERBOROUGH lost 4-1 at home to Coventry and they are on a total of 23 goals. PRESTON drew 1-1 at home to Birmingham and they are on 39 goals. HULL picked up their thirteenth blank of the season after they lost 2-0 at home against Stoke. 

LEAGUE ONE

We have the two teams here and they are WYCOMBE who are now top as they win 2-0 at home to OXFORD UNITED. Wycombe are on a total of 49 goals. Oxford picked up their seventh blank and now two in a row. SUNDERLAND are still in second place after they drew 1-1 away to Accrington. Sunderland are on a total of 60 goals and a goal run of thirteen games. 

In the Play-Offs we have three teams. they are ROTHERHAM down to third place after they lost 1-0 away to Fleetwood. Rotherham have now had a total of six blank score sheets to date. WIGAN are still in fourth place as they win 2-1 away to Doncaster and they are on 50 goals and have now scored in all of their last nine games. PLYMOUTH are still in sixth place as they lost 4-2 away to SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY. Plymouth are on a total of 51 goals and a goal run of eight games. Wednesday who failed to score in their previous two games, picked up their biggest result of the season and that has taken their goals tally up to 36.

Meanwhile BOLTON won 2-0 at home to IPSWICH and they are on 37 goals while Ipswich picked up their eighth blank of the season. CHARLTON drew 1-1 away to Cheltenham and they are on a total of 38 goals. BURTON ALBION are on 36 goals as they win 3-1 away to Gillingham. Burton have now scored in all of their last eight games. LINCOLN CITY lost 1-0 at home to Cambridge Utd with a very late goal. Lincoln picked up their eleventh blank of the season. PORTSMOUTH picked up goal number 32 as they lost 2-1 at home to MK Dons.  

LEAGUE TWO 

In the Play-Offs we have SWINDON who are now in fourth place as they win 3-1 away to Port Vale. Swindon are now on a total of 45 goals. SUTTON UNITED have moved down to fifth place after they drew 3-3 away to STEVENAGE. Sutton are now on a total of 42 goals and a goal run of eleven games. Stevenage have taken their goals total up to 30.

Meanwhile SALFORD CITY lost 2-1 away to Bradford and they are now on a total of 32 goals. CARLISLE drew 1-1 at home to Crawley and they are on a total of 22 goals. EXETER won 2-1 at home to SCUNTHORPE and are on 39 goals. Scunthorpe are second from bottom and have now had a total of twelve blank score sheets and now three in a row. 

Our BEST three teams this week are 

FULHAM (67) LIVERPOOL (67) MANCHESTER CITY (64) Total of 198 goals

Our WORST three teams are 

SCUNTHORPE (19) BARNSLEY(21) CARISLE (22) Total of 62 goals 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

We had just two of our Scottish teams playing over the weekend as the Premiership are still in their winter break. 

In League Two KELTY HEARTS remained top here after they drew 2-2 at home to Edinburgh City. Kelty are now on a total of 56 goals. STENHOUSEMUIR lost 2-0 at home to Cowdenbeath and that is their sixth blank of the season after a goal run of six games.

Our on-form team are now RANGERS after scoring in all of their last twenty-one League/Cup games out of 23 games played. They have a total of 51 goals. 

Our worst team this week are BOLTON after they have now picked up fourteen blank score sheets out of twenty-nine league/cup games played. 

Our highest goal scorers in our 39^th Season are FULHAM who have now scored seven goals twice this season. They first won 7-0 away to Blackburn Rovers in the league in Week Fourteen and now they have won 7-0 away to Reading in the league in Week Twenty-Four. MANCHESTER CITY winning 7-0 at home to Leeds Utd in the league in Week Twenty. CHELSEA won 7-0 at home to Norwich in the league in Week Twelve. BRENTFORD won 7-0 at home to Oldham in the third round of the Carabao/League Cup in Week Eight. . 

KEAMUS SETNA our 2005/06 Champion is now celebrating his fourth consecutive weekend the top. Keamus picked up a total of six goals over the week. His teams are Liverpool Manchester City and Sunderland. Keamus is now really joint leader on goal difference with Lyanna Grimwood who moves up to second place this weekend. Lyanna has Fulham, Manchester City and Sunderland. 

At the other end at 113 we still have ZIGGY (John Wood) again this weekend which is now his eighteenth consecutive weekend at the bottom and now twenty over the season. Ziggy picked up one goal from midweek. His teams are Crystal Palace, Scunthorpe and Stenhousemuir.

Here is how the top ten looks this weekend.

        THIS      LAST                                              M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

WEEK     WEEK          NAME                       GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

      1            -               K. SETNA (2005/06)      67                  124                191                              

      2                 5             L. GRIMWOOD             80                  111                191                              

      3                 2             JULIA WOOD                46                  142                188                              

      4                 6             P. WELLARD                 59                  129                188                              

      5                 3             D. HARRINGTON         58                  126                184                              

      6                 4             M. UNSTEAD                53                  128                181

     7                 -              R. NETTING                   53                  124                177                              

     8                 -              S. THOMSON (2)           55                  122                177                              

      9                 13           M. ADKINS                   48                  128                176                              

               10               9             S. STUBBS                     36                  139                175