In Week Thirty-Seven of the competition we did not have any prize money due to the Easter fixtures. But we did have a total of five players that picked up this Easter weekend highest score of 8 goals each. They are CHRIS DICKER, GUY DOWSETT (2), ANDY EYLES, MICHAEL FISHER and GRAHAM PHILLIPS. The good news is that the cash will be back next weekend with our sixth Rollover of the season of £10.
100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
We had a slight change in the running order as as over half of us picked up some more goals this week. The race is now to see how many of us can get to that 100 or more midweek goals and to beat the best midweek score of 136 goals which is currently held by Daryl Nicholls from the 2016/17 Season. JASON COOPER picked up the most amount of midweek goals with a total of 7 goals. They came from his combo of Exeter City, Hull City and Oxford United.
LYANNA GRIMWOOD is still the only player with 100 goals as she now takes her total up to 110 goals. Her teams are Fulham. Manchester City and Sunderland. BOB SOPER is still second now with a total of 99 goals. In third place is we still have LOUIE HARRINGTON, KEAMUS SETNA, COLIN WEBB and JAMIE WOOD. All are now on a total of 93 goals. In fourth place with 89 goals we now have CHRIS BOLBERY. In fifth place we now have on a total of 88 goals MANGO (Paul Moran) and PETER WELLARD with PETER PORTER coming back in to the race.
WEEKEND RESULTS
We had just twenty-one of our teams in action this weekend and out of the ones that did play, only four failed to score any goals. But what we had left playing was worth all the while. Although our average score over the weekend went down from six goals from last weekend back to 4 goals this weekend is a real surprise. The highest score we had was four goals and they came from STENHOUSEMUIR. They won 4-1 at home to Albion and they are now on a total of 55 goals.
Stenhousemuir from the Scottish league two became our 8th Scottish team to be voted in to the competition. They scored a total of 56 goals in their first appearance in the 1985/86 Season. Their highest score came in the 2012/13 Season with a total of 72 goals. In the Covid season last year they finished on a total of 34 goals. This is their fifteenth season with Golden Goals and over that time, they have scored a total of 818 goals. That gives them an average score of 54 goals per season to date.
FA CUP Semi-Finals
We had all four of the teams left in this round. Out of them two have made it to the finals and they are LIVERPOOL who won 3-2 against MANCHESTER CITY. Liverpool are our first team to reach 100 goals this season. In fact they are now on a total of 102 goals. City are on a total of 94 goals. CHELSEA won 2-0 against London rivals CRYSTAL PALACE. Chelsea are on a total of 85 goals while Palace picked up their eleventh blank of the season. Chelsea will play Liverpool in the final on 14 May.
PREMIER LEAGUE
Manchester City are still just one point in front of Liverpool in second place while CHELSEA are still in third place. TOTTENHAM are still in fourth place after they lost 1-0 away to BRIGHTON. After a goal run of six games, Tottenham have picked up their twelfth blank of the season. Brighton are on a total of 38 goals. ARSENAL lost 1-0 away to Southampton and that is their twelfth blank score sheet. MANCHESTER UNITED won 3-2 at home to bottom of the table Norwich after going two goals up. United have taken their goals tally to 54 goals. WATFORD lost 2-1 at home to BRENTFORD. Watford picked up goal number 33 as Brentford take their goals total to 58 and a goal run of six games. WEST HAM drew 1-1 at home to Burnley to give them a total of 59 goals. LEICESTER CITY lost 2-1 away to Newcastle and they are on a total of 59 goals.
LEAGUE ONE
WIGAN have remained at the top after they lost 2-1 at home to Cambridge Utd. Wigan are on a total of 82 goals. ROTHERHAM have moved up to second place after they won 1-0 at home against IPSWICH. After failing to score in their last three games, Rotherham hit goal number 71. Ipswich picked up their fourteenth blank of the season.
In the Play-Offs we are now down to three teams with Plymouth are still in fourth place games. Burton picked up their SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY are still in fifth place after they won 3-2 away to MK Dons. Wednesday now have a total of 72 goals. Wycombe are in sixth place this week.
Our BEST three teams this week are
LIVERPOOL (102) FULHAM (99) CELTIC (97) Total of 297 goals
Our WORST three teams are
SCUNTHORPE (26) WATFORD (33) BARNSLEY (36) Total of 95 goals
SCOTTISH LEAGUES
In the SCOTTISH CUP Semi-Finals we had three of the four teams still left in the cup. Out of them two have made it through to the finals. They are RANGERS who beat their rivals CELTIC 2-1 in extra time. Rangers are on a total of 87 goals while Celtic hit goal number 97. Rangers will play HEARTS after they won 2-1 against Hibernian and they are now on a total of 69 goals and have now scored in all of their last nine games. The final of the SCOTTISH CUP is on 21 May.
In League Two top of the table Champions KELTY HEARTS won 3-0 away to Stranraer and they are now on a total of 79 goals.
Our on-form team this week are RANGERS as they have now scored in all of their last twelve League/Cup games.
Our worst team this week is SCUNTHORPE UNITED after they picked up a total of twenty-three blank score sheets out of a total of forty-four league/cup games. They have netted just two goals in their last eight games.
Our highest goal scorers in our 39th Season are CELTIC who won 7-0 at home to St Johnston in the league in Week Thirty-Six. OXFORD UNITED won 7-2 away to Gillingham in the league in Week Twenty-Six. FULHAM have now scored seven goals twice this season. They first won 7-0 away to Blackburn Rovers in the league in Week Fourteen and they have also won 7-0 away to Reading in the league in Week Twenty-Four. MANCHESTER CITY won 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.
STEVE STUBBS is celebrating his second weekend at the top after he picked up a total of 6 goals all coming from the weekend once again. Steve’s teams are Celtic, Chelsea and Liverpool. The good news for Steve is that he is still moving up the table in our Champions League to 33rd place. He has now beaten Alec Short total of 280 goals from the 1988/89 and Adam Porter’s total of 284 goals in our 2006/07 Season. Julia Wood has remained in second place this weekend after she picked up a total of 7 goals from her combination. Her teams are Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City.
At the other end at 113 we still have ZIGGY (John Wood) this weekend which is now his 31st consecutive weekend at the bottom and now thirty-three over the season. Ziggy picked up a total of four goals at the weekend. There is also good news for Ziggy as he has now started to move up our Losers League. Ziggy has beaten our lowest score of 131 goals in our Covid season of 2020/21 by John Nicholls. Ziggy teams are Crystal Palace, Scunthorpe and Stenhousemuir.
Not a lot happen in the top ten this Easter Weekend.
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 - S. STUBBS 72 212 284
2 - JULIA WOOD 71 210 281
3 - S. THOMSON (2) 81 200 281
4 - P. WELLARD 88 190 278
5 - K. SETNA (2005/06) 93 183 276
6 - D. MORBEY 71 203 274
7 - L. GRIMWOOD 110 163 273
8 - MANGO 88 183 271
9 - G. DOWSETT (2) 70 199 269
10 11 D. HARRINGTON 87 180 267
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