Monday, 2 May 2022

Week Thirty-Nine

In Week Thirty-Nine of the competition we had our very last Weekend Jackpot of £5 and that went to GRAHAM HARRIS with his second win of the season. Graham won on a score of 10 goals once again. Graham last won back in Week Thirty-Five with a shared Rollover winning again with 10 goals. Although he has moved back up to 48th place this weekend, 30th is still his best position in Week One. Manchester City is still his best team and he has still had five blank score sheets to date. His winning teams are 

BOURNEMOUTH 3, MANCHESTER CITY 4, TOTTENHAM 3 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

The race is now on 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. We still have a total of four players that have reach 100 goals or more again this week. SCOTT THOMSON (1) and LUCIFER picked up the most amount of midweek goals with a total of 6 goals each.

Meanwhile LYANNA GRIMWOOD still leads as she now takes her total up to 117 goals. Her teams are Fulham. Manchester City and Sunderland. BOB SOPER is still second with a total of 106 goals. In third place is we still have LOUIE HARRINGTON and KEAMUS SETNA both now with a total of 101 goals. In fourth place with 99 goals we have JAMIE WOOD. In fifth place with 97 goals we have PETER WELLARD. In sixth place this week we have CHRIS BOLBERY and COLIN WEBB both with 96 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had all but six of our teams in action this weekend and out of the ones that did play, nine failed to score any goals. We had a fairly good weekend in our last full fixture for goals as our average score over the weekend went down from six goals from last weekend back to 4 goals this weekend. The highest score we had was five goals and they came from NOTTINGHAM FOREST. They won 5-1 at home against SWANSEA CITY. Forest with their biggest result of the season, are now on a total of 81 goals. Swansea hit goal number 67.  

Forest became our 12th voted team in our very first season and they finished on a total of 78 goals. In the 1988/89 Season they finished on their highest score of 100 goals. In the Covid Season last year, they finished on a total of  just 39 goals which is their lowest ever score. This is their 28th appearance with Golden Goals and over the years they have scored a total of 1983 goals which gives them an average score of 70 goals per season. They have just one vote this season and they have picked up a total of eleven blank score sheets to date. 

PREMIER LEAGUE

MANCHESTER CITY are still just one point in front of Liverpool in second place again this weekend as Manchester City win 4-0 away to Leeds Utd. City are now on a total of 106 goals and they have scored in all of their last seven games. LIVERPOOL won 1-0 away to Newcastle and they are on a total of 109 goals. They have now scored in all of their last eleven games. CHELSEA are still in third place after they lost 1-0 away to Everton. Chelsea after a goal run of eleven games, picked up their fifth blank of the season. ARSENAL are still in fourth place after they won 2-1 away to London rivals WEST HAM. Arsenal have now taken their goals tally to 70 while West Ham picked up goal number 60. After a two game dry spell for goals, ASTON VILLA won 2-0 at home to Norwich to take their goals tally to 51. CRYSTAL PALACE had failed to score in their last three games but won this one 2-1 away to Southampton. Palace are on a total of 55 goals. WATFORD lost 2-1 at home to Burnley and are stuck in the relegation zone. Watford are on a total of 35 goals. WOLVES lost 3-0 at home to BRIGHTON to pick up their seventeenth blank of the season and now three in a row. Brighton are now on a total of 43 goals. After a two game dry spell, its 70 goals for TOTTENHAM as they win 3-1 at home to LEICESTER CITY who picked up their 61st goal. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

Fulham are Champions with BOURNEMOUTH still in second place after they won 3-0 away to Blackburn. Bournemouth are now  a total of 80 goals.

In the Play-offs we still have just two of the four teams. They are Nottingham Forest now in third place after their big win and Sheffield United are still in sixth place after their win in midweek.  

Meanwhile  we have all three teams to be relegated from the Championship and they are BARNSLEY who lost 3-1 at home to PRESTON and are on a total of 38 goals while Preston take their tally to 60. DERBY won 2-0 away to Blackpool and they are on a total of 49 goals. PETERBOROUGH are also down as they lost 3-0 away to Millwall. That is now Brough’s twenty-fifth blank of the season and now two in a row. HULL lost 5-0 away to Bristol City and that is their twenty-first blank of the season. After a dry spell of three games, CARDIFF picked up goal number 55 as they drew 1-1 at home to Birmingham. READING lost 1-0 at home to WEST BROM and that is their sixteenth blank and now two in a row while West Brom picked up goal number 49 after a two game dry spell. 

LEAGUE ONE

It’s all over here except for the play-offs and we have done well here. WIGAN are crowned Champions after they won 3-0 away to Shrewsbury.  Wigan finished on a total of 90 goals. ROTHERHAM join them in second place after they won 2-0 away to Colchester. Rotherham finished on a total of 76 goals.

In the all important Play-Offs we have three teams with SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY  moving up to fourth place after they won 4-1 at home to PORTSMOUTH. Wednesday are now on a total of 80 goals. Portsmouth finished on a total of 71 goals. SUNDERLAND are down to fifth place after they won1-0 away to Morecambe. Sunderland are on a total of 87 goals. WYCOMBE are still in sixth place after they won 2-1 away to BURTON. Wycombe are on 80 goals and a goal run of seven games. Burton Albion finished on a total of 55 goals.

Meanwhile BOLTON finish their season with a 4-2 win over Fleetwood and finished on a total of 79 goals. IPSWICH win 4-0 at home against CHARLTON and end the season on a total of 70 goals. Charlton picked up their twelfth blank of the season. LINCOLN CITY won 2-1 at home to Crewe and they finished on a total of 58 goals and a goal run of seven games. OXFORD UNITED drew1-1 against Doncaster and finished on a total of 88 goals. PLYMOUTH lost 5-0 at home to MK Dons and that is their eleventh blank of the season with just one goal in their last five games. 

LEAGUE TWO

They are still in action with EXETER CITY at the top being promoted after they drew 1-1 away to Northampton. Exeter are on a total of 69 goals.

In the Play-Offs we have just one out of the four teams and they are now SWINDON in seventh place. They won 2-1 at home to Barrow and they are on a total of 80 goals.

Meanwhile relegated SCUNTHORPE UNITED drew 1-1 at home to Hartlepool and they are on a total of 29 goals. CARLISLE won 2-1 at home to STEVENAGE and they are on a total of 42 goals while Stevenage are on a total of 49 goals. SUTTON UNITED lost 4-1 at home to Bradford and they are  on a total of 71 goals. 

Our BEST three teams this week are 

LIVERPOOL (109) MANCHESTER CITY (106) FULHAM (103) Total of 318 goals 

Our WORST three teams are 

SCUNTHORPE (29) WATFORD (35) BARNSLEY (38) Total of 102 goals 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership, in the old firm clash CELTIC drew 1-1 at home against RANGERS. Celtic now become our fourth team this season to hit 100 goals. Celtic are now on a total of 100 goals and they have now scored in all of their last nine games. Second place Rangers are on a total of 91 goals and they have now scored in all of their last fourteen games. Third place HEARTS drew 0-0 at home to Ross County and they have now had a total of eight blank score sheets after a goal run of ten games. ABERDEEN won 1-0 at home to Dundee and they are on a total of 45 goals.

In League Two Champions KELTY HEARTS won 2-1 away to Anna and they have finished on a total of 82 goals and they have now scored in all of their last six games. STENHOUSEMUIR drew 0-0 away to Forfar and that is their eleventh blank of the season. 

Our on-form team this week are RANGERS as they have now scored in all of their last fourteen League/Cup games. 

Our worst team this week is PETERBOROUGH after they picked up a total of twenty-five blank score sheets out of a total of forty-nine league/cup 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.

JULIA WOOD is in her second weekend at the top after she picked up a total of 6 goals from the week. Julia’s teams are Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City. Julia has moved up the table in our Champions League to 26th place as she has taken over Phil Reeve 1987/88 score of 302 goals and John Fleming score of 303 goals in the 1993/94 Season. Scott Thomson (2) has remained in second place as he also picked up a total of 6 goals from his teams of Liverpool, Manchester City and Oxford United.  

At the other end at 113 we still have ZIGGY (John Wood) this weekend which is now his 33rd consecutive weekend at the bottom and now thirty-five over the season. Ziggy picked up a total of three goals again this week. Ziggy has remained at 37th place in our Losers League for the third week running. Ziggy teams are Crystal Palace, Scunthorpe and Stenhousemuir.  

Here has not been many changes in the top ten this weekend and as teams start to finish their season, who will be our 39th Champion?

  THIS      LAST                                               M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL        

WEEK     WEEK         NAME                           GOALS         GOALS        GOALS  

      1            -              JULIA WOOD                   81                   223                304              

      2                 -             S. THOMSON (2)             89                   214                303                  

      3                 4            K. SETNA (2005/06)        101                201                302                

      4                 3            S. STUBBS                       79                   219                298                 

      5                 -             P. WELLARD                   97                   201                298                

      6                 -             L. GRIMWOOD               117                179                296           

      7                 8            M. UNSTEAD                  89                   205                294                

      8                 7            D. MORBEY                    78                   211                289                 

      9                 13          V. CRUICKSHANK         91                   195                286                 

       10              12          M. JOHNSTON                80                   205                285            

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