Well here we are with our historic 40th Season of Golden Goals and a very big welcome to you all and what a season we are going to have once again. As you can see that we have ended up with a total of 108 entries in this seasons competition and I would like to thank everyone who has helped us to get to that magic figure which just managed to get in to the top ten best season’s of Golden Goals. It is with great regret that we did not reach our previous record of 149 from the 2017/18 Season. Although we have seen some names missing from last season, we have gained another four new ones.
So who is going to be our 40th Champion and win that £240 prize money? We will find out in the next forty-one weeks time but I wish you all the very best of luck.
The most popular selections for any combinations was Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City, and Chelsea, Liverpool and Rangers.
We have a total of fifteen past Champions playing this season. Our last season Champion is also back and that was Julia Wood. Julia has changed her winning combination from last season to Celtic, Chelsea and Liverpool. We also have a total of eighteen ladies playing this season.
So how did the voting of teams for this season finally end up. It was MANCHESTER CITY that picked up the biggest number of votes as they came in with a total of 56. Last season they had a total of 41 and scored a total of 121 goals so this was no surprise that they would be the most voted teams this season once again. CELTIC after picking up just 9 votes last season, they picked up more this season but with 26 this season. Staying with the Scottish teams the second highest voted team comes from the Scottish Premiership again and they are RANGERS with just 17 votes which is down from last seasons total of 54. The Scottish teams had a good turn out this season with a total of nine teams being picked. We have five from the Scottish Premiership, and just two each from League One and Two once again.
With the English teams things have changed as they always do in this competition. We have a total of 16 Premiership teams in this years competition with MANCHESTER CITY becoming our top team again this season. Next comes LIVERPOOL with 51 votes. They were our third most voted team last season with 30 votes. In third place with 20 votes again we have CHELSEA. They were our fourth most voted team last season. In fourth place up from ten last season is TOTTENHAM. They have 19 votes compared to 7 last season. Our fifth team is NORWICH CITY with 13 votes.
In the Championship we have picked up 10 teams compared to 17 last season, while in League One we have 11, with 9 teams taken from League Two.
We have one new team to join Golden Goals this season. They are Bonnyrigg Rose from the Scottish League two and they have two votes.
So on with the competition and this weeks sheet shows you all the games that have been played up to and including the 31st July. Any games that have been played before and up to up to Friday the 29th July, have all been counted as midweek goals, so some of you have a bit of a lead already for the Midweek Cash Jackpot of £40.
Our first English game was played last Friday night where HUDDERSFIELD took on BURNLEY in the English Championship and Burnley won 1-0 away to pick up their very first goal of the season. Both teams have one vote each this season.
Huddersfield are in their eight season with Golden Goals and they are our 96th team to join in. Their first season was in 2001/02 where they finished with a score of 68 goals. Their highest score was in the 2010/11 Season with 94 goals. Last time out was in the 2019/20 Season where they finished on a total of 52 goals. They have scored a total of 500 goals over the seventeen seasons which gives them an average score of 71 goals per season. Burnley are our 75h English team to join us and this is their 13th season. Burnley started in the 1989/90 Season finishing with 61 goals. Their highest score is 84 and they reached that in thr 2002/03 Season. Last time out was in the 2015/16 Season and finished on 75 goals. Over the years they have netted a total of 853 goals which gives them an average score of 65 goals per season.
Week One in our very first weekend of the new season and we go straight in to a Rollover for next weekend worth a total of £10. As you have seen that we had a total of five players who picked up this weekends highest score of just 5 goals each.
WEEKEND RESULTS
The lower English leagues were all in action in our first weekend of the new season as the Scottish played their first full league fixture. We had a good start to the season with two of our teams picking up the highest score over the weekend with three goals each. They were from League One PETERBOROUGH and SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY.
Peterborough won their first league game 3-2 away to Cheltenham. This is Peterborough’s 17th Season with Golden Goals and they became our 90th voted English team when they started with us in the 1997/98 Season, they finished on a total of 73 goals. Borough have only hit 100 goals once and that was in the 2010/11 Season with a total of 129 goals. That is our third highest ever score with Golden Goals. Last season they finished on a total of 47 goals. Over the years they have now netted a total of 1282 goals which gives them an average score of 75 goals per season. Sheffield Wednesday drew their game 3-3 at home to Portsmouth. Wednesday are in their 19th Season with us and they are one of our original starting team coming in at number 21 in the 1983/84 Season. they then finished on a total of 95 goals. They have also hit 100 goals just once and that came in the 1990/91 Season with 101 goals. Last season they finished on a total of 81 goals. Over the years they have netted a total of 1391 goals which now gives them an average score of 73 goals per season. So lets see how the rest of our teams that were in action, got on over the weekend.
CHAMPIONSHIP
In no particular order, READING lost their first league game 1-0 away to Blackpool. NORWICH lost 1-0 away to Cardiff. LUTON drew 0-0 at home to Birmingham. MIDDLESBROUGH drew 1-1 at home to WEST BROM. SWANSEA drew 1-1 away to Rotherham. SUNDERLAND drew 1-1 at home to Coventry.
LEAGUE ONE
CHARLTON drew 2-2 away to Accrington. FOREST GREEN won 2-1 away to BRISTOL ROVERS. MK DONS lost 1-0 away to Cambridge Utd. DERBY won 1-0 at home to OXFORD UTD. IPSWICH drew 1-1 at home to Bolton. LINCOLN CITY drew 1-1 at home to Exeter. PLYMOUTH won 1-0 at home to Barnsley.
LEAGUE TWO
AFC WIMBLEDON won 2-0 at home to GILLINGHAM. BRADFORD drew 0-0 at home to Doncaster. CRAWLEY TOWN lost 1-0 away to Carlisle. SWINDON lost 3-0 away to Harrogate. SALFORD CITY won 2-0 at home to MANSFIELD TOWN. Back in to the fold we have STOCKPORT COUNTY and they lost their first league game 3-2 at home to Barrow. SUTTON UTD drew 1-1 at home to Newport.
SCOTTISH RESULTS
Now you might already know that the Scottish have already played their first round of their League Cup, if you have been following our blog and with their new group format once again, so most of our teams have already played more than four games this weekend. But here is the results of their first league games.
In the Premiership last season Champions CELTIC won their opening game 2-0 at home against ABERDEEN. Aberdeen after scoring in all of their four group league cup games, picked up their very first blank score sheet. RANGERS won 2-1 away to Livingston. HEARTS won 2-1 at home to Ross County.
In League One ALLOA lost 1-0 away to Dunfermline and that is their 2nd blank of the season. KELTY HEARTS lost 2-0 at home to FC Edinburgh and that is their 4th blank in five games played.
In League Two new boys BONNYRIGG ROSE won their first league game 2-0 at home to Forfar and they are no a total of 7 goals and a goal run of five games. STENHOUSEMUIR also kept their 100% scoring record going after they won 1-0 at home to Albion Rovers. Stenhousemuir are on a total of 8 goals and a goal run of five games.
Here is the first look at the top ten in Week One
FIRST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 LUCIFER 18 3 21
2 D. BARRETT 10 4 14
3 H. ADKINS 12 0 12
4 D.
SOMERVILLE (2009/10) 10 1 11
5 G. DOWSETT (2) 7 3 10
6 G. DOWSETT (1) 5 2 7
7 T. BICKNELL (2014/15) 5 5
8 V.
CRUICKSHANK 5 5
9 S.
DICKINSON 5 5
10 T. GUY (2) 5 5
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