Here we are with Week Twenty-One of the competition and the start of the second half here at Golden Goals. The good news is that the the Scottish Premiership are back. So once again there is no cash prize money to win this weekend. We did have one player that picked up the most number of goals this weekend and they are TONY KING. Tony picked up a total of 6 goals from his combination of Derby, Rangers and Watford.
100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
We had 21 of us that managed to pick up some midweek goals this week with another small change in the leading pack this week. JOHN FILTNESS picked up the most number of midweek goals with five. They came from Rangers and Reading. His third team is Liverpool. In the lead we still have NICK HORTON out in front with a total of 39 goals. His teams are Manchester City, Middlesbrough and Norwich. In second place we have HAYLEY ADKINS with a total of 38 goals. In third place we still have JAMES BLYTH, JACQUI RATTLE and RICK WOOD our 2007/08 Champion all with a total of 35 goals each. In fourth place coming back into the race we have BARBARA BARNES (2) with 33 goals. In fifth place with a total of 32 goals we now have MARK GREGORY moving down from four. In sixth place all on 31 goals we now have STEVE AYRES, GEOFF CARTHY, PETER PORTER and TERENCE WARWICK all moving down from five place.
WEEKEND RESULTS
This weekend the weather had a big impact with snow and ice on the football fixtures. We had 23 of our teams that managed to play this weekend including eight teams that failed to score any goals.
The highest score that we had was 4 goals and they came from League One where DERBY won 4-0 at home to FOREST GREEN ROVERS. Derby are now on a total of 40 goals while Forest Green picked up their 9th blank of the season.
CHAMPIONSHIP
BURNLEY have remained at the top here after they won 3-1 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH. Burnley have taken their goals total to 50 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 22 games. Middlesbrough picked up goal number 32. Sheffield United are still in second place even with no goal this week. After to failing to score in their last two games, SWANSEA drew 3-3 away to Coventry to take their goals tally to 32. HUDDERSFIELD are rooted to the bottom of the table as they lost 2-0 at home to WATFORD. That is Huddersfield’s 10th blank and now three in a row. Watford are on a total of 30 goals. SUNDERLAND drew 1-1 away to Hull and they are on a total of 31 goals. It’s 30 goals for WEST BROM after they won 3-0 at home to Rotherham. NORWICH lost 2-0 at home to Blackburn Rovers and that is their 5th blank of the season.
LEAGUE ONE
PLYMOUTH have moved back to the top this weekend after they won 2-1 at home to Morecambe. Plymouth are on a total of 42 goals after they had failed to score in their previous two games. IPSWICH are down to second place after they lost 1-0 away to Wycombe. Ipswich picked up their 3rd blank of the season. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY are still in third place after they drew 0-0 at home to OXFORD UNITED. Wednesday have now had a total of four blank score sheets to Oxford’s six after a goal run of 11 games. CHARLTON lost 2-1 at home to BRISTOL ROVERS. Charlton are on a total of 41 goals while Rovers are on a total of 35 goals. MK DONS won 2-0 away to Portsmouth and they are on a total of 34 goals and have now scored in all of their last eight games.
LEAGUE TWO
This is where the weather hit us the most this weekend with only a couple of games being played. The highest team that we have here in the table are SWINDON TOWN in 4th place. They won 1-0 away to Barrow and are on a total of 25 goals after they had failed to score in their previous three games. SUTTON UNITED lost 2-0 away to top of the table Leyton Orient and that is their 10th blank of the season.
SCOTTISH LEAGUE RESULTS
Once again the weather has effected the Scottish fixture and here are their results. In the Premiership CELTIC have kept their comfortable lead of nine points as they win their first game back 1-0 away to ABERDEEN. Celtic are on a total of 59 goals and they have now scored in all of their last ten games. Aberdeen after a goal run of seven games, picked up their 3rd blank of the season. HEARTS won their first game back 3-1 at home to Kilmarnock. Hearts are now on a total of 27 goals and are in fourth place in the league.
In League One KELTY HEARTS won 2-1 away to Queen of the South and they are on a total of 22 goals.
Our BEST three teams this week
CELTIC (58) BURNLEY (50) ABERDEEN (49) Total of 157 goals
Our WORST three teams are
EVERTON (13) WEST HAM (14) GILLINGHAM (15) Total of 42 goals
Our best performing team are BURNLEY as they have now scored in all of their last 22 league/cup games played. They have a total of 50 goals. That gives them an average score of 2 goals per game.
Our worst performing team is GILLINGHAM this weekend as they have picked up fifteen blank score sheets out of 27 League/Cup games played.
Our highest goal scorers in our 40th Season are CELTIC who won 9-0 away to Dundee Utd in the league and LIVERPOOL who won 9-0 at home to Bournemouth in the league both from Week Five.
Our 2010/11 Champion TONY GUY with his second selection, has remained at the top for his 8th consecutive weekend. Tony picked up one goal this week from Celtic. His other teams are Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday. Grant Phillips has moved back up to second place this weekend. Grant picked up 1goal from his combination of Celtic, Sheffield Wednesday and Tottenham.
At the other end at 108 we have SANDRA NICHOLLS as all of her teams still out of action. Sandra has now been here for six weeks and now nine over the season. Sandra’s teams are Aston Villa, Crystal Palace and Leicester City.
Due to the weather here in the UK, the top ten has not changed much but as teams are starting to come back in play, this will change next week.
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 - T. GUY (2) 28 111 139
2 3 GRANT PHILLIPS 24 112 136
3 2 J. BLYTH 35 101 136
4 5 MANGO 27 108 135
5 4 M. GREGORY 32 103 135
6 - S. DICKINSON 28 105 133
7 - J. WISE 28 103 131
8 - G. DOCKERILL (1994/95) 20 109 129
9 - G. DOWSETT (2) 24 104 128
10 14 M. LAVER 24 102 126
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