Southampton and Leeds In Final

In the Championship play-off semi-final 2^nd leg, SOUITHAMPTON had a goalless draw with West Brom in their 1^st leg game. In the 2^nd leg Southampton won 3-1 at home. Southampton won 3-1 on aggregate and are now on a total of 99 goals. Southampton will play Leeds United in the final on 26 May.

This is how our top ten teams are looking today in our 41^st Season of Golden Goals. Each team has their previous personal best end of season score in BOLD Red numbers. 

111  LIVERPOOL 127

108  MANCHESTER CITY 137

108  FALKIRK 92

106  CELTIC 143

104  RANGERS 126

104  IPSWICH 113

103  LEICESTER CITY 98

102  PETERBOROUGH 129

101  CHELSEA 128 

  99    SOUTHAMPTON 99 

Leeds Reach Championship Play-off Final

In the Championship Play-off semi-final 2^nd leg, LEEDS UNITED drew their first game against NORWICH CITY 0-0, so what a opportunity for both teams to shine in the second leg. Well, it was Leeds that came out on top with a 4-0 home win. Leeds win 4-0 on aggregate and have taken their goals tally up to 97. Norwich picked up their 8^th blank of the season and they had failed to score in their last 3 games. Norwich finished on a total of 88 goals. 

Chelsea Reach 100 Goals

In the Premier League BRIGHTON lost 2-1 at home to CHELSEA and picked up their 64^th goal of the season. Chelsea are on a total of 101 goals and have now become our 9^th team to net 100 goals this season. After they had failed to score in their previous 2 games, MANCHESTER UNITED won 3-2 at home to NEWCASTLE and are now on a total of 72 goals. Newcastle are on 92 goals. 

In the Scottish Premiership Champions CELTIC won 5-0 away to KILMARNOCK and that now takes them to a total of 106 goals. Celtic have also now scored in all of their last 110 league/cup games. Kilmarnock picked up their 8^th blank of the season. ABERDEEN won 5-1 at home to Livingston and have taken their goals tally up to 61 goals. Aberdeen have scored 9 goals in their last 2 games. HIBERNIAN won 3-0 at home against Motherwell and are on a total of 61 goals. ROSS COUNTY drew 1-1 away to St Johnstone and picked up gaol number 54.

This is how our top ten teams are looking today in our 41^st Season of Golden Goals. Each team has their previous personal best end of season score in BOLD Red numbers. 

111  LIVERPOOL 127

108  MANCHESTER CITY 137

108  FALKIRK 92

106  CELTIC 143

104  RANGERS 126

104  IPSWICH 113

103  LEICESTER CITY 98

102  PETERBOROUGH 129

101  CHELSEA 128 

  96   SOUTHAMPTON 99 

Could VAR Be On It's Way Out?

Premier League clubs will vote on whether to scrap VAR (video assistant referees) from next season at their annual general meeting next month. VAR was introduced to the Premier League in 2019 to help support on-field officials with key match decisions.  

The Premier League said it "acknowledged the concerns" about VAR but "fully supports" the technology and will continue to work with referees' body PGMOL to make improvements. Any rule changes need a two-thirds majority - 14 of of the 20 clubs - to vote in favour. The 20 Premier League clubs will vote to scrap VAR at a meeting in Harrogate on 6 June.

Premier League clubs have already voted for semi-automated offside technology to be introduced for the 2024-25 season.

Title Decided On Last Weekend Of The Season

In the Premier League TOTTENHAM lost 2-0 at home to MANCHESTER CITY and picked up their 5^th blank of the season. City are on a total of 108 goals and have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. City move to the top of the league and now 2 points clear of Arsenal in second place. 

In the Scottish Premiership after going 2 goals down, RANGERS went on to win 5-2 at home against Dundee and picked up their 104^th goal of the season. Rangers remain in second place and become our 8^th team to reach 100 this season.

Liverpool Become Our Best Team

In the Premier League ASTON VILLA drew 3-3 at home to LIVERPOOL and are now on a total of 79 goals and remain in 4^th place. Liverpool have taken their goals tally to 111 and have now netted a total of 9 goals in their last three games. They remained in 3^rd place.

This is how our top ten teams are looking today in our 41^st Season of Golden Goals. Each team has their previous personal best end of season score in BOLD Red numbers. 

111  LIVERPOOL 127

108  FALKIRK 92

106  MANCHESTER CITY 137

104  IPSWICH 113

103  LEICESTER CITY 98

102  PETERBOROUGH 129

101  CELTIC 143

99    CHELSEA 128

99    RANGERS 126 

96    SOUTHAMPTON 99

Week Forty-One

In Week Forty-One of the competition, we are now into time added on, or the old injury time. More of our teams have finished their season but we had a rubbish weekend for goals. The highest score that we had, came from HAYLEY ADKINS with 8 goals. They came from Aberdeen and Manchester City with 4 goals each and her third team is Liverpool. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

We still have a total of 20 players that have reached 100 or more goals this week as the race still goes on. The record to beat is 136 midweek goals by the record holder Daryl Nicholls from the 2016/17 Season.

Leading the race for the record this week, we still have MARK JOHNSTON on a total of 126 goals. In second place we have BAILEY MORAN now with a total of 123 goals. In third place we now have ANDY EYLES with a total of 121 goals. In fourth place we now have TONY KING with a total of 120 goals. In fifth place with 118 goals we now have ANN WELLARD and in sixth place this week, we have GEOFF CARTHY with a total of 117 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had 22 of our teams in action over the weekend and out of them 6 failed to score any goals. We now have a total of 28 of our teams that have now finished their season. We did not have a very good weekend on the goals front. The highest score that we had was 4 goals, and we had two teams that picked them up. They came from ABERDEEN and MANCHESTER CITY. 

PREMIER LEAGUE

ARSENAL are still on top this weekend after they won 1-0 away to MANCHESTER UNITED. Arsenal are on a total of 91 goals while United picked up their 10^th blank of the season and now 2 games without a goal. MANCHESTER CITY remained in second place after they won 4-0 away to FULHAM. City are now on a total of 106 goals and they have scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. Fulham picked up their 13^th blank of the season and now 2 games without a goal. Liverpool remained in third place while Aston Villa remained in fourth place. TOTTENHAM won 2-1 at home to Burnley and are on a total of 73 goals. AFC BOURNEMOUTH lost 2-1 at home against Brentford and are on a total of 67 goals. NEWCASTLE drew 1-1 at home to BRIGHTON and are on a total of 90 goals while Brighton picked up goal number 63. WEST HAM won 3-1 at home against Luton and have taken their goals total to 65. CRYSTAL PALACE won 3-1 away to Wolves and are now on a total of 56 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 7 games. NOTTINGHAM FOREST lost 3-2 at home to CHELSEA. Forest are on a total of 53 goals while Chelsea are now on a total of 99 goals. 

CHAMPIONSHIP Play-offs 1^st Leg

We had three of the four teams. and they are NORWICH who finished in sixth place played LEEDS UNITED who finished in third place. Their 1^st leg game ended 0-0. Norwich picked up their 7^th blank of the season and now 2 games in a row. Leeds picked up their 10^th blank of the season. SOUTHAMPTON finishing in fourth place, drew their 1^st leg game 0-0 away to West Brom. That is Southampton’s 7^th blank of the season. So it’s still all to play for here. 

LEAGUE TWO Play-offs 2^nd Leg

We had just one of our teams that made it to the play-offs and they were MK DONS. They went 3-0 down in the 1^st leg game against Crawley Town and they also lost the 2^nd leg 5-1 at home. The Dons lost 8-1 on aggregate and finished the season on a total of 86 goals. 

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Premiership Champions CELTIC beat their rivals RANGERS 2-1 at home. Celtic have become our 7^th team to score 100 goals as they have taken their goals tally up to 101 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. Second place Rangers are on 99 goals. ROSS COUNTY lost 5-1 at home to Motherwell and are on a total of 53 goals. KILMARNOCK on 1-0 away to St Mirren and are on a total of 61 goals. After they had scored in all of their last 7 games, HIBERNIAN lost 4-0 at home to ABERDEEN. Hibs picked up their 10^th blank of the season while Aberdeen have taken their goals total to 56. 

Our BEST three teams this week 

 FALKIRK (108) LIVERPOOL (108) IPSWICH (104) Total of 320 goals 

Our WORST three teams are 

 EAST FIFE (49) SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY (52) STENHOUSEMUIR (53)  

Total of 154 goals 

Our Best performing team are FALKIRK after they have scored in all of their last 23 league/cup games. They have a total of 108 goals which gives them an average score of 2.5 goals per game. 

Our worst performing teams are SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY and SUNDERLAND as they both have picked up 19 blank score sheets each out of Wednesday’s 51 league/cup games and Sunderland’s 48 league/cup games. 

Our highest goal scoring teams in our 41^st Season are NEWCASTLE UNITED after they won 8-0 away to Sheffield United in a league game in Week Eight.

JOHN FILTNESS is still at the top this weekend as he picked up a total of 4 goals at the weekend. He has now been at the top for a total of 14 weeks throughout the season. His teams are Leicester City, Liverpool and Manchester City. John has remained in 16^th place in our “Champions League” this week. Andrew Hammond has remained in second place this weekend. Andrew picked up a total of 7 goals from the weekend with his teams of  Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City. He is now 4 goals behind John.

At the other end at 110 we still have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) for his 22^nd consecutive weekend. John picked up just 2 goals at the weekend. John has Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir. John has moved up to 30^th place in our “Losers League” this week. 

No real movement in our top ten this weekend.

     THIS     LAST                                       M/WEEK     W/END     TOTAL      

    WEEK   WEEK   NAME                        GOALS      GOALS     GOALS  

           1             -        J. FILTNESS                 112               205             317          

           2             -        A. HAMMOND            112               201             313          

           3             -        B. MORAN                   123              188              311          

           4             -        GRAHAM PHILLIPS   94                215             309          

           5             -        A. STUBBS (2)             103              205             308          

           6             -        S. THOMSON (1)         104              204             308          

           7             10      M. JOHNSTON            126             182              308          

           8             7        C. NUNN                      85               222              307          

           9             -         D. MORBEY                109             197             306          

                  10           8         J. SOMERVILLE         116             190             306

Peterborough Remain in League One

In League One Play-off semi-final 2^nd leg, PETERBOROUGH went a goal down in the 1^st leg against Oxford Utd, but in the second game they drew 1-1 at home. Peterborough lost 2-1 on aggregate and finished with a total of 102 goals.

League Play-offs

In League One Play-offs semi-final 2^nd leg, BARNSLEY lost their first game but won the 2^nd leg 3-2 away to Bolton. But Barnsley lost 5-4 on aggregate. Barnsley finish on a total of 94 goals and a goal run of 9 games. 

In the League Two Play-offs semi-finals 1^st leg, we only have one of the four teams. They are MK DONS and they lost their first game 3-0 away to Crawley Town. After a goal run of 6 league games, the Dons have picked up their 12^th blank of the season.

Great Night for Palace

In the Premier League CRYSTAL PALACE won 4-0 at home against MANCHESTER UNITED. Palace are on a total of 53 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league games. United after a goal run of 21 league/cup games, picked up their 9^th blank of the season. 

This is how our top ten teams are looking today in our 41^st Season of Golden Goals. Each team has their previous personal best end of season score in BOLD Red numbers. 

108  FALKIRK 92

108  LIVERPOOL 127

103  LEICESTER CITY 98

104  IPSWICH 113

102  MANCHESTER CITY 137

101  PETERBOROUGH 129

99    CELTIC 143

98    RANGERS 126 

96    CHELSEA 128

96    SOUTHAMPTON 99

Week Forty

In Week Forty of the competition we have had the full 90 minutes and now we are going in to time added on, or the old injury time. This is where your teams start to finish their season but we had a great weekend for goals once again. The highest score that we had came from ANDREW HAMMOND and MALCOM STUBBS with 14 goals each. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

We now have a total of 20 players that have now reached 100 or more goals this week as the race still goes on. The record to beat is 136 midweek goals and the record holder is Daryl Nicholls from the 2016/17 Season.

Leading the race for the record this week we  have MARK JOHNSTON now on a total of 126 goals. In second place we have BAILEY MORAN with a total of 122 goals. In third place we now have TONY KING still with a total of 119 goals. In fourth place we have ANDY EYLES with a total of 118 goals. In fifth place with 117 goals we have GEOFF CARTHY and in sixth place with 115 goals we have JAMES SOMERVILLE and ANN WELLARD.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had all but 14 of our teams in action again over the weekend and out of the ones that did played, 11 of them failed to score any goals. We now have 25 of our teams that have now finished their season. We had the last games of the English Championship and the lower Scottish leagues but what a weekend we had. The highest score that we had was 5 goals, and we had two teams that picked them up from the Premier League. They are CHELSEA and MANCHESTER CITY.

PREMIER LEAGUE

ARSENAL are still on top this weekend after they won 3-0 at home against AFC BOURNEMOUTH and are now on a total of 90 goals. Bournemouth after a goal run of 10 games, picked up their 8^th blank of the season. MANCHESTER CITY remain in second place after they won 5-1 at home to Wolves. City become our sixth team to pick up 100 goals and are now on a total of 102 goals, they have scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. LIVERPOOL in third place won 4-2 at home against TOTTENHAM. Liverpool are now on a total of 108 goals while Tottenham are on 71 goals. ASTON VILLA in fourth place lost 1-0 away to BRIGHTON. After they had scored in all of their last 7 league games, Villa picked up their 6^th blank of the season. Brighton after they had failed to score in their last 2 games are now on a total 62 goals. FULHAM drew 0-0 away to Brentford and picked up their 12^th blank of the season. NEWCASTLE won 4-1 away to Burnley and have now taken their goals tally up to 89. After they had failed to score in their last 2 games, NOTTINGHAM FOREST won 3-1 away to bottom of the table Sheffield United and are now on a total of 51 goals. CHELSEA won 5-0 at home against London rivals WEST HAM and have taken their goals total to 96 while West Ham picked up their 9^th blank of the season.

CHAMPIONSHIP

Promoted and top of the table LEICESTER CITY, lost their last game 2-0 at home against Blackburn Rovers. Leicester finish with 103 goals and 7 blank score sheets this season. IPSWICH TOWN have finished in second place after they won 2-0 at home to Huddersfield. Ipswich finish with a total of 104 goals.

In the Play-offs we have three of the four teams. In third place we now have LEEDS UNITED who lost 2-1 at home to SOUTHAMPTON. Leeds are on a total of 93 goals while Southampton in fourth place after they had failed to score in their previous 2 games, are on a total of 96 goals. NORWICH finished in sixth place after they lost 1-0 away to Birmingham. Norwich after they had scored in all of their last 17 league/cup games, picked up their 6^th blank of the season.

Meanwhile MIDDLESBROUGH won 3-1 at home to Watford and have finished on a total of 87 goals and a goal run of 8 games. PLYMOUTH have failed to score in their last 2 games but won their last game 1-0 at home to Hull. Plymouth finished on a total of 68 goals. STOKE won their last game 4-0 at home against BRISTOL CITY and finished on a total of 59 goals. Bristol City picked up their 18^th blank of the season and finished on a total of 61 goals. SUNDERLAND have failed to score in their last 3 league games and lost 2-0 at home to SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY, Sunderland finished on a total of 53 goals. Wednesday finished on a total of 52 goals and a goal run of 6 games. SWANSEA CITY lost their last game 1-0 at home to Millwall and picked up their 11^th blank of the season. Swansea finished with a total of 66 goals.

LEAGUE ONE Play-offs 1^st Leg

In the Play-offs we still have two teams with Barnsley who finished in sixth place, lost their first leg game and PETERBOROUGH finished in fourth place also lost their 1^st leg, 1-0 away to Oxford Utd. That is Boroughs 6^th blank of the season.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Premiership Champions CELTIC won 3-0 at home to Hearts and are now on a total of 99 goals. Celtic have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. Second place RANGERS won 4-1 at home against KILMARNOCK to take their goals tally up to 98. Kilmarnock picked up their 60^th goal of the season. ABERDEEN won 1-0 at home against St Johnston and are on a total of 52 goals. ROSS COUNTY won 2-1 at home to HIBERNIAN and are on a total of 52 goals. Hibs are on 58 and have now scored in all of their last 7 games. goals

In League One promoted FALKIRK drew 2-2 at home to Alloa and finish on a total of 108 goals and have now scored in all of their last 23 league/cup games. KELTY HEARTS lost 4-1 away to Hamilton and finished with a total of 61 goals. COVE RANGERS won their last league game 3-1 at home to Edinburgh City. Rangers finished on a total of 73 goals.

In League Two promoted STENHOUSEMUIR are still top of the table after they lost 2-0 away to Stranraer Stenhousemuir finished with a total of 9 blank score sheets and a total of 53 goals CLYDE won 3-0 away to Elgin City and finished with a total of 55 goals. EAST FIFE lost 2-1 at home to the Spartans and finished with a total of 49 goals.

Our BEST three teams this week

 FALKIRK (108) LIVERPOOL (108) IPSWICH (104) Total of 320 goals

Our WORST three teams are

 EAST FIFE (49) CRYSTAL PALACE (49) NOTTINGHAM FOREST (51)  Total of 149 goals

Our Best performing team are FALKIRK after they have now scored in all of their last 23 league/cup games. They have a total of 108 goals which gives them an average score of 2.5 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is SUNDERLAND this week as they have picked up 19 blank score sheets out of their 48 league/cup games.

Our highest goal scoring teams in our 41^st Season are NEWCASTLE UNITED after they won 8-0 away to Sheffield United in a league game in Week Eight.

JOHN FILTNESS is at the top again this weekend as he picks up a total of 12 goals from the week. John has now been at the top for a total of 13 weeks throughout the season. His teams are Leicester City, Liverpool and Manchester City. John has now moved up 14 places and is now in 16^th place in our “Champions League”. Andrew Hammond has moved up to second place this weekend. Andrew picked up a total of 16 goals from the week with his teams of  Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City. He is 7 goals behind John this weekend.

At the other end at 110 we still have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) for his 21^st consecutive weekend. John picked up 3 goals this weekend. John has Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir. John has moved up to 32^nd place in our “Losers League” this week. 

There was another change in the top ten this week due to the great results we are getting. 

            THIS      LAST                                     M/WEEK     W/END      TOTAL      

   WEEK   WEEK   NAME                       GOALS       GOALS      GOALS  

          1             -        J. FILTNESS                 112               201              313          

          2             9       A. HAMMOND             112              194              306          

          3             2       B. MORAN                    122              184             306          

          4             6       GRAHAM PHILLIPS    94                211             305          

          5             7       A. STUBBS (2)              103              201             304          

          6             4       S. THOMSON (1)          104             200              304          

          7             5       C. NUNN                       85               218              303          

          8             3       J. SOMERVILLE          115              188             303          

          9             11     D. MORBEY                 109              193             302      

          10           17     M. JOHNSTON             126              175             301         

Barnsley Lose First Leg

In the League One play-off semi-finals 1^st leg, BARNSLEY who finished in sixth place, lost the first leg 3-1 at home to Bolton. Barnsley are on a total of 91 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 games. 

Chelsea Move Up

In the Premier League CHELSEA won the north London derby 2-0 at home to TOTTENHAM. Chelsea are on a total of 91 goals while Tottenham picked up their 4^th blank of the season.

This is how our top ten teams are looking today in our 41^st Season of Golden Goals. Each team has their previous personal best end of season score in BOLD Red numbers. 

106  FALKIRK 92

104  LIVERPOOL 127

103  LEICESTER CITY 98

102  IPSWICH 113

101  PETERBOROUGH 129              

97    MANCHESTER CITY 137

96    CELTIC 143

94    NOTTS COUNTY 106  

94    RANGERS 126 

94    SOUTHAMPTON 99

Ipswich Promotion Hopes

In the Championship IPSWICH TOWN are back up to second place after they won 2-1 away to Coventry City. Ipswich are on a total of 102 goals and are now 4 points behind leaders Leicester City.