Week Thirty-Four

In Week Thirty-Four of the competition, we had our 5th Rollover of the season worth £10. The prize money went to our 34th winner of the season MIKE HARRINGTON our 1997/98 joint Champion on 10 goals. Mike started with us back in the 1995/96 season and it did not take him long to become joint Champion in the 1997/98 season with David Salmon, both finished on a total of 276 goals. He picked up 3 weekend wins. Mike is currently in 39th place in our “Champions League”. Last season Mike finished in 84th place with a total of 277 goals. This season Mike has been as high as 45th place in Week One. He has picked up 3 blank weekend score sheets and Leeds United are his best team to date. Mike’s winning teams are

                           BIRMINGHAM CITY 4, CHARLTON 4, LEEDS UNITED 2

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

With just a couple of games being played during midweek due to the Internationals, only 5 of us managed to pick up some midweek goals. So the race for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot has remained the same as last week’s really.

RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion remains at the top, with a total of 87 goals. Ricky has Bolton, Celtic and Leeds United. In second place we have JAMES BLYTH on a total of 86 goals. In third place we have GRANT PHILLIPS with a total of 81 goals. In fourth place we have BARBARA BARNES (2), CLARA STEPHENS and STEVE STUBBS (2). All are on a total of 80 goals. In fifth place we have BARRY BURROUGHS, MARTIN CORBETT and ALFIE DIMMOCK all with a total of 79 goals. In sixth place on 78 goals we now have JAMES SOMERVILLE.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had 12 of our teams without a game over the weekend and out of them, we had 7 teams that failed to score any goals. We had a better weekend from our teams, which means that our average score for this weekend was 4 goals. The highest score over the weekend was 4 goals, and we had 4 of our teams that picked them up. They came from BIRMINGHAM CITY, CHARLTON, EAST FIFE and RANGERS.

FA CUP Quarter-Finals

We had five of the 8 teams in the quarter-finals and only 3 of them have made it through to the semi-finals. They are CRYSTAL PALACE who won 3-0 away to Fulham. Palace have taken their goals tally to 55 and have now scored in all of their last 15 league/cup games. ASTON VILLA won 3-0 away to PRESTON NE and are now on a total of 53 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. Preston picked up their 13th blank of the season. MANCHESTER CITY won 2-1 away to AFC BOURNEMOUTH and are on a total of 73 goals. Bournemouth are on 54 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games.

CHAMPIONSHIP

After their win on Friday night, Sheffield United are now 2 points clear at the top as LEEDS UNITED drew 2-2 at home to SWANSEA CITY now in 2nd place. Leeds are on a total of 79 goals while Swansea, after they had failed to score in their last 2 games, are now on a total of 43 goals.

In the Play-offs we still have just one of the 4 teams. They are BURNLEY in 3rd place as they win 1-0 at home to Bristol City and are on a total of 59 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league games.

Meanwhile LUTON TOWN won 1-0 away to Hull City and picked up goal number 36. MIDDLESBROUGH won 2-1 at home against OXFORD UNITED and are on a total of 62 goals. Oxford are on 43 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 5 league games. NORWICH CITY won 1-0 at home to WBA and are on a total of 65 goals. Norwich have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. PORTSMOUTH won 1-0 at home against Blackburn Rovers and are on a total of 47 goals. MILLWALL lost 1-0 away to Sunderland and picked up their 14th blank of the season.

LEAGUE ONE

BIRMINGHAM CITY have remained top of the table this week after they won 4-1 at home against Shrewsbury Town. City have taken their goals tally to 71 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. WREXHAM are still in 2nd place after they won 2-0 away to Exeter City and are on a total of 56 goals.

In the Play-offs we still have just one of the 4 teams. In 4th place we still have CHARLTON after they won 4-0 at home to HUDDERSFIELD TOWN. Charlton have taken their goals tally to 62. Huddersfield picked up their 12th blank of the season.

Meanwhile BLACKPOOL won 2-1 at home to BOLTON WANDERERS and are on a total of 68 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league games. Bolton are on 65 goals.  PETERBOROUGH UNITED lost 3-1 away to Reading and are on a total of 65 goals. BARNSLEY drew 1-1 away to Wigan and are on a total of 56 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

In the Play-offs we have three of the 4 teams with DONCASTER ROVERS being our highest team in 4th place. They won 3-0 at home against Cralisle United. Rovers are now on a total of 63 goals. AFC WIMBLEDON are down to 5th place after they drew 1-1 away to Walsall. Wimbledon are on a total of 59 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league games. NOTTS COUNTY are still in 6th place after they won 2-0 away to Newport County. County are on a total of 69 goals.

Meanwhile CHESTERFIELD won 1-0 away to Barrow and picked up goal number 63. BROMLEY lost 3-2 at home to Salford City and are on a total of 59 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 6 league games. MK DONS lost 4-2 at home to Fleetwood Town and are on a total of 51 goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership Champions CELTIC won 3-0 at home against HEARTS and are now on a total of 118 goals and a goal run of 15 league/cup games. Hearts after a goal run of 10 games, picked up their 8th blank of the season. RANGERS in 2nd place won 4-3 away to DUNDEE. Rangers have taken their goals tally up to 81 goals while Dundee are now on a total of 78 goals. KILMARNOCK lost 5-1 away to St Mirren and are on a total of 36 goals. ROSS COUNTY lost 1-0 at home to Dundee Utd. County picked up their 14th blank of the season and now 2 in a row.

In League One COVE RANGERS are still in 2nd place after they lost 1-0 away to Arbroath. Rangers have picked up their 8th blank of the season and now 2 in a row. STENHOUSEMUIR are still in 3rd place after they lost 3-2 at home to Montrose. After they had failed to score in their previous 2 games, Stenhousemuir are on a total of 54 goals.

In League Two PETERHEAD have remained top after they drew 0-0 away to Forfar and that is their 11th blank of the season. EAST FIFE are still in 2nd place after they won 4-2 at home to The Spartans. Fife have taken their goals total to 67 goals. CLYDE won 2-1 away to Stranraer and are on a total of 47 goals.

Our BEST three teams this week are

CELTIC (118) LIVERPOOL (88) RANGERS (81) Total of 287 goals

Our WORST three teams are

  SOUTHAMPTON (34) LUTON TOWN (36) KILMARNOCK (36) Total of 106 goal

Our best performing team this weekend are still CELTIC after they have now scored in all of their last 15 league/cup games. They have a total of 118 goals, which gives them an average score of 3.1 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is still SWANSEA CITY this weekend as they have had a total of 17 blank score sheet from 42 league/cup games. They have a total of 43 goals.

Our highest goal scoring team that we have in our 42nd Season are MANCHESTER CITY after they won 8-0 at home to Salford City in the FA Cup 3rd Round in Week Twenty-Three.

Our leader CLARA STEPHENS celebrates her 3rd weekend at the top as her team’s picked up a total of 7 goals this weekend. Clara has Birmingham City, Celtic and Liverpool. So Clara has now moved up to 38th place in our “Champions League”. Clara has now beaten our 1990/91 Champion Robert Hough’s total of 174 and Geoff Dockerill’s score fo 174 from the 1994/95 season. Also Clara has beaten our 1997/98 joint Champions Mike Harrington and David Salmon’s total of 176 goals, Jed Wearden has moved back into 2nd place and is now 6 goals behind Carla, Jed picked up a total of 4 goals all coming from the weekend. His teams are Celtic, Liverpool and Peterborough United.

At the other end at 114, we have CHARLIE FARLEY with his 20th consecutive weekend. Charlie’s team’s pick him a total of 3 goals this weekend. His teams are Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir. Good news for Charlie this weekend and that is he is now moving up our “Losers League” to 41st place. He has now beaten John Nicholls Score of 131 goals back in the 2020/21 season.

We had a slight change to the top ten this weekend and with loads of games being played this week, it could all change next weekend.

   THIS    LAST                                                   M/WEEK     W/END       TOTAL

  WEEK  WEEK      NAME                                 GOALS      GOALS      GOALS 

         1             -         C. STEPHENS                         80                197              277  

         2             3        J. WEARDEN                          68                 203             271   

         3             2        G. DOCKERILL (1994/95)     73                 198             271  

         4             -         L. HAMMOND                       76                 194             270  

         5            6         J. BLYTH                                 86                 182             268 

         6            5         D. SOMERVILLE (2009/10)   76                 189             265  

         7            8         A. WELLARD                          74                188             262

         8            7         B. BURROUGHS                     79                183             262  

         9            -          S. STUBBS (2)                         80                182             262  

         10          -          R. WOOD (2007/08)*              87                175             262 

United Back on Top

In the Championship SHEFFIELD UNITED won 3-1 at home to Coventry City and for now, go top of the table. United are now on a total of 60 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games.

Falkirk Failed To Win

In League Two, MK DONS in 17th place, drew 2-2 away to Carlisle United and are on a total of 49 goals. 

In the Scottish Championship, top of the table FALKIRK after a goal run of 11 league/cup games, lost their 5th league games 1-0 away to Livingston. That is Falkirk’s 4th blank of the season.

Week Thirty-Three

In Week Thirty-Three of the competition, there was no Weekend Jackpot which means that next weekend we will have our 5th Rollover of the season, worth £10. The highest score that we had over the weekend went to three of our players. They were RYAN FC, IAN SMITH and SCOTT THOMSON (2). Each with a score of 4 goals.

                 Ryan FC  BARNSLEY 1, MANCHESTER CITY - PETERBOROUGH 3

                                  Ian  CELTIC- MK DONS 1, PETERBOROUGH 3

                             Scott  CELTIC - PETEREBOROUGH 3, WREXHAM 1

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

With no games being played during midweek due to the Internationals, the race for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot has remained the same as last week’s.

RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion remains at the top, with a total of 87 goals. Ricky has Bolton, Celtic and Leeds United. In second place we have JAMES BLYTH on a total of 86 goals. In third place we have GRANT PHILLIPS with a total of 81 goals. In fourth place we have BARBARA BARNES (2), CLARA STEPHENS and STEVE STUBBS (2). All are on a total of 80 goals. In fifth place we have BARRY BURROUGHS, MARTIN CORBETT and ALFIE DIMMOCK all with a total of 79 goals. In sixth place on 77 goals we have PETER WELLARD.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had just 16 of our teams in action over the weekend and out of them, we had 5 teams that failed to score any goals. We had a very quiet weekend from our teams which means that a lot of us have picked up yet another blank weekend score sheet. The highest score over the weekend was 3 goals, and we had 2 of our teams that picked them up. They came from Scottish League Two with Clyde and English League One PETERBOROUGH UNITED.

LEAGUE ONE

Birmingham City have remained top of the table this week after they had no game this weekend. WREXHAM are still in 2nd place after they won 1-0 at home to Stockport County and are on a total of 54 goals.

In the Play-offs we still have two of the 4 teams. In 4th place we still have CHARLTON after they lost 3-0 away to PETERBOROUGH UNITED. As Charlton pick up their 10th blank of the season, Borough are now on a total of 64 goals Huddersfield Town have remained in 6th place as they also had no game over the weekend.

Meanwhile  BARNSLEY drew 1-1 at home to Cambridge Utd and are on a total of 54 goals. BLACKPOOL won 2-0 away to Northampton Town and are on a total of 66 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

The highest team that we have here are still AFC WIMBLEDON in 3rd place. They drew 2-2 at home to Barrow and are on a total of 58 goals.

In the Play-offs we have two of the 4 teams. They are Doncaster Rovers down to 5th place after they had no game over the weekend. NOTTS COUNTY move down to 6th place after they drew 0-0 at home to Crewe and picked up their 9th blank of the season.  

Meanwhile BROMLEY lost 2-1 away to Carlisle Utd and picked up goal number 57 and have now scored in all of their last 5 league games. MK DONS won 1-0 away to Cheltenham Town and are on a total of 47 goals. CHESTERFIELD drew 0-0 at home to Harrogate Town and picked up their 10th blank of the season.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Championship, it’s 80 goals for top of the table FALKIRK after they won 2-0 at home to Airdrie. Falkirk have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games.

In League One COVE RANGERS are still in 2nd place after they drew 0-0 at home to STENHOUSEMUIR who are still in 3rd place. After a goal run of 7 league games, Rangers picked up their 7th blank of the season. Stenhousemuir picked up their 15th blank and now 2 games without a goal.

In League Two PETERHEAD have moved to the top after they won 2-1 away to Stirling and are on a total of 57 goals. EAST FIFE have dropped down to 2nd place after they lost 5-2 away to Edinburgh City. Fife are on a total of 63 goals. CLYDE won 3-1 at home to Bonnyrigg Rose and have taken their goals total to 45.

Our BEST three teams this week are

CELTIC (115) LIVERPOOL (88) FALKIRK (80) Total of 283 goals

Our WORST three teams are

  SOUTHAMPTON (34) LUTON TOWN (35) KILMARNOCK (35) Total of 104 goals

Our best performing team this weekend are still CELTIC after they have now scored in all of their last 14 league/cup games. They have a total of 115 goals, which gives them an average score of 3.1 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is still SWANSEA CITY this weekend as they have had a total of 17 blank score sheet from 40 league/cup games. They have a total of 41 goals.

Our highest goal scoring team that we have in our 42nd Season are MANCHESTER CITY after they won 8-0 at home to Salford City in the FA Cup 3rd Round in Week Twenty-Three.

Our leader CLARA STEPHENS celebrates her 2nd weekend at the top without any of her teams in action this week. Clara has Birmingham City, Celtic and Liverpool. So Clara remains in 41st place in our “Champions League”. Geoff Dockerill our 1994/95 Champion, in 2nd place is still 2 goals behind Carla, after he also had none of his teams in action over the week. Geoff’s teams are Arsenal, Celtic and Liverpool.

At the other end at 114 we have CHARLIE FARLEY with his 19th consecutive weekend. Charlie’s teams failed to pick him up any goals this weekend. His teams are Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir.

Not much happened over the weekend so the top ten remains near the same as last week

 THIS     LAST                                                M/WEEK    W/END       TOTAL

WEEK  WEEK     NAME                                GOALS      GOALS      GOALS

       1             -        C. STEPHENS                        80                190              270         

       2             -        G. DOCKERILL (1994/95)     73               195              268 

       3            4        J. WEARDEN                          68               199              267  

       4            3        L. HAMMOND                       76               191              267  

       5            -         D. SOMERVILLE (2009/10)  76               184              260

       6            -         J. BLYTH                                86               173              259  

       7            -         B. BURROUGHS                   79               178              257

       8           11        A. WELLARD                       74               182               256  

       9           8         S. STUBBS (2)                       80               176               256  

      10          9         R. WOOD (2007/08)*            87               169               256 

Our Top Ten Teams This Week

Here is how our 10 top teams are now looking for this season. The numbers in red, after the team’s name in brackets are their best end of season scores with Golden Goals. 

115 CELTIC (143)

88 LIVERPOOL (127)

78 FALKIRK (108)

77 RANGERS (126)

77 LEEDS UNITED (97)

75 DUNDEE (65)

71 MANCHESTER CITY (137)

68 TOTTENHAM (109)

67 BIRMINGHAM CITY (95)

67 NEWCASTLE UNITED (105)

Week Thirty-Two

In Week Thirty-Two of the competition, we had another £5 Weekend Jackpot which went to BARBARA BARNES (2). Barbara won on a score of 9 goals which is now her third win of the season with her second combination. Barbara last won in Week Thirteen with her highest weekend score of 13 goals. Barbara has now had 2 blank weekend score sheets to date and Celtic is still her best team. Her winning teams are

                                      CELTIC 2, FALKIRK 4, MANCHESTER UNITED 3

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Over half of us managed to pick up some more goals during midweek once again, so the race for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot has changed again from last week. Will anyone win the cash this season? We still have RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion at the top, now with a total of 87 goals. Ricky has Bolton, Celtic and Leeds United. In second place we still have JAMES BLYTH now on a total of 86 goals. Coming straight in third place we have GRANT PHILLIPS with a total of 81 goals. In fourth place we still have CLARA STEPHENS but joining her this week we have BARBARA BARNES (2) down from three with STEVE STUBBS (2) coming back in. All are on a total of 80 goals. In fifth place we still have BARRY BURROUGHS and MARTIN CORBETT and joining them this week we have ALFIE DIMMOCK coming back in all with a total of 79 goals. In sixth place on 77 goals we have PETER WELLARD.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had just 4 of our teams without a game this weekend and we had another 12 teams that failed to score any goals. We had another very poor weekend from our teams with their results again. as the average score went up slightly, from three goals of last weekend to just 4 goals this weekend. So if you have done better than that? Well done. The highest score over the weekend was 5 goals, and they came from League One where HUDDERSFIELD TOWN picked up their biggest win of the season 5-1 at home to Crawley Town. Huddersfield are on a total of 57 goals.

Huddersfield became our 96th voted English team back in the 2001/02 Season. In their first season, they finished on a total of 68 goals. Their highest score came in the 2010/11 with 94 goals. Last time out in the 2022/23 Season, they finished on a total of 49 goals. This is their 9th Season with Golden Goals and they have picked up a total of 11 blank score sheets. They have just 1 vote this season. Over the years they have now netted a total of 606 goals, which gives them an average score of 67 goals per season to date. Here are the rest of the weekend results.

Carabao/League Cup Final

We had both teams in the final where LIVERPOOL took on NEWCASTLE and lost 2-1 at Wembley. What a surprise that was. On the whole Newcastle deserved to win this cup for the very first time in their history. Newcastle are on a total of 67 goals while 10 time winners Liverpool, picked up their 88th goal of the season and have now had a goal run of 7 league/cup games.

PREMIER LEAGUE

Top of the table Liverpool had no league game this week due to the League Cup Final. ARSENAL are still in 2nd place as they win 1-0 at home to London rivals CHELSEA. Arsenal are on a total of 65 goals. Chelsea in 4th place, picked up their 6th blank of the season. WEST HAM UNITED drew 1-1 away to Everton and picked up goal number 64. IPSWICH TOWN lost 4-2 at home to Nottingham Forest and are on a total of 38 goals. MANCHESTER CITY drew 2-2 at home to Brighton and are on a total of 71 goals. Bottom of the table SOUTHAMPTON lost 2-1 at home to Wolves and are on a total of 34 goals. AFC BOURNEMOUTH lost 2-1 at home to Brentford and are on a total of 53 goals. TOTTENHAM lost 2-0 away to Fulham and picked up their 7th blank of the season. LEICESTER CITY lost 4-0 at home to MANCHESTER UNITED and picked up their 13th blank of the season. City have now failed to score in all of their last 5 league games. United are now on a total of 56 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 games.

CHAMPIONSHIP

LEEDS UNITED are still on top, but on goal difference, after they drew 2-2 away to QPR. Leeds are on a total on 77 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED are still in 2nd place as they win 1-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday and are on a total of 57 goals and have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. 

In the Play-offs we still have just one of the 4 teams and they are BURNLEY still in 3rd place after they won 2-0 away to SWANSEA CITY. Burnley are now on a total of 58 goals. Swansea picked up their 17th blank of the season and now 2 in a row.

Meanwhile MILLWALL won 1-0 at home to Stoke City and are on a total of 44 goals. LUTON TOWN drew 0-0 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH and picked up their 15th blank of the season. Middlesbrough picked up their 11th blank of the season. OXFORD UNITED won 1-0 at home to Watford and hit goal number 42. PRESTON NE won 2-1 at home against PORTSMOUTH and are on a total of 52 goals. Portsmouth are on 46 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

BIRMINGHAM CITY remain top of the table this week after they drew 1-1 away to Northampton and are on a total of 67 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. WREXHAM have moved up to 2nd place after they won 1-0 away to Wycombe and are on a total of 53 goals.

In the Play-offs we now have two of the 4 teams. In 4thplace we now have CHARLTON after they won 2-1 at home to Wigan and are on a total of 58 goals. After they had failed to score in their previous 2 games, Huddersfield Town have moved up to 6th place after their biggest win of the season.

Meanwhile  BOLTON lost 1-0 at home to Stockport County and picked up their 11^th blank of the season. BLACKPOOL lost 2-1 away to Leyton Orient and are on a total of 64 goals. PETERBOROUGH UNITED won 1-0 away to Cambridge Utd and are on a total of 61 goals. After they had failed to score in their last 2 games, BARNSLEY lost 2-1 away to Mansfield and are on a total of 54 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

The highest team that we have here are AFC WIMBLEDON up to 3rd place after they won 2-1 away to Carlisle United. Wimbledon are on a total of 56 goals.

In the Play-offs we have two of the 4 teams. They are DONCASTER ROVERS down to 4th place after they drew 1-1 away to Crewe and are now on a total of 60 goals. NOTTS COUNTY are still in 5th place after they lost 2-1 at home to CHESTERFIELD. County are on a total of 67 goals while Chesterfield are on 62 goals.

Meanwhile MK DONS lost 3-0 away to Port Vale and picked up their 15th blank of the season.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership, Champions CELTIC lost their 3rd league game against their rivals RANGERS 3-2 at home. Celtic are on a total of 115 goals and have now scored in all of their last 14 league/cup games. Rangers are now on a total of 77 goals. HEARTS won 2-0 at home to ROSS COUNTY and are on a total of 51 goals and have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. County picked up their 13th blank of the season. KILMARNOCK drew 1-1 at home against Hibernian and hit goal number 35. DUNDEE won 4-2 away to rivals Dundee Utd and have taken their goals tally up to 75 goals. Dundee have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games.

In the Championship, top of the table FALKIRK won 4-0 away to Queens Park and are on a total of 78 goals. Falkirk have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games.

In League One COVE RANGERS are now in 2nd place after they drew 2-2 away to Montrose and are now on a total of 59 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 7 league games. STENHOUSEMUIR move down to 3rd  place after they drew 0-0 at home to Kelty Hearts. After a goal run of 6 games, Stenhousemuir picked up their 14thblank of the season.

In League Two EAST FIFE remained top after they lost 3-0 at home to Stranraer. Fife picked up their 8th blank of the season. PETERHEAD are still in 2nd place on goal difference after they won 2-0 at home to Edinburgh City and are on a total of 55 goals. CLYDE lost 2-0 away to Elgin City and picked up their 10th blank of the season.

Our BEST three teams this week are

CELTIC (115) LIVERPOOL (88) FALKIRK (78) Total of 281 goals

Our WORST three teams are

  SOUTHAMPTON (34) LUTON TOWN (35) KILMARNOCK (35) Total of 104 goals

Our best performing team this weekend are still CELTIC after they have now scored in all of their last 14 league/cup games. They have a total of 115 goals, which gives them an average score of 3.1 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is now SWANSEA CITY this weekend as they have had a total of 17 blank score sheet from 41 league/cup games. They have a total of 41 goals.

Our highest goal scoring team that we have in our 42nd Season are MANCHESTER CITY after they won 8-0 at home to Salford City in the FA Cup 3rd Round in Week Twenty-Three.

We have a new leader this weekend who becomes the 7th player to do so. That player is CLARA STEPHENS who picked up a total of 6 goals from the week. Clara has Birmingham City, Celtic and Liverpool. But Clara remains in 41st place in our “Champions League”. Geoff Dockerill our 1994/95 Champion, moves down to second place 2 goals behind Carla, after his teams picked up a total of 4 goals from the weekend. Geoff’s teams are Arsenal, Celtic and Liverpool.

At the other end at 114 we have CHARLIE FARLEY with his 18th consecutive weekend. Charlie’s teams picked up just 2 goals from the week. His teams are Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir.

It's all change in our top ten this weekend and with the lack of games next weekend, these might remain the same.

  THIS    LAST                                               M/WEEK     W/END      TOTAL

WEEK  WEEK     NAME                               GOALS      GOALS      GOALS 

       1             3        C. STEPHENS                       80                190              270         

       2             1        G. DOCKERILL (1994/95)    73               195              268 

       3             2        L. HAMMOND                      76               191              267  

       4             -         J. WEARDEN                        68               196              264  

       5             -        D. SOMERVILLE (2009/10)  76               183              259

       6             7       J. BLYTH                                 86               173             259  

       7             6       B. BURROUGHS                    79               178             257

       8             9       S. STUBBS (2)                        80               176             256  

       9             8       R. WOOD (2007/08)*             87               169             256 

              10           12      GRANT PHILLIPS                81                173             254 

Norwich Lost Again

In the Championship, NORWICH CITY lost 2-1 away to Bristol City. Norwich picked up their 64^th goal of the season and have extended their goal run to 6 league games.

Another Point for Bromley

In League Two BROMLEY in 10^th place, drew with top of the table Walsall 2-2 at home. Bromley are on a total of 56 goals.

Leeds Take Back

In the Championship LEEDS UNITED have resumed pole position after they won 2-0 at home to MILLWALL and are on a total of 75 goals. Millwall picked up their 13^th blank of the season. OXFORD UNITED lost 2-1 away to Hull City and are on a total of 41 goals. PORTSMOUTH lost 2-1 at home to Plymouth and are on a total of 45 goals. SWANSEA CITY picked up their 16^th blank of the season after they lost 1-0 away to Watford.

Here is how our 10 top teams are now looking for this season. The numbers in red after the teams name, in brackets, are their best end of season score with Golden Goals. 

113 CELTIC (143)

87 LIVERPOOL (127)

75 LEEDS UNITED (97)

74 FALKIRK (108)

74 RANGERS (126)

71 DUNDEE (65)

69 MANCHESTER CITY (137)

68 TOTTENHAM (109)

66 BIRMINGHAM CITY (95)

66 NOTTS COUNTY (106)

Sheffield United Go Back On Top

In the Championship, SHEFFIELD UNITED are now top after they drew 1-1 at home to Bristol City. United are on a total of 56 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. BURNLEY drew 1-1 at home against WBA and are on a total of 56 goals. LUTON TOWN won 2-1 away to Cardiff City and are on a total of 35 goals. It’s 60 goals for MIDDLESBROUGH after they won 2-1 at home to QPR. NORWICH CITY lost 3-2 at home to Sheffield Wednesday and are on a total of 63 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. After they had failed to score in their last 2 league games, PRESTON NE are now on a total of 50 goals as they drew 1-1 away to Sunderland. 

In League One, top of the table BIRMINGHAM CITY won 2-1 at home to Stevenage and are on a total of 66 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. BLACKPOOL are on 63 goals after they won 2-1 at home to Cambridge United. BOLTON lost 3-2 away to Bristol Rovers and are on a total of 64 goals. CHARLTON won 1-0 away to Crawley Town and are on a total of 56 goals. WREXHAM lost 2-0 away to Reading and picked up their 8th blank of the season. 

In League Two, AFC WIMBLEDON lost 2-1 at home to Cheltenham and picked up goal number 54. NOTTS COUNTY won 2-0 away to Grimsby and are on a total of 66 goals. It’s 60 gals for CHESTERFIELD after they won 4-0 away to Salford City. 

In the Scottish League One, COVE RANGERS won 4-0 away to Kelty Hearts and have taken their goals tally to 57 goals and have extended their goal run to 6 league/cup games. STENHOUSEMUIR lost 4-1 away to Inverness CT and hit goal number 52, and they have also now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games.

Newcastle in 6th Place

In the Premier League WEST HAM UNITED lost 1-0 at home to NEWCASTLE UNITED and picked up their 7^th blank of the season. Newcastle are on a total of 65 goals.

Week Thirty-One

In Week Thirty-One of the competition, we had another £5 Weekend Jackpot which had to be shared between MICHAEL JACOBSEN and SARAH MARSHALL. Both winning on a score of 7 goals. Both are first time winners this season, which now takes our winners total up to 33.  

Michael started with Golden Goals back in our 2019/20 Season on where he finished in 68th place with a total of 273 goals. Last season, Michael finished in 57th place on a total of 293 goals. He did pick up one weekend win. This season he has been as high as 5th place in Week Two. He has collected a total of 3 blank weekend score sheets to date. Celtic is his best team.

Sarah started with us back in the 2016/17 Season and finished in 39th place with a total of 304 goals. Last season she finished in 49th place with 296 goals. This season, Sarah has been as high as 6th place in Week Two and has picked up 3 blank weekend score sheets to date. Celtic is also her best team. Our winners teams are.

                                       Michael   ARSENAL 1, BURNLEY 4, CELTIC 2

                                      Sarah  ASTON VILLA 1, BURNLEY 4, CELTIC 2

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Over half of us managed to pick up some more goals during midweek again, so the race for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot has changed again from last week. We have a new leader again this week with RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion, moving back to the top, now with a total of 83 goals. Ricky has Bolton, Celtic and Leeds United. In second place we now have last weeks leader JAMES BLYTH now on a total of 82 goals. Staying in third place we have BARBARA BARNES (2) with a total of 80 goals. In fourth place we have CLARA STEPHENS moving down from three now on a total of 78 goals. In fifth place we now have BARRY BURROUGHS and MARTIN CORBETT down from three both on a total of 77 goals. In sixth place down from four we now have LUKE HAMMOND on a total of 76 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had 9 of our teams without a game this weekend and we had another 12 teams that failed to score any goals. We then had another very poor weekend from our teams with their results. It is no wonder then that the average score went down from four goals of last weekend to just 3 goals this weekend. So if you have done better than that? Well done. 

The highest score over the weekend was 4 goals, and they came the Championship where BURNLEY won 4-0 at home to LUTON TOWN.  Burnley are now on  a total of 55 goals.

Burnley became our 75th voted English team back in the 1989/90 Season. In their first season they finished on a total of 61 goals. Their biggest score came in the 2022/23, which was their last season with us. They finished on a total of 98 goals. This is their 14th season with Golden Goals and over the years they have scored a total of 1006 goals. This gives them an average of 71.8 goals per season to date. This season they have a total of 8 votes and they have picked up a total of 15 blank score sheets. Here are the rest of the weekend results.

PREMIER LEAGUE

Top of the table LIVERPOOL won 3-1 at home to bottom of the table SOUTHAMPTON and are now on a total of 87 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. Southampton picked up goal number 33 after they had failed to score in their last 2 league games. ARSENAL are in 2nd place still as they drew 1-1 away to MANCHESTER UNITED. Arsenal after they had failed to score in their last 2 games, hit goal number 64. United are on a total of 53 goals. CHELSEA are in 4th place after they won 1-0 at home to LEICESTER CITY. Chelsea are on a total of 64 goals while Leicester picked up their 12th blank of the season and have now failed to score in their last 4 games. MANCHESTER CITY lost 1-0 away to Nottingham Forest and picked up their 4th blank of the season. CRYSTAL PALACE won 1-0 at home to IPSWICH TOWN and hit goal number 52 and have now scored in all of their last 13 league/cup games. Ipswich after a goal run of 7 league/cup games, picked up their 10th blank of the season. It’s 50 goals for ASTON VILLA after they won 1-0 away to Brentford. Villa have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. TOTTENHAM drew 2-2 at home to AFC BOURNEMOUTH and are on a total of 68 goals. Bournemouth are on a total of 52 goals.

CHAMPIONSHIP

LEEDS UNITED are still on top, but on goal difference, after they lost 1-0 away to PORTSMOUTH. As Leeds pick up their 9th blank of the season. Portsmouth are on a total of 44 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED are still in 2nd place as they win 1-0 at home to PRESTON NE and are on a total of 55 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. Preston picked up their 12th blank of the season.

In the Play-offs we still have just one of the 4 teams and they are BURNLEY sill in 3rd place as they won 4-0 at home to LUTON TOWN. Burnley have taken their goals tally up to 55 goals. Luton picked up their 14th blank of the season.

Meanwhile MILLWALL won 2-0 away to Watford and are on a total of 43 goals. SWANSEA CITY won 1-0 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH and are on a total of 41 goals. Middlesbrough picked up their 10th blank of the season.

LEAGUE ONE

BIRMINGHAM CITY remain top of the table this week after they won 1-0 at home to Lincoln City and are on a total of 64 goals.

In the Play-offs we now have three of the 4 teams. In 3rd place we still have WREXHAM who won 1-0 at home to Rotherham United. Wrexham are on a total of 52 goals. CHARLTON are up to 5th place after they drew 0-0 away to Stockport County in 4th place, and picked up their 9th blank of the season. BOLTON are in 6th place after they won 2-1 away to Burton and are on a total of 62 goals.

Meanwhile  BARNSLEY lost 3-0 at home to BLACKPOOL and picked up their 11th blank of the season and now 2 games in a row. Blackpool are now on a total of 61 goals. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN lost 1-0 away to Bristol Rovers and picked up their 11th blank score sheet and now 2 in a row. It’s 60 goals for PETERBOROUGH UNITED after they drew 1-1 at home to Wycombe.

LEAGUE TWO

The highest team that we have here are DONCASTER ROVERS still in 3rd place after they drew 2-2 at home to Swindon Town and are now on a total of 59 goals.

In the Play-offs we have two of the 4 teams. They are AFC WIMBLEDON up to 4th place after they won 2-0 at home to NOTTS COUNTY. Wimbledon after they had failed to score in their last 2 games, are on a total of 53 goals. County drop down to 5th place and picked up their 8th blank of the season.

Meanwhile CHESTERFIELD won 2-1 at home to Newport County and are on a total of 56 goals. After they had failed to score in their last 3 league games, MK DONS won 2-1 at home to Morecambe and  are on a total of 46 goals. BROMLEY lost 2-1 away to Tranmere Rovers and are on a total of 54 goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the SCOTTISH CUP quarter-finals, we already know that Hearts have made it through to the semi-finals, and CELTIC will be joining them as they win 2-0 at home to Hibernian. Celtic are on a total of 113 goals and have now scored in all of their last 13 league/cup games.

In the Championship top of the table FALKIRK won 1-0 at home to Dunfermline and are on a total of 74 goals. Falkirk have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games.

In League One STENHOUSEMUIR in 2nd place won 2-0 away to Annan and are now on a total of 51 goals. COVE RANGERS are still in 3rd place after they won 3-1 at home to Queen of the South and are now on a total of 53 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 5 league games.

In League Two EAST FIFE are still top after they won 2-1 away to CLYDE Fife, after they had failed to score in their previous 2 games, are now on a total of 61 goals. Clyde picked up goal number 42. PETERHEAD in 2nd place drew 0-0 away to Stranraer and picked up their 10th blank of the season.

Our BEST three teams this week

CELTIC (113) LIVERPOOL (87) FALKIRK (74) Total of 274 goals

Our WORST three teams are

SOUTHAMPTON (33) LUTON TOWN (33) KILMARNOCK (34) Total of 100 goals

Our best performing team this weekend are now CELTIC after they have now scored in all of their last 13 league/cup games. They have a total of 113 goals which gives them an average score of 3.1 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is now PORTSMOUTH this weekend as they have had a total of 15 blank score sheet from 38 league/cup games. They have a total of 44 goals.

Our highest goal scoring team that we have in our 42nd Season are MANCHESTER CITY after they won 8-0 at home to Salford City in the FA Cup 3rd Round in Week Twenty-Three.

We have 3 players taking the lead this weekend on goal difference. GEOFF DOCKERILL our 1994/95 Champion, is celebrating his 10th weekend at the top after his teams picked him up a total of 6 goals from the weekend. Geoff’s teams are Arsenal, Celtic and Liverpool. Luke Hammond is still in second place after he picked up a total of 6 goals from the weekend and his teams are Celtic, Chelsea and Liverpool. Our 3rd player is Clara Stephens who picked up a total of 7 goals from the week. Clara has Birmingham City, Celtic and Liverpool.

But there is good news for Geoff this weekend and that is he is finally moving up our “Champions League”. Geoff has beaten Phil Mockler's total of 263 goals from our 1989/90 Season.

At the other end at 114 we still have CHARLIE FARLEY with his 17th consecutive weekend. Charlie’s teams picked up just 2 goals from the weekend, as he only had one of them playing. His teams are Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir.

Here is our top ten for this weekend.

  THIS    LAST                                                   M/WEEK    W/END      TOTAL

WEEK  WEEK     NAME                                  GOALS      GOALS     GOALS

       1             -         G. DOCKERILL (1994/95)     73                191             264       

       2             -         L. HAMMOND                       76                188             264 

       3             -         C. STEPHENS                        78                186             264  

       4             -         J. WEARDEN                         68                192             260  

       5             -        D. SOMERVILLE (2009/10)   74               180             254

       6             -        B. BURROUGHS                    77               173             250  

       7             -        J. BLYTH                                 82               168             250

       8             10     R. WOOD (2007/08)*              83               165             248  

       9             8       S. STUBBS (2)                        75               172              247 

              10           9        A. WELLARD                        72               174              246