Week Thirty-Six

In Week Thirty-Six of the competition, we had a total of 8 players winning on a score of 10 goals each. Under our competition rules, we can only have 4 winners per week. So we will have another Rollover but it will be a double Rollover as next weekend is Easter weekend. So Week Thirty-Eight we have a Rollover Jackpot of £15. The high scorer’s this weekend are STEVE AYRES, FIONA CARTHY, STEVE HAMMOND, TONY KING (1), MICK LIDDLE, CHRIS NUNN,  GRANT PHILLIPS and PETER WELLARD.  

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Most of us have managed to pick up some midweek goals again this week. So the race for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot has changed slightly again this week.

This week’s leader we have JAMES BLYTH with a total of 91 goals. James has Birmingham City, Celtic and Leeds United. In second place we now have last week’s joint leader RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion, with a total of 89 goals. In third place we now have GRANT PHILLIPS and CLARA STEPHENS both moving down from two. Both are on a total of 85 goals. In fourth place we now have MARTIN CORBETT and ALFIE DIMMOCK both moving down from three with MIKE HARRINGTON our 1997/98 Champion, moves up from five and PETER WELLARD moves back into the race. All are now on a total of 83 goals. In fifth place all with a total of 82 goals we still have STEVE STUBBS (2) and joining him now we have BARRY BURROUGHS down from four with MARK WALKER. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had 8 of our teams without a game over the weekend and we had another 10 teams that failed to score any goals. We had a great weekend from our teams as we head into the Easter fixture. Our average score from last weekend shot up from three goals to a fantastic 7 goals this weekend. The highest score over the weekend was 5 goals, and they came from 2 of our teams. They were CELTIC and MANCHESTER CITY.

PREMIER LEAGUE

Top of the table LIVERPOOL, won 2-1 at home to WEST HAM UNITED and are on a total of 93 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. West Ham picked up goals number 39. ARSENAL in 2nd place drew 1-1 at home to Brentford and hit goal number 69 and have now scored in all of their last 5 league games. MANCHESTER CITY won 5-2 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE and have taken their goals tally to 80. Palace are on a total of 60 goals and have extended their goal run to 17 league/cup games. LEICESTER CITY are second from bottom as they drew 2-2 away to Brighton. Leicester, after they had failed to score in their last 7 league games, are now on a total of 40 goals. Bottom of the table SOUTHAMPTON lost 3-0 at home to ASTON VILLA and picked up their 14th blank of the season. Villa are now on a total of 61 goals and have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games. CHELSEA drew 2-2 at home to IPSWICH TOWN and are on a total of 67 goals while Ipswich are on 43 goals. TOTTENHAM lost 4-2 away to Wolves and are on a total of 73 goals. NEWCASTLE UNITED won 4-1 at home against MANCHESTER UNITED and have taken their goals tally to 76 and a goal run of 6 league games. United are on a total of 57 goals after they failed to score in their last 2 games.

CHAMPIONSHIP

LEEDS UNITED are top of the table on goal difference after they won 2-1 at home against PRESTON NE. Leeds are on a total of 83 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league games. Preston are on a total of 56 goals. Burnley are in 2nd place.

In the Play-offs we now have just 1 of the 4 teams. They are SHEFFIELD UNITED in 3rd place after they lost 2-1 away to Plymouth and are on a total of 61 goals after they had failed to score in their previous 2 games.

Meanwhile LUTON TOWN lost 1-0 at home to Blackburn Rovers and picked up their 16th blank of the season. MILLWALL won 1-0 at home against MIDDLESBROUGH and are on a total of 48 goals. Middlesbrough picked up their 13th  blank of the season and now 2 in a row. It’s 50 goals for PORTSMOUTH after they drew 2-2 at home to Derby County. OXFORD UNITED won 1-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday and are on a total of 46 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league games. SWANSEA CITY won 1-0 away to Sunderland and are on a total of 48 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

Birmingham City have remained top of the table again this weekend. WREXHAM are still in 2nd place after they drew 0-0 away to Wigan and are after a goal run of 5 league games, Wrexham picked up their 9th blank of the season.

In the Play-offs we now have just one of the 4 teams. They are CHARLTON in 6th place after they won 1-0 away to Cambridge Utd. Charlton are on a total of 67 goals.

Meanwhile BARNSLEY won 4-0 at home to BOLTON WANDERERS and have taken their goals tally to 63 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league games. Bolton are on a total of 68 goals. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN lost 3-0 away to Burton and picked up their 15th blank of the season and now 2 in a row.

LEAGUE TWO

In the Play-offs we have three of the 4 teams with DONCASTER ROVERS being our highest team still in 4th place. They drew 1-1 at home to AFC WIMBLEDON in 5th place. Rovers are now on a total of 68 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league games. Wimbledon are on a total of 62 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league games. Notts County are still in 6th place.

Meanwhile CHESTERFIELD won 3-0 at home to Fleetwood Town and are now on a total of 69 goals. MK DONS lost 1-0 away to Gillingham and picked up their 18th blank of the season and now 3 games without a goal. BROMLEY lost 5-0 away to Port Vale and after a goal run of 8 league games, picked up their 8th blank of the season.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership Champions CELTIC won 5-1 at home against KILMARNOCK. Celtic have taken their goals tally to 123 goals. Kilmarnock are on 39 goals. RANGERS in 2nd place drew 2-2 away to Aberdeen after going down to 10 men. Rangers are on a total of 83 goals. After they had failed to score in their previous 3 games, ROSS COUNTY lost 3-2 away to St Mirren and are on a total of 45 goals. HEARTS drew 0-0 away to Motherwell and picked up their 10th blank of the season and now 3 games in a row without a goal. DUNDEE lost 4-0 away to Hibernian and picked up their 9th blank of the season after a goal run of 9 league/cup games.

In League One COVE RANGERS are still in 2nd place after they won 3-1 away to Dumbarton. Rangers after they had failed to score in their last 3 league games, are now on a total of 62 goals. STENHOUSEMUIR are still in 3rd place after they lost 4-0 away to Arbroath. Stenhousemuir picked up their 16th blank of the season.

In League Two PETERHEAD have remained top after they won 1-0 at home to The Spartans. Peterhead are on a total of 63 goals. EAST FIFE are still in 2nd place after they won 2-1 away to Bonnyrigg Rose. Fife are on a total of 69 goals. CLYDE drew 1-1 at home to Forfar and are on a total of 49 goals.

Our BEST three teams this week are

CELTIC (123) LIVERPOOL (93) FALKIRK (86) Total of 302 goals

Our WORST three teams are

  SOUTHAMPTON (36) LUTON TOWN (38) WEST HAM (39) Total of 113 goals

Our best performing team again this weekend are CRYSTAL PALACE after they have now scored in all of their last 17 league/cup games. They have a total of 60 goals, which gives them an average score of 1.5 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is now MK DONS this weekend as they have had a total of 18 blank score sheets from 43 league/cup games. They have a total of 51 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 5th weekend at the top as her team’s picked up a total of 9 goals this week. Clara has Birmingham City, Celtic and Liverpool. Clara has now moved up to 32nd place in our “Champions League”. Clara has now beaten our 1984/85 Champion Martyn Gent’s total of 289 and Steve Reeve’s score of 290 from the 2008/09 Season. She has also beaten our joint Champions Ricky Wood/Gerry Kyei score of 293 from the 2007/08 Season and Tony Axford’s score of 297 from the 1991/92 Season. James Blyth has moved up to 2nd place and is still 10 goals behind Clara, James picked up a total of 10 goals from the week. His teams are Birmingham City, Celtic and Leeds United.

At the other end at 114, we have CHARLIE FARLEY with his 22nd consecutive weekend. Charlie’s team’s pick him a total of 3 goals once again this weekend. His teams are Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir. Charlie this weekend has remained in 41st place in our “Losers League”  

Again there is a slight change in the top ten this weekend. Our Champion will win £100 this season.

   THIS       LAST                                                M/WEEK     W/END      TOTAL      

  WEEK    WEEK      NAME                               GOALS      GOALS      GOALS 

         1             -           C. STEPHENS                        85               212              297            

         2            4           J. BLYTH                                91               196              287         

         3            2           J. WEARDEN                         74               212              286         

         4            3          G. DOCKERILL (1994/95)     76               209              285         

         5            -           L. HAMMOND                       78               205              283         

         6            -           D. SOMERVILLE (2009/10)   78              202              280         

         7            -           A. WELLARD                         80               196             276         

         8            9          B. BURROUGHS                    82               193             275         

         9            13        GRANT PHILLIPS                 85               190             275         

                10           8         M. LIPMAN                             76              198             274