In Week Twenty-Five of the competition, we had a total of three winners to share the £5 Weekend Prize Money, which gives them £1.66 pence each. The three winners now take our winners total to 32. Our winners are JAMES BLYTH, GRAHAM PHILLIPS and KEITH RATTLE. They all won on a score of 9 goals.
James started with Golden Goals back in the 2015/16 season where he finished in 75th place out of 119 with a total of 243 goals. Last season James finished in the winning frame in 2nd place with a total of 332 goals. He also won the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot. This season he has been as high as 6th place in Week Thirteen. James's best team is MK Dons.
Graham joined us in the 2017/18 season and finished in 81st place out of 149 with a total of 267 goals. Last season Graham finished in 63rd place with a total of 265 goals. This season he now has a chance of being our 43rd champion. He has picked up just one blank weekend scoresheet and MK Dons are his best team.
Keith started with us in the 2020/21 season and finished in 101st place out of 116 with a total of 220 goals. Last season Keith finished in 63rd place with 265 goals. He picked up one weekend win. This season, 12th is his highest position to date. He has picked up a total of three blank weekend scoresheets, and he also has MK Dons as his best team. Their winning teams are
James CELTIC 2, LIVERPOOL 2, MK DONS 5
Graham ARSENAL 2, CELTIC 2, MK DONS 5
Keith CHELSEA 3, RANGERS 3, WREXHAM 3
100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
Just under half of us managed to pick up some goals this week, which means that our top four are pulling away from the rest of the field. We now have a total of 18 players who have reached the halfway mark to 100. It was STEVE AYRES and TONY KING (1) who picked up the most number of goals with 7 goals each. Steve’s came from Birmingham City, Norwich City and Walsall. Tony’s came from Middlesbrough, Norwich City and Rangers. Out in front this week we now have KEITH RATTLE who was there last week and joining him we have BARBARA BARNES (1) moving back up from two. Both are now on a total of 65 goals. In second place up from three is now SCOTT THOMSON (1) now with a total of 62 goals. In third place up from four we now have MICHAEL FISHER on a total of 58 goals. In fourth place we now have TONY GUY (3) and JOHN FILTNESS our joint 2023/24 Champion. Both moving up from five and both now with a total of 57 goals. In fifth place we have EMMAF coming back in with a total of 55 goals.
WEEKEND RESULTS
We had just 1 of our teams without a game this weekend, plus we had another 8 of our teams that failed to score any goals. The average score was four goals last weekend but this weekend it went up slightly to 5 goals. Well done if your teams picked up more than that. The highest score over the weekend was 5 goals and they came from League Two where MK DONS won 5-1 home to Shrewsbury.
Let’s get on with the results to see how your teams have performed this weekend.
PREMIER LEAGUE
We still have the top six teams here with ARSENAL still top after they lost 3-2 at home against MANCHESTER UNITED. Arsenal are on a total of 54 goals while United are now on a total of 44 goals and have now scored in all of their last 12 league/cup games. United are now in fourth place. In second place we have MANCHESTER CITY who won 2-0 at home against bottom of the table WOLVES. City are on a total of 66 goals while Wolves picked up their 12th blank of the season and now 2 in a row. In third place we still have ASTON VILLA who won 2-0 away to NEWCASTLE UNITED and are on a total of 38 goals. Newcastle picked up their 8th blank of the season and now 3 games in a row. CHELSEA are now in fifth place after they won 3-1 away to CRYSTAL PALACE and are now on a total of 55 goals and have extended their goal run to 11 league/cup games. Palace picked up goal number 30. LIVERPOOL in fourth place lost 3-2 away to AFC BOURNEMOUTH and are on a total of 41 goals. Bournemouth are also on 41 goals but they have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. WEST HAM UNITED have won their 5th league game and now two in a row after they won 3-1 at home against SUNDERLAND. West Ham are now on a total of 31 goals while Sunderland hit goal number 26. TOTTENHAM drew 2-2 away to Burnley and are on a total of 37 goals and a goal run of 5 league/cup games. BRIGHTON lost 2-1 away to Fulham and are on a total of 47 goals and have now scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. NOTTINGHAM FOREST won 2-0 away to Brentford and are on a total of 28 goals.
CHAMPIONSHIP
MIDDLESBROUGH are still in 2nd place, after they won 4-0 at home against PRESTON NE. Brough have taken their goals tally up to 47 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. Preston picked up their 8th blank of the season and they have now failed to score in their last 4 league/cup games.
In the Play-offs we have just two teams out of the four and they are IPSWICH TOWN in 3rd place after they lost 3-1 away to SHEFFIELD UNITED. Ipswich are on a total of 51 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. United after they had failed to score in their last two league games, are now on a total of 43 goals. WREXHAM have moved up to 6th place after they won 3-2 away to QPR and are now on a total of 55 goals and have now extended their goal run to 10 league/cup games.
Meanwhile, BIRMINGHAM CITY drew 1-1 at home to Stoke and are on a total of 44 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. BLACKBURN ROVERS drew 1-1 at home to WATFORD and are on a total of 27 goals. Watford picked up goal number 41. After they failed to score in their last 2 games, BRISTOL CITY won 2-0 at home against bottom of the table Sheffield Wednesday and are on a total of 47 goals. LEICESTER CITY lost 2-1 at home to Oxford Utd and picked up goal number 44. They have now scored in all of their last 13 league/cup games. SOUTHAMPTON drew 1-1 away to Portsmouth and they are on a total of 49 goals.
LEAGUE ONE
Top of the table CARDIFF CITY drew 1-1 at home to STOCKPORT COUNTY now in fifth place. City are on a total of 56 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 15 league/cup games. County are on 44 goals.
In the Play-offs, we have three of the four teams with BOLTON WANDERERS moving up to 3rd place after they won 2-1 at home to LEYTON ORIENT and are on a total of 40 goals. Orient are on a total of 41 goals. With Stockport County now down to 5th place, HUDDERSFIELD TOWN have stayed in 6th place after they l-0 at home to Bradford and are on a total of 51 goals.
Meanwhile, PLYMOUTH won 1-0 at home to LUTON TOWN and are on a total of 38 goals and have extended their goal run to 9 league/cup games. Luton picked up their 8th blank of the season. It’s 40 goals for BLACKPOOL after they won 2-0 at home against Northampton. Blackpool have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games. WYCOMBE WANDERERS lost 2-0 at home to PETERBOROUGH UNITED and picked up their 8th blank of the season. Borough are on a total of 37 goals.
LEAGUE TWO
Top of the table BROMLEY won 2-1 at home to SWINDON TOWN now down to 6th place. Bromley are on a total of 49 goals while Swindon are on 51 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. Third place we now have MK DONS who won 5-1 at home to Shrewsbury and have now taken their goals tally to 60 goals.
In the Play-offs, we still have two of the four teams with WALSALL down to 5th place after they drew 0-0 at home to Accrington and picked up their 8th blank of the season. NOTTS COUNTY are still in 7th place after they won 1-0 at home to CREWE and are on a total of 41 goals. Crewe picked up their 8th blank scoresheet.
Meanwhile, BARNET won 3-2 at home to Oldham and are now on a total of 38 goals. It’s 40 goals for GILLINGHAM after they won 3-0 away to Harrogate. CHESTERFIELD lost 2-1 away to Newport and are on a total of 45 goals.
SCOTTISH LEAGUES
In the Premiership, top of the table HEARTS drew 2-2 at home against CELTIC. Hearts are on a total of 62 goals and have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. Celtic are on 55 goals but have dropped down to third place. RANGERS moved into second place after they won 3-0 at home to Dundee. Rangers are now on a total of 49 goals and have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games. It’s 40 goals for HIBERNIAN after they lost 4-1 away to Falkirk.
In the Championship, AYR UNITED lost their 5th league game, 2-1 away to Partick and picked up goals number 45. ROSS COUNTY won their 4th league game 1-0 away to Airdrieonians and are on a total of 34 goals.
In League One, top of the table STENHOUSEMUIR won 2-0 away to 10 men Kelty Hearts and are on a total of 41 goals. After they had failed to score in their last 4 games, EAST FIFE lost 5-1 at home to Queen of the South. Fife are on a total of 26 goals. COVE RANGERS lost 2-0 away to Hamilton and picked up their 13th blank of the season.
In League Two, CLYDE are in third place after they won 2-1 at home to the Spartans. Clyde are on a total of 40 goals and have extended their goal run to 8 league/cup games. DUMBARTON drew 2-2 at home to Elgin City and are on a total of 35 goals.
Our BEST three teams are
MANCHESTER CITY (66) HEARTS (62) MK DONS (60) Total of 188 goals
Our WORST three teams are
EAST FIFE (26) SUNDERLAND (26) BLACKBURN ROVERS (27) Total of 79 goals
Our best performing team is CARDIFF CITY after they have now scored in all of their last 15 league/cup games. With a total of 56 goals, their average score is 1.6 goals per game.
Our worst performing team is COVE RANGERS this weekend, as they have picked up 13 blank scoresheets in their 27 league/cup games.
Our highest scoring team in our 43rd season are MANCHESTER CITY. They won 10-1 at home against Exeter City in the FA CUP 3rd Round, in Week Twenty-Three.
We now have GRAHAM PHILLIPS back at the top this weekend, which now makes it his third week over the season. Graham picked up a total of 9 goals from the week. His teams are Arsenal, Celtic and MK Dons. Hayley Adkins moves back down to second place on goal difference this weekend as she picks up a total of 6 goals from her teams this week. Hayley’s teams are Hearts, Liverpool and Manchester City.
At the other end at 111 we still have CHARLIE FARLEY(John Wood) there for his fourth consecutive week and now five over the season. John picked up just 3 goals this weekend. His teams are Cove Rangers, East Fife and Stenhousemuir.
As you can see that we had a very slight change in the top ten this weekend as the table seem to be settling down now.
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 2 GRAHAM PHILLIPS 32 137 169
2 1 H. ADKINS 52 117 169
3 - B. BARNES (1) 65 103 168
4 7 V. CRUICKSHANK 37 127 164
5 - T. GUY (2) 46 118 164
6 - T. GUY (3) 57 107 164
7 4 D. WOOD 48 115 163
8 9 S. STUBBS (2) 49 113 162
9 8 G. BOLBERY 43 118 161
10 - M. WALKER 36 124 160
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