Monday, 4 May 2026

Week Thirty-Nine

In Week Thirty-Nine of the competition, the very last league games for the Championship and lower leagues for the English and Scottish teams have now been played. We had on player to picked up the highest score of 9 goals and that went to LYANNA GRIMWOOD. Her teams are Cardiff City 4, Celtic 2 and Newcastle United 3. As our teams start to end their season, some of us still have all three teams still in action. So there will be big changes in the coming table next week.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Not many of us managed to pick up some goals again this week, which means that our top six has mainly stayed the same as last week’s table once again.

Still out in front this week, we have KEITH RATTLE, still with that total of 94 goals, he still needs just 6 goals to win the cash prize money of £25. Keith’s teams are Chelsea, Rangers and Wrexham. In second place, we still have BARBARA BARNES (1) with a total of 89 goals. In third place, we still have PHIL COLLINS, now with a total of 87 goals. In fourth place, we still have SCOTT THOMSON (1) on a total of 84 goals. In fifth place, we still have MICHAEL FISHER, now on a total of 83 goals. In sixth place, we have PETER PORTER, now on a total of 82 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had 7 of our teams not in action this weekend, plus we had another 9 of our teams that failed to score any goals. The average score this weekend, for the very last time for this season was 5 goals down from six last weekend. Well done if your teams scored more than that. The highest score over the weekend was 4 goals, and we had two of our teams that reached that score. They came from CADIFF CITY and HUDDERSFIELD TOWN.

Lets get on with the results to see how your teams have performed this weekend.

PREMIER LEAGUE

Top of the table ARSENAL won 3-0 at home against Fulham and are now on a total of 87 goals.  Arsenal have now scored in all of their last 5 league games. Manchester City are in second place, while MANCHESTER UNITED remain in third place after they won 3-2 at home against LIVERPOOL. United are now on a total of 66 goals and have extended their goal run to 24 league/cup games. Liverpool are on a total of 71 goals and remain in fourth place.. AFC BOURNEMOUTH won 3-0 at home against CRYSTAL PALACE and are now on a total of 58 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league games. Palace picked up their 11th blank of the season. NEWCASTLE UNITED won 3-1 at home against BRIGHTON and are now on a total of 65 goals. Brighton, are on 63 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league games. The battle for relegation still goes on as WEST HAM UNITED lost 3-0 away to Brentford and drop down to the bottom three. West Ham picked up their 12th blank of the season. TOTTENHAM move out of the bottom three after they won 2-1 away to ASTON VILLA. Tottenham are on a total of 49 goals while Villa who remain in fifth place, picked up goal number 52. Bottom of the table and relegated WOLVES drew 1-1 at home against SUNDERLAND. After they had failed to score in their last three games, Wolves are on a total of 41 goals. Sunderland picked up goal number 40.

CHAMPIONSHIP

IPSWICH TOWN are promoted as they finish in second place, after they won 3-0 at home to QPR. Ipswich finished on a total of 83 goals.

In the Play-offs, we now have just two of the four teams, with SOUTHAMPTON moving up to fourth place after they won 3-1 away to PRESTON NE. Southampton are now on a total of 96 goals and have now scored in all of their last 25 league/cup games. Preston finished on a total of 58 goals. MIDDLESBROUGH moved down to fifth place after they drew 2-2 away to WREXHAM. Middlesbrough are on a total of 73 goals, while Wrexham finished the season on a total of 84 goals.

Meanwhile, BRISTOL CITY won 2-0 at home against Stoke and finished on a total of 66 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED won 2-1 away to Derby and finished the season on a total of 70 goals and had scored in all of their last five league games. NORWICH CITY lost 2-1 away to Hull and finished on a total of 73 goals. BIRMINGHAM CITY drew 1-1 away to Portsmouth and finished with a total of 63 goals and had scored in all of their last 6 league games. WATFORD lost 4-0 at home to top of the table Coventry and picked up their 14th blank of the season. Watford end the season on a total of 55 goals. LEICESTER CITY are relegated after they won 1-0 away to BLACKBURN ROVERS. Leicester finished second from bottom and on a total of 63 goals. Rovers picked up their 17th blank of the season and a total of 43 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

CARDIFF CITY have been promoted and finished in second place in the league. Although they lost their last game 5-4 away to Mansfield. City, have finished the season on a total of 100 and become our second team to net 100 goals this season. They have scored in all of their last 7 league games.

In the Play-offs we have just two of the four teams. They are STOCKPORT COUNTY who are up to third place after they won 3-1 away to Barnsley. County are now on a total of 77 goals. BOLTON WANDERERS moved down to fifth place after they lost 3-2 at home to LUTON TOWN. Bolton are on a total of 75 goals, while Luton finished the season on 74 goals and had scored in all of their last 14 league/cup games.

Meanwhile, HUDDERSFIELD TOWN won 4-0 away to AFC Wimbledon and finished on a total of 78 goals and they had scored in all of their last 9 league games. LEYTON ORIENT, after they had failed to score in their last three league games, drew 2-2 at home to Burton. Orient have finished on a total of 60 goals. PLYMOUTH won 3-2 away to Northampton and finished on a total of 79 goals and they had scored in all of their last 12 league games. PETERBOROUGH UNITED lost 3-1 at home to Doncaster and finished on a total of 66 goals. BLACKPOOL lost 1-0 away to Reading and finished on a total of 60 goals. WYCOMBE WANDERERS  won 3-2 at home to Rotherham are finished on a total of 76 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

BROMLEY are promoted after they won 3-1 at home to WALSALL. Bromley who had failed to score in their last two league games, finished on a total of 74 goals. Walsall finished on a total of 62 goals. MK DONS are also promoted but finished in second place after they drew 1-1 away to Fleetwood and finished with a total of 93 goals. The Dons had scored in all fo their last 5 league games.

In the Play-offs, we have two of the four teams still. They are NOTTS COUNTY in fifth place, after they drew 1-1 at home to Bristol Rovers. County are on a total of 76 goals. CHESTERFIELD move up to sixth place after they won 2-1 away to SWINDON TOWN. Chesterfield are on a total of 73 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league games. Swindon finished the season on a total of 79 goals.

Meanwhile, CREWE drew 0-0 at home to Cambridge Utd and picked up their 13th blank of the season. GILLNGHAM won 1-0 at home to Shrewsbury and end the season with a total of 56 goals. BARNET won 2-1 away to  Harrogate and have finished the season on a total of 73 goals and had scored in all of their last 10 league games.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership, CELTIC won 2-1 away to HIBERNIAN and they are on a total of 86 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. Hibs are on 55 goals.

In League One, STENHOUSEMUIR are still in second place and in the play-offs after they won 2-0 away to Morton. Stenhousemuir, are on a total of 60 goals. COVE RANGERS drew 0-0 at home to EAST FIFE and picked up their 17th blank of the season. Fife picked up their 15th blank of the season.

In League Two, CLYDE are still in third place and in the play-offs after they lost 5-0 away to East Kilbride. Clyde have picked up their 8th blank of the season. DUMBARTON lost 5-0 away to relegated Edinburgh City. Dumbarton picked up their 11th blank of the season.

Our BEST three teams are

 MANCHESTER CITY (101) CARDIFF CITY (100) MK DONS (93) Total of 294 goals.

Our WORST three teams are

 EAST FIFE (39) SUNDERLAND (40) WOLVES (41) Total of 120 goals.

Our best performing team is now SOUTHAMPTON after they have now scored in all of their last 25 league/cup games. With a total of 96 goals, their average score is 1.7 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is now WOLVES this weekend, as they have picked up 18 blank score sheets out of their 41 league/cup games.

Our highest scoring team in our 43rd season is MANCHESTER CITY. They won 10-1 at home against Exeter City in the FA CUP 3rd Round, in Week Twenty-Three.

VINCENT CRUICKSHANK is still at the top and celebrates his fourth week at the top this season. Vincent picked up a total of 8 goals from the week. Vincent’s teams are Celtic, MK Dons and Southampton, but he now had only two teams left in play. Vincent has move up our “Champions League” into 40th place. He has now beaten Geoff Dockerill’s score of 274 goals from the 1994/95 season and Rob Hough’s total of 274 goals from the 1990/91 season. Vincent is now 6 goals clear of Patrick O’Donoghue, who moves into second place, as he picks up a total of 10 goals this week. Patrick’s teams are Arsenal, Celtic and Southampton.

At the other end, at 111, we still have CHARLIE FARLEY(John Wood) there for his 18th consecutive week and now nineteen over the season. John picked up 2 goals this weekend. His teams are Cove Rangers, East Fife and Stenhousemuir, .John has moved up to 39th place this weekend in our “Losers League”. He has beaten his own score (Lucifer) of 148 in the 2019/20 season.

Here we go then with our top ten this weekend. Not long now before we know who is going to be our Champion and pick up £100.

 THIS      LAST                                     M/WEEK     W/END     TOTAL

WEEK   WEEK   NAME                       GOALS      GOALS     GOALS  

       1             -       V. CRUISKSHANK       74                201             275          

       2             3      P. O’DONOGHUE         77                192             269          

       3             2      GRAHAM PHILLIPS    51                215             266          

       4             6      G. BOLBERY                61                197             258          

       5             7      T. GUY (2)                     65                193             258          

      6              9      K. SETNA (2005/06)     65                192             257          

      7              8      T. GUY (3)                     79                178             257          

      8              4      K. RATTLE                   94                163             257          

      9            12      C. SETFORD                68                188             256          

    10              5      S. STUBBS (2)             72                184              256       

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