Week Eleven

Here we are with Week Eleven of the competition, and we are back to our normal Weekend Prize Money of £6. The cash went to DANNY HARRINGTON who now becomes our 12th player to win this season. Danny won with his personal best weekend score of 13 goals. Danny started with Golden Goals back in the 2006/07 season. In his first season he finished in 43rd place out of 87 with a total of 243 goals. He picked up one shared weekend win. Last season, Danny finished in 46th place with a total of 252 goals. Again Danny had a shared weekend win. This season he has been as high as 33rd place in Week Five. Danny has picked up a total of 4 blank score sheets and his best team is Celtic. His winning teams are

                                   ARSENAL 1, CELTIC 7, SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 5

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Most of us picked up some midweek goals this week So the top five have mostly remained the same as last week’s News Sheet. It was MIKE HARRINGTON that picked up the most amount of goals with 10. They came from Middlesbrough, Southampton and West Ham United.

We have a new leader this week, and they are TIM WOOD moving up from second place. Tim now has a total of 47 goals. Down to second place we have last week’s leaders ASHLEY LEGG and STALKY (1), both are now on a total of 46 goals. In third place down from two, we have GUY DOWSETT (1) now on a total of 44 goals. In fourth place we now have ROBERT NETTING, down from three and  coming back in the race MARK JOHNSTON both now on a total of 43 goals. In fifth place we have MANDY WRIGHT (2) down from four and now joining her we have MIKE HARRINGTON our 1997/98 Champion, both are now with a total of 42 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had 6 of our teams without a game this weekend and another 15 that failed to score any goals. The average score that we had was 6 goals over the weekend. So if you scored more than that with your teams, then you have done very well this week. The highest score over the weekend was 7 goals and they came from the Scottish Premiership were CELTIC won 7-1 at home against Hearts.

Let’s get on with the results to see how your teams have performed this weekend.

PREMIER LEAGUE

MANCHESTER CITY are still top after they won 3-2 at home to IPSWICH TOWN. City are now on a total of 24 goals and have now scored in all of their 8 league/cup games. Ipswich are on a total of 16 goals. In second place we have ARSENAL who won their fifth league game 2-1 at home to Leeds Utd. Arsenal are on a total of 15 goals. CHELSEA won 2-0 away to Everton and are on a total of 25 goals. LIVERPOOL won 2-1 away to BRENTFORD and are on a total of 12 goals. Brentford are on 21 goals and have now scored in all of their 9 league/cup games. After they had scored in all of their first 8 league/cup games, picked up their first blank of the season after NEWCASTLE lost 1-0 at home to ASTON VILLA. Villa are on a total of 10 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. AFC BOURNEMOUTH win their first league game, 2-0 at home to Sunderland and are on a total of 13 goals. BRIGHTON have won 5-0 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE and they have taken their goals tally up to 26 goals and have now scored in all of their 8 league/cup games. Palace have picked up their third blank of the season. MANCHESTER UNITED drew 1-1 away to Leeds Utd and are on a total of 12 goals.

CHAMPIONSHIP

WEST HAM UNITED move up to 2nd place after they won 1-0 away to top of the table Swansea. West Ham are on a total of 39 goals and have extended their goal run to 14 league/cup games. MIDDLESBROUGH have dropped down to 3rd place after they drew 2-2 at home to CARDIFF CITY. Brough are on a total of 26 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. Cardiff are on a total of 22 goals. CHARLTON have picked up their fourth blank score sheet after they lost 2-0 away to Watford. BIRMINGHAM CITY won 3-0 at home against QPR and they are now on a total of 22 goals, and they have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games. BRISTOL CITY have picked up their 5th blank of the season and now two in a row, after they lost 1-0 at home to Sheffield United. DERBY COUNTY lost 1-0 at home to Stoke and picked up their fourth blank of the season .SOUTHAMPTON after they had scored in all of their first 12 league/cup games, picked up their first blank of the season. WREXHAM have won their 3rd league game 4-1 at home to PRESTON NE. Wrexham, with their biggest result of the season, have taken their goals tally to 15 goals. Preston after they had failed to score in their last 2 games, remain in bottom place with a total of 10 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

The highest team that we have here are STOCKPORT COUNTY now in 2nd place, after they won 1-0 at home to BROMLEY. County are now on a total of 22 goals while Bromley, picked up their third blank of the season. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN are now in 3rd place after they won 2-0 away to Plymouth. Huddersfield are on a total of 19 goals. MK DONS won 2-1 at home against LUTON TOWN and are on a total of 12 goals while Luton are on 20 goals. CAMBRIDGE UNITED won 2-1 away to Barnsley and are on a total of 18 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. LEICESTER CITY won 2-1 at home to Doncaster and are on a total of 14 goals. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY won 5-0 at home to AFC WIMBLEDON and have taken their goals tally to 21 goals. Wimbledon picked up their 5th blank of the season. READING lost 1-0 away to Wigan and after a goal run of  9 league/cup games, picked up their second blank of the season.

LEAGUE TWO

SALFORD CITY are still top after they won 2-1 at home to Crawley. Salford are on a total of 18 goals and have now scored in all of their last 8 league games. BARNET are still in second place after they won 2-1 away to Tranmere. Barnet are on a total of 23 goals and they have now scored in all of their 10 league/cup games. BRISTOL ROVERS lost 1-0 away to Shrewsbury and picked up their fourth blank of the season. GILLINGHAM lost 3-1 away to Accrington and they are on a total of 16 goals. EXETER CITY drew 0-0 away to Colchester and picked up their 7th blank of the season. GRIMSBY TOWN lost 2-0 at home to Northampton and they picked up their third blank of the season and now 2 in a row. YORK CITY drew 1-1 away to Newport and are on a total of 18 goals. PORT VALE have won their 3rd league game 1-0 at home to CHESTERFIELD.  Vale are on a total of 5 goals while Chesterfield after a goal run of 9 league/cup games, picked up their third blank of the season.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Premiership, CELTIC remain on top after they picked up their biggest win of the season 7-1 at home to HEARTS. Celtic have taken their goals tally up to 27 goals. Hearts are on 29 goals and they have now scored in all of their 11 league/cup games. In 2nd place RANGERS drew 2-2 away to Dundee and are on a total of 21 goals. They have now scored in all of their 11 league/cup games. ABERDEEN won 3-0 at home to St Mirren and are now on a total of 24 goals. HIBERNIAN lost 2-1 at home to Falkirk and are on a total of 13 goals and are now bottom of the league.

In the Championship, it’s 20 goals for top of the table STENHOUSEMUIR after they 1-1 at home to Raith. LIVINGSTON drew 0-0 away to DUNFERMLINE and after a goal run of  5 league/cup games, picked up their 5th blank of the season. Dunfermline picked up their fourth blank of the season after a goal run of 5 league/cup games. ARBROATH lost 2-0 away to Inverness CT and picked up their 8th blank of the season.

In League One, EAST KILBRIDE are still in third place after they drew 1-1 at home to Montrose. Kilbride are on a total of 33 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games.

In League Two, CLYDE in second place won 4-1 at home to Annan and they are on a total of 33 goals. Clyde have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games.

Let’s have a look at our BEST three teams this week

WEST HAM UNITED (39) CLYDE (33) EAST KILBRIDE (33) Total of 105 goals

Our WORST three teams are

PORT VALE (5) EXETER CITY (6) AFC WIMBLEDON (8) Total of 19 goals

Our best performing team are WEST HAM UNITED after they have scored in all of their 14 league/cup games. With a total of 39 goals, their average score is 2.7 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is EXETER CITY this weekend, as they have picked up 7 blank score sheets in 12 league/cup games. They have a total of 6 goals.

Our highest goal-scoring team in our 44th Season are LIVINGSTON. They won 8-0 at home against Forfar in the first round group stages of the Scottish League Cup in Week One.

GUY DOWSETT (2) is celebrating his seventh weekend at the top this week with his second selection once again, He picked up a total of 18 goals from the week. Guy’s teams are Celtic, Clyde and West Ham United. He also remains in second place with his first selection this week, as he picks up a total of 14 goals from the week. Guy’s other teams are Clyde, Manchester City and West Ham United.

At the other end at 124 we now have STUART KEMP (1), who has now become our fourth player to do so. Stuart’s first selection picked up just 2 goals, all from the weekend. His teams are Luton Town, Manchester United and Tottenham.

We had another fantastic weekend for goals. Here are our top ten.

 THIS     LAST                                                      M/WEEK     W/END     TOTAL

WEEK  WEEK   NAME                                        GOALS      GOALS     GOALS 

      1             2       G. DOWSETT (2)                           40                59               99

      2             1       G. DOWSETT (1)                           44                52               96

      3           10       M. LIPMAN                                    41                51               92

      4            7        M. WRIGHT (2)                              42               49                91

      5            6        M. GREGORY                                37               53                90

      6            3        M. HARRINGTON (1997/98)*      42               47               89

      7          14        M. JACOBSEN                               43               46               89

      8            5        A. LEGG                                         46               42               88

      9            4        G. CARTHY                                   41               46               87

    10          15        J. WEARDEN                                34               52               86