Week Twenty

In Week Twenty of the competition it’s half time here and before the whistle was blown, we had just one player to pick up the full amount of cash this weekend with 10 goals. For his second win of the season it went to STUART KEMP.

Stuart won in week two on nine goals and he had to share the cash then. So Stuart has now won a total of £9 in cash so far this season. Since then he has picked up three blank score sheets giving him a total of four in the first half. The good news for Stuart is that he is back on the front page and we see him at his highest position to date. His highest score at the weekend was in week seven with 11 goals. His best team is Manchester City. Here are his teams once again

 LIVERPOOL 4, MANCHESTER CITY 4, MANCHESTER UNITED 2

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Last week we had a total of five players that were on 50 or more midweek goals and with the results over midweek there are now a total of twenty-two of us hoping to win the cash. All but six of you managed to pick up some more midweek goals this week. We had two players that picked up the most with 10 goals each. They are CHRIS BOLBERY and BRADLEY CLARK. Like most of you they had Celtic and Manchester City as part of their combination, but Chris has Wigan and Bradley has Chelsea to make the set. so the race for the cash has changed slightly again this week.

Still in first place now on 59 goals we have JAMES BLYTH. In second place on 56 goals we have (Me) STEVE REEVE and up from three JULIE SOMERVILLE.  In third place on 55 goals is STEPHEN LEADER jumping in. In fourth place still on 54 goals we have SIMON DICKINSON and TONY KING.  In joint fifth place we have ROB FREEMAN, MIKE PEPPERRELL and JUNE TIGHE all on 53 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

This weekend the average score fell down again from four goals last weekend to just 3 this weekend. After a great start to the week from the midweek results, the weekend did fall a bit flat. This weekend we had six teams without a game and another sixteen teams that failed to score any goals. The highest score that we had over the weekend was four goals and we had four teams that did manage to score them.  

PREMIERSHIP

We have the top five teams here this weekend with MANCHESTER CITY still top as they win 4-1 at home to TOTTENHAM. City are now on a total of 58 goals and they have now scored in all of their last nine games. MANCHESTER UNITED are still eleven points behind them in second place as they won 2-1 away to WEST BROM. United are now on 45 goals while West Brom hit goal number 17 after a three game dry spell for goals. In third place is still CHELSEA after they won 1-0 at home against Southampton to pick up goal number 39. In fourth place we still have LIVERPOOL who won 4-0 away to BOURNEMOUTH. Liverpool are now on 38 goals while Bournemouth picked up their second blank in a week and now nine over the season. ARSENAL are in fifth place again as they win 1-0 at home to NEWCASTLE. Arsenal are now on a total of 34 goals while Newcastle picked up their eighth blank of the season. CRYSTAL PALACE are doing very well of late as they win 3-0 away to LEICESTER CITY to take their goals tally to 19 while City picked up their fourth blank of the season. It’s 25 goals for WEST HAM as they win 3-0 away to Stoke.

CHAMPIONSHIP

We still have the top two teams here with Wolves still on top with CARDIFF now just four points behind them as they win 1-0 at home against HULL. Cardiff are now on 36 goals while Hull picked up their fourth blank of the season. In fifth place is still ASTON VILLA who lost 2-0 away to Derby to picked up their eighth blank of the season and now two in a row. In sixth place is SHEFFIELD UNITED who lost 1-0 away to Preston to get their fifth blank of the season. LEEDS UNITED won 1-0 at home to NORWICH to take their goals tally to 46 while Norwich picked up their sixth blank score sheet. BIRMINGHAM lost 2-1 at home to QUEENS PARK RANGERS to give them a total of 17 goals after a run of two games with out a goal. Rangers are now on 27 goals. BOLTON lost 1-0 at home to BURTON ALBION  to picked up their tenth blank score sheet while Albion have now netted 20 goals. BRENTFORD drew 0-0 at home to Barnsley to get their six blank of the season. It’s 40 goals for IPSWICH as they win 2-0 at home to READING who picked up their eighth blank score sheet. MIDDLESBROUGH are on 34 goals as they lost 2-1 away to Millwall. SUNDERLAND are on 30 goals as they win 1-0 at home against FULHAM who picked up their sixth blank score sheet.

LEAGUE ONE

WIGAN are still top here as they win 4-0 away to AFC Wimbledon to take their goals tally to 51. Wigan have now scored in all of their last eight games. In the play-off zone at the moment we have all four teams. In third place is BLACKBURN after they won 2-0 at home to CHARLTON who are in sixth place. Blackburn are now on 49 goals while Charlton picked up their sixth blank of the season and now two in a row. BRADFORD are still in fourth place as they win 2-1 away to SOUTHEND. While Bradford take their goals tally to 42, Southend are now on 25. Behind them is still SCUNTHORPE in fifth place after they drew 2-2 at home to MK DONS. After a two game dry spell for goals Scunthorpe are now on 32 goals while the Dons are on 35. DONCASTER are on 36 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Oldham. PORTSMOUTH picked up their 28^th goal of the season and now five goals in five games as they win 1-0 at home to Bury. It’s 20 goals for PLYMOUTH as they drew 1-1 away to Rotherham. PETERBOROUGH won 3-2 away to FLEETWOOD and are now on 49 goals while Fleet are on 37. 

LEAGUE TWO

LUTON are still top here as they win 2-0 away to FOREST GREEN. Luton are now on 57 goals while Forest Green picked up their ninth blank of the season. EXETER are now in third place as they win 2-1 at home to Stevenage Exeter are now on a total of 40 goals. LINCOLN CITY are still in sixth place after they won 2-0 at home against Accrington to take their goals total to 29. In seventh place is COVENTRY after they won 2-1 at home to Cheltenham and they are now on 29 goals.  It’s 29 for PORT VALE as they win 2-1 away to Grimsby. MANSFIELD drew 0-0 at home to Yeovil to pick up their sixth blank of the season and now two in a row.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Scottish Premiership, CELTIC’S record run of scoring in all of their twenty-one league and cup games is over as they lost 4-0 away to Hearts.  What an incredible record they have made by scoring in all of their last 68 games starting from the beginning of last season. That is going to be one hell of a record to beat. ABERDEEN have moved back in to second place as they win 4-1 at home to Hibernian. Aberdeen with seven goals in a week are now on a total of 33 goals. RANGERS are back to third place after they lost 3-1 at home to St Johnstone. Rangers picked up goal number 47.   

In League Two ELGIN CITY lost 3-0 away to Montrose and that is their ninth blank of the season. STENHOUSEMUIR won 2-1 away to Edinburgh City and they are now on 29 goals.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

MANCHESTER CITY (58) LUTON (57) CELTIC (56) Total of 171 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

WEST BROM (17) BIRMINGHAM (17) NEWCASTLE (18) Total of 52 goals

The team with the best run of goals is currently LEEDS UNITED who have scored in all of their last eleven games.

BIRMINGHAM and DONCASTER have both picked up the most number of blank score sheets with a total of twelve each.

Our highest goal scoring team in our 35^th Season is PETERHEAD from the Scottish League Two. They picked up our highest score in week eleven as they won 9-0 at home to non-league team Colville Park in the WILLIAM HILL CUP Second Round. 

Our 2013/14 Champion PAUL DAVEY  is now celebrating his fifth weekend at  number one as his combination picked him up a total of seven goals in midweek with another six goals at the weekend. Paul has Celtic, Luton and Manchester City. He is down to six goals clear of Chris Bolbery who has moved back up to second place.

At the other end at number 149 we still have COLIN PINDER who is now spending his seventh consecutive weekend there and now nine over the Season, which makes him our longest player to stay there. Colin picked up five goals from his combination in midweek with another four from the weekend. His teams are Colchester, Crystal Palace and Southend.

It's half time here at Golden Goals and here is how the top ten stands this week. 

      THIS      LAST                                                  M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

     WEEK     WEEK             NAME                         GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

          1             -                 P. DAVEY (2013/14)      39                   132                171

          2                 7                C. BOLBERY                  46                   119                165              

          3                 4                G. WARMAN                  48                   115                163              

          4                 2                C. BOOM                        38                   124                162

          5                 6                A, DAVEY                      49                   111                160

          6                 5                T. BAXTER                    50                   110                160

         7                 8                C. DICKER                     41                   118                159

          8                 3                J. WEARDEN                41                   117                158

         9                 15              D. BARRETT                 37                   117                154                                

         10                -               A. NEWMAN                 46                    108                154

Wolves Seven Points Clear at Top

In the English Championship WOLVES are now seven points clear of second place Cardiff after they won 1-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday. Wolves have now taken their goals tally to 46.

In League Two COLCHESTER have moved up to fifth place after they won 3-2 away to Swindon to take their goals total to 33.

Last Replay of FA Cup 2nd Round

The last of the FA CUP Second Round Replays have now been played in which our very last team have made it through to the next round. That team is FLEETWOOD TOWN where they won 2-0 away to non-league Hereford FC. Fleetwood are now on a total of 35 goals.

Blackburn are Through

We have another one of our teams through to the next round of the FA Cup. That team is BLACKBURN who have 12 votes this season. They beat Crewe 1-0 away in the second round replay. Blackburn are now on a total of 47 goals.

Meanwhile in the English Premiership MANCHESTER CITY won 4-0 away to Swansea and they are now on 54 goals. Could we already be seeing City as this season’s Champions? MANCHESTER UNITED won just 1-0 at home to BOURNEMOUTH. United take their goals tally to 43 while Blackburn picked up their eighth blank score sheet of the season. LIVERPOOL after a goal run of eight games picked up their fourth blank of the season as they drew 0-0 at home to WEST BROM who picked up their eighth blank and now three games in a row. EVERTON won 1-0 away to NEWCASTLE to take their goals total to 24 while Newcastle picked up their seventh blank score sheet. LEICESTER CITY picked up their highest score for some while as they win 4-1 away to Southampton. Leicester are now on 36 goals. TOTTENHAM are on 33 goals as they win 2-0 at home to Brighton. ARSENAL drew 0-0 away to WEST HAM to pick up their fourth blank after a goal run of thirteen games. West Ham picked up their seventh blank of the season.

In the Scottish Premiership CELTIC extend their goal run to twenty-one as they win 3-1 at home to Hamilton. Celtic are now on a total of 56 goals. RANGERS are on 46 goals as they win 2-1 away to Hibernian. ABERDEEN won 3-0 away to St Johnstone and they take their goals tally to 29.

FA CUP Second Round Replays.

We had five of our Golden Goal teams playing in the FA CUP Second Round Replays and what drama there was. PETERBOROUGH picked up the highest score of the night as they won 5-2 at home to non-league Woking, after going a goal down in the first nineteen minutes of the first half. Borough are now on a total of 46 goals. WIGAN are also through as they win 3-2 at home to non-league AFC Fylde to take their goals tally to 47. EXETER have also gone through to the next round as they win 2-1 after extra time against FOREST GREEN who scored first. Exeter are now on a total of 38 while Forest Green hit goal number 28. PORT VALE are out of the cup after they lost 3-2 after extra time with nine men. Vale are now on a total of 27 goals.

In the English Premiership CHELSEA won 3-1 away to Huddersfield which took their goals total to 38 while CRYSTAL PALACE won 2-1 at home to Watford after going a goal down in the first half. Palace have now moved out of the relegation zone with a total of 16 goals after they won their third league game out of seventeen played.

Cardiff Drop Points

In the English Championship, READING drew 1-1 at home to CARDIFF to take their goals tally to 33 while Cardiff remain in second place and now four points behind leaders Wolves with a total of 35 goals.

Week Nineteen

In Week Nineteen of the competition and we had our fourth Rollover worth £12 and we had three players that had to share the cash. All of our winners pick up their first win of the season which now takes our winners total to 28. Our winners won on a score of 10 goals each. They are STEPTOE & SON (Jamie Marson), PETER WELLARD and our 2015/16 Champion RICHARD WILLIAMS.

Jamie has been with Golden Goals for fifteen Seasons and he started with us in our 21^st Season (2003/04) where he finished in 77^th place out of 90 on a total of 235 goals. In that season he had two weekend wins winning over £4 in cash. Last season Jamie finished in 45^th place on 300 goals. Back to this season, and we can see Jamie at his highest position of the season so far. He has picked up three blank score sheets to date and his best team is Manchester City.

Peter started with us back in the 2004/05 Season where he finished in 57^th place out of 105 with 261 goals and two weekend wins. Peter was with us for ten seasons before he left us. So the good news is that he is back and he is also at his highest so far. He has also picked up three blank score sheets and his best team is Celtic.

Richard has also been with us for a total of fifteen seasons starting from 1992/93 to 2002/03 and then he came back to us in the 2015/16 Season where he became Champion. In that season he finished on a total of 298 goals and won £100 in cash. Last season he finished in 103^rd place on 260 goals. This season he has been as high as 35 in week three. This is his biggest score of the season and he has also had three blank score sheets. Richards best team is Celtic. Our winners combinations are

Jamie  BLACKBURN 3, MANCHESTER CITY 2, TOTTENHAM 5

Peter  BLACKBURN 3, CELTIC 2, TOTTENHAM 5

Richard  CELTIC 2, NORWICH 3, TOTTENHAM 5

MIDWEEK RESULTS

We only had five of our teams in midweek action and we had just one team that failed to pick up any goals. In the English Championship WOLVES beat BIRMINGHAM 1-0 away in which Birmingham picked up their eleventh blank of the season while SHEFFIELD UNITED lost 2-1 at home to Bristol City and they have taken their goal tally to 38.

In the Scottish Premiership, ABERDEEN won 1-0 away to Dundee. Aberdeen are now on a total of 26 goals. In League Two PETERHEAD won 1-0 away to Stirling. Peterhead have taken their goals tally to 48 and they have now scored in all of their last eight games.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Only nine players managed to pick up some more midweek goals this week so the race for the cash has changed slightly this week.

Still in first place now on 54 goals we have JAMES BLYTH. In second place on 52 goals we have (Me) STEVE REEVE In third place down one, we have JULIE SOMERVILLE on 51 goals. In fourth place still on 50 goals we have SIMON DICKINSON and TONY KING.  In joint fifth place we have MATT DORAN, PHIL FRANCKSEN, ROB FREEMAN, CHRIS SETFORD, JUNE TIGHE and DAVE WOOD plus moving up from sixth place we have TONY GUY (1), GRAHAM PHILLIPS and BOB SAWYER all on 49 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

This weekend the average score fell back down from eight goals last weekend to 4 this weekend. It has been a very funny weekend for our teams where teams that should of won, did not. This weekend we had six teams without a game and another fifteen teams that failed to score any goals.

The highest score that we had over the weekend came from the English Premiership where TOTTENHAM  picked up their highest score of the season by beating Stoke 5-1 at home. Tottenham are now on a total of  31 goals.

Tottenham are one of our original teams from Season One as they became our tenth most voted team that season where they finished on a score of 71 goals. This is Tottenhams 34^th Season with Golden Goals and their highest end of season goals total of 109 goals came in the 1986/87 and 2016/17 Seasons. Their lowest score was in 1987/88 with 47 goals. Over the years they have now netted a total of 2459 which gives them an average score of  72  goals per season. They have twenty-two votes this season.

PREMIERSHIP

We Still have the top six teams here with MANCHESTER CITY still top as they beat their local rivals MANCHESTER UNITED 2-1 away. City have taken their goals tally to 50 while United are now eleven points behind in second place with a total of 42 goals. In third place is still CHELSEA after they lost 1-0 away to WEST HAM. Chelsea have now had three blank score sheets while West Ham take their goals total to 22. In fourth place we still have LIVERPOOL who drew 1-1 at home to rivals EVERTON. Liverpool are now on 34 goals while Everton are on 24. ARSENAL are in fifth place again as they drew 1-1 away to Southampton. Arsenal picked up goal number 33 and they have now scored in all of their last thirteen games. Tottenham remain in sixth place after their win. CRYSTAL PALACE are picking up the points but remain bottom as they drew 2-2 at home to BOURNEMOUTH to take their goals tally to 14 after a two game dry spell. Bournemouth are now on 21 goals. LEICESTER CITY won 3-2 away to NEWCASTLE to give them a total of 32 goals to Newcastle’s 18. WEST BROM picked up their seventh blank score sheet and now two in a row as they lost 1-0 away to Swansea.

CHAMPIONSHIP

We still have the top two teams here with WOLVES still on top after they drew 0-0 at home to SUNDERLAND. As Wolves picked up their fourth blank score sheet, Sunderland have now had six. Cardiff have remained in second place even though they had no game over the weekend. ASTON VILLA are in fifth place still as they drew 0-0 at home to Millwall. Villa picked up their seventh blank score sheet. Sheffield United are down to sixth  place this weekend. BURTON ALBION lost 2-1 at home to Preston but picked up goal number 19 after a two game dry spell for goals. FULHAM are on 29 goals as they win 1-0 at home to BIRMINGHAM. Birmingham picked up their twelfth blank of the season and now just two goals in their last nine games. HULL won 3-2 at home to BRENTFORD and they are now on 37 goals while Brentford are on 41. MIDDLESBROIUGH won 2-0 at home to IPSWICH and they are now on 33 goals while Ipswich picked up their fifth blank score sheet. NORWICH won 3-1 at home to Sheffield Wednesday and they are now on 32 goals. BIOLTON are on 26 goals as they lost 3-2 away to Nottingham Forest. It’s 45 for LEEDS as they win 3-1 away to QUEENS PARK RANGERS who take their goals tally to 25. 

LEAGUE ONE

WIGAN are still top here as they win 2-0 at home to FLEETWOOD. Wigan are now on a total of 44 goals while Fleetwood picked up their fifth blank of the season. BLACKBURN have moved up to third place as they win 3-2 away to PETERBOROUGH. Blackburn are now on 46 goals while Borough are on 41. BRADFORD are in fourth place as they win 4-2 at home to Rochdale and have taken their goals total to 40. Behind them are SCUNTHORPE who lost 1-0 away to Walsall to pick up their second consecutive blank score sheets and now nine over the season. CHARLTON are in sixth place but lost 1-0 at home to PORTSMOUTH to get their fifth blank of the season while Portsmouth picked up goal number 27. SOUTHEND lost 3-0 away to Bristol Rovers to pick up their eighth blank score sheet. MK DONS are on 33 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Shrewsbury. DONCASTER lost 1-0 away to Oxford and they have now had a total of twelve blank score sheets. PLYMOUTH won 2-1 at home to Gillingham to take their goals tally to 19.

LEAGUE TWO

LUTON are top here as they drew 1-1 at home to Notts County. Luton are now on 55 goals. EXETER are in fourth place as they lost 3-1 away to COLCHESTER. Exeter are now on a total of 36 while Colchester are now on 30 goals. LINCOLN CITY are in sixth place after they won 2-0 away to Yeovil. Lincoln are on 27 goals. COVENTRY picked up their ninth blank of the season as they lost 2-0 away to Morecombe. MANSFIELD lost 2-0 away to Crawley and that is their fifth blank of the season. FOREST GREEN have now had eight blank score sheets as they went down 1-0 away to Grimsby. It’s 25 for PORT VALE as they win 2-0 at home to Cambridge.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Scottish Premiership, CELTIC drew 2-2 away to Hibernian after going two goals up. But Celtic have extended their run of goals to twenty games with a total of 53 goals. RANGERS are in second place and now five points behind their rivals Celtic after they win 2-1 at home to Ross County after going a goal down in the first half.

In League One RAITH drew 2-2 away to  Airdrie which took their goals tally up to 41 goals. In League Two ELGIN CITY drew 1-1 at home to Edinburgh City and they are now on 34 goals while STENHOUSEMUIR lost 3-1 at home to Anna and they are now on 27 goals.  

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

LUTON (55) CELTIC (53) MANCHESTER CITY (50) Total of 158 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

CRYSTAL PALACE (14) BIRMINGHAM (16) WEST BROM (16) Total of 46 goals

The only team with a 100% goal scoring run is CELTIC who have now scored in all of their twenty League/Cup games played with a total of 53 goals. That still gives them an average score of 2.6 goals per game.

BIRMINGHAM and DONCASTER have both picked up the most number of blank score sheets with a total of twelve each.

Our highest goal scoring team in our 35^th Season is PETERHEAD from the Scottish League Two. They picked up our highest score in week eleven as they won 9-0 at home to non-league team Colville Park in the WILLIAM HILL CUP Second Round. 

 Our 2013/14 Champion PAUL DAVEY could be looking at his second title as he is now celebrating his fourth weekend at  number one as his combination picked him up a total of just 5 goals all coming from the weekend. Paul has Celtic, Luton and Manchester City. He is still seven goals clear of Chris Boom in second place.

At the other end at number 149 we still have COLIN PINDER who is now spending his sixth consecutive weekend there and now eight over the Season. Colin picked up five goals from his combination all coming from the weekend once again. His teams are Colchester, Crystal Palace and Southend.

We have had a bit of a change again this weekend but here are the top ten 

     THIS      LAST                                                    M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

     WEEK     WEEK             NAME                          GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

          1             -                 P. DAVEY (2013/14)        32                  126                158

          2                 -                 C. BOOM                          31                  120                151              

          3                 -                 J. WEARDEN                   37                  113                150              

         4                 5                G. WARMAN                    40                  109                149

          5                 4                T. BAXTER                      42                  106                148

         6                 7                A. DAVEY                         42                  106                148

         7                 6                C. BOLBERY                    36                  111                147

         8                 -                 C. DICKER                       33                  112                145

         9                 -                 J. BLYTH                          54                  90                  144                             

         10              -                 A. NEWMAN                    39                  102                141