Week Nineteen

In Week Nineteen of the competition we had two winners this weekend which now takes our winners total to twenty-two. Our two winners had a share the £6 cash prize money and they are BARRY BURROUGHS and PETER WELLARD. Both won on a total of 10 goals.

Barry has been with Golden Goals for nine seasons now as he started in the 2010/11 Season where he finished in the winning frame in 20^th place with 284 goals. With one shared weekend win, Barry won just under £8 in cash. Last season he finished in the winning frame once again in third place with 328 goals. With another shared weekend win, Barry won just over £40 in cash. This season he has picked up three blank score sheets and his highest position to date is 57^th in Week One.

Peter started with us back in the 2004/05 Season where he finished in 57^th place with 261 goals and he had two weekend wins. There was a spell where Peter went missing in action but I am pleased to say that he has been back for the last three seasons. Last season peter finished in 95^th place with a total of 268 goals. He had one weekend win to his name. This season he has been as high as 75^th place in Week Seven and he has also picked up three blank score sheets. Here are our winners teams.

Barry  RANGERS 0, TOTTENHAM 5, WEST BROM 5

Peter LEEDS UTD 2, LIVERPOOL 3, TOTTENHAM 5

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

All but five players picked up some more goals this week and the race for the cash has changed dramatically this week. We had two players that picked up the highest midweek score with eleven goals each. They are BRADLEY CLARK and NATHAN TREADWELL.  Both of them had the Liverpool and Manchester City combo with Bradley having Celtic and Nathan with rangers as their third team.

This week we still have COLIN WEBB (2) who’s lead had been cut down to just one goal with a total of 50 goals. In second place on 49 goals we have PATRICK O’DONAGHUE moving up from four last week. In third place we still have ANDY EYLES now with a total of 48 goals. In fourth place up from five we have PHIL REEVE with 46 goals. In fifth place with 45 goals we have TOBY BICKNELL moving up one from six. In sixth place on 44 goals we have RICHARD WILLIAMS down from two.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had just three of our teams with out a game over the weekend and another twelve teams that failed to score any goals. With that in mind the weekends average score has fallen from seven goals from last weekend to just 4 goals this weekend, even though we all picked up some goals.

The highest score that we had was five goals and we had two teams that picked that score up. They were TOTTENHAM from the Premier League as they won 5-0 at home to Burnley. With their biggest result of the season to date, Tottenham are now on a total of 30 goals and have now scored in all of their last eight games. The other team came from the Championship where WEST BROM won 5-1 at home to Swansea. West Brom have now scored in all of their last ten games and they are now on a total of 42 goals.

PREMIER LEAGUE

What can we say about this season’s Champions LIVERPOOL. They have won their fifteenth league game out of sixteen as they win 3-0 away to Bournemouth. Liverpool have kept their 100% scoring record in tack as they chalk up eighteenth consecutive game. Liverpool are now on a total of 47 goals and still eight points clear of LEICESTER CITY in second place. Leicester won 4-1 away to ASTON VILLA. Leicester are now on a total of 47 goals and they have now scored in all of their last thirteen games. Villa are now fourth from bottom as they picked up goal number 33 and a goal run of six games. MANCHESTER CITY remain in third place after they lost their fourth league game 2-1 at home to local rivals MANCHESTER UNITED. City have taken their goals total up to 50 goals and they have now scored in all of their last nine games. United are now on 28 goals and have moved up to fifth place in the league. CHELSEA come next and are still in fourth place as they lost 3-1 away to EVERTON. Chelsea are now on a total of 39 goals while Everton take their goals tally up to 27. WOLVES drew 2-2 away to Brighton and they are now on a total of 25 goals. NEWCASTLE are now on 18 goals as they win 2-1 at home against Southampton. SHEFFIELD UNITED won 2-1 away to Norwich and they are now on a total of 21 goals.

CHAMPIONSHIP

Who is top this week, well it’s West Brom after that big win against Swansea. LEEDS UNITED go back down to second place on goal difference after they won 2-0 away to HUDDERSFIELD. Leeds are now on 35 goals and they have now scored in all of their last six games. Huddersfield picked up their fifth blank of the season after a goal run of six games. FULHAM are still in third place after they lost 2-1 at home to Bristol City. Fulham are now on 32 goals. BLACKBURN ROVERS won 2-0 at home to DERBY and they are now on 31 goals and a goal run of seven games. Derby picked up their eighth blank score sheet and now just two goals in their last four games. CARDIFF won 3-2 at home to bottom of the table BARNSLEY. Cardiff have taken their goals total to 30 while Barnsley are now on 23 goals. STOKE second from bottom lost 2-1 away to Hull and they are now on 25 goals  LUTON are now on 33 goals as they win 2-1 at home to Wigan. MIDDLESBROUGH won 1-0 at home to Charlton and that is their 19^th goal of the season. QUEENS PARK RANGERS won 2-0 at home against PRESTON and are now on 33 goals. Preston have failed to score in their last four games and have now had a total of seven blank score sheets. BIRMINGHAM picked up their biggest result of the season by winning 3-2 away to Reading. Birmingham are now on 22 goals. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY won 2-1 at home to BRENTFORD and they are now on 29 goals while Brentford picked up goal number 31.

LEAGUE ONE

IPSWICH are our highest team here in second place after they drew 1-1 away to Coventry. Ipswich are now on 32 goals. PETERBOROUGH are in third place as they drew 2-2 away to PORTSMOUTH. Borough are now on 48 goals to Portsmouth’s 37. BLACKPOOL are in fourth place as they win 3-1 at home to Fleetwood. That takes them to 38 goals and a goal run of six games. SOUTHEND lost 4-2 away to Bristol Rovers but they are now on a total of 23 goals. After a two game dry spell for goals, LINCOLN CITY are now on 24 goals as they win 2-0 away to Burton. Another team who have failed to score in their last two games are DONCASTER. They drew 1-1 at home to MK DONS. Doncaster are now on 28 goals while the Dons hit goal number 22. SUNDERLAND picked up their sixth blank of the season as they lost 1-0 away to Gillingham. ROTHERHAM lost 1-0 at home to Rochdale and that is their sixth blank score sheet after a goal run of six games. ACCRINGTON STANLEY are now on 26 goals as they drew 1-1 away to Tranmere.

LEAGUE TWO

FOREST GREEN ROVERS are our highest here in third place after they they lost 2-0 at home to SCUNTHORPE. Rovers have now had nine blank score sheets while Scunthorpe are now on a total of 28 goals. BRADFORD are in sixth place after they won 1-0 at home to Newport. Bradford are now on 28 goals. PLYMOUTH have picked up their fifth blank score sheet after they lost 1-0 away to Cambridge Utd. SALFORD CITY lost 1-0 away to Colchester and that is their eighth blank of the season. MANSFIELD are now on nine blank score sheets and now four in a row as they lost 3-0 at home to Cheltenham. OLDHAM drew 1-1 at home to LEYTON ORIENT and they are on 24 goals to Orient’s 28. 

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the BETFRED League Cup Final, CELTIC beat rivals RANGERS 1-0. Celtic are now well on their way to another 100 goal season with 59 to date. Rangers after a goal run of thirteen games, picked up their second blank score sheet of the season. As Celtic pick up their tenth successive domestic cup trophy, Rangers have not lifted one up since 2011.

In the Premiership, HEARTS lost 1-0 away to Motherwell and that is their ninth blank score sheet and now just one goal in their last four games.

In League One, RAITH ROVERS are on top as they win 1-0 at home to Airdrie. Raith are now on a total of 35 goals. FALKIRK are still in third place after they drew 0-0 away to East fife. Falkirk picked up their sixth blank score sheet. We have not had a big result from PETERHEAD in a while but they won 3-0 at home to Stranraer. Peterhead are now on a total of 22 goals.

In League Two, COVE RANGERS have lost again this weekend 2-1 away to Edinburgh City. Rangers are still top here with a total of 46 goals. STENHOUSEMUIR are now on 21 goals after they lost 2-1 at home to Annan.

Our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals are

CELTIC (59) RANGERS (52) MANCHESTER CITY (50) Total of 161 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

NEWCASTLE (18) WEST HAM (19) MIDDLESBROUGH (19) Total of 56 goals

Our Best team is LIVERPOOL this week after they still have a 100% scoring record after eighteen games. They have a total of 47 goals which gives them an average score of 2.5 goals per game.

Our worst team is still MK DONS again this weekend. They have picked up a total of eleven blank score sheets in twenty-three games played. The Dons have scored now scored three goals in their last four games. They have a total of 22 goals.

Our highest goal scorers in our 37^th Season is LEICESTER CITY from Week Thirteen as the beat Southampton 9-0 away in the league.  

MIKE LIDDLE has remained at the top for his second weekend in a row after he picked up a total of ten goals for the week. Mike has now been at the top for three weeks over the season. Mike’s combination is Celtic, Manchester City and Peterborough and is now just one goal in front of  Bradley Clark who has moved into second place. Bradley picked up a total of sixteen goals over the week. Bradley has the combination of Celtic, Liverpool and Manchester City.  

At the other end at 123 we have The SAINT with his thirteenth consecutive weekend there. The Saint picked up six goals all coming from the weekend.  He has Barnsley, Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday.

So here is how the top ten looks this week.

    THIS      LAST                                                      M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

   WEEK     WEEK             NAME                             GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

                                                                                                                

        1             -                 M. LIDDLE                           29                 128                157

         2                 5                B. CLARK                            35                 121                156

         3                 -                 B. BARNES (1)                    38                 118                156

         4                 2                G. DOWSETT                      28                 127                155              

         5                 9                K. STRATTON (2018/19)    30                 121                151              

         6                 4                R. COLLINS                        27                 123                150              

         7                 6                C. BOLBERY (2017/18)      32                 118                150              

         8                 14              N. TREADWELL                33                 116                149 

         9                 10              STEPTOE & SON               36                 113                149 

         10               8                R. MILES                             29                119                 148  

A Draw for Forest

In the Championship it’s 30 goals for NOTTINGHAM FOREST as they drew 2-2 away to Millwall. Forest have remained in fourth place in the league.

It's Not Arsenal's Season

In the Premier League, ARSENAL lost 2-1 at home to Brighton as they picked up their 31^st goal of the season. SHEFFIELD UNITED lost 2-0 at home to NEWCASTLE.  After a goal run of six games, Sheffield picked up their fifth blank score sheet of the season. Newcastle may be our worst team this season, but they have won their fifth league game out of fifteen and they are now on a total of 16 goals.

Liverpool Keep on Winning

In the Premier League, LIVERPOOL are still progressing well here as they beat EVERTON 5-2 at home. Liverpool are now on a total of 44 goals and have extended their goal run to all seventeen games so far. Everton are now on 24 goals. LEICESTER CITY have moved back into second place after they won 2-0 at home against Watford. City are now on a total of 43 goals and they have now scored in all of their last eleven games. CHELSEA are now on 38 goals as they win 2-1 at home against ASTON VILLA. Villa hit goal number 33. MANCHESTER UNITED are up to sixth place as they win 2-1 at home against TOTTENHAM. United are now on 26 goals while Tottenham are on 25. WOLVES won 2-0 at home to WEST HAM and that brings their goals tally up to 23 goals while West Ham picked up their sixth blank of the season.

In the Scottish Premiership, CELTIC won 2-1 at home to Hamilton and they are now on 58 goals and a goal run of eight games. They are now two points clear of rivals RANGERS who drew 2-2 away to ABERDEEN after going two goal up. Rangers are now on a total of 52 goals and have extended their goal run to thirteen games. HEARTS drew 1-1 at home against Livingston and that is their 26^th goal of the season.

Manchester City up to Second Place

In the Premier League, MANCHESTER CITY won 4-1 away to Burnley and that has taken their goal tally to 49 goals and a goal run of eight games.

In League One, SOUTHEND after a two game dry spell picked up goal number 21 as they drew 1-1 away to Burton.

In the Scottish League Two, it’s 20 goals for STENHOUSEMUIR after they drew 2-2 at home to Elgin City.

FA CUP Second Round

In the very last game in the FA CUP Second Round games, ROTHERHAM had to fight back after going 3-0 down against non-league Solihull Moors, before winning a place in the next round, by finally winning 4-3 away. Rotherham are now on a total of 41 goals and they have now scored in all of their last six games.

In the Championship, WEST BROM won 1-0 away to PRESTON to take them back on top of the table. West Brom scored a very late goal to take their goals tally up to 37 and they have now scored in all of their last nine games. Preston picked up their sixth blank score sheet and now three in a row.

Week Eighteen

In Week Eighteen of the competition and we had our twentieth winner of the season to take the full £6 cash prize money, as DEREK CORMACK picks up a total of 14 goals which is his personal best.

Derek is in his third season with us as he started back in the 2017/18 Season on where he finished in the winning frame in 18^th place on a total of 304 goals. With two weekend wins, Derek won £23 in cash. Last season he finished in 73^rd place on a total of 287 goals. This season this is his first time on being on the first page so this is his highest to date. Derek has picked up three blank score sheets and his best team is Rangers. His teams are

BRENTFORD 7, MANCHESTER CITY 2, RANGERS 5

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Over half of us picked up some more goals this week and the race for the cash has changed slightly once again. We had a total of four players that picked up the highest midweek score with seven goals each. They are JAMES BLYTH, PETER JEFFREY, ANTHONY PIRES and EMMA SAWYER.  

This week we have COLIN WEBB (2) who is in front with a total of 46 goals. In second place on 42 goals we still have RICHARD WILLIAMS but he is now joined with STEVE MEDHURST up from three last week. In third place up from four we have ANDY EYLES now with a total of 41 goals. In joint fourth place we still have SCOTT THOMSON (2) but he is now joined with PATRICK O’DONAGHUE up from five. In joint fifth place both on 39 goals we have PHIL REEVE up from six with EMMA SAWYER moving back in the race. In joint sixth place both on 38 goals we have TOBY BICKNELL down from five and coming back in we have STEVE STUBBS.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had twelve of our teams with out a game over the weekend and another eight teams that failed to score any goals. So the weekends average score has remained at 7 goals for the second weekend running. The reason for that is once again that we all picked up some weekend goals with some big scores.

The highest score that we had came from the Championship where BRENTFORD picked up their highest result of the season by winning 7-0 at home to LUTON. Brentford are now on a total of 30 goals. While Luton picked up their six blank of the season.

Brentford are one of our original teams from our very first season and they became our 9th voted team to come in. They finished on a score of 84 goals. This is their eighteenth season with Golden Goals and their highest score came in the 1998/99 Season with 95 goals. Last season they finished on a total of 87 goals. Over the years they have scored a total of 1245 goals, which gives them an average score of 69 goals per season to date. So far this season they have picked up a total of eight blank score sheets and they have four votes.

FA CUP Second Round

We had a total of nine of our teams in cup action but only three are through to the next round. They are BLACKPOOL who won 3-1 at home to non-league Maidstone Utd. Blackpool are now on 35 goals. PETERBOROUGH will be with them as they won 3-0 at home to non-league Dover. Borough are now on 46 goals. PORTSMOUTH won 2-1 at home to non-league Altrincham and they are now on 35 goals but they have now extended their goal run to eight games. But it’s not all bad news here as we have another three teams in replays. They are PLYMOUTH who drew 1-1 away to Bristol Rovers and that is goal number 33 for them. IPSWICH drew 1-1 away to Coventry and they are now on 31 goals. FOREST GREEN ROVERS are now on 30 goals as they drew 2-2 at home to Carlisle.

Teams that are out are DONCASTER who lost 3-0 away to Gillingham and that is their sixth blank of the season and now two in a row. OLDHAM lost 1-0 at home to Burton and that is their eighth blank of the season. MANSFIELD lost 2-0 away to Shrewsbury and that is their eighth blank score sheet.

PREMIER LEAGUE

LIVERPOOL have remained top after they won 2-1 at home to Brighton. Liverpool have kept their 100% scoring record in tack as they chalk up sixteenth consecutive game. Liverpool are now on a total of 39 goals and still eight points clear of LEICESTER CITY in second place. Leicester won 2-1 at home after going a goal down against EVERTON. City are now on a total of 41 goals and they have now scored in all of their last eleven games. Everton picked up goal number 22. MANCHESTER CITY remain in third place after they drew 2-2 away to NEWCASTLE. City have taken their goals total up to 45 goals and they have now scored in all of their last seven games. Newcastle are now on 14 goals. CHELSEA who are still in fourth place picked up their second blank of the season after a goal run of fourteen games, after they lost 1-0 at home to London rivals WEST HAM. West ham are now on a total of 19 goals. TOTTENHAM are now in fifth place after they won again 3-2 at home to Bournemouth. Tottenham have taken their goals tally to 24 goals and have now scored in all of their last six games. WOLVES are down to sixth place after they drew 1-1 at home to SHEFFIELD UNITED in seventh place. Wolves picked up goal number 21 and they have also now scored in all of their last fifteen games. Sheffield picked up goal 19 and a goal run of six games. MANCHESTER UNITED drew 2-2 at home to ASTON VILLA and they are now on 24 goals to Villas 32. It’s 30 goals for ARSENAL after they drew 2-2 away to Norwich.

CHAMPIONSHIP

You can not take your eyes off this league as LEEDS UNITED go back on top after they won 4-0 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH. It’s been a long while since Leeds had a big score like that but that now takes their goals tally up to 33. Brough picked up their eighth blank of the season. West Brom are back down to second place as they had no game over the weekend. Fulham are in third place after their two wins in midweek. NOTTINGHAM FOREST are in fourth place a they lost 1-0 at  home to CARDIFF. As Forest picked up their fourth blank score sheet, Cardiff are now on a total of 27 goals. Bottom of the table BARNSLEY won their second game of the season as they win 3-1 at home against Hull. With their biggest result of the season, Barnsley are now on 21 goals. BIRMINGHAM drew 1-1 at home to Millwall and that is gaol 19 for them. HUDDERSFIELD lost 5-2 away to Bristol City but they are now on a total of 22 goals. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY won 3-1 away to Charlton and they are now on a total of 27 goals. DERBY drew 1-1 at home to QUEENS PARK RANGERS and that is their 21^st goal of the season to Rangers 31. STOKE second from bottom, lost 2-1 at home to BLACKBURN ROVERS and they are now on 24 goals while Rovers are now on 30.  

LEAGUE TWO

We had just one game here and that was BRADFORD CITY who drew 1-1 away to Macclesfield to pick up their 27^th goal of the season.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Premiership, CELTIC are still top on goal difference as they win 4-1 away to Ross County. Celtic are now on a total of 56 goals. RANGERS once again keep up the pressure as they win 5-0 at home to HEARTS. Rangers are now on a total of 50 goals and a goal run of twelve games. Hearts pick up their eighth blank score sheet and now two in a row. They have scored just six goals in their last nine games. 

In League One, RAITH ROVERS are in second place as they win 1-0 away to Montrose. Raith are now on a total of 34 goals. FALKIRK are in third place after they won 3-0 at home to Stranraer and they are now on 34 goals. PETERHEAD lost 2-1 away to Forfar and they are now on 19 goals.

In League Two, COVE RANGERS have lost their second league game of the season after they went down a whopping 6-1 away to Annan. Rangers are still top here with a total of 45 goals. STENHOUSEMUIR are now on 18 goals after they won 2-1 away to Brechin.

Our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals are

CELTIC (56) RANGERS (50) PETERBOROUGH (46) Total of 152 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

NEWCASTLE (14) STENHOUSEMUIR (18) MIDDLESBROUGH (18) Total of 50 goals

Our Best team is LIVERPOOL this week after they still have a 100% scoring record after sixteen games. They have a total of 39 goals which gives them an average score of 2 goals per game.

Our worst team is MK DONS again this weekend but they had no game this week. They have picked up a total of eleven blank score sheets in twenty-two games played. The Dons have scored four goals in their last thirteen games. They have a total of 21 goals.

Our highest goal scorers in our 37^th Season is LEICESTER CITY from Week Thirteen as the beat Southampton 9-0 away in the league.  

MIKE LIDDLE has moved back to the top after he picked up a total of nine goals all coming from the weekend. Mike has now been at the top for two weeks so far this season. Mike’s combination is Celtic, Manchester City and Peterborough and is now just one goal in front of  last week’s leader Guy Dowsett. He picked up seven goals all coming from the weekend. Guy has the combination of Celtic, Cove Rangers and Manchester City.  

At the other end at 123 we have The SAINT with his twelfth consecutive weekend there. The Saint picked up eight goals for the week.  He has Barnsley, Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday.

We are coming up to half time here at Golden Goals and here is how it all looks this weekend.

               THIS      LAST                                                      M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL
                 WEEK     WEEK             NAME                             GOALS         GOALS        GOALS                                                                                                            

            1             2                M. LIDDLE                          23                  124               147

             2                 1                G. DOWSETT                     22                  124               146

             3                 -                 B. BARNES (1)                   30                  112               142

             4                 5                R. COLLINS                        21                  120               141              

             5                 4                B. CLARK                           24                  116               140              

            6                 7                C. BOLBERY (2017/18)      22                  116               138

            7                 8                C. BAMBRIDGE                 23                  115               138              

            8                 6                R. MILES                             21                  116               137               

            9                 10              K. STRATTON (2018/19)   23                  114               137
            10               11              STEPTOE & SON               28                  108               136