In the Premier League, LEEDS UNITED won 2-0 at home to Crystal Palace and they are now on a total of 39 goals. Leeds are now tenth in the league and have now won three out of their last five league games.
Tuesday, 9 February 2021
Monday, 8 February 2021
Week Twenty-Three
In Week Twenty-Three of the competition we had our twenty-fourth winner of the season winning on a score of 11 goals once again. It was MIKE HARRINGTON our joint 1997/98 Champion who picked up this weekends cash prize money of £6. Mike started with us back in the 1995/96 Season and it was not long before he became champion. Two seasons later in the 1997/98 Season, he became joint champion with David Salmon as they both finished on a total of 276 goals. They became the second pair to be joint winners and we have not had any since. Mike is ranked as 34th in our Champions League. Last season he finished in 101st place with 230 goals. This season Mike has picked up four blank score sheets at the weekends and this is the highest that he has been all season. This is his personal best score to date and his best team is Brentford. His winning teams are
BRENTFORD 4, MANCHESTER CITY 4, NOTTINGHAM FOREST 3
100
MIDWEEK GOALS
All but one of us picked up some goals this week once again and it has changed the order in the race for the cash. We had another seven players that have scored 50 or more midweek goals, taking our total up to 105 players that are on or over the halfway stage to the cash. It was MARK GREGORY that picked up the most number of midweek goals with a total of 15 goals. They came from Celtic 4, Manchester City 2, Manchester United 9. Mark is now on a total of 78 midweek goals this week which puts him firmly at the top. So here are the top six places this week. So as I have just said that MARK GREGORY is top moving up from five now with a total of 78 goals. In second place moving down from number one of last weekend we have RAYMOND HARROD with a total of 76 goals. In third place down from two is CHRIS SETFORD with a total of 75 goals. In fourth place with 73 goals we have CHRIS DICKER moving back into the race. In fifth place we have MICHAEL JACOBSON moving down from three with MICHAEL FISHER joining the race this week. Both have a total of 72 goals. In sixth place with 71 goals we have MARTIN CORBETT and STEVE STUBBS back in the race.
WEEKEND
RESULTS
This weekend we had the weather interfering with our games again this weekend. We had a total of fourteen of our teams without a game over the weekend with another sixteen that failed to score any goals. The good news is that only one player failed to pick up any goals at the weekend. After getting another fantastic set of midweek results, it was even better at the weekend. The weekends average score shot up from three of last weekend up to 6 goals this weekend. The Highest score over the weekend was four goals and they came from the Premier League where MANCHESTER CITY beat LIVERPOOL 4-1 away and from the Championship BRENTFORD won 4-1 away to MIDDLESBROUGH.
PREMIER LEAGUE
We now have the top eleven teams here with MANCHESTER CITY remaining at the top after they won 4-1 away to LIVERPOOL. City are now on a total of 60 goals and have extended their goal run to fifteen games. Liverpool picked up goal number 57 and they are now back down to fourth place. MANCHESTER UNITED are still in second place after they drew 3-3 at home to EVERTON. United have picked up a total of 12 goals this week and they are now on a total of 61. Everton have moved up to seventh place with a total of 51 goals. LEICESTER CITY are up to third place after they drew 0-0 away to WOLVES. Leicester after a goal run of eleven games, picked up their sixth blank of the season. Wolves picked up their ninth and now just two goals in their last four games. CHELSEA are now in fifth place after they won 2-1 away to Sheffield United. Chelsea are on 52 goals. FULHAM drew 0-0 at home to WEST HAM and that is their thirteenth blank and now two in a row while West Ham after a goal run of eight games, picked up their fourth blank of the season. ASTON VILLA won 1-0 at home to ARSENAL and that is goal number 43 for them as Arsenal picked up their eleventh blank of the season. BRIGHTON drew 1-1 away to Burnley and they are on 34 goals while TOTTENHAM won 2-0 at home to WEST BROM. Tottenham after failing to score in their last two games, are now on a total of 48 goals. West Brom picked up their eleventh blank of the season.
CHAMPIONSHIP
Norwich are still top here after their game on Friday night. BRENTFORD have moved into second place after their 4-1 away win against MIDDLESBROUGH. Brentford are now on a total of 64 goals and have now scored in all of their last seven games. Brough after now goals in their last three games are now on a total of 36 goals.
In the Play-Off’s
we still have all four teams with Swansea now down to third place
with READING up to fourth place after they drew 0-0 away to STOKE.
Reading picked up their eighth blank of the season to Stoke’s eleven. WATFORD
are down to fifth place after they drew 0-0 away to Coventry. That is Watford’s
tenth blank of the season. BOURNEMOUTH
remained in sixth place this week after they won 3-2 at home to BIRMINGHAM.
Bournemouth are now on a total of 50 goals while Birmingham are on 21 goals
this week.
Meanwhile CARDIFF won 2-0 away to BRISTOL CITY and they are on 35 goals while Bristol picked up their eleventh blank score sheet. LUTON drew 1-1 at home to Huddersfield and they are on 28 goals. ROTHERHAM are on 34 goals as they win 3-1 away to PRESTON. Rotherham have now scored in all of their last ten games while Preston picked up their 39th goal of the season. NOTTINGHAM FOREST won 3-0 away to Wycombe and they are now on a total of 27 goals.
LEAGUE ONE
Lincoln City are back on top after their
win in midweek.
In the Play-off’s we still have three of our
teams out of the four with HULL
moving down to third place after they lost 1-0 away to Burton. PETERBOROUGH are down to fourth place after
they won 2-0 at home to CREWE. After
a two game dry spell for goals, Borough are now on 41 goals. Crewe picked up
their eighth blank of the season after a goal run of fourteen games. PORTSMOUTH are still in fifth place as
they drew 2-2 at home to PLYMOUTH. Portsmouth
are on 55 goals while Plymouth are on 49 and have extended their goal run to
twelve games.
Meanwhile ACCRINGTON STANLEY picked up their sixth blank of the season as they drew 0-0 at home to Northampton. OXFORD UNITED lost 3-2 away to Doncaster and they are now on a total of 42 goals and have now scored in all of their last eight games. FLEETWOOD TOWN drew 0-0 at home to Bristol Rovers and that is their twelfth blank of the season and now four in a row. SUNDERLAND drew 2-2 away to MK Dons and they are on 34 goals and a goal run of seven games. CHARLTON won 2-0 away to Rochdale and they are on a total of 44 goals and a goal run of seven games. SWINDON lost 1-0 at home to Shrewsbury and that is their eleventh blank and now just one goal in their last four games. It’s 30 goals for WIGAN after they lost 3-2 at home to AFC Wimbledon.
LEAGUE TWO
TRANMERE have moved up to third place after
they won 3-0 at home to Port Vale. Tranmere are now on a total of 39 goals.
In the Play-off’s we have just one team left in
for now and they are EXETER. They
won 3-2 at home to Bradford and they are now on a total of 53 goals.
Meanwhile most of the games here were cancelled in this league due to the weather with only HARROGATE TOWN managing to play. They won 3-1 away to Crawley and they are now on a total of 34 goals.
SCOTTISH
LEAGUES
In the Premiership RANGERS failed to beat bottom of the table Hamilton as they drew1-1
away. Rangers are on a total of 74 goals and have now scored in all of their
last twenty-six games. Rangers have also scored just three goals in their last
three games. They are now are 21 points in front of Celtic who have two games
in hand of Rangers. CELTIC won 2-1 at
home to MOTHERWELL. Celtic are on a
total of 57 goals while Motherwell are on 25 goals. ABERDEEN lost 2-0 away to Hibernian to pick up their tenth blank
score sheet and now four games without a goal. Aberdeen are back down to fourth
place.
All Scottish football below Championship level are still suspended but they are hoping to restart play on 20th February.
Our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals. They are
RANGERS (74)
BRENTFORD (64) MANCHESTER UNITED (61) Total of 199 goals
OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE
DERBY (18) SOUTHEND
(20) BIRMINGHAM (21) Total of 59 goals
Our Best team this week are RANGERS after they have now scored in all of their last twenty-six league/cup games. They have scored a total of 74 goals which now gives them an average score of 2.4 goals per game.
Our worst team this weekend is FLEETWOOD TOWN who have scored just four goals in their last twelve games played.
DERBY have picked up the most number of blank score sheets with sixteen out of their thirty league/cup games.
Our highest goal scorers in our 38th Season are MANCHESTER UNITED after they won 9-0 win at home against Southampton in the league in Week Twenty-Three.
STEVE REEVE has become our sixth player to reach the top this season. I managed to pick up a total of thirteen goals this week and am really surprised that I have reached the top. My teams are Brentford, Manchester City and Rangers. Jed Wearden has moved down to second place as he picked up a total of ten goals for the week. Jed is three goals behind me this week. His teams are once again Brentford, Liverpool and Rangers.
At the other end at 116 we still have
John Nicholls who has now been there
for seven consecutive weeks. Johns teams picked up just three goals this week
from Bristol City, Fulham and West Brom.
So it's all change at the top this weekend
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 2 S. REEVE (2008/09) 70 128 198
2 1 J. WEARDEN 64 131 195
3 5 M. FISHER 72 123 195
4 3 M. JOHNSTON 64 127 191
5 8 B. BARNES (2) 63 124 187
6 4 G. PHILLIPS 61 125 186
7 6 K. THOMSON 60 121 181
8 9 A. EYLES 69 112 181
9 12 R. HARROD 76 105 181
10 7 S. MARSHALL 56 124 180
Saturday, 6 February 2021
More Lost Points for Norwich
In the Championship, NORWICH have now failed to score in their last four games as they go down 2-0 away to SWANSEA. Norwich have now had a total of eight blank score sheets while Swansea take their goals total to 42. Norwich are hanging on to the top spot as Swansea move up to second place.
In League One, LINCOLN CITY have move to the top after they won 3-0 away to Gillingham. Lincoln have taken their goals tally to 53 goals.
In
the Scottish Championship, HEARTS
keep well hold of their lead as they win 1-0 away to Ayr to give them a total
of 48 goals and a goal run of nine games.
Friday, 5 February 2021
Chelsea up to Sixth
In the Premier League, It’s 50 goals for CHELSEA as they beat their London rivals TOTTENHAM 1-0 away. The goal came early in the first half which was a penalty. Tottenham have now failed to score in their last two league games and they now have a total of five blank score sheets to date. We have now had ten of our Golden Goals teams that are at the half way mark to 100 goals.
Thursday, 4 February 2021
City Stay Top
In the Premier League, MANCHESTER CITY kept our top teams on their toes as they win again, 2-0 away to Burnley. Both of City’s goals came in the first half and they are now on a total of 56 goals. They have extended their goal run to fourteen games. LEICESTER CITY have moved up to third place after they won 2-0 away to FULHAM. Leicester are on 46 goals and they have also extended their goal run to eleven games. Fulham picked up their twelfth blank of the season. LIVERPOOL have drop down to fourth place after they lost 1-0 at home to BRIGHTON. That is Liverpool’s sixth blank score sheet while Brighton picked up goal number 33. WEST HAM won 3-1 away to ASTON VILLA and that has taken their goals tally up to 48 goals while Villa are on 42. LEEDS lost 2-1 at home to EVERTON. Leeds are on 37 goals while Everton are on 48.
In the Championship, BRENTFORD are now in second place after they won 3-2 at home to BRISTOL CITY after going a goal down. Brentford are now on a total of 60 goals and they have now scored in all of their last six games. Bristol are on 40 goals. ROTHERHAM won 3-0 at home to DERBY and they are on 32 goals while Derby picked up their sixteenth blank of the season.
In
the Scottish Premiership, RANGERS
have kept their 23 point lead after they won 1-0 at home to St Johnstone. Rangers
have now scored in all of their last twenty-five games and they are now on a
total of 73 goals. MOTHERWELL won 2-1 at home to Dundee United and they
are on 24 goals.
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
Nine for United
It
seems that it’s the weather and not Covid that is now affecting our games. We
had a few of them cancelled last night due to the snow and wet weather.
In
the Premier League, MANCHESTER
UNITED have picked up theirs and our biggest result of our 38th
Season here at Golden Goals as
they win 9-0 at home to Southampton. United have taken their goals tally up to
58 goals after their win, as Southampton were left with just nine men on the
pitch at full time. WEST BROM lost 2-1 away to Sheffield United and they
are on a total of 25 goals. After a two game dry spell for goals, WOLVES
won 2-1 at home against ARSENAL and they are on 25 goals. Arsenal picked
up goal number 32.
In the Championship, NORWICH drew 0-0 away to Millwall and they have now had a total of seven blank score sheets and now three in a row. BOURNEMOUTH lost 2-1 at home to Sheffield Wednesday and they are on 47 goals. NOTTINGHAM FOREST are now on 24 goals after they won 2-1 away to Coventry. BIRMINGHAM drew 0-0 with Wycombe to pick up blank number fourteen.
In League One, ACCRINGTON STANLEY picked up their biggest win of the season as they win 6-1 at home to Bristol Rovers. Accrington are now on a total of 37 goals. SWINDON won 1-0 at home to WIGAN and they are on 33 goals while Wigan picked up their eleventh blank of the season and now three games in a row without a goal. After a two game dry spell for goals, PORTSMOUTH won 3-1 away to CHARLTON. Portsmouth are on 53 goals as Charlton hit goal number 42. CREWE won 1-0 away to Shrewsbury and they are on 41 goals.
In League Two, just one result here as EXETER win 1-0 away to Stevenage to pick up their 50th goal of the season.
In the Scottish Premiership, CELTIC won 4-0 away to Kilmarnock and they are now on a total of 55 goals. ABERDEEN lost 2-0 at home to Livingston and that is their ninth blank score sheet and they have now failed to score in their last three games.
Monday, 1 February 2021
Week Twenty-Two
In Week Twenty-Two of the competition we had a total of two players to share the cash Prize Money of £6 and they are first time winners this season, which brings our winners total up to Twenty-three. Our winners are ANDY EYLES and BOB SAWYER and they both won on a score of 11 goals each. Andy started with us back in the 2004/05 Season, on where he finished in the winning frame in 25th place with a total of 275 goals. Last season Andy finished in 63rd place with 275 goals. This season with his personal best score, Andy has picked up just two blank score sheets at the weekends and this is his highest position to date as he picks up a total of twenty goals this week. Bob started with us in the 2010/11 Season and he finished in second place with a total of 302 goals. With two weekend wins, Bob won over £62 in cash. Last season he finished in the winning frame again in 24th place with a total of 295 goals. This season he has been at the top in Week Three for a week but he has never fallen below thirteenth place since then. Bob has picked up three weekend blank score sheets and this his personal best score. Their winning teams are
Andy BRENTFORD 7, LIVERPOOL 3, MANCHESTER CITY 1
Bob BRENTFORD 7, CELTIC 1, LIVERPOOL 3
100 MIDWEEK GOALS
All of us picked up some goals this week once again and it has changed the order in the race for the cash once more. We had another forty-three players that have scored 50 or more midweek goals, taking our total up to ninety-eight players that are on or over the halfway stage to the cash. It was STUART KEMP’s first combo that picked up the most number of midweek goals with a total of 14 goals. They came from Manchester City 5, Oxford United 4 and Tottenham 5. Stuart is now on a total of 56 midweek goals. So here are the top five places this week. In the lead this week we still have RAYMOND HARROD now with a total of 67 goals. His teams are Brentford, Celtic and Manchester City. In second place moving down from number one of last weekend we have CHRIS SETFORD with a total of 66 goals. In third place up from four is MICHAEL JACOBSON with a total of 65 goals. In fourth place all with 64 goals we still have ANDY EYLES but with him this week we have STEVE REEVE down from two. DEAN ZANIOUS moves up from five and CHRIS BOLBERY moves back in the race. In fifth place we still have BADLEY CLARK but with him this week we have BOB SAWYER down from two with MARK GREGORY coming down from four. All are on a total of 63 goals.
WEEKEND
RESULTS
This weekend we had the weather interfering with our games as the coronavirus cancels the odd game now. We had a total of twelve of our teams without a game over the weekend with another eighteen that failed to score any goals. The good news is that only two players failed to pick up any goals at the weekend. After fantastic results from our midweek games, it was not so good at the weekend. The weekends average score fell from five of last weekend back down to just 3 goals this weekend. The Highest score over the weekend was seven goals and they came from the Championship where BRENTFORD won 7-2 at home to Wycombe. Brentford are now on a total of 57 goals. Brentford are one of our original teams from our first season, and they were our 9th most voted team in that season of 1983/84. They finished the season with a total of 84 goals. This is their nineteenth season with Golden Goals and their highest score came in the 1998/99 Season with 95 goals. Last season they finished with 86 goals. Over the years they have netted a total of 1358 goals which gives them an average score of 71 goals per season. This season they have a total of 18 votes which is our fourth highest English team. They have had just five blank score sheets to date.
PREMIER LEAGUE
We have the top ten teams here with MANCHESTER CITY at the top after they won just 1-0 at home to bottom of the table Sheffield United. With the goal being scored in the first nine minutes, City are on a total of 54 goals and have extended their goal run to thirteen games. MANCHESTER UNITED are in second place after they drew 0-0 away to ARSENAL. As United picked up their sixth blank of the season, Arsenal picked up their tenth. LIVERPOOL are third as they win 3-1 away to WEST HAM. Liverpool have scored six goals this week and are now on a total of 56. West Ham are on 45 goals and they have now scored in all of their last seven games and are in fifth place in the league. LEICESTER CITY are fourth after they lost 3-1 at home to LEEDS UNITED. Leicester who have now scored in all of their last ten games, are now on 44 goals. Leeds have taken their goals tally to 36. WOLVES picked up their eighth blank and now two in a row after they lost 1-0 away to Crystal Palace. EVERTON lost 2-0 at home to Newcastle and that is their fifth blank of the season. ASTON VILLA won 1-0 away to Southampton and they are on 41 goals. WEST BROM drew 2-2 at home to FULHAM and they are on 24 goals while Fulham are on 22. BRIGHTON beat TOTTENHAM 1-0 at home to give them a total of 32 goals as Tottenham picked up their fourth blank of the season after a goal run of eight games. CHELSEA with their new manager, won 2-0 at home to Burnley and they are now on a total of 49 goals.
CHAMPIONSHIP
NORWICH are still top here after they drew
0-0 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH. Norwich have now not scored in their last
two games and have a total of six blank score sheets. Middlesbrough picked up
their twelfth and now three games without a goal. SWANSEA are still in
second place after they won 3-1 away to ROTHERHAM. Swansea have now
scored in all of their last six games and are now on a total of 40 goals.
Rotherham picked up goal number 29 and they have scored in all of their last
eight games.
In the Play-Off’s
we still have all four teams with Brentford now in third place
after their big win. Watford are down to fourth place with Reading
still in fifth place. Bournemouth remained in sixth place this week.
Meanwhile BIRMINGHAM drew 1-1 at home to Coventry and that is goal number 19 for them. LUTON lost 1-0 away to Blackburn and that is their thirteenth blank of the season. CARDIFF drew 1-1 at home against Millwall and they are on 33 goals. DERBY won 1-0 at home to BRISTOL CITY and are on 18 goals. Bristol picked up their tenth blank of the season. STOKE drew 1-1 away to Huddersfield and that is goal number 36 for them. NOTTINGHAM FOREST drew 0-0 at home to Barnsley and that is blank number twelve after a goal run of six games. PRESTON lost 1-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday and that is their eleventh blank score sheet and two in a row.
LEAGUE ONE
HULL are top still by goal difference after
they won 1-0 at home to SWINDON. Hull
are now on 46 goals this week while Swindon picked up their tenth blank and now
two in a row. LINCOLN
CITY are still in second place after they lost 1-0 at home to Doncaster.
That is their seventh blank od the season after a goal run of six games.
In the Play-off’s we still have three of our teams out of the four with PETERBOROUGH in third place after they lost 2-0 away to Shrewsbury. Borough picked up their seventh blank and now two games in a row without a goal. Portsmouth are down to fifth place with SUNDERLAND moving up to sixth place after they drew 2-2 at home to Gillingham. Sunderland are on a total of 32 goals and they have also now scored in all of their last six games.
Meanwhile CREWE have extended their goal run to thirteen games after they drew 1-1 at home to Ipswich. Crewe are now on a total of 40 goals. It’s 40 goals for OXFORD UNITED as they win 1-0 at home to FLEETWOOD TOWN. Fleetwood picked up their eleventh blank and now three in a row. PLYMOUTH drew 2-2 at home to ACCRINGTON STANLEY and they are on 47 goals and a goal run of eleven games. Accrington are on 31 goals.
LEAGUE TWO
We still have two teams
here in the Play-off’s who are CHELTENHAM
now in fourth place after they drew 0-0 away to Forest Green. That is
Cheltenham’s sixth blank of the season. TRANMERE
are in fifth place after they won 1-0 away to Morecambe. Tranmere are on 36
goals.
Meanwhile BOLTON won 2-0 at home to Leyton Orient and they are on 33 goals. EXETER lost 1-0 away to Carlisle and that is their seventh blank and now two in a row. HARROGATE TOWN won 2-1 at home to Newport and they are on 31 goals. SALFORD CITY lost 2-1 away to Oldham and that is goal number 34 for them. It’s 20 goals for SOUTHEND but they lost 5-1 away to Port Vale. Southend are still bottom of the league.
SCOTTISH
LEAGUES
In the Premiership Rangers, who had no game this week, are still 23 points in front of
CELTIC in second place, as they lost
their third league game out of twenty-four played. Celtic lost 2-1 at home to
St Mirren. Celtic are on a total of 51 goals. ABERDEEN drew 0-0 away to Livingston to pick up their eighth blank
score sheet and now two games without a goal. Aberdeen are still in third
place.
In the Championship, HEARTS are still top after they won 1-0 at home to Dunfermline. Hearts
are now on a total of 47 goals and they have now scored in all of their last eight
games.
All Scottish football below Championship level are still suspended.
Our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals. They are
RANGERS (72) BRENTFORD (57) LIVERPOOL (56) Total of 185 goals
OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE
DERBY (18) BIRMINGHAM (19) SOUTHEND (20) Total of 57 goals
Our Best team this week are RANGERS after they have now scored in all of their last twenty-four league/cup games. They have scored a total of 72 goals which now gives them an average score of 2.5 goals per game.
Our worst team this weekend is BIRMINGHAM CITY who have scored just two goals in their last seven games played.
DERBY have picked up the most number of blank score sheets with fifteen out of their twenty-nine league/cup games.
Our highest
goal scorers in our 38th Season are RANGERS their 8-0 win
at home against Hamilton in the league in Week Ten.
JED WEARDEN has remained at the top after he picked up a total of fifteen goals this week. Jed has now been at the top for a total of thirteen weeks and now seven weeks in a row. His teams are once again Brentford, Liverpool and Rangers. Steve Reeve has moved up to second place as I picked up a total of fifteen goals for the week. I am just two goals behind Jed this week and this is the highest that I have been all season. My teams are Brentford, Manchester City and Rangers.
At the other end at 116 we still have
John Nicholls who has now been there
for six consecutive weeks. Johns teams picked up six goals this week from
Bristol City, Fulham and West Brom.
So here are our top ten for this weekend.
THIS LAST M/WEEK W/END TOTAL
WEEK WEEK NAME GOALS GOALS GOALS
1 - J. WEARDEN 60 125 185
2 3 S. REEVE (2008/09) 64 119 183
3 2 M. JOHNSTON 61 121 182
4 6 G. PHILLIPS 57 118 175
5 4 M. FISHER 60 115 175
6 7 K. THOMSON 58 116 174
7 8 S. MARSHALL 51 119 170
8 5 B. BARNES (2) 52 118 170
9 12 A. EYLES 64 103 167
10 9 C. WEBB 52 113 165
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