Tuesday, 11 May 2021

Fulham are Relegated

In the Premier League FULHAM lost 2-0 at home against Burnley and are therefor relegated. Fulham have scored just four goals in their last ten games with no goals in their last two games.

 

Monday, 10 May 2021

Week Thirty-Six

In Week Thirty-Six of the competition we are now down to the last few games for this our 38th season. We had two players that picked up the most amount of goals over the weekend with 9 goals each. They are BARRY BURROUGHS and ROBERT FULLER. Barry picked up his goals from Brentford, Liverpool and Peterborough while Robert’s goal came from Chelsea, Manchester United and Peterborough. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS 

Only thirteen of us picked up some goals this week as we are now looking at beat that highest midweek score of 136 goals set by Daryl Nicholls in the 2016/17 Season. But this week we still have a total of 26 players that are on or over the 100 goals mark. In the lead this week we still have MICHAEL JACOBSON with Bournemouth, Celtic and Manchester City with a total of 115 goals. In second place both with a total of 114 goals we still have SANSA-CLARA-LYANNA with Brentford, Manchester City and Watford and DEAN ZANIOUS with Brentford, Manchester City and Oxford United. In third place is EMMA NEWMAN with a total of 112 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS 

We had all but nine of our teams that played over the weekend and out of the ones that did,  just ten failed to score any goals. It was a even better weekend than last weekend but the average score remained at 4 goals this weekend. It was our vey last full league fixture of the season and now most of us have just two of our combo left in play for the next two weeks. The highest score that we had over the weekend was four goals and we had five teams that picked them up. They came from BOLTON, CHELTENHAM, PETERBOROUGH, PORTSMOUTH and SWINDON. 

PREMIER LEAGUE 

Champions MANCHESTER CITY could be in trouble here after they lost their fifth league game 2-1 at home to CHELSEA. City are on a total of 95 goals while Chelsea are on 73 goals and have moved up to third place. MANCHESTER UNITED are still in second place as they win 2-1 away to ASTON VILLA after going a goal down in the first half. United are on a total of 81 goals as Villa picked up goal number 56. After failing to score in their previous two games, LEEDS UNITED won 3-1 at home to TOTTENHAM and the goals have taken their goals tally up to 54. Tottenham hit goal number 80. It’s 70 goals for LIVERPOOL as they win 2-0 at home against Southampton. WEST HAM lost 1-0 at home to EVERTON to pick up their eighth blank of the season while Everton picked up their 68th goal of the season. ARSENAL won 3-1 at home to WEST BROM. Arsenal are now on a total of 54 goals while West Brom are relegated with 39 goals. WOLVES won 2-1 at home to BRIGHTON and they are on 37 goals to Brighton’s 45. 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

Champions NORWICH  drew 2-2 away to Barnsley and they have taken their goal tally to 78 goals. WATFORD are promoted in second place as they win 2-0 at home to SWANSEA. Watford have finished the season on a total of 65 goals. Swansea picked up their twelfth blank of the season. 

In the Play-offs we still have three of the four teams here with BRENTFORD in third place as they win 3-1 away to BRISTOL CITY. Brentford are now on a total of 91 goals while Bristol City finished their season with 57 goals. Swansea are still in fourth place with BOURNEMOUTH down to sixth place after they lost again 2-0 at home to STOKE. Bournemouth picked up their twelfth blank of the season and now three games in a row. Stoke have finished with a total of 54 goals. 

Meanwhile BIRMINGHAM lost 5-2 away to Blackburn Rovers but have finished the season on a total of 37 goals. DERBY drew 3-3 at home to Sheffield Wednesday and they finished on 37 goals. MIDDLESBROUGH picked up their fifteenth blank of the season after they lost 3-0 at home to Wycombe. NOTTINGHAM FOREST finished on 39 goals after they lost 2-1 at home to PRESTON who finished on 56 goals. LUTON finished on 47 goals after they lost 3-1 away to QPR. READING drew 2-2 at home to Huddersfield and they end with a total of 64 goals. ROTHERHAM are relegated after they drew 1-1 away to CARDIFF. Rotherham finished on a total of 46 goals to Cardiff’s 66 and they had scored in all of their last six games. 

LEAGUE ONE 

Champions HULL lost their final game 1-0 away to CHARLTON. Hull after a goal run to fourteen games, picked up their ninth blank of the season. Charlton missed the chance of the play-offs as they finished on a total of 73 goals. PETERBOROUGH are promoted as they win 4-1 away to Doncaster. Borough finished on a total of 86 goals.

In the Play-offs we still have three of the four teams. They are SUNDERLAND down to fourth place they drew 1-1 at home to Northampton. Sunderland are now on a total of 70 goals. LINCOLN CITY are down to fifth place after they drew 0-0 at home to AFC Wimbledon. That is Lincoln’s tenth blank of the season after a goal run of ten games. OXFORD UNITED have landed in sixth place after they won 4-0 at home against Burton. Oxford are now on a total of 80 goals and they have now scored in all of their last ten games. 

Meanwhile, CREWE finished on a total of 61 goals as they won their last game 3-2 at home to Shrewsbury. PLYMOUTH picked up their fourteenth blank of the season after they lost 1-0 away to Gillingham. FLEETWOOD TOWN lost 3-1 away to Ipswich and they end the season on a total of 56 goals. PORTSMOUTH lost 1-0 at home to ACCRINGTON STANLEY to get their fifteenth blank of the season while Accrington finished on a total of 65 goals and they had scored in all of their last six games. WIGAN lost their last game 4-3 at home to SWINDON. Wigan finished on a goal run of seven games with a total of 58 goals. Swindon are relegated with a total of 56 goals. 

LEAGUE TWO 

So CHELTEHAM finally became Champions after they won 4-1 at home to HARROGATE TOWN. Cheltenham finished their season on a total of 71 goals, while Harrogate finished on 55 goals. BOLTON are promoted in third place after they won their last game 4-1 away to Crawley. Bolton finished on a total of 62 goals and have scored in all of their last seven games. 

In the Play-offs we still have just one team of the four and they are TRANMERE. They finished in seventh place after they drew 0-0 at home to Colchester. Tranmere have picked up their nineteenth blank of the season. 

Meanwhile EXETER drew their last game 1-1 at home to Barrow and finished their season with a total of 76 goals. SALFORD CITY finished on a total of 56 goals after they won 3-0 at home to Leyton Orient. SCUNTHORPE lost their last game 1-0 at home to Stevenage. They have failed to score in their last five games. SOUTHEND are relegated and out of the football league as they drew 1-1 at home to Newport. Southend finished on a total of 32 goals. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES 

In League One play-offs, COVE RANGERS drew their first leg game 1-1 at home to Airdrie and the goal has taken them up to a total of 36. 

Our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals. They are 

RANGERS (98) MANCHESTER CITY (95) BRENTFORD (91) Total of 284 goals 

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE 

FULHAM (30) SOUTHEND (32) STENHOUSEMUIR (34) Total of 96 goals

Our Best team this week are still RANGERS after they have now scored in all of their last thirty-seven league/cup games. They have scored a total of 98 goals which now gives them an average score of 2.2 goals per game. 

Our worst team this weekend is SCUNTHORPE who have scored just 3 goals in their last ten games played. 

SOUTHEND have picked up the most number of blank score sheets this season with twenty-six after forty-eight games played. 

Our highest goal scorers in our 38th Season are MANCHESTER UNITED after they won 9-0 at home against Southampton in the league in Week Twenty-Three.  

STEVE REEVE has remained at the top this weekend as I picked up a total of 4 goals all from the weekend. I have now been at the top for a total of fourteen consecutive weeks which now makes me the longest to be at the top this season. My teams are Brentford, Manchester City and Rangers. This week I have managed to move up to 33th place in our Champions League by overtaking  Alec Shorts total of 280 goal from the 1988/89 Season. Colin Webb is still in second place as he picked up 5 goals from the weekend. Colin is now just five goals behind me this week. His teams are Manchester City, Peterborough and Rangers.

At the other end at 116 we still have John Nicholls who has now been there for a total of twenty consecutive weeks. Johns teams picked him up just 3 goals from his combo of Bristol City, Fulham and West Brom. John will record our lowest ever score ever in our thirty-eight year history. 

As we go into our final weeks here at Golden Goals, here are the top ten this weekend

           THIS      LAST                                                       M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL                

 WEEK     WEEK           NAME                                GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

      1             -               S. REEVE (2008/09)              101                 183                284            

       2                 -              C. WEBB                                92                   187                279              

       3                 -              M. FISHER                            92                    182                274              

       4                 5             T. BICKNELL (2014/15)       107                  165                272              

       5                 4             S. MARSHALL                      85                   183                268                 

       6                 -              G. PHILLIPS                         86                    180                266              

       7                 10           D. ZANIOUS                         114                  152                266                 

       8                 9             P. COLLINS                           108                  156                264                  

      9                 7              M. JOHNSTON                      85                   178                263              

               10              8              R. HARROD                           111                  152                263                 

Saturday, 8 May 2021

Disappointing Leicester

In the Premier League, LEICESTER CITY have missed the chance of catching up with Manchester United as they lost 4-2 at home to Newcastle. Leicester remained in third place with a total of 75 goals but have extended their goal run to six games.

  

Wednesday, 5 May 2021

No Goals for Luton or Rotherham

In the Championship LUTON drew 0-0 at home to ROTHERHAM. Luton have now had a total of twenty blank score sheets while Rotherham picked up their nineteenth and now just two goals in their last seven games. 

In League One CHARLTON won 3-1 at home to LINCOLN CITY and they are now on a total of 72 goals. Lincoln hit goal number 84 and have now scored in all of their last ten games. 

In the Scottish League One play-offs, FALKIRK lost 2-0 away to Airdrie with two very late goals to pick up their ninth blank of the season. 

In the League Two play-offs STENHOUSEMUIR won 1-0 away to Brechin City and that is their 34th goal of the season. 

Tuesday, 4 May 2021

West Ham Move Up

In the Premier League, WEST HAM have moved back up to fifth place after they won 2-1 away to Burnley. West Ham are now on a total of 69 goals. WEST BROM look set to be relegated after they drew 1-1 at home to WOLVES. West Brom are on a total of 38 goals to Wolves total of 35. 

Monday, 3 May 2021

Week Thirty-Five

In Week Thirty-Five of the competition we had our very last Weekend Jackpot of £6 prize money to give away and it was shared by two players who have already won some cash this season. They are STUART KEMP (1) and COLIN WEBB and they won on a score of 9 goals each. Stuart picks up his fourth win, but his second with combo one. He last won some cash in Week Thirty-Three with combo two. This is the highest that Stuart has been with his first combo and it has picked him up three blank weekend score sheets. His best team is Manchester City. Colin picks up his third win of the season and he last won back in Week Twenty-Five. Colin has still had just two blank weekend score sheets and his best team is Rangers. Their winning teams are 

Stuart  MANCHESTER CITY 2, OXFORD UNITED 3, TOTTENHAM 4 

Colin  MANCHESTER CITY 2, PETERBOROUGH 3, RANGERS 4 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS

Under half of us picked up some goals this week as we are now looking at beat that highest midweek score of 136 goals set by Daryl Nicholls in the 2016/17 Season. This week we now have a total of 26 players that are on or over the 100 goals mark. In the lead this week we still have MICHAEL JACOBSON with Bournemouth, Celtic and Manchester City with a total of 115 goals. In second place both with a total of 114 goals we still have SANSA-CLARA-LYANNA with Brentford, Manchester City and Watford and DEAN ZANIOUS with Brentford, Manchester City and Oxford United. EMMA NEWMAN is still in third place with a total of 112 goals.  

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had all but nine of our teams that played over the weekend and out of the ones that did, eleven failed to score any goals. It was a far better weekend than last weeks as the average score went up slightly from two goals of last weekend to 4 goals this weekend. The highest score that we had over the weekend was four goals and we had four teams that picked them up. They came from CARDIFF CITY, NORWICH, RANGERS and TOTTENHAM. 

PREMIER LEAGUE

Champions MANCHESTER CITY won 2-0 away to Crystal Palace and they are on a total of 94 goals this weekend. Manchester United are still in second place after their game against Liverpool was called off. Leicester City are still in third place after their draw on Friday night. CHELSEA have remained fourth place after they won 2-0 at home to FULHAM. Chelsea are on a total of 71 goals while Fulham picked up their eighteenth blank of the season and look set to be relegated. BRIGHTON won their eighth league game as they win 2-0 at home to LEEDS UNITED. Brighton after failing to score in their previous three games are now on a total of 44 goals. Leeds picked up their eleventh blank score sheet and now two in a row. TOTTENHAM won 4-0 at home to relegated Sheffield United. Tottenham have taken their goals tally up to 79 goals. EVERTON lost 2-1 at home to ASTON VILLA and they are now on a total of 67 goals while Villa are on 55 goals. ARSENAL won 2-0 away to Newcastle and they are on a total of 51 goals. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

Champions NORWICH  won 4-1 at home to READING and they have taken their goal tally to 76 goals. Reading picked up goal number 62. Promoted WATFORD are still in second place as they lost 2-0 away to BRENTFORD in third place. Watford picked up their thirteenth blank of the season while Brentford are on a total of 88 goals.

In the Play-offs we still have three of the four teams here with Brentford in third place and SWANSEA now in fourth place. They won 2-1 at home to DERBY and are on a total of 64 goals to Derby’s total of 34. BOURNEMOUTH have moved down to fifth place after they lost 1-0 away to bottom of the table Wycombe. Bournemouth picked up their eleventh blank of the season and now two in a row.

Meanwhile CARDIFF won 4-0 away to BIRMINGHAM and they are on a total of 65 goals while Birmingham picked up their twenty-first blank of the season. LUTON drew 1-1 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH and they are on a total of 46 goals to Brough’s total of 60. BRISTOL CITY lost 4-1 away to Millwall and they are on a total of 56 goals. PRESTON won 2-0 at home to Barnsley and they are on 54 goals. NOTTINGHAM FOREST drew 0-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday and that is their twelfth blank and now just two goals in their last five games. After a two game dry spell for goals, ROTHERHAM drew 1-1 at home to Blackburn and they are on a total of 45 goals. STOKE picked up their seventeenth blank as they lost 2-0 at home to QPR. 

LEAGUE ONE

Champions HULL won 3-1 at home against WIGAN. Hull are now on a total of 85 goals and have extended their goal run to fourteen games. Wigan picked up goal number 55 and they have now scored in all of their last six games. PETERBOROUGH are second and promoted as they drew 3-3 at home to LINCOLN CITY. Borough are on a total of 82 goals and Lincoln are now on a total of 83 goals and have a goal run of nine games.

In the Play-offs we still have three of the four teams. They are SUNDERLAND in third place as they win 3-1 away to PLYMOUTH. Sunderland are now on a total of 69 goals and Plymouth are on a total of 65 goals. Lincoln City are still in fourth place with PORTSMOUTH moving up to sixth place after they won 3-1 away to AFC Wimbledon. Portsmouth are now on a total of 78 goals this week.

Meanwhile, ACCRINGTON STANLEY drew 1-1 at home against CHARLTON and that is goal number 64 for them and 69 for Charlton. CREWE won 1-0 away to Bristol Rovers and they are on a total of 58 goals. FLEETWOOD TOWN are on 55 goals after they drew 1-1 at home to MK Dons. OXFORD UNITED won 3-2 away to Shrewsbury and they are now on a total of 76 goals and they have now scored in all of their last nine games. Relegated SWINDON lost 2-1 at home to Ipswich and they are on a total of 52 goals. 

LEAGUE TWO

CHELTEHAM are still on top after they lost 1-0 away to Newport. That is Cheltenham’s eleventh blank of the season. BOLTON are still in third place after they lost 2-1 at home to EXETER. Bolton are on a total of 58 goals and have now scored in all of their last six games. Exeter are on 75 goals.

In the Play-offs we still have just one team of the four and they are TRANMERE. They are down to sixth place after they lost 2-1 away to Forest Green. Tranmere are on a total of 59 goals.

Meanwhile SCUNTHORPE drew 0-0 away to Bradford and they have now had a total of twenty blank score sheets this season and now four in a row. SALFORD CITY picked up their seventeenth blank as they lost 1-0 away to Colchester. Although SOUTHEND won their tenth league game 2-1 away to Barrow, Southend are relegated with a total of 31 goals. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership  Champions RANGERS have beaten their rivals again 4-1 at home against CELTIC. Rangers have taken their goals tally up to 98 goals while Celtic picked up goal number 77. ABERDEEN are in fourth place after they won 2-1 away to Livingston. Aberdeen are on a total of 40 goals. MOTHERWELL won 2-0 at home to Kilmarnock and they are on a total of 45 goals and have extended their goal run to nine games. 

In League One COVE RANGERS are in second place after they lost 2-0 at home to Airdrie and that is their seventh blank of the season. FALKIRK are down to fourth place after they lost 2-1 at home to Montrose. Falkirk are on a total of 40 goals. 

Our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals. They are 

RANGERS (98) MANCHESTER CITY (94) BRENTFORD (88) Total of 280 goals 

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE 

FULHAM (30) SOUTHEND (31) STENHOUSEMUIR (33) Total of 94 goals

Our Best team this week are still RANGERS after they have now scored in all of their last thirty-seven league/cup games. They have scored a total of 98 goals which now gives them an average score of 2.2 goals per game. 

Our worst team this weekend is SOUTHEND who have scored just 7 goals in their last fifteen games played. 

SOUTHEND have also picked up the most number of blank score sheets this season with twenty-six after forty-seven games played. 

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 remained at the top again this weekend as I picked up a total of 9 goals for the week. It’s now thirteen weeks in a row at the top for me this week. My teams are Brentford, Manchester City and Rangers. But this week I have managed to move up in our Champions League this week. I have jumped into 34th place as I over take Rob Houghs 1990/91 and Geoff Dockerills 1994/95 score of 274 goals each. I have also moved above Mike Harrington/David Salmon’s joint 1997/98 score of 276 goals. Colin Webb is now in second place as he picked up 11 goals for the week. Colin is six goals behind me this week. His teams are Manchester City, Peterborough and Rangers.

At the other end at 116 we still have John Nicholls who has now been there for nineteen consecutive weeks. Johns teams picked him up just one goal from his combo of Bristol City, Fulham and West Brom. John could pick up our lowest score ever as the season is rapidly coming to a close. 

The season is coming to an end and here are our top ten for this weekend.

          THIS      LAST                                                    M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

        WEEK     WEEK           NAME                             GOALS         GOALS        GOAL 

            1             -               S. REEVE (2008/09)            101                 179                280           

              2                 3             C. WEBB                              92                   182                274               

              3                 2             M. FISHER                           92                   178                270              

             4                 -              S. MARSHALL                     83                   182                265              

              5                 7            T. BICKNELL (2014/15)       107                 157                264              

             6                 5             G. PHILLIPS                          86                  177                263              

             7                 6             M. JOHNSTON                      85                  175                260             

             8                 -              R. HARROD                          111                148                259

             9                 15           P. COLLINS                           108                150                258              

            10               11            D. ZANIOUS                         114                144                258

Saturday, 1 May 2021

A Point for Leicester

In the Premier League LEICESTER CITY played their second game in a week and they drew this one 1-1 away to Southampton. Leicester are now on a total of 73 goals. 

In League Two HARROGATE TOWN picked up their biggest win of the season as they win 5-4 at home to Cambridge Utd. Harrogate have taken their goals tally up to 54 goals. 

In the Scottish Championship Champions HEARTS won 4-0 away to Raith and they are now on a total of 71 goals.