Could City Already be Champions?

In the Premier League MANCHESTER CITY remained top after they won 2-0 at home to BRENTFORD. City have extended their goal run to sixteen games and they are on a total of 71 goals. Brentford picked up their ninth blank of the season. CRYSTAL PALACE drew 1-1 away to Norwich and they are on a total of 36 goals. TOTTENHAM lost 3-2 at home to Southampton but they are on a total of 39 goals. ASTON VILLA are back in play and they drew 3-3 at home to Leeds Utd. Villa have taken their goals tally to 38. 

In the Championship, BOURNEMOUTH have moved back up to second place after they won 3-1 at home against Birmingham. Bournemouth have taken their goals tally to 55. NOTTINGHAM FOREST won 2-0 away to Blackburn and they are on a total of 48 goals and a goal run of seven games. READING lost 2-1 away to Bristol City and that is goal number 35 for them. CARDIFF CITY picked up their highest result of the season by winning 4-0 at home to PETERBOROUGH. Cardiff are now on a total of 41 goals while Borough picked up their sixteenth blank of the season. PRESTON picked up their eleventh blank of the season as they drew 0-0 at home to Huddersfield. SHEFFIELD UNITED won 2-0 at home to WEST BROM and they are on a total of 42 goals. West Brom picked up their thirteenth blank score sheet and now three in a row. 

In the Scottish Premiership CELTIC have remained top and a point in front of their rivals as they win 3-2 away to ABERDEEN. Celtic are now on a total of 68 goals and a goal run of eight games. Aberdeen have taken their goals total up to 34. RANGERS are on a total of 67 goals as they win 2-0 at home to Hibernian. It’s 50 goals for HEARTS as they lose 2-1 at home to Dundee. 

In the Championship KILMARNOCK lost 2-1 at home to Ayr and they are on a total of 38 goals and remain second in the table.

 

  

West Ham Back to Fourth Place

In the Premier League WEST HAM are back up to fourth place after they won 1-0 at home against WATFORD. West Ham are on a total of 48 goals while Watford picked up their eleventh blank of the season and now three in a row. MANCHESTER UNITED drew 1-1 away to Burnley after going a goal up by half time. United are on a total of 39 goals and they have now scored in all of their last six games. 

In the Championship FULHAM are still top as they win 3-0 at home to Millwall and they are now on a total of 81 goals and they have now scored in all of their last eight games. DERBY who are second from bottom won 3-1 at home to HULL. Derby Are now on a total of 35 goals. Hull picked up goal number 29. BARNSLEY are rock bottom of the table as they lost 2-1 away to Luton. After they have failed to score in their last four games, Barnsley are on a total of 23 goals. SWANSEA picked up their eleventh blank of the season as they lost 3-0 away to Stoke. 

In League One Top of the table ROTHERHAM won 1-0 away to AFC Wimbledon and that is goal number 61 for them. Second place WIGAN lost 1-0 away to SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY. Wigan picked up their sixth blank of the season and now two in a row. Wednesday are on a total of 44 goals and a goal run of six games. OXFORD UNITED picked up their eighth blank score sheet after they lost 2-0 away to Accrington. SUNDERLAND lost 2-1 away to Cheltenham and that is goal number 63 for them. PLYMOUTH picked up the highest result of the night as they win 4-1 away to Crewe. Plymouth have taken their goals tally to 63 and have extended their goal run to thirteen games. IPSWICH won 1-0 away to Doncaster and that is their 52^nd goal of the season. LINCOLN CITY are on a total of 38 goals as they win 2-1 at home against Morecambe. PORTSMOUTH won 2-1 at home against BURTON ALBION and they are on a total of 37 goals while Burton hit goal number 40. WYCOMBE drew 0-0 at home to Shrewsbury and that is their ninth blank and now two in a row. BOLTON won 2-1 at home to CHARLTON and are on a total of 49 goals and a goal run of six games. Charlton are on 46 goals and they are also on a goal run of six games. 

In League Two SUTTON UNITED are down to fourth place after they drew 0-0 at home to SALFORD CITY. As Sutton picked up their fifth blank of the season, Salford picked up their eighth. CARLISLE UNITED lost 3-1 at home to Port Vale to pick up their 24^th goal of the season. EXETER CITY are on 44 goals as they win 1-0 at home to Leyton Orient. Bottom of the table SCUNTHORPE won 1-0 at home to Walsall and they are on a total of 22 goals after failing to score in their previous two games. STEVENAGE lost 1-0 at home to Bradford and that is their fourteenth blank of the season. SWINDON lost 3-0 away to Tranmere and that is their sixth blank score sheet after a goal run of eight games.                             

Week Twenty-Seven

In Week Twenty-Seven of the competition we had our fourth player to win twice this season and it goes to GUY DOWSETT (2). Guy won with a score of 12 goals which is his personal best with this combo and he picks up the full £5 Weekend Cash Prize Money once again. Guy last won in Week Nineteen and he still has had only two weekend blank score sheets to date. This combo has also been top for four weeks through the season. His best team now are Rangers. Guy’s winning teams once again are 

KELTY HEARTS 4, LIVERPOOL 3, RANGERS 5 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Just over half of us managed to pick up some midweek goals again this week and we still have two players that are far in front from the rest of the pack. We can add another two players to the list who are at the half way mark. We now have fifty-one players that are nearer to that 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot. The race for the cash has remained the same this week. We have LYANNA GRIMWOOD in the lead with a total of 86 goals. Lyanna teams are Fulham. Manchester City and Sunderland. In second place we have BOB SOPER with a total of 81 goals. In third place LOUIE HARRINGTON with a total of 78 goals. In fourth place with 72 goals we have PETER PORTER. In fifth place we have COLIN WEBB on a total of 70 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had all but eleven of our teams in action this weekend but some were cancelled due to the weather over the weekend, Out of the ones that did play only nine failed to score any goals. So it was a very good weekend as the average score went up from three goals last weekend to 6 goals this weekend. The highest score came from RANGERS with a total of five goals. After their 3-0 defeat in midweek by their rivals Celtic, Rangers took their frustration out on HEARTS by winning 5-0 at home. The win has taken their goals total up to 65. Hearts picked up their sixth blank of the season and now two in a row. 

FA CUP Fourth Round

We had a dramatic cup round in round four with some of our teams getting very lucky to win their round. Out of the eighteen teams that we had in this round, only seven have made it through to the next round. Their were a lot of cup up sets and a few that scraped through this round.

The teams through are CHELSEA after they went a goal down, they drew after full time but then went on to win 2-1 at home against PLYMOUTH in extra time. Chelsea are on a total of 62 goals while Plymouth maybe out but they are on a total of 60 goals and they have now scored in all of their last twelve games. CRYSTAL PALACE won 2-0 at home to Hartlepool and they are on a total of 35 goals and a goal run of six games now. WEST HAM went a goal down against non-league Kidderminster but drew 1-1 after full time. West Ham won in the very last minute of extra time to win 2-1. West Ham are on a total of 47 goals. MANCHESTER CITY won 4-1 at home against FULHAM and they have taken their goals tally to 69 goals and they have now scored in all of their last fifteen games. Fulham are on 78 and they have now scored in all of their last seven games. PETERBOROUGH won 2-0 at home to QPR and they are on a total of 27 goals. TOTTENHAM won 3-1 at home to BRIGHTON and they are now on a total of 37 goals. Brighton are on 32 goals and they have extended their goal run to eight games. LIVERPOOL won 3-1 at home to CARDIFF CITY and they are now on a total of 75 goals. Cardiff are on 37 goals. NOTTINGHAM FOREST won 4-1 at home to LEICESTER CITY and they are now on a total of 46 goals and a goal run of six games. Leicester hit goal number 46 but they have now scored in all of their last eleven games.

Other teams that went out are BRENTFORD who lost 4-1 away to Everton and that is goal number 44 for them. BARNSLEY lost 1-0 away to Huddersfield and that is blank number sixteen for them and now they have failed to score in their last four games. WIGAN picked up their fifth blank of the season as they lost 2-0 away to Stoke. WOLVES lost 1-0 at home to Norwich and that is blank number eleven for them. BOURNEMOUTH lost 1-0 at home against non-league team Boreham Wood and that is their seventh blank of the season. 

PREMIER LEAGUE

We only had one team in action and they were WATFORD. They drew 0-0 away to Burnley to pick up their tenth blank of the season and now two in a row. Watford are third from bottom with a game in hand. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

We had just three teams in action here. HULL lost 1-0 at home to PRESTON and that is their fourteenth blank score sheet while Preston are on a total of 46 goals. SWANSEA after a three game dry spell hit goal number 38 as they win 1-0 at home against Blackburn Rovers. 

LEAGUE ONE

We still have the top two teams here and they are ROTHERHAM who won 1-0 at home against Accrington. Rotherham are now on a total of 60 goals. Wigan remained second place.

In the Play-Offs we have three teams still with SUNDERLAND going down to fourth place after they lost 2-1 at home against Doncaster. Sunderland are on a total of 62 goals. OXFORD UNITED have moved up to fifth place after they won 3-2 at home to PORTSMOUTH. Oxford are now on a total of 60 goals. Portsmouth are on a total of 35 goals. Wycombe are now down to sixth place.

Meanwhile BURTON ALBION lost 2-0 at home to SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY and that is their eighth blank of the season. Wednesday are on a total of 43 goals. CHARLTON won 3-2 at home to AFC Wimbledon and and they are now on a total of 45 goals. IPSWICH are on 51 goals as they win 1-0 at home to Gillingham. LINCOLN CITY lost 2-1 away to MK Dons and they are on a total of 36 goals. BOLTON drew 1-1 away to Morecambe and they are on 47 goals. 

LEAGUE TWO

SUTTON UNITED are back up to third place after they drew 1-1 at home to Bristol Rovers. Sutton are on a total of 48 goals

In the Play-Offs we have just one team this week and they are EXETER CITY in seventh place. They won 2-1 away to SWINDON and they are on 43 goals to Swindon’s total of 49 goals and a goal run of eight games.

Meanwhile STEVENAGE drew 2-2 away to Crawley and they are now on a total of 38 goals. SCUNTHORPE are still bottom of the league as they lost 1-0 at home to Oldham. That is now Scunthopre’s fifteenth blank of the season and now just two goals in their last seven games. 

Our BEST three teams this week are 

FULHAM (78) LIVERPOOL (75) MANCHESTER CITY (69) Total of 222 goals 

Our WORST three teams are 

SCUNTHORPE (21) BARNSLEY (22) CARISLE (23) Total of 66 goals 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership CELTIC are top here as they win 4-0 away to Motherwell. Celtic are one point in front of their rivals Rangers and they are now on a total of 65 goals and a goal run of seven games now. ABERDEEN lost 2-1 away to Livingston and they are on a total of 32 goals.

In League Two KELTY HEARTS are still ten points in front as they win 4-0 at home to Elgin City and they are now on a total of 64 goals. STENHOUSEMUIR won 2-0 away to Anna and they are on a total of 43 goals.

Our on-form team this week are now MANCHESTER CITY after scoring in all of their last fifteen League/Cup games. They have a total of 69 goals. 

Our worst team this week is BARNSLEY after they picked up a total of sixteen blank score sheets out of a total of thirty-one league/cup games. They have failed to score in their last four games. 

Our highest goal scorers in our 39^th Season are OXFORD UNITED as they won 7-2 away to Gillingham in the league in Week Twenty-Six. FULHAM have now scored seven goals twice this season. They first won 7-0 away to Blackburn Rovers in the league in Week Fourteen and they have also won 7-0 away to Reading in the league in Week Twenty-Four. MANCHESTER CITY winning 7-0 at home to Leeds Utd in the league in Week Twenty. CHELSEA won 7-0 at home to Norwich in the league in Week Twelve. BRENTFORD won 7-0 at home to Oldham in the third round of the Carabao/League Cup in Week Eight. 

We had another new leader to go to the top this weekend and it is PETER WELLARD. Peter becomes the seventh player to stay at number one this season and he did that by picking up a total of 7 goals from the weekend. Peter’s teams are Chelsea, Fulham and Manchester City. Lyanna Grimwood moves down to second place on goal difference this weekend as she picks up a total of 6 goals from the weekend. Lyanna had been top for two weeks and a total of three weeks over the season. Her teams are Fulham, Manchester City and Sunderland.

At the other end at 113 we still have ZIGGY (John Wood) again this weekend which is now his twenty-first consecutive weekend at the bottom and now twenty-three over the season. Ziggy picked up four goals from the weekend. His teams are Crystal Palace, Scunthorpe and Stenhousemuir.

After a great weekend for goals the top ten has changed once again. The race is opened up a lot more this week.

      THIS      LAST                                             M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

   WEEK     WEEK          NAME                       GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

        1            2              P. WELLARD                 66                  143                209              

        2                 1             L. GRIMWOOD             86                  123                209                            

        3                 4             JULIA WOOD                49                  157                206                             

        4                 3             K. SETNA (2005/06)      69                  137                206

        5                 -              MANGO                         67                  138                205                            

        6                 9             G. DOWSETT (2)         51                  153                204

        7                 6             S. THOMSON (2)          58                  146                204

        8                 10           S. STUBBS                    46                  156                202                             

        9                 8             D. MORBEY                  50                  152                202

        10               7             D. HARRINGTON        61                  138                 199       

United Out of FA CUP

In the FA CUP Fourth Round MANCHESTER UNITED drew 1-1 after full time and that stayed the same after extra time against Middlesbrough. They then lost 8-7 on penalties to be our very first team out of round four. United are on a total of 38 goals.

In the Championship SHEFFIELD UNITED won 2-1 away to Birmingham to take their goals total up to 40.

In the Scottish Championship KILMARNOCK lost 1-0 away to Arbroath and that is their eighth blank of the season  

  

Celtic Return to Top of Table

In the Scottish Premiership, CELTIC smashed rivals RANGERS 3-0 at home to go top of the table. Rangers goal run of 25 league/cup games has finally come to the end. As Rangers picked up their second blank of the season, Celtic have taken their goals tally to 61 goals. 

In the Championship BARNSLEY lost 1-0 at home to CARDIFF CITY to pick up their fifteenth blank of the season and now three games in a row without a goal. Cardiff hit goal number 36. DERBY lost 2-0 away to Huddersfield and they have now had a total of ten blank score sheet of the season.

  

Rotherham's Night

In the Championship PRESTON drew 0-0 away to Millwall and they have now had a total of ten blank score sheets. SWANSEA lost 1-0 at home to Luton and that is their tenth blank and now three in a row.

In League One top of the table ROTHERHAM picked up the highest score of the night as they won 5-0 away to Doncaster. Rotherham are now on a total of 59 goals. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY won 2-0 at home to Morecambe and they have taken their goals tally to 41. WIGAN drew 1-1 at home to OXFORD UNITED and they are on a total of 56 goals to Oxford’s 57. BOLTON won 2-0 at home against Cambridge Utd and brings their goals total up to 46 goals.

In League Two SALFORD CITY won 2-1 at home to CARLISLE UNITED and they are on a total of 37 goals while Carlisle picked up their 23^rd goal of the season after they failed to score in their last three games. SWINDON drew 1-1 at home to Crawley and they are on a total of 48 goals and a goal run of seven games. STEVENAGE lost 1-0 away to Tranmere and that is their thirteenth blank of the season. 

In the Scottish Premiership third place HEARTS drew 0-0 away to Hibernian and that is their fifth blank of the season after a goal run of six games. ABERDEEN drew 1-1 away to Ross County to pick up goal number 31.

 

  

More Points for Charlton

In the Championship PORTSMOUTH lost 2-1 at home to CHARLTON. Portsmouth have failed to win any games in their last five league games and they are on a total of 33 goals after they failed to score in their previous two games. Charlton are on a total of 42 goals and have won their last three league games.