Boxing Day Results

In the Premier League ARSENAL are still at the top after they won 3-1 at home against London rivals WEST HAM. Arsenal are now on a total of 37 goals and they have now scored in all of their last fifteen games to keep their 100% scoring record. West Ham picked up goal number 5. TOTTENHAM drew 2-2 away to Brentford after going two goals down. Tottenham are on a total of 33 goals. CRYSTAL PALACE lost 3-0 at home to FULHAM and that is their 7^th blank of the season and they have now failed to score in their last three games. Fulham have taken their goals total to 27. EVERTON lost 2-1 at home to Wolves and they are on a total of 14 goals. LEICESTER CITY lost 3-0 at home to NEWCASTLE and they have now had a total of five blank score sheets. Newcastle are now on a total of 35 goals. BRIGHTON won 3-1 away to Southampton and they are now on a total of 32 goals. LIVERPOOL won 3-1 away to ASTON VILLA and that now gives them a total of 33 goals. Villa are on a total of 23. 

In the Championship WATFORD lost 2-0 at home to Millwall and that is their 8^th blank of the season and just 2 goals in their last four games. SUNDERLAND won 2-1 at home to Blackburn and they are on a total of 33 goals. WEST BROM won 2-0 away to Bristol City and they have taken their goals tally to 32 and they have now scored in all of their last six games. MIDDLESBROUGH won 4-1 at home to Wigan and they are now on a total of 36 goals. After failing to score in their last three games, HUDDERSFIELD are on a total of 22 goals as they win 2-1 away to Preston. SHEFFIELD UNITED won 3-1 at home to Coventry and are now on a total of 41 goals. LUTON won 2-1 at home against NORWICH and are on a total of 28 goals. Norwich are on 35 goals.

 In League One top of the table PLYMOUTH won 1-0 away to Cheltenham and they are on a total of 43 goals. IPSWICH are in second place and won 3-0 at home against OXFORD UNITED. Ipswich are now on a total of 51 goals while Oxford picked up their 7^th blank of the season and now two in a row. LINCOLN CITY lost 3-0 away to Burton and that is their 10^th blank of the season. CHARLTON drew 1-1 at home to PETERBOROUGH and they are on a total of 42 goals to Borough’s total of 43. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY won 2-1 away to Fleetwood and they are on a total of 48 goals. MK DONS won 1-0 at home to FOREST GREEN and they are on a total of 35 goals while Forest Green picked up their 10^th blank of the season. BRISTOL ROVERS lost 2-1 away to Wycombe and that was goal number 36 for them.  

In League Two it’s 30 goals for AFC WIMBLEDON after they drew 1-1 at home to Newport. BRADFORD CITY lost 1-0 away to Carlisle and that is their 8^th blank score sheet. CRAWLEY TOWN lost 2-1 at home to SUTTON UTD and they are on a total of 28 goals while Sutton are on 21. GILLINGHAM picked up their 17^th blank of the season and no goals in their last two games as they lost 1-0 at home to Colchester. MANSFIELD drew 1-1 at home to Northampton and they are on a total of 33 goals. SALFORD CITY drew 1-1 at home to Barrow and they are on a total of 25 goals. STOCKPORT won 2-0 at home to Crewe and they are on a total of 41 goals. SWINDON lost 2-1 at home to Walsall and that is goal number 26 for them.

  

Week Twenty-Two

Here we are with Week Twenty-Two of the competition and we will soon have all of our teams back in action next week. So once again there is no cash prize money to win this weekend. It was DAVID BARRETT who picked up the most number of goals at the weekend with 8. They came from his teams of Celtic, Hibernian and Sutton United. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

All but three of us that managed to pick up some midweek goals this week with another small change in the leading pack this week. MARK JOHNSTON and ME (Steve Reeve) both of us picked up the most number of midweek goals with 8 goals each. For Mark they came from Leicester City, Liverpool and Manchester City. Mine came from Liverpool, Manchester United and Rangers. Back in the lead we have HAYLEY ADKINS with a total of 45 goals. Hayley has Aberdeen, Liverpool and Manchester City.  In second place we have last weeks leader NICK HORTON on a total of 42 goals. In third place we still have JAMES BLYTH and RICK WOOD our 2007/08 Champion now with a total of 38 goals each.  In fourth place we still have BARBARA BARNES (2) with MARK GREGORY moving down from five both with a total of  37 goals. In fifth place with a total of 35 goals we now have JACQUI RATTLE moving down from three with TOBY BICKNELL, GUY DOWSETT (1), CHRIS NUNN and KEITH THOMSON all coming into the race.

WEEKEND RESULTS

This weekend just five of our teams in action and they all came from the Scottish Leagues and they all scored goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUE RESULTS

In the Scottish Premiership top of the table CELTIC won 4-1 at home against St Johnston. Celtic are now on a total of 65 goals and now on a goal run of twelve games. ABERDEEN lost 3-1 away to St Mirren and that was their 52^nd goal of the season. HEARTS drew 2-2 away to Dundee Utd. Hearts are on a total of 27 goals. HIBERNIAN won 4-0 at home to Livingston and they are now on a total of 34 goals.

In League One KELTY HEARTS lost 2-1 at home to Dunfermline and they are on a total of 23 goals.

Our BEST three teams this week

CELTIC (65) ABERDEEN (52) BURNLEY (50) Total of 167 goals   

Our WORST three teams are

EVERTON (13) WEST HAM (14) GILLINGHAM (15) Total of 42 goals

Our best performing team are BURNLEY as they have now scored in all of their last 22 league/cup games played. They have a total of 50 goals. That gives them an average score of 2 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is GILLINGHAM this weekend as they have picked up sixteen blank score sheets out of 28 League/Cup games played.

Our highest goal scorers in our 40^th Season are CELTIC who won 9-0 away to Dundee Utd in the league and LIVERPOOL who won 9-0 at home to Bournemouth in the league both from Week Five.

Our 2010/11 Champion TONY GUY with his second selection, has remained at the top for his 9^th consecutive weekend. Tony picked up 6 goals this week from Celtic. His other teams are  Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday. Mango (Paul Moran) has moved in to second place this weekend. Paul picked up 9 goals from his combination of Celtic, Manchester City and MK Dons.

At the other end at 108 we have SANDRA NICHOLLS has one of her teams back in action and they were Leicester City with 3 goals. Sandra has now been here for seven weeks and now ten over the season. Sandra’s teams are Aston Villa, Crystal Palace and Leicester City.

Here are our Christmas top Ten.

           THIS      LAST                                                     M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

WEEK     WEEK         NAME                                GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

      1             -             T. GUY (2)                               30                  115               145

       2                 4            MANGO                                 32                  112               144

       3                 5            M. GREGORY                       37                  107               144

       4                 2            GRANT PHILLIPS                26                  116               142              

       5                 6           S. DICKINSON                      32                  109               141              

      6                 3            J. BLYTH                                38                  101               139

      7                 -             J. WISE                                   30                  107               137              

      8                 9            G. DOWSETT (2)                   28                  108               136              

      9                 8            G. DOCKERILL (1994/95)    22                  113               135              

               10              -             M. LAVER                              28                  106               134 

Golden Goals would like to wish you and your family 

      A Merry Christmas              

Rangers Keep up Pace

In the Scottish Premiership, RANGERS are keeping up with Celtic as they win again 1-0 away to Ross County. Rangers are on a total of 45 goals and have extended their goal run to 13 games now. 

In League One ALLOA drew 2-2 away to Clyde and they are on a total of 43 goals. Alloa have drawn three of their last five league games.

In League Two BONNYRIGG ROSE won 3-2 at home against Stranraer and they are now on a total of 30 goals. It’s their first win in their last five league games. 

Last Game of League Cup 4th Round

In the last game in this round, MANCHESTER CITY are in the next round after they won 3-2 at home to LIVERPOOL. Manchester City are now on a total of 45 goals and have now scored in all of their last six games, while the holders Liverpool are out and they are on a total of 30 goals.

 

More League Cup 4th Round

 

We had more League Cup 4^th round games in which we had another four of our Golden Goal teams in action and two have made it through to the next round. They are MANCHESTER UNITED who won 2-0 at home to BURNLEY. United are on a total of 26 goals and they have now scored in all of their last seven games. Burnley after a goal run of 22 games have now picked up their 2^nd blank score sheet of the season. CHARLTON drew 0-0 against BRIGHTON and then went on to win 4-3 on penalties.  Charlton picked up their 6^th blank of the season. Brighton after a goal run of 5 games, picked up their 5^th blank score sheet. 

In the Premiership top of the table CELTIC won 2-1 at home to Livingston. Celtic are on a total of 61 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 11 games.

League Cup 4th Round

 

In the fourth round of the League Cup we had six of our teams in action. Out of them only two have made it in to the next round. LEICESTER CITY won 3-0 away to MK DONS. Leicester are now on a total of 31 goals while MK Don picked up their 9^th blank of the season after a goal run of eight games. NEWCASTLE won 1-0 at home to BOURNEMOUTH and they are on a total of 32 goals while Bournemouth picked up blank number 8. Other teams that went out are GILLINGHAM lost 2-0 away to Wolves and that is their 16^th blank of the season. Its 30 goals for LINCOLN CITY after they lost 2-1 away to Southampton. 

In the Scottish Premiership, after RANGERS went a goal up, ABERDEEN came back and was winning 2-1 before Rangers scored two late goals in added on time. Final result Rangers win 3-2 away. Aberdeen are on a total of 51 goals and remain in 3^rd place in the league. Rangers are on a total of 44 goals and have extended their goal run to 12 games. They are now 6 points behind leaders Celtic.

Win for Sheffleld United

In the Championship SHEFFIELD UNITED keep their second place in the league after they won 2-1 away to Wigan. United are on a total of 38 goals and they have won four of their last five league games.