Tuesday, 11 April 2023

Easter Monday Results

In the Champions League, Champions BURNLEY won 2-0 at home against 10 men SHEFFIELD UNITED who are in 2nd place. Burnley are now on a total of 89 goals while United picked up their 9th blank score sheet.

In the Play-Offs LUTON are in 3rd place as they win 3-1 at home against Blackpool and have taken their goals tally to 58. MIDDELSBROUGH in 4th place drew 2-2 away to Bristol City and are on a total of 75 goals and a goal run of seven games.

Meanwhile HUDDERSFIELD drew 2-2 at home against Blackburn and they have taken their goals tally to 43. SUNDERLAND won 1-0 away to Cardiff and are on a total of 63 goals. WATFORD drew 2-2 away to Coventry and have taken their goals total to 49 goals. NORWICH picked up their 14th blank of the season as they drew 0-0 at home to Rotherham. READING lost 2-1 away to Preston and they are on a total of 47 goals. WEST BROM drew 2-2 at home to QPR and they are on a total of 56 goals. It’s 60 goals for SWANSEA as they win 2-0 away to Wigan. 

In League One SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY move back to the top after they won 3-0 at home to Accrington. Wednesday are now on a total of 84 goals. PLYMOUTH are back down to 2nd place after they lost 2-0 at home against LINCOLN CITY. Plymouth picked up their 8th blank of the season while Lincoln are on a total of 48 goals.

In the Play-Offs, IPSWICH are down to 3rd place after they drew 1-1 away to Cheltenham. Ipswich picked up goal number 91 and a goal run of nine games. PETERBOROUGH are now in 5th place after they won 3-1 at home against Exeter. Borough are now on a total of 77 goals.

Meanwhile CHARLTON won 3-2 at home to Burton and they are now on a total of 72 goals. DERBY are on 77 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to MK DONS who are on 51 goals and a goal run of six games. BRISTOL ROVERS won 2-1 away to Fleetwood and they are on a total of 54 goals. OXFORD UNITED picked up their 17th blank of the season after they drew 0-0 away to Port Vale. Bottom of the table FOREST GREEN ROVERS lost 2-0 away to Wycombe and picked up their 18th blank of the season and now three in a row. They look certain to get relegated. 

In League Two STOCKPORT COUNTY are in 3rd place after they won 4-0 at home to Newport. County are now on a total of 68 goals and a goal run of six games.

In the Play-Offs BRADFORD CITY are still in 6th place after they won 3-1 at home against SUTTON UNITED. Bradford are now on a total of 53 goals. Sutton take their goals total to 42. SALFORD CITY have moved up to 7th place as they win 3-2 away to AFC WIMBLEDON. Salford are now on a total of 65 goals while Wimbledon are on 49 goals.

Meanwhile CRAWLEY TOWN lost 4-0 away to Barrow and that is their 15th blank of the season and now two in a row. MANSFIELD TOWN drew 1-1 at home to Rochdale and that is goal number 67 for them. GILLINGHAM lost 2-1 away to Northampton and they are on a total of 38 goals. SWINDON lost 1-0 away to Tranmere and that is their 14th blank of the season. 

Monday, 10 April 2023

Week Thirty-Seven

In Week Thirty-Seven of the competition we had no prize money due to the Easter fixtures this weekend. But next weekend we will have our 4th Rollover in our 40th Season worth £10 once again. We had a total of seven players that picked up the highest score of 8 goals each this weekend.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Most of us have managed to pick up some midweek goals again this week with another change in the leading pack for the £40 cash prize money this season. It was BOB SOPER that picked up the most with 7 goals. they came from Manchester City, Newcastle and Norwich.

Leading the race again this week we have JAMES BLYTH with a total of 89 goals. James now needs just 11 goals for the cash. His teams are Ipswich, Manchester City and Sheffield Wednesday. In second place we still have TOBY BICKNELL our 2014/15 Champion but also FIONA CARTHY moving up from three. Both are on a total of 84 goals. In third place up from four we have NICK HORTON and RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion both on a total of 82 goals. In fourth place we now have COLIN WEBB down from three with a total of 81 goals. In fifth place with 80 goals is (me) STEVE REEVE moving down from fourth place. In sixth place this week we still have MARK GREGORY and KEITH THOMSON but also CHRIS DICKER moving down from five. Al, are on a total of 79 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had just 25 of our teams in action and out of the the ones that did play, 8 failed to score any goals. We did have a couple of  high results this weekend and as everyone picked up some goals, I thought that I would give you the average score. So for the second weekend in a row, the average score for this weekend remained at 5 goals.The highest score that we had on Easter Sunday came from CRYSTAL PALACE after they won 5-1 away to LEEDS UNITED. Palace picked up their biggest result of the season and are now on a total of 32 goals. Leeds picked up goal number 52.

Palace became our 69th English team to join Golden Goals in the 1988/89 Season on where they finished on a total of 82 goals. Their best season was in the 1996/97 Season with 93 goals. Last season they had a final score of 60 goals. This is their 24th Season with us and over the years they have now netted a total of 1569 goals. This gives them an average score of 65 goals per season. This season they have just one vote and they have had a total of fourteen blank score sheets to date.

PREMIER LEAGUE

Top of the table ARSENAL drew 2-2 away to LIVERPOOL and have taken their goals total to 76 goals and a goal run of ten games now. Liverpool have taken their goals tally to 56 goals. MANCHESTER CITY in second place are now 6 points behind the leaders after they won 4-1 away to Southampton. City are now on a total of 94 goals and a goal run of ten games, NEWCATLE. In third place won 2-1 away to Brentford and they are on a total of 57 goals. MANCHESTER UNITED are still in fourth place after they won 2-0 at home to EVERTON. United and are on a total of 72 goals while Everton picked up their 12th blank of the season. ASTON VILLA won 2-0 at home against Nottingham Forest and that has taken their goals total to 48 and have extended their goal run to nineteen games. FULHAM picked up their 8th blank score sheet after they lost 1-0 at home to WEST HAM. West Ham are on a total of 33 goals. LEICESTER CITY lost 1-0 at home to BOURNEMOUTH and that is their 12th blank of the season. Bournemouth are on a total of 36 goals. TOTTENHAM are on 59 goals after they won 2-1 at home against BRIGHTON. Brighton picked up their 71st goal of the season and a goal run of eight games now. CHELSEA lost 1-0 away to Wolves and that is their 14th blank of the season and now no goals in their last three games.

SCOTTISH LEAGUE RESULTS

In the Premiership, Champions CELTIC won 3-2 at home to rivals RANGERS who are in second place. Celtic’s goals take’s them to a total of 123 and a goal run of 30 games. Rangers are on a total of 90 goals. ABERDEEN have moved up to third place after they won 2-0 at home against Kilmarnock and have taken their goals total to 70 goals. HEARTS are down to fourth place after they lost 2-0 at home to St Mirren. That is Hearts 12th blank of the season. HIBERNIAN lost 2-1 away to Dundee Utd and they are on a total of 57 goals and a goal run of eight games.

In League One ALLOA are still in fourth place after they lost 2-1 at home to Queen of South and picked up their 59th goal of the season. KELTY HEARTS picked up their 14th blank score sheet after they drew 0-0 at home to Clyde Kelty have failed to score any goals in their last three games now.

In League Two, STENHOUSEMUIR drew 0-0 at home to BONNYRIGG ROSE and picked up their 3rd blank of the season while Bonnyrigg picked up their 9th after a goal run of six games.

Our BEST three teams this week

CELTIC (123) MANCHESTER CITY (94) RANGERS (90) Total of 307 goals

Our WORST three teams are

EVERTON (26) CHELSEA (29) CRYSTAL PALACE (32) Total of 87 goals   

Our best performing team are RANGERS as they have now scored in all of their last 31 league/cup games played. They have a total of 90 goals. That gives them an average score of 2.3 goals per game.   

Our worst performing team is GILLINGHAM as they have picked up a total of 24 blank score sheets out of 49 League/Cup games played.     

Our highest goal scorers in our 40th Season are CELTIC who won 9-0 away to Dundee Utd in the league and LIVERPOOL winning 9-0 at home to Bournemouth in the league both from Week Five.  Our 2010/11 Champion TONY GUY with combo two, has remained at the top for his 24th consecutive weekend. Tony picked up a total of 6 goals this week from Arsenal, Celtic and Sheffield Wednesday and he is 5 goals in front now. Tony has moved up to 35th place in our Champions League this weekend. He has beaten our 1997/98 joint Champions Mike Harrington/David Salmon’s total of 276 goals and  Alec Short’s 1988/89 score of 280 goals. Mark Gregory in second place, picked up a total of 9 goals this week. His teams are Celtic, Manchester City and Norwich.

At the other end at 108 we have MANDY WRIGHT moving back down after she picked up a total of  just 3 goals for the week. Mandy’s teams are  AFC Bournemouth, Swansea and West Ham. Sandra has now been there for a total of 15 weeks throughout the season.  

The top ten over Easter has remained the same, well all most, as the final weeks are coming up. It now looks like a two horse race to the finish. Our Champion will be picking up a total of £240.

           THIS      LAST                                              M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL       

   WEEK     WEEK          NAME                       GOALS         GOALS        GOALS  

        1             -              T. GUY (2)                      75                  205                280         

         2                 -             M. GREGORY                79                  196                275         

         3                 -             MANGO                          66                  200                266         

         4                 5             J. BLYTH                        89                  176                265        

         5                 4             GRANT PHILLIPS         70                  193                263         

         6                 -             S. DICKINSON               77                  183                260         

         7                 -             B. BURROUGHS (1)       55                  203                258         

         8                 -             T. GUY (2010/11)             62                  193                255         

         9                 -             M. LAVER                       68                  187                255         

                 10               11           B. SELF                            74                  180                254 

Saturday, 8 April 2023

Good Friday Results

In the Championship it’s congratulations to BURNLEY as they are now promoted to the premier league after they won 2-1 away to MIDDLESBROUGH. Burnley are on a total of 87 goals after they had failed to score in their previous two games. Brough are on a total of 73 goals and a goal run of six games. SHEFFIELD UNITED in second place won 1-0 at home to Wigan and that goal now gives them a total of 72 goals.

In the Play-Offs LUTON in third place drew 0-0 away to Millwall and picked up their 10th blank of the season after a goal run of seven games. Middlesbrough are in fourth place.

Meanwhile, WEST BROM picked up their 54th goal of the season after they lost 3-1 away to Rotherham. After two blank score sheets, NORWICH won 2-0 away to Blackburn and they are on a total of 58 goals. READING drew 1-1 at home to Birmingham and are on a total of 46 goals. SWANSEA picked up their 11th blank score sheet after they drew 0-0 at home to Coventry. WATFORD lost 3-2 at home against HUDDERSFIELD and are on a total of 47 goals. Huddersfield are now on a total of 41 goals. SUNDERLAND drew 4-4 at home against Hull and they have taken their goals tally to 62. 

In League One PLYMOUTH are back on top after they won 3-1 away to Morecambe and have taken their gals total to 71 goals. IPSWICH are now in second place after they won 4-0 at home to Wycombe. Ipswich are now on a total of 90 goals and a goal run of eight games.

In the Play-Offs, SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY have dropped down to third place after they drew 1-1 away to OXFORD UNITED. Wednesday are on a total of 81 goals while Oxford hit goal number 48. PETERBOROUGH are in sixth place after they won 3-0 away to Shrewsbury and are now on a total of 74 goals.

Meanwhile, after they had failed to score in their last two games, BRISTOL ROVERS are now on a total of 52 goals as they win 1-0 at home against CHARLTON who picked up their 12th blank of the season. Bottom of the table FOREST GREEN ROVERS, lost 2-0 at home to DERBY and that is their 17th blank score sheet and now two in a row. Derby are on a total of 76 goals after a three game dry spell for goals. LINCOLN CITY won 2-0 at home to Cheltenham and they are on a total of 46 goals. It’s 50 goals for MK DONS as they drew 1-1 at home to Portsmouth. 

In League Two the highest team that we have here are in the Play-Offs in fifth place and they are STOCKPORT COUNTY. They won 1-0 away to SUTTON UNITED. Stockport are on a total of 64 goals while Sutton picked up their 16th blank of the season and now just one goal in their last five games. BRADFORD CITY are in sixth place and they drew 0-0 away to CRAWLEY TOWN. Both teams have picked up their 14th blank of the season.  MANSFIELD TOWN are in seventh place after they won 4-2 away to SWINDON. Mansfield are now on a total of 66 goals while Swindon are on a total of 52 goals.

Meanwhile, GILLINGHAM won 1-0 at home against Doncaster and that is their 37th goal of the season. AFC WIMBLEDON drew 2-2 away to Harrogate and they are on a total of 47 goals. After a goal run of nine games, SALFORD CITY picked up their 11th blank of the season after they lost 2-0 at home to top of the table Leyton Orient.

Thursday, 6 April 2023

United Move Back to Fourth Place

In the Premier League, NEWCASTLE have remained in third place after they thrashed WEST HAM 5-1 away. Newcastle have now taken their goals tally up to 55 goals while West Ham picked up their 32nd goal of the season. Its 70 goals for MANCHESTER UNITED after they won 1-0 at home to Brentford. United have moved back up to fourth place.

Wednesday, 5 April 2023

More Premier League Results

In the Premier League CHELSEA drew 0-0 at home against LIVERPOOL and that is their 13th blank of the season and now two games in a row. Liverpool picked up their 9th blank score sheet and now just one goal in their last three games. BOURNEMOUTH lost 1-0 at home to BRIGHTON and have now had a total of 15 blank score sheets. Brighton picked up goal number 70 and a goal run of seven games now. LEEDS UNITED won 2-1 at home against Nottingham Forest and have taken their goals total to 51 goals. LEICESTER CITY lost 2-1 at home to ASTON VILLA. City are now on a total of 49 goals while Villa are on 46 and have extended their goal run to eighteen games.

Tuesday, 4 April 2023

Draw Between Everton and Tottenham

In the Premier League, TOTTENHAM drew 1-1 away to EVERTON to take their goals total to 57. They have also moved up to fourth place in the league. Everton hit goal number 26 and are now in 15th place.

Monday, 3 April 2023

Week Thirty-Six

In Week Thirty-Six of the competition and we had one player winning on a total of 12 goals this weekend. They are DAVE WOOD who pick up his second win of the season. Dave picks up our 3rd Rollover in our 40th Season worth £10. Dave last won in Week Fourteen on a score of 13 goals. Since then he has picked up four more blank weekend score sheets which brings his total to five. Ninth is still his highest position but this is his best since Christmas. His winning teams are 

ARSENAL 4, CHARLTON 6, RANGERS 2

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Just 15 of us have managed to pick up some midweek goals again this week with another change in the leading pack for the £40 cash prize money this season.

Leading the race again this week we have JAMES BLYTH out in front with a total of 84 goals. James now needs just 16 goals for the cash. His teams are Ipswich, Manchester City and Sheffield Wednesday. In second place we still have TOBY BICKNELL our 2014/15 Champion now on a total of 82 goals. In third place down from two we have FIONA CARTHY and COLIN WEBB both with a total of 80 goals each. In fourth place we have NICK HORTON and (me) STEVE REEVE down from third place with  RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion moving up from fifth place. All of us are still on a total of 79 goals. In fifth place we now have CHRIS DICKER moving down from four still with a total of 78 goals. In sixth place this week we have MARK GREGORY and KEITH THOMSON both moving down from five still with a total of 77 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

All but 8 of our teams were in action and out of the the ones that did play, 12 failed to score any goals. We did have some high results this weekend and so the average score for this weekend was 5 goals. The highest score of the weekend came from CHARLTON who picked up their highest result of the season after they won 6-0 at home to Shrewsbury. Charlton have taken their goals tally to 69 and a goal run of five games now.

Charlton became our 38th voted English team in Golden Goals when they started in our second season 1984/85. In their first season they finished on a total of 49 goals. Their highest score came in the 1997/98 Season with a total of 91 goals. Last season they finished with a total of 61 goals. This is their 32nd Season with us and over the years they have netted a total of 2028 goals which gives them an average total of 63 goals per season to date. This season they have a total of four votes and a total of 11 blank score sheets. 

PREMIER LEAGUE

Top of the table ARSENAL won 4-1 at home to LEEDS UNITED and have taken their goals total to 74 goals and a goal run of nine games now. Leeds picked up goal number 49. MANCHESTER CITY in second place are still 8 points behind the leaders after they won 4-1 at home to LIVERPOOL. City are now on a total of 90 goals and a goal run of nine games, while Liverpool picked up goal number 54. MANCHESTER UNITED move down to fourth place after they lost 2-0 away to NEWCATLE. As United picked up their 5th blank of the season, Newcastle have moved above United and are on a total of 50 goals. BOURNEMOUTH won 2-1 at home to FULHAM and are on a total of 35 goals. Fulham are on a total of 48 goals. BRIGHTON drew 3-3 at home against Brentford and they have taken their goals tally to 68 goals and a goal run of six games. CRYSTAL PALACE won 2-1 at home to LEICESTER CITY and are now on a total of 27 goals. Leicester are on a total of 48 goals. CHELSEA lost 2-0 at home to ASTON VILLA  and picked up their 12th blank of the season. Villa have taken their goals total to 44 and a goal run of seventeen games now. WEST HAM won 1-0 at home to Southampton and they are on a total of 31 goals. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

Burnley are still top of the table with SHEFFIELD UNITED in second place after they won 1-0 away to NORWICH. United are on a total of 71 goals while Norwich picked up their 13th blank of the season and now two games without a goal. Norwich have scored just one goal in their last four games.

In the Play-Offs MIDDLESBROUGH in third place lost 4-2 away to HUDDERSFIELD and they are on a total of 72 goals and a goal run of five games. Huddersfield picked up their highest result of the season and have now taken their goals tally to 38. LUTON are in fourth place as they win 2-0 at home to WATFORD. Luton are on a total of 55 goals and a goal run of seven games. Watford picked up their 15th blank of the season.

Meanwhile READING drew 1-1 away to Bristol City and picked up their 45th goal of the season. SWANSEA won 3-2 away to Cardiff and are now on a total of 58 goals. WEST BROM drew 0-0 at home to Millwall and picked up their 10th blank of the season. 

LEAGUE ONE

SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY are back on top of the table after they drew again 1-1 at home to LINCOLN CITY. Wednesday are on a total of 80 goals. Plymouth drop down to second place on goal difference.

In the Play-Offs we still have IPSWICH in third place as they won 2-0 away to DERBY. Ipswich are on a total of 86 goals and a goal run of seven games now. Derby picked up their 14th blank of the season and now three games in a row. PETERBOROUGH have moved up to sixth place after they drew 0-0 at home against OXFORD UNITED. Borough picked up their 13th blank of the season while Oxford picked up their 16th.

Meanwhile FOREST GREEN ROVERS lost 1-0 away to Portsmouth and picked up their 16th blank of the season and they are still bottom of the league. MK DONS drew 2-2 away to Wycombe and they are on a total of 49 goals. 

LEAGUE TWO

The highest teams that we have in this league are all in the Play-Offs. They are still Stockport County in fifth place with BRADFORD CITY moving down to sixth place after they won 3-2 at home to Grimsby. Bradford have taken their goals total to 50 goals. Salford City are down to seventh place.

Meanwhile AFC WIMBLEDON lost 1-0 at home to Rochdale and picked up their 16th blank of the season. GILLINGHAM lost 2-1 away to Barrow and they are on a total of 36 goals. It’s 50 goals for SWINDON after they lost 2-1 away to Hartlepool. After failing to score in their previous two games,  MANSFIELD TOWN won 4-1 at home to CRAWLEY TOWN and have taken their goals total to 62 goals. Crawley are on a total of 47 goals and a goal run of six games now. After they had failed to score in their last three games, SUTTON UNITED drew 1-1 away to Walsall. Sutton are on a total of 41 goals. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUE RESULTS

In the Premiership, Champions CELTIC won 2-0 away to Ross County. Celtic’s goals take’s them to a total of 120 and a goal run of 29 games. RANGERS hold on to second place after they won 2-0 at home to bottom of the table Dundee Utd. Rangers are on a total of 88 goals. HEARTS are in third place after they lost 2-1 away to Kilmarnock and hit goal number 55 after a two game dry spell. ABERDEEN in fourth place won 1-0 away to St Johnston and are on a total of 68 goals. HIBERNIAN lost 3-1 at home to Motherwell and they are on a total of 56 goals and a goal run of seven games.

In League One ALLOA are down to fourth place after they lost 1-0 at home to Airdrie and picked up their 10th blank of the season. KELTY HEARTS picked up their 13th blank score sheet after they drew 0-0 away to Dunfirmline.

In League Two, STENHOUSEMUIR won 2-1 away to Dumbarton and they are on a total of 60 goals. BONNYRIGG ROSE won 1-0 at home to Stranraer and they have taken their total to 39 goals. 

Our BEST three teams this week 

CELTIC (120) MANCHESTER CITY (90) RANGERS (88) Total of 298 goals 

Our WORST three teams are 

                EVERTON (25) CRYSTAL PALACE (27) CHELSEA (29) Total of 81 goals                                                                                     

Our best performing team are RANGERS as they have now scored in all of their last 30 league/cup games played. They have a total of 88 goals. That gives them an average score of 2.3 goals per game. 

Our worst performing team is GILLINGHAM as they have picked up a total of 24 blank score sheets out of 48 League/Cup games played. 

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

Our 2010/11 Champion TONY GUY with combo two, has remained at the top for his 23rd consecutive weekend. Tony picked up a total of 9 goals this week from Arsenal, Celtic and Sheffield Wednesday and he is now 8 goals in front.  Tony has now moved up to 37th place in our Champions League. He has beaten our 1990/91 Champions Robert Hough and Geoff Dockerill 1994/95 scores of 274 goals. Mark Gregory in second place, picked up a total of 6 goals all coming from the weekend. His teams are Celtic, Manchester City and Norwich.

At the other end at 108 we still have SANDRA NICHOLLS who picked up a total of 5 goals all coming from the weekend. Sandra’s teams are Aston Villa, Crystal Palace and Leicester City. Sandra has now been here for 6 weeks and a total of 21 weeks throughout the season. 

As you can see that the top two did not change this week but the rest had a slight movement this week.

     THIS      LAST                                               M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL      

     WEEK     WEEK         NAME                         GOALS         GOALS        GOALS    

          1             -             T. GUY (2)                       74                   200                274         

           2                 -             M. GREGORY                 77                   189                266         

           3                 4            MANGO                           65                   193                258         

          4                 3             GRANT PHILLIPS          68                   188                256         

          5                 6            J. BLYTH                          84                   172                256         

          6                 5            S. DICKINSON                76                   178                254         

          7                 8            B. BURROUGHS (1)        54                   196                250         

          8                 10          T. GUY (2010/11)              62                   186                248        

          9                 7            M. LAVER                         66                   182                248         

           10              12          J. WISE                              62                   183                245