Week Twelve

In Week Twelve of the competition we have had our second Rollover of the season worth a total of £10. That went to just one player which means that we have now had a total of fourteen winners. The full £10 went to our fourth lady winner BARBARA BARNES with her second combination.

Barbara started with Golden Goals way back in our 2000/01 Season. In her very first season, Barbara finished in 85^th place out of 102 entries with a total of 232 goals. Last season Barbara finished in 68^th place with her first combo with 254 goals and her second combo finished in 72^nd place with 251 goals. Barbara also picked up two weekend wins. This season this is the highest that her second combination has been and she has picked up just two blank score sheets. This is the second weekend that Barbara has scored 12 goals. Her first was in Week Eight. Here are our winners teams 

                                    CHARLTON 4, NEWCASTLE 4, RANGERS 4 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

No one picked up any goals in midweek because the games that we did have playing was cancelled due to the bad weather. So the leaders have remained the same once again.

We have two out in front with BAILEY MORAN and our 2015/16 Champion RICHARD WILLIAMS both with a total of 28 goals. In second place we have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) with a total of 27 goals. In third place we have ANDY EYLES with a total of 26 goals. In fourth place with 25 goals we have JAMES SOMERVILLE. In fifth place we have our 2017/18 Champion CHRIS BOLBERY, MARK JOHNSTON, TONY KING and PETER PORTER. All with a total of 23 goals. In sixth place we have GEOFF CARTHY and RICHIE WILLIAMS both are on a total of 22 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

Due to the bad weather up in the north of the UK, we had a near full league fixture with most of our teams in action over the weekend. Seven of our teams had no game this weekend and out of the ones that did play, 8 of them failed to score any goals. We all managed to pick up some goals this weekend as the average score came to a fantastic total of 7 goals. The reason for such a high average score is that six of our teams picked up four goals each. Here are the results of all of our teams that did manage to play this weekend. 

PREMIER LEAGUE

MANCHESTER CITY are joint top this weekend after they won 2-1 at home to BRIGHTON. City are on  a total of just 19 goals. At this stage last season, they had a total of 33 goals. Brighton picked up goal number 22. ARSENAL in second place, came back from being 2-0 down to draw 2-2 away to London rivals CHELSEA and have taken their goals total to 19 and have kept their 100% scoring record after 10 league/cup games. Chelsea are on a total of 16 goals. LIVERPOOL have moved up to third place after they won 2-0 at home in their local derby against Everton. Liverpool have also kept their 100% scoring record after 10 league/cup games and they are on a total of 23 goals. BOURNEMOUTH lost 2-1 at home to Wolves and picked up goal number 11 after they had failed to score in their last two games. NEWCASTLE won 4-0 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE and have taken their goals tally to 25 goals and a goal run of 8 league/cup games. Place picked up their fifth blank of the season and now two in a row. Palace have scored just one goal in their last 5 games. NOTTINGHAM FOREST drew 2-2 at home to Luton and are on a total of 10 goals. MANCHESTER UNITED won 2-1 away to bottom of the table Sheffield United. United are on a total of 14 goals. ASTON VILLA won 4-1 at home to WEST HAM and have taken their total up to 24 goals and have scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games.. West Ham picked up goal number 17 and have kept their 100% scoring record after 10 league/cup games. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

LEICESTER CITY are still top after they won 3-1 away to SWANSEA CITY. Leicester are now on a total of 31 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. Swansea picked up goal number 24 and they have now scored in all of their last 6 games. Ipswich are in second place but their games was cancelled on Friday. It’s 20 goals for BRISTOL CITY after they won 1-0 at home to Coventry. It’s also 20 goals for SOUTHAMPTON after they won 2-1 away to Hull. MIDDLESBROUGH won 1-0 at home to Birmingham and they are on a total of 25 goals. Brough have now scored in all of their last 8 league/cup games. NORWICH lost 3-2 at home to LEEDS UNITED and are on a total of 26 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. Leeds are now on a total of 23 goals. After they had failed to score in their last two games, STOKE won 2-1 at home to SUNDERLAND and are on a total of 21 goals. Sunderland are on 22 goals. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY lost their ninth league games 1-0 away to Watford. Wednesday are at the bottom of the league and picked up their eighth blank of the season and they have now failed to score in their last five games. Wednesday have scored just one goal in their last 8 games. PLYMOUTH picked up their third blank of the season after they drew 0-0 away to West Brom. 

LEAGUE ONE

BARNSLEY are our highest team here in third place after they drew 1-1 away to Leyton Orient. Barnsley are on a total of 28 goals. BRISTOL ROVERS lost 4-1 away to Burton and they are on a total of 17 goals. CHARLTON picked up another four goals in their 4-0 home win against READING. Charlton have taken their goals tally to 22 goals while Reading picked up their fifth blank score sheet. BLACKPOOL drew 1-1 away to Oxford Utd and they are on a total of 18 goals and a goal run of 6 league/cup games. PETERBOROUGH drew 2-2 at home to Wycombe and are on a total of 24 goals. They have now scored in all of their last 11 league/cup games. DERBY lost 1-0 away to Shrewsbury and that is their third blank of the season. 

LEAGUE TWO

NOTTS COUNTY are still in second place after they won 2-1 away to Gillingham. County are now on a total of 30 goals and a goal run of 11 league/cup games. MK DONS lost 1-0 away to Accrington and picked up their fourth blank of the season. AFC WIMBLEDON drew 0-0 away to Barrow and picked up their fourth blank of the season and now three games without a goal. WREXHAM drew 1-1 away to Bradford and are on a total of 25 goals. SALFORD CITY drew 2-2 at home to Swindon and are on a total of 26 goals. Bottom of the table SUTTON UNITED lost 3-2 at home to Morecambe and they are on a total of 23 goals. 

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Premiership CELTIC keep their top position and now 7 points clear of Rangers after they won 4-1 away to Hearts. Celtic have taken their goals total to 23 and have now scored in all of their last 6 games. RANGERS are in second place after they won 4-0 at home to HIBERNIAN. Rangers have taken their goals total to 23 and they have now scored in all of their last 6 games. Hibs picked up their second blank of the season. KILMARNOCK won 3-1 at home to Livingston and they are now on a total of 33 goals and they have also now scored in all of their last 6 games. 

League One FALKIRK are still top here after they won 2-1 away to Stirling. Falkirk are on a total of 33 goals. KELTY HEARTS lost 3-1 away to Alloa and are on a total of 27 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 games. 

League Two CLYDE lost 3-2 away to Bonnyrigg Rose and are on a total of 12 goals. EAST FIFE picked up their biggest win of the season by winning 4-0 at home to Stranraer. They have taken their goals tally to 14 goals. 

Our BEST three teams this week 

FALKIRK (33) IPSWICH (32)  LEICESTER CITY (31) Total of 96 goals 

Our WORST three teams are 

SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY (7) NOTTINGHAM FOREST (10) CRYSTAL PALACE (11) Total of 28 goals 

Our Best performing team is IPSWICH TOWN after they have now scored in all of their 14 league/cup games. They have a total of 32 goals which gives them an average score of 2 goals per game. 

Our worst performing team is SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY this weekend as they have picked up eighth blank score sheets out of their 14 league/cup games. 

Our highest goal scoring team in our 41^st Season are NEWCASTLE UNITED after they won 8-0 away to Sheffield United in Week Eight. BURNSLEY pick up our second highest score after they won 7-0 at home to Port Vale in the first league game of the season in Week One. 

We still have PETER PORTER out in front for his third weekend. Peter picked up a total of 8 goals all from the weekend. His teams are Barnsley, Celtic and Leicester City.  He is now four goals clear of Jamie Somerville who has moved up to second place this weekend. Jamie’s teams are  Celtic, Leicester City and Peterborough.

At the other end at 110 we still have JOHN NICHOLLS who stays there for his third weekend, John picked up a total of 5 goals this weekend. John has Bristol Rovers, Manchester City and Nottingham Forest.

It seems that the top ten has settled down a bit this weekend.

         THIS      LAST                                             M/WEEK     W/END      TOTAL

       WEEK    WEEK    NAME                             GOALS       GOALS      GOALS 

             1               -        P. PORTER                           23                  59                82

             2               6        J. SOMERVILLE                 25                  53               78

             3                -        A. EYLES                            26                  52               78

             4                2       LUCIFER                             19                  58               77

             5                -        M. GREGORY                     20                  56               76

             6               4        R. WILLIAMS (2015/16)    28                   48              76

             7               15      R. NETTING                       18                   57              75

             8               -         T. GUY (10/11 & 22/23)     13                   61              74

             9               -         N. HAMMOND                  17                   57              74

            10              12      B. MORAN                         28                   46              74

Week Eleven

In Week Eleven of the competition we have had a very quiet week. Due to the Euro qualifying rounds, only a hand full of teams have played. The good news is that we will be back to a full league fixture at the weekend and our second Rollover of the season worth a total of £10. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

None of us picked up any goals in midweek because we did not have any of our teams playing. This is all due to the Euro qualifying rounds that have been played this week. So the leaders remained the same as last weeks sheet.

We have two out in front with BAILEY MORAN and our 2015/16 Champion RICHARD WILLIAMS both with a total of 28 goals. In second place we have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) with a total of 27 goals. In third place we have ANDY EYLES with a total of 26 goals. In fourth place with 25 goals we have JAMES SOMERVILLE. In fifth place we have our 2017/18 Champion CHRIS BOLBERY, MARK JOHNSTON, TONY KING and PETER PORTER. All with a total of 23 goals. In sixth place we have GEOFF CARTHY and RICHIE WILLIAMS both are on a total of 22 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

We only had 7 of our teams in action over the weekend and one of them failed to score any goals. That means that only 18 of us picked up any goals this week. Here are the results of all of our teams that did manage to play this weekend. 

LEAGUE ONE

We had just one of our teams in action over the weekend and they were BLACKPOOL. They have moved up to seventh place after they won 3-0 at home to Stevenage. Blackpool have no won 3 of their last 5 games league games. They have taken their goals tally to 17. 

LEAGUE TWO

NOTTS COUNTY have dropped down to second place after they lost 4-1 at home to Mansfield after they went a goal up. County are now on a total of 28 goals and a goal run of 10 league/cup games. AFC WIMBLEDON lost 1-0 at home to Bradford and picked up their third blank of the season and now two games without a goal. SUTTON UNITED lost 4-1 away to Doncaster and they are on a total of 21 goals. MK DONS drew 2-2 at home to Barrow and they are on a total of 19 goals. WREXHAM won 3-2 at home to SALFORD CITY and they are now on a total of 24 goals. Salford are also on a total of 24 goals. 

Our BEST three teams this week 

IPSWICH (32) FALKIRK (31) LEICESTER CITY (28) Total of 91 goals 

Our WORST three teams are 

SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY (7) NOTTINGHAM FOREST (8) BOURNEMOUTH (10) Total of 25 goals 

Our Best performing team is IPSWICH TOWN after they have now scored in all of their 14 league/cup games. They have a total of 32 goals which gives them an average score of 2 goals per game. 

Our worst performing team is SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY this weekend as they have picked up seven blank score sheets out of their 13 league/cup games.

Our highest goal scoring team in our 41^st Season are now NEWCASTLE UNITED after they won 8-0 away to Sheffield United in Week Eight.  BARNSLEY pick up our second highest score after they won 7-0 at home to Port Vale in the first league game of the season in Week One. 

We still have PETER PORTER out in front for his second weekend. Peter like most of us this week, did not have any of his teams playing. His teams are Barnsley, Celtic and Leicester City.  He is now just one goal clear of Lucifer (John Wood) who has moved up to second place. Lucifer’s teams are  Ipswich, Manchester City and Salford City.

At the other end at 110 we still have JOHN NICHOLLS who stays there for his second weekend, Again he had none of his teams playing. John has Bristol Rovers, Manchester City and Nottingham Forest.

We had just a little change in our top ten this week.

        THIS      LAST                                            M/WEEK     W/END      TOTAL

      WEEK     WEEK    NAME                           GOALS       GOALS      GOALS 

             1               -         P. PORTER                         23                 51                74

             2              4          LUCIFER                           19                54                 73

             3              2          A. EYLES                           26                46                72

             4              3          R. WILLIAMS (2015/16)   28                44                72

             5              -           M. GREGORY                    20               50                70

             6              -           J. SOMERVILLE                25               44                 69

             7              15        D. BARRETT                      11               57                 68

             8               7         T. GUY (10/11 & 22/23)     13               55                 68

             9               8         N. HAMMOND                  17               51                 68

            10              9         C. BOLBERY (2017/18)     23               45                 68

Week Ten

In Week Ten of the competition we are half-way through the first half of the season. We had a total of five players that picked up the highest score of 9 goals each. Under the competition rules, we can only payout four winners, unless it’s a Rollover weekend. The five players are GEOFF CARTHY, TONY KING, DOUG MORBEY, JED WEADEN and PETER WELLARD.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Most of us picked up some goals in midweek, which means that there is yet another slight change in the race for the cash. We had two players that picked up the highest midweek score with 7 goals each. They are ANDY EYLES and PETER PORTER.

We have joint leaders this week with our 2015/16 Champion RICHARD WILLIAMS still there but is now joined with BAILEY MORAN up from third place both with a total of 28 goals. In second place we still have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) with a total of 27 goals. In third place we now have ANDY EYLES up from sixth place with a total of 26 goals. In fourth place now with 25 goals we still have JAMES SOMERVILLE. In fifth place we still have TONY KING but he is now joined with our 2017/18 Champion CHRIS BOLBERY, MARK JOHNSTON and PETER PORTER. All with a total of 23 goals. In sixth place we still have RICHIE WILLIAMS and he has with him GEOFF CARTHY coming back in the race. Both are on a total of 22 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had all but three of our teams in action over the weekend and we had another 12 our teams that failed to score any goals. We had another fantastic weekend of football with plenty of goals, as the average score for the second weekend running remains at 5 goals. So if your combination picked up more than that, then you have done very well this weekend. The Highest score over the weekend was 4 goals and we had six of our teams that reached that number.

PREMIER LEAGUE

TOTTENHAM are back at the top after they won 1-0 away to Luton. Tottenham are on a total of 19 goals and they have also kept their 100% scoring record after nine league/cup games. ARSENAL won 1-0 at home to MANCHESTER CITY and moved up to second place. Arsenal are on a total of 17 goals and have kept their 100% scoring record after a total of 9 league/cup games. City are now down to third place as they pick up their second blank of the season and now just one goal in their last three games. CHELSEA picked up their biggest win of the season by winning 4-1 away to Burnley. Chelsea have taken their goals total to 14. BOURNEMOUTH lost 3-0 away to Everton and picked up their fourth blank of the season and now two games in a row. FULHAM won 3-1 at home to Sheffield Utd. With their biggest result of the season, Fulham are now on a total of 11 goals. BRIGHTON drew 2-2 at home to LIVERPOOL and they are on a total of 21 goals while Liverpool are on 21 and have extended their goal run to 9 league/cup games. WEST HAM drew 2-2 at home to NEWCASTLE and they are on a total of 16 goals and they have also scored in all of their 9 league/cup games. Newcastle are on 21 goals and they have scored in all of their last 7 league/cup games. ASTON VILLA drew 1-1 away to Wolves and picked up goal number 20. MANCHESTER UNITED won 2-1 at home to Brentford and they are on a total of 12 goals. CRYSTAL PALACE drew 0-0 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST. As Palace picked up their fourth blank score sheet and now just one goal in their last three games, Forest picked up their third with just one goal in their last 3 games.

CHAMPIONSHIP

LEICESTER CITY are still top after they won 2-0 at home to STOKE. Leicester are now on a total of 28 goals and a goal run of 7 league/cup games. Stoke picked up their seventh blank of the season and now two games in a row without a goal. IPSWICH are still in second place and 2 points behind City after they won 4-2 at home to Preston. Ipswich have kept their 100% scoring record going after a total of 14 league/cup games. They are now on a total of 32 goals. SUNDERLAND lost 4-0 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH and picked up their third blank of the season. Middlesbrough picked up their biggest win of the season and are now on a total of 24 goals and a goal run of 7 league/cup games. NORWICH drew 1-1 away to Coventry and are on a total of 24 goals. LEEDS UNITED won 2-1 at home to BRISTOL CITY and are on a total of 20 goals while Bristol are on 19 goals. PLYMOUTH lost 3-1 at home to SWANSEA and they are on a total of 22 goals while Swansea are now on 23 goals. SOUTHAMPTON drew 1-1 at home to Rotherham and are on a total of 18 goals. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY are rock bottom here after they drew 0-0 at home to Huddersfield and that is their seventh blank score sheet and they have now failed to score in their last 4 games.

LEAGUE ONE

BRISTOL ROVERS lost 2-1 away to Oxford Utd and are on a total of 16 goals. CHARLTON drew 2-2 at home to BLACKPOOL and they are on a total of 16 goals. Blackpool are on 14 goals. DERBY drew 1-1 away to Cheltenham and are on a total of 18 goals. BARNSLEY won 1-0 away to Exeter and are now on a total of 27 goals.  READING lost 2-1 away to Leyton Orient and are on a total of 15 goals. PETERBOROUGH won 2-0 at home to Lincoln City and are on a total of 22 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games.

LEAGUE TWO

NOTTS COUNTY are still top of the table after they drew 1-1 away to Barrow. County are now on a total of 27 goals and a goal run of 9 league/cup games. WREXHAM won 1-0 away to Crawley and are on a total of 21 goals. After they had failed to score in their last two games, MK DONS lost 2-1 away to Gillingham and they are on a total of 17 goals. AFC WIMBLEDON drew 0-0 away to Mansfield and picked up their second blank of the season after a goal run of  twelve league/cup games. SALFORD CITY won 4-2 at home to Crewe and they are now on a total of 22 goals. After they had failed to score in their last two games, SUTTON UNITED won 4-0 at home to Walsall away to Crawley and they have taken their goals tally to 20.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership CELTIC top of the table, won 3-1 at home to KILMARNOCK. Celtic have now taken their goals tally to 19 while Kilmarnock also picked up goal number 19. RANGERS are up to second place this weekend, after they won 3-0 away to St Mirren. Rangers are now on a total of 19 goals. ABERDEEN drew 0-0 at home to St Johnston and that is their fourth blank of the season. HIBERNIAN drew 2-2 away to Hearts and they are on a total of 22 goals.

In League One FALKIRK are still top after they drew 0-0 at home to Hamilton. Falkirk picked up their second blank of the season after a goal run of 9 league/cup games. KELTY HEARTS won 4-1 away to Edinburgh City and they are now on a total of 26 goals. COVE RANGERS won 3-2 at home to Anna and are now on a total of 25 goals.

In League Two CLYDE lost 4-0 at home to Dumbarton. Clyde have now had a total of six blank score sheets.

Our BEST three teams this week

IPSWICH (32) FALKIRK (31) LEICESTER CITY (28) Total of 91 goals

Our WORST three teams are

SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY (7) NOTTINGHAM FOREST (8) BOURNEMOUTH (10) Total of 25 goals

Our Best performing team is IPSWICH TOWN after they have now scored in all of their 14  league/cup games. They have a total of 32 goals which gives them an average score of 2 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY this weekend as they have picked up seven blank score sheets out of their 13 league/cup games.

Our highest goal scoring team in our 41^st Season are now NEWCASTLE UNITED after they won 8-0 away to Sheffield United in Week Eight.  BURNSLEY pick up our second highest score after they won 7-0 at home to Port Vale in the first league game of the season in Week One.

We have a new leader this weekend with PETER PORTER becoming the third player to do so this season. Peter picked up a total of 13 goals from the week. His teams are Barnsley, Celtic and Leicester City.  He is 2 goals clear of Andy Eyles who has remained in second place. Andy picked up a total of 10 goals this week from his teams of  Barnsley, Leicester City and Manchester City.

At the other end at 110 we now have JOHN NICHOLLS who now becomes our the seventh player to stay there. John picked up just 4 goals from the week. His teams are Bristol Rovers, Manchester City and Nottingham Forest.

Well here is our top ten for this week with a new leader

        THIS      LAST                                    M/WEEK     W/END      TOTAL

      WEEK    WEEK   NAME                           GOALS      GOALS      GOALS

            1               3       P. PORTER                   23                51           74

    2              -       A. EYLES                           26                46           72

    3              1       R. WILLIAMS (2015/16)   28                44           72

    4              12     LUCIFER                           19                52           71

    5              20     M. GREGORY                   20                50           70

    6              14     J. SOMERVILLE           25                44           69

     7              16     T. GUY (10/11 & 22/23)   13                55           68

     8              17     N. HAMMOND           17                51           68

     9              18     C. BOLBERY (2017/18)  23                45           68

     10      5       S. KEMP (2)                  13                54           67

Leicester City Back on Top

In the Championship LEICESTER CITY are back at the top after they won 3-0 at home to Preston. Leicester are now on a total of 26 goals and they have now scored in all their last six league/cup games. LEEDS UNITED won 1-0 at home to QPR and picked up goal number 18. SUNDERLAND won 2-0 at home against Watford and they are on a total of 21 goals. It’s 20 goals for SWANSEA now after they won 2-1 at home to NORWICH. Norwich are on a total of 23 goals. BRISTOL CITY won 2-1 away to Rotherham and they are on a total of 18 goals. 

Ipswich top of Championship

In the Championship IPSWICH have moved to the top as they win 3-0 at home to Hull. Ipswich have extended their goal run to 13 league/cup games and they are now on a total of 28 goals. It’s 20 goals for MIDDLESBROUGH after they won 2-0 at home to Cardiff. PLYMOUTH lost 2-0 at home to Millwall and that is their second blank of the season after a goal run of 8league/cup games. STOKE lost 1-0 at home to SOUTHAMPTON and they have had a total of six blank score sheets while Southampton picked up goal number 17. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY lost 1-0 away to West Brom and they have now had a total of six blank score sheets and now they have failed to score in their last three games. 

In League One BLACKPOOL lost 3-1 at home to DERBY and they are on a total of 12 goals. Derby are now on a total of 17 goals. BRISTOL ROVERS won 3-0 at home to Port Vale and they have taken their goals total to 15. BARNSLEY won 4-0 away to Cambridge Utd and they have taken their goals tally to 26. It’s 20 goals for PETERBOROUGH after they drew 1-1 away to Carlisle and they have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. CHARLTON picked up their biggest result of the season as they win 4-1 at home to Exeter. Charlton are now on a total of 16 goals. READING lost 3-1 away to Northampton and they are on a total of 14 goals. 

In League Two top of the table NOTTS COUNTY won 3-1 at home to Swindon. County are now on a total of 26 goals and a goal run of 8 league/cup games. AFC WIMBLEDON won 1-0 away to Harrogate and that is goal number 23 for them and have extended their goal run to 12 league/cup games. WREXHAM drew 0-0 away to Mansfield and that is their third blank of the season. SUTTON UNITED lost 2-0 at home to SALFORD CITY and that is their fifth blank of the season and now two games in a row. Salford are on a total of 18 goals. MK DONS drew 0-0 away to Walsall and they have now had a total of three blank score sheets and now two games in a row. 

Chelsea Move to 11th Place

In the Premier League it’s 10 goals for CHELSEA now after they win their second league game, 2-0 away to FULHAM. Fulham picked up their third blank of the season.

Week Nine

In Week Nine of the competition we had our 13^th winner of the season winning on a score of 10 goals. The £5 Weekend Prize Money went to one of our double Champion winners PHIL REEVE.

Phil has been with us for all of our 41 Seasons. He became Champion in the 1987/88 Season finishing with 302 goals and then again in the 2011/12 Season with 308 goals. Last season he finished in 95^th place with a total of 219 goals.. This season Phil has been as high as 25^th place in Week Two. He has picked up just one blank score sheet and this is his personal best weekend score. His winning teams are 

                                   ARSENAL 4, CELTIC 2, LEICERSTER CITY 4 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Over half of us picked up some goals in midweek, which means that there is yet another slight change in the race for the cash. In the lead we still have our 2015/16 Champion RICHARD WILLIAMS now with 28 goals. In second place we have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) now with a total of 27 goals. Remaining In third place we still have BAILEY MORAN now with a total of 24 goals. In fourth place now with 24 goals we still have JAMES SOMERVILLE. In fifth place we have TONY KING with 20 goals. In sixth place we have ANDY EYLES and MALCOLM STUBBS both down from four. They are joined with RICHIE WILLIAMS all are on a total of 19 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had all but four of our teams in action over the weekend, but 11 of our teams failed to score any goals. We had another fantastic weekend of football with plenty of goals again, but the average score moved down from six last weekend to 5 goals this weekend. So if your combination picked up more than that, then you have done very well this weekend.

The Highest score over the weekend was 6 goals and they came from the Premier League where ASTON VILLA picked up their biggest result of the season by winning 6-1 at home to BRIGHTON. Villa have taken their goals tally up to 19 goals while Brighton hit goal number 19.

Aston Villa became our 23^rd voted team in our first season. They finished with a total of 73 goals. Their highest end of season score came in the 2018/19 Season with 87 goals. Last season they finished with 58 goals. This is their 23^rd Season with Golden Goals and over the years their average score is 62 goals per season. This season they have just one vote and they have picked up just one blank score sheet out of their eight league/cup games played. 

PREMIER LEAGUE

Hanging on to the op of the table is MANCHESTER CITY after they lost 2-1 away to Wolves. City have taken their goals total up to 17 goals.  TOTTENHAM are in second place after they beat nine men LIVERPOOL 2-1 at home. Tottenham are on a total of 18 goals and they have also kept their 100% scoring record after eight league/cup games. Liverpool have also extended their goal run to eight league/cup games and they have a total of 19 goals. ARSENAL won 4-0 away to BOURNEMOUTH and with their biggest result of the season, have taken their goals tally to 16 goals and keep their 100% scoring record after a total of eight league/cup games. Bournemouth picked up their third blank of the season. MANCHESTER UNITED picked up their second blank of the season after a goal run of five league/cup games as they lost 1-0 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE. Palace are on a total of 11 goals after they had failed to score in their last two games. NEWCASTLE won 2-0 at home to Burnley and they are on a total of 19 goals and have a goal run of six league.cup games. WEST HAM won 2-0 at home to Sheffield United and they are on a total of 14 goals and have kept their 100% scoring record after eight league/cup games. NOTTINGHAM FOREST drew 1-1 at home to Brentford and hit goal number 8.  

CHAMPIONSHIP

LEICESTER CITY are still top after they won 4-1 away to Blackburn Rovers. Leicester are now on a total of 23 goals. IPSWICH are still in second place after they drew 1-1 away to Huddersfield. Ipswich have kept their 100% scoring record going after a total of twelve league/cup games. They are now on a total of 25 goals. SOUTHAMPTON won 3-1 at home to LEEDS UNITED and have taken their goals total to 16 goals. Leeds hit goal number 17. BRISTOL CITY lost 3-2 at home against STOKE and they are on a total of 16 goals while Stoke are on 19. PLYMOUTH drew 1-1 away to Hull and are on a total of 21 goals and have now scored in all of their last eight league/cup games. SWANSEA picked up another three goals in their 3-0 away win over Millwall. Swansea are now on a total of 18 goals. NORWICH won 2-0 at home to Birmingham and are on a total of 22 goals. MIDDLESBROUGH won 3-2 away to Watford and are now on a total of 18 goals. 

LEAGUE ONE

BARNSLEY picked up their first blank of the season as they went down 1-0 at home to BLACKPOOL  after a total of ten league/cup games Blackpool are now on a total of 11 goals. DERBY drew 0-0 at home to Cambridge Utd and that is their second blank score sheet after a goal run of seven league/cup games. PETERBOROUGH won 2-0 at home to BRISTOL ROVERS and are on a total of 19 goals while Rovers picked up their third blank of the season. READING drew 0-0 at home to Burton and that is their fourth blank of the season. CHARLTON drew 0-0 away to Shrewsbury and picked up their second blank score sheet after a goal run of six league/cup games. 

LEAGUE TWO

NOTTS COUNTY top of the table lost 5-4 away to Colchester. County are now on a total of 23 goals and a goal run of seven league/cup games. AFC WIMBLEDON picked up their highest result of the season by winning 4-1 at home to Tranmere. Wimbledon have taken their goals tally to 22 and have now scored in all of their last eleven league/cup games. SUTTON UNITED lost 3-0 away to Crawley and that is their fourth blank of the season. MK DONS lost 1-0 at home to Harrogate and they have now had a total of two blank score sheets after a goal run of eight league/cup games. SALFORD CITY lost 2-1 at home to Newport and they are on a total of 16 goals. WREXHAM drew 3-3 at home to Crewe and they are now on a total of 20 goals. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership CELTIC are still at the top of the table after they won 2-1 away to Motherwell. Celtic have taken their goals tally to 16. RANGERS are still in third place, after they lost 3-1 at home to ABERDEEN. Rangers are on a total of 16 goals while Aberdeen are now on a total of 14 goals. HIBERNIAN drew 0-0 at home to Dundee and that is their first blank of the season after a goal run of eight games. KILMARNOCK drew 1-1 at home against St Mirren and they are on a total of 18 goals. ROSS COUNTY lost 1-0 at home to Hearts and that is their third blank of the season. 

In League One FALKIRK are still top after they won 3-2 at home to Montrose. Falkirk have now scored in all of their last nine league/cup games and have a total of 31 goals. KELTY HEARTS won 3-1 at home to Queen of the South and they are now on a total of 22 goals. COVE RANGERS drew 2-2 away to Stirling and are on a total of 22 goals. 

In League Two STENHOUSEMUIR are down to second place this weekend after they drew 2-2 at home to CLYDE.

Stenhousemuir are on a total of 16 goals and have now scored in all of their last six league/cup games. Clyde are on a total of 10 goals. EAST FIFE drew 1-1 at home to Forfar and are on a total of 10 goals. 

Our BEST three teams this week 

FALKIRK (31)  IPSWICH (25) ROSS COUNTY (24) Total of 80 goals 

Our WORST three teams are 

SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY (7) CHELSEA (8) NOTTINGHAM FOREST (8) Total of 23 goals 

Our Best performing team is FALKIRK after they have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. They have a total of 31 goals which gives them an average score of 2.5 goals per game. 

Our worst performing team is BLACKPOOL this weekend as they have picked up six blank score sheets in their 11 league/cup games. 

Our highest goal scoring team in our 41^st Season are now NEWCASTLE UNITED after they won 8-0 away to Sheffield United in Week Eight.  BARNSLEY pick up our second highest score after they won 7-0 at home to Port Vale in the first league game of the season in Week One.

RICHARD WILLIAMS our 2015/16 Champion is at the top for his eighth consecutive weekend. Richard picked up a total of 5 goals from the week. His teams are Falkirk, Manchester City and Ross County.  He is still out in front but now down to 10 goals clear of Andy Eyles who has remained in second place. Andy picked up a total of 6 goals this week from his teams of  Barnsley, Leicester City and Manchester City.

At the other end at 110 we now have STEVE STUBBS who now becomes our the sixth player to stay there. Steve picked up just 3 goals from the week His teams are Celtic, Chelsea and Reading.

The top three have remained the same this weekend but the rets of the field is catching up now.

          THIS      LAST                                           M/WEEK      W/END      TOTAL

         WEEK   WEEK    NAME                            GOALS       GOALS      GOALS 

                1             -         R. WILLIAMS (2015/16)    28                 44                72

                2             -         A. EYLES                            19                 43                 62

                3             -         P. PORTER                          16                  45                61

                4            10       S. THOMSON (1)                  8                 51                59

                5             4         S. KEMP (2)                          9                 50                59

                6             11       R. NETTING                       15                 44                59

                7             16       J. FILTNESS                       17                 42                 59

                8             17       B. MORAN                         24                 35                 59

                9             6         S. MARSHALL                     7                 51                 58

                10            7        D. BARRETT                       11                47                 58