Hearts Champions

In the Premier League WOLVES played their second game in a week but won this one 1-0 away to FULHAM. Wolves are on a total of 33 goals while Fulham picked up their seventeenth blank of the season. 

In the Championship WATFORD won their second game of the week 2-0 at home against READING. Watford are on a total of 61 goals and have now scored in all of their last eight games. Reading after a goal run of seven games, picked up their eleventh blank of the season. 

In the Scottish Championship HEARTS picked up another six goals in their 6-0 home win against Alloa. Hearts have taken their goals tally up to 64 and can now make them Champions as they only need 2 points for the title.

Stenhousemuir Still Sixth

In the Scottish League Two, STENHOUSEMUIR have played their second game in three days. After their 1-1 draw against Brechin away they then won 1-0 at home to Cowdenbeath. Stenhousemuir are on a total of 28 goals. They have won just two of their last five games and have remained in sixth place.

  

Norwich Nearly Champions

In the Championship NORWICH picked up their biggest win of the season as they thrashed Huddersfield 7-0 at home. Norwich are now on a total of 67 goals and they have now scored in all of their last twelve games. BRENTFORD drew 0-0 at home to BIRMINGHAM which keeps them in third place as they picked up their ninth blank of the season. Birmingham picked up their twentieth blank score sheet. 

In League Two SCUNTHORPE lost 2-0 away to Carlisle and that is their fifteenth blank of the season and now two in a row. SOUTHEND drew 1-1 away to Morecambe and that is goal number 27 for them. 

In the Scottish League One, top of the table FALKIRK lost 2-1 away to Airdrie as they take their goals tally up to 35. COVE RANGERS drew 1-1 away to Clyde and they are on a total of 26 goals. 

In League Two STENHOUSEMUIR drew 1-1 away to Brechin and they are on a total of 27 goals after failing to score in their last two games.

  

Bank Holiday Monday

In the Premier League, WEST HAM have moved up to fourth place after they won 3-2 away to WOLVES. West Ham have taken their goals tally up to 62 goals. Wolves are on a total of 32 goals. EVERTON drew 1-1 at home to Crystal palace and that is goal number 63 for them.

 In the Championship WATFORD remain in second place after they drew 1-1 away to MIDDLESBROUGH. Watford are on a total of 59 goals and they have now scored in all of their last seven games. Brough picked up goal number 53. BOURNEMOUTH won 2-0 away to Blackburn Rovers and are on a total of 69 goals. After a three game dry spell, BRISTOL CITY lost 3-1 away to Coventry and they are on 51 goals. LUTON lost 2-1 at home to Barnsley and they are on 38 goals. NOTTINGHAM FOREST won 3-1 at home to QPR and they are now on a total of 36 goals. READING won 3-1 at home to DERBY and they are on 58 goals while Derby picked up goal number 31. ROTHERHAM lost 3-0 at home to Wycombe and that is their thirteenth blank and now two in a row. STOKE lost 2-1 at home to MIllwall and they are on 49 goals. SWANSEA lost 1-0 at home to PRESTON and they have now had a total of ten blank score sheets and now four in a row. Preston picked up goal number 48. CARDIFF lost 5-0 away to Sheffield Wednesday and that is their thirteenth blank and now two in a row. 

In League One HULL are still top as they win 3-0 at home to Northampton and they are now on a total of 73 goals and a goal run of nine games. PETERBOROUGH are in second place as they drew 1-1 at home to SUNDERLAND. Borough are on 70 goals while Sunderland are on 59. After two games without a goal, FLEETWOOD TOWN are on 49 goals as they win 1-0 away to AFC Wimbledon. SWINDON lost 2-1 away to Burton and they are on 46 goals. CREWE won 2-0 away to MK Dons and they are on 52 goals. OXFORD UNITED lost 2-1 at home to ACCRINGTON STANLEY and they are on 56 goals to Stanley’s 53.  PLYMOUTH picked up their eleventh blank of the season as they lost 3-0 away to Shrewsbury. WIGAN lost 1-0 at home to PORTSMOUTH and that is their sixteenth blank and now three in a row while Portsmouth picked up goal number 69. 

In League Two CHELTENHAM are still in second place after they drew 1-1 away to Grimsby and are now on a total of 63 goals. TRANMERE have moved up to third place after they drew 1-1 at home to top of the table Cambridge Utd. Tranmere picked up goal number 56. EXETER drew 0-0 at home to Mansfield and that is their twelfth blank and now two games in a row. SALFORD CITY won 2-0 away to Forest Green and they are on a total of 46 goals. HARROGATE picked up their sixteenth blank and now four in a row after they lost 2-0 at home to Port Vale. BOLTON lost 1-0 away to Newport and that is their ninth blank and now two in a row. 

Week Thirty-One

In Week Thirty-One of the competition we had two players that picked up the highest score with nine goals each. They are MATT DORAN and MARK JOHNSTON. Matt has Chelsea 2, Manchester City 2 and Motherwell 5. Mark has Liverpool 3, Manchester City 2 and Rangers 4. But there were no winners again this weekend due to the Easter fixture over the weekend, so the prize money has been Rolled over to next week for our first double Rollover worth £18. We have had a total of 31 winners to date this season. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS

Over half of us picked up some goals this week as we are now looking at beating the highest midweek score of 136 goals by Daryl Nicholls in the 2016/17 Season. We are also looking to beat the number of players to reach 100 midweek goals in a season. Last season we had a record breaking 51 players that reached the 100 or more midweek goals. This week we now have a total of nine players that are on or over 100 goals. In the lead to get their names in the record books are RAYMOND HARROD with Brentford, Celtic and Manchester City and SANSA-CLARA-LYANNA with Brentford, Manchester City and Watford. Both are on a total of 106 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had just twenty-two of our teams that played over the weekend and out of them, seven failed to score any goals. The good news means that only three players failed to pick up any goals so the average score for this weekend shot up from a flat zero last weekend to 5 goals this weekend. The highest score that we had over the weekend was five goals and they came from MOTHERWELL and WEST BROM. 

PREMIER LEAGUE

Champions MANCHESTER CITY are now 14 points in front of their rivals as they win 2-0 away to LEICESTER CITY. City have taken their goals tally up to 88 goals while Leicester picked up their seventh blank of the season after a goal run of eight games and are in third place. MANCHESTER UNITED are in second place after they went a goal down at home to BRIGHTON but then won 2-1. United are on a total of 72 goals as Brighton picked up goal number 42. CHELSEA are in fourth place as they lost 5-2 at home to WEST BROM. Chelsea are on a total of 63 goals while West Brom picked up their biggest win of the season and are now on a total of 32 goals. TOTTENHAM are in fifth place as they drew 2-2 away to Newcastle. It’s 70 goals for Tottenham and they have extended their goal run to seven games. LEEDS won 2-1 at home to Sheffield United and they are on a total of 48 goals.  LIVERPOOL won 3-0 away to ARSENAL and they are now on a total of 64 goals as Arsenal picked up their thirteenth blank score sheet. ASTON VILLA won 3-1 at home to FULHAM and they are now on a total of 49 goals to Fulham’s total of 29. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

BRENTFORD have moved up to third place after they drew 1-1 away to Huddersfield. Brentford are on a total of 78 goals. 

LEAGUE TWO

SOUTHEND lost 2-0 at home to Carlisle and that is their twenty-third blank of the season and now just two goals in their last nine games. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the WILLIAM HILL CUP Second Round, we had seven of the eight Scottish teams that we have this season in this round. The good news is that four have made it through to the next round. They are RANGERS who won 4-0 at home to COVE RANGERS. Rangers are now on a total of 88 goals while Cove Rangers picked up their fifth blank of the season. CELTIC are  also there as they win 3-0 at home to FALKIRK. Celtic are now on a total of 69 goals while Falkirk picked up their fifth blank of the season. ABERDEEN won 1-0 away to Dumbarton and that is their 35^th goal of the season after failing to score in their last three games. MOTHERWELL picked up their highest score of the season after they won 5-0 away to non-league teams Formartine United. Motherwell are now on a total of 38 goals. STENHOUSEMUIR go out after they lost 4-0 at home to Kilmarnock to pick up their fifth blank and now two in a row. 

In the Championship top of the table HEARTS drew 0-0 away to Dunfermline and that is now their third blank score sheet.. 

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

MANCHESTER CITY (88)  RANGERS (88) BRENTFORD (78) Total of 254 goals 

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE 

COVE RANGERS (25) SOUTHEND (26) STENHOUSEMUIR (26) Total of 77 goals

Our Best team this week are RANGERS after they have now scored in all of their last thirty-two league/cup games. They have scored a total of 88 goals which gives them an average score of 2.3 goals per game. 

Our worst team this weekend is ABERDEEN who have scored just two goals in their last eleven games played. 

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

Our highest goal scorers in our 38^th 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 this weekend as I managed to pick up a total of seven goals all coming from the weekend. It’s now nine weeks in a row at the top for me this week. My teams are Brentford, Manchester City and Rangers. Michael Fisher is still in second place as he picked up eight goals at the weekend. Michael is now six goals behind me this week. His teams are Manchester City Manchester United and Rangers.

At the other end at 116 we still have John Nicholls who has now been there for fifteen consecutive weeks. Johns teams picked him up a total of six goals from his combo of Bristol City, Fulham and West Brom. 

No change really in the top ten this week.

     THIS      LAST                                                        M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

    WEEK     WEEK             NAME                               GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

         1             -                 S. REEVE (2008/09)             96                   158                254

          2                 -                 M. FISHER                           89                   159                248

          3                 -                 C. WEBB                              83                   162                245              

          4                 -                 S. MARSHALL                    74                   166                240              

          5                 -                 M. JOHNSTON                    81                   159                240

          6                 -                 G. PHILLIPS                        83                   156                239              

          7                 -                 T. BICKNELL (2014/15)     97                   138                235              

           8                 -                 R. HARROD                      106                  129                235 

           9                 -                 D. HUGHES                       92                   142                234

           10              12              J. WEARDEN                     76                    154                230       

Good Friday Results

We had plenty of our teams in action on Good Friday and here are the results.

In the Championship leaders NORWICH drew 1-1 away to PRESTON to pick up their 60^th goal of the season and now have a goal run of eleven games. After a three game dry spell for goals, Preston are on a total of 47 goals. Just six points behind Norwich are WATFORD as they won 1-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday. Watford are on 58 goals. BOURNEMOUTH are now on a total of 67 goals as they win 3-1 at home to MIDDLESBROUGH. Brough are on a total of 52 goals. BRISTOL CITY lost 2-0 at home to STOKE and that is their nineteenth blank and now three in a row. Stoke are on a total of 48 goals. CARDIFF lost 1-0 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST and they have now had a total of twelve blank score sheets. Forest are on a total of 33 goals. It’s 30 goals for DERBY as they win 2-0 at home to LUTON who picked up their eighteenth blank of the season. ROTHERHAM lost 1-0 away to Millwall and that is their twelfth blank of the season. READING drew 1-1 away to Barnsley and they are on a total of 55 goals and have now scored in all of their last six games. BIRMINGHAM won 1-0 at home to SWANSEA and they are on 29 goals while Swansea picked up their ninth blank of the season and now three in a row. 

In League One top of the table HULL won 2-1 away to CREWE. Its 70 goals for Hull and a goal run of eight games. Crewe picked up goal number 50. PETERBOROUGH are in second place just one point behind the leaders as they win 1-0 away to FLEETWOOD. Borough are on a total of 69 goals while Fleetwood picked up their seventeenth blank of the season. CHARLTON won 1-0 away to Doncaster and they are on 58 goals. ACCRINGTON STANLEY picked up their eleventh blank of the season and now two in a row as they drew 0-0 at home to Burton. PLYMOUTH won 1-0 at home to AFC Wimbledon and they are on 62 goals. PORTSMOUTH won 2-1 at home to Rochdale and they are on a total of 68 goals. SUNDERLAND have extended their goal run to nineteen games as they win 3-1 at home to OXFORD UNITED. Oxford are on 55 goals. SWINDON lost 2-0 at home to Blackpool and that is their fourteenth blank of the season. 

In League Two CHELTENHAM are in second place after they won 4-0 at home to TRANMERE ROVERS. Cheltenham are on a total of 62 goals while Rovers picked up their fifteenth blank of the season. BOLTON move into second place after they drew 0-0 at home to Colchester. Bolton after a goal run of sixteen games, picked up their eighth blank score sheet.  SCUNTHORPE drew 0-0 at home to Coventry and that is their fourteenth blank of the season. EXETER picked up their eleventh blank of the season after they lost 1-0 away to Port Vale. After not scoring in their last four games, SALFORD CITY are now on a total of 44 goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Grimsby. HARROGATE drew 0-0 away to Walsall and they have now had a total of fifteenth blank score sheets and now three in a row.

No Goals From Wigan Again

We had just one result to give you and that is from League One where WIGAN lost 1-0 away to Gillingham. Wigan have now picked up a total of fifteen blank score sheets and now two in a row. They are currently third from bottom. 

Also in the news is that Lincoln City's league games against MK Dons on Good Friday and Charlton four days later have been postponed because of positive testing of coronavirus.