Week Four

Here in Week Four of the competition and this weekend we had another winner who won on a score of 11 goals once again. Our winner is LYANNA GRIMWOOD who picks up the full £5 cash prize money this weekend and becomes the fifth player to win this season. Lyanna is going solo this season after last season she shared with other family members. They finished in 34^th place with a total of 267 goals last season. Lyanna’s winning teams are

FULHAM 3, MANCHESTER CITY 5, SUNDERLAND 3 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

We can now have our third look at who is in the lead for our 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot worth £25 this season. The highest score that we had came from JOHN NICHOLL’s teams with 12 goals which is worthy of a weekend win. At last John has joined in with the midweek race. His teams are Arsenal 6, Aston Villa 6 and Swindon. In the lead after four weeks of football we still have GEOFF CARTHY and RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion both are still on a total of 23 goals. In second place we have PETER PORTER on a total of 22 goals. In third place all with 19 goals we have LUCIFER and BOB SAWYER both down from two with RAYMOND HARROD. In fourth place this week we still have EMMA SAWYER but now we have GUY DOWSETT (2), TOBY BICKNELL and SCOTT THOMSON (1) moving down from three with BOB SOPER. All are on a total of 18 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had another full weekend of fixtures and another good weekend for goals. We had just one of our teams with no game over the weekend with another fifteen of our teams that failed to score any goals. So this weekend the average score went down from seven last weekend to just 4 goals this weekend. So once again if your combination picked up more than that, then you have done very well this weekend. The Highest score over the weekend was five goals and they came from MANCHESTER CITY as they win 5-0 at home to ARSENAL. City are now on a total of 10 goals while Arsenal are rock bottom with their third blank score sheet. 

Manchester City are one of our original teams from our very first season of 1983/84. They became our then 15^th most voted english team and they finished on a total of 73 goals. They have hit 100 or more goals in seven of the 28 seasons that they have appeared in to date. Their highest score is a total of 137 goals which they first scored in the 2013/14 Season and then again in the 2018/19 Season. Last season they finished on a total of 106 goals. They have scored a total of 2333 goals to date and that gives them an average score of 83 goals per season. 

PREMIER LEAGUE 

It’s all change here after they have all played their third league game and it’s now TOTTENHAM at the top after they won 1-0 at home to London rivals WATFORD. Tottenham have now scored three goals in their three games. Watford have picked up their second blank and now just one goal in their last three games. WEST HAM are in second place after they drew 2-2 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE. It’s 10 goals for West Ham and Palace are now on the score sheet. MANCHESTER UNITED are in third place as they win 1-0 away to WOLVES. United are on 7 goals while Wolves picked up their third blank of the season. CHELSEA are now in fourth place after they drew 1-1 away to LIVERPOOL who are now in fifth place. Chelsea. Both teams are on a total of 6 goals each. ASTON VILLA drew 1-1 at home to BRENTFORD and are on 11 goals while Brentford hit goal number 6. BRIGHTON picked up their first blank score sheet as they lost 2-0 at home to Everton. LEICESTER CITY won 2-1 away to Norwich and are on four goals. 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

FULHAM are still top after as they won their fourth game out of five as they win 3-1 at home to Stoke. Fulham have now scored in all of their six games and are on a total of 15 goals. WEST BROM are still in second place as they win 1-0 away to PETERBOROUGH. West Brom are on 12 goals while Borough picked up their fourth blank and now two in a row. BARNSLEY drew 1-1 at home to Birmingham and they are on a total of 5 goals. CARDIFF lost 2-1 at home to Bristol City and they are on 12 goals. DERBY drew 1-1 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST and they are on a total of 8 goals to Forest’s 6 goals. READING picked up their second blank of the season after they lost 4-0 away to Huddersfield. HULL have picked up their fourth consecutive blank score sheet as they drew 0-0 at home to BOURNEMOUTH. Bournemouth picked up their second of the week. SHEFFIELD UNITED drew 0-0 away to Luton and that is their fourth blank of the season. PRESTON won 3-1 at home to SWANSEA and they are now on a total of 13 goals while Swansea hit goal number 11. 

LEAGUE ONE 

SUNDERLAND are top here this weekend with their fourth win of the season as they win 3-1 at home to WYCOMBE. Sunderland are now on a total of 13 goals while Wycombe are on 10 goals. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY are down to second place as they lost 1-0 away to Morecambe. That is Wednesday’s third blank of the season. OXFORD UNITED are up to third place as they win 3-1 at home to LINCOLN CITY. With their biggest win of the season to date, Oxford are now on a total of 9 goals while Lincoln picked up their sixth goal after two blank score sheets. BOLTON picked up their third blank and now two in a row after they lost 1-0 away to Cambridge Utd. CHARLTON won 2-0 at home to Crewe and they are on a total of four goals. IPSWICH drew 2-2 at home to AFC Wimbledon and they are on 8 goals. PLYMOUTH drew 1-1 at home to Fleetwood and they are on a total of 11 goals and they have now scored in all of their last six games. ROTHERHAM won 2-0 at home to Doncaster and they are on 6 goals. WIGAN won 1-0 at home against PORTSMOUTH and they are on 7 goals while Portsmouth picked up their second consecutive blank score sheet. 

LEAGUE TWO 

The highest team that we have here are SWINDON in fourth place now. They have won their third league game 1-0 at home to Mansfield. Swindon are on 6 goals. EXETER have scored again as they drew 1-1 away to Harrogate. Exeter are on a total of 5 goals. CARLISLE lost 2-1 away to Hartlepool and they are on four goals. SALFORD CITY won 3-0 at home to Newport and they are now on a total of 8 goals. SCUNTHORPE won their first league game 1-0 at home to Tranmere. Scunthorpe are on four goals. SUTTON lost 2-1 at home to Oldham after going a goal up. Sutton are on 5 goals. After a goal run of six games, STEVENAGE picked up their first blank after they lost 1-0 away to Walsall.   

SCOTTISH LEAGUES 

In the Premiership HEARTS are now our highest team here in second place. They won 2-0 away to Dundee Utd. Hearts are on 17 goals and they have now scored in all of their nine games. RANGERS are now in third place after they beat their rivals CELTIC 1-0 at home. Rangers are now on a total of 13 goals as Celtic picked up their first blank of the season. ABERDEEN have moved down to fourth place after they drew 1-1 at home to Ross County. Aberdeen are on a total of 7 goals. 

In the Championship  KILMARNOCK are down to third place after they lost 1-0 at home to Inverness CT.  Kilmarnock have now had two blank score sheets in their last three games.   

In League Two, It’s 20 goals for KELTY HEARTS and they are still on top of the league after they picked up their biggest win 4-1 away to STENHOUSEMUIR. Stenhousemuir are on 9 goals.  

Our BEST three teams this week are 

KELTY HEARTS (20) HEARTS (17) CELTIC (16) Total of 53 goals 

Our WORST three teams are 

CRYSTAL PALACE (2) TOTTENHAM (3) PETERBOROUGH (4) Total of 9 goals 

Our on-form team is HEARTS after scoring in all of their nine Cup/League games with a total of 17 goals. 

Our worst team this week is HULL CITY as they have picked up four consecutive blank score sheets out of six games.

Our highest goal scorers in our 39^th Season are CELTIC who have now hit six goals twice. They first won 6-0 at home against Dundee in their second league game in Week One and again 6-0 at home in their third league game in Week Three.

ARSENAL beat West Brom 6-0 away and ASTON VILLA won 6-0 away to Barrow both picked up their highest results in the second round of the Carabao/League Cup in Week Four. 

CHRIS BOLBERY is in his second consecutive weekend at the top and three weeks out of the four already played, after he picked up a total of 6 goals from the week. Chris’s teams are Bournemouth, Celtic and Sunderland. He is now two goals in front of second place Colin Webb this weekend who has Fulham, Rangers and West Brom picking him up a total of 7 goals this week. 

At the other end at 113 we have ZIGGY (John Nicholls) this weekend making him the third player to be there. Ziggy picked up 4 goals this week. John’s Ziggy has Crystal Palace, Scunthorpe and Stenhousemuir. 

Here are our top ten this week. 

  THIS      LAST                                                         M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

 WEEK     WEEK             NAME                               GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

       1            -                  C. BOLBERY (2017/18)       15                   27                  42

        2                 6                C. WEBB                              18                   22                  40

        3                 7                G. DOWSETT (2)                 18                   21                  39

         4                 9                R. HARROD                        19                   20                  39                

         5                 8                P, PORTER                           22                   17                  39

         6                 48              L. GRIMWOOD                 9                     29                  38

         7                 2                G. CARTHY                         23                   15                  38                

         8                 29              M. STUBBS                          9                     28                  37

         9                 30              JAMIE WOOD                     10                   27                  37

          10              3                R. WOOD (2007/08)*          23                   14                  37

Burton up to Fourth Place

In League One BURTON ALBION drew 1-1 at home to Cheltenham after going a goal down. Burton are on a total of 6 goals.

Arsenal Gunning for the Cup

In the Carabao/League Cup, we had another two of our teams playing in the second round. After failing to score any goals in their first two league games, ARSENAL are now on the score sheet after they beat WEST BROM 6-0 away. That is West Brom first blank of the season.

Carabao/League Cup Second Round Results

 

In the second round of the Carabao/League Cup we had a total of 21 of our teams in action last night and only twelve have made it through to the next round. They are SWANSEA who won 4-1 at home to PLYMOUTH. Swansea with their biggest result of the season they are now on a total of 10 goals. Plymouth are also now on 10 goals. ASTON VILLA won 6-0 away to Barrow and with their biggest result to date, Villa are now on a total of 10 goals. SUNDERLAND won 3-2 away to Blackpool and are now on 10 goals. PRESTON won 4-2 away to Morecambe and with their biggest result of the season are now on a total of 10 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED won 2-1 at home to DERBY and they are on a total of four goals. Derby picked up goal number 7. WIGAN drew 0-0 at home to BOLTON but then won 5-4 on penalties. As Wigan picked up their first blank of the season, Bolton have now had two blanks. WOLVES have picked up their first goals of the season as they win 4-0 away to NOTTINGHAM FOREST who have now failed to score in their last two games. FULHAM won 2-0 away to Birmingham and they are now on a total of 12 goals. BRENTFORD won 3-1 at home to Forest Green and they are now on 5 goals.  BRIGHTON won 2-0 away to CARDIFF CITY and they are on 6 goals while Cardiff picked up their first blank of the season. STEVENAGE drew 2-2 at home to WYCOMBE but then lost 5-3 on penalties. Stevenage are on a total of 9 goals and they have extended their goal run to six games. Wycombe are also on 9 goals. WATFORD won 1-0 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE and are on four goals. Palace picked up their third blank in three games now.

Teams that also went out are BOURNEMOUTH who lost 6-0 away to Norwich and that is their first blank of the season. OXFORD UTD lost 2-0 away to QPR and that is their first blank score sheet.

Happy Hammers

 

In the Premier League, WEST HAM won 4-1 at home to LEICESTER CITY and are now top of the league. West Ham are now on a total of 8 goals from two games as Leicester picked up their second goal of the season.

Week Three

 Here in Week Three of the competition and this weekend we had three winners who all won on a score of 11 goals once again. Our winners are  MICHAEL PEPPERRELL, RYAN FC and RICHARD WILLIAMS who have shared the £5 cash prize money this weekend. All of our winners picked up their highest score to date collecting a total of £1.66 pence each. Two of our winners are past Champions and they are Michael in the 2002/03 Season where he finished in 4th place in our Champions League with a total of 266 goals. Last season he finished in 35^th place with a total of 266 goals. Richard Champion in the 2015/16 Season finished with a total of 298 goals and is our 28^th highest Champion. Last season Richard finished in 43^rd place with 263 goals. Ryan FC also belongs to Richard and the combo won some cash with two weekend wins last season. The combo finished in 100^th place with a total of 205 goals. Their winning teams are 

Michael BOURNEMOUTH 2, MANCHESTER CITY 5, RANGERS 4

Ryan FC  BARNSLEY 2, MANCHESTER CITY 5, RANGERS 4

Richard CELTIC 6, EXETER 4, MANCHESTER UNITED 1

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

We can now have our second look at who is in the lead for our 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot worth £25 this season. Taking the lead after three weeks of football we still have RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion and joining him is GEOFF CARTHY moving up from three last week. Both are on a total of 23 goals. A bit behind them in second place we have LUCIFER and PETER PORTER both up from three with BOB SAWYER up from four. All three are on a total of 19 goals. In third place all with 18 goals we have GUY DOWSETT (2) down from two and in the race this week we have TOBY BICKNELL and SCOTT THOMSON (1). In fourth place all with 17 goals we have EMMA NEWMAN, MICHAEL PEPPERRELL, EMMA SAWYER, ANN WELLARD and TIM WOOD. 

WEEKEND RESULTS 

We had another full weekend of fixtures and another good weekend for goals. We had just three teams with no game over the weekend with another fifteen of our teams that failed to score any goals. So for our second weekend the average score was 7 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 six goals and they once again came from CELTIC. They won 6-0 at home to St Mirren and it has taken their goals tally up to 16 goals in four games. They have just nine votes this season. 

PREMIER LEAGUE 

The premier league have now played their second league game and it’s now CHELSEA at the top after they won 2-0 away to London rivals ARSENAL. Chelsea are on a total of 5 goals while Arsenal have still yet to score any goals. LIVERPOOL are in second place after they won 2-0 at home to Burnley. Liverpool are also on a total of 5 goals. BRIGHTON are in third place after they won 2-0 at home to WATFORD. Brighton are on four goals now while Watford picked up their first blank of the season. Meanwhile ASTON VILLA won 2-0 at home to Newcastle and they are on four goals. MANCHESTER CITY are at last on the scoring sheet as they win 5-0 at home to Norwich. CRYSTAL PALACE drew 0-0 against BRENTFORD. Still no goals from Palace and Brentford picked up their first blank score sheet. MANCHESTER UNITED are on 6 goals as they drew 1-1 away to Southampton. TOTTENHAM won their first game 1-0 away to WOLVES and they are on two goals while Wolves picked up their second blank. 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

FULHAM are still top after their fourth game after they won 2-0 at home to HULL. Fulham have scored in all of their four games and are on a total of 10 goals. Hull picked up their third consecutive blank score sheet. WEST BROM are now in second place as they win 2-1 away to Blackburn. BOURNEMOUTH drew 2-2 at home to Blackpool and they are on a total of 13 goals and a goal run of five games. CARDIFF have also extended their goal run to five games as they win 3-1 at home to Millwall. Cardiff are on 11 goals. READING lost 2-1 away to Coventry and that is goal number 7 for them. DERBY picked up their first blank fo the season after they drew 0-0 at home to Middlesbrough. PRESTON won 1-0 at home to PETERBOROUGH and they are on a total of 6 goals while Borough picked up their third blank score sheet. BARNSLEY drew 2-2 away to QPR and they are on a total of four goals. After a run of two games with out a goal, SHEFFIELD UNITED are on two goals as they lost 2-1 at home to Huddersfield. NOTTINGHAM FOREST lost 1-0 away to Stoke and that is their first blank score sheet. 

LEAGUE ONE 

SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY are top here this weekend with their third win of the season as they win 2-0 away to ROTHERHAM. Wednesday are on 5 goals this week while Rotherham picked up their second blank of the season. WYCOMBE have moved down to second place after they win 1-0 at home to LINCOLN CITY. Wycombe are on 7 goals while Lincoln picked up their second blank in a row. PORTSMOUTH are now in third place after they drew 0-0 away to Doncaster. That is their first blank of the season. BOLTON won 2-1 at home to OXFORD UNITED and they are on a total of 9 goals to Oxford’s 6. BURTON ALBION lost 3-0 away to Cambridge Utd and that is their first blank of the season. CHARLTON lost 2-0 at home to WIGAN and that is their third blank score sheet as Wigan take their goals total to 6. IPSWICH drew 2-2 at home to MK Dons and they are now on 6 goals. PLYMOUTH won 3-0 away to Shrewsbury and they are now on a total of 9 goals. SUNDERLAND are on 7 goals as they win 1-0 at home to AFC Wimbledon. 

LEAGUE TWO 

The highest team that we have here are SWINDON in third place. They have won their second league game 1-0 away to SALFORD CITY. Swindon are on 5 goals while Salford picked up their second blank score sheet. CARLISLE picked up their third goal of the season as they drew 1-1 at home to Leyton Orient. After four consecutive blank score sheets, EXETER are on the score sheet after they won 4-1 at home to Bristol Rovers. SCUNTHORPE drew 1-1 at home to SUTTON UNITED. It’s goal number three for Scunthorpe while Sutton are on four. STEVENAGE drew 1-1 at home to Port Vale and they are on 7 goals. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES 

In the Premiership ABERDEEN are our highest team here in second place. They drew1-1 away to HEARTS in third place. Aberdeen are on a total of 6 goals while Hearts are on 15 goals and a goal run of eight games. Celtic are in fourth place and RANGERS are in fifth place as they win 4-2 away to Ross County. Rangers are now on a total of 12 goals. 

In the Championship  KILMARNOCK are now top of the league after they won 2-0 away to Hamilton.  Kilmarnock are now on a total of 12 goals.  

In League Two, new boys KELTY HEARTS are still on top of the league here after they won their third league game out of four with a 1-0 home win against Edinburgh City. Kelty have now scored a total of 16 goals. STENHOUSENUIR drew 1-1 at home to Cowdenbeath and they are on 8 goals.

Our BEST three teams this week are 

CELTIC (16) KELTY HEARTS (16) HEARTS (15) Total of 47 goals  

Our WORST three teams are 

ARSENAL (0) CRYSTAL PALACE (0) WOLVES (0) Total of 0 goals 

Our on-form team is HEARTS after scoring in all of their eight Cup/League games with a total of 15 goals. 

Our worst team is EXETER CITY as they have picked up four blank score sheets out of five games of the season. 

Our highest goal scorers in our 39^th Season are CELTIC. They have scored six twice now in four games. They first won 6-0 at home against Dundee in their second league game in Week One and now 6-0 at home in their third league game in Week Three.  

CHRIS BOLBERY is back at the top this weekend after picking up a total of 11 goals from the week. Chris s teams are Bournemouth, Celtic and Sunderland. In second place is Geoff Carthy who has Bournemouth, Rangers and West Brom, picked up a total of 14 goals this week.

At the other end at 113 we have SAM LEGHORN picking up six goals this week. Sam has Arsenal, Manchester City and Tottenham and it’s her second weekend there. 

Here are the top ten this week.

         THIS      LAST                                                         M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

 WEEK     WEEK             NAME                               GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

       1            2                 C. BOLBERY (2017/18)       12                   24                  36

       2                 7                G. CARTHY                          23                   13                  36

       3                 4                R. WOOD (2007/08)*           23                   12                  35

       4                 5                N. TREADWELL                  10                   24                  34                

       5                 10              S. GRIMWOOD                     7                     26                  33

       6                 14              C. WEBB                                16                   17                  33

       7                 1                G. DOWSETT (2)                  18                   15                  33                

        8                 3                P. PORTER                            19                   13                  32

        9                 8                R. HARROD                         16                   15                  31

         10              6                TIM WOOD                          17                   14                  31 

Swansea's First League Win

In the Championship, SWANSEA played their second game of the week. After losing their first game they have won their second game 1-0 away to Bristol City. With their first win of the season, Swansea are on a total of 6 goals.