Brighton Lose Again

In the Premier League BRIGHTON lost 2-0 away to Brentford and that is their 3^rd blank score sheet of the season. Brighton have now failed to score in their last two games.

Peterborough Now Fourth

We had another eight of our Golden Goals team sin action and most of them picked up some more goals.

In League One CHARLTON won 4-2 at home to Exeter and that has taken their goal tally to 21. MK DONS lost 1-0 at home to BRISTOL ROVERS. MK Dons have now had a total of six blank score sheets while Rovers picked up their 18^th goal of the season. PETERBOROUGH won 4-1 at home against FOREST GREEN ROVERS. Borough are now on a total of 27 goals with eleven of them coming in their last four games. Forest Green are on a total of 14 goals.

In the Scottish Premiership, HIBERNIAN lost 1-0 away to Dundee Utd and that is their 3^rd blank score sheet of the season.

In League One KELTY HEARTS won 1-0 at home to Queen of the South and they are on a total of 9 goals.

In League Two BONNYRIGG ROSE are on a total of 18 goals after they won 2-0 at home to Anna.

 

 

40 Days to go

 

We have just 40 days to go before we start the 2022 World Cup. The tournament kicks off on Sunday, 20 November with the opening game from Group A between the host Qatar and Ecuador. The kick-off will be at 7pm UK time. Four games will then be played each day during a group stage that runs for 13 days. The winners and runners-up of each group progress to the last 16. The final will be played on 18 December at the Lusail Stadium.   

The 2022 World Cup will begin with 32 teams in eight groups of four and here they all are: 

Group A: Ecuador, Holland, Qatar, Senegal

Group B: England, Iran, USA, Wales

Group C: Argentina, Mexico, Poland, Saudi Arabia

Group D: Australia, France, Denmark, Tunisia

Group E: Costa Rica, Germany, Japan, Spain

Group F: Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Morocco

Group G: Brazil, Cameroon, Serbia, Switzerland

Group H: Ghana, Portugal, South Korea, Uruguay 

Golden Goals will be there again which will be our ninth tournament. You can also join us here or take part in this great competition. All you have to do in the Golden Goals World Cup 2022 is to pick just four of the thirty-two nations to play and hope that they will win you some prize money at the end of the tournament. Entry Fee has remained at just £6. Entry forms will be available soon.

A Draw for Villa

In the Premier League ASTON VILLA drew 1-1 away to Nottingham Forest and picked up their 11^th goal of the season. 

Week Eleven

Here we are with Week Eleven of the competition and we two players to share the £5 wekend jackpot this weekend. Our winners won on a score of 11 goals each and they are LYANNA GRIMWOOD who has become our first player to win twice this season after Lyanna won last weekend. This is the highest that Lyanna has been this season. She has picked up a total of 24 goals in the last two weeks.

BOB SOPER gets his first win and that now brings our winners total up to fifteen for the season. Bob joined Golden Goals way back in the 2001/02 Season on where he finished in the winning frame in 7^th place with a total of 321 goals. Last season Bob finished in 31^st place with 289 goals. This season he has picked up three blank score sheets and this is the highest that he has been to date. Our winners teams are 

Lyanna  LIVERPOOL 2, MANCHESTER CITY 4, NEWCASTLE 5 

Bob  MANCHESTER CITY 4, NEWCASTLE 5, NORWICH 2 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

Nearly half of us picked up midweek goals this week which means that the race for the cash has changed this week. Back out in the lead on his own is RICK WOOD our 2007/08 Champion with a total of 29 goals. Down to second place this week we have STEVE AYRES with a total of 28 goals. In third place both on 27 goals we have NICK HORTON and TERENCE WARWICK. HAYLEY ADKINS has fallen down to fourth place still with a total of 26 goals. In fifth place down from four with 25 goals we have GUY DOWSETT (1). In sixth place down from five we have,  MARK GREGORY and LOUIE HARRINGTON both on a total of 24 goals. 

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had just two of our teams without a game this weekend and we had fourteen teams that failed to score any goals. We had another good weekend for goals really, even though we had a load of teams that did not score. The average score for this weekend was 7 goals which is still very high. Well done if your teams picked up more than that. The highest score that we had was five goals and they came from NEWCASTLE who won 5-1 at home to Brentford. Newcastle have taken their goals tally to 19 goals. They have scored ten goals in their last three games.

Newcastle are one of our original teams as they started in our first season of 1983/84 where they became our 6^th most voted team. In that season they finished on a total of 87 goals. Their highest score came in the 1992/93 Season with a total of 105 goals. It’s the only time that they have hit 100+ goals in a season. The last time that we had Newcastle on our sheets was back in the covid 2019/20 Season on where they finished with just 50 goals. This is their 31^st Season with Golden Goals and over the years they have netted a total of 2052 goals, which gives them an average score of 66 goals per season. This season they have a total of 3 votes and out of their ten games played, they have picked up just two blank score sheets. 

PREMIERSHIP

ARSENAL have remained on top again this week after they won 3-2 at home to LIVERPOOL. Arsenal keep their 100% scoring record going after nine games played and they are on a total of 23 goals. Liverpool are on a total of 20 goals. MANCHESTER CITY are still in second place after they won 4-0 at home to Southampton. City have now also scored in all of their nine games and they are now on a total of 33 goals. They have now scored 14 goals in their last four games. TOTTENHAM are right behind them as they win 1-0 away to BRIGHTON. Tottenham have also scored in all of their first nine games and are on a total of 20 goals. Brighton after a goal run of six games, picked up their 2^nd blank of the season. BOURNEMOUTH won 2-1 at home to LEICESTER CITY and they are on a total of 10 goals to Leicester’s total of 15. CHELSEA picked up their biggest result to date as they win 3-0 at home to Wolves. Chelsea are now on a total of 13 goals. CRYSTAL PALACE won 2-1 at home against LEEDS UTD and they are on a total of 12 goals while Leeds hit goal number 14. MANCHESTER UNITED won 2-1 away to EVERTON and they are on a total of 13 goals. Everton picked up their 9^th goal of the season. WEST HAM picked up their highest result to date as they win 3-1 at home to FULHAM. West Ham are now on a total of 8 goals while Fulham are on 14 and they have now scored in all of their last six games. 

CHAMPIONSHIP

SHEFFIELD UNITED are still top here on goal difference after they lost 3-1 away to Stoke. United are on 21 goals. NORWICH are in second place as they lost 3-2 at home to Preston. Norwich have now scored in all of their last fourteen games and are on a total of 24 goals. WATFORD lost 3-1 away to Blackpool and they are on a total of 17 goals. BURNLEY won 1-0 away to Coventry and they are on a total of 21 goals and have now scored in all of their last eleven games. MIDDLESBROUGH picked up their 5^th blank of the season after they lost 2-0 away to Millwall. Brough have now scored just one goal in their last four games. SWANSEA won 2-1 at home to SUNDERLAND and are on a total of 19 goals. After a two game dry spell, Sunderland picked up goal number 17. WEST BROM drew 0-0 at home to LUTON and that is their second blank of the week and now four over the season. Luton picked up their 4^th after a goal run of eight games. HUDDERSFIELD picked up their 3^rd league win as they win 2-0 at home to Hull. Huddersfield are on a total of 16 goals. 

LEAGUE ONE

PLYMOUTH are still the top of the table after they won 3-0 at home to Accrington. Plymouth are now on a total of 24 goals and have extended their goal run to eleven games. IPSWICH are still in second place as they win 2-1 away to Morecambe. Ipswich are on a total of 27 goals and they have also now scored in all of their last eleven games. BRISTOL ROVERS won 2-1 at home to Cambridge Utd and that takes their goal tally to 17. DERBY lost 2-1 at home to Port Vale and they are on a total of 15 goals. FOREST GREEN ROVERS won 1-0 at home to Bolton. With their third league win of the season Forest Green are on a total of 13 goals. LINCOLN CITY drew 0-0 at home to CHARLTON to pick up their 5^th blank and now two in a row while Charlton after a goal run of nine games, picked up their 2^nd blank of the season. OXFORD UNITED picked up their 5^th blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 at home to Wycombe. PETERBOROUGH drew 1-1 at home to Burton Albion and they are on a total of 23 goals. It’s 30 goals for SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY after they won 3-0 at home to Cheltenham. Wednesday have now scored in all of their last six games. MK DONS lost 2-1 away to Shrewsbury and they are on a total of 15 goals. 

LEAGUE TWO

The highest team that we have here are now SALFORD CITY in fourth place after they won 1-0 away to Northampton. Salford are on a total of 18 goals. It’s 20 goals for MANSFIELD TOWN after they won 1-0 away to Barrow. BRADFORD CITY lost 1-0 at home to STOCKPORT COUNTY and that is their 4^th blank of the season while Stockport picked up their 14^th goal of the season. GILLINGHAM drew 1-1 away to Crewe and they are on a total of 6 goals. CRAWLEY TOWN are now bottom of the table after they lost 3-0 away to Grimsby. Crawley have now had a total of six blank score sheets. SWINDON picked up their 5^th blank score sheet after they lost 2-0 away to Stevenage. SUTTON UNITED lost 2-0 at home to Tranmere and that is their 6^th blank and now three games without a goal. AFC WIMBELDON lost 3-1 away to Walsall and they are on a total of 14 goals. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUE RESULTS

In the Premiership top of the table CELTIC won 2-1 away to St Johnstone. Celtic are on a total of 33 goals. RANGERS in second place won 4-0 at home to St Mirren to take their goals tally up to 27 goals. HIBERNIAN have moved up to third place after they won 1-0 at home to Motherwell and they are on a total of 22 goals. After a goal run of eight games ABERDEEN picked up their 2^nd blank of the season after they went down 4-0 away to Dundee Utd. HEARTS drew 2-2 away to Kilmarnock after they went two goals down in the second half. Hearts are on a total of 15 goals.

In League One ALLOA lost 3-0 at home to Dunfirmline and that is their 4^th blank of the season. KELTY HEARTS lost 2-0 away to FC Edinburgh and they have now had a total of eight blank score sheets.

In League Two STENHOUSEMUIR are still in third place after they drew 2-2 at home to Anna. Stenhousenuir are now on a total of 26 goals and they have now scored in all of their last seven games. BONNYRIGG ROSE lost 2-1 away to Abion. Bonnyrigg take their goals tally to 16 goals. 

Our BEST three teams this week 

ABERDEEN (34) MANCHESTER CITY (33) CELTIC (33) Total of 100 goals 

Our WORST three teams are 

GILLINGHAM (6) KELTY HEARTS (8) WEST HAM (8) Total of 22 goals 

Our best performing team are NORWICH as they have now scored in all of their last fourteen league/cup games played. They have a total of 24 goals. That gives them an average score of 1.7 goals per game. 

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

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

JAMES BLYTH has become our fifth player to reach the number one spot this season. James takes the lead this weekend after he picked up a total of  13 goals from the week. His teams are Ipswich, Manchester City and Sheffield Wednesday. Last weeks leader Mark Gregory drops down to second place on goal difference as he picks up a total of 9 goals from the week. His teams are Celtic, Manchester City and Norwich.

At the other end at 108 we now have back SANDRA NICHOLLS who even though picked up a total of 7 goals for the week. Sandra was last here in Week Two. Sandra’s teams are Aston Villa, Crystal Palace and Leicester City. 

It's all change at the top this week as the season is starting to look interesting as we now have three past Champions in the top ten.

    THIS      LAST                                                     M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

   WEEK     WEEK             NAME                             GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

        1             4                J. BLYTH                               21                   69                  90

         2                 1                M. GREGORY                      24                   66                  90

         3                 2                H. ADKINS                           26                   61                  87

         4                 6                R. WOOD (2007/08)*           29                   58                  87                 

        5                 3                T. GUY (2)                              17                   69                  86                

         6                 8                T. BICKNELL (2014/15)       23                   61                  84 

        7                  5                GRANT PHILLIPS                14                   69                  83                

         8                 9                T. CROWTHER                      16                   67                  83 

         9                 7                S. DICKINSON                       17                   66                  83

         10               12              C. BOLBERY (2017/18)          19                   64                  83

Reading Fourth

In the Championship, READING have played twice already this week. After their draw against Norwich earlier in the week, Reading lost their second game 2-1 away to QPR. Reading have taken their goals tally to 16 goals. 

More Championship Results

In the Championship it’s 20 goals for BURNLEY after they drew 1-1 at home against Stoke. Burnley have now scored in all of their last ten games. After their last two games without a goal, MIDDLESBROUGH are on a total of 14 goals as they win 1-0 at home to Birmingham. WATFORD lost 2-1 at home to SWANSEA and they are on a total of 16 goals while Swansea are on 17 goals. WEST BROM lost 1-0 away to Preston and that is their 3^rd blank of the season after a goal run of six games.