Leeds Third for Now

In the Championship, LEEDS UNITED have played their second game of the week and they drew once again 2-2 away to Sunderland. Leeds are on a total of 15 goals and have now won just 4 of their 9 league games.

Championship Results

In the Championship, PRESTON NE won 3-0 at home against Watford and they are now on a total of 15 goals. SHEFFIELD UNITED won 1-0 at home to SWANSEA CITY and are on a total of 14 goals. Swansea picked up their 4^th blank of the season. PORTSMOUTH lost 6-1 away to Stoke City and picked up gaol number 8.

Cup and League Results

 In the very last game in the Carabao/League Cup 3^rd Round, NEWCASTLE won 1-0 at home to AFC WIMBLEDON and are on a total of 10 goals. Wimbledon picked up their 3^rd blank score sheet and now two in a row. 

In the Championship, BURNLEY won 1-0 at home to Plymouth and are on a total of 14 goals. MILLWALL picked up their 4^th blank score sheet after they lost 1-0 away to Cardiff City. LUTON TOWN drew 2-2 at home to OXFORD UNITED and are on a total of 9 goals and have extended their goal run to 6 league/cup games. Oxford are on a total of 14 goals. NORWICH CITY drew 1-1 at home to LEEDS UNITED and are on a total of 16 goals. Leeds are on a total of 13 goals. MIDDLESBROUGH won 1-0 away to WBA and are on a total of 12 goals. 

In League One, BARNSLEY drew 2-2 at home to Wycombe and are on a total of 17 goals. BIRMINGHAM CITY won 1-0 at home to HUDDERSFIELD TOWN. Birmingham are on a total of 18 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. Huddersfield picked up their second blank of the season and now just one goal in their last three games. BLACKPOOL drew 1-1 at home against Lincoln City and picked up goal number 23. CHARLTON lost 3-2 away to Bristol Rovers and are on a total of 9 goals. BOLTON won 4-2 away to Northampton and are now on a total of 17 goals. WREXHAM lost 1-0 away to Stevenage and that is their 3^rd blank of the season and now two in a row. PETERBOROUGH picked up their 4^th blank score sheet after they went down 3-0 away to Wigan. 

In League Two, BROMLEY drew 2-2 at home to CHESTERFIELD and are on a total of 13 goals. Chesterfield are on 16 goals. It’s 20 goals for NOTTS COUNTY after they won 2-0 away to Carlisle Utd. DONCASTER ROVERS won 1-0 at home to Accrington and are on a total of 14 goals. MK DONS picked up their biggest win of the season by winning 5-1 away to Harrogate Town. They have taken their goals tally up to 12.

Southampton Struggling

In the Premier League after they had failed to score in their last 2 games, AFC BOURNEMOUTH won their 2^nd league game 3-1 at home to SOUTHAMPTON. Bournemouth have taken their goals tally to 8 while Southampton are on 9 goals and have still yet to win a league game.

Week Eight

In Week Eight of the competition, we had another £5 to give away and it went to ALEX DAVEY on a score of 14 goals, which is our second highest score this season. This now brings our winners total to 9. Alex started with us back in the 2004/05 Season and he finished in 56^th place with a total of 261 goals. The last time that Alex played was in the 2018/19 Season where he finished in 75^th place with 285 goals. This season he is at his highest position and with his personal best weekend score. Alex has picked up just 1 blank score sheet from the weekend. His best team is Celtic.  Alex’s winning teams are

                                                   ARSENAL 4, CELTIC 6, CHELSEA 4

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

There was another change in the race for the 100 Midweek Goals Jackpot once again this week, as we had more of our teams in action. The good news is that everyone is now in the race for the cash. It was our double Champion PHIL REEVE that picked up the most amount of midweek goals with 15. They came from Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool with 5 goals each. DAVID BARRETT is back in the lead this week as he is now on a total of 26 goals. Down to second place we have last weeks leader, BARBARA BARNES (2) still with a total of 25 goals. In third place with 19 goals up from five we now have GUY DOWSETT (2). In fourth place we have CHARLIE FARLEY (John Wood) down from three with BRUCE SELF joining him. Both are on a total of 17 goals. In fifth place we now have PHIL COLLINS down from four with a total of 16 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We had a full league fixture again this weekend and we had 4 of our teams without a game over the weekend. We had another 9 of our teams that failed to score any goals. This means that our weekend average score has remained as last weekend's total with 7 goals.

The highest score over the weekend was 6 goals and they came from the Scottish Premiership where CELTIC won 6-0 away to St Johnstone. Celtic, with their biggest result so far, are now on a total of 28 goals and have kept their 100% scoring record after 8 league/cup games.

Celtic are just one of four teams that have appeared in all 42 season’s of Golden Goals. In our first season of 1983/84 they became our second voted Scottish team and ended the season on a total of 116 goals. Their highest score came in 2022/23 with a record breaking 143 goals. Last season they finished with a total of 110 goals. They have reached 100 or more goals in 22 of their season’s. Over the years they have netted a total of 4089 goals which gives them an average score of 97.9 goals per season to date. This season they have a total of 40 votes and look set to reach another 100 goals.

Let’s get on with the results to see how your teams have performed over the weekend.

PREMIER LEAGUE

LIVERPOOL have moved to the top after they won 2-1 away to Wolves. Winning their fifth league game, Liverpool are on a total of 17 goals. MANCHESTER CITY drop down to second place after they drew 1-1 away to NEWCASTLE. City have now scored in all of their 7 league/cup games and are on a total of 16 goals. Newcastle picked up goal number 9. ARSENAL won 4-2 at home against LEICESTER CITY. Arsenal have also scored in all of their 7 league/cup games and are on a total of 17 goals. Leicester are on a total of 12 goals. WEST HAM drew 1-1 away to Brentford and are on a total of 8 goals. CHELSEA won 4-2 at home against Brighton and have taken their goals tally up to 20 goals and have now scored in all of their last 6 league/cup games. CRYSTAL PALACE still need their first win after they lost 2-1 away to Everton. Palace are on 11 goals. IPSWICH drew 2-2 at home against ASTON VILLA and are on a total of 7 goals. Villa are on a total of 14 goals and have now scored in all of their last 5 league/cup games. Ten men MANCHESTER UNITED lost 3-0 at home to TOTTENHAM. United have only won two of their league games as they picked up their third blank score sheet and now 2 in a row. Tottenham have taken their goals total to 14.

CHAMPIONSHIP

NORWICH CITY won their third league game 3-2 away to Derby and are now on a total of 15 goals. LEEDS UNITED won 3-0 at home to Coventry City and are now on a total of 12 goals. MIDDLESBROUGH won 2-0 at home to Stoke and are no a total of 11 goals. MILLWALL won 3-1 at home against PRESTON NE and are now on a total of 13 goals while Preston hit goal number 12. OXFORD UNITED drew 0-0 at home to BURNLEY and picked up their second blank of the season. Burnley picked up their third. PORTSMOUTH drew 0-0 with SHEFFIELD UNITED and that is their fourth blank score sheet while United picked up their second. SWANSEA drew 1-1 at home to Bristol City and are on a total of 11 goals.

LEAGUE ONE

BIRMINGHAM CITY are now top of the table after they won 3-2 at home to PETERBOROUGH. Birmingham have taken their goals total to 17 goals while Borough are on 14. WREXHAM are down to second place after they drew 0-0 away to Leyton Orient. After a goal run of 5 league/cup games, Wrexham picked up their second blank of the season. BOLTON won their third league game 2-0 away to Crawley Town and are now on a total of 13 goals. HUDDERSFIELD lost 2-1 away to Reading and are on a total of 17 goals. BLACKPOOL won 3-0 at home to Burton and have taken their goal tally to 22 goals. CHARLTON picked up their third blank score sheet after they lost 1-0 away to Stevenage. BARNSLEY drew 1-1 at home to Stockport and are on a total of 15 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

BROMLEY drew 1-1 at home against MK DONS and are on a total of 11 goals while the Dons are on 7 goals. DONCASTER ROVERS lost 3-0 at home to CHESTERFIELD and that was their third blank of the season. Chesterfield are now on a total of 14 goals. NOTTS COUNTY drew 1-1 away to Morecambe and are on a total of 18 goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Premiership,  joint top of the table CELTIC have remained top this weekend on goal difference as they win their sixth consecutive league game 6-0 away to St Johnstone. RANGERS won 1-0 at home to Hibernian and are on a total of 15 goals. HEARTS drew 1-1 at home to ROSS COUNTY and are on a total of 4 goals. County are on 17 goals. With their biggest result to date, KILMARNOCK drew 3-3 at home to Dundee United. Kilmarnock have taken their goals tally to 6 goals.

In the Championship FALKIRK lost their first league game 1-0 away to Raith Rovers. After a goal run of 9 league/cup games, Falkirk picked up their second blank of the season and moved down to second place in the league.

In League One COVE RANGERS lost 4-2 at home to Arbroath and are on a total of 15 goals and they have now scored in all of their last 9 league/cup games. STENHOUSEMUIR drew 0-0 away to Inverness CT and picked up their seventh blank of the season and now 3 in a row.

In League Two, EAST FIFE are back on top of the table after they won 1-0 away to The Spartans. Fife are on a total of 27 goals and have scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. PETERHEAD drew 2-2 at home to CLYDE and are on a total of 17 goals while Clyde are on 15.

Our BEST three teams this week

DUNDEE (34) CELTIC (28) EAST FIFE (27) Total of 89 goals

Our WORST three teams are

HEARTS (4)  AFC BOURNEMOUTH (5) KILMARNOCK (6) Total of 15 goals

Our best performing team is now EAST FIFE after they have now scored in all of their last 10 league/cup games. They have a total of 27 goals which gives them an average score of 2.2 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is STENHOUSEMUIR this weekend after they picked up 7^th blank score sheet from 12 league/cup games. They have a total of 15 goals.

Our highest goal-scoring teams in our 42^nd Season are MANCHESTER UNITED after they won 7-0 at home to BARNSLEY in the Carabao/League Cup 3^rd Round in Week Seven. DUNDEE won 7-1 away to Bonnyrigg Rose in the Scottish League Cup in the very first game in the first round group stages.

GUY DOWSETT (2) is at the top this weekend and becomes the third player to do so. Guy picked up a total of 16 goals this week from his teams of Arsenal, Celtic and East Fife. He is 6 goals clear of last weeks leader Barbara Barnes (2). Barbara’s teams are once again Celtic, Falkirk and Manchester United

At the other end at 114 we still have MANDY WRIGHT with her second week, but she has AFC Wimbledon who are not in action due to the problem of the pitch, Mandy’s teams picked up just 2 goals this week. Her teams are Bournemouth, West Ham and AFC Wimbledon.

We have had a fantastic week from our teams with plenty of goals, so here are our top ten this week.

         THIS    LAST                                             M/WEEK    W/END       TOTAL

WEEK  WEEK     NAME                            GOALS      GOALS      GOALS 

       1            3         G. DOWSETT (2)                19                 53               72             

       2            1         B. BARNES (2)                    25               41               66

       3            6         A. STUBBS (2)                     13              52                65

      4            21        A. DAVEY                            14              51                65

      5            14        L. HAMMOND                    14               51               65

     6             2          D. BARRETT                       26               37               63

     7             12        S. DICKINSON                    13               49               62

     8             -           C. STEPHENS                      13              49                62

     9             27        G. DOCKERILL (1994/95)  14              48                 62

    10            9         M. LAVER                            14               48                 62

Luton Drop More Points

In the Championship, LUTON lost 3-1 away to Plymouth and are on a total of 7 goals and have extended their goal run to 5 league/cup games.

The Carabao/League Cup 3rd Round Continues

 

Once again we have some more results from the Carabao/League Cup 3^rd Round games. We had just 4 more of our teams in action and out of them 2 have made it to the next round.

They are ARSENAL who won 5-1 at home against BOLTON. Arsenal with their biggest win of the season, have taken their goals tally to 13 goals and have kept their 100% scoring record after 6 league/cup games. Bolton picked up goal number 11. LIVERPOOL with their biggest result of the season, beat WEST HAM 5-1 at home. Liverpool are now on a total of 15 goals, while West ham are on 7 goals.