Week 1 Results

Claymore Athletic FC 2 v 2 Mega Buck Bandits
Dynamo Kev 0 v 6 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Final Fantasy XI 0 v 2 Real Muppets
San Dimas High School 2 v 2 22-Legged Groove Machine
The Dead Parrots 1 v 2 Aardvark Abacus
The Fabulous Artisans 2 v 3 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
York’s Returning Glory 0 v 5 Trusted By Millions
You Know Your Boston Rock FC 1 v 1 The Cow-Faced Juniors

We're off and running. (Some quicker than others!)

A show of intent from our reigning champs with Emmanuel Adebayor scoring the first goal of the WSFFL season for Aardvark Abacus after just three minutes. Ady needed the insurance of a second-half Matthew Upson strike to see off the late Parrots fightback and open his bid for a third straight title with a win. If I'd done a table it would show Nil Satis proudly on top. A flukey Bobby Zamora deflection had Paul ahead at half-time but then a Dynamo Kev collapse dealt their boss the biggest opening day defeat since, well, last year when Dynamo sunk 8-2 to the Muppets.

Another team who did plenty of business at the transfer auction were York's. Like Kev, Julian's players failed to gel and they slumped 5-0 at home to Trusted. Ryan Shawcross has been a great find for Beef and opened his account for the season with a goal and a clean. Steven Gerrard was on the mark too from the penalty spot. The Muppets would show as third in the table after beating Final Fantasy. Ceri's team undone by two headers in five first-half minutes. Steven Jordan glancing past his own keeper at the near post before £20m Thomas Vermaelen arrived at the far stick to power home number two.

Our Cup Final repeat finished all square. As in last April's match Darren Bent opened the scoring for Boston Rock but Sheriff's team couldn't finish the job this time and conceded a clean sheet equaliser to the CFJs' Wayne Bridge. Any hopes Clive may have had last season were undone by him not winning any of his first eight matches, five of them being drawn 2-2. History repeated itself with that scoreline for Claymore against Mega Bucks, Clive needing a clean sheet from Jonny Evans to level a Cesc Fabregas brace for Dave after Wayne Rooney had opened the scoring.

San Dimas and the Groovers also played out a 2-2 draw. Rich had seemed in command through well-taken goals by Denilson and Bassong but I found a couple of clean sheets to open my account for the season. Hardest fought match of the day was probably at the Goddard Ground where the Artisans were beaten 3-2 by Fred West. Mark Noble's opener for Ben had been cancelled out by Didier Drogba then Stephen Ireland and Drogba exchanged injury time goals before Patrice Evra sewed the game up for Fred with a clean.