Week 6 Results

Aardvark Abacus 4 v 0 Bassett Allsorts
Athletico Phoenix 2 v 3 Real Muppets
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 3 v 1 Claymore Athletic FC
Mega Buck Bandits 1 v 2 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
The Dead Parrots 0 v 1 York’s Returning Glory
The Fabulous Artisans 2 v 3 San Dimas High School
Trusted By Millions 1 v 0 Final Fantasy XI
You Know Your Boston Rock FC 1 v 2 The Cow-Faced Juniors

Fred continues on his merry way at the top of the table. Didier Drogba's clever near-post flick and a brace from big-money midfielder Rafael van der Vaart proving too much for Claymore. If you include last season that's ten straight league wins for the Cromwell Street club. Fred's nearest chasers are now the Muppets who had a scare against Athletico Phoenix. Brian's recent additions Jon Walters and James Morrison had the Phoenix 2-1 up as the clock ran down but cleans from Ashley Cole and Abdoulaye Faye clinched all the points for Ryan. Next league game for the Muppets - home to Fred!

The Muppets are second because Boston Rock suffered their first defeat of the season and are down to third. The CFJs have lost a couple of Cup finals to Sheriff's team but had a small measure of revenge this week. Clint Dempsey and Frederic Piquionne gave Chris a cushion that the returning Rio Ferdinand's clean couldn't match. Next up are Trusted who, if the cliche about winning when playing badly is true, are in the shake-up despite only scoring at the rate of a goal and a half a game. It was a single clean from Ryan Shawcross this week that was enough for Beef and drops Ceri to the foot of the table.

A first victory for Nil Satis took them out of bottom place and up to 12th. Charlie Adam's first-half penalty had Mega Bucks ahead for an hour but Tim Cahill struck late on for Paul and while Dave's team were still reeling from that blow John O'Shea picked up the winning clean. It was a better week for the other Bevan brother as Ady's Aardvarks battered Bassett Allsorts. The Aardvarks did leave it late though. It took a thunderbolt free-kick from Alex with five minutes to go to break the deadlock and then the clean sheet floodgates opened and no response from Ben F's outfit.

Ben W's Artisans still haven't found second gear this season. Despite leading 2-1 through Johnson and Rodallega they were the latest victims of the improving San Dimas. Johan Elmander had opened the scoring against his old club and my generally leaky defence showed some mettle to get two cleans and take the points. Last but certainly not least is another win for York's, this time at the high-flying Parrots. This quiet affair was settled in Julian's favour by a Martin Olsson clean. York's only picked up four wins last season so three out of six is quite an effort!