Week 8 Results

The Artisans were fabulous and are our new leaders...

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

The Fabulous Artisans take over at the top for the first time since week 13 in the 2009/10 season. Ben's team were two up inside 27 minutes thanks to Mario Balotelli's slide-rule finish from the edge of the area and Gervinho springing the Trusted offside and scoring from close range. Dedryk Boyata had added a clean and Balotelli a second goal before Stephane Sessegnon got Trusted's consolation. Beef left Edin Dzeko out this week but will be thankful it didn't make a difference to the result. Fred's up to third and getting a sniff of back-to-back titles after dismissing the Parrots 3-0. Rafael van der Vaart struck twice and the little genius that is David Silva got the third.

The Aardvarks lost a small bit of ground with a disappointing performance against the Cheese Makers. Matthew's team left it late but Jamie O'Hara's goal and Tim Krul's clean put his side back in the right direction after four straight defeats in all competitions. York's had lost three in a row but QPR cleans gave him a victory over Claymore. Peter Crouch's tap-in and Craig Bellamy's strike came either side of Jonas Olsson's header for Clive. Sergio Aguero slid in his ninth of the season with 20 minutes to go to level the scores but Luke Young and Anton Ferdinand cleans gave Julian the win.

Mega Buck Bandits kept Athletico Phoenix quiet until late on but Robin van Persie scored another brace from close range and an unmarked Nicklas Bendtner rounded out the 3-0 win as time ran out. San Dimas left it late as well to add to the Muppets' woes. Paul Scharner reacted first to a knockdown from a corner to fire me ahead just before the hour but Darren Fletcher hit one of the goals of the week with ten minutes to go to square the match. Jack Rodwell's long range grubber on 90 minutes and a Simon Mignolet clean gave me the points and keep the Muppets bottom.

Boston Rock have a win though. It wasn't Sheriff's most convincing performance and Final Fantasy were only behind to Darren Bent's early penalty for much of the game but Steven Taylor's clean finished the match in Boston Rock's favour. (He's only 11 points behind!) The  CFJs haven't picked up a win since week one and Chris was held by Nil Satis this week. Chris was two up inside half an hour through Danny Graham and Mauro Formica and must have thought he was laughing all the way to three points when Bobby Zamora blazed wide on 89 minutes. He wasn't laughing when Louis Saha pulled one back a minute later and John O'Shea got the equalising clean.