League Week Number: 10, W/C 19 November
Aardvark Abacus 4 v 1 Mega Buck Bandits
Athletico Phoenix 3 v 2 Trusted By Millions
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 3 v 1 Claymore Athletic FC
San Dimas High School 4 v 2 The Dead Parrots
The Cheese Makers 2 v 1 Real Muppets
The Fabulous Artisans 3 v 0 The Cow-Faced Juniors
York’s Returning Glory 2 v 4 Final Fantasy XI
You Know Your Boston Rock FC 2 v 0 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Here we are then, a third of the way through the league season. You'd think some patterns might be emerging by now. Ben will hope so as his Artisans are four points clear at the top. They did the business with a comfortable 3-0 win over the CFJs with the goals coming in identical circumstances to the PCMT semi-final win. Chris, more than most, will be after a striker when the transfer window opens. The gap is increased because Trusted suffered only their second league defeat at Athletico Phoenix. Javier Hernandez opened the scoring for Beef but guess who scored for Brian? That's right Ivan Klasnic who got the equaliser from the spot. Robin van Persie got another two to make it 3-1 and although Ryan Shawcross pulled one back the Phoenix hung on and are now only a point behind Trusted in third.
Fairly routine wins from the teams in fourth and fifth. Fred West did need three cleans to overcome Claymore who had taken the lead through Sergio Aguero's 10th in the league. The champions are warming to the task of defending their title while in contrast Clive's team, who were sweeping teams away in a tide of goals in the early part of the season are down to eleventh. Ady showed Dave no mercy in the battle of the Bevan Brothers. The revitalised Emmanuel Adebayor struck twice before half-time and Phil Jagielka added a thumping header to ensure that the Aardvarks shocking defending that let in Steve Morison was forgotten.
Matthew's Cheese Makers have struggled recently after a great opening month and he was delighted to be back to winning ways when Brede Hangeland and Benoit Assou-Ekotto got the cleans to beat the rock bottom Muppets. Ryan's team had taken the lead through Danny Sturridge but like the CFJs they'll be in the market for more fire power if they can offload Carlos Tevez. San Dimas make one of their occasional excursions into the top half with a 4-2 win over the Parrots. Yakubu got both Dean's goals against his former club but I'd plucked Heidar Helguson from the obscurity of the pool and he also struck twice. A Stephen Hunt penalty and Kyle Walker clean brought me the points.
Final Fantasy were also 4-2 winners, at York's. This one was settled by clean sheets from Mark Schwarzer and Angel Rangel from the bench after four goals were shared and has put Ceri into the top ten. Boston Rock are up to ninth after notching a third straight league win. Sheriff's team saw off Nil Satis with goals at the end of either half. Micah Richards profited from some poor defending on 44 minutes while Glen Johnson finished things off after 87.
plus PCMT QF Replay
The Fabulous Artisans 3 v 1 Claymore Athletic FC
The league-leading Artisans complete the PCMT final four after a controversial win over Claymore. Mario Balotelli's supercool penalty had Ben one up at the break but things went crazy in the last half-hour. Junior Hoilett nodded in from close range to double the lead but the quickly taken corner that led to the goal was shown by TV footage to be well... completely illegal! Clive recovered from this setback and Sergio Aguero pulled one back from the spot after his marauding fullback had gone to ground perhaps a tad too easily. There was still one penalty to come and Leighton Baines confirmed the Artisans victory after a push by the Claymore defence. The semis of both of our Cup competitions are set for 10th December so I'll get the draw done over the next week.
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