Week 28 Results

Clive takes a small but significant step towards the title

Aardvark Abacus 2 v 2 San Dimas High School
Claymore Athletic FC 0 v 0 Final Fantasy XI
Mega Buck Bandits 5 v 0 The Fabulous Artisans
Real Muppets 3 v 4 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
The Cheese Makers 2 v 6 Athletico Phoenix
The Cow-Faced Juniors 6 v 2 You Know Your Boston Rock FC
The Dead Parrots 5 v 1 York’s Returning Glory
Trusted By Millions 2 v 3 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	CC	SP	Pts
1	Claymore Athletic FC	28	17	3	8	85	55	30	23	1	54
2	Aardvark Abacus	28	14	8	6	54	33	21	29	0	50
3	Trusted By Millions	28	15	5	8	69	49	20	28	1	50
4	The Fabulous Artisans	28	16	2	10	60	48	12	22	0	50
5	Athletico Phoenix	28	15	4	9	56	47	9	24	0	49
6	The Cow-Faced Juniors	28	13	7	8	70	53	17	26	1	46
7	San Dimas High School	28	12	7	9	54	44	10	23	1	43
8	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	28	12	6	10	52	41	11	29	0	42
9	The Cheese Makers	28	12	4	12	48	45	3	20	1	40
10	You Know Your Boston Rock FC	28	10	8	10	56	57	-1	25	0	38
11	The Dead Parrots	28	11	2	15	40	64	-24	29	0	35
12	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	28	8	6	14	37	55	-18	20	0	30
13	Final Fantasy XI	28	7	6	15	41	50	-9	23	0	27
14	Real Muppets	28	7	6	15	49	66	-17	26	0	27
15	York's Returning Glory	28	7	5	16	38	74	-36	13	0	26
16	Mega Buck Bandits	28	6	5	17	42	70	-28	13	1	23

When Clive shook metaphorical hands with Ceri after their goalless draw this week he couldn't have imagined that his points lead would have been extended but that's exactly what happened. It was a nervy performance from Claymore with Final Fantasy spending most of the time on the front foot, Yaya Toure looked the most likely to break the deadlock but the game finished 0-0. Once again though Clive's rivals slipped up and one win from his last two matches will get the job done. Highlighting how odd this season has been the Aardvarks are up to second after winning only on of their last six games. This week Ady's team had to come from behind twice to grab a point against San Dimas. Vincent Kompany's header right on half-time equalised Joe Allen's early deflected shot and just when Kyle Walker's excellent free-kick looked to have got me all the points Kompany came up with the levelling clean.

There was a third straight defeat for Trusted, this time to Nil Satis. Nikica Jelavic put Paul ahead from the spot on seven minutes but Victor Moses had scored twice to put Beef in front by the quarter hour mark. Jelavic struck again at the near post five minutes before the break to square the match and Nil Satis got the winner on the hour through Tim Cahill. If that was a blow for Beef what about the scoreline for the Artisans? Ben's team were thumped 5-0 by the bottom-placed Mega Bucks who had lost their previous nine. It was a tame effort by the Artisans who were handed their biggest defeat of the season with Steven Fletcher, Matt Jarvis twice and Djibril Cisse putting Ben's defence to the sword. Dave has a chance of avoiding last place but he'll need to find at least one more win.

Athletico Phoenix have kept themselves in with an outside chance of the title (see this week's fixtures) by picking up a 6-2 win over the Cheese Makers. Brian's team had looked to be already on the beach in recent weeks but he inspired his defence to four clean sheets to get the points after four goals were shared in the first half. Robin van Persie got back on the scoresheet for Brian but the pick of the goals was Franco Di Santo's for Matthew. The CFJs are still on a charge and they also picked up a 6-2 win, over Boston Rock. Sheriff was two up on 15 minutes through John Terry and Nathan Dyer but Luis Suarez led the fightback and when he completed his hat-trick eight minutes from time the CFJs were 4-2 in front and two cleans finished the job. (Incidentally why are people raving over Suarez' last goa?. Surely any professional footballer worth his salt should be able to kick a ball into an empty net from 50 yards?)

There was another hat-trick this week and it came from the unlikely boot of Fernando Torres as Fred beat the Muppets 4-3. Ryan had taken just 47 seconds to open the scoring through Danny Sturridge but Torres and Rafa van der Vaart had Fred 3-1 up at the break. James McClean and Florent Malouda did notch for the Muppets in the second half but Fred was always a goal to the good. Kevin Davies doesn't get so much of a run out for the Parrots these days but he inspired Dean's team to an easy win over York's. Julian had been in front early through Peter Crouch but a brace from Davies turned the tide and Dean closed the game out with three clean sheets.

Title run-in

Week 28

Aardvark Abacus v San Dimas High School
Claymore Athletic FC v Final Fantasy XI
Mega Buck Bandits v The Fabulous Artisans
Trusted By Millions v Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

Claymore and the Artisans will be banking on three points against the struggling Okus pair but the Aardvarks and Trusted have trickier games against teams that can be hot on their day.

Week 29

Aardvark Abacus v The Dead Parrots
Athletico Phoenix v Claymore Athletic FC
San Dimas High School v Trusted By Millions
The Fabulous Artisans v Final Fantasy XI

Trusted's turn to take on San Dimas but Claymore will have their hands full with the Phoenix, especially if Robin van Persie regains his early season form. Aardvarks and Artisans will be hoping for a smooth three points and a chance to take it into the last week.

Week 30

Claymore Athletic FC v The Cheese Makers
The Cow-Faced Juniors v Aardvark Abacus
The Fabulous Artisans v You Know Your Boston Rock FC
Trusted By Millions v Real Muppets

Tough games all round in this final week. The Cheese Makers have one of the league's best defences and Claymore the best attack. Trusted will be up against it versus a Muppets team that looks to be on the way back. The CFJs have been one of the hottest teams this year so are no pushover for the Aardvarks while Boston Rock have made a habit of damaging title challenges in recent weeks.

Claymore are favourites for sure but this could go down to goal difference. Your thoughts?

Week 27 Results

Advantage Claymore.

Week 26 rearranged games

The Cheese Makers 3 v 2 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Trusted By Millions 1 v 3 You Know Your Boston Rock FC

League Week Number: 27

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

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	CC	SP	Pts
1	Claymore Athletic FC	27	17	2	8	85	55	30	20	1	53
2	Trusted By Millions	27	15	5	7	67	46	21	26	1	50
3	The Fabulous Artisans	27	16	2	9	60	43	17	22	0	50
4	Aardvark Abacus	27	14	7	6	52	31	21	27	0	49
5	Athletico Phoenix	27	14	4	9	50	45	5	24	0	46
6	The Cow-Faced Juniors	27	12	7	8	64	51	13	26	1	43
7	San Dimas High School	27	12	6	9	52	42	10	20	1	42
8	The Cheese Makers	27	12	4	11	46	39	7	20	1	40
9	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	27	11	6	10	48	38	10	27	0	39
10	You Know Your Boston Rock FC	27	10	8	9	54	51	3	25	0	38
11	The Dead Parrots	27	10	2	15	35	63	-28	29	0	32
12	Real Muppets	27	7	6	14	46	62	-16	24	0	27
13	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	27	7	6	14	34	53	-19	18	0	27
14	Final Fantasy XI	27	7	5	15	41	50	-9	20	0	26
15	York's Returning Glory	27	7	5	15	37	69	-32	13	0	26
16	Mega Buck Bandits	27	5	5	17	37	70	-33	13	1	20

We'll start by looking at the re-scheduled week 26 games. Sheriff was a bit peeved at the game being postponed from the previous week and his team tore into Trusted and Scott Sinclair curled in an excellent goal on six minutes. Papiss Cisse stemmed the Boston Rock tide when he steered home on 18 minutes but the momentum didn't shift and Boston Rock brought home the points with two clean sheets. In the other week 26 game Nikica Jelavic twice equalised Yohan Cabaye goals but Danny Simpson's clean gave Matthew the nod over Nil Satis.

To week 27 then and with Claymore the only team in the top six winning Clive has taken a lead in the title race. His team took the Evertonian Derby 6-2 with Sergio Aguero and Wayne Rooney (with another brace) both on target again. Paul's Nikica Jelavic scored twice to try to stem the tide but Clive had three clean sheets to put a gloss on the result. Claymore are seven points from the title. Trusted failed to bounce back from their Boston Rock defeat and went down to a shock loss to York's by the same 3-1 scoreline. Papiss Cisse notched again to give Beef the lead but Samir Nasri equalised with 15 minutes to go and then cleans from Anton Ferdinand and Martin Olsson stuck a hole in Beef's title charge.

There was a surprise defeat for the Artisans too which has damaged Ben's title chances. The Parrots were the winners at Goddard Stadium with Adel Taarabt opening the scoring from a free-kick for Dean. Junior Hoilett levelled the match just after the break with an excellent shot from outside the area but Emerson Boyce grabbed the winer for the Parrots with a long-distance effort eight minutes later. After dealing Trusted's title ambitions a blow Boston Rock stuck a stick in the Aardvarks' title spokes too. Scott Sinclair scored another screamer early on but Sheriff's team were unable to make any more dents in Ady's armour-plated defence and Carlos Cuellar grabbed a late equaliser. That's four draw out of five for Ady's team, if two of those had been turned into wins he'd be joint top.

The stuffing seems to have been knocked out of Athletico Phoenix now that their title challenge has collapsed and Brian's team suffered another defeat. This time it was to a Joleon Lescott clean sheet and the Muppets carry on their long-awaited recovery. Amazingly Brian's place in the top half isn't quite secure. What a curious season it has been! The Cow-Faced Juniors continue their hot streak with a narrow clean sheet victory over Final Fantasy making it 19 points out of the last 21 for Chris.

San Dimas are another team who must have thought they had one foot in the top half but they're back under pressure. My team lost to one of my top half rivals in the Cheese Makers with Yohan Cabaye scoring twice again for Matthew's team. Fred West are still scrapping for a top half finish and two goals in four second-half minutes beat Mega Bucks. Danny Welbeck's excellent piece of close control and fierce shot broke the deadlock and then Welbeck teed up Nani from close range on the hour. Dave's team look consigned to the bottom spot for the first time in their once illustrious history.

Week 26 Results

Claymore take a turn at the top.

Aardvark Abacus 1 v 0 York’s Returning Glory
Athletico Phoenix 0 v 4 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
Mega Buck Bandits 0 v 4 The Cow-Faced Juniors
Real Muppets 5 v 3 Final Fantasy XI
San Dimas High School 3 v 1 The Fabulous Artisans
The Cheese Makers P v P Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
The Dead Parrots 0 v 6 Claymore Athletic FC
Trusted By Millions P v P You Know Your Boston Rock FC

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	CC	SP	Pts
1	Claymore Athletic FC	26	16	2	8	79	53	26	19	1	50
2	Trusted By Millions	25	15	5	5	66	43	23	24	1	50
3	The Fabulous Artisans	26	16	2	8	59	41	18	20	0	50
4	Aardvark Abacus	26	14	6	6	51	30	21	24	0	48
5	Athletico Phoenix	26	14	4	8	50	44	6	23	0	46
6	San Dimas High School	26	12	6	8	51	39	12	19	1	42
7	The Cow-Faced Juniors	26	11	7	8	63	51	12	25	1	40
8	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	26	10	6	10	46	38	8	26	0	36
9	The Cheese Makers	25	10	4	11	40	36	4	18	1	34
10	You Know Your Boston Rock FC	25	9	7	9	53	50	3	21	0	34
11	The Dead Parrots	26	9	2	15	33	62	-29	27	0	29
12	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	25	7	6	12	30	44	-14	16	0	27
13	Final Fantasy XI	26	7	5	14	41	49	-8	19	0	26
14	Real Muppets	26	6	6	14	45	62	-17	23	0	24
15	York's Returning Glory	26	6	5	15	34	68	-34	12	0	23
16	Mega Buck Bandits	26	5	5	16	37	68	-31	12	1	20

Points in the bag or games in hand? It's the age-old question, which do you choose? Trusted are in the happy position of having both but after their postponement this week they are off the top of the table. Claymore have taken over at the summit after a six-goal stuffing of the Parrots. Sergio Aguero and Wayne Rooney bagged two each and are both right in the hunt for the League's Golden Boot award.

The Fabulous Artisans are now the outsiders of the top three after suffering another defeat. Adam Johnson gave Ben's team the lead at San Dimas on 90 minutes but my defence have been in good form in recent weeks and three cleans gave me another three points. No one's more surprised than me! It's not over for Ben but he probably needs to win his last four now. You know that old cliche about winning when you're not playing well? Step forward Aardvark Abacus who are two points behind after a Kevin Foley clean edged York's 1-0. Ady's team have the toughest run-in of the top four so will be hoping to stay in touch rather than expecting to. The defeat makes it 12 without a win for Julian.

It's probably all over for the Phoenix now title-wise. Brian's team ran into a Fred side who turned on last season's champion style in winning 4-0. Two goals just before the break, Danny Welbeck poking in a Patrice Evra cross and Didier Drogba stunner, set Fred on his way and then a late Nani goal and an Evra clean finished the job. The CFJs are still on a great run and Chris put four past Mega Bucks this week. Gylfi Sigurdsson added another to his long-range portfolio and Gareth Bale and Luis Suarez converted after defensive mistakes after the break making it eight straight losses for the Bandits.

The top striker for the last two seasons, Carlos Tevez, finally opened his account for the Muppets this season as Ryan's team beat Final Fantasy 5-3. It wasn't just one - it was a hat-trick for the Argentinian which helped propel Ryan into a 5-0 lead. Three cleans were too little, too late for Ceri. The Cheese Makers v Nil Satis was another postponed game and they'll try again this weekend.

Trusted v Boston Rock postponed (and Cheese v Nil Satis)

The Week 26 clash between title-chasing Trusted By Millions and FA Cup finalists You Know Your Boston Rock FC has been postponed for a week.

It's believed that a stomach bug has affected the Trusted squad with six players laid low including Senegalese striking sensation Papiss Cisse and in-form defender Robert Huth.

A club insider, who did not want to be named, pointed the finger of blame at a rogue batch of goat curry but this is currently unconfirmed.

Just before kick-off the game between the Cheese Makers and Nil Satis was postponed too. It can rain pretty hard in Malaysia you know so let's say it was a waterlogged pitch.

FA Cup Final result

Claymore Athletic FC 5
Gueye 52
Osman 76
Perch [c]
Sagna [c]
Clichy [c]

v (one cancelled clean sheet)

You Know Your Boston Rock FC 3
Defoe 33
Lampard 45p
Carroll 90

Claymore Athletic FC: Howard; Sagna, Evans, Perch, Clichy; Bannan, Osman, Kightly, McCarthy; Modeste, Rooney        Subs: Bogdan; Ivanovic; Hoolahan; Gueye

You Know Your Boston Rock FC: Robinson; Terry, Richards, Dann, Caulker; Lampard, Milner, N.Dyer, Sinclair; Defoe, Carroll    Subs: Bunn, G.Johnson, G.Gardner, Sordell

Wembley Stadium, Attendance 90,000

The two old rivals shaped up for a season-defining match at Wembley and their were clear signs of nerves in Clive's team who have been unused to winning trophies in recent times. Sheriff's underdogs may be having a dodgy season but the reinforced shelves of the trophy cabinet at the Enormodome show how Boston Rock know how to get the job done and they made the breakthrough on 33 minutes. Jermain Defoe split the back four and raced onto a slide-rule though ball and chipped the advancing Tom Howard. The lead was doubled on the stroke of half-time when Frank Lampard's emphatic penalty found the bottom left corner. Claymore were reeling but James Perch was subbed at the break to bank a clean sheet and reduce the deficit.

Seven minutes after half-time Claymore were level when substitute Magaye Gueye scored his first WSFFL goal, lashing in from the corner of the six-yard box. Momentum was with Claymore now and they went in front on 76 minutes when Leon Osman curled a shot from the left-edge of the Boston Rock area into the far corner past a static Paul Robinson. Clive was badgering the fourth official about the amount of time to be added on when Boston Rock found an equaliser. Andy Carroll hasn't really produced for his manager but his smart header evaded Howard to make it 3-3. Sheriff must have thought his team had earned a replay but Clive had clean sheets from Bacary Sagna and Gael Clichy to complete the win.

Clive needs to bring his team down to earth and look to push on in the league to try and complete the double. Sheriff is left to scrap for a top half place and wonder about the scale of the Boston Rock rebuilding programme in the summer.

FA Cup Final Teams

Claymore Athletic

Howard
Sagna, Evans, Perch, Clichy
Bannan, Osman, Kightly, McCarthy
Modeste, Rooney

Subs: Bogdan; Ivanovic; Hoolahan; Gueye

You Know Your Boston Rock FC

Robinson
Terry, Richards, Dann, Caulker
Lampard, Milner, N.Dyer, Sinclair
Defoe, Carroll

Subs: Bunn; G.Johnson ; G.Gardner; Sordell

Week 25 Results - New leaders

We have new leaders. Trusted take over on goal difference.

Claymore Athletic FC 3 v 5 Trusted By Millions
Final Fantasy XI 1 v 0 Mega Buck Bandits
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 0 v 1 San Dimas High School
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 3 v 3 Real Muppets
The Cow-Faced Juniors 4 v 0 The Dead Parrots
The Fabulous Artisans 0 v 0 Aardvark Abacus
York’s Returning Glory 1 v 5 The Cheese Makers
You Know Your Boston Rock FC 0 v 1 Athletico Phoenix

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	CC	SP	Pts
1	Trusted By Millions	25	15	5	5	66	43	23	24	1	50
2	The Fabulous Artisans	25	16	2	7	58	38	20	20	0	50
3	Claymore Athletic FC	25	15	2	8	73	53	20	19	1	47
4	Athletico Phoenix	25	14	4	7	50	40	10	22	0	46
5	Aardvark Abacus	25	13	6	6	50	30	20	24	0	45
6	San Dimas High School	25	11	6	8	48	38	10	19	1	39
7	The Cow-Faced Juniors	25	10	7	8	59	51	8	24	1	37
8	The Cheese Makers	25	10	4	11	40	36	4	18	1	34
9	You Know Your Boston Rock FC	25	9	7	9	53	50	3	21	0	34
10	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	25	9	6	10	42	38	4	25	0	33
11	The Dead Parrots	25	9	2	14	33	56	-23	27	0	29
12	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	25	7	6	12	30	44	-14	16	0	27
13	Final Fantasy XI	25	7	5	13	38	44	-6	19	0	26
14	York's Returning Glory	25	6	5	14	34	67	-33	12	0	23
15	Real Muppets	25	5	6	14	40	59	-19	23	0	21
16	Mega Buck Bandits	25	5	5	15	37	64	-27	11	1	20

The Artisans are off the summit for the first time since October. Ben's team were held to a goalless draw by the Aardvarks where the only event of note was his fruitcake forward Mario Balotelli being sent off late in the game. Will the Italian feature again for Ben this season? Three draws in a row for Ady has damaged his title ambition. Trusted regain the top position after being title rivals Claymore in another high-scoring match. It wasn't quite a repeat of the 'Greatest Game' from week three but Beef had to inspire his team to come back from 3-2 down after Branislav Ivanovic's 'offside' goal put Clive ahead for the second time. Papiss Cisse scored his second of the game with his lob wedge effort into the top corner to make it level and Liam Ridgewell picked up a goal and a clean to end the match. Clive's team aren't out of it but if he misses out on the title he'll look back on losing twice to Trusted.

Athletico Phoenix are back to within four points of the top after edging Boston Rock with a William Gallas clean. Sheriff's team are in danger of finishing outside the top half for the first time in five seasons. San Dimas are still a surprise sixth place. A lucky cameo substitute clean sheet from Neil Taylor gave me all the points. It's a measure of hoe crazy this season has been when I'm only 11 points behind with five games to go. Fred's yo-yo team are on a downward yo and are another who could finish in the bottom half.

The CFJs are one of the league's hottest teams right now and disposed of the Parrots in some style. Clint Dempsey took his total for the season to 17 with a first-half brace. Holt and Suarez netted after the break. The Cheese Makers dream of a top-half finish is still alive after trouncing York's. Julian not helping himself with a Martin Olsson own goal on seven minutes. Matthew's record signing Juan Mata bundled in as the clock ran down and set up his trio of cleans to make the result look perhaps more one-sided than it was.

Nil Satis notched their third consecutive draw after failing to put away the Muppets from 3-1 up. Nikica Jelavic scored twice for Paul (he could be one to watch next season) but Ryan hit back with cleans from Vermaelen and Koscielny to grab a point. the Okus Derby ended in victory for Final Fantasy. Ceri even turned the hot water on in the away dressing room to make Mega Bucks feel welcome! This game was settled by a Gareth McAuley clean. McAuley had been the villain last week when his og led to the Aardvarks getting a point.

Week 24 Results

Still no nearer knowing who this season's champions will be.

Aardvark Abacus 2 v 2 Final Fantasy XI
Athletico Phoenix 0 v 0 York’s Returning Glory
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 3 v 4 The Fabulous Artisans
Mega Buck Bandits 2 v 3 Trusted By Millions
Real Muppets 1 v 5 Claymore Athletic FC
San Dimas High School 1 v 1 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
The Cheese Makers 2 v 3 The Cow-Faced Juniors
You Know Your Boston Rock FC 0 v 2 The Dead Parrots

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Fabulous Artisans	24	16	1	7	58	38	20	49
2	Claymore Athletic FC	24	15	2	7	70	48	22	47
3	Trusted By Millions	24	14	5	5	61	40	21	47
4	Aardvark Abacus	24	13	5	6	50	30	20	44
5	Athletico Phoenix	24	13	4	7	49	40	9	43
6	San Dimas High School	24	10	6	8	47	38	9	36
7	The Cow-Faced Juniors	24	9	7	8	55	51	4	34
8	You Know Your Boston Rock FC	24	9	7	8	53	49	4	34
9	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	24	9	6	9	42	37	5	33
10	The Cheese Makers	24	9	4	11	35	35	0	31
11	The Dead Parrots	24	9	2	13	33	52	-19	29
12	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	24	7	5	12	27	41	-14	26
13	Final Fantasy XI	24	6	5	13	37	44	-7	23
14	York's Returning Glory	24	6	5	13	33	62	-29	23
15	Real Muppets	24	5	5	14	37	56	-19	20
16	Mega Buck Bandits	24	5	5	14	37	63	-26	20

On the wrong end of an eight-goal thriller last week the Artisans were on the right side of the odd goal in seven this time. Ben's team were behind early when Fred's inspirational midfielder Rafael van der Vaart placed a left-footed shot from out of the area beyond the reach of his keeper but the scores were level just before the break through a Mario Balotelli penalty. The game caught fire in its last quarter of an hour. James Collins flicked a header in from a throw to put Ben ahead and then Balotelli added his second five minutes from time. Alex Kolarov pulled one back but Ashley Young's shot on the turn restored Ben's two-goal advantage almost immediately. There was still time for Fernando Torres to find the net to break his poor run but Fred ran out of time and now drops out of the top half.

Claymore have taken second place on goal difference after a second successive 5-1 win. Clive was behind to the Muppets on nine minutes when Danny Sturridge struck but wore his opponents down in the second half. Branislav Ivanovic hasn't looked like repeating his Player of the Year honours this time round but got the equaliser and another goal late on. Clive will be happy that Michael Kightly got on the scoresheet after giving the injury-prone midfielder a chance and Jonny Evans and James Perch added cleans to add to Ryan's woes. Trusted had more of a struggle to their three points but eventually edged out the bottom-placed Bandits. Papiss Cisse gave Beef the lead twice, once in the first half and then on the hour after Antonin Alcaraz had headed Dave level. Matt Jarvis found a second equaliser two minutes from time but a Victor Moses breakaway goal in the last minute gave Trusted the three points.

The two other title chasers failed to win. The Aardvarks were held 2-2 by Final Fantasy. A huge deflection off of Gareth McAuley put Ady ahead but two goals from Seb Larsson had Ceri looking at an unlikely win. The belated introduction of Emanuel Adebayor (thanks to an administrative error by the Aardvarks boss) brought instant rewards with a powerful header that grabbed a point. Athletico Phoenix were held by York's in one of those occasional games where nothing happens and is last on Match of the Day.

San Dimas hang on to sixth place but were held to a 1-1 draw with Nil Satis. Theo Walcott put me ahead after his initial effort came back off a post but a rare Victor Anichebe goal gave Paul a point. Nil Satis have looked livelier since the arrival of Nikica Jelavic and perhaps aren't getting the results their performances deserve. The CFJs took just two minutes to get off the mark against the CFJs through Clint Dempsey but Chris effectively won the match with two goals in four second-half minutes. Gylfi Sigurdsson, another great February signing, and then a Martin Petrov penalty gave their team a cushion that Matthew couldn't pull back. Krul and Simpson picked up cleans for the Cheese Makers but that team is crying out for a goalscorer. Are Boston Rock lulling Claymore into a false sense of security ahead of next week's Cup Final? Sheriff's team were two down to the Parrots after 22 minutes and couldn't make any inroads. Dean's win coming courtesy of Damien Duff and a first of the season for £10m Adel Taarabt.