Aardvark Abacus 1 v 1 The Dead Parrots
Athletico Phoenix 3 v 3 Claymore Athletic FC
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 0 v 2 The Cow-Faced Juniors
San Dimas High School 0 v 4 Trusted By Millions
The Cheese Makers 0 v 5 Mega Buck Bandits
The Fabulous Artisans 3 v 2 Final Fantasy XI
York’s Returning Glory 0 v 0 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
You Know Your Boston Rock FC 1 v 3 Real Muppets
| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | Diff | CC | SP | Pts | |
| 1 | Claymore Athletic FC | 29 | 17 | 4 | 8 | 88 | 58 | 30 | 24 | 1 | 55 |
| 2 | Trusted By Millions | 29 | 16 | 5 | 8 | 73 | 49 | 24 | 30 | 1 | 53 |
| 3 | The Fabulous Artisans | 29 | 17 | 2 | 10 | 63 | 50 | 13 | 23 | 0 | 53 |
| 4 | Aardvark Abacus | 29 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 55 | 34 | 21 | 31 | 0 | 51 |
| 5 | Athletico Phoenix | 29 | 15 | 5 | 9 | 59 | 50 | 9 | 25 | 0 | 50 |
| 6 | The Cow-Faced Juniors | 29 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 72 | 53 | 19 | 27 | 1 | 49 |
| 7 | San Dimas High School | 29 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 54 | 48 | 5 | 25 | 1 | 43 |
| 8 | Fred West Landscape Gardening XI | 29 | 12 | 6 | 11 | 52 | 43 | 9 | 30 | 0 | 42 |
| 9 | The Cheese Makers | 29 | 12 | 4 | 13 | 48 | 50 | -2 | 20 | 1 | 40 |
| 10 | You Know Your Boston Rock FC | 29 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 57 | 60 | -3 | 26 | 0 | 38 |
| 11 | The Dead Parrots | 29 | 11 | 3 | 15 | 41 | 65 | -24 | 31 | 0 | 36 |
| 12 | Nil Satis Nisi Optimum | 29 | 8 | 7 | 14 | 37 | 55 | -18 | 22 | 0 | 31 |
| 13 | Real Muppets | 29 | 8 | 6 | 15 | 52 | 67 | -15 | 27 | 0 | 30 |
| 14 | Final Fantasy XI | 29 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 43 | 53 | -10 | 24 | 0 | 27 |
| 15 | York's Returning Glory | 29 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 38 | 74 | -36 | 15 | 0 | 27 |
| 16 | Mega Buck Bandits | 29 | 7 | 5 | 17 | 47 | 70 | -23 | 13 | 1 | 26 |
For the third season running the title race goes to the last day but, for the first time in five years, it's a three-way fight to the finish.
Claymore are still in pole position but are less comfortable than a couple of weeks ago. Clive had a topsy-turvy 3-3 draw with Brian last weekend being 2-0 up with 20 minutes to go but a Robin van Persie double and a James Morrison close range effort had Brian on the verge of keeping his title hopes alive for another week. It was a Gael Clichy clean that levelled and ultimately broke Phoenix hearts but while the door is shut to Brian's team this season he forced it ajar for too other contenders. Trusted battered San Dimas 5-0 to give themselves goal difference hopes if Clive only draws this week. Michael Essien didn't help my cause by sticking through his own goal early on and after that it was one-way traffic. A rare effort from Jordan Henderson on the Trusted scoresheet this week. I'm still not quite assured of a top-half place but much more importantly if Clive draws Beef needs a six goal win over the Muppets to take over on goal difference.
The Fabulous Artisans are still in the hunt too but need Claymore to lose and Trusted not to win as well as win themselves on the last day to take the title. Ashley Young and Jonjo Shelvey had Ben two up on the hour but a Yaya Toure brace for Ceri, the second in the last minute, stunned the Goddard Park crowd into silence. Ben's saviour came in the unlikely form of Taye Taiwo who got the clean sheet that earned the three points. A Dead Parrots clean sheet finally did for the Aardvarks title hopes though, making it six draws out of seven for Ady. Emmanuel Adebayor's spot-kick looked like being the only significant action of the match before Emerson Boyce earned a share of the spoils for Dean.
The Cow-Faced Juniors are still on the stampede (how haven't I thought of that before?) and Chris's team scored two early set-pieces to beat our out-going champions. Clint Dempsey has been one of the players of the season and he bent in an early free-kick and the lead was doubled on 24 minutes with a Martin Petrov penalty. Fred needs a last day win to hold on to a top half finish. The Cheese Makers bid for a top eight place now relies on other results after Matthew's team fell to a surprise 5-0 home defeat to Mega Bucks. This game was 0-0 with five minutes to go but Steve Morison, Antolin Alcaraz and Djibril Cisse all scored and Alcaraz and Steven Ward added cleans. Dave still has chance of not finishing bottom but needs a result this weekend.
Boston Rock won't finish in the top half after losing their 11th game of the season. Sheriff's team went down to the Muppets who have finished how Ryan would have wished them to play all season. Paul Scholes has proved a good signing and he and Danny Agger scored within a minute in the first half to bust the game open. Chris Brunt added another with a quarter of an hour to go and Boston Rock could only reply with a Chris Smalling clean. Our last game this week was an end of season 0-0 between York's and Nil Satis. Julian left looking over his shoulder at the bottom spot as we head to the last week.
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