Week 5 Results

 The 100% records are well and truly gone. Ceri stays top but the table has concertinad somewhat.

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

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Final Fantasy XI	5	4	0	1	12	5	7	12
2	The Cow-Faced Juniors	5	4	0	1	11	5	6	12
3	The Fabulous Artisans (PC)	5	3	2	0	8	2	6	11
4	You Know Your Boston Rock FC	5	3	1	1	18	9	9	10
5	Claymore Athletic FC (LC, FA)	5	3	1	1	12	7	5	10
6	Athletico Phoenix (CS)	5	3	0	2	13	8	5	9
7	Real Muppets	5	2	3	0	11	8	3	9
8	Aardvark Abacus	5	2	1	2	11	7	4	7
9	The Cheese Makers	5	2	1	2	10	8	2	7
10	The Dead Parrots	5	2	1	2	9	10	-1	7
11	Mega Buck Bandits	5	2	0	3	7	7	0	6
12	Trusted By Millions	5	2	0	3	7	10	-3	6
13	YTFIB	5	2	0	3	7	12	-5	6
14	San Dimas High School	5	1	0	4	8	19	-11	3
15	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	5	0	0	5	4	16	-12	0
16	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	5	0	0	5	3	18	-15	0

Last week's top two both lost but last week's top two are still this week's top two.

Final Fantasy hang on to pole position despite going down 4-1 to Claymore. Ceri's team were ahead through another classy Demba Ba finish and were looking like making it five wins out of five but then Claymore brought out the cleans through Ivanovic, Perch, Luiz and Olsson. Clive's rapier-like strikers are not producing at the moment so he'll be doubly pleased that his defensive broadsword is getting the job done. The CFJs' perfect start also came to a grinding halt at Athletico Phoenix. Brian is finally getting a tune out of Bobby Zamora who netted the opener and there was no surprise that Robin van Persie finished the game with a late penalty.

The Fabulous Artisans are third and piled on more woes to bottom-placed Fred. The Gardeners looked to have earned a first point but Arouna Kone opened his WSFFL account on 90 minutes and Leighton Baines (who had been subject to interest from Claymore in the week) finished the game with a clean. Boston Rock are the league's highest scorers after going 'nap' on San Dimas. Darren Bent fired Sheriff ahead from close range on 36 minutes but Rafael produced a great curling shot against his old club to level five minutes after the break. Jermain Defoe poached the Sky Heroes back in front ten minutes later but Romelu Lukaku squared the game for a second time on 71 minutes. The decisive goal came in stoppage time when Kevin Nolan hooked in and two more cleans put a slightly unfair look to the scoreline.

History lesson - over the last three seasons both Real Muppets and Aardvark Abacus have squandered title challenges by drawing to many matches. To the present, and the teams draw 2-2 to leave them 7th and 8th. Ryan's team were ahead through a thumping Joleon Lescott header before the break but an unlucky deflection of Ciaran Clark levelled the game. Ashley Cole doesn't score many goals but his dinked finish with five minutes to go put the Muppets 2-1 up. Phil Jagielka's clean meant the game finished all square. The Cheese Makers keep Nil Satis pointless after a 2-1 victory. Paul's team took the lead in this one, Victor Anichebe netting from six yards. Kevin Mirallas equalised when following up his own effort that came back off the bar and Marouane Fellaini won the game with a deflected header eight minutes from time.

A tale of two strikers in the Parrots v Trusted game. For the Parrots, Rickie Lambert has found his WSFFL feet scoring twice, including the winner from the penalty spot. For Trusted, Papiss Cisse looks a shadow of the player he was in the second half of last season and blazed a first half penalty over. Our last game of the week is a tale of one striker. Steven Fletcher bagging the only goal for Mega Bucks against YTFIB after nine minutes, not much else happened.