Week 8 Results

Claymore and the CFJs opening a bit of daylight for the first time.

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

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Claymore Athletic FC	8	6	1	1	22	11	11	19
2	The Cow-Faced Juniors	8	6	1	1	21	10	11	19
3	Final Fantasy XI	8	5	1	2	15	8	7	16
4	Athletico Phoenix	8	5	0	3	19	14	5	15
5	Real Muppets	8	4	3	1	15	11	4	15
6	You Know Your Boston Rock FC	8	4	2	2	24	12	12	14
7	The Cheese Makers	8	4	1	3	13	14	-1	13
8	Trusted By Millions	8	4	0	4	18	16	2	12
9	The Fabulous Artisans	8	3	2	3	12	14	-2	11
10	Mega Buck Bandits	8	3	1	4	10	11	-1	10
11	The Dead Parrots	8	3	1	4	13	15	-2	10
12	Aardvark Abacus	8	2	1	5	12	14	-2	7
13	YTFIB	8	2	1	5	9	18	-9	7
14	San Dimas High School	8	2	1	5	13	23	-10	7
15	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	8	1	2	5	9	19	-10	5
16	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	8	1	0	7	8	23	-15	3

The top spot has been slippery in recent weeks but Claymore managed to hang on. Just. Clive's team had a straightforward win over the Parrots through a Leon Osman goal and a Gael Clichy clean but the boss of the Swordsmen would have had an ear on the CFJs scoreline as Chris looked to take over at the top. The Fabulous Artisans were ahead on eight minutes when Ivan Ramis lashed home a sensational volley but the CFJs were 3-1 up just 12 minutes later. Leighton Baines scored an unfortunate own goal on 14 minutes, Gareth Bale headed Chris in front a minute later and Luis Suarez also found the net with a header on 20 minutes. Christian Benteke got his first WSFFL goal to reduce the deficit but Clint Dempsey had made it 4-2 before the break. It looked like Chris might find the goals to lead the league on goal difference but he only added one more clean and Claymore hang on by virtue of goals scored.

Final Fantasy are third but a sixth victory of the season eluded Ceri. Demba Ba volleyed Final Fantasy ahead on 35 minutes but Ceri's team couldn't put YTFIB away and Dimitar Berbatov was given too much room to control and strike the equaliser for Julian. Athletico Phoenix are fourth but lost ground after falling 3-1 to Trusted. Robin van Persie fired Brian in front after 12 minutes but Beef's team hit back after the break. Javier Hernandez evaded an offside flag to get the equaliser 15 minutes from time and James Tomkins nodded Beef ahead and Papiss Cisse's lucky deflection added a third as time ran out. Robert Huth made it 4-1 with a clean and you get the feeling Trusted's season is up and running at last.

In a fairly low-scoring week two games were settled by the only goal. Real Muppets overtook Boston Rock thanks to a long-range Carlos Tevez effort on the hour. While Jack Wilshere made his long-awaited return for Sheriff he's now lost Micah Richards for a couple of months. At the Stade de Fromage the home team edged out San Dimas by a single strike. Juan Mata scored an excellent free-kick just before the break to give the points to Matthew and send his team into the top half.

Nil Satis have their first points on the board after beating the Aardvarks 2-1. Steven Naismith opened his WSFFL account ten minutes before half-time and Mikel Arteta doubled the advantage with six minutes left. Vincent Kompany pulled a clean sheet back but it's all going wrong for Ady right now. The last game on Match of the Day this week was the goalless draw between Mega Bucks and Fred. The only event of note was Fernando Torres' sending-off when he picked up a second yellow for a dive. (Or was it? He did get caught but why did his other leg collapse first?)

Week 7 Results

All the fans were nice to one another and everybody wore a t-shirt. And Claymore went top.

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

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Claymore Athletic FC	7	5	1	1	20	11	9	16
2	The Cow-Faced Juniors	7	5	1	1	16	8	8	16
3	Athletico Phoenix	7	5	0	2	18	10	8	15
4	Final Fantasy XI	7	5	0	2	14	7	7	15
5	You Know Your Boston Rock FC	7	4	2	1	24	11	13	14
6	Real Muppets	7	3	3	1	14	11	3	12
7	The Fabulous Artisans	7	3	2	2	10	9	1	11
8	The Dead Parrots	7	3	1	3	13	13	0	10
9	The Cheese Makers	7	3	1	3	12	14	-2	10
10	Trusted By Millions	7	3	0	4	14	15	-1	9
11	Mega Buck Bandits	7	3	0	4	10	11	-1	9
12	Aardvark Abacus	7	2	1	4	11	12	-1	7
13	San Dimas High School	7	2	1	4	13	22	-9	7
14	YTFIB	7	2	0	5	8	17	-9	6
15	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	7	1	1	5	9	19	-10	4
16	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	7	0	0	7	6	22	-16	0

Claymore become our third leaders in three weeks and fourth in all this season. Clive got off to the worse possible start when Wayne Rooney put through his own goal to put Nil Satis ahead but two from Rooney wither side of Michael Kightly waltzing through the Nil Satis defence send our champions to the top of the pile. The CFJs and Boston Rock both could have gone top but a draw opened the door for Claymore. Kevin Nolan and Jermain Defoe had Sheriff two up ten minutes into the second half but Michu's sixth of the season got Chris back into contention and then the CFJs boss hauled Fabricio Coloccini off with 10 minutes left to preserve the equalising clean.

Athletico Phoenix are up to third after narrowly beating Final Fantasy. Robin van Persie broke the deadlock just before the break but the killer goal came five minutes from time. Demba Ba has fired Ceri to the sharp end of the table this season but he was responsible for the unlucky deflection that put Brian 2-0 up. Mark Schwarzer's clean pulled one back but wasn't enough. Real Muppets are sixth after a routine win at YTFIB. Raheem Sterling didn't make the breakthrough at Boston Rock but Ryan has given him a chance and the youngster repaid his faith with his first WSFFL goal. Brad Jones' clean completed the win.

The Artisans suffered their second successive league defeat, this time falling 3-0 to Mega Bucks. Mark Noble opened the scoring after the break and also converted a penalty 18 minutes from time before Russell Martin's clean put the icing on the win. Ben needs to find some goals from somewhere if he's to be in the title race again. The Cheese Makers had probably been on the end of Matthew's 'hairdryer treatment' after their crushing defeat to Fred last week. The Cheesers roared out of the blocks against the Parrots and chief string-puller Yohan Cabaye followed up to find the net after three minutes. Emerson Boyce levelled with a spectacular acrobatic back-flick but Brede Hangeland got the winning clean for Matthew.

If the Artisans are struggling at the moment what of the Aardvarks? Ady's team were taken apart by the previously struggling Trusted. Gary Cahill slammed Beef ahead when the Aardvarks failed to clear a corner and Adam Lallana opened his account with an unstoppable shot into the roof of the Aardvark net to double the lead. Edin Dzeko then struck twice in the last ten minutes to finish the game off. Less than 27,000 were at the Aldi Arena to see this one. Fred and San Dimas played out a tame draw at new Cromwell Street. Danny Welbeck moved between the clubs in the summer to help fund Fred's rebuilding programme and opened the scoring for me with a diving header. Pablo got his first Fred goal with a smart turn and shot midway through the second-half.

Charity Shield Quarter-final draw

Aardvark Abacus v Athletico Phoenix
The Cheese Makers v Mega Buck Bandits
The Dead Parrots v Real Muppets
YTFIB v Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

Tough game for Brian away at the Aldi Arena if he's going to defend this trophy.

Paul Cartmell Memorial Trophy Quarter-final draw

Claymore Athletic FC v The Fabulous Artisans
The Cow-Faced Juniors v Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
Trusted By Millions v San Dimas High School
You Know Your Boston Rock FC v Final Fantasy XI

If Clive's going to have his hands on all three trophies at the same time he's going to have to take down the holders.

Games to be played w/c 3 November.

Week 6 Results

The CFJS take over at the top on goals scored.

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

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Cow-Faced Juniors	6	5	0	1	14	6	8	15
2	Final Fantasy XI	6	5	0	1	13	5	8	15
3	You Know Your Boston Rock FC	6	4	1	1	22	9	13	13
4	Claymore Athletic FC	6	4	1	1	17	10	7	13
5	Athletico Phoenix	6	4	0	2	16	9	7	12
6	The Fabulous Artisans	6	3	2	1	10	6	4	11
7	The Dead Parrots	6	3	1	2	12	11	1	10
8	Real Muppets	6	2	3	1	12	11	1	9
9	Aardvark Abacus	6	2	1	3	11	8	3	7
10	The Cheese Makers	6	2	1	3	10	13	-3	7
11	Mega Buck Bandits	6	2	0	4	7	11	-4	6
12	Trusted By Millions	6	2	0	4	10	15	-5	6
13	YTFIB	6	2	0	4	8	15	-7	6
14	San Dimas High School	6	2	0	4	12	21	-9	6
15	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	6	1	0	5	8	18	-10	3
16	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	6	0	0	6	5	19	-14	0

Last week's top two both won but swapped places. The CFJs are now top after coming from behind to beat YTFIB. Michu and Lennon scoring in five second half minutes to turn things round for Chris. Final Fantasy beat the brother-in-law by a single goal. Noel Hunt opened his WSFFL account just before the break to down the Aardvarks but Ceri loses top spot on goals scored.

Sheriff must be delighted with his start to the season after a big win over Mega Bucks put him third. Frank Lampard opened the scoring but Steven Caulker was man of the match with a goal and a clean. Claymore are in striking distance of the top after beating last season's runners-up Trusted 5-3. Clive will be pleased that Olivier Giroud opened his account for the season as he raced into a 5-0 lead. Beef's team are short on goals and only three cleans from his team made this respectable.

The last two unbeaten runs went this week. The Fabulous Artisans had conceded just two goals in the first five weeks but shipped four to San Dimas. James Milner got his first for me to put my team back in front after Leighton Baines had seemingly grabbed a point for Ben. Real Muppets slid to defeat against the Phoenix. Brian's 'Firebirds' were in control with two goals in the first 15 minutes (from James Morrison and Patrice Evra) and never looked like letting it slip.

Fred picked up his first win and is off the bottom of the table after taking advantage of a bad day at the office for the Cheese Makers. Kolarov, Torres and Hazard had all scored in the first half hour and it was 'pipe and slippers' for Fred after that. Nil Satis now prop the table up and are still pointless. Nikica Jelavic had given Paul an early lead but Adel Taarabt, Wayne Routledge and a Joe Hart clean won it for Dean's Parrots.

Paul Cartmell Memorial Trophy 1st Round replays results

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 5 v 1 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
The Fabulous Artisans 3 v 0 Mega Buck Bandits

Straightforward wins for Fred and Ben. Mega Bucks make it ten first round exits in a row.

PCMT 1st Round Results

The holders get a scare but live to face a replay.

Final Fantasy XI 2 v 0 Athletico Phoenix
Mega Buck Bandits 3 v 3 The Fabulous Artisans
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 2 v 2 Fred West LG XI
Real Muppets 0 v 1 San Dimas High School
The Cheese Makers 1 v 2 Claymore Athletic FC
The Dead Parrots 1 v 3 Trusted By Millions
You Know Your Boston Rock FC 1 v 0 Aardvark Abacus
YTFIB 2 v 7 The Cow-Faced Juniors

Only two teams from last season's bottom half won through to the quarter-finals and as they're both in this season's top four we can hardly describe those as shocks.

Final Fantasy kept up their early season good form when downing Athletico Phoenix. Two second-half Demba Ba goals decided this one., the first an exquisite over the shoulder volley, the second a handball missed by the officials. Brian's consolation is that he will now defend his Charity Shield. Boston Rock and the Aardvarks have won the PCMT eight times between them but it's only Sheriff that will have a chance this year. A cagey game was settled when Darren Bent was left unmarked to slam home with 10 minutes left.

Two ties went to a replay. Perennial first round exiters Mega Bucks gave holders The Fabulous Artisans a real scare, leading 3-1 five minutes into the second half. A quick reply from Jimmy Kebe and a clean from Asmir Begovic saved Ben's blushes. Nil Satis and Fred West are still looking for a first win after drawing 2-2. Two goals from Nikica Jelavic gave Paul a first half lead but Nani replied for Fred just after the break and these two will try again this weekend.

The CFJs were at their devastating best battering YTFIB 7-2, one of the biggest wins in the competition's history. Luis Suarez often misses a few but he was clinical this week and set up the win for Chris. The Dead Parrots picked up a big win over Trusted last week but Beef made sure there was no repeat this time. Clean sheets from Robert Huth and Ryan Shawcross made the difference.

Claymore Athletic could hold all three major trophies if they win the PCMT and they're through to the last eight after holding off the Cheese Makers. Leon Osman and Sergio Aguero scored before the break and while Shane Long reduced the deficit Clive's team held on. The Real Muppets v San Dimas game was low quality and settled by a goalkeeping clean in my favour.

Quarter finals in both competitions are the first weekend in November, the draws will be held after the replays.