Aardvark Abacus 3 v 1 Athletico Phoenix
Claymore Athletic FC 2 v 1 YTFIB
Final Fantasy XI 4 v 0 San Dimas High School
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 0 v 2 The Fabulous Artisans
Real Muppets 2 v 1 Mega Buck Bandits
The Cheese Makers 3 v 4 The Cow-Faced Juniors
The Dead Parrots 0 v 4 You Know Your Boston Rock FC
Trusted By Millions 3 v 0 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | Diff | Pts | |
| 1 | The Cow-Faced Juniors | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 37 | 21 | 16 | 29 |
| 2 | Claymore Athletic FC | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 30 | 18 | 12 | 28 |
| 3 | You Know Your Boston Rock FC | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 36 | 16 | 20 | 23 |
| 4 | Trusted By Millions | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 27 | 19 | 8 | 22 |
| 5 | Final Fantasy XI | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 23 | 15 | 8 | 22 |
| 6 | Real Muppets | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 23 | 17 | 6 | 22 |
| 7 | Mega Buck Bandits | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 17 | 3 | 17 |
| 8 | The Fabulous Artisans | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 19 | 0 | 17 |
| 9 | Athletico Phoenix | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 23 | 22 | 1 | 16 |
| 10 | Aardvark Abacus | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 22 | 21 | 1 | 16 |
| 11 | The Cheese Makers | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 21 | 23 | -2 | 16 |
| 12 | The Dead Parrots | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 23 | -7 | 12 |
| 13 | YTFIB | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 25 | -10 | 10 |
| 14 | Fred West Landscape Gardening XI | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 28 | -15 | 9 |
| 15 | Nil Satis Nisi Optimum | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 31 | -18 | 7 |
| 16 | San Dimas High School | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 18 | 41 | -23 | 7 |
The league is taking on the appearance of a Neapolitan ice cream this week as it divides into three layers. The top six teams are the refreshing strawberry flavour, the middle five are the take it or leave it depending what mood you're in vanilla, and then we have the brown chocalatey stodgey mess that is the bottom five.
Top of the strawberry layer are the CFJs who keep powering on. Remember the PCMT semi-final when Chris roared into a 3-0 half-time lead but Ben pegged him back for a draw? The reverse happened this week when the Cheese Makers stormed into a three-goal lead in 33 minutes. Sebastian Bassong, Juan Mata and Marouane Fellaini are among Matthew's best performers this season and were all on target. Chris needed all his dodging skills to turn things round and get a result. Carlton Cole and two late on from Michu levelled the game and Geoff Cameron's clean won it, Spare a thought for Matthew who would have beaten anyone else this week. Claymore are managing to keep up with the CFJs but were unconvincing against YTFIB. Clive hasn't got the best out of Wayne Rooney this season but a penalty and close range finish from the England striker proved enough with Julian only finding a Danny Simpson clean in reply.
The Dead Parrots/Boston Rock game was uneventful into Jermain Defoe struck twice in five minutes for Sheriff with around a quarter of an hour left. Defoe has joined Michu at the head of the scoring charts on nine league goals. Chris Smalling and Steven Caulker's clean finished the game off. It was clean sheets all the way for Trusted against Fred. Robert Huth, Phil Jones and Ryan Shawcross keeping Beef just about in touch with the title race.
Final Fantasy took advantage of a San Dimas team with a serious Cup semi-final hangover. Brett Holman smashed Ceri in front on eight minutes, Demba Ba added a penalty five minutes later and Ba struck again, mopping up a rebound, on 21 minutes. I managed not to embarrass myself further until Jose Enrique's clean made it four. The Muppets are the last of our top layer after a come from behind victory over Mega Bucks. Sean Morrison battered a header in on 23 minutes to give Dave the lead on 23 minutes but Carlos Tevez equalised from the spot two minutes before the break. Jose Reina hasn't been at his best this season but got the winning clean for Ryan.
The Artisans had only managed one in the last six league matches but had too much for Nil Satis this week. Cleans from Asmir Begovic and Martin Skrtel proving the difference an getting Ben moving the right way again. Only San Dimas are keeping Paul from being the sloppy chocolate dregs. Have the Aardvarks turned the corner? It's three wins out of four for Ady after beating the Phoenix. Adam Le Fondre opened the scoring with a header on 19 minutes but Robin van Persie equalised 15 minutes later after beating the offside trap. Anthony Pilkington and Craig Gardner were both given too much room by the Phoenix defence on the run up to the break and their fiercely struck shots were too got to handle. It wasn't RvP's best day with a 'goal' being missed by the linesman and an open goal miss in the second half which could have thrown Brian a lifeline.
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