Week 23 results

Clive back in the title race in a big way.

League Week 23

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

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Cow-Faced Juniors	23	15	4	4	73	45	28	49
2	Claymore Athletic FC	23	15	2	6	60	39	21	47
3	Athletico Phoenix	23	13	3	7	53	36	17	42
4	Final Fantasy XI	23	13	3	7	47	31	16	42
5	Aardvark Abacus	23	13	2	8	46	30	16	41
6	Trusted By Millions	23	11	4	8	58	50	8	37
7	Real Muppets	23	10	7	6	45	47	-2	37
8	Mega Buck Bandits	23	9	4	10	37	33	4	31
9	San Dimas High School	23	10	1	12	50	53	-3	31
10	The Fabulous Artisans	23	9	4	10	44	48	-4	31
11	You Know Your Boston Rock FC	23	7	4	12	49	50	-1	25
12	The Dead Parrots	23	6	7	10	35	44	-9	25
13	YTFIB	23	6	7	10	26	46	-20	25
14	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	23	6	4	13	30	55	-25	22
15	The Cheese Makers	23	5	5	13	32	52	-20	20
16	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	23	5	1	17	25	51	-26	16

A slip from the CFJs brings Claymore right back into the title race. Chris's team stay top but suffered their heaviest defeat of the season. The Aardvarks have been in better form lately and opened the scoring five minutes from the break through a Craig Gardner penalty. The lead was doubled on 74 minutes. Nacho Monreal's shot wasn't the cleanest hit but it found it's way in and cleans from Monreal and Ryan Shotton completed an easy win for Ady. At the same time Claymore were putting six past the Muppets. Clive's team were ahead as early as the sixth minute, a deft flick from Morgan Schneiderlin too good for the Parrots defence. Wayne Rooney added a deflected shot on 21 minutes  and Leon Osman's long-range swerver 11 minutes later meant that Claymore could go into pipe and slippers mode and cleans from Jonas Olsson, David Luiz and Jos Hooiveld doubled the advantage at the end.

Athletico Phoenix are back up to third after edging out Mega Bucks. Wes Hoolahan nodded in from practically on the line after 26 minutes and Brian's team were struggling with a fatigued RVP making little impression. The Phoenix dug it out though and cleans from Per Mertersacker and Carl Jenkinson meant the points stayed in Kingham. Final Fantasy dropped a place after being held by the Parrots. Dean held the lead for about an hour following Rickie Lambert's deflected free-kick but Gareth McAuley's clean grabbed a point for Ceri.

Trusted are sixth but left it late to earn the three points against Nil Satis. Andrea Weimann had fired Beef ahead on the hour but Nikica Jelavic scored on the breakaway to equalise bang on 90 minutes. Trusted needed cleans from Ryan Shawcross, Liam Ridgewell and Michael Dawson to get the win. Paul's team are four points adrift at the bottom after another win for Fred. Frank Lampard's header put Boston Rock one up on 19 minutes but this game turned on a red card, keeper Mark Bunn dismissed for handling (well, underarming) outside the area on the half hour. Encouragingly for Fred it was his young brigade that turned things round. A goal from Eden Hazard and cleans from Cesar Azpilicueta and Alex Buttner settling this one.

The battle for the last place in the top half is usually a good one and it's on again. San Dimas messed up their chance of grabbing eighth with a limp performance at YTFIB. Dimitar Berbatov slid in to win this one for Julian early in the second period. The Artisans are also in the race for eighth after a come-from-behind win over the Cheese Makers. Davide Santon drove Matthew ahead on 72 minutes but his team left Christian Benteke unmarked from a pull-back to level nine minutes later. After another nine minutes a controversial Aroune Kone goal put the Artisans ahead and a Leighton Baines clean finished it.