Week 15 Results

A massive Fred win sends him top. 

Aardvark Abacus 0 v 6 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI

Athletico Phoenix 1 v 0 Mega Buck Bandits

Claymore Athletic FC 0 v 2 San Dimas High School

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 1 v 2 The Fabulous Artisans

The Cow-Faced Juniors 5 v 1 Final Fantasy XI
The Dead Parrots 2 v 0 FCK2

Trusted By Millions 2 v 1 Cheese Makers

YTFIB 2 v 3 Real Muppets


	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	15	9	3	3	45	25	20	30
2	Aardvark Abacus	15	10	0	5	27	26	1	30
3	Claymore Athletic FC	15	8	4	3	43	25	18	28
4	Athletico Phoenix	15	9	1	5	39	27	12	28
5	Trusted By Millions	15	7	3	5	25	26	-1	24
6	San Dimas High School	15	7	3	5	23	28	-5	24
7	FCK2	15	6	5	4	26	22	4	23
8	The Cow-Faced Juniors	15	6	4	5	38	31	7	22
9	The Dead Parrots	15	7	1	7	25	20	5	22
10	Final Fantasy XI	15	6	3	6	21	28	-7	21
11	Mega Buck Bandits	15	5	3	7	26	25	1	18
12	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	15	5	3	7	29	34	-5	18
13	Real Muppets	15	5	1	9	19	30	-11	16
14	Cheese Makers	15	3	6	6	19	20	-1	15
15	The Fabulous Artisans	15	4	2	9	19	32	-13	14
16	YTFIB	15	1	2	12	12	37	-25	5

We're halfway through the season and after eight weeks at the top the Aardvarks are ousted. The Gardeners resume top spot after a crushing win over Ady's team. Eden Hazard broke the deadlock just before the break then a 10-minute Adam Lallana double at the start of the second half took the game away from the Aardvarks before the cleans mounted up. Claymore are third but missed the chance to take over the lead with a defeat to San Dimas. David Silva on 23 minutes and Danny Welbeck on 44 given too much room in the Claymore box to deliver the points to me.

Athletico Phoenix are now only two points off the top after edging out Mega Bucks 1-0. Santi Cazorla's first half spot-kick completing an excellent month for Brian. After a rotten start to the season Trusted are somehow just six points behind. Beef's team went behind to Kevin Mirallas' goal six minutes from time for Cheese Makers but cleans from Ryan Shawcross and Phil Jones turned the game Beef's way.

The Parrots bounced back from Charity Shield disappointment to beat FCK2 2-0. Final scorers Papiss Cisse and Erik Pieters on target again for Dean. The CFJs overcame Final Fantasy thanks to a host of cleans. Ayoze Perez gave Ceri the lead but Gylfi Sigurdsson equalised a minute later. There were no further scores until Chris rolled out the clean sheets.

The Artisans win! A first league victory for Ben since week eight. They had trailed to Nil Satis too. Jonjo Shelvey glanced a corner into his own net wit 20 minutes left but Asmir Begovic and Billy Jones cleans ended Ben's dreadful run. The Muppets win! After eight straight defeats in all competitions and with no win in the league since October Ryan finally bagged a victory. Sadio Mane put Ryan ahead early but Julian must have got excited when Mame Diouf* scored twice in 15 second half minutes. It wasn't to be for YTFIB as Ciaran Clark and Mamadou Sakho notched the winning Muppets cleans.

*Diouf has a third of all Julian's counters this season.

Charity Shield Final report

Congratulations to Athletico Phoenix who won the Trophy for a second time in a seven-goal thriller against the Parrots.

Athletico Phoenix 4
Green sp9, van Persie 53, Costa 62, Rosicky 65

The Dead Parrots 3
Cisse 87p, K.Toure [c], Pieters [c]

(one cancelled clean)

At Old Trafford - Att: 75, 318

Teams:

Athletico - Green; Vertonghen, Zabaleta, Mertersacker, Williams; Rosicky, Downing, Lampard, Cazorla; van Persie, Costa.     Subs: Lindegaard; Jenkinson; Morrison; Vardy

Parrots - Hart; Debuchy, Pieters, McNair, K.Toure; Routledge, Navas, Barry, Jedinak; Lampert, Cisse.        Subs: Caballero; Hutton; Elmohamady; Drogba

Two of the league's in-form teams delivered a cracking first final of the season. Athletico had won four straight games scoring 15 and only conceding one in the process, the Parrots had won five and drawn two of their last seven games.

It wasn't long before we had our first action. A clumsy lunge in the area led to a Parrots spot-kick but Rob Green guessed right (or left depending on how you were looking) to make the save and get the first counter of the game. We were level at the break though as Kolo Toure departed the fray with a clean stuffed in his back pocket.

Brian's team took control after the break with three goals in 13 minutes. Robin van Persie perfectly timed his run away from the Parrots defence to nod his team ahead, Diego Costa twisted and turned and struck low into the bottom corner and Tomas Rosicky swept in from inside the area. That should have been that but the Parrots were thrown a lifeline with a penalty three minutes from time. Papiss Cisse converted and Erik Pieters followed up with a clean for Dean to give Brian some late jitters. The Phoenix held on and will take a very cold open top bus ride to Kingham with the trophy. Cancer Research UK will benefit from the league's £50 donation.

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How they got there:

Semi-finals

FCK2 1 v 2 Athletico Phoenix
The Dead Parrots 5 v 0 Cheese Makers  (after 2-2 draw)

Quarter-finals

Athletico Phoenix 4 v 2 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 0 v 2 FCK2
The Dead Parrots 2 v 1 Final Fantasy XI
YTFIB 0 v 3 Cheese Makers

Week 14 Results

Another sticky week for the pacesetters. 

Cheese Makers 1 v 1 The Dead Parrots

FCK2 2 v 0 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

Final Fantasy XI 1 v 0 YTFIB

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 0 v 2 Athletico Phoenix
Mega Buck Bandits 5 v 1 The Cow-Faced Juniors

Real Muppets 0 v 3 Trusted By Millions

San Dimas High School 2 v 1 Aardvark Abacus

The Fabulous Artisans 3 v 3 Claymore Athletic FC


	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Aardvark Abacus	14	10	0	4	27	20	7	30
2	Claymore Athletic FC	14	8	4	2	43	23	20	28
3	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	14	8	3	3	39	25	14	27
4	Athletico Phoenix	14	8	1	5	38	27	11	25
5	FCK2	14	6	5	3	26	20	6	23
6	Trusted By Millions	14	6	3	5	23	25	-2	21
7	Final Fantasy XI	14	6	3	5	20	23	-3	21
8	San Dimas High School	14	6	3	5	21	28	-7	21
9	The Cow-Faced Juniors	14	5	4	5	33	30	3	19
10	The Dead Parrots	14	6	1	7	23	20	3	19
11	Mega Buck Bandits	14	5	3	6	26	24	2	18
12	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	14	5	3	6	28	32	-4	18
13	Cheese Makers	14	3	6	5	18	18	0	15
14	Real Muppets	14	4	1	9	16	28	-12	13
15	The Fabulous Artisans	14	3	2	9	17	31	-14	11
16	YTFIB	14	1	2	11	10	34	-24	5

Silva Service - David Silva's two goals gave San Dimas the win over the Aardvarks despite a Romelu Lukaku og.

Kolared! - But Ady stays top as Claymore are held by the Artisans. Clive needing an Alex Kolarov clean after Martin Skrtel's late, late header for Ben looked to have won it.

Phoenix Rising - And Fred is beaten as well. Stewart Downing's goal and an Ashley Williams clean put Brian's team in the title hunt.

Terry's All Gold - John Terry's early goal from a set-piece set up Kevin for a win over Nil Satis and Harry Kane added to his tally to seal the win before the break.

L of a result - Goals from Lescott and Lamela plus a clean from Cahill saw Beef to a 3-0 win over the Muppets and reach a season high sixth in the table.

Toure De Force - It's no wonder they sing about him at the darts! Yaya powered in the only goal in the game to get Ceri going in the right direction and end Julian's two game unbeaten run.

Austin Powers - £16m for Charlie Austin not looking so silly now! His hat-trick set up the win for Dave over Chris. Fraser Forster hasn't been a bad buy either.

Ki, but forgot to lock the back door - The Parrots and Cheese Makers played out a draw. Ki Sung-Yeung deflecting Matthew into the lead after a quarter hour but Wes Brown got the clean for Dean.

FA Cup 1st round draw

Aardvark Abacus v Claymore Athletic FC
Athletico Phoenix v The Dead Parrots
Final Fantasy XI v YTFIB
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI v Real Muppets
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum v Mega Buck Bandits
San Dimas High School v FCK2
The Cow-Faced Juniors v Trusted By Millions
The Fabulous Artisans v Cheese Makers

A potential banana skin for the holders, a repeat of the Charity Shield Final, the current top two are paired together and a battle of the brothers to boot.

Games are set for w/c 3rd January.

Week 13 results

The top three all win again with perhaps only the Phoenix looking like credible challengers. 

Aardvark Abacus 4 v 1 The Fabulous Artisans

Athletico Phoenix 6 v 0 San Dimas High School

Claymore Athletic FC 5 v 0 FCK2

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 3 v 0 Mega Buck Bandits

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 2 v 2 Cheese Makers

The Dead Parrots 1 v 0 Real Muppets

Trusted By Millions 3 v 1 Final Fantasy XI

YTFIB 1 v 1 The Cow-Faced Juniors

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Aardvark Abacus	13	10	0	3	26	18	8	30
2	Claymore Athletic FC	13	8	3	2	40	20	20	27
3	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	13	8	3	2	39	23	16	27
4	Athletico Phoenix	13	7	1	5	36	27	9	22
5	FCK2	13	5	5	3	24	20	4	20
6	The Cow-Faced Juniors	13	5	4	4	32	25	7	19
7	The Dead Parrots	13	6	0	7	22	19	3	18
8	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	13	5	3	5	28	30	-2	18
9	Final Fantasy XI	13	5	3	5	19	23	-4	18
10	Trusted By Millions	13	5	3	5	20	25	-5	18
11	San Dimas High School	13	5	3	5	19	27	-8	18
12	Mega Buck Bandits	13	4	3	6	21	23	-2	15
13	Cheese Makers	13	3	5	5	17	17	0	14
14	Real Muppets	13	4	1	8	16	25	-9	13
15	The Fabulous Artisans	13	3	1	9	14	28	-14	10
16	YTFIB	13	1	2	10	10	33	-23	5

Routine wins for the top three this week. The Aardvarks did leave it late to get their win over the Artisans, three clean sheets delivered the points to Ady after Christian Eriksen's late goal for Ben equalised a rare Craig Gardner strike. It was easier for Claymore who cruised to a 5-0 win over the previously in-form FCK2. Clive might have lost Sergio Aguero to injury but he has got Olivier Giroud back from injury and the Frenchman rewarded his manager with a brace. Wayne Rooney and Ross Barkley also added goals from range.

Early goals in either half set up Fred for a win over Mega Bucks. Eden Hazard nodded the Gardeners in front on seven minutes and a cool Wilfried Bony strike three minutes into the second half doubled the lead before Eliaquim Mangala killed Dave off with a clean. Athletico went one better than Claymore with a 6-0 win over San Dimas. Stewart Downing started the goal rush on 29 minutes, Frank Lampard added a second before the break then a Santi Cazorla double bookended strikes from Robin van Persie and Diego Costa to complete the rout.

YTFIB are now unbeaten in two games after holding the CFJs to a draw. Peter Crouch opened the scoring for Julian for the second week in a row but Bacary Sagna got Chris's levelling clean. The Parrots are up to seventh after edging out the Muppets 1-0. Joe Hart's clean the only action of note in this one.

Trusted came from behind to see off injury hit Final Fantasy 3-1. Ayoze Perez got the only goal of the game for Ceri but Beef had three cleans, David De Gea, Gary Cahill and Joleon Lescott providing them to get the points. A game of two halves saw Nil Satis draw with Cheese Makers. Matthew was two up at the interval thanks to Juan Mata's (offside) header and Kevin mirallas but Paul hit back thanks to Steven Nailsmith's goal and a clean from Filipe Luis.

Week 12 results

A rare Aardvark defeat allows Fred and Clive to close. At the other end - Julian gets a point!

Cheese Makers 0 v 0 Claymore Athletic FC

FCK2 3 v 0 Aardvark Abacus

Mega Buck Bandits 1 v 1 YTFIB

Final Fantasy XI 2 v 6 The Dead Parrots

Real Muppets 1 v 2 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

San Dimas High School 1 v 4 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
The Cow-Faced Juniors 4 v 0 Trusted By Millions

The Fabulous Artisans 0 v 5 Athletico Phoenix


Cup semi-final replay results

PCMT semi-final replay
Mega Buck Bandits 1 v 2 San Dimas High School

My team edge through to my fourth PCMT Final - fourth time lucky?

Charity Shield semi-final replay
The Dead Parrots
 5 v 0 Cheese Makers

Dean sets up a Boxing Day clash with Brian.

Charity Shield semi-final results

Athletico Phoenix are through to their third Charity Shield final

Cheese Makers   2   v  2  The Dead Parrots   
FCK2   1  v  2   Athletico Phoenix   

Athletico Phoenix are through to their third Charity Shield final following a 2-1 win at FCK2. Kevin Nolan scored from close range ten minutes before the break but Pablo Zabaleta dinked over the keeper ten minutes after half time to square things up. It was another of Brian's defenders, Big Funky German Per Mertersacker, who got the winning clean.

The other semi goes to a reply after the Parrots came from behind twice to draw with Cheese Makers. Maroune Fellaini powered a header home to open the scoring but a Papiss Cisse volley equalised early in the second half. Juan Mata restored Matthew's lead on the hour as his free-kick drifted in but Wayne Routledge forced a replay with a calm finish seven minutes from the end.

Paul Cartmell Memorial Trophy semi-final results

Ben has a chance to get his name on the PCMT for a second time but he'll need to wait to learn his opponents.

San Dimas High School   1  v  1    Mega Buck Bandits   
The Fabulous Artisans   3   v  0    Real Muppets   

The Artisans have been edging back into form in recent weeks and it all clicked in this one. Christian Benteke robbed a Muppets defender and raced forward to place the Artisans ahead on 32 minutes, Sone Aluko added a second at the start of the second half and with 17 minutes left Loic Remy held of Ryan's defenders to slide in the third.

San Dimas and Mega Bucks will try again on the weekend after a 1-1 draw. Much-maligned keeper Simon Mignolet scored an own goal with his face midway through the first half to put Dave ahead but Romelu Lukaku got me back on level terms 12 minutes later, smashing in from six yards. And that's where the scoring ended.