FA Cup semi-final draw

Mrs Co-ordinator did me the honour of drawing the names and they came out thusly...

Athletico Phoenix v Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
Trusted By Millions v Claymore Athletic FC

So, one team never to have won the trophy will be in the Final.

Games to be played midweek 3/4 March

Week 20 results

Bit of daylight for Claymore.

Cheese Makers 2 v 3 Trusted By Millions
FCK2 3 v 0 The Dead Parrots

Final Fantasy XI 0 v 0 The Cow-Faced Juniors
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 1 v 3 Aardvark Abacus

Mega Buck Bandits 2 v 2 Athletico Phoenix

Real Muppets 4 v 2 YTFIB

San Dimas High School 2 v 3 Claymore Athletic FC

The Fabulous Artisans 1 v 2 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum


	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Claymore Athletic FC	20	11	6	3	57	32	25	39
2	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	20	10	6	4	50	31	19	36
3	Athletico Phoenix	20	11	2	7	51	33	18	35
4	Trusted By Millions	20	10	4	6	35	33	2	34
5	FCK2	20	9	6	5	38	29	9	33
6	Aardvark Abacus	20	11	0	9	31	44	-13	33
7	San Dimas High School	20	9	4	7	33	42	-9	31
8	Real Muppets	20	9	2	9	39	35	4	29
9	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	20	8	4	8	39	44	-5	28
10	The Cow-Faced Juniors	20	7	6	7	47	39	8	27
11	Final Fantasy XI	20	7	5	8	26	34	-8	26
12	The Dead Parrots	20	8	1	11	27	32	-5	25
13	The Fabulous Artisans	20	7	2	11	31	41	-10	23
14	Mega Buck Bandits	20	5	5	10	31	35	-4	20
15	Cheese Makers	20	4	7	9	26	31	-5	19
16	YTFIB	20	3	2	15	22	48	-26	11

Claymore open a three point gap after beating San Dimas for the second time in ten days. Clive's team raced into a three goal lead at the break and although David Silva struck twice for me in the second half I couldn't get back on terms. Fred stays second despite a defeat to the Aardvarks. Ady snapping his seven game losing streak through goals by Ander Herrera in the first half, a scuffed Danny Rose effort ten minutes from time and then Glenn Murray at the death.

The Phoenix could only manage a draw in their title chase. Brian's team had to come from behind twice at Mega Bucks. Phillipe Coutinho's early screamer was levelled by Santi Cazorla's penalty then Charlie Austin's fourteenth of the season was cancelled by Pablo Zabalaeta's clean. Trusted are still looming up on the rails. A rare Victor Moses goal (from the spot) made it 2-2 at the Stade de Fromage and then Joleon Lescott's clean gave beef the three points.

There was another rare goal for FCK2 in their 3-0 win over the Parrots. Scott Sinclair nodded Kevin in front and Harry Kane's goal deep in stoppage time doubled the advantage. The Muppets round out the top half after beating YTFIB 4-2. Two goals in four second-half minutes through Esteban Cambiasso and Raheem Sterling turned the score in Ryan's favour and Alberto Moreno's clean made things safe.

The Nil Satis strike partnership of Steven Naismith and Nikica Jelavic got the goals that were the beating of the Artisans while Final Fantasy and the CFJs played out a goalless draw.

FA Cup quarter-final results

The top four in the league all go through... spooky!

Athletico Phoenix 2 v 1 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 2 v 0 The Fabulous Artisans
San Dimas High School 2 v 4 Claymore Athletic FC
YTFIB 1 v 2 Trusted By Millions

Claymore's Sergio Aguero has been slow to recover from injury but seems to be back to his best after two goals helped Clive through. The first put his side into the lead, the second made it 2-2 after Theo Walcott and James Milner had given San Dimas the lead. Cleans won the game for Claymore through Michael Dawson and Branislav Ivanovic (perhaps lucky to still be on the pitch after putting an opponent into what World Wrestling would term a sleeper hold).

It was clean sheets for Fred too in his win against the Artisans. Craig Dawson and Kurt Zouma settling a mostly uneventful match.

Athletico bounced back from their weekend defeat to Nil Satis to knock out the same opponents. A deflected Nikica Jelavic shot put Paul ahead on 22 minutes but Brian turned it round in the last 16 minutes thanks to a debut goal from Dame N'Doye and a Robin van Persie spot-kick, although there was also a spectacular Rob Green goalkeeping performance in this one too.

Trusted edged out YTFIB in the last quarter-final. Steven Gerrard's farewell tour continued with a spot-kick on 53 minutes but Samir Nasri got the equaliser for Julian 14 minutes from time. Just as we looked at booking the replay in our calendars Joleon Lescott got the winning clean for Beef.

The semi-finals are set for midweek 3/4 March.

Week 19 results

The top of the table hot potato is passed back to Claymore. 

Claymore Athletic FC 5 v 1 Aardvark Abacus
Final Fantasy XI 0 v 1 Cheese Makers

Mega Buck Bandits 0 v 2 Real Muppets

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 2 v 0 Athletico Phoenix

The Cow-Faced Juniors 2 v 3 FCK2

The Dead Parrots 0 v 1 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI

Trusted By Millions 0 v 2 San Dimas High School

YTFIB 1 v 2 The Fabulous Artisans


	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Claymore Athletic FC	19	10	6	3	54	30	24	36
2	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	19	10	6	3	49	28	21	36
3	Athletico Phoenix	19	11	1	7	49	31	18	34
4	Trusted By Millions	19	9	4	6	32	31	1	31
5	San Dimas High School	19	9	4	6	31	39	-8	31
6	FCK2	19	8	6	5	35	29	6	30
7	Aardvark Abacus	19	10	0	9	28	43	-15	30
8	The Cow-Faced Juniors	19	7	5	7	47	39	8	26
9	Real Muppets	19	8	2	9	35	33	2	26
10	The Dead Parrots	19	8	1	10	27	29	-2	25
11	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	19	7	4	8	37	43	-6	25
12	Final Fantasy XI	19	7	4	8	26	34	-8	25
13	The Fabulous Artisans	19	7	2	10	30	39	-9	23
14	Mega Buck Bandits	19	5	4	10	29	33	-4	19
15	Cheese Makers	19	4	7	8	24	28	-4	19
16	YTFIB	19	3	2	14	20	44	-24	11

No sooner had Athletico made it to the top of the table than they suddenly developed vertigo and lost to Nil Satis. Claymore are back on top after stuffing the Aardvarks 5-1. The small consolation for Ady is his first league goal since Week 14.

Fred is kept off the top on goal difference after Eden Hazard gave him the win over the Parrots. Trusted are still fourth but their good run came to an end with defeat to San Dimas, My team now level on points with Beef's.

FCK2's young English frontline of Danny Ings and Harry Kane got the goals to beat the CFJs 3-2. Real Muppets finally going the right way and notched a third straight win - 2-0 against Mega Bucks.

YTFIB's recovery has stuttered and they went down 2-1 to the Artisans, Martin Skrtel's clean was the decider. Matthew finally got a first win since week 10. He may not have the secret but he had the Ki in the 66th minute for the only goal against Final Fantasy.

Week 18 Results

With the top two both drawing the Phoenix take over at the top - but watch out for Trusted.

Aardvark Abacus 0 v 6 Real Muppets

Athletico Phoenix 3 v 0 Cheese Makers

Claymore Athletic FC 2 v 2 Final Fantasy XI

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 2 v 2 FCK2

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 0 v 4 The Cow-Faced Juniors

San Dimas High School 5 v 4 The Fabulous Artisans
The Dead Parrots 1 v 0 YTFIB

Trusted By Millions 2 v 0 Mega Buck Bandits


	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Athletico Phoenix	18	11	1	6	49	29	20	34
2	Claymore Athletic FC	18	9	6	3	49	29	20	33
3	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	18	9	6	3	48	28	20	33
4	Trusted By Millions	18	9	4	5	32	29	3	31
5	Aardvark Abacus	18	10	0	8	27	38	-11	30
6	San Dimas High School	18	8	4	6	29	39	-10	28
7	FCK2	18	7	6	5	32	27	5	27
8	The Cow-Faced Juniors	18	7	5	6	45	36	9	26
9	The Dead Parrots	18	8	1	9	27	28	-1	25
10	Final Fantasy XI	18	7	4	7	26	33	-7	25
11	Real Muppets	18	7	2	9	33	33	0	23
12	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	18	6	4	8	35	43	-8	22
13	The Fabulous Artisans	18	6	2	10	28	38	-10	20
14	Mega Buck Bandits	18	5	4	9	29	31	-2	19
15	Cheese Makers	18	3	7	8	23	28	-5	16
16	YTFIB	18	3	2	13	19	42	-23	11

Athletico take advantage of Claymore and Fred not taking maximum points and go top. Brian might be missing Diego Costa but Robin van Persie set him on his way to victory over Cheese Makers. Claymore are second but needed a Joel Robles clean to grab a point against Final Fantasy after Marcin Wasilewski's header put Ceri 2-1 up with ten minutes left.

Fred drew 2-2 as well this week, against FCK2. Kevin was ahead thanks to two more Harry Kane goals but the Gardeners levelled through cleans from Hugo Lloris and Federico Fazio. Trusted's rise continues and they're just three points off the top now. Beef got this one done in the first half. Remy Cabella opened his account five minutes before the break and Mega Bucks defender nodded into his own goal four minutes later.

The Aardvarks' shocking run continued with a 6-0 hammering by the Muppets. Level at the break Ryan ran away with this with goals from Raheem Sterling, Daniel Sturridge and hector Bellerin for the cleans rolled in too. San Dimas are sixth after a Jon Walters hat-trick gave me the edge in a nin-goal thriller against the Artisans.

The CFJs round off the top half after a big win at Nil Satis. Radamel Falcao hasn't got many for Chris but he bundled his side in front on 32 minutes. Mesut Ozil doubled the lead 11 minutes into the second period and there were a couple of cleans as well. YTFIB's recent good run ended with a 1-0 defeat at the Parrots, Mike Williamson with the sole clean.