Week 23 results

Claymore go eight points clear. 

Aardvark Abacus 2 v 2 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

Athletico Phoenix 3 v 0 The Dead Parrots
Cheese Makers 3 v 1 Real Muppets
Claymore Athletic FC 4 v 1 Mega Buck Bandits

FCK2 3 v 1 Final Fantasy XI

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 2 v 0 Trusted By Millions

San Dimas High School 2 v 1 YTFIB

The Fabulous Artisans 4 v 1 The Cow-Faced Juniors


	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Claymore Athletic FC	23	14	6	3	67	34	33	48
2	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	23	11	7	5	52	32	20	40
3	FCK2	23	11	7	5	44	32	12	40
4	Trusted By Millions	23	12	4	7	44	35	9	40
5	Athletico Phoenix	23	12	2	9	55	38	17	38
6	Aardvark Abacus	23	11	2	10	35	50	-15	35
7	San Dimas High School	23	10	4	9	36	47	-11	34
8	Real Muppets	23	10	3	10	44	39	5	33
9	Final Fantasy XI	23	9	5	9	30	37	-7	32
10	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	23	9	5	9	42	52	-10	32
11	The Fabulous Artisans	23	9	3	11	40	45	-5	30
12	The Cow-Faced Juniors	23	7	7	9	50	48	2	28
13	Cheese Makers	23	7	7	9	32	32	0	28
14	The Dead Parrots	23	9	1	13	30	39	-9	28
15	Mega Buck Bandits	23	5	5	13	35	46	-11	20
16	YTFIB	23	3	2	18	24	54	-30	11

Clive is now five wins at most from lifting his second title in four seasons. Olivier Giroud is hitting form at the right time of the season and his brace put Claymore on track. They could even afford Wayne Rooney missing a late penalty against a Mega Bucks team who seem to have forgotten how to win. Fred's back up to second after seeing off Trusted 2-0. A very early Eden Hazard goal was followed up by a not so early Wilfried Bony effort, his first since coming back from the Africa Cup of Nations.

FCK2 have overtaken Beef's team and are now in third. Harry Kane is driving Kevin's rise up the table and notched a perhaps fortuitous hat-trick this week against Final Fantasy. (How was that second not an own goal?) Ceri not helped by a mistaken identity sending-off scenario after two minutes. Athletico are back to winning ways after a lull. Diego Costa found the Parrots net inside ten minutes from an angle but limped off later in the game with a case of international break-itis. Dean had no answer this week and two Phoenix cleans ended any hopes of a comeback.

The Aardvarks had to come back twice to earn a point against Nil Satis. Paul's team had led twice through Seamus Coleman and Bafetimbi Gomis close to the end of the game but first Glenn Murray and then a Ryan Bertrand clean for Ady shared the points. San Dimas looked beaten before a late rally too. Mame Diouf had put YTFIB in front early on but Julian's team were unable to hold out as first Simon Mignolet saved an injury time penalty and then Neil Taylor got the winning clean.

Cheese Makers appear to have woken from their slumbers recently and stopped the Muppets' recent good run. Record signing Juan Mata turning in one of his best performances for Matthew's side. The CFJs aren't usually found as far down the table as 12th but they're on a terrible run. Chris' team finding new ways to disappoint him Jason Shackell kneeing into his own net  in a heavy defeat against the Artisans. Ben's team are picking up at long last and he must be looking forward to next season (and probably has been since October).

Week 22 results

Clive and Beef look like the managers most likely to fight it out the title.

Cheese Makers 1 v 0 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI

FCK2 2 v 1 San Dimas High School

Final Fantasy XI 2 v 0 Aardvark Abacus

Mega Buck Bandits 2 v 4 The Fabulous Artisans

Real Muppets 4 v 1 Athletico Phoenix

The Cow-Faced Juniors 0 v 2 Claymore Athletic FC

Trusted By Millions 3 v 0 The Dead Parrots
YTFIB 0 v 1 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum


	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Claymore Athletic FC	22	13	6	3	63	33	30	45
2	Trusted By Millions	22	12	4	6	44	33	11	40
3	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	22	10	7	5	50	32	18	37
4	FCK2	22	10	7	5	41	31	10	37
5	Athletico Phoenix	22	11	2	9	52	38	14	35
6	Aardvark Abacus	22	11	1	10	33	48	-15	34
7	Real Muppets	22	10	3	9	43	36	7	33
8	Final Fantasy XI	22	9	5	8	29	34	-5	32
9	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	22	9	4	9	40	50	-10	31
10	San Dimas High School	22	9	4	9	34	46	-12	31
11	The Cow-Faced Juniors	22	7	7	8	49	44	5	28
12	The Dead Parrots	22	9	1	12	30	36	-6	28
13	The Fabulous Artisans	22	8	3	11	36	44	-8	27
14	Cheese Makers	22	6	7	9	29	31	-2	25
15	Mega Buck Bandits	22	5	5	12	34	42	-8	20
16	YTFIB	22	3	2	17	23	52	-29	11

Clive probably six wins from the title now after brushing aside the CFJs 3-0. Dusan Tadic and Olivier Giroud got first half goals and Michael Dawson added a clean. Chris's team is sinking without trace at the moment. Trusted are up to second after beating the Parrots by the same scoreline. Jordan Henderson broke the deadlock midway through the second period and Beef's team added two more cleans but are still a long way behind Claymore on the Goal Difference front.

Fred drops to third after defeat at the Stade de Fromage. Brown Ideye got his first of the season with a stooping header on 19 minutes and Matthew's team held on to pull away from the bottom two. FCK2 have joined Fred on 37 points with a 2-1 defeat of San Dimas. Romelu Lukaku did open the scoring for me but two Kevin cleans got the points.

The Phoenix are another team going the wrong way at the moment. Diego Costa did give Brian an early lead but Michael Carrick brought the Muppets level with his first of the season. Three more cleans gave Ryan the win and he'l be wishing his team found this sort of form earlier in the season. Final Fantasy turned over the Aardvarks 2-0 to close within two points of their opponents. George Boyd hit a cracker for Ceri on the hour and Gareth McAuley's clean finished things off.

The Artisans very much have their eye on a top half place after victory at Mega Bucks. This was 2-2 at the break with braces from Gaby Agbonlahor for Dave and Christian Benteke for Ben. The only scores in the second half were Artisans cleans to leave Dave detached from the main pack. YTFIB are further detached still. Julian's good run now seems a long time ago and a 1-0 reverse to Nil Satis is his sixth defeat in a row.

FA Cup semi-final results

The top four played out the semi-finals and the current top two will meet in the final in early May.

Athletico Phoenix 1 v 7 Fred West LandscapeGardening XI
Trusted By Millions 2 v 3 Claymore Athletic FC

Fred notched his biggest ever Cup win over Athletico after a tight first half. Nacer Chadli volleyed Fred ahead on seven minutes but transfer window signing Dame N'Doye back-heeled the Phoenix level eight minutes later. Eden Hazard scored a rare header to put Fred back in front on 22 minutes and then was the end of the scoring until Fred unleashed his army of clean sheets.

Trusted were two up against Claymore through in-form Jordan Henderson and Victor Moses at the break but Clive fought back in the second half. Olivier Giroud poked in on 64 minutes but it was cleans from Maya Yoshida and Alex Kolarov that completed the Claymore victory.

Week 21 Results

Another good week for Claymore.

Aardvark Abacus 2 v 2 The Cow-Faced Juniors

Athletico Phoenix 0 v 1 Final Fantasy XI

Claymore Athletic FC 3 v 1 YTFIB

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 0 v 0 Real Muppets

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 0 v 6 Trusted By Millions

San Dimas High School 0 v 2 Cheese Makers

The Dead Parrots 3 v 1 Mega Buck Bandits

The Fabulous Artisans 1 v 1 FCK2

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Claymore Athletic FC	21	12	6	3	60	33	27	42
2	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	21	10	7	4	50	31	19	37
3	Trusted By Millions	21	11	4	6	41	33	8	37
4	Athletico Phoenix	21	11	2	8	51	34	17	35
5	FCK2	21	9	7	5	39	30	9	34
6	Aardvark Abacus	21	11	1	9	33	46	-13	34
7	San Dimas High School	21	9	4	8	33	44	-11	31
8	Real Muppets	21	9	3	9	39	35	4	30
9	Final Fantasy XI	21	8	5	8	27	34	-7	29
10	The Cow-Faced Juniors	21	7	7	7	49	41	8	28
11	The Dead Parrots	21	9	1	11	30	33	-3	28
12	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	21	8	4	9	39	50	-11	28
13	The Fabulous Artisans	21	7	3	11	32	42	-10	24
14	Cheese Makers	21	5	7	9	28	31	-3	22
15	Mega Buck Bandits	21	5	5	11	32	38	-6	20
16	YTFIB	21	3	2	16	23	51	-28	11

Claymore extend their lead to five points after this week's matches.

Clive dispatched YTFIB 3-1 (two cleans breaking the deadlock), while Fred was held to a goalless draw by the Muppets. Trusted are up to third after thumping Nil Satis by a season-best 6-0 but the Phoenix slip back following defeat to Final Fantasy.

FCK2 lost ground after being held 1-1 by the Artisans and the Aardvarks couldn't make it back-to-back wins. Ady's team pegged back by two CFJs cleans after Glenn Murray had scored twice and been sent off.

Cheese Makers move a place further away from the foot of the table after Kyles Walker (og) and Naughton (Clean) got the counters to beat San Dimas. The Bandits sink to 15th following defeat to the Parrots.