Week 24 Results

Another defeat for Fred. Another week of the chasers not taking advantage.

Aardvark Abacus 4 v 3 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI

Cheese Makers 2 v 0 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

FCK2 1 v 2 San Dimas High School

Real Muppets 0 v 2 Mega Buck Bandits

The Cow-Faced Juniors 4 v 3 Athletico Phoenix

The Wateringhole Society 2 v 2 Wheel Madrid

Trusted By Millions 3 v 3 The Fabulous Artisans

YTFIB 1 v 2 Claymore Athletic FC

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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	24	16	0	8	70	51	19	48
2	Real Muppets	24	13	5	6	39	31	8	44
3	Wheel Madrid	24	12	5	7	46	45	1	41
4	The Cow-Faced Juniors	24	13	1	10	71	50	21	40
5	The Fabulous Artisans	24	12	4	8	46	39	7	40
6	Trusted By Millions	24	11	6	7	49	36	13	39
7	Athletico Phoenix	24	10	8	6	53	43	10	38
8	Cheese Makers	24	11	4	9	39	42	-3	37
9	San Dimas High School	24	10	5	9	55	49	6	35
10	Claymore Athletic FC	24	11	2	11	55	57	-2	35
11	Mega Buck Bandits	24	10	3	11	46	41	5	33
12	Aardvark Abacus	24	8	6	10	34	38	-4	30
13	FCK2	24	6	4	14	34	46	-12	22
14	YTFIB	24	6	3	15	39	65	-26	21
15	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	24	6	2	16	32	51	-19	20
16	The Wateringhole Society	24	3	10	11	26	50	-24	19

A third defeat in four in the league leaves Fred reeling like a punch-drunk prizefighter - but his opponents are unable to deliver a knockout blow. When Dele Alli put the leaders 3-2 up with two minutes to go all looked well in the Gardeners’ garden but a goal from Son and a Monreal clean turned the game on its head and gave the win to the Aardvarks. (Fixture Stat No. 1 - Fred’s last four games are against teams in the current top six). The Muppets missed the chance to close with defeat to Mega Bucks. Phillipe Coutinho in the first half and Josh King late on have Dave easing away from the bottom four.

Wheel Madrid led twice but ultimately had to settle for a draw with draw specialists The Wateringhole Society. Negredo and Vardy goals cancelled by a first for Niang and a clean from Keane. (Fixture Stat No.2 - Kiran’s last three games are against the other members of the bottom four). Have the CFJs left their charge too late? They inflicted the first league defeat of 2017 on Athletico thanks to cleans from Mustafi and Janmaat after Brian had led 3-2 with five minutes left.

The Artisans and Trusted played out a 3-3 draw which keeps them both on the outskirts of the title race. Beef was 2-0 up after 14 minutes through Afobe and Markovic but needed a Mee clean to get a point after Origi, Yoshidi and Eriksen had given Ben a sniff of all three points. Cheese Makers added to Nil Satis’ woes with a 2-0 win. Troy Deeney just after the break and a Robert Huth clean gave Matthew the points and make it five without troubling the scorers for Paul.

Maarten de Roon’s first for San Dimas and one from Theo Walcott gave me enough of a buffer to hold on against FCK2 while Claymore made it out wins out of nine in the league. YTFIB were Clive’s victims this time but the Swordsmen needed Cathcart’s clean after Zlatan’s penalty looked like grabbing a point for Julian.