Week 26 Results

It’s down to the top two now. Probably. 

Aardvark Abacus 3 v 2 Wheel Madrid

Athletico Phoenix 0 v 0 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

Cheese Makers 2 v 4 San Dimas High School

FCK2 1 v 4 The Fabulous Artisans

The Cow-Faced Juniors 5 v 3 Claymore Athletic FC

The Wateringhole Society 3 v 1 Mega Buck Bandits

Trusted By Millions 1 v 2 Real Muppets

YTFIB 1 v 3 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI

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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	26	18	0	8	76	52	24	54
2	Real Muppets	26	14	6	6	42	33	9	48
3	The Cow-Faced Juniors	26	14	2	10	77	54	23	44
4	The Fabulous Artisans	26	13	5	8	51	41	10	44
5	Wheel Madrid	26	13	5	8	50	48	2	44
6	Athletico Phoenix	26	10	10	6	54	44	10	40
7	Trusted By Millions	26	11	6	9	50	40	10	39
8	San Dimas High School	26	11	5	10	61	57	4	38
9	Cheese Makers	26	11	4	11	41	49	-8	37
10	Mega Buck Bandits	26	11	3	12	49	44	5	36
11	Aardvark Abacus	26	10	6	10	43	42	1	36
12	Claymore Athletic FC	26	11	3	12	59	63	-4	36
13	The Wateringhole Society	26	4	11	11	30	52	-22	23
14	FCK2	26	6	4	16	35	52	-17	22
15	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	26	6	4	16	34	53	-19	22
16	YTFIB	26	6	4	16	42	70	-28	22

With four tougher games coming up there was no room for error for Fred this week. He did trail to YTFIB for more than an hour, Marco Arnautovic firing in from the edge of the box for Julian on six minutes, but Leroy Sane struck on the break after 77 minutes to level it up and Lloris and Rojo got the cleans to get the Gardeners closer to the title. The Muppets are keeping him honest though after victory at Trusted. Moussa Dembele was given too much room and crashed in his first of the season from an early corner and an unlucky Ben Mee own goal took Ryan’s team out of reach.

The CFJs are third after just about officially ending Clive’s bid for the runner-up spot. These two high-scoring teams produced a high-scoring game with Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil putting contract doubts aside to score for the CFJs. Claymore did lead 3-2 with ten minutes left after Sergio Aguero’s close range header found the target but Fabio Borini got his first of the season for the Howells late on and cleans from Janmaat and Davies saw the CFJs home. The Artisans finished third last year and might get on the honours board this time round too. Ben’s team saw off FCK2 4-1 with Etienne Capoue cashing in on a defensive mistake and Christian Benteke’s towering header taking him into double figures for the season.

Wheel Madrid fell back after losing to the awakening Aardvarks. All the goals came in a six-minute spell Phil Jagielka and a deflected Ander Herrera shot had Ady two up, Paul hit back through Alvaro Negredo and Jamie Vardy but was only level for three minutes before Vincent Kompany headed the winner. I’ve mentioned The Wateringhole Society equalling the league’s draw record this season, well Athletico are only one behind after drawing with Nil Satis. The Ox did his best to win it for Brian late on but the point keeps Paul S off the bottom. For now.

A host of cleans helped San Dimas leapfrog Cheese Makers and into the top half. Matthew’s men had led through Robert Huth’s early header, Romelu Lukaku got his customary goal for me but Vincent Janssen looked to have won it for the home side in injury time before my cleans were counted. The Wateringhole Society leat to 13th after halting Mega Bucks fantastic recent run. Kiran’s team finished this in 26 minutes. Andre Ayew scored after five minutes when a misplaced shot fell to him eight yards out, Marcus Rashford raced away from Dave’s defence two minutes later and then Wahbi Khazri curled in his first of the season straight from a corner.