Week 30 Results and final table

That’s that then. A record-breaking season for Fred.

Aardvark Abacus 1 v 7 The Cow-Faced Juniors
FCK2 3 v 2 Cheese Makers
Mega Buck Bandits 1 v 4 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Real Muppets 4 v 5 Claymore Athletic FC
The Fabulous Artisans 1 v 2 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
The Wateringhole Society 1 v 1 YTFIB
Trusted By Millions 4 v 1 Athletico Phoenix
Wheel Madrid 2 v 5 San Dimas High School


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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	30	22	0	8	89	57	32	66
2	The Fabulous Artisans	30	16	5	9	62	45	17	53
3	Real Muppets	30	15	7	8	51	44	7	52
4	The Cow-Faced Juniors	30	16	2	12	90	63	27	50
5	Trusted By Millions	30	14	6	10	61	47	14	48
6	Claymore Athletic FC	30	15	3	12	75	68	7	48
7	Wheel Madrid	30	14	5	11	56	60	-4	47
8	San Dimas High School	30	13	6	11	71	64	7	45
9	Athletico Phoenix	30	11	10	9	61	57	4	43
10	Aardvark Abacus	30	12	6	12	50	53	-3	42
11	Mega Buck Bandits	30	12	4	14	57	55	2	40
12	Cheese Makers	30	11	6	13	48	58	-10	39
13	FCK2	30	8	4	18	40	60	-20	28
14	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	30	7	5	18	39	60	-21	26
15	The Wateringhole Society	30	4	13	13	32	59	-27	25
16	YTFIB	30	6	6	18	46	78	-32	24

With the title won attention was focused on the fight for the runners-up spot. An Artisans win over Fred would have guaranteed that (and probably POTW and MOTM) for Ben, but he lost. Gio Wijnaldum had fired the Artisans ahead a minute into first half injury time but Dele Alli equalised two minutes into first half injury time. Fred’s other star midfielder, Eden Hazard, got the winner just after the hour. That gave Fred a record-equalling 22 wins this season and had Ben waiting for the Muppets result.

A win for Ryan would have given him second place and Hector Bellerin gave him an early lead over Claymore. Clive’s team have been pretty darn good in the second half of the season and were 5-1 up by the break, Sergio Aguero bagging another brace. Ryan fought back late on but could only narrow the gap to 5-4. The Muppets stay third (their best for six years), the Artisans get second, Fred has a record 13-point winning margin and after losing ten in a row earlier in the campaign Claymore finish an unlikely sixth. The first season in six that he’s been outside the top two.

The CFJs will be wondering how they turned 116 ‘counters’ into only fourth place, 16 points adrift of the top. They were a goal down to the Aardvarks after only five minutes but Willian equalised three minutes later and it was one-way traffic from there with the team spreading the goals and counters around. Ady finishes in the bottom half for the first time since records began.

Wheel Madrid have slipped in the second half of the campaign but end their first season in seventh place after defeat to San Dimas who finish eighth. Jamie Vardy scored against his old club (Bah!) and Adam Lallana made it 2-0 to Wheels. Romelu Lukaku and Victor Wanyama dragged back into it and then clean sheets took me to victory.

Another team who’s second half of the season hasn’t lived up to the first is Athletico. After finishing second and third in the past two seasons Brian’s team find themselves in ninth after defeat to Trusted, despite (or maybe because of the shock of) Jordan Ayew scoring. Clean sheets took Beef’s team to victory after Gabriel Jesus equalised Ayew’s goal but Trusted finish a distant fifth.

Eleventh place is the best finish for Mega Bucks since 2009/10 but Dave’s season ended with defeat to Nil Satis. It was a first win for Paul since week 16 with goals from Pogba, Pedro and Ramsey doing the damage. The win kept Nil Satis from finishing bottom.

That spot going instead to YTFIB for the fourth season running. Julian and Kiran’s game finished as a 1-1 draw, Peter Crouch’s goal for YTFIB cancelled by Andre Ayew’s follow-up. A new record of 13 draws in a season for Kiran will be tough to beat.

Where would FCK2 be without Harry Kane? (Bottom - Ed.) With his team trailing Cheese Makers to a first minute Junior Stanislas goal, Kane set about scoring a hat-trick to secure 13th place. It’s the lowest place this ‘franchise’ has finished. Matthew’s team finish one place above this week’s opponents. They’ve yo-yoed in and out of the top half over the last five seasons so expect them above the line next season.