Week Nine Results

The top two draw, the next two lose.

Athletico Phoenix 3 v 1 Aardvark Abacus
Claymore Athletic FC 1 v 0 The Cow-Faced Juniors
Markian United 1 v 4 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 2 v 3 Wheel Madrid
Real Muppets 3 v 3 Trusted By Millions
San Dimas High School 3 v 1 Cheese Makers
The Wateringhole Society 1 v 3 The Fabulous Artisans
YTFIB 3 v 2 Mega Buck Bandits


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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Real Muppets	9	6	3	0	32	15	17	21
2	Trusted By Millions	9	6	1	2	27	13	14	19
3	The Cow-Faced Juniors	9	5	3	1	22	9	13	18
4	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	9	5	1	3	23	19	4	16
5	Aardvark Abacus	9	4	3	2	23	11	12	15
6	San Dimas High School	9	4	3	2	19	24	-5	15
7	Claymore Athletic FC	9	4	1	4	21	17	4	13
8	The Fabulous Artisans	9	4	1	4	17	20	-3	13
9	YTFIB	9	4	1	4	13	17	-4	13
10	Athletico Phoenix	9	4	1	4	14	20	-6	13
11	Mega Buck Bandits	9	3	1	5	15	14	1	10
12	Markian United	9	3	1	5	13	19	-6	10
13	Wheel Madrid	9	3	1	5	12	21	-9	10
14	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	9	3	0	6	12	13	-1	9
15	Cheese Makers	9	2	1	6	9	19	-10	7
16	The Wateringhole Society	9	1	0	8	12	33	-21	3

The Muppets looked to be going five points clear as they raced to a 3-0 lead over Trusted. It was a goalless first half but Daniel Sturridge and Luka Milivojevic scored within a minute of each other and new ‘Fox in the Box’ Raheem Sterling made it three from close in on 64 minutes. Beef’s team weren’t taking that lying down and found three cleans from Ben Mee, Phil Jones and Ryan Shawcross to grab a point at the last. The CFJs could have gone joint top with a win at Claymore but lost to Davide Zappacosta’s first clean for Clive.

Fred are up to fourth after a big win at Markian. Leroy Sane for Fred and Fernandinho for Markian scored within five minutes of each other in the first half to send the game in at 1-1 at the break. Eden Hazard put the champions back in front six minutes after the break and this time there was no reply and Kurt Zouma and Cesar Azpilicueta added the gloss to the scoreline. The Aardvarks missed a chance to close on the top, losing 3-1 at Athletico. Steven Davis had given Ady the lead too on seven minutes, quickest to follow-up an effort that hit the bar. Brian got back on terms through Demarai Gray (a little fortuitously perhaps) and Anthony Martial smashed the Kingham club ahead with ten minutes left. Harry Maguire completed the scoring in Athletico’s favour.

My team’s form had been a bit shoddy lately and I trailed to the Cheese Makers as the game headed into injury time. Glenn Murray’s first for Matthew had headed his team in front on 52 minutes but a slack piece of defending two minutes into injury time allowed Matt Phillips to steal in and equalise before Simon Mignolet and Antonio Rudiger got the cleans to give San Dimas the points. The Artisans are eighth after beating the union tenants at Goddard Park 3-1. The Wateringhole Society have been unlucky in defeat in recent weeks but a bit less so this time. Chicarito put Ben ahead on the half hour, Roberto Firmino and Gio Wijnaldum added second half efforts before Erik Pieters clean was Kiran’s only reply.

YTFIB are up to ninth! Julian’s team beat Dave’s 3-2 this week. Darren Fletcher’s training ground volley from a corner put YTFIB ahead but Dave turned it round deep in injury time with Wilfried Zaha’s strike adding to an earlier goal from Sead Kolasinac. Julian had cleans from Joe Gomez and Christian Fuchs for a late twist and the win. It was a five-goal thriller in the game between the two Pauls that aren’t me. Paul W was two up inside twenty minutes through Jay Rodriguez and Jamie Vardy but Paul W hit back with a saved pen from Jonas Lossl and a goal from Aaron Ramsey. The winner came for Paul W on 74 minutes when Jef Hendrick was given time to control and smash in from the corner of the six-yard box.