Week 20 Results

A big defeat for the leaders, two big wins down at the bottom

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


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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Cow-Faced Juniors	20	13	3	4	45	19	26	42
2	Real Muppets	20	11	7	2	61	30	31	40
3	Aardvark Abacus	20	11	4	5	44	23	21	37
4	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	20	11	3	6	55	39	16	36
5	San Dimas High School	20	10	4	6	42	43	-1	34
6	Claymore Athletic FC	20	10	3	7	49	35	14	33
7	Trusted By Millions	20	10	1	9	44	37	7	31
8	The Fabulous Artisans	20	9	4	7	43	40	3	31
9	Athletico Phoenix	20	8	2	10	33	40	-7	26
10	YTFIB	20	7	5	8	28	45	-17	26
11	Markian United	20	7	4	9	36	38	-2	25
12	Cheese Makers	20	7	3	10	24	37	-13	24
13	Mega Buck Bandits	20	7	1	12	32	44	-12	22
14	Wheel Madrid	20	5	2	13	25	48	-23	17
15	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	20	5	1	14	22	33	-11	16
16	The Wateringhole Society	20	4	3	13	20	52	-32	15

The CFJs lost for the second week running but with the Muppets drawing for the second week running there’s still a gap at the top.

Chris.s team went down to the now third-place Aardvarks. Nacho Monreal arrived unnoticed at the far post to give Ady an interval lead and Jack Stephens (back heel) and Jamal Lascelles (header) added goals from set-pieces in the space of two second-half minutes with Ben Davies’ clean the only CFJ reply. The lead is two points as Fred and Ryan played out a 2-2 draw. Emre Can opened the scoring with a long-ranger that took a nick of a deflection and ripped home on 26 minutes. Andreas Christensen bagged an early clean to square things up and Kevin de Bruyne put the Muppets ahead on 68 minutes.  Fred was level ten minutes later through Mo Salah’s spot-kick and tat’s the way it stayed.

San Dimas stay fifth after going down 3-0 to the Artisans. Christian Eriksen got Ben’s first after 11 seconds or something silly like that, Christian Benteke powers home a header on 24 minutes and then Roberto Firmino squeezed in a shot at the near post in first half injury time. Not my best week. First Mark E Smith dies, now this. Claymore are in sixth after a draw with Markian. The goals came late in this one. Markian went ahead after an unlucky rebound went in off Karl Darlow with five minutes left. The ever-reliable Sergio Aguero made surety points were shared with a cool dink over the keeper four minutes later.

Trusted needed a couple of cleans to beat Mega Bucks and stay seventh. Mark Noble had given Dave the lead from the spot just before the break but Beef has Nicolas Otamendi and Ryan Shawcross to thank for the win. YTFIB’s top ten dreams are still on after a win over Athletico. Nick Pope’s penalty save put Julian ahead just after the half-hour but a keeping blunder allowed Jordan Ayew an easy opportunity to equalise on the hour. A clean from Joe Gomez was the decider in Julian’s favour.

Wheel Madrid have been sucked into the battle at the bottom but a win at Cheese Makers will help lift the mood. Callum Wilson seems to be tuning to fitness and raced away from the Cheese back-line to open the scoring on 51 minutes. Junior Stanislas did similar 13 minutes later to net his first of the season and level the scores but Jamie Vardy’s penalty soon had Wheels back in front. Simon Francis’ clean finished the scoring in Paul’s W favour. The Wateringhole Society beat Nil Satis 1-0 to close the gap at the foot of the table to a single point. Erik Pieters’ clean was the only score of the game. Paul S will be wondering why he didn’t give Theo Walcott his debut.