Week 24 Results

Wins for the top five and heartbreak for Kiran who would have battered everybody else this week.

Aardvark Abacus 5 v 4 The Wateringhole Society
Cheese Makers 1 v 2 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 2 v 1 Claymore Athletic FC
Real Muppets 4 v 1 Athletico Phoenix
The Cow-Faced Juniors 4 v 0 Markian United
The Fabulous Artisans 1 v 1 Mega Buck Bandits
Trusted By Millions 2 v 3 San Dimas High School
Wheel Madrid 2 v 3 YTFIB


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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Cow-Faced Juniors	24	16	4	4	56	22	34	52
2	Aardvark Abacus	24	14	5	5	58	31	27	47
3	Real Muppets	24	12	9	3	70	38	32	45
4	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	24	14	3	7	67	46	21	45
5	San Dimas High School	24	12	5	7	52	51	1	41
6	The Fabulous Artisans	24	10	7	7	48	43	5	37
7	Claymore Athletic FC	24	10	5	9	52	41	11	35
8	Trusted By Millions	24	11	2	11	53	45	8	35
9	Markian United	24	9	4	11	40	45	-5	31
10	Cheese Makers	24	9	4	11	33	45	-12	31
11	Athletico Phoenix	24	9	2	13	40	49	-9	29
12	YTFIB	24	8	5	11	32	53	-21	29
13	Mega Buck Bandits	24	8	3	13	37	49	-12	27
14	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	24	8	1	15	29	40	-11	25
15	Wheel Madrid	24	6	2	16	29	55	-26	20
16	The Wateringhole Society	24	4	3	17	25	68	-43	15

Five points ahead, six games to go. The CFJs close in on their second title following a 4-0 thrashing of Markian. A goal and a clean from Shkodran Mustafi among the highlights. Bigger problems for Markian are the injuries to Kane and Sigurdsson. The Aardvarks are the closest pursuers after an astonishing game against the Wateringhole Society. Kiran was four nil up inside half an hour with Kenedy and Rashford scoring two each. Ady’s struck back in the last half hour, two goals from Son, one from Tosun, a saved penalty from Cech and a clean from Kompany turning things round.

The Muppets stay third after a comeback of their own. OK, that was only 1-0 down to the Phoenix but Ryan pulled out four clean sheets at the death. Fred, behind Ryan on goal difference, was also behind (against Cheese Makers) but not for long. Stanislas opened the scoring for Matthew on seven minutes, Rondon equalised a minute later and Dele Alli won it with his 35th minute strike.

David Silva put San Dimas two ahead with his brace but Trusted were back level thanks to own goals from Bailly and Bong. Ashley Barnes screamer eventually won the game for me. The Artisans are sixth but needed a clean to get a point off Mega Bucks after Aubameyang reduced his pounds per goal ratio from 58m to 29m.

Claymore can kiss a top three finish goodbye after losing to bluenose rivals Nil Satis. Mkhitaryan opened the scoring for Paul S on 77 minutes but Clive levelled in injury time when Aurier popped up on the left to equalise. The win came when Seamus Coleman got his first clean of the season for Nil Satis. YTFIB are still eyeing a rare top ten finish after beating Wheel Madrid 3-2. Paul W looked to have this under control thanks to goals from Ritchie and Vardy but Iborra got one back in stoppage time and Pope and Olsson provided the winning cleans.

FA Cup semi-final draw

I took the yellow bag to the pub for a Friday night out. James and Simon did the draw in the Biplob, Ben and Brian watched on.

The names came out thusly…

Claymore Athletic FC v Aardvark Abacus
San Dimas High School v The Fabulous Artisans

Games are scheduled for 17 March.

Week 23 Results

Results going the CFJs way.

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


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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Cow-Faced Juniors	23	15	4	4	52	22	30	49
2	Aardvark Abacus	23	13	5	5	53	27	26	44
3	Real Muppets	23	11	9	3	66	37	29	42
4	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	23	13	3	7	65	45	20	42
5	San Dimas High School	23	11	5	7	49	49	0	38
6	The Fabulous Artisans	23	10	6	7	47	42	5	36
7	Claymore Athletic FC	23	10	5	8	51	39	12	35
8	Trusted By Millions	23	11	2	10	51	42	9	35
9	Markian United	23	9	4	10	40	41	-1	31
10	Cheese Makers	23	9	4	10	32	43	-11	31
11	Athletico Phoenix	23	9	2	12	39	45	-6	29
12	Mega Buck Bandits	23	8	2	13	36	48	-12	26
13	YTFIB	23	7	5	11	29	51	-22	26
14	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	23	7	1	15	27	39	-12	22
15	Wheel Madrid	23	6	2	15	27	52	-25	20
16	The Wateringhole Society	23	4	3	16	21	63	-42	15

Seven games to go - the CFJs are five points clear. Chris and Co. saw off bottom side Wateringhole 3-0, Mike van der Hoorn got a header and there were cleans from Davies and Janmaat, while their nearest rivals faltered. Fred’s charge up the table was halted by the Aardvarks who are now second. Cent Tosun got his first WSFFL goal, an unmarked header, after 20 minutes to put Ady in front and Son Heung-Min doubled the lead on 27 minutes. Fred got one back before the break, Mo Salah found space to slot in, but Son restored the two goal lead nine minutes after half-time guiding a header in following a pin-point cross. Nemanja Matic put the icing on Ady’s win cake when smashing in in injury time.

The Muppets also slipped to defeat to lose ground, going down to San Dimas. Ryan was in front through Sadio Mane on 55 minutes but the lead lasted less than 60 seconds after Ashley Barnes outpaced the defence to get my team level. Romelu Lukaku fired in with 15 minutes left to put San Dimas in front and Sebastian Prodl’s clean rounded things out 3-1 in my favour. The Artisans and Claymore are sixth and seventh respectively after neither team found the breakthrough in their match-up.

Trusted are bottom of the top half after seeing off YTFIB 3-0. A goalless first half was followed by a goal after 46 seconds in the second, Bernardo Silva arriving at the back post to put Beef ahead. Julian’s side failed to lay a glove on Beef’s team who also picked up cleans from Otamendi and Alexander-Arnold. The ‘Nationwide derby’ went to Markian with a 2-0 win over Wheel Madrid. Chris Smalling’s header broke the deadlock on 55 minutes and Luke Shaw’s clean finished it in the home team’s favour.

Mega Bucks and Cheese Makers played out an entertaining 3-3 draw. Matthew was two up in 26 minutes - Ki’s early daisy-cutter followed by Glenn Murray’s header - but Dave got a lifeline two minutes before the break when league record signing Pierre-Emerich Aubameyang (do I have to write all that every time he scores?) flicked in. Troy Deeney raced away on 77 minutes to put the Cheesers 3-1 up only for Michail Antonio’s turn and shot to reduce the deficit a minute later. Dave had the last word thanks to Matt Lowton’s substitute clean earning him a point. Paul S had promised his team a slap-up meal if they extended their winning streak but Nil Satis went home hungry after being beaten 4-0 at Athletico. Jordan Ayew’s penalty midway through the second half got Brian’s team on their way and a Riyad Mahrez bending free-kick deep into injury time was quickly followed by cleans from van Dijk and Vertonghen to make it 4-0.