Week 28 Results

The CFJs still need a point.

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


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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Cow-Faced Juniors	28	18	6	4	67	28	39	60
2	Aardvark Abacus	28	16	6	6	65	36	29	54
3	Real Muppets	28	13	11	4	78	47	31	50
4	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	28	15	4	9	80	59	21	49
5	The Fabulous Artisans	28	14	7	7	59	46	13	49
6	San Dimas High School	28	13	5	10	59	61	-2	44
7	Claymore Athletic FC	28	12	7	9	61	47	14	43
8	Trusted By Millions	28	13	3	12	58	51	7	42
9	Markian United	28	11	5	12	44	47	-3	38
10	Athletico Phoenix	28	11	2	15	46	54	-8	35
11	Mega Buck Bandits	28	9	5	14	49	59	-10	32
12	Cheese Makers	28	9	5	14	35	51	-16	32
13	YTFIB	28	8	7	13	38	63	-25	31
14	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	28	8	4	16	33	46	-13	28
15	Wheel Madrid	28	8	2	18	35	65	-30	26
16	The Wateringhole Society	28	5	3	20	27	74	-47	18

The CFJs are keeping the engraver waiting. Another chance to tie up the title has gone begging.

It might have been worse for Chris and Sons too as their team trailed 2-0 to Mega Bucks, first half goals from Wilf Zaha and Josh King doing it for Dave. Clean sheets from Ben Davies and Shane Duffy grabbed a point that may prove important in the final reckoning. The Aardvarks are still in with a chance of what seemed a very unlikely Double recently after beating Cheese Makers 3-1. This was another game that changed late on. Cenk Tosun fired Ady ahead six minutes before the break but Marouane Fellaini looked to have grabbed a share of the points for Matthew with an injury time header. Cleans from Emerson and Phil Jagielka gave the Aardvarks the win and keep the pressure on at the top.

The Muppets’ title dream is over for another year though. A strange set of results could have got it done for Ryan but he needed to win his last three and tripped up at Markian. A first of the season from James McArthur, yet another from Harry Kane, and Fernandinho finishing off a sweeping move had the home side three up and Ryan could only reply with a James Tarkowski clean. Fred hasn’t given up on getting back on the league honours board and battered Wheel Madrid 5-0 to show his intent. Leroy Sane and Dele Alli scored in a four minute first-half burst to get the game under control, three clean sheets put a gloss on the scoreline.

The Artisans have finished 3rd and 2nd in the past two seasons and are still chasing a top three place this time thanks to a late comeback at Athletico. Ruben Loftus-Cheek opened the scoring for Brian with less than ten minutes left but Patrick van Aanholt soon equalised and it was left to Christian Benteke to win the game with a falling over 90th minute penalty. A four goal first-half has put Clive hot on the heels of their opponents San Dimas for sixth place. Cesc Fabregas curled in early for Claymore, Dusan Tadic was the only person to score twice this week, either side of Matt Phillips pulling one back for me, and Aaron Cresswell curled in a free-kick just before the break. My two cleans weren’t enough to get back on terms and I’m now looking over my shoulder at Claymore…

… and Trusted who are also in the sixth place race after edging the Wateringhole Society 1-0. The only goal came from Gabriel Jesus, knocking in from close range on 53 minutes. YTFIB and Nil Satis scrapped out a 1-1 draw. Henrik Mkhitarayan looked to have won the game with his shot from outside the box but James Milner got the clean for Julian that shared the points.