Week 12 Results

Fred slips up but the chasers don’t take advantage.

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

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	12	9	1	2	35	15	20	28
2	San Dimas High School	12	6	4	2	26	15	11	22
3	The Wateringhole Society	12	7	0	5	21	20	1	21
4	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	12	6	2	4	23	21	2	20
5	Aardvark Abacus	12	6	1	5	23	22	1	19
6	Mega Buck Bandits	12	4	5	3	25	20	5	17
7	Markian United	12	5	2	5	23	26	-3	17
8	The Cow-Faced Juniors	12	5	1	6	29	29	0	16
9	Claymore Athletic FC	12	4	4	4	21	21	0	16
10	Trusted By Millions	12	5	1	6	24	25	-1	16
11	Cheese Makers	12	5	1	6	21	22	-1	16
12	Athletico Phoenix	12	4	3	5	19	21	-2	15
13	Wheel Madrid	12	5	0	7	22	28	-6	15
14	Real Muppets	12	4	2	6	17	20	-3	14
15	YTFIB	12	3	2	7	14	22	-8	11
16	The Fabulous Artisans	12	3	1	8	14	30	-16	10

Fred had been serenely easing away at the top of the table but defeat to the Phoenix has slowed his progress. Brian’s team came out of their slumbers with a win last week and made it back-to-back victories through Ruben Loftus-Cheek’s late strike and James Tomkins’ clean. The lead was only narrowed by a point though. San Dimas and Nil Satis played out a 2-2 draw.Pedro’s fourth minute goal (against his former club) put me ahead but Matt Doherty slammed in on 18 to make it 1-1. Romelu Lukaku broke his goal drought on 33 to see me back in front but Andros Townsend had the last word for Paul S.

The curse of Manager of the Month got to Kiran as the Wateringhole Society crashed 3-0 at the Aardvarks. Ady’s team are up to fifth after a rare Ander Herrera goal, a first from Lucas Torreira and a not-so-rare one from Alexandre Lacazette. Ady is currently ‘Top Bevan’, a place above Dave. Mega Bucks blew a 3-goal lead against YTFIB. Zanka scored the fastest goal of the season so far and P-E Aubameyang got two (one from the spot) to become the first player to ten counters this season. That had all happened by 56 minutes, then Julian started playing. Florin Andone got his first WSFFL goal, Junior Hoilett’s belter was his first since week 10 in 2012/13 (Fred propped up the table that week) and Ilkay Gundogan got the equaliser with 11 minutes left.

Markian were another team pegged back this week. Two up by the half hour through James McArthur and a Harry Kane penalty, Claymore left it late to grab a point thanks to cleans from Jonny Evans and Aaron Wan-Bissaka. The CFJs head up four teams on 16 points including this week’s victims Cheese Makers. Matthew’s team have lost four home games 2-0, this one came via a first half injury time goal by Shane Duffy and a second half injury time goal by Felipe Anderson.

Trusted are another team on 16 points following a third straight win. Bernardo Silva’s early goal was cancelled by Raheem Sterling for the Muppets but Beef took the points courtesy of Trent Alexander-Arnold’s clean. Drama of the week was in the Artisans v Wheel Madrid. Paul W led twice, through Jamie Vardy and Callum Wilson but each time Ben hit back, Stuart Armstrong and Chicarito getting on the scoresheet. Divock Origi got the Artisans' winner six minutes into stoppage time after capitalising on a goalkeeping blunder and Ben’s team are within a point of climbing off the bottom of the table.