Week 19 Results

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


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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	19	14	2	3	59	27	32	44
2	Aardvark Abacus	19	13	1	5	44	29	15	40
3	The Wateringhole Society	19	11	2	6	39	30	9	35
4	Athletico Phoenix	19	9	5	5	36	27	9	32
5	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	19	9	3	7	39	32	7	30
6	San Dimas High School	19	8	5	6	40	31	9	29
7	Mega Buck Bandits	19	7	5	7	36	33	3	26
8	Real Muppets	19	8	2	9	32	31	1	26
9	Markian United	19	8	2	9	36	45	-9	26
10	Cheese Makers	19	7	3	9	32	42	-10	24
11	The Cow-Faced Juniors	19	7	2	10	38	44	-6	23
12	Claymore Athletic FC	19	6	5	8	32	41	-9	23
13	Trusted By Millions	19	7	1	11	41	44	-3	22
14	The Fabulous Artisans	19	7	1	11	33	49	-16	22
15	Wheel Madrid	19	6	1	12	33	45	-12	19
16	YTFIB	19	4	2	13	19	39	-20	14

Fred and Ady keep ploughing on at the top. The leaders saw off last year’s champions the CFJs 3-1. Salomon Rondon opened the scoring on 66 minutes, hooking in a dropping ball, the CFJs levelled three minutes from time when Fernando Llorente, who’d already missed a couple of sitters, headed in but cleans from Zouma and Bennett saw the Gardeners home. The Aardvarks won by the same score at the Muppets. Ryan’s team took a very early lead through Sadio Mane and it was ten minutes before the end when Ady levelled through Son-Heung Min. A driving run and shot from Alexandre Lacazette put Ady’s team in front and Jordan Pickford’s excellent performance was rewarded with a clean to make it 3-1.

It was a 4-1 win for the Wateringhole Society who are still hanging on to the coat-tails of the top two. The action was all in the last ten minutes in Kiran’s win over Paul W. Matt Ritchie struck a penalty for Wheels but Raul Jimenez replied straight away and dinked over the keeper six minutes later to put the mighty society ahead. Kiran finished things off with cleans from Ake and Keane. Athletico are up to fourth after dismissing the Artisans 4-0, the same score as week 3 when Ben was going through his lean period. All the action here was in the last 15 minutes. James Ward-Prowse kept his recent scoring run going, an unmarked Chris Wood converted a header and Victor Lindelof smashed in a rebound while Leighton Baines picked up a clean sheet against his former club.

Nil Satis are fifth after coming from behind against YTFIB. David Brooks has been Julian’s star of the season and he put his side ahead after 63 minutes. They couldn’t hold on to that lead though and Paul Pogba equalised with three minutes left and Patricio, Coleman and Doherty got the cleans to make it 4-1. San Dimas lost ground after a meek performance and 3-0 defeat to Claymore. Sergio Aguero put Clive’s side ahead after 24 seconds, Craig Cathcart bundled in to make it two before the break and Joe Bryan added a clean.

Markian were pretty meek too as they went down 2-0 to Mega Bucks. Wilf Zaha smashed in at the near post four minutes before half-time to give Dave the lead, P-E Aubameyang bagged a penalty to finish the scoring. Zaha saw red late on to take the shine off the win. Game of the week was the seven goal thriller between Trusted and Cheese Makers. Richarlison and Glenn Murray traded early goals and when Murray prodded in his second after 17 minutes it was 2-1 Cheese. That score lasted into the second half when Alex Mitrovic did a human battering ram impression to score twice in 16 minutes to put Beef’s team 3-2 ahead. While there were no more goals there were two more cleans - Cook and Clyne notched for the Cheese Makers to end the game 4-3 in Matthew’s favour.Wins for five of the top six.

FA Cup Quarter-Final draw

Claymore Athletic FC v  Trusted By Millions
San Dimas High School v Athletico Phoenix
The Cow-Faced Juniors v Aardvark Abacus
YTFIB v Markian United

Those games drawn by former colleagues Aaron (home) and Craig (away) while Ian of Markian made sure everything was above board.

The Aardvarks, Claymore, San Dimas and Trusted have won the FA Cup eleven times between them. The other four quarter-finalists haven’t won it.

Week 18 Results

Wins for five of the top six.

Aardvark Abacus 4 v 2 Mega Buck Bandits
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 6 v 3 The Fabulous Artisans
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 3 v 1 Trusted By Millions
Real Muppets 4 v 0 Claymore Athletic FC
The Cow-Faced Juniors 0 v 5 San Dimas High School
The Wateringhole Society 1 v 1 Cheese Makers
Wheel Madrid 2 v 3 Markian United
YTFIB 1 v 3 Athletico Phoenix


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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	18	13	2	3	56	26	30	41
2	Aardvark Abacus	18	12	1	5	41	28	13	37
3	The Wateringhole Society	18	10	2	6	35	29	6	32
4	San Dimas High School	18	8	5	5	40	28	12	29
5	Athletico Phoenix	18	8	5	5	32	27	5	29
6	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	18	8	3	7	35	31	4	27
7	Real Muppets	18	8	2	8	31	28	3	26
8	Markian United	18	8	2	8	36	43	-7	26
9	Mega Buck Bandits	18	6	5	7	34	33	1	23
10	The Cow-Faced Juniors	18	7	2	9	37	41	-4	23
11	Trusted By Millions	18	7	1	10	38	40	-2	22
12	The Fabulous Artisans	18	7	1	10	33	45	-12	22
13	Cheese Makers	18	6	3	9	28	39	-11	21
14	Claymore Athletic FC	18	5	5	8	29	41	-12	20
15	Wheel Madrid	18	6	1	11	32	41	-9	19
16	YTFIB	18	4	2	12	18	35	-17	14

Fred very much back in business this week with a big win over the Artisans. This was only 1-0 at the break thanks to Ryan Bennett’s header but the game exploded in the ten minutes after half-time. Mo Salah, Dele Alli, and Leroy Sane had all scored for Fred and Roberto Firmino had given Ben a sliver of hope. That hope was soon snuffed out by a long range fluke own goal by Lucas Digne and a scruffy finish from Salah to make it 6-1. Two cleans of no real use to the Artisans reduced the deficit. Ady kept the pressure on the leader courtesy of a 4-2 win in the battle of the Bevans. The Aardvarks were two up inside 14 minutes thanks to Diogo Jota and Alexandre Lacazette. Jota added a second on 64 minutes and although Wes Morgan puled one back for Dave with a late header there was still time for Jota to complete his hat-trick.

The Wateringhole lost ground on the top two after being held by Cheese Makers. Marcus Rashford’s excellent finish just before the interval looked like being the only score until Harry Winks got on the end of a pinpoint cross three minutes into second half injury time to secure Matthew a point. San Dimas are fourth after a big win at the CFJs. Fernando Llorente kneed into his own net to give my team the lead after 17 minutes and the CFJs never recovered. Fabian Schar got his first WSFFL goal (a great solo run from the centre half) to double the lead before the break, Schar added another just after the hour (from close in this time) and Pascal Gross poked in to make it four. Adrian Mariappa’s clean completed the scoring.

Athletico are on the same points as San Dimas after a 3-1 win at YTFIB, all Brian’s goals coming in an 18-minute second half spell. Demarai Gray got the first with an excellent run and placed finish, James Ward-Prowse hit a belter from 20-odd yards and James Tomkins thumped in a header, Julian’s clean from Charlie Taylor was too little, too late. Nil Satis are still hanging around the top end of the table too. Paul S had his win over Trusted wrapped up by half-time courtesy of Danilo’s deflected long-ranger, Paul Pogpa’s penalty and Andros Townsend’s low drive from 16 yards. Beef could only find a Ben Mee clean in reply.

Claymore were on the wrong end of a big defeat for the second week running - 4-0 to the Muppets this time. Laurent Koscielny’s return from injury was celebrated with a goal off his shoulder six minutes before half-time. Raheem Sterling dived to head in from close range nine minutes after the break and Sadio Mane’s goal three minutes into injury time was the pick of the Muppets goals. Koscielny added a clean to round off his good day. The 'Nationwide derby' went to Markian thanks to a late comeback. Wheel Madrid had led twice, Callum Wilson’s brilliant effort broke the deadlock on 53 minutes but Markian levelled when Gylfi Sigurdsson found the far corner a minute into injury time. Paul W must have thought he’d got the win when Ayoze Perez put him back in front two minutes later but Markian had cleans from Ben Foster and DeAndre Yedlin to turn the result on its head.