Week 27 Results

Fred can tie up the title when we come back after the Cup final.

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


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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	27	19	3	5	80	37	43	60
2	Aardvark Abacus	27	17	3	7	60	42	18	54
3	Athletico Phoenix	27	12	8	7	53	37	16	44
4	The Wateringhole Society	27	13	4	10	53	50	3	43
5	The Fabulous Artisans	27	13	3	11	52	56	-4	42
6	Real Muppets	27	13	2	12	59	49	10	41
7	San Dimas High School	27	11	6	10	58	46	12	39
8	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	27	11	4	12	58	56	2	37
9	Claymore Athletic FC	27	10	7	10	47	53	-6	37
10	The Cow-Faced Juniors	27	11	3	13	50	57	-7	36
11	Wheel Madrid	27	11	2	14	56	61	-5	35
12	Trusted By Millions	27	10	3	14	54	55	-1	33
13	Mega Buck Bandits	27	9	6	12	47	49	-2	33
14	Cheese Makers	27	9	5	13	43	54	-11	32
15	Markian United	27	10	2	15	46	68	-22	32
16	YTFIB	27	5	3	19	25	71	-46	18

Like a Great White Shark, Fred has smelt blood in the water of the league table and gone in for the kill. His team beat the Wateringhole 4-1 and leads by six points with three games to go. Lucas Moura’s hat-trick did the damage this week, two of them coming late in the game to douse any hopes Kiran might have had of a comeback. Mo Salah wasn’t to be outdone though, he thumped in his 17th of the season from outside the box to make it 2-0. The Aardvarks kept their faint hopes of catching Fred alive with a 2-2 draw at Nil Satis. Two Paul Pogpa penalties looked to have given Paul S all the points but Ady hit back for a point thanks to cleans from Chris Mepham and Jamaal Lascelles.

Kiran’s defeat means he’s given up third place to the Phoenix. Brian’s team ran riot at ‘The Rock’ putting six past Markian. Nathan Redmond starred in the first half hour, making great runs and scoring twice, Chris Wood took over after that scoring headers two of his own. Ryan Babel dinked one in and Virgil van Dijk added a clean to keep his nose in front in the player of the season race. Markian appear to be not just on the beach but on a lilo drifting about a mile and a half offshore. The Muppets put away a determined Cheese Makers side 4-2 to go sixth. Raheem Sterling lifted over the keeper after a quarter of an hour and it was still 1-0 at the break. Sadio Mane’s unmarked header six minutes into the second half made it 2-0 but Matthew hit straight back with Ryan Fraser’s looped finish. Sterling again and Luka Milivojevic (a free-kick this week) took the game away from the Dairymen (new nickname alert - let me know if you hate it Matthew and I’ll stop using it) before Junior Stanislas finished off a late breakaway in reply.

My defeat to Trusted has probably finished my chances of finishing in the top four for the first time since 2004/5. A powerful Willy Boly header saw me a goal to the good at half-time but it all turned round in the second period. Tom Cairney’s first of the season made Beef level straight after the break, Gabriel Jesus took his time and found the bottom corner in the very las minute and Ben Mee’s clean finished the game. Wheels and Mega Bucks finished level at one apiece. P-E Aubameyang opened the scoring for Dave on 10 minutes after the Wheels keeper lashed a clearance straight into the forward closing him down. Ayoze Perez’s terrific glancing header made it one each just after the half hour.

The CFJs and Claymore both seemed to have an eye on the upcoming Cup Final. The CFJs drew 1-1 with bottom-placed YTFIB, Filipe Anderson stretching in at the far post for Chris after 49 minutes, David Brooks replying for Julian 25 minutes later. Claymore and the Artisans played out a goalless draw where nothing happened at all. Tell a lie, there were two substitutions.