Week 29 Results

Three teams still in the running for third place, plenty battling to get into the top half.

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


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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	29	20	4	5	86	40	46	64
2	Aardvark Abacus	29	18	3	8	66	46	20	57
3	Athletico Phoenix	29	13	8	8	58	40	18	47
4	Real Muppets	29	15	2	12	63	50	13	47
5	The Wateringhole Society	29	14	5	10	57	52	5	47
6	The Fabulous Artisans	29	13	4	12	54	60	-6	43
7	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	29	12	5	12	62	58	4	41
8	Wheel Madrid	29	13	2	14	63	63	0	41
9	San Dimas High School	29	11	7	11	60	51	9	40
10	Claymore Athletic FC	29	11	7	11	50	57	-7	40
11	The Cow-Faced Juniors	29	12	3	14	53	61	-8	39
12	Cheese Makers	29	11	5	13	50	54	-4	38
13	Mega Buck Bandits	29	9	6	14	49	54	-5	33
14	Trusted By Millions	29	10	3	16	54	62	-8	33
15	Markian United	29	10	2	17	46	74	-28	32
16	YTFIB	29	5	4	20	27	76	-49	19

As first and second are sorted let’s start lower down for a change. Not that much lower down, the race for third.

Athletico missed a chance to just about tie it up when they lost at home to the CFJs. Brian’s team were two up with a quarter of an hour left, Virgil van Dijk had smacked in a header from a corner early on and Gonzalo Higuain produced a cute finish to double the led. The Cows came back to win with three cleans from Kepa, Fabian Balbuena and Aymeric Laporte - a top half place is still possible. The Muppets and the Wateringhole joined Athletico on 47 points. Ryan’s team beat Markian, cleans from Ederson and Toby Alderweireld doing the job and leaving Markian six matches without scoring. The Society left it late to turn round a deficit against Mega Bucks. P-E Aubameyang scored a penalty for Dave inside 10 minutes and it took Kiran to the end of the game to break his resistance. Nathan Ake headed in in injury time then added a clean, along with Michael Keane, to get the win.

Defeat for the Artisans finished their charge for third after Nil Satis won 3-1 at Goddard Park. Seamus Coleman was on hand to head Paul in front after 20 minutes following Ben’s keeper palming a shot into his path. Andros Townsend fired in off a post with 20 minutes left to make it two and though Divock Origi’s header pulled one back late on for the Artisans Coleman restored the advantage with a clean. Wheel Madrid are in the last top half place after a 4-0 thrashing of Trusted. Ben Mee’s own goal* set Trusted off on the wrong foot, David Luiz headed in six minutes after the break (lot of headers this week), Ryan Fredericks got his first WSFFL goal to make it three and Luiz finished it off with a clean.

Cheese Makers have been a bit over-generous with their welcome at home this season but the Fromagers sent their fans home happy for the summer with a 3-0 win over YTFIB. Matthew’s team left it late and it was a three clean sheet win courtesy of Jonny Castro, Issa Diop and Steve Cook. To the top two then - Fred put away San Dimas 4-1, after my team had done the whole Guard of Honour thing too! Mo Salah and Salomon Rondon had the champs two up before Leander Dendoncker replied for me with 15 minutes left but Ryan Bennett and Kurt Zouma had cleans for the Gardeners. Now that the Aardvarks can’t win the title they resumed winning ways by seeing off Claymore 4-1. Martin Kelly steered onto his own net on the half hour to put Ady ahead and even the home fans were applauding Vincent Kompany’s rocket finish that put the Abacus two up. Bobby Reid curled in to get Clive back in it briefly but Kompany and Jordan Pickford had cleans to give Ady the win.