Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 1 v 5 Mega Buck Bandits
Markian United 0 v 4 The Fabulous Artisans
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 2 v 1 Cheese Makers
Real Muppets 2 v 4 San Dimas High School
The Cow-Faced Juniors 1 v 4 Aardvark Abacus
Trusted By Millions 0 v 1 Claymore Athletic FC
Wheel Madrid 1 v 1 Athletico Phoenix
YTFIB 2 v 0 The Wateringhole Society
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Well that’s that then.
I don’t know whether Fred had given his team licence to celebrate early but he suffered his heaviest defeat of the season, at home to Mega Bucks. I thought Dave’s team might have been a dark horse this season and though I was very wrong about that at least this result made me feel a bit better. Mark Noble got a goal in each half, P-E Aubameyang scored a second-half brace and Josh King added another. The Gardeners can now celebrate properly, the Bandits can perhaps think of better times ahead.
The Aardvarks finished four points behind the champions after beating last year’s league winners the CFJs. Mighy Batshuayi was loaned out by the Aardvarks at the start of the season but finally got back into favour and had scored twice by just after the half hour mark. Aymeric Laporte powered in a header before the break to reduce the deficit but a Cenk Tosun goal and Jamaal Lascelles clean made it 4-1. Ady has a top two position for the first time in nine years, Chris and Co. have recorded their worst WSFFL season.
Athletico won the race for third place, just. Brian’s team were held 1-1 by Wheel Madrid, a brilliant Nathan Redmond strike just before the interval put Athletico ahead, Joel Matip’s clean was the equaliser. It wasn’t quite enough to keep Paul W in the top half though. That result, combined with my 4-2 win at the Muppets saw me sneak into eighth. Sadio Mane has had a fantastic season and opened the scoring for Ryan after 17 minutes with a cool sidefoot. Three goals in five second half minutes swung the game in my favour. Fabian Schar, Riyad Mahrez and a glancing header from Ashley Barnes made it 3-1. Mane reduced the deficit but Schar restored my advantage with a clean.
Another team that might have been celebrating too early were the Wateringhole. Kiran’s team were guaranteed to finish in the top half for the first time despite the result and went down meekly to YTFIB. A stunning Ilkay Gundogan free-kick with 18 minutes left put Julian ahead and Ricardo Pereira got the clean to confirm the win that stops Julian breaking all those terrible records I wrote about last week. Kiran was also top member of the Warr family this season (I hope there’s a trophy), pipping Ben by a point. The Artisans ended their season with a 4-0 win over struggling Markian. A great Jonjo Shelvey goal, his first of the season, opened the scoring on nine minutes then the floodgates opened in the second half. Gerard Deulofeu finished calmly after intercepting a back-pass, Patrick van Aanholt finished off a lovely team move and Christian Eriksen struck an inch-perfect free-kick with 15 minutes left.
Nil Satis have finished in their highest position for 12 years after beating Cheese Makers 2-1. Manuel Lanzini scored his first of the season (how Matthew has missed him) following up a rebound to put the Fromagers ahead at half-time. Theo Walcott equalised on 69 minutes and then Andros Townsend got the winner with a sweet first-time hit after a sweeping Nil Satis counter-attack. Matthew finishes 12th for the third season in a row. Claymore and Trusted haven’t had the best of league seasons and they finished with a low-scoring game which went to Clive 1-0. The only goal coming when Sergio Aguero rolled his defender and shot in at the near post on 28 minutes. It’s Beef’s worst finish, it’s Clive’s first year in the bottom half for nine seasons.
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