Thursday 27 February 2020

FA Cup semi-final draw

(Made by Mrs Co-ordinator)

Claymore Athletic FC v Stanley Athletic FC
The Cow-Faced Juniors v The Wateringhole Society

A repeat of last year's Claymore/CFJs final is still a possibility but both of those teams won't be taking their opponents lightly.

Holders Claymore have been drawn against title rivals Stanley Athletic while The Wateringhole Society have already reached a PCMT semi-final this season so will give the CFJs plenty to think about.

Monday 24 February 2020

Week 21 Results - Claymore's lead trimmed to five

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

TeamPWDLFADiffPts
1Claymore Athletic FC21134465362943
2The Fabulous Artisans21115547291838
3Stanley Athletic FC2112275546938
4Trusted By Millions21114649391037
5San Dimas High School2111283430435
6Aardvark Abacus2110473835334
7Mega Buck Bandits2110383734333
8Wheel Madrid2186750331730
9Cheese Makers219393841-330
10The Wateringhole Society217774043-328
11The Cow-Faced Juniors2183102638-1227
12YTFIB217592426-226
13Real Muppets216694546-124
14Nil Satis Nisi Optimum2170142746-1921
15Fred West Landscape Gardening XI2163122950-2121
16Markian United2123161446-329

Is it getting a bit twitchy at Chippenham Park? That’s just one point in nine for Clive’s team and a thumping defeat to Trusted has clipped the advantage to five points.

It was a close game for well over an hour. Enda Stevens had smashed Clive in front but Richarlison and Pablo Formals put Trusted 2-1 up. Kasper Schmeichel saved a penalty to square it up again but Gabriel Jesus tucked in at the near post to put Beef ahead 3-2 and Cleans from Conor Coady, Ben Mee and Nicolas Otamendi dealt Claymore a first home defeat of the season in the league. Goal difference keeps the Artisans in second after their comfortable 3-0 win at Markian. Gini Wijnaldum headed home on nine minutes to open the scoring, a stunning free-kick from Patrick van Aanholt just before half-time doubled the lead and the Dutch defender also added a clean.

Stanley Athletic are also five points behind after coming from behind to beat Mega Bucks 4-2. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored either side of half-time for Dave but Anthony Martial’s chip got Aaron back in it and then Stuart Armstrong got the equaliser five minutes into injury time, placing into an empty net when the Mega Bucks keeper was out of position following an injudicious foray upfield. This led to a Mega Bucks collapse, cleans for Stanley by Lindelof and Maguire mean another three points to Aaron. San Dimas are fifth but led a two-goal lead slip against the CFJs. Shane Long thighed in for me on eight minutes, Dwight McNeil picked up a first WSFFL goal from 20 yards on 87 minutes and everything was looking rosy for my team. Then an unfortunate deflection off Antonio Rudiger halved the deficit and Jan Bednarek nabbed an equalising clean.

The Aardvarks are up to sixth this week after edging the Muppets 3-2. A first half brace from Diogo Jota had Ady two up at the break and a first of the season from Matej Vydra eight minutes after half-time saw the Aardvarks in cruise control. Too much perhaps, an easy finish for Sadio Mane with nine minutes left gave Ryan hope and James Tarkowski’s clean pulled it back to 3-1 but the Aardvarks hung on for the points. Wheel Madrid and Cheese Makers are eighth and ninth, locked on 30 points, after the Cheesers left Stratton Park with the win courtesy of Jonny’s clean.

Wins for Nil Satis and Fred against fellow bottom-half sides have squeezed the lower reaches of the table. Paul S’ team got a great start due to a first minute acrobatic finish from Dominic Calvert-Lewin against YTFIB and there was no further scoring. Fred ran out 4-2 winners at the Wateringhole Society. Kiran had led twice, through Neil Maupay and Raul Jimenez but goals from Bruno Fernandes (from the spot) and Mo Salah (poor bit of ‘keeping) meant the game was level going into the last 20 minutes. Mason Greenwood smacked a shot in off the bar to put Fred ahead and a clean from Aaron Wan-Bissaka secured the 4-2 win.

Wednesday 19 February 2020

Week 20 Results - Stanley Athletic on a charge

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

TeamPWDLFADiffPts
1Claymore Athletic FC20134363303343
2The Fabulous Artisans20105544291535
3Stanley Athletic FC2011275144735
4Trusted By Millions2010464337634
5San Dimas High School2011183228434
6Mega Buck Bandits2010373530533
7Aardvark Abacus209473533231
8Wheel Madrid2086650321830
9The Wateringhole Society207763839-128
10Cheese Makers208393741-427
11YTFIB207582425-126
12The Cow-Faced Juniors2082102436-1226
13Real Muppets206684343024
14Nil Satis Nisi Optimum2060142646-2018
15Fred West Landscape Gardening XI2053122548-2318
16Markian United2023151443-299

A second straight league game without a win for Claymore but again the chasers didn’t capitalise. Claymore needed two cleans to grab a point at the Aardvarks after Son Heung-Min and Alexandre Lacazette had scored in injury time. The Artisans stay second (on goal difference) after also being held to a 3-3 draw by The Muppets. Ben needing a Brandon Williams clean sheet for the point in a game where Toby Alderweireld scored at both ends.

Treated and San Dimas both missed the chance to close the gap at the top to six points. Beef’s team went down 2-1 at home to Stanley Athletic who are now up to third. Headers from Anthony Martial and Harry Maguire coming either side of Richarlison’s solo effort for Beef. My team went down by the same score at Nil Satis. Bernard’s sidefoot volley put Paul S in front early on, John Lundstram got me level with six minutes to go but Dominic Calvert-Lewin tucked away a rebound four minutes later to keep the points at St Domingo.

Mega Bucks are up to sixth after beating Wheel Madrid 2-0. P-E Aubameyang headed Dave’s team in front on 54 minutes and Caglar Soyuncu’s clean made it 2-0. The Wateringhole Society missed a chance to close on the top four with a single goal defeat at bottom club Markian. Rodri’s glancing header the only score of the game, giving the team a first win in ten games.

The CFJs beat Cheese Makers in remarkably similar style to the Cup match. Former Cheeser Billy Sharp scored in first half injury time to level Danny Ings opener and Mesut Ozil smacked in to get the winner for Chris in the final minute. YTFIB and Fred played out a draw at Bootham Crescent. Nicolas Pepe swept the Gardeners in front on 57 minutes but Ricardo Pereira’s clean gave Julian a share of the points.