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

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Claymore Athletic FC	21	13	4	4	65	36	29	43
2	The Fabulous Artisans	21	11	5	5	47	29	18	38
3	Stanley Athletic FC	21	12	2	7	55	46	9	38
4	Trusted By Millions	21	11	4	6	49	39	10	37
5	San Dimas High School	21	11	2	8	34	30	4	35
6	Aardvark Abacus	21	10	4	7	38	35	3	34
7	Mega Buck Bandits	21	10	3	8	37	34	3	33
8	Wheel Madrid	21	8	6	7	50	33	17	30
9	Cheese Makers	21	9	3	9	38	41	-3	30
10	The Wateringhole Society	21	7	7	7	40	43	-3	28
11	The Cow-Faced Juniors	21	8	3	10	26	38	-12	27
12	YTFIB	21	7	5	9	24	26	-2	26
13	Real Muppets	21	6	6	9	45	46	-1	24
14	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	21	7	0	14	27	46	-19	21
15	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	21	6	3	12	29	50	-21	21
16	Markian United	21	2	3	16	14	46	-32	9

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.