Week 3 Results - Aardvarks have last 100% record

Claymore Athletic FC 1 v 1 Mega Buck Bandits

Real Muppets 2 v 2 Stanley Athletic FC

San Dimas High School 2 v 1 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

The Cow-Faced Juniors 1 v 2 The Fabulous Artisans

The Wateringhole Society 3 v 4 Aardvark Abacus

Trusted By Millions 2 v 2 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI

Wheel Madrid 6 v 3 Cheese Makers

YTFIB 1 v 2 Markian United

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Aardvark Abacus	3	3	0	0	13	8	5	9
2	Mega Buck Bandits	3	2	1	0	9	2	7	7
3	The Wateringhole Society	3	2	0	1	21	6	15	6
4	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	3	2	0	1	10	2	8	6
5	The Cow-Faced Juniors	3	2	0	1	4	2	2	6
6	San Dimas High School	3	2	0	1	5	4	1	6
7	Wheel Madrid	3	2	0	1	7	8	-1	6
8	Real Muppets	3	1	1	1	12	10	2	4
9	Stanley Athletic FC	3	1	1	1	5	7	-2	4
10	YTFIB	3	1	0	2	5	6	-1	3
11	Cheese Makers	3	1	0	2	6	8	-2	3
12	Markian United	3	1	0	2	3	6	-3	3
13	The Fabulous Artisans	3	1	0	2	6	15	-9	3
14	Trusted By Millions	3	0	1	2	3	8	-5	1
15	Claymore Athletic FC	3	0	1	2	1	8	-7	1
16	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	3	0	1	2	2	12	-10	1

Handball eh? Hope you’ve got a penalty taker in your squad. Seven were scored this week.

One was at our game of the week but the scorer ended on the losing side. Neil Maupay was that penalty scorer, five minutes before the break, to level the game for Kiran against Ady’s Aardvarks. The teams exchanged own goals after the break before Callum Hudson-Odoi put the Wateringhole in front for the first time with 20 minutes to go. Diogo Jota made it 3-3 with two minutes left and Ryan Bertrand got the clean to give the Aardvarks the 4-3 win and sent them to the top of the table. It’s a Bevan 1-2 at the top of the WSFFL summit as Dave is the only other unbeaten manager after a 1-1 draw with Claymore. Nathan Ake got his first mega Bucks goal with six minutes left but Clive’s equaliser came four minutes later. Youri Tielemans with, you guessed it, a penalty.

Nil Satis are fourth but lost their first game of the season, 2-1 to San Dimas. Riyad Mahrez smashed me ahead after just four minutes, Dominic Calvert-Lewin levelled for Paul S on ten minutes and the winner came my way courtesy of an Kyle Walker-Peters clean. The CFJs are fifth but their winning start ended against the Artisans. Mason Mount fired past an unsighted Cows keeper ten minutes after the break, Patrick Bamford continued to confound critics with a header to make it 2-0 to Ben with two minutes left. That rendered Tammy Abraham’s injury time goal for Chris and Co a mere consolation.

Wheel Madrid’s only score before this week was of the own goal variety but Paul W’s team found their scoring boots against Cheese Makers. Unsurprisingly Jamie Vardy was at the forefront with a hat-trick (two penalties) after Matthew had led 2-1 and 3-2. Pick of the goals was James Maddison’s effort that picked out the top corner to make it 5-3 before Callum Wilson added, yes, a penalty in injury time. The Muppets and Stanley finished level to occupy 8th and 9th places. Sadio Mane and an Injury time header from Sebastian Haller looked to have given the points to Ryan but Aaron struck back with cleans from McCarthy and Masuaku. 

Markian joined YTFIB on three points after beating those opponents with an early brace from Callum Robinson. Solly March pulled a late goal back for Julian but it wasn’t enough. Our last two champions played out a 2-2 draw. Fred was ahead twice, Lucas Moura at the far post on 25 minutes and a Bruno Fernandes penalty after ten minutes of stoppage time. Beef didn’t roll over,  first equalising through Richarlison’s penalty five minutes before half-time and then Robin Koch’s clean. Both sides are still searching for a first win.

Week 2 Results (and Week One catch-up) - Wateringhole run riot

Week One stragglers

Real Muppets 5 v 2 The Fabulous Artisans

The Wateringhole Society 9 v 0 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI

Wheel Madrid 1 v 0 Claymore Athletic FC

Week Two

Aardvark Abacus 6 v 5 Real Muppets

Cheese Makers 3 v 0 Trusted By Millions

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 0 v 1 The Cow-Faced Juniors

Markian United 1 v 2 San Dimas High School

Mega Buck Bandits 4 v 0 Wheel Madrid

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 6 v 0 Claymore Athletic FC

Stanley Athletic FC 1 v 4 YTFIB

The Fabulous Artisans 2 v 9 The Wateringhole Society

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Wateringhole Society	2	2	0	0	18	2	16	6
2	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	2	2	0	0	9	0	9	6
3	Mega Buck Bandits	2	2	0	0	8	1	7	6
4	Aardvark Abacus	2	2	0	0	9	5	4	6
5	The Cow-Faced Juniors	2	2	0	0	3	0	3	6
6	Real Muppets	2	1	0	1	10	8	2	3
7	Cheese Makers	2	1	0	1	3	2	1	3
8	YTFIB	2	1	0	1	4	4	0	3
9	San Dimas High School	2	1	0	1	3	3	0	3
10	Stanley Athletic FC	2	1	0	1	3	5	-2	3
11	Wheel Madrid	2	1	0	1	1	5	-4	3
12	Markian United	2	0	0	2	1	5	-4	0
13	Trusted By Millions	2	0	0	2	1	6	-5	0
14	Claymore Athletic FC	2	0	0	2	0	7	-7	0
15	The Fabulous Artisans	2	0	0	2	4	14	-10	0
16	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	2	0	0	2	0	10	-10	0

Let’s finish off week one first. The teams that postponed their opening weekend games had mixed results to say the least.

The Muppets hit the ground running with most of their creative players getting goals in a 5-2 win over the Artisans. De Bruyne, Foden, a stunner from Dennis Praet and two from Mane bode well for the season. Diangana and Bamford replied for the Artisans.

It went less well for Claymore and Fred. Clive’s team sank 1-0 to Wheel Madrid thanks to an Erik Pieters own goal. But that reverse pales into insignificance compared to Fred’s drubbing at the Wateringhole Society. Kiran’s team equalled the WSFFL record margin with a 9-0 win. It’s his biggest win and Fred’s biggest defeat. Ever. Neil Maupay scored twice in the first seven minutes, it was 3-0 at the break and then the sky fell in on the Gardeners with four more Wateringhole goals plus cleans from Konsa and Lamptey.

To week two then. 

Kiran followed up with a 9-2 win over The Artisans. The game seemed perfectly poised at 2-1 after ten minutes, Grady Diangana’s excellent solo effort replying to two from Maupay, and got interesting again at 4-2 five minutes after the break when Patrick Bamford smashed in. A great fee-kick from Matheus Pereira made it 5-2 and Kiran’s team ran away with to after that. Nil Satis are second after a 6-0 drubbing of Evertonian rivals Claymore. Dominic Calvert-Lewin led the way for Paul with a hat-trick and big-money signing Donny van de Beek rounded off the win with a cool finish from the edge of the six-yard box.

Wheel Madrid couldn’t build on their week one win and went down 5-0 to Mega Bucks. Michail Antonio slid in just before the break to open the scoring, Wilf Zaha added two in the last 15 minutes as did Alisson who got a clean and a saved penalty. Five goals weren’t enough for the Muppets to get a second win as they ran into six of the best from the Aardvarks. OK, two-thirds of that came through Son Heung-Min goals but it was a Lewis Dunk clean that made the difference between the sides in the end.

Two wins out of two for the CFJs after a Dan Burn clean delivered the win over the Gardeners. Fred’s team prop up the early table. Cheese Makers added to the title-holders early woes with a 3-0 win to keep Trusted pointless. Danny Ings is clearly still in the goalscoring groove as he got a brace and Matt Targett add a clean for Matthew’s side.

YTFIB found a bit of last season form to beat Stanley Athletic FC 4-1. Julian may have got a bargain in Helder Costa who scored twice. The second of those came in a three minute burst with Bobby Reid and James Justin also scoring to take the game away from Aaron. Emiliano Martinez was the San Dimas’ hero in a 2-1 win against Markian. He notched a saved penalty and a clean either side of a Harry Kane goal for Ian.