Week 21 Results - Artisans' lead trimmed

Cheese Makers 1 v 1 The Fabulous Artisans

Claymore Athletic FC 1 v 2 Stanley Athletic FC

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 2 v 0 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

Mega Buck Bandits 1 v 1 Aardvark Abacus

The Cow-Faced Juniors 5 v 1 YTFIB

The Wateringhole Society 0 v 0 Real Muppets

Trusted By Millions 1 v 0 San Dimas High School

Wheel Madrid 1 v 5 Markian United

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Fabulous Artisans	21	13	3	5	46	37	9	42
2	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	21	11	7	3	53	38	15	40
3	Aardvark Abacus	21	10	6	5	48	40	8	36
4	The Cow-Faced Juniors	21	11	2	8	47	34	13	35
5	Trusted By Millions	21	10	5	6	39	36	3	35
6	Stanley Athletic FC	21	9	4	8	35	39	-4	31
7	The Wateringhole Society	21	9	3	9	57	41	16	30
8	Real Muppets	21	8	5	8	48	40	8	29
9	Mega Buck Bandits	21	8	5	8	38	34	4	29
10	Cheese Makers	21	8	3	10	33	39	-6	27
11	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	21	8	2	11	28	32	-4	26
12	Wheel Madrid	21	7	4	10	51	55	-4	25
13	YTFIB	21	6	6	9	39	43	-4	24
14	Claymore Athletic FC	21	7	2	12	34	43	-9	23
15	San Dimas High School	21	6	5	10	23	35	-12	23
16	Markian United	21	5	2	14	30	63	-33	17

Ben’s lead is reduced to two points following this week’s matches. The Artisans needed a clean sheet from Ezgjan Alioski to earn a draw at Cheese Makers after Chris Wood’s first goal for his new club, getting in the way of a clearance to deflect in, looked like earning Matthew the win. Fred saw off Nil Satis 2-0 with a very early Bruno Fernades penalty and an Aaron Wan-Bissaka clean. The top two meet in week 22.

The Aardvarks are still six points back after a 1-1 drew at Mega Backs. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s near post shot squirmed past the keeper to give Dave the lead on six minutes and it took Ryan Bertrand’s clean for Ady to level the scores. The CFJs are one point behind the Aardvarks after seeing off YTFIB 5-1. Julian took the lead too, Jesse Lingard following up his saved penalty after 21 minutes. Gareth Bale tapped in four minutes later to get the Cows back on terms and a Ben Godfrey own goal had Chris and co ahead six minutes after that. Bale’s second four minutes after the break made it 3-1 and Vladimir Coufal and Jan Bednarek cleans finished the scoring.

A stunning half-volley from Che Adams on 49 minutes gave Trusted the win against San Dimas. The two teams meet in the Cup semi-final this week so Beef will carry all the momentum. After seven without a win Stanley finally ended that run with a 2-1 win at Claymore. Craig Dawson headed Aaron in front on 28 minutes and James Ward-Prowse made it two from the spot four minutes after that. Clive’s only response was an Aaron Cresswell clean.

The Wateringhole Society and Real Muppets played out a goalless draw. It’s the first time Kiran’s team have failed to trouble the scorers this season (I think). Markian have been getting closer to a good result in recent weeks and it finally all came together at Wheel Madrid. 0-0 at the break Luke Shaw burst forward, exchanged passes and found the bottom corner from the edge of the area on 50 minutes. Harry Kane added a brilliant goal two minutes later before Paul W pulled one back with Jorginho’s penalty. Kane added a simpler second with 14 minutes left then cleans by Shaw and Sam Johnstone rounded out the victory.