Week One Results - Champions make a statement

Cheese Makers 1 v 4 Wheel Madrid

Claymore Athletic FC 4 v 1 Real Muppets

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 6 v 0 San Dimas High School

Markian United 0 v 2 Aardvark Abacus

Mega Buck Bandits 4 v 1 The Cow-Faced Juniors

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 1 v 2 Trusted by Millions

The Fabulous Artisans 2 v 3 The Wateringhole Society

YTFIB 0 v 1 Stanley Athletic FC    

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

Last season Fred started with a 9-0 defeat and went on take the title. This time he starts with a 6-0 win - does that mean he wins the league easier or collapses spectacularly? We’ll find out in time. Bruno Fernandes was the Gardeners star with an opening day hat-trick (see Fact Corner with Rafa)  as they swept aside San Dimas. Mega Bucks are second on ‘counters’ ahead of two other teams with 4-1 wins. Dave’s side led 2-0 against the CFJs through new signing Sergi Canos and a belter from Luke Ayling, the Cows pulled one back through Tomas Soucek before Michail Antonio restored the two-goal margin and Caglar Soyuncu’s clean rounded things off.

Claymore will be delighted with their start, a 4-1 win over the Muppets. Ryan's team scored the first goal of the season, James Tarkowski from close in on two minutes, but it was all Claymore after that with Clive’s new signing Trevoh Chalobah picking up a goal and clean on debut, Wheel Madrid were our third 4-1 winners, at Cheese Makers. Callum Wilson headed Paul W in front on five minutes, Jamie Vardy flicked in to make it two before the break then club record signing Leon Bailey teed up John McGinn to make it three. Danny Ings pulled one back from the spot for Matthew before the returning Joel Matip completed the win for the Wheelmen.

The Aardvarks eased to a 2-0 win at Markian, Diogo Jota and Son Heung-Min with the goals. The Wateringhole Society won the family affair in front of the biggest crowd on opening weekend with a 3-2 victory at the Artisans. Christian Pulisic and Ismaila Sarr scored in the five minutes before the break, Roberto Firmino and Alex Mac Allister scored Ben’s goals to level at 2-2 before a Kostas Tsimikas clean gave Kiran all the points.

Trusted edged out Nil Satis 2-1. Richarlison’s goal for Beef was levelled by Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s diving header with nine minutes left and it was a Trent Alexander-Arnold clean sheet that won it for Trusted. Last game on Match of the Day was Stanley’s 1-0 clean sheet win at YTFIB. Aaron will be delighted that his counter came from fit-again Virgil van Dijk.