Week 18 Results - Three point lead for the Society

Aardvark Abacus 4 v 1 Stanley Athletic FC

Cheese Makers 1 v 2 The Fabulous Artisans

Markian United 1 v 1 Mega Buck Bandits

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 0 v 1 Fred West Landscape Gdg XI

The Cow-Faced Juniors 2 v 1 San Dimas High School

The Wateringhole Society 2 v 1 Real Muppets

Trusted by Millions 0 v 2 YTFIB

Wheel Madrid 1 v 1 Claymore Athletic FC

Rearranged week 17 game

Fred West Landscape Gdg XI  1 v 4 Aardvark Abacus

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Wateringhole Society	18	11	4	3	47	27	20	37
2	Claymore Athletic FC	18	11	1	6	44	29	15	34
3	Trusted By Millions	18	10	3	5	44	33	11	33
4	The Cow-Faced Juniors	18	10	1	7	36	25	11	31
5	The Fabulous Artisans	18	10	1	7	41	38	3	31
6	Aardvark Abacus	18	9	1	8	41	31	10	28
7	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	18	8	4	6	24	26	-2	28
8	San Dimas High School	18	7	5	6	30	25	5	26
9	Cheese Makers	18	7	5	6	24	27	-3	26
10	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	18	7	3	8	32	34	-2	24
11	Stanley Athletic FC	18	7	3	8	29	36	-7	24
12	Real Muppets	18	7	2	9	36	42	-6	23
13	Wheel Madrid	18	5	4	9	29	32	-3	19
14	Mega Buck Bandits	18	5	2	11	28	36	-8	17
15	YTFIB	18	5	0	13	16	42	-26	15
16	Markian United	18	3	5	10	16	34	-18	14

The Wateringhole have a three-point lead after this week’s games. Kiran’s team trailed 1-0 to the Muppets after Patson Daka finished off some penalty area pinball a minute into the second half. A clean volley from Ivan Toney on 71 minutes levelled the scores and Tariq Lamptey came of the bench to get the winning clean for the leaders. Claymore stay second but were held 1-1 by Wheel Madrid. A brilliant strike, right in the postage stamp, from Hakim Ziyech put Clive’s team ahead two minutes after the interval but that lead only lasted eight minutes before Thiago Silva headed the Wheelmen level.

Trusted’s poor run goes on with a 2-0 defeat to YTFIB. This game was settled in Julian’s favour with cleans from Ben Gibson and Erik Pieters and the result gets him off the bottom of the table. The CFJs home in on the top three after a 2-1 win over San Dimas. My team went ahead early with a cracking Kyle Walker-Peters goal but it turned round after the break when Odsonne Edouard sprung the offside trap to equalise and then Aymeric Laporte headed the winner 10 minutes later. 

The Artisans are also on 31 points after edging Cheese Makers 2-1. The points looked to be staying at Le Stade when Fabinho scored from the spot after 89 minutes but Ben turned hit back with cleans from Lucas Digne and Diogo Dalot. The Aardvarks are up to sixth after their two victories this week. After beating Fred 4-1 Ady’s team took down Stanley by the same score. Virgil van Dijk headed Aaron in front inside 10 minutes but it was all Aardvarks after half-time. Jamaal Lascelles got the equaliser with an early clean and Jonjo Shelvey put Ady in front with a direct free-kick 15 minutes from time. Ben White and Kieran Tierney added cleans to add gloss to the victory. 

Nil Satis’ recent good run stalled after a 1-0 defeat to Fred. Emi Buendia’s flick header in first half injury time proving to be the only score. Markian’s bottom three scrap with Mega Bucks ended all square. Ruben Neves put Dave ahead with 12 minutes to go with a strike from 20 yards but the recalled Fabian Schar got the clean for Ian meaning that the points were shared.

Week 17 Results - Six points cover the top six

Claymore Athletic FC 2 v 1 The Wateringhole Society

Fred West Landscape Gdg XI P v P Aardvark Abacus

Markian United 0 v 0 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

Mega Buck Bandits 3 v 2 Trusted by Millions

Real Muppets 2 v 2 Cheese Makers

Stanley Athletic FC 2 v 2 San Dimas High School

The Fabulous Artisans 1 v 0 Wheel Madrid

YTFIB 2 v 1 The Cow-Faced Juniors

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Wateringhole Society	17	10	4	3	45	26	19	34
2	Claymore Athletic FC	17	11	0	6	43	28	15	33
3	Trusted By Millions	17	10	3	4	44	31	13	33
4	The Cow-Faced Juniors	17	9	1	7	34	24	10	28
5	The Fabulous Artisans	17	9	1	7	39	37	2	28
6	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	17	8	4	5	24	25	-1	28
7	San Dimas High School	17	7	5	5	29	23	6	26
8	Cheese Makers	17	7	5	5	23	25	-2	26
9	Stanley Athletic FC	17	7	3	7	28	32	-4	24
10	Real Muppets	17	7	2	8	35	40	-5	23
11	Aardvark Abacus	16	7	1	8	33	29	4	22
12	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	16	6	3	7	30	30	0	21
13	Wheel Madrid	17	5	3	9	28	31	-3	18
14	Mega Buck Bandits	17	5	1	11	27	35	-8	16
15	Markian United	17	3	4	10	15	33	-18	13
16	YTFIB	17	4	0	13	14	42	-28	12

The Wateringhole stay top but their defeat to Claymore has put Clive slap bang in the title picture. Kiran’s team went behind when Michael Keane diverted a shot into his own net after 16 minutes but the Society were level before half time when Raul Jimenez converted a spot-kick. A second half low on chances eventually went the way of Clive’s team with a John Stones clean. It’s four defeats in a row for Trusted in all competitions after they went down 3-2 to Mega Bucks. Jack Harrison was Dave’s star as he netted a first WSFFL hat-trick and Beef’s replies from Conors Coady and Gallagher weren’t enough to get back on terms.

The CFJs missed a chance to close in going down 2-1 to YTFIB. Adam Idah opened his account for Julian’s team when he poked under the advancing keeper on 18 minutes. Alain Saint-Maximin doubled the lead four minutes after the break following a textbook mazy run with a fierce low shot. The Cows could only reply with an Aymeric Laporte clean. The Artisans have jumped back up to fifth place courtesy of a 1-0 win over Wheel Madrid. Jarred Bowen evaded his marker to head in from a corner on 34 minutes for the only score. Nil Satis are the third team on 28 points after a 0-0 draw with Markian where nothing happened.

The teams between seventh and tenth in the table all drew 2-2. San Dimas led Stanley Athletic seven minutes before the interval after Jack Butland’s saved penalty but the rest of the action came late on. Aaron’s team were level after stunning, long-distance James Ward-Prowse free-kick and they were ahead three minutes later when Joao Pedro got up highest head his team in front. The celebrations had barely died down when Joachim Anderson steered past his own keeper for the equaliser. It was a similar story between the Muppets and Cheese Makers where Matthew’s team took the lead, Fabinho nodding in at the back post after 44 minutes, Ryan then scored two quick second-half goals (from Kevin De Bruyne and Jacob Ramsey) to take the lead only to concede late, to Adama Traore’s first of the season, and end up level.