Cup quarter-final results

Paul Cartmell Memorial Trophy Quarter-finals

Aardvark Abacus 0 v 1 YTFIB

Markian United 2 v 1 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

Real Muppets 7 v 1 Cheese Makers

The Cow-Faced Juniors 2 v 5 Trusted By Millions

Charity Shield Quarter-finals

Stanley and Gracie United 1 v 1 San Dimas High School

The Fabulous Artisans 3 v 2 Mega Buck Bandits

The Wateringhole Society 1 v 2 Claymore Athletic FC

Wheel Madrid 4 v 0 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI

Replay

San Dimas High School 3 v 2 Stanley and Gracie United

Paul Cartmell Memorial Trophy

The Nil Satis run as holders came to an end against Markian. Thomas Partey picked out the top corner with a first time shot on 20 minutes and Harry Kane added a penalty on the half hour. Paul’s team reduced the deficit with a Matt Doherty clean but Ian’s team finished 2-1 winners. The two unbeaten teams this season, the CFJs and Trusted met and now we have one unbeaten team, Trusted, after a 5-2 win. Leandro Trossard was Beef’s star with a hat-trick and there were also goals from Gabriel Jesus and Conor Coady. That rendered Miguel Almiron’s brace for the Cows unimportant even though he scored an unbelievable van Bastenesque volley to bring the score back to 2-1 before the break.

Not content with having Erling Haaland score another hat-trick the Muppets also got one from Phil Foden in a 7-1 win over Cheese Makers. Patson Daka also ‘got in on the act’ for Ryan’s team, Matthew’s last word, a very quiet word, was a clean from Aaron Hickey. YTFIB are in the semi-finals for the first time since 2007/8 after edging the Aardvarks 1-0 with a late Bobby DeCordova-Reid header.

Charity Shield

Mega Bucks, the holders, bowed out with a 3-2 defeat at the Artisans. Ben’s team raced into a 3-0 lead with two goals from Roberto Firmino and a Jarrod Bowen near-post strike before Dave replied through Granit Xhaka and a Chris Mepham clean. Claymore haven’t won this but are into the last four after beating the Wateringhole Society 2-1. A brilliant Harvey Barnes strike put Kiran ahead on 27 minutes but Clive turned it round with cleans from Thilo Kehrer and Aaron Cresswell.

Wheel Madrid produced their best game for a while and saw off Fred 4-0. Two from James Maddison, his second a great free-kick, either side of Gianluca Scamacca’s first WSFFL goal (a smart volley from the edge of the box) saw the Wheelmen three up at the break and Ilian Meslier’s clean completed the win. One game left to sort out after Stanley and Gracie Utd drew with San Dimas 1-1. Joe Aribo’s low shot put me in front just after the break but Ben Mee’s clean for SGU mean we go to a replay.

In the replay, San Dimas sneaked through with a couple of cheap clean sheets after trailing twice to an unlucky SGU.