WSFFL at the 2022 World Cup

We might not love the fact but it's happening and I do this every four years. Which of our teams are sending the most players to Qatar* and will be fretting they come back in one piece...

Aardvark Abacus (8) - P.Sarr (SEN); Pickford, Rice, Henderson, White (ENG); Robinson (USA); Richarlison (BRA), Son (SKO)

Cheese Makers (11) - Dier (ENG); Alvarez (ARG); Eriksen, Hojbjerg (BRE); Sanchez, Raya (SPA); Perisic (CRO); Aguerd (MOR); Casemiro, Fabinho (BRA); Mbeumo (CAM)

Claymore Athletic (12) - Stones (ENG); Ward (WAL); Cash (POL); Kehrer (GER); Faes, Tielemans, Onana (BEL); Ziyech (MOR); Mitrovic (SRB); Akanji (SWI); Ronaldo, Nunes (POR)

Fred West LG XI (10) - Malacia (NED); Grealish (ENG); Romero , L.Martinez (ARG); Lloris, Konate (FRA); Azpilicueta (SPA); Castagne (BEL); Martinelli (BRA); Fernandes (POR)

Markian United (10) - Shaw, Kane, Phillips (ENG); Aaronson (USA); Damsgaard (DEN); Rodri (SPA); Paqueta (BRA); Schar (SWI); Partey (GHA); Nunez (URU)

Mega Buck Bandits (8) - Ake (NED); Ream (USA); Alisson, Guimaraes, Antony, Ederson (BRA); Xhaka (SWI); Neves (POR)

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum (1) - Sa (POR)

Real Muppets (6) - Koulibaly (SEN), Foden (ENG); Kristensen (DEN); Mejbri (TUN); Bella-Kotchap (GER); De Bruyne (BEL)

San Dimas High School (7) - Estupinan, Caicedo (ECU); Turner (USA), E. Martinez (ARG); Kovacic (CRO); Palhinha, Cancelo (POR)

Stanley and Gracie Utd (9) - van Dijk (NED); Maguire, Trippier (ENG); Wilson (WAL); Andersen (DEN); Havertz (GER); Fred (BRA); Zakaria (SWI); Ayew (GHA)

The Cow-Faced Juniors (8) - E.Mendy (SEN), Davies, Johnson, Moore (WAL); Bednarek (POL); Laporte (SPA); Amartey (GHA); Bentancur (URU)

The Fabulous Artisans (7) - Walker, Sterling, Mount, Ramsdale (ENG); Mac Allister (ARG); Salisu (GHA); Dalot (POR)

The Wateringhole Society (9) - I.Sarr (SEN); Rashford, Saka (ENG); Pulisic (USA); Jimenez (MEX); Saliba (FRA); Mitoma (JPN); Lamptey (GHA); Dias (POR)

Trusted By Millions (8) - Coady, Alexander-Arnold, Gallagher (ENG); Areola (FRA); Tomiyasu (JPN); Trossard (BEL); Jesus (BRA); Silva (POR)

Wheel Madrid (5) - Wilson, Maddison (ENG); Varane (FRA); Lukaku (BEL); Silva (BRA)

YTFIB (6) - Pope (ENG); Hennessey, Williams, James (WAL); Gundogan (GER); Hwang (SKO)

The pool (12) - Sarmiento (ECU); Gueye, N.Mendy, Kouyate (SEN); Ghoddos (IRN); Adams (USA); Jensen, Norgaard (DEN), Dendoncker (BEL); Freuler (SWI); Rahman (GHA); Pellistri (URU)

Claymore and the pool tying with 12 representatives, both coming from nine teams. If you're interested in previous results then links are below...

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I think seven players survive from the 2014 list if you fancied a quiz. No peeking.

*if I've missed any of your loaned out players let me know.

Week 11 Results - Another big win for the leaders

Aardvark Abacus 3 v 0 Cheese Makers

Claymore Athletic FC 0 v 6 The Cow-Faced Juniors 

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 3 v 0 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

Markian United 5 v 1 Real Muppets 

San Dimas High School 2 v 4 The Wateringhole Society 

Stanley and Gracie United 0 v 2 YTFIB 

The Fabulous Artisans 5 v 2 Trusted By Millions

Wheel Madrid 1 v 0 Mega Buck Bandits

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Cow-Faced Juniors	11	10	1	0	42	14	28	31
2	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	11	7	2	2	31	15	16	23
3	The Fabulous Artisans	11	7	0	4	29	16	13	21
4	The Wateringhole Society	11	5	4	2	33	21	12	19
5	Trusted By Millions	11	5	3	3	25	17	8	18
6	Aardvark Abacus	11	5	1	5	18	23	-5	16
7	Wheel Madrid	11	5	1	5	15	22	-7	16
8	Real Muppets	11	4	2	5	29	26	3	14
9	Claymore Athletic FC	11	4	2	5	20	25	-5	14
10	Markian United	11	4	1	6	21	22	-1	13
11	Stanley and Gracie United	11	4	1	6	20	26	-6	13
12	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	11	4	1	6	15	22	-7	13
13	YTFIB	11	4	1	6	10	20	-10	13
14	San Dimas High School	11	3	3	5	15	24	-9	12
15	Mega Buck Bandits	11	3	1	7	15	29	-14	10
16	Cheese Makers	11	1	2	8	9	25	-16	5

The CFJs probably don’t want the season to take a break. Their great run continued with a 6-0 thrashing of Claymore, which takes them to 19 scored in the past three games. Sheesh! Kiefer Moore headed the opener, Rodrigo Moreno scored two, Ben Davies drilled in from the edge of the area and Rodrigo Bentancur added two more in the last ten minutes. They can’t keep this up. Can they? Fred is still the closest to the leaders at eight points behind after seeing off Nil Satis 3-0. Goalless until 54 minutes when Morgan Gibbs-White was quickest to a rebound the Gardeners added cleans from Timothy Castagne and Joe Worrall from the bench.

The Artisans are third after a big win against Trusted. Alexis Mac Allister and Roberto Firmino had Ben two up in six minutes but Che Adams pulled one back for Beef with a header from a free-kick before the tenth minute. Martin Odegaard bagged a second-half brace for the Artisans either side of a Joe Willock reply before Aaron Ramsdale got the clean to make it 5-2. The Wateringhole Society beat San Dimas 4-2 and are two points further back in fourth. My team led twice too. Crysencio Summerville making it three in three early on and Jaidon Anthony heading his first with 21 minutes to go. Harvey Barnes raced onto a through ball to equalise. Ivan Toney got his second on the breakaway deep into injury time to put Kiran in front and William Saliba finished it with a clean.

The Aardvarks are up to sixth following a 3-0 win over Cheese Makers, Matthew unable to follow up his good win last week. Marcus Tavernier followed up a keeper spill to open the scoring on 18 minutes and Ady finished it with cleans from Luke Thomas and Ben White. A 1-0 win for Wheel Madrid over Mega Bucks puts Paul W’s team up to seventh. James Maddison fired into the roof of the net in the eighth minute for the only goal of the game with Wilfied Zaha missing a penalty for Dave.

The Muppets conceded five for the second week running, this time to Markian. Ian raced into a 3-0 lead with a double from Darwin Nunez and one from Harry Kane. Phil Foden produced a brilliant hit to reduce the deficit in first-half injury time but the only further scoring was from Markian in the shape of cleans from Fabian Schar and Ashley Young. YTFIB beat Stanley and Gracie 2-0 to join that team on 13 points. Cleans from Adam Smith and Joel Ward were Julian’s scorers. 

Week 10 Results - Eight point lead for the CFJs

Cheese Makers 2 v 0 The Fabulous Artisans

Mega Buck Bandits 2 v 3 Stanley and Gracie United

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 1 v 2 Wheel Madrid

Real Muppets 2 v 5 Aardvark Abacus

The Cow-Faced Juniors 5 v 3 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 

The Wateringhole Society 2 v 2 Claymore Athletic FC

Trusted By Millions 1 v 1 San Dimas High School

YTFIB 0 v 1 Markian United 

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Cow-Faced Juniors	10	9	1	0	36	14	22	28
2	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	10	6	2	2	28	15	13	20
3	Trusted By Millions	10	5	3	2	23	12	11	18
4	The Fabulous Artisans	10	6	0	4	24	14	10	18
5	The Wateringhole Society	10	4	4	2	29	19	10	16
6	Real Muppets	10	4	2	4	28	21	7	14
7	Claymore Athletic FC	10	4	2	4	20	19	1	14
8	Stanley and Gracie United	10	4	1	5	20	24	-4	13
9	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	10	4	1	5	15	19	-4	13
10	Aardvark Abacus	10	4	1	5	15	23	-8	13
11	Wheel Madrid	10	4	1	5	14	22	-8	13
12	San Dimas High School	10	3	3	4	13	20	-7	12
13	Markian United	10	3	1	6	16	21	-5	10
14	YTFIB	10	3	1	6	8	20	-12	10
15	Mega Buck Bandits	10	3	1	6	15	28	-13	10
16	Cheese Makers	10	1	2	7	9	22	-13	5

The CFJs hold a huge eight point lead a third of the way into our season. Chris and Co saw off second place Fred 5-3 this week to keep their unbeaten run going. In a terrific first half the Cows led with an early Rodrigo penalty only for the Gardeners to turn it round with goals from Mohamed Salah and Morgan Gibbs-White inside 20 minutes. Miguel Almiron kept his 'Goal of the Month every month' bid going after 35 minutes when finishing off a dazzling run. Five minutes later Fred led again, Salah latching on to a defensive mistake for a simple finish. It was level again after 63 minutes when Gabriel finished from practically underneath the bar. Yoann Wissa lobbed the leaders in front with a quarter of an hour to go and Daniel Amartey finally clinched the win with a clean.

Trusted are third after a 1-1 draw with San Dimas. Joe Willock toe-poked Beef ahead just after the hour mark but debut-maker Crysencio Summerville finished a one-on-one with six minutes left to give me a share of the points. The Artisans are fourth after going down 2-0 to Cheese Makers. Matthew’s first win of the season was earned through goals from Julian Alvarez, smashing into the roof of the net on 16 minutes, and a Bryan Mbeumo penalty in first half injury time. The Wateringhole are fifth after a second successive 2-2 draw, this time against Claymore. Clive went ahead on 12 minutes through an off-balance Gonzalo Guedes finish. Kiran levelled one minute from the interval when Kaoru Mitoma headed in on debut only for Youri Tielemans (who appears to be in a Goal of the Month competition with Almiron every month) to volley Claymore ahead again. The Wateringhole’s second equaliser came late, Harvey Barnes turn and shot on 86 minutes.

The Muppets are sixth with half the points of the leaders. Ryan went down 5-2 to the improving Aardvarks this week. Ady was two up at the break thanks to Marcus Tavernier and an unlucky Jacob Ramsey own goal. Ramsey picked out the top corner at the right end to reduce the deficit four minutes after the restart but Chris Wood’s shot on the turn and Liam Cooper headed home to make it 4-1. Erling Haaland’s penalty for Ryan was a minor consolation before Ben White’s clean finished the scoring and made it three wins in a row for Ady. Stanley and Gracie picked up their first win since September, 3-2 at Mega Bucks. Andreas Pereira opened the scoring from the spot for Aaron but it was 1-1 at half-time after Wilf Zaha smashed in from 14 yards. Keiran Trippier bagged an early clean and Pascal Gross slid to convert the third for SGU seven minutes from time. Bruno Guimaraes injury time shot from the edge of the D couldn’t set up a late comeback.

Wheel Madrid edged Nil Satis 2-1. Leon Bailey outpaced Paul S’s defence to fire Paul W in front on seven minutes and a tight game had to wait for second half injury time for the next goal, Michael Olise’s deflected shot looping in for 2-0. Nil Satis had time to pull one back from a Matt Doherty clean but it wasn’t enough to take anything from the game. Markian just saw off YTFIB 1-0. Harry Kane’s first-time finish with 20 minutes enough to earn all the points for Ian.