Week 12 Results - A setback for the leaders

Cheese Makers 0 v 4 Markian United

Mega Buck Bandits 0 v 2 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 5 v 1 Claymore Athletic FC

Real Muppets 2 v 4 Stanley and Gracie United

The Cow-Faced Juniors 1 v 4 San Dimas High School

The Fabulous Artisans 3 v 0 Aardvark Abacus

Trusted By Millions 2 v 4 The Wateringhole Society

YTFIB 0 v 0 Wheel Madrid

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Cow-Faced Juniors	12	10	1	1	43	18	25	31
2	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	12	8	2	2	33	15	18	26
3	The Fabulous Artisans	12	8	0	4	32	16	16	24
4	The Wateringhole Society	12	6	4	2	37	23	14	22
5	Trusted By Millions	12	5	3	4	27	21	6	18
6	Wheel Madrid	12	5	2	5	15	22	-7	17
7	Markian United	12	5	1	6	25	22	3	16
8	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	12	5	1	6	20	23	-3	16
9	Stanley and Gracie United	12	5	1	6	24	28	-4	16
10	Aardvark Abacus	12	5	1	6	18	26	-8	16
11	San Dimas High School	12	4	3	5	19	25	-6	15
12	Real Muppets	12	4	2	6	31	30	1	14
13	Claymore Athletic FC	12	4	2	6	21	30	-9	14
14	YTFIB	12	4	2	6	10	20	-10	14
15	Mega Buck Bandits	12	3	1	8	15	31	-16	10
16	Cheese Makers	12	1	2	9	9	29	-20	5

The CFJs lost their first league game of the season, 3-1 to San Dimas. The Cows were ahead on 36 minutes through Eberechi Eze but my team turned it round late with a Joao Palhinha header and cleans from Robin Olsen and Dan Burn.

The teams in second to fourth all won to close the gap. Fred saw off Mega Bucks 2-0 with a Gabriel Martinelli goal and a Tyrell Malacia clean. The Artisans went one better against the Aardvarks. First half-goals from Raheem Sterling and Martin Odegaard had them in charge at the break and Eddie Nketiah’s goal two minutes after the restart finished the scoring. The Wateringhole got four against fifth-placed Trusted. Bukayo Saka and Ivan Toney had Kiran 2-0 up inside twenty minutes. Beef hit back through Emi Buendia just after the break but two more Wateringhole goals, Kaoru Mitoma and Marcus Rashford on target, finished the game 4-1.

Wheel Madrid are up to sixth after a goalless draw with YTFIB. Markian are a place and a point behind after a four clean sheet win against Cheese Makers. Matthew looking for February reinforcements more than most. Clive’s rotten week started with a 5-1 defeat to Nil Satis. Wout Fees contributed two own goals but Demarai Gray’s stunner for Paul was a goal of the month contender. Stanley and Gracie are also on 16 points after an excellent 4-2 win at the Muppets. Ryan was two up too, through Erling Haaland (of course) and a James Ward-Prowse own goal. Ward-Prowse scored a brilliant free-kick to pull one back and SGU got the win with three clean sheets.