2023/24 Week Four Results - Artisans March On

Cheese Makers 3 v  3 Real Muppets

Claymore Athletic FC 3 v 5 The Fabulous Artisans

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 2 v 2 YTFIB

Markian United 0 v 5 Aardvark Abacus

San Dimas High School 2 v 1 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

Stanley and Gracie United 2 v 3 The Cow-Faced Juniors

Trusted By Millions 2 v 2 The Wateringhole Society

Wheel Madrid 2 v 3 Mega Buck Bandits

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

 

The Artisans will go into the international break on top of the table, with a perfect record and with an average of five counters a game. Nice work if you can get it! Ben’s team were given a fright at Claymore, going two down inside a quarter of an hour but Matty Cash, Clive’s star last week, scored an own goal and Martin Odegaard and Jarrod Bowen had the Artisans in front by the break. New signing Kurt Zouma made it 4-2 on debut late on and though Matheus Cunha pulled one back in injury time a Billy Gilmour clean restored the two goal advantage.

From eight teams three points behind the leaders last week to just one this week, the Aardvarks. Ady’s team demolished Markian 4-0 courtesy of a Son Heung-Min hat-trick and a late strike from Josh Brownhill. We do have five teams on seven points though, headed up by Mega Bucks. Dave’s team had a right ding-dong with Wheel Madrid being pegged back twice, including in injury time thanks to Callum Wilson. Declan Rice’s deflected shot even deeper in injury time saw Dave take all three points. The Wateringhole Society let a two goal lead slip at Trusted and are fourth, one place above Beef’s team. Marcus Rashford and Arnaut Danjuma had Kiran’s team in command but an early Trent Alexander-Arnold clean upped the pressure and Gabriel Jesus broke away to level the game 11 (eleven) minutes into Injury time.

Beef is the only person in the top six without the surname Warr or Bevan as Matthew is in sixth place after a 3-3 draw with the Muppets. Matthew will be sick of the sight of the Norwegian who also scored three against him in the PCMT last season but will be delighted that his team grabbed a point thanks to Andy Robertson’s clean. The champions also lost ground after a 2-2 draw with YTFIB. All was well in Fred-world after an excellent Cristian Romero strike on half-time and Mohamed Salah’s close range finish ten minutes later had him two up. Hwang Hee-Chan pulled one back for Julian and Joe Gomez got the equalising clean for YTFIB.

San Dimas opened their account for the season with a 2-1 win over Nil Satis. Goals for Anthony Elanga (for me) and an emotional strike for David Brooks (for Paul) looked to have ended the game as a draw but Matt Turner picked up the winning clean for my first points of the season. The CFJs are also off zero after beating SGU 3-2. First half goals for Dominik Szoboszlai (I hope he doesn’t get many!) and Dominic Solanke had Aaron’s team in control by the half hour mark but the Cows turned it round after the break with two goals from Odsonne Edouard and one from Eberi Eze sent Chris away with the points.