Week 20 Results - Wins for the top five

Aardvark Abacus 3 v 1 Real Muppets 

Cheese Makers 2 v 2 Mega Buck Bandits 

Claymore Athletic FC 3 v 0 Markian United

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 2 v 2 Wheel Madrid

San Dimas High School 1 v 2 Stanley and Gracie United 

The Cow-Faced Juniors 2 v 2 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 

The Fabulous Artisans 4 v 2 Trusted By Millions 

The Wateringhole Society 4 v 2 YTFIB 

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Aardvark Abacus	20	14	2	4	69	36	33	44
2	Claymore Athletic FC	20	13	2	5	50	32	18	41
3	The Fabulous Artisans	20	13	1	6	53	35	18	40
4	The Wateringhole Society	20	12	2	6	57	35	22	38
5	Stanley and Gracie United	20	12	2	6	44	34	10	38
6	The Cow-Faced Juniors	20	11	3	6	47	41	6	36
7	Trusted By Millions	20	9	4	7	57	44	13	31
8	Markian United	20	10	1	9	40	50	-10	31
9	Real Muppets	20	8	4	8	39	40	-1	28
10	San Dimas High School	20	7	4	9	35	42	-7	25
11	Cheese Makers	20	7	3	10	37	45	-8	24
12	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	20	6	4	10	42	49	-7	22
13	Mega Buck Bandits	20	6	3	11	28	37	-9	21
14	YTFIB	20	4	4	12	25	51	-26	16
15	Wheel Madrid	20	2	6	12	32	59	-27	12
16	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	20	2	3	15	20	45	-25	9

A third of the season left and it’s still tight at the top. The Aardvarks continued their dominant run with victory against the Muppets. Ollie Watkins tapped in early on to give Ady the lead but Phil Foden’s equaliser meant the game was all square at 90 minutes. It didn’t finish that way. Lewis Dunk’s well-placed header put Ady back in front three minutes into stoppage time and Levi Colwill’s clean finished it at 3-1. Claymore stay three points behind in second after a 3-0 victory over Markian. Clive’s main strikers are both injured so he went with a defensive-minded line-up. It paid off with cleans from John Stones, Craig Dawson and Manuel Akanji.

Are the Artisans coming through their bad spell? Ben’s team beat Trusted 4-2 to stay to stay third. Jarrod Bowen’s hat-trick gave the Artisans a 3-0 lead. An Emerson screamer brought it back to 3-1 but an early Conor Bradley clean restored the advantage before Jean-Philippe Mateta could reply from the spot. The Wateringhole had a bit of a scare against YTFIB but came through 4-2. Bukayo Saka drilled into the far corner on 65 minutes to give Kiran the lead but Chris Richards levelled soon after with a stooping header. Alex Iwobi put Julian ahead on the break seven minutes into injury time. Kiran could count on cleans from Maio Gusto, Nelson Semedo and Ruben Dias to deliver him the points.

SGU came from a goal down to beat San Dimas 2-1 and stay in touch with the leaders. Jordan Ayew slid in with half an hour left to equalise a Kai Havertz strike and it was Harry Maguire who slammed in the winner with a minute to go. The CFJs lost ground though after being held 2-2 by Fred. After Pablo Sarabia’s opener for the Cows Fred turned it round with goals from Morgan Gibbs-White and Jakob Kiwior. It needed a Max Kilman clean to give Chris and Co. a share of the spoils.

There were two more 2-2s this week. Two Douglas Luis goals had Cheese Makers 2-1 up against Mega Bucks before Lucas Digne’s clean meant Dave left Le Stade with a point. It was also 2-2 between the two bottom clubs. An unlucky Sven Botman own goal and Leon Bailey’s follow-up had Paul W two up on the hour but Nil Satis showed some resilience and levelled through Jarrad Branthwaite’s goal and a Jose Sa clean.