Week 9 Results - Top four all lose

Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 1 v 2 Trusted By Millions

Markian United 0 v 3 Claymore Athletic FC

Real Muppets 1 v 4 Aardvark Abacus

The Cow-Faced Juniors 2 v 3 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

The Fabulous Artisans 2 v 3 Cheese Makers

The Wateringhole Society 4 v 0 Mega Buck Bandits

Wheel Madrid 2 v 3 San Dimas High School

YTFIB 1 v 3 Stanley and Gracie United

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Fabulous Artisans	9	7	1	1	21	11	10	22
2	The Cow-Faced Juniors	9	5	2	2	23	16	7	17
3	Real Muppets	9	5	1	3	27	16	11	16
4	Aardvark Abacus	9	4	3	2	16	9	7	15
5	The Wateringhole Society	9	5	0	4	19	18	1	15
6	Markian United	9	4	2	3	19	15	4	14
7	Stanley and Gracie United	9	4	2	3	15	15	0	14
8	Claymore Athletic FC	9	4	1	4	14	13	1	13
9	San Dimas High School	9	3	4	2	11	16	-5	13
10	Cheese Makers	9	4	0	5	15	18	-3	12
11	Mega Buck Bandits	9	4	0	5	10	22	-12	12
12	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	9	3	2	4	10	20	-10	11
13	Trusted By Millions	9	2	3	4	18	14	4	9
14	Garth Crooks' Team of the Week	9	2	2	5	9	11	-2	8
15	YTFIB	9	2	1	6	13	21	-8	7
16	Wheel Madrid	9	1	2	6	8	13	-5	5

A first league defeat of the season for the Artisans, going down to Cheese Makers 3-2, but other results mean Ben retains his five point lead. First half goals from Bryan Mbeumo and Dan Ballard set Matthew up for the win and when Joao Pedro had the freedom of the penalty to make it 3-0 on 65 minutes it looked done and dusted. Ben’s team did hit back with a Matthew de Ligt header and Bart Verbruggen clean but it wasn’t enough. The CFJs lost by the same score to Nil Satis. The Cows led twice too, Giorgi Mamardashvili’s early penalty save was equalised by the excellent Jeremy Doku, Tomas Soucek’s goal on 77 minutes was cancelled out by Michael Keane’s shoulder four minutes later. Paul S picked up the points courtesy of Vitali Mykolenko’s clean.

The Muppets also slipped to defeat, 4-1 to the Aardvarks who are up to fourth. Erling Haaland’s header gave Ryan the lead by the half hour but Ady turned it around late. Mathijs Tel’s deflected shot after 84 minutes drew his side level, and Richarlison’s flick header in injury time put the Aardvarks in front. Cleans from Lewis Dunk and Wesley Fofana put a one-sided look on the final score. Another comprehensive win, 4-0 over Mega Bucks, sees The Wateringhole Society up to fifth. 1-0 at the break thanks to Harvey Barnes smart shot on the turn, Malo Gusto and Bukayo Saka scored within three second half minutes of each other to take the game away from Dave. Marc Cucurella’s clean the final counter in the game.

Markian dropped to seventh after their 3-0 defeat to Claymore. A tight game went in Clive’s favour thanks to an Igor Thiago brace in the last 15 minutes, one from the spot, and Trevoh Chalobah’s clean. SGU are quietly going about their business and are three points off second after beating YTFIB 3-1. Zian Flemming’s first-half header was cancelled out by Kevin Schade after 56 minutes before Aaron wrapped it up in a two minute burst. First Harry Maguire bagged an early clean then Pedro Neto was on the end of a sweeping move to finish from close in.

San Dimas just got the better of Wheel Madrid 3-2 after falling two goals behind. Emi Buendia’s precision free-kick and Callum Wilson had Paul W two up at the interval, the San Dimas revival started with an Emi Martinez saved penalty and then Josko Gvardiol and Martinez got cleans to send my team away with all the points. Late goals gave Trusted a 2-1 win at GC TotW. Ollie’s team went ahead with 22 minutes left, Morgan Gibbs-White heading home. A stunning strike from Leandro Trossard restored parity six minutes later and an injury time Elliott Anderson penalty won the game for Beef.

Week 8 Results - Wins for the top three

Aardvark Abacus 0 v 3 Markian United 

Cheese Makers 3 v 0 The Wateringhole Society 

Claymore Athletic FC 0 v 3 Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 

Mega Buck Bandits 1 v 0 Wheel Madrid 

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 1 v 2 YTFIB

San Dimas High School 0 v 4 Real Muppets 

Stanley and Gracie United 1 v 3 The Fabulous Artisans 

Trusted By Millions 1 v 4 The Cow-Faced Juniors 

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Fabulous Artisans	8	7	1	0	19	8	11	22
2	The Cow-Faced Juniors	8	5	2	1	21	13	8	17
3	Real Muppets	8	5	1	2	26	12	14	16
4	Markian United	8	4	2	2	19	12	7	14
5	Aardvark Abacus	8	3	3	2	12	8	4	12
6	The Wateringhole Society	8	4	0	4	15	18	-3	12
7	Mega Buck Bandits	8	4	0	4	10	18	-8	12
8	Stanley and Gracie United	8	3	2	3	12	14	-2	11
9	Claymore Athletic FC	8	3	1	4	11	13	-2	10
10	San Dimas High School	8	2	4	2	8	14	-6	10
11	Cheese Makers	8	3	0	5	12	16	-4	9
12	Garth Crooks' Team of the Week	8	2	2	4	8	9	-1	8
13	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	8	2	2	4	7	18	-11	8
14	YTFIB	8	2	1	5	12	18	-6	7
15	Trusted By Millions	8	1	3	4	16	13	3	6
16	Wheel Madrid	8	1	2	5	6	10	-4	5

The Artisans continue to be the team to catch and notched up a 3-1 win over SGU to keep a five point lead. Harry Wilson’s measured finish had given Aaron the lead just after the hour but Ben soon levelled with an early Riccardo Calafiori clean sheet. And it was cleans, from Marc Guehi and Conor Bradley keep the Artisans at the head of affairs. The CFJs saw off the October MOTM Beef’s side 4-1 to stay second. Early goals from Danny Welbeck and Viktor Gyokeres had the Cows two up inside 15 minutes but Trusted got back into it through Jean-Philippe Mateta’s well-guided header. It was Tomas Soucek who made the game safe in the seventh minute of second half injury time and Gabriel added a clean sheet.

The Muppets are third and look to have improved on their title-winning form from last season. A large part of that is down to Erling Haaland who scored twice in a 4-0 win over San Dimas. That’s 11 in the league now for the Norwegian, he’s well on track to break his own record*. Amad Diallo added a late third and Reece James’ clean rounded off the win for Ryan.  Markian leapt up to fifth after dispatching the Aardvarks 3-0. Ryan Sessegnon broke clear to open the scoring on nine minutes and Lucas Paqueta’s shot from the edge of the are doubled Ian’s lead ten minutes before the break. Maxence Lacroix added a clean for good measure.

The Wateringhole Society lost ground after going down 3-0 to a Cheese Makers side that appear to be waking from their early season slumbers. All the scoring was done inside 34 minutes. It took just four of those minutes for Jacob Murphy to rifle home and half an hour later both Casemiro and Joao Pedro were on target for Matthew. Mega Bucks are up to seventh after a 1-0 win over Wheel Madrid. Declan Rice getting the only goal with a thumping header after 35 minutes. All five of Wheels’ league defeats have been by a single counter.

GC TotW continued their good week with a 3-0 win at Claymore. Ollie’s team were gifted the lead at the end of the first half when Mohamed Salah latched on to a terrible pass from the Claymore keeper. Morgan Gibbs-White added a second straight after the break and Cristian Romero’s clean wrapped up the points. There were two own goals in the Nil Satis/YTFIB game before Julian ended up 2-1 winners. Sven Botman slid into his own net at the end of the first half, Nathan Collins headed into his six minutes after the interval. Ryan Gravenberch’s deflected shot on 58 minutes proved to be the YTFIB winner.

Cup Quarter-final results

Paul Cartmell Memorial Trophy Quarter-finals

Aardvark Abacus 3 v 2 Real Muppets 

San Dimas High School 0 v 1 Trusted By Millions 

The Cow-Faced Juniors 5 v 2 Claymore Athletic FC

YTFIB 1 v 3 The Wateringhole Society

The holders exit.

Charity Shield Quarter-finals

Cheese Makers 3 v 1 Markian United 

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 0 v 1 Stanley and Gracie United

The Fabulous Artisans 0 v 2 Mega Buck Bandits

Wheel Madrid 1 v 1 Garth Crooks' Team of the Week

Replay

Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 4 v 0 Wheel Madrid

Mega Bucks the last previous winners standing.

PCMT

Claymore beat the CFJs in the league last week and that seems to have only served to have wound the Cows up. Chris and Co. didn’t get an instant reaction, they fell behind to a Matheus Cunha goal, but were 2-1 up at the break. Some sort of kung fu half-volley from Eberi Eze was soon followed by a Jorgen Strand Larsen penalty. An Igor Thiago spot-kick on the hour equalised for Clive but a brilliant Danny Welbeck free-kick gave the CFJs a lead they didn’t relinquish with Gabriel and Alex Jimenez adding cleans in a 5-2 win.

The Muppets have won the PCMT four times, the most of any manager still in the game, but won’t be adding to that total after losing 3-2 to the Aardvarks. Micky van de Ven scored two first-half headers either side of Marcus Tavernier’s long-ranger and Wilson Isidor getting one back for Ryan. The only second half score was Chemsdine Talbi perfectly placing a shot to bring it back to 3-2 but Ady’s team held on.

The Wateringhole Society need this trophy to complete the set and they’ll be in the semi-final draw (for the first time) after beating YTFIB 3-1. Kevin Schade put Julian ahead just before the break but an early William Saliba clean levelled matters. There were also cleans from Gugliemo Vicario and Ezri Konsa at the end to send Kiran through. Trusted beat San Dimas 1-0, the only goal being a long-distance effort from Eli Kroupi.

Charity Shield

The league-leading Artisans didn’t bring that form to their game with Mega Bucks, going down 2-0. Dango Ouattara hooked in after five minutes for Dave, Bruno Guimaraes followed up to settle it in the last minute. SGU beat Nil Satis 1-0 thanks to a first half injury time header from Marshall Munetsi. 

Cheese Makers recovered from going 1-0 down to Markian to win 3-1. Joe Rodon headed Ian ahead after 15 minutes but a deflected Casemiro shot drew the sides level before the break. A Bryan Mbeumo brace after the interval sent Matthew through. GC TotW and Wheel Madrid will need a replay after a 1-1 draw. Ollie was close to a semi-final place when Mohamed Salah smashed him in front with two minutes left only for Djed Spence’s clean to give Wheels a second chance.

In the replay goals either side of half-time broke the Wheel Madrid resistance and a couple of cleans wrapped it up for Ollie. GC TotW are into their first semi-final.

Week 7 Results - Trusted hit ten

Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 0 v 1 Aardvark Abacus

Markian United 0 v 0 San Dimas High School 

Real Muppets 5 v 0 Mega Buck Bandits 

The Cow-Faced Juniors 2 v 3 Claymore Athletic FC 

The Fabulous Artisans 3 v 0 YTFIB 

The Wateringhole Society 1 v 2 Stanley and Gracie United 

Trusted By Millions 10 (Ten) v 0 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

Wheel Madrid 1 v 2 Cheese Makers

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Fabulous Artisans	7	6	1	0	16	7	9	19
2	The Cow-Faced Juniors	7	4	2	1	17	12	5	14
3	Real Muppets	7	4	1	2	22	12	10	13
4	Aardvark Abacus	7	3	3	1	12	5	7	12
5	The Wateringhole Society	7	4	0	3	15	15	0	12
6	Markian United	7	3	2	2	16	12	4	11
7	Stanley and Gracie United	7	3	2	2	11	11	0	11
8	Claymore Athletic FC	7	3	1	3	11	10	1	10
9	San Dimas High School	7	2	4	1	8	10	-2	10
10	Mega Buck Bandits	7	3	0	4	9	18	-9	9
11	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	7	2	2	3	6	16	-10	8
12	Trusted By Millions	7	1	3	3	15	9	6	6
13	Cheese Makers	7	2	0	5	9	16	-7	6
14	Wheel Madrid	7	1	2	4	6	9	-3	5
15	Garth Crooks' Team of the Week	7	1	2	4	5	9	-4	5
16	YTFIB	7	1	1	5	10	17	-7	4

I think we have to start with Trusted (sorry Paul). Beef’s win is the biggest victory on record https://wsffl.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-big-list-of-big-scores.html 

Eli Kroupi announced himself with two first half goals, Jean-Philippe Mateta hit a second half hat-trick (and will be disappointed not to have scored more), there was a goal and a clean from Nordi Mukiele and more besides. Can we expect Beef's team to go on the charge from here or is this a false dawn? Away from that the Artisans are now five points clear after beating YTFIB 3-0. Josh Acheampong headed Ben’s team in front just after the break and a clever back heel from Nick Woltemade made it two. Riccardo Calafiori added a clean. It’s a milestone for Ben who has topped the league for a 50th week in his managerial career.

The CFJs are still second but lost ground after a 3-2 defeat to Claymore. Two Danny Welbeck goals, either side of an Igor Thiago strike for Clive, had the Cows ahead with six minutes left. Cleans from Michael Kayode and Quilindschy Hartman turned things round and sent Claymore away with the points. The Muppets are up to third after strolling to a 5-0 win over Mega Bucks. All the goals came in the second half. Erling Haaland scored twice, Reece James (a goal and a clean) and Ryan Christie added the rest of the counters in the last ten minutes.

The Aardvarks are fourth after a 1-0 win at GC TotW. The only goal was a super strike from Morgan Rogers on 37 minutes. The Wateringhole lost ground though after going down 2-1 to SGU. Pedro Neto’s set-piece strike seven minutes after the break put Aaron ahead, Cody Gakpo hit back for Kiran only for Harry Maguire to place a header beyond the Wateringhole keeper with six minutes left.

Markian lost the chance to close in after being held to a goalless draw by San Dimas. That’s all that needs to be said on that game! Cheese Makers hauled themselves off the foot of the table with a 2-1 win at Wheel Madrid. Bryan Mbeumo fired in a second minute opener for Matthew, Emi Buendia hit a brilliant equaliser for Wheels but it was a David Raya clean that jumped the Cheese up to 13th.