Week 13 Results - The Gardeners close the gap

Aardvark Abacus 2 v 0 Trusted By Millions 

Claymore Athletic FC 2 v 0 Mega Buck Bandits

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 4 v 1 YTFIB 

Markian United 5 v 1 The Fabulous Artisans 

San Dimas High School 1 v 2 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 

Stanley and Gracie United 1 v 3 Cheese Makers

The Wateringhole Society 2 v 2 The Cow-Faced Juniors 

Wheel Madrid 1 v 3 Real Muppets

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Cow-Faced Juniors	13	10	2	1	45	20	25	32
2	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	13	9	2	2	37	16	21	29
3	The Fabulous Artisans	13	8	0	5	33	21	12	24
4	The Wateringhole Society	13	6	5	2	39	25	14	23
5	Markian United	13	6	1	6	30	23	7	19
6	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	13	6	1	6	22	24	-2	19
7	Aardvark Abacus	13	6	1	6	20	26	-6	19
8	Trusted By Millions	13	5	3	5	27	23	4	18
9	Real Muppets	13	5	2	6	34	31	3	17
10	Claymore Athletic FC	13	5	2	6	23	30	-7	17
11	Wheel Madrid	13	5	2	6	16	25	-9	17
12	Stanley and Gracie United	13	5	1	7	25	31	-6	16
13	San Dimas High School	13	4	3	6	20	27	-7	15
14	YTFIB	13	4	2	7	11	24	-13	14
15	Mega Buck Bandits	13	3	1	9	15	33	-18	10
16	Cheese Makers	13	2	2	9	12	30	-18	8

Charity Shield Final replay

Claymore Athletic FC 1 

Dewsbury-Hall 4

v

San Dimas High School 6

Faes og38, og45

Bueno [c73]

Palhinha 88

Olsen [c]

Burn [c]

(no cancelled cleans)

At London Stadium, Att: 62,467

Teams

Claymore

Ward; Chalobah, Akanji, Stones, Cresswell; Nunes, Dewsbury-Hall, Onana, Podence; Mitrovic, Costa    Subs - Dubravka; Faes; Tielemans; Guedes

San Dimas

Olsen; Estupinan, Cancelo, Walker-Peters, Burn; Joelinton, Caicedo, Mahrez, McNeil; Anthony, Gnonto    Subs - Turner; Bueno; Palhinha; Elanga

Report

Clive’s wait to complete the WSFFL ‘Grand Slam’ goes on. It was a great start from the Swordsmen too, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall racing through a static San Dimas back line to fire his team ahead in four minutes. The game turned in seven minutes before half-time. Claymore sub Wout Fees scoring two own goals to send my team in with the lead. 

An early clean from Hugo Bueno made it 3-1 and an 88th minute Joao Palhinha back-post header from a corner appeared to make it safe. Clive’s team had a chance to reduce the deficit in injury time but Aleksandar Mitrovic couldn’t convert a penalty and cleans from Robin Olsen and Dan Burn made it a comprehensive San Dimas win. 

(The first match went like this...)

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.

Paul Cartmell Memorial Trophy Final

Real Muppets 3

Haaland 51, 64

Koulibaly [c]

v

YTFIB 2

Decordova-Reid 31 

March 56

(one cancelled clean)

At Wembley Att: 90,000

Teams

Real Muppets

Ederson; Lenglet, Tarkowski, James, Koulibaly; Foden, Ramsey, De Bruyne, Christie; Saka, Haaland    Subs - Ortega; Adarabioyo; McTominay; Iheanacho

YTFIB

Pope; Collins, Williams, Ward, Gomez; Gundogan, Lingard, March, James; Hwang, Decordova-Reid    Subs - Hennessey; Smith; Keita; St-Maximin

Report

The Muppets claim the PCMT for the third time in six seasons and the fourth in all with a comeback win against YTFIB. Julian's improving team took the lead just after the half-hour when Bobby Decordova-Reid glanced in a header and they took that advantage into the break.

Six minutes after half-time Ryan's team were level. WSFFL record-signing Erling Haaland couldn't miss after the Muppets latched on to a defensive blunder. YTFIB weren't deterred by the setback though, Solly March hitting a 25-yard screamer into the top corner just five minutes later.

Haaland soon scored a second equaliser, being given too much space for a first-time finish from 12 yards and this time his team were on top and the game was settled with a clean sheet from Kalidou Koulibaly. £97m of talent on the scoresheet proving too much in the end for a squad worth not much more than half that.

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How they got there

Semi-finals

Markian United 1 YTFIB 2 (after 1-1 draw)

Trusted By Millions 1 v 3 Real Muppets

Quarter-finals

Aardvark Abacus 0 v 1 YTFIB

Markian United 2 v 1 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

Real Muppets 7 v 1 Cheese Makers

The Cow-Faced Juniors 2 v 5 Trusted By Millions

First Round

Aardvark Abacus 1 v 1 San Dimas High School

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 2 v 3 Trusted By Millions

Markian United 1 v 1 Stanley and Gracie United

Mega Buck Bandits 2 v 3 Cheese Makers

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 2 v 0 Claymore Athletic FC

Real Muppets 5 v 0 The Fabulous Artisans

Wheel Madrid 1 v 1 The Cow-Faced Juniors

YTFIB 3 v 0 The Wateringhole Society

Replays

San Dimas High School 1 v 3 Aardvark Abacus

Stanley and Gracie United 1 v 3 Markian United

The Cow-Faced Juniors 2 v 1 Wheel Madrid

Charity Shield Final

Claymore Athletic FC 2 

Podence 22

Mitrovic 80

v

San Dimas High School 2

Joelinton 32

Perraud og35

(no cancelled cleans)

At Old Trafford, Att: 73,608

Teams

Claymore

Ward; Chalobah, Akanji, Stones, Perraud; Luiz, Tielemans, Onana, Podence; Mitrovic, Costa    Subs - Dubravka; Veltman; Dewsbury-Hall; Guedes

San Dimas

Turner; Estupinan, Cancelo, Walker-Peters, Lindelof; Joelinton, Caicedo, Mahrez, McNeil; Elanga, Gnonto    Subs - Olsen; Mitchell; Palhinha; Anthony

Report

Claymore and San Dimas will have to try again to decide this season's Charity Shield winners after a 2-2 draw.

It was first blood to Clive on 22 minutes when Daniel Podence guided in first-time after a cleverly-worked set-piece but my team were level ten minutes later when Joelinton powered in a header. He has a habit of scoring against his former employers.

Three minutes later The Saints were in front. Romain Perraud got himself in a pickle in front of his own goal and bundled in. That's how it stayed until ten minutes from time when Aleksandar Mitrovic was left alone to place a header in and force the replay.

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How they got there:

Semi-finals

San Dimas High School 1 v 0 The Fabulous Artisans (after 0-0 draw)

Wheel Madrid 0 v 5 Claymore Athletic FC

Quarter-finals

San Dimas High School 3 v 2 Stanley and Gracie United (after 1-1 draw)

The Fabulous Artisans 3 v 2 Mega Buck Bandits

The Wateringhole Society 1 v 2 Claymore Athletic FC

Wheel Madrid 4 v 0 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI