Week 19 Results - Title race still alive

Cheese Makers 4 v 1 The Cow-Faced Juniors 

Mega Buck Bandits 1 v 4 Trusted By Millions 

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 0 v 1 Aardvark Abacus

San Dimas High School 2 v 1 Claymore Athletic FC

Stanley and Gracie United 4 v 2 Garth Crooks' Team of the Week

The Fabulous Artisans 2 v 3 Real Muppets 

The Wateringhole Society 4 v 0 Wheel Madrid 

YTFIB 2 v 3 Markian United 

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Fabulous Artisans	19	14	2	3	44	27	17	44
2	The Wateringhole Society	19	13	1	5	55	32	23	40
3	Real Muppets	19	12	2	5	48	31	17	38
4	Aardvark Abacus	19	9	6	4	38	24	14	33
5	Stanley and Gracie United	19	9	5	5	41	32	9	32
6	Claymore Athletic FC	19	8	3	8	37	33	4	27
7	The Cow-Faced Juniors	19	8	3	8	37	38	-1	27
8	San Dimas High School	19	7	6	6	28	35	-7	27
9	Cheese Makers	19	7	5	7	35	39	-4	26
10	Trusted By Millions	19	6	5	8	33	31	2	23
11	Mega Buck Bandits	19	7	2	10	29	40	-11	23
12	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	19	6	5	8	25	37	-12	23
13	Markian United	19	6	4	9	28	31	-3	22
14	Garth Crooks' Team of the Week	19	4	4	11	28	39	-11	16
15	YTFIB	19	3	5	11	25	42	-17	14
16	Wheel Madrid	19	2	4	13	18	38	-20	10

A huge win for the Muppets over the league-leading Artisans to keep Ryan’s team in with a chance of following up last year’s title success. Ben’s team led twice, through the ever-reliable Jarrod Bowen and improving Florian Wirtz but Ryan hit back with excellent strikes from Habib Diarra and Chemsdine Talbi. Jurrien Timber’s clean sheet made it 3-2 to the Muppets and closes the gap to the top to six points. In between those teams are the Wateringhole Society who had a comfortable 4-0 win over Wheel Madrid Hugo Ekitike struck twice in three minutes just before half time. Piero Hincapie and William Saliba bagged clean sheets.

The Aardvarks stayed fourth with a 1-0 win over Nil Satis, Martin Zubimendi heading home after 27 minutes. SGU round out the top five that have stayed the same for six weeks now. Despite falling behind to an early Morgan Gibbs-White goal Aaron’s team beat GC TotW 4-2. Dominic Solanke scored twice, his second a flukey/brilliant ’scorpion kick’, to put SGU in front and Enzo Fernandez made it 3-1. Ibrahima Konate poked in to pull one back for Ollie but Trai Hume’s clean settled it.

Claymore and the CFJs in 6th and 7th lost to the teams in 8th and 9th. San Dimas beat Claymore 2-1. Crysencio Summerville and Matheus Cunha swapped goals before Marcos Senesi’s clean clinched it for me. It was a 4-1 win for Cheese Makers over the Cows. Matthew’s team have settled into a 3-4-3 formation and all three Cheese attackers scored this week - Anthony Gordon in the first half, Joao Pedro and Raul Jimenez in the second. Casemiro was Matthew’s other scorer, Viktor Gyokeres got the CFJs’ goal.

Trusted are finally moving in the right direction and beat Mega Bucks 4-1. A fabulous hit from Eli Junior Kroupi was soon followed by Noni Madueke curling a corner straight in. Dango Ouattara replied for Dave before the break and it stayed 2-1 until the final five minutes when Gabriel Jesus scored and Nordi Mukiele picked up a clean for Beef. Markian ended their umpteen games (check before sending out) without a win by beating YTFIB 3-2. Ryan Cherki’s opener for Ian was equalised by Antoine Semenyo. Ismaila Sarr put Markian back in front only for Alex Scott to level in injury time but at 90+4 Benjamin Sesko turned and shot high into the net for the winner.

FA Cup QF draw

Cheese Makers v Aardvark Abacus

Garth Crooks' Team of the Week v The Cow-Faced Juniors

San Dimas High School v Wheel Madrid

YTFIB v The Fabulous Artisans 

Those games are scheduled for the midweek 10-12 February.

Week 18 Results - Chasing teams lose ground

Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 2 v 3 The Cow-Faced Juniors

Markian United 0 v 2 Trusted By Millions

Real Muppets 0 v 5 Claymore Athletic FC

Stanley and Gracie United 5 v 0 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

The Fabulous Artisans 3 v 1 Mega Buck Bandits

The Wateringhole Society 0 v 4 San Dimas High School

Wheel Madrid 1 v 4 Aardvark Abacus

YTFIB 3 v 3 Cheese Makers

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Fabulous Artisans	18	14	2	2	42	24	18	44
2	The Wateringhole Society	18	12	1	5	51	32	19	37
3	Real Muppets	18	11	2	5	45	29	16	35
4	Aardvark Abacus	18	8	6	4	37	24	13	30
5	Stanley and Gracie United	18	8	5	5	37	30	7	29
6	Claymore Athletic FC	18	8	3	7	36	31	5	27
7	The Cow-Faced Juniors	18	8	3	7	36	34	2	27
8	San Dimas High School	18	6	6	6	26	34	-8	24
9	Cheese Makers	18	6	5	7	31	38	-7	23
10	Mega Buck Bandits	18	7	2	9	28	36	-8	23
11	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	18	6	5	7	25	36	-11	23
12	Trusted By Millions	18	5	5	8	29	30	-1	20
13	Markian United	18	5	4	9	25	29	-4	19
14	Garth Crooks' Team of the Week	18	4	4	10	26	35	-9	16
15	YTFIB	18	3	5	10	23	39	-16	14
16	Wheel Madrid	18	2	4	12	18	34	-16	10

Well, that’s a pretty good week for the Artisans. Ben’s team did their job beating Mega Bucks 3-1 and saw both of their closest rivals slip up. Omar Marmoush doesn’t get much Artisans game time but made his rare start count with a goal after just six minutes. Dave’s team hit back 20 minutes later when Evanilson was given too much space. The lead was restored two minutes later when Jarrod Bowen converted from the spot and there was no more scoring until Marc Guehi made it 3-1 with a clean sheet.

The Wateringhole Society and Real Muppets both went down 4-0. Kiran’s team ran into a surprisingly good San Dimas performance with Crysencio Summerville, Samuel Chukwueze (his first in the WSFFL) and Mikel Merino all on target and Emi Martinez adding a clean.  The Muppets were turned over by Claymore who had excellent long-distance strikes from Mateus Fernandes and Matheus Cunha plus a close range effort from Thierno Barry and a clean from Matty Cash.

The Aardvarks beat Wheel Madrid 4-1 to stay fourth. Igor Jesus’ goal was quickly equalised by Emi Buendia’s curling effort but Micky van de Ven restored Ady’s lead before the break. Ollie Watkins made it 3-1 a couple of minutes from the end and Ian Maatsen’s clean wrapped things up. There was a bigger win for SGU who stay fifth. They trounced Nil Satis 5-0. Virgil van Dijk shouldered in a corner right on half-time and there were goals from Enzo Fernandez (from the spot). Dominik Szoboszlai and Harry Wilson plus an Ola Aina clean in the second period.

The CFJs benefited from a Lisandro Martinez own goal to beat GC TotW 3-2. Ollie’s team fought back from two down to level on 90 minutes when Cristian Romero powers a header home but the Cows had a winning clean from the bench thanks to Jean-Clair Todibo. Cheese Makers and YTFIB played out an entertaining 3-3 draw. Matthew needed an Abdudokhir Khusanov clean for that equaliser after Chris Richards looked to have won it for Julian with an 88th minute scrambled goal. Beef overtook Markian in the table with a 2-0 win over those opponents. Cleans from Gianluigi Donnarumma and Konstantinos Mavropanos were the Trusted scorers.

Week 17 Results - Artisans extend lead

Aardvark Abacus 1 v 1 YTFIB 

Claymore Athletic FC 1 v 2 The Fabulous Artisans

Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 2 v 4 Real Muppets

Mega Buck Bandits 1 v 1 Cheese Makers 

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 2 v 0 Markian United 

San Dimas High School 1 v 1 Stanley and Gracie United

The Cow-Faced Juniors 2 v 1 Wheel Madrid

Trusted By Millions 1 v 1 The Wateringhole Society 

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Fabulous Artisans	17	13	2	2	39	23	16	41
2	The Wateringhole Society	17	12	1	4	51	28	23	37
3	Real Muppets	17	11	2	4	45	25	20	35
4	Aardvark Abacus	17	7	6	4	33	23	10	27
5	Stanley and Gracie United	17	7	5	5	32	30	2	26
6	The Cow-Faced Juniors	17	7	3	7	33	32	1	24
7	Claymore Athletic FC	17	7	3	7	32	31	1	24
8	Mega Buck Bandits	17	7	2	8	27	33	-6	23
9	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	17	6	5	6	25	31	-6	23
10	Cheese Makers	17	6	4	7	28	35	-7	22
11	San Dimas High School	17	5	6	6	22	34	-12	21
12	Markian United	17	5	4	8	25	27	-2	19
13	Trusted By Millions	17	4	5	8	27	30	-3	17
14	Garth Crooks' Team of the Week	17	4	4	9	24	32	-8	16
15	YTFIB	17	3	4	10	20	36	-16	13
16	Wheel Madrid	17	2	4	11	17	30	-13	10

The league leadership elastic band has stretched back in the Artisans favour.

Ben’s team have a four-point advantage after a 2-1 win at Claymore. An emphatic Florian Wirtz finish put the Artisans ahead three minutes before the break, Thierno Barry equalised just before the hour but Diogo Dalot bagged the winning clean for the leaders. Clive’s team have picked up just one win after taking the November MOTM award. #TheCurse

The Wateringhole Society drew at Trusted to fall back in the title race. Cole Palmer’s 76th minute spot kick had Beef ahead, William Saliba’s clean was Kiran’s equaliser.

The Muppets are still hot on the heels of the top two after a revenge win at GC TotW. Ollie’s team downed Ryan’s in the Cup last week and had the champions on the rack again at 2-0 after 71 minutes thanks to Cristian Romero and Brian Brobbey. It took four cleans from the Muppets (James Tarkowski, Jurrien Timber, Reece James and Lewis Hall) to turn the result in Ryan’s favour. The Aardvarks stay fourth but slipped further behind after being held 1-1 by YTFIB. Marcus Tavernier got a first half penalty for Ady, Julian grabbed a point via a Neco Williams clean.

SGU stay fifth after being held 1-1 by San Dimas. Crysencio Summerville’s deflected shot looked to have got me all three points only for Robert Sanchez to get Aaron’s equalising clean. Is the CFJs wobble over? They’re back up to sixth after beating Wheels 2-1. Yeremy Pino’s clever finish put the Cows ahead after half an hour, Callum Wilson bundled in three minutes into injury time to equalise for Paul W but there was still time for Gabriel’s clean to win it for the Cows.

Mega Bucks and Cheese Makers played out a 1-1 draw. Both goals came in the first half. Joao Pedro for Matthew on 26 minutes, Enzo Le Fee for Dave seven minutes later. Clean sheets were the difference in the game between Nil Satis and Markian. Jake O’Brien and Sven Botman were the scorers for Paul S that take him to ninth in the table. Ian has lost six out of his last seven games.