Week 28 Results - Artisans kept waiting

Aardvark Abacus 3 v 1 San Dimas High School 

Claymore Athletic FC 0 v 0 Mega Buck Bandits 

Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 2 v 1 YTFIB 

Markian United 2 v 2 The Fabulous Artisans 

Real Muppets 3 v 1 The Wateringhole Society 

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

Trusted By Millions 3 v 0 Cheese Makers 

Wheel Madrid 0 v 2 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Fabulous Artisans	28	19	5	4	63	33	30	62
2	Real Muppets	28	18	3	7	66	42	24	57
3	The Wateringhole Society	28	16	2	10	69	51	18	50
4	The Cow-Faced Juniors	28	14	6	8	68	47	21	48
5	Aardvark Abacus	28	14	6	8	53	41	12	48
6	Stanley and Gracie United	28	13	8	7	58	47	11	47
7	Cheese Makers	28	13	7	8	65	51	14	46
8	Trusted By Millions	28	11	5	12	57	47	10	38
9	Claymore Athletic FC	28	11	4	13	50	53	-3	37
10	Garth Crooks' Team of the Week	28	10	5	13	38	48	-10	35
11	Markian United	28	9	6	13	49	47	2	33
12	San Dimas High School	28	7	12	9	38	55	-17	33
13	Mega Buck Bandits	28	8	4	16	37	57	-20	28
14	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	28	7	6	15	34	66	-32	27
15	YTFIB	28	7	5	16	37	59	-22	26
16	Wheel Madrid	28	2	6	20	24	62	-38	12

The Artisans still not quite there after being held 2-2 by Markian. Ben’s team needed a late fightback to grab that point too. Ian was two up through goals from Ismaila Sarr and Rayan, Omar Marmoush fired across the keeper two minutes into injury time to pull one back and Marc Guehi’s equalising clean edges Ben closer to his first title. The Muppets won again to keep the race alive, beating the Wateringhole 3-1. Ryan’s team flew into a two goal lead inside six minutes through Jack Hinshelwood and James Tarkowski. Harvey Barnes gave Kiran hope after 74 minutes but that was extinguished a minute later by Erling Haaland.

The CFJs and SGU stay in the third place fight after a 2-2 draw. Goals from Enzo Fernandez and Zian Flemming had Aaron’s team on top but the Cows were rescued by cleans from Gabriel and Nassar Mazraoui. Sandwiched between these teams are the Aardvarks. (Mmmm… Aardvark sandwich.) Ady’s team saw off San Dimas 3-1 thanks to goals from Lewis Dunk and Ollie Watkins plus a Dunk clean.

A first league defeat for Cheese Makers since Week 12 probably sees the end of Matthew’s third place hopes. The Cheese went down 3-0 to Trusted (Beto, Jean-Philippe Mateta and Leandro Trossard all on target for Beef) who are in the top half of the table for the first time this season. Trusted bumped Claymore down to ninth after Clive’s team were held 0-0 by Mega Bucks. That’s a first point for Dave after six straight defeats.

After an excellent early Ryan Gravenberch strike for YTFIB Julian’s team were beaten 2-1 at GC TotW. Ollie turned it round with cleans from Lisandro Martinez and Joel Veltman. Nil Satis landed their first win since week 17, 2-0 at Wheel Madrid. Jeremy Doku and Dominic Calvert-Lewin (from the spot) got the goals for Paul S that keeps Paul W in danger of equalling a couple of unwanted records.

Week 27 Results - Not over yet

Cheese Makers 2 v 1 Claymore Athletic FC 

Mega Buck Bandits 1 v 2 Aardvark Abacus

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 4 v 4 San Dimas High School

Stanley and Gracie United 3 v 2 Trusted By Millions

The Fabulous Artisans 0 v 1 Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 

The Wateringhole Society 3 v 2 Markian United

Wheel Madrid 1 v 3 Real Muppets

YTFIB 0 v 4 The Cow-Faced Juniors 

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Fabulous Artisans	27	19	4	4	61	31	30	61
2	Real Muppets	27	17	3	7	63	41	22	54
3	The Wateringhole Society	27	16	2	9	68	48	20	50
4	The Cow-Faced Juniors	27	14	5	8	66	45	21	47
5	Cheese Makers	27	13	7	7	65	48	17	46
6	Stanley and Gracie United	27	13	7	7	56	45	11	46
7	Aardvark Abacus	27	13	6	8	50	40	10	45
8	Claymore Athletic FC	27	11	3	13	50	53	-3	36
9	Trusted By Millions	27	10	5	12	54	47	7	35
10	San Dimas High School	27	7	12	8	37	52	-15	33
11	Markian United	27	9	5	13	47	45	2	32
12	Garth Crooks' Team of the Week	27	9	5	13	36	47	-11	32
13	Mega Buck Bandits	27	8	3	16	37	57	-20	27
14	YTFIB	27	7	5	15	36	57	-21	26
15	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	27	6	6	15	32	66	-34	24
16	Wheel Madrid	27	2	6	19	24	60	-36	12

A bump in the road for the Artisans who went down 1-0 at home to GC TotW. Ollie’s winner was a Miles Lewis-Skelly clean and Ben’s first league defeat since week 19 means he must wait at least one more week for his first title. The Muppets are still within range, just in case, after beating Wheel Madrid 3-1. Lewis Hall and Adrien Truffaut notching cleans for Ryan after Paul’s team had found a late equaliser from Emi Buendia.

The Wateringhole lead the battle for third after edging Markian 3-2. After trailing 2-1 Harvey Barnes grabbed a late leveller for Kiran who then won it with William Saliba’s clean. The CFJs shrugged YTFIB aside 4-0 to stay three points behind TWS. Viktor Gyokeres added another two goals to his seasonal tally.

Cheese Makers beat Claymore 2-1 to stay in the third place conversation. Joao Pedro’s injury time bicycle kick made it 1-1 and James Hill got Matthew’s winning clean. SGU are on the same 46-point mark after a 3-2 win over Trusted. The game turned on a first half injury time penalty. Cole Palmer took it, Mats Selz saved it and that set Aaron’s team up for a Domonik Szoboszlai winner straight after the break.

The Aardvarks are a point further back after winning the Bevan Derby 2-1. Ben White’s clean was Ady’s winner. Nil Satis ended their run of nine straight defeats with a 4-4 draw against San Dimas. Jeremy Doku scored two crackers, one late on to make it 4-1 but my team grabbed a point with three clean sheets.

Week 26 Results - Artisans need one more win

Aardvark Abacus 2 v 1 Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 

Cheese Makers 4 v 4 Wheel Madrid 

Claymore Athletic FC 1 v 5 The Cow-Faced Juniors

Mega Buck Bandits 0 v 3 Real Muppets

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 0 v 4 Trusted By Millions

San Dimas High School 0 v 7 Markian United

Stanley and Gracie United 1 v 1 The Wateringhole Society 

YTFIB 0 v 2 The Fabulous Artisans 

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Fabulous Artisans	26	19	4	3	61	30	31	61
2	Real Muppets	26	16	3	7	60	40	20	51
3	The Wateringhole Society	26	15	2	9	65	46	19	47
4	The Cow-Faced Juniors	26	13	5	8	62	45	17	44
5	Cheese Makers	26	12	7	7	63	47	16	43
6	Stanley and Gracie United	26	12	7	7	53	43	10	43
7	Aardvark Abacus	26	12	6	8	48	39	9	42
8	Claymore Athletic FC	26	11	3	12	49	51	-2	36
9	Trusted By Millions	26	10	5	11	52	44	8	35
10	Markian United	26	9	5	12	45	42	3	32
11	San Dimas High School	26	7	11	8	33	48	-15	32
12	Garth Crooks' Team of the Week	26	8	5	13	35	47	-12	29
13	Mega Buck Bandits	26	8	3	15	36	55	-19	27
14	YTFIB	26	7	5	14	36	53	-17	26
15	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	26	6	5	15	28	62	-34	23
16	Wheel Madrid	26	2	6	18	23	57	-34	12

The Artisans left it late to beat YTFIB 2-0 through a very late goal from record signing Florian Wirtz and a clean from Marc Guehi. The title’s not quite clinched yet though as the Muppets won 3-0 at Mega Bucks. Erling Haaland opened the scoring to keep Ryan’s team in with an unlikely but mathematical chance.

It’s over for the this season for the Wateringhole after a 1-1 draw with SGU. Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall scored a belter late on to equalise for Aaron. The CFJs are up to fourth after brushing a side Claymore 5-1. Eze, Soucek and Wewlbeck were all on target.

Cheese Makers were held to a 4-4 draw by Wheel Madrid. Matthew’s team put in a vastly improved performance after the Cup Final disappointment but ran into a ‘what might have been’ showing from Wheels’ team with Wood, Isak and Wilson all scoring. A clean from Micky van de Ven gave the Aardvarks a 2-1 win over GC TotW and put some distance to eighth-placed Claymore.

Trusted are finally finding some form and brushed Nil Satis aside 4-0 to put pressure on Clive for that last top half spot. San Dimas might be out of that race now after crashing 7-0 at home to Markian. Too heavy on the Cup win celebrations?