Week 22 Results

The Aardvarks go top.

Athletico Phoenix 3 v 0 The Wateringhole Society
Cheese Makers 1 v 2 Aardvark Abacus
Claymore Athletic FC 2 v 1 Mega Buck Bandits
Markian United 2 v 4 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Real Muppets 5 v 4 Wheel Madrid
San Dimas High School 7 v 0 YTFIB
The Fabulous Artisans 2 v 1 The Cow-Faced Juniors
Trusted By Millions 0 v 0 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI


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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Aardvark Abacus	22	15	2	5	51	34	17	47
2	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	22	14	3	5	62	33	29	45
3	Athletico Phoenix	22	10	6	6	42	32	10	36
4	The Wateringhole Society	22	11	3	8	43	38	5	36
5	Real Muppets	22	11	2	9	45	39	6	35
6	San Dimas High School	22	9	6	7	51	36	15	33
7	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	22	10	3	9	49	43	6	33
8	Markian United	22	10	2	10	44	52	-8	32
9	The Fabulous Artisans	22	10	1	11	42	51	-9	31
10	Mega Buck Bandits	22	8	5	9	43	41	2	29
11	The Cow-Faced Juniors	22	9	2	11	44	48	-4	29
12	Claymore Athletic FC	22	8	5	9	39	47	-8	29
13	Cheese Makers	22	8	3	11	36	47	-11	27
14	Wheel Madrid	22	8	1	13	42	51	-9	25
15	Trusted By Millions	22	7	2	13	42	48	-6	23
16	YTFIB	22	4	2	16	20	55	-35	14

Ady’s long unbeaten league run has delivered him to the top of the table. The Aardvarks were trailing to Cheese Makers after Kieran Trippier gifted Matthew’s team an own goal with six minutes left. Cleans from Vincent Kompany and Jamaal Lascelles meant Ady left Le Stade with all the points and that, combined with Fred’s result, means we have our first change of leader since week seven. Fred’s result was a goalless draw at struggling Trusted where Andre Gray missed the best chance of the game for Beef, hitting the keeper with the goal at his mercy.

There was also a change to third place. Athletico swapped places with the Wateringhole Society after beating those opponents 3-0. Demarai Gray opened the scoring after 10 minutes, having bags of space to slot in but the last 11 minutes were decisive. Virgil van Dijkscired two towering headers to keep him in the frame for player of the year. Brian will be rueing his poor start to the season which left him with just nine points after the first ten games. The Muppets second game of the week saw another high-scoring victory, 5-4 this time over Wheel Madrid. Sadio Mane scored twice in the first 20 minutes, the second a clever elevated back heel, and Laurent Koscielny’s deflected shot made it 3-0 just after the break. Jamie Vardy reduced the deficit but Davy Propper’s first of the season restored the advantage. Ashley Young pulled another one back for Wheels but Steve Mounie poked in for the Muppets in injury time which meant that two clean sheets for Wheels weren’t enough to grab a point.

YTFIB are in one of their occasional desperate runs at the moment. San Dimas added to Julian’s woes by sticking seven past them. Fabian Schar started the rout with a screamer that went in off a post, Romelu Lukaku added two more and Pedro fired through the keeper’s legs for 4-0. Schar was among the clean sheet getters too as my team notched up the biggest win of the season. Nil Satis overtook Markian after coming back from 2-0 down. Gylfi Sigurdsson had got both Markian goals but Dominic Calbert-Lewin got Paul S back in the game in injury time and cleans from Coleman, Danilo and Alonso clinched the Nil Satis win.

The Artisans made it 27 points out of 36 (the same as Athletico) with a 2-1 win over the CFJs. Chris and Co. took an early lead when Mesut Ozil did his clever kick the ball into the ground so it clears the advancing keeper thing but Ben hit back through Divock Origi on 66 minutes. The decider was Lucas Digne’s clean and the Artisans are now just a point pff the top half. Claymore beat Mega Bucks 2-1 to join Dave’s team on 29 points. New signing Sean Longstaff celebrated by getting the opening goal for Clive, firing in from the corner of the six-yard box seven minutes before the break. P-E Aubameyang replied for Dave just before the hour after he was given far too much space to race away and round the keeper but Sergio Augero rolled in a penalty at Claymore almost straight after that to give Clive the victory.

Week 21 Results

Tough times for the teams at the top. The Nil Satis/Muppets was called off due to oooh… let’s say an outbreak of Equine Flu at the Nil Satis training ground.

Aardvark Abacus 2 v 2 Athletico Phoenix
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 1 v 3 Markian United
Mega Buck Bandits 2 v 3 Cheese Makers
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum P v P Real Muppets
The Cow-Faced Juniors 2 v 0 Trusted By Millions
The Wateringhole Society 2 v 2 San Dimas High School
Wheel Madrid 4 v 1 Claymore Athletic FC
YTFIB 0 v 5 The Fabulous Artisans

Re-arranged game

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 4 v 5 Real Muppets

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	21	14	2	5	62	33	29	44
2	Aardvark Abacus	21	14	2	5	49	33	16	44
3	The Wateringhole Society	21	11	3	7	43	35	8	36
4	Athletico Phoenix	21	9	6	6	39	32	7	33
5	Real Muppets	21	10	2	9	40	35	5	32
6	Markian United	21	10	2	9	42	48	-6	32
7	San Dimas High School	21	8	6	7	44	36	8	30
8	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	21	9	3	9	45	41	4	30
9	Mega Buck Bandits	21	8	5	8	42	39	3	29
10	The Cow-Faced Juniors	21	9	2	10	43	46	-3	29
11	The Fabulous Artisans	21	9	1	11	40	50	-10	28
12	Cheese Makers	21	8	3	10	35	45	-10	27
13	Claymore Athletic FC	21	7	5	9	37	46	-9	26
14	Wheel Madrid	21	8	1	12	38	46	-8	25
15	Trusted By Millions	21	7	1	13	42	48	-6	22
16	YTFIB	21	4	2	15	20	48	-28	14

Let’s start with Fred who lost to that ninth-placed team, Markian. Salomon Rondon put the leaders ahead straight after the break, but the returning Harry Kane levelled the game 20 minutes later when racing onto a quickly taken throw. Cleans from Yedlin and Shaw gave the win to Markian who climb to fifth - the first time they’ve reached these heady heights. Fred’s defeat gave Ady the chance to go top but a draw with the Phoenix means the Aardvarks are second on goal difference. Brian’s team led twice too, an early goal from Ryan Babel and a second half header from Chris Wood. The Aardvarks hit back through Alexandre Lacazette and a Lascelles clean at the death.

The Wateringhole and San Dimas shared the points too. Nothing much happened in this game until ten minutes left. Sol Bamba scrambled in to put Kiran ahead, Ashley Barnes was alert at the far post to level things for me straightaway and Raul Jimenez had the mighty Society 2-1 up from the spot a minute later. Antonio Rudiger’s clean sent me home with a point. Mega Bucks could have ended the day in fifth but went down 3-2 at home to Cheese Makers. Josh King (penalty) and Michail Antonio (well-placed header) both got their first of the season for Dave but a thumping header from Issa Diop and two late goals from club legend Troy Deeney puts Matthew in striking distance of the top half.

The CFJs beat Trusted 2-0 to drop Beef’s team into the bottom two. Two clean sheets, from Aymeric Laporte and Shkodran Mustafi did the damage. The Artisans won again, beating the struggling YTFIB 5-0. OK, Chicarito’s handball goal probably shouldn’t have counted but there was nothing wrong with Gerard Deulofeu’s hat-trick. The second, a solo run from inside his own half was the highlight. Wheel Madrid beat Claymore 4-1 to leave those two teams in 14th and 13th respectively. Paul W led through Ayoze Prez’s first-time finish from 10 yards before Jonny Evans hit back with a close range goal of his own for Clive. Clean sheets from Luiz, Young and Matip kept the points at Stratton Park and gave Wheels back-to-back wins for the first time since September.

FA Cup semi-final draw

Mrs co-ordinator did it this time as I haven’t seen anybody else who could do it this week. She hooked out these matches…

The Cow-Faced Juniors v San Dimas High School
Markian United v Claymore Athletic FC

Tough to pick two winners there. The games are set for w/c 9 March.