Week 25 Results - Artisans back on top

Cheese Makers 4 v 3 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

Claymore Athletic FC 0 v 3 The Fabulous Artisans

Mega Buck Bandits 2 v 2 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI

Real Muppets 1 v 2 YTFIB

The Cow-Faced Juniors 1 v 1 Markian United

The Wateringhole Society 1 v 2 San Dimas High School

Trusted By Millions 1 v 3 Stanley Athletic FC

Wheel Madrid 1 v 0 Aardvark Abacus

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Fabulous Artisans	25	14	6	5	54	42	12	48
2	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	25	12	10	3	63	44	19	46
3	The Cow-Faced Juniors	25	13	3	9	54	38	16	42
4	Aardvark Abacus	25	12	6	7	55	45	10	42
5	Trusted By Millions	25	12	6	7	47	41	6	42
6	Stanley Athletic FC	25	11	4	10	41	52	-11	37
7	The Wateringhole Society	25	11	3	11	70	49	21	36
8	Cheese Makers	25	10	4	11	41	47	-6	34
9	Real Muppets	25	9	5	11	54	47	7	32
10	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	25	10	2	13	37	41	-4	32
11	Mega Buck Bandits	25	8	6	11	42	44	-2	30
12	YTFIB	25	8	6	11	47	51	-4	30
13	Wheel Madrid	25	8	5	12	54	62	-8	29
14	San Dimas High School	25	8	5	12	27	43	-16	29
15	Claymore Athletic FC	25	7	5	13	38	50	-12	26
16	Markian United	25	7	4	14	42	70	-28	25

The Artisans were the only team in the top five to win so Ben’s side have a two-point lead with five games to go. The Artisans left it late to take the points at Claymore with clean sheets from Walker, Alioski and Digne giving the score a comfortable 3-0 look. Fred’s 2-2 draw at Mega Bucks knocked him off the top. Twice in the lead from Mo Salah and Timothy Castagne, the Gardeners were pegged back first by Wilf Zaha’s goal and then George Baldock’s clean.

The CFJs were held 1-1 by Markian but moved up a place. Aymeric Laporte’s late goal looked like delivering the win but Luke Shaw’s clean grabbed a point for Ian. The Aardvarks lost ground in the race after slipping to a defeat at Wheel Madrid. Thiago Silva’s clean proving the only score in the game.

Trusted went down 3-1 to Stanley to make their quest for back to back titles a tad more difficult. Timo Werner scored two minutes before the break but Beef surely thought he’d earned a draw when Joe Willock was on target five minutes into injury time. Cleans from Chilwell and Lindelof brought a welcome win for Aaron. Matheus Pereira opened the scoring from the spot on 23 minutes to give the Wateringhole the lead against San Dimas before an unfortunate own goal by Bernd Leno with 14 minutes left levelled the scores and my team went on to win through a Rudiger clean.

Cheese Makers jumped into the top half with a 4-3 win over Nil Satis. Matthew’s team raced into a 4-0 lead at the break, Anwar El Ghazi’s early penalty followed by a Chris Wood hat-trick. A Tyrone MIngs own goal straight after half-time gave Paul S some hope but cleans from Dallas and Coleman meant they came up just short. YTFIB hit the 30 point mark after a 2-1 win at the Muppets. David McGoldrick’s 19th minute goal was cancelled out 10 minutes from time by another from Kelechi Iheanacho but Julian won it with a Ben Godfrey clean.

Week 24 Results - Five left in the title race?

Aardvark Abacus 0 v 1 Trusted By Millions

Cheese Makers 2 v 1 Mega Buck Bandits

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 2 v 2 Claymore Athletic FC

Markian United 5 v 1 The Wateringhole Society

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 2 v 1 YTFIB

San Dimas High School 1 v 3 Real Muppets

Stanley Athletic FC 0 v 4 The Cow-Faced Juniors

The Fabulous Artisans 2 v 2 Wheel Madrid

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	24	12	9	3	61	42	19	45
2	The Fabulous Artisans	24	13	6	5	51	42	9	45
3	Aardvark Abacus	24	12	6	6	55	44	11	42
4	Trusted By Millions	24	12	6	6	46	38	8	42
5	The Cow-Faced Juniors	24	13	2	9	53	37	16	41
6	The Wateringhole Society	24	11	3	10	69	47	22	36
7	Stanley Athletic FC	24	10	4	10	38	51	-13	34
8	Real Muppets	24	9	5	10	53	45	8	32
9	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	24	10	2	12	34	37	-3	32
10	Cheese Makers	24	9	4	11	37	44	-7	31
11	Mega Buck Bandits	24	8	5	11	40	42	-2	29
12	YTFIB	24	7	6	11	45	50	-5	27
13	Wheel Madrid	24	7	5	12	53	62	-9	26
14	Claymore Athletic FC	24	7	5	12	38	47	-9	26
15	San Dimas High School	24	7	5	12	25	42	-17	26
16	Markian United	24	7	3	14	40	68	-28	24

At the top - With Fred and Ben both drawing 2-2, to Claymore and Wheels respectively, there was a chance for Ady to join them on 45 points. He didn’t take it. The Aardvarks went down to Trusted 1-0 courtesy of a late Diego Llorente header. That puts the champions level with Ady’s team just three points off the summit. The Cow-Faced Juniors are one point further back after strolling to a 4-0 win at Stanley Athletic. Joelinton scored again!

In the middle - Looks like the Wateringhole’s hopes of getting involved in the title race have run dry as Kiran’s team went down 5-1 to improving Markian. First half goals from Foden, Iheanacho and Mane saw the Muppets coast to a 3-1 win at San Dimas. Ryan’s team stay eighth, level on points with Nil Satis who needed clean sheets to turn a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 win over YTFIB. Issa Diop scored at both ends (or more accurately scored at the same end for both teams) as Cheese Makers beat Mega Bucks 2-1 to leapfrog those opponents into tenth.

At the bottom - It’s getting interesting! Markian's win over TWS (two goals each from Sigurdsson and Kane) make it five unbeaten for Ian. He's now only two points behind goal-shy San Dimas, Claymore and Wheel Madrid with a further point to YTFIB.