Week 25 Results - New leaders

Aardvark Abacus 2 v 1 The Cow-Faced Juniors

Cheese Makers 2 v 0 Mega Buck Bandits

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 1 v 0 Trusted By Millions

Markian United 1 v 3 The Wateringhole Society

Real Muppets 3 v 1 YTFIB

Stanley and Gracie United 0 v 4 San Dimas High School

The Fabulous Artisans 0 v 0 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

Wheel Madrid 2 v 1 Claymore Athletic FC

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	25	17	5	3	63	26	37	56
2	The Cow-Faced Juniors	25	17	3	5	73	38	35	54
3	The Wateringhole Society	25	13	7	5	72	47	25	46
4	Markian United	25	12	5	8	52	40	12	41
5	The Fabulous Artisans	25	13	1	11	56	44	12	40
6	Trusted By Millions	25	11	5	9	53	43	10	38
7	Aardvark Abacus	25	11	5	9	51	51	0	38
8	Stanley and Gracie United	25	12	1	12	45	54	-9	37
9	Real Muppets	25	10	3	12	58	53	5	33
10	San Dimas High School	25	8	7	10	41	49	-8	31
11	Wheel Madrid	25	9	3	13	27	53	-26	30
12	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	25	8	4	13	26	42	-16	28
13	YTFIB	25	7	7	11	31	50	-19	28
14	Cheese Makers	25	6	5	14	28	46	-18	23
15	Claymore Athletic FC	25	6	4	15	34	52	-18	22
16	Mega Buck Bandits	25	5	5	15	30	52	-22	20

FA Cup Final

The Fabulous Artisans 1

Dawson [c]

v

Trusted By Millions 0

(No cancelled cleans)

At Wembley, Att: 90,000

Teams

Artisans - Fabianski; Tete, Walker, Guehi, Dawson; Odegaard, Alcaraz, Sterling, Mac Allister; Nketiah, Bowen

Subs: Ramsdale; Digne; Palmer; Bamford

Trusted - De Gea; Koch, Alexander-Arnold, Webster, Keane; Gallagher, Trossard, Silva, Willock; Jesus, Isak

Subs: Bazunu, Schlupp, Buendia, Felix

Report

Was it down to late season fatigue? Or two teams wary of each other’s good form. Or was it because I suggested it would be a cracker? Whatever the reason it wasn’t a classic but Ben won’t mind as his team edged out Trusted by a solitary clean.

Jarrod Bowen thought he’d fired the Artisans ahead ten minutes into the second half only to be denied by VAR for offside. Patrick Bamford missed a great chance to win it from six yards out and it looked like going to a replay until January signing Craig Dawson got the deciding clean for the Artisans.

Open top bus to Goddard Park!

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How they got there

Semi-finals

Aardvark Abacus 1 v 5 Trusted By Millions 

Markian United 1 v 3 The Fabulous Artisans (after 1-1 draw)

Quarter-finals

Aardvark Abacus 2 v 1 YTFIB 

Markian United 2 v 0 The Cow-Faced Juniors 

Real Muppets 0 v 1 The Fabulous Artisans

Trusted By Millions 5 v 1 Stanley and Gracie United

First Round

Aardvark Abacus 2 v 1 Cheese Makers

Claymore Athletic FC 2 v 3 Stanley and Gracie United

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 0 v 5 Real Muppets

San Dimas High School 2 v 3 Markian United 

The Fabulous Artisans 6 v 2 Mega Buck Bandits

The Wateringhole Society 1 v 2 The Cow-Faced Juniors

Trusted By Millions 3 v 2 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI

Wheel Madrid 0 v 2 YTFIB

Week 24 Results - Lead down to a point

Claymore Athletic FC 1 v 2 Stanley and Gracie United

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 5 v 0 Wheel Madrid

Mega Buck Bandits 1 v 2 Real Muppets

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 0 v 0 Cheese Makers  

San Dimas High School 3 v 3 Markian United  

The Cow-Faced Juniors 0 v 3 The Fabulous Artisans  

The Wateringhole Society 2 v 4 Aardvark Abacus

Trusted By Millions 5 v 1 YTFIB  

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Cow-Faced Juniors	24	17	3	4	72	36	36	54
2	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	24	16	5	3	62	26	36	53
3	The Wateringhole Society	24	12	7	5	69	46	23	43
4	Markian United	24	12	5	7	51	37	14	41
5	The Fabulous Artisans	24	13	0	11	56	44	12	39
6	Trusted By Millions	24	11	5	8	53	42	11	38
7	Stanley and Gracie United	24	12	1	11	45	50	-5	37
8	Aardvark Abacus	24	10	5	9	49	50	-1	35
9	Real Muppets	24	9	3	12	55	52	3	30
10	San Dimas High School	24	7	7	10	37	49	-12	28
11	YTFIB	24	7	7	10	30	47	-17	28
12	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	24	8	3	13	26	42	-16	27
13	Wheel Madrid	24	8	3	13	25	52	-27	27
14	Claymore Athletic FC	24	6	4	14	33	50	-17	22
15	Mega Buck Bandits	24	5	5	14	30	50	-20	20
16	Cheese Makers	24	5	5	14	26	46	-20	20

The CFJs’ lead is down to a single point after defeat to the Artisans. Carlos Alcaraz capitalised on a defensive mistake inside the first minute to set Ben on his way, Martin Odegaard’s late strike meant there was no coming back for the Cows. Fred polished off Wheel Madrid 5-0 to close the gap at the top and level up on goal difference too. Wheels haven’t troubled the scorers since a 5-0 win of their own over Nil Satis in Week 18.

The battle for third has hotted up after another Wateringhole defeat, this time 4-2 to the Aardvarks. A second brace in a week from Diogo Jota had Ady 3-0 up and though Ivan Toney and Bukayo Saka brought it back to 3-2 Jordan Pickford’s clean got the Aardvarks over the line. Markian could have joined the Wateringhole on 43 points with a win but had to settle for a 3-3 draw with San Dimas, I was grateful for my defence grabbing a couple of cleans after trailing 3-1. Ben is next on 39 points and a point behind him is Cup Final opponent Beef. Trusted beat YTFIB 5-1 with two early Alexander Isak goals setting him on his way. SGU are a point further back following a 2-1 win over Claymore, midfielders Harry Wilson (his first of the season) and Andreas Pereira getting Aaron's goals in a 15-minute spell in the second half.

The Muppets lead the way in the bottom half of the table which is now five points adrift of the top eight. After falling behind to a Michail Antonio header Ryan’s team turned it round with a Kelechi Iheanacho penalty and a James Tarkowski clean to beat the Bandits 2-1. A 0-0 draw with Nil Satis wasn’t enough for Matthew to climb above Dave’s team, and off the bottom, on goals scored.