Week 19 Results - Top four fail to win

Cheese Makers 1 v 1 YTFIB 

Claymore Athletic FC 3 v 3 The Fabulous Artisans 

Markian United 3 v 0 Aardvark Abacus

Mega Buck Bandits 0 v 4 Wheel Madrid 

Real Muppets 2 v 5 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

San Dimas High School 1 v 0 The Wateringhole Society

Stanley and Gracie United 4 v 3 Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 

The Cow-Faced Juniors 0 v 1 Trusted By Millions

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Real Muppets	19	11	4	4	46	26	20	37
2	Cheese Makers	19	11	3	5	45	31	14	36
3	Trusted By Millions	19	11	2	6	57	40	17	35
4	The Wateringhole Society	19	10	4	5	46	30	16	34
5	The Cow-Faced Juniors	19	10	3	6	50	35	15	33
6	Garth Crooks' Team of the Week	19	8	6	5	43	37	6	30
7	Markian United	19	9	3	7	36	32	4	30
8	Stanley and Gracie United	19	9	3	7	38	35	3	30
9	The Fabulous Artisans	19	8	3	8	43	40	3	27
10	San Dimas High School	19	8	3	8	34	33	1	27
11	YTFIB	19	7	2	10	27	32	-5	23
12	Claymore Athletic FC	19	7	2	10	37	49	-12	23
13	Aardvark Abacus	19	5	5	9	37	45	-8	20
14	Mega Buck Bandits	19	5	2	12	19	48	-29	17
15	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	19	5	1	13	24	50	-26	16
16	Wheel Madrid	19	4	2	13	25	44	-19	14

This season continues to throw up surprises with none of last week’s top four winning. The Muppets lost, 5-2 to 15th-place Nil Satis, but stay top. Ryan had to level twice, Erling Haaland’s header equalising Jean-Ricner Bellegarde’s early goal and a 90th minute effort from a persistent Iliman Ndiaye cancelling Vitali Mykolenko’s early clean. Nil Satis weren’t to be denied and added cleans from Jose Sa, Matt Doherty and Jarrad Branthwaite for a big win. Cheese Makers missed the chance to return to the top when they were held 1-1 by YTFIB. Raul Jimenez’s deflected effort just after the hour looked like being the winner for Matthew but Neco Williams shot high into the net from six yards with a minute left to grab Julian a point.

A big win could have taken the Wateringhole Society back to the top but Kiran’s team went down 1-0 to San Dimas. Kai Havertz shot into the far corner on 76 minutes gave my team the win. The CFJs went down 1-0 too, to Trusted who leapfrog them into third. Liam Delap escaped the Cows defence to score Beef’s goal after 31 minutes. When all around them are losing their heads, Trusted are keeping it together.

SGU won a seven goal thriller with GC TotW to join that team on 30 points, only seven points off the top! Ollie’s team were two up at the break then pegged back by Thomas Partey’s deflected strike and an unlucky Aaron Wan-Bissaka own goal. Mo Salah’s measured finished restored the lead a minute later but Aaron turned it round at the death thanks to cleans from Ola Aina and Virgil van Dijk. Sandwiched between those teams on 30 points are Markian United who saw off the Aardvarks 3-0. Lewis Dunk steered into his own goal to give Ian an early lead and he finished it with cleans from Pedro Porro and Maxence Lacroix.

The Artisans and Claymore played out a fantastic 3-3 draw. Abdoulaye Doucoure gave Clive the lead after 10 seconds, Martin Odegaard equalised a minute later. The end of the game was as frantic as the start. Paul Onuachu latched onto a rebound to put Clive ahead with three minutes left, Ethan Nwaneri struck from the edge of the area three minutes into injury time to level. Matheus Cunha’s calm finish seven minutes into injury time put Clive back in front only for Marc Guehi’s clean to give Ben the draw. Eyebrows were raised when Wheel Madrid paid £15m for Chris Wood earlier in the season. Those same eyebrows are firmly back in pace after the forward scored a hat-trick* in a 4-0 win against Mega Bucks to drag Dave’s team fully into the ‘basement battle’.

* Wood’s only previous WSFFL hat-trick was almost four years ago, for Cheese Makers against Nil Satis.