Week 21 Results - Top four in control

Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 2 v 0 Mega Buck Bandits 

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 1 v 2 The Fabulous Artisans

Real Muppets 4 v 1 Claymore Athletic FC

Stanley and Gracie United 5 v 1 San Dimas High School 

The Cow-Faced Juniors 2 v 3 Cheese Makers 

The Wateringhole Society 2 v 0 Wheel Madrid

Trusted By Millions 4 v 3 Markian United

YTFIB 0 v 3 Aardvark Abacus

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Real Muppets	21	13	4	4	51	27	24	43
2	Trusted By Millions	21	13	2	6	67	44	23	41
3	The Wateringhole Society	21	12	4	5	52	33	19	40
4	Cheese Makers	21	12	4	5	51	36	15	40
5	Stanley and Gracie United	21	11	3	7	46	37	9	36
6	The Cow-Faced Juniors	21	10	3	8	55	42	13	33
7	Garth Crooks' Team of the Week	21	9	6	6	47	40	7	33
8	Markian United	21	10	3	8	41	37	4	33
9	The Fabulous Artisans	21	9	4	8	48	44	4	31
10	San Dimas High School	21	8	3	10	35	39	-4	27
11	Claymore Athletic FC	21	8	2	11	41	55	-14	26
12	Aardvark Abacus	21	6	5	10	40	46	-6	23
13	YTFIB	21	7	2	12	28	38	-10	23
14	Wheel Madrid	21	5	2	14	26	46	-20	17
15	Mega Buck Bandits	21	5	2	14	20	52	-32	17
16	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	21	5	1	15	26	58	-32	16

Four straight weeks at the top for the Muppets after a 4-1 win over Claymore. Clive’s team decided to leave Erling Haaland unmarked after 12 minutes and the league’s leading scorer made no mistake from six yards. Joao Gomes lashed in an equaliser six minutes later but the Muppets brought home the bacon thanks to cleans from Ederson, Jurrien Timber and Tosin Adarabioyo. Trusted also needed three cleans to get home 4-3 against Markian. Ismaila Sarr scored twice for Ian either side of Patrick Kluivert crashing home a goal of the month contender to make it 3-1 to Ian with 20 minutes left. Trent Alexander-Arnold picked up an early clean to reduce the deficit and then Murillo and Aphonse Areola added cleans of their own to keep Beef two points off the top.

The Wateringhole Society ended Wheel Madrid’s mini-revival with a 2-0 win. Christopher Nkunku stooped to head his team in front on 24 minutes, Marc Cucurella was given time to get the ball on his favoured foot and pick his spot after 78. After three league games without a win Cheese Makers are back in business, winning 3-2 at the CFJs. Joao Pedro gave Matthew the lead from the spot but the Cows were up at the break courtesy of Tomas Soucek and Yoane Wissa’s header in first half injury time. The Cheese turnaround came late with two cleans, Kostas Tsimikas and Nikola Milenkovic keeping Matthew in sight of the summit.

SGU are up to a season high fifth place thanks to a 5-1 beating of San Dimas*. Dominik Szoboszlai and Neto scored first half goals, my team were given brief hope two minutes after the break through Rodrigo Muniz only for Harry Maguire’s header from a corner to restore the advantage almost immediately. Cleans from Virgil van Dijk and Kieran Trippier wrapped it up for Aaron. Is the GC TotW 'winter wobble’ over? Ollie’s team beat Mega Bucks 2-0 with cleans from Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Ibrahima Konate.

The Artisans are another team who seem to have steadied the ship a bit. Ben’s team won 2-1 at Nil Satis. Mathias De Ligt fired a rebound high into the net on 26 minutes to put the Fabulous ones in front and Ricardo Calafiori’s clean doubled the lead at the interval. Jake O’Brien’s free header was only a consolation for Paul. The Aardvarks moved up to 12th after a 3-0 win at YTFIB. Goals from Levi Colwill and Morgan Rogers in an eight minute spell either side of the break had Ady in control, Antonee Robinson added a clean sheet at the end.