Week 25 Results - Artisans almost there

Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 0 v 0 San Dimas High School 

Markian United 2 v 0 Mega Buck Bandits

Real Muppets 0 v 4 Cheese Makers

The Cow-Faced Juniors 3 v 0 Aardvark Abacus

The Fabulous Artisans 5 v 1 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

The Wateringhole Society 1 v 2 YTFIB

Trusted By Millions 7 v 3 Claymore Athletic FC 

Wheel Madrid 0 v 2 Stanley and Gracie United

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Fabulous Artisans	25	18	4	3	59	30	29	58
2	Real Muppets	25	15	3	7	57	40	17	48
3	The Wateringhole Society	25	15	1	9	64	45	19	46
4	Cheese Makers	25	12	6	7	59	43	16	42
5	Stanley and Gracie United	25	12	6	7	52	42	10	42
6	The Cow-Faced Juniors	25	12	5	8	57	44	13	41
7	Aardvark Abacus	25	11	6	8	46	38	8	39
8	Claymore Athletic FC	25	11	3	11	48	46	2	36
9	Trusted By Millions	25	9	5	11	48	44	4	32
10	San Dimas High School	25	7	11	7	33	41	-8	32
11	Markian United	25	8	5	12	38	42	-4	29
12	Garth Crooks' Team of the Week	25	8	5	12	34	45	-11	29
13	Mega Buck Bandits	25	8	3	14	36	52	-16	27
14	YTFIB	25	7	5	13	36	51	-15	26
15	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	25	6	5	14	28	58	-30	23
16	Wheel Madrid	25	2	5	18	19	53	-34	11

The Artisans are sprinting for the finishing line and a 5-1 win over Nil Satis, combined with defeats for their rivals, now sees them 10 points clear. Ben’s team got the better of Nil Satis 5-1 but needed clean sheets to get it done after Marc Guehi’s smart finish on 57 minutes was levelled when Jeremy Doku latched onto some over-confident defending 11 minutes later. Cheese Makers' 4-0 win at the Muppets was Ryan’s joint-worst defeat of the season and just about ends his hopes of back-to-back titles. Nico O’Reilly and Casemiro headers in an 18 minute second half spell put Matthew’s team in control. Matthew is up to fourth and his unbeaten run is now up to 18. I wouldn’t fancy playing him in a Cup Final. Oh.

Third-placed Wateringhole Society went down 2-1 to YTFIB. Julian’s goals coming from outside the box efforts from Nico Williams and Alex Scott in the second half. In between those goals Kiran bagged a Jeremie Frimpong clean but that was that. SGU trail Cheese Makers on goal difference after a 2-0 win at Wheel Madrid. Wheels almost grabbed a draw only for Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall to fire in a minute into injury time, quickly followed by a Virgil van Dijk clean.

The CFJs jumped the Aardvarks into sixth with a 3-0 win over those opponents. Viktor Gyokeres got the only goal for the Cows, a 35th minute penalty, Jimenez and Mamardashvili got the cleans. Claymore stay eighth despite being on the wrong end of 'one of those Trusted' performances. Beef’s team ran out 7-3 winners in a game that included Claymore leading twice, another Trusted own goal, a first WSFFL strike from Rio Ngumoha, and a rare defensive hat-trick (two goals and a clean) from Konstantinos Mavropanos. A quarter of all Trusted’s league counters this season have come in two matches.

Meanwhile in ‘already on the beach’ news - GC TotW and San Dimas played out a goalless draw while Markian beat Mega Bucks 2-0 thanks to cleans from Kadioglu and Sessegnon giving Ian his first win in five.