Week 30 Results - Wateringhole take the title

Aardvark Abacus 2 v 3 The Fabulous Artisans

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 1 v 3 Cheese Makers

San Dimas High School 2 v 1 Claymore Athletic FC

Stanley Athletic FC 3 v 2 Real Muppets

The Cow-Faced Juniors 2 v 3 Fred West Landscape Gdg XI

The Wateringhole Society 3 v 2 YTFIB

Trusted by Millions 1 v 2 Markian United

Wheel Madrid 2 v 4 Mega Buck Bandits

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Wateringhole Society	30	16	7	7	73	51	22	55
2	The Fabulous Artisans	30	17	4	9	66	53	13	55
3	Claymore Athletic FC	30	17	3	10	74	46	28	54
4	Trusted By Millions	30	16	5	9	73	52	21	53
5	The Cow-Faced Juniors	30	16	4	10	67	49	18	52
6	Cheese Makers	30	13	8	9	45	41	4	47
7	Stanley Athletic FC	30	14	4	12	55	55	0	46
8	San Dimas High School	30	12	9	9	54	45	9	45
9	Aardvark Abacus	30	14	1	15	64	52	12	43
10	Real Muppets	30	12	6	12	61	63	-2	42
11	Mega Buck Bandits	30	12	4	14	48	54	-6	40
12	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	30	9	6	15	46	60	-14	33
13	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	30	9	6	15	33	64	-31	33
14	Markian United	30	8	6	16	36	55	-19	30
15	Wheel Madrid	30	7	7	16	40	54	-14	28
16	YTFIB	30	8	0	22	28	69	-41	24

No team spent longer at the top this season than The Wateringhole Society (21 weeks) but the title very nearly got away from Kiran. Some of his success has been down to spotting quality new players so it was fitting that Maxwell Cornet (£3m) and Dejan Kulusevski (£4m) should get the goals that took him to the top. If he keeps picking players out like this then he’ll continue to be in the mix for honours.

It’s a third runners-up spot for the Artisans in six years. Ben finished with a win with goals from Eddie Nketiah and Martin Odegaard and a clean from Emerson Royal. There’s some proper young talent in this team and that should see Ben thereabouts next year too.

Claymore fell at the final hurdle with a 2-1 defeat to San Dimas in a kind of reverse Agueroooo moment (Oreugaaaa?) but it was a fantastic turnaround after last year’s 15th place. Can Clive coax another season out of Cristiano Ronaldo to help his team take that final step next term?

Trusted would have taken the honours with a last-day win but went down 2-1 to Markian. Beef has some big players but they’re not always the most consistent. There won’t need to be much improvement for Trusted to be back among the trophies.

The CFJs needed to beat Fred but found the outgoing champs in their best form for months and went down 3-2. The team is built on strong foundations so if Chris and Co. find the striker piece of the puzzle then they could get back to the top of the table.

Cheese Makers achieved their highest points total and position with a 3-1 win at Nil Satis. Philippe Coutinho celebrated his new contract with a goal and the ever-consistent Andy Robertson was also on target. Can Matthew kick on and win a first trophy next year?

Stanley have an FA Cup to pick up at the auction but their league campaign didn’t really get going. They were perhaps the unluckiest team on the counters against measure and Aaron will be thereabouts next year. The Timo Werner situation needs solving though.

San Dimas rounded out the top half with their clean sheet win over Claymore. Like the CFJs, unless I can solve my goalscoring problems I can’t really expect too much more next season.

The Aardvarks were wildly inconsistent and lost 3-2 to the Artisans despite two more goals from the excellent Son Heung-Min. It’s only the second time Ady has finished in the bottom half. Blip or the start of a trend?

The Muppets went down 3-2 to Stanley to lose out on a top half place. Ryan has an excellent first XI but needs some of his young talent to kick on. Or get sold for big money.

Mega Bucks finished with a decent 4-2 win at Wheel Madrid. Michail Antonio and Wilfried Zaha were both on the scoresheet and Dave needs a couple players to back these up. Remembering he bought Bruno Guimaeres may help!

Fred won August Manager of the Month but fell away soon after and never looked like mounting a title defence. A final day 3-2 win at the CFJs shows that this team shouldn’t be written off.

After a decent first half of the season Nil Satis fell away badly with just one win after week 16. Always a risk when you’re banking on a single (underperforming) team for your results. It’s not going to change!

Although finishing 14th Markian seem to be on the up. Some interesting young signings and a happier Harry Kane could mark (excuse the pun) them out as a team to watch next year.

Wheel Madrid’s Jack Grealish money went on Bailey, Varane and Lukaku. Injuries and form struggles meant we didn’t see the best of them and with Jamie Vardy injured too Paul W was up against it. It still a third straight bottom three finish though.

YTFIB called themselves the Norwich of the league!. Seems harsh. They’re more entertaining than Norwich! And they score more. Julian will need to be busy in the summer as he may lose ten of his squad to relegation.

Week 29 Results - Five teams in contention for title

Claymore Athletic FC 4 v 1 Aardvark Abacus

Fred West Landscape Gdg XI 0 v 2 Trusted by Millions

Mega Buck Bandits 0 v 1 Cheese Makers

Real Muppets 0 v 2 Markian United

San Dimas High School 0 v 3 The Wateringhole Society

Stanley Athletic FC 2 v 5 The Cow-Faced Juniors

The Fabulous Artisans 4 v 1 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

YTFIB 0 v 4 Wheel Madrid

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Claymore Athletic FC	29	17	3	9	73	44	29	54
2	Trusted By Millions	29	16	5	8	72	50	22	53
3	The Wateringhole Society	29	15	7	7	70	49	21	52
4	The Cow-Faced Juniors	29	16	4	9	65	46	19	52
5	The Fabulous Artisans	29	16	4	9	63	51	12	52
6	Cheese Makers	29	12	8	9	42	40	2	44
7	Aardvark Abacus	29	14	1	14	62	49	13	43
8	Stanley Athletic FC	29	13	4	12	52	53	-1	43
9	San Dimas High School	29	11	9	9	52	44	8	42
10	Real Muppets	29	12	6	11	59	60	-1	42
11	Mega Buck Bandits	29	11	4	14	44	52	-8	37
12	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	29	9	6	14	32	61	-29	33
13	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	29	8	6	15	43	58	-15	30
14	Wheel Madrid	29	7	7	15	38	50	-12	28
15	Markian United	29	7	6	16	34	54	-20	27
16	YTFIB	29	8	0	21	26	66	-40	24

Clive is 90 minutes away from his sixth title after beating the Aardvarks 4-1. Teemu Pukki’s cut-back wrong-footed the Abacus keeper to give Clive the lead at the break and an unlucky Ben White own goal doubled the lead. Ollie Watkins pulled one back to give Claymore an uncomfortable last 20 minutes before cleans from Martin Dubravka and Trevoh Chalobah rounded out the win. Trusted are still hot on the heels of the leaders after beating Fred 2-0. Richarlison got a penalty for Beef in first half injury time and Jeffrey Schlupp tapped in with nine minutes left to complete the scoring.

The Wateringhole Society snapped their recent poor run with a 3-0 win over San Dimas. Two excellent first-time shots from Harvey Barnes in the second half put Kiran’s team in control and an Emil Krafth clean sheet made it three. The CFJs trailed to Stanley early on, Joao Pedro finding the corner on six minutes, but recovered to win 5-2. Danny Welbeck dinked in the equaliser on 21 minutes, Rayan Ait-Nouri headed in ten minutes after the break and Yoan Wissa’s flick-header made it 3-1 just after the hour. Aaron hit back with a powerful Rico Henry header within two minutes. The Cows kept in the title race with cleans from Ben Davies and one off the bench courtesy of Vladimir Coufal.

The Artisans beat Nil Satis 4-1 to mathematically stay on the fringes of the title picture. Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s chest brushed Paul ahead after ten minutes but two Jarrod Bowen strikes and a Seamus Coleman own goal had Ben 3-1 up at the break. He saw the game out comfortably and added an Emerson Royal clean late on. Cheese Makers are sixth after beating Mega Bucks 1-0 through an Andy Robertson clean. Matthew is still not quite certain of a top half place though with two points covering 6th-10th.

Wheel Madrid have woken up in the last couple of weeks, coinciding with Jamie Vardy’s return, and thrashed YTFIB 4-0. James Maddison put the Wheelman ahead after being left unmarked and smacking high into the net on 18 minutes. Vardy added a goal in each half and Thiago Silva made it four with a clean. It’s a result that will probably condemn Julian to bottom place after Markian won 2-0 at the Muppets. Harry Kane broke the deadlock from the penalty spot deep into first half injury time and Fabian Schar made it 2-0 with a clean sheet four minutes after the interval.