Week 4 results

With both 100% records now gone it's getting tight at the top.

Athletico Phoenix 1 v 2 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Cheese Makers 1 v 1 Final Fantasy XI

Claymore Athletic FC 1 v 3 Trusted By Millions

FCK2 2 v 1 Mega Buck Bandits

San Dimas High School 4 v 1 Real Muppets
The Dead Parrots 0 v 2 Aardvark Abacus

The Fabulous Artisans 3 v 2 The Cow-Faced Juniors

YTFIB 1 v 1 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI


	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	CC	SP	Pts
1	Aardvark Abacus	4	3	1	0	10	3	7	4	0	10
2	Final Fantasy XI	4	3	1	0	10	3	7	4	1	10
3	San Dimas High School	4	3	0	1	9	4	5	6	1	9
4	FCK2	4	3	0	1	7	3	4	7	0	9
5	Real Muppets	4	3	0	1	11	8	3	5	0	9
6	The Fabulous Artisans	4	2	1	1	8	8	0	6	0	7
7	Trusted By Millions	4	2	0	2	7	7	0	7	0	6
8	Athletico Phoenix	4	2	0	2	7	8	-1	6	0	6
9	Cheese Makers	4	1	1	2	4	5	-1	4	1	4
10	The Cow-Faced Juniors	4	1	1	2	4	6	-2	5	0	4
11	Mega Buck Bandits	4	1	1	2	3	6	-3	3	0	4
12	YTFIB	4	1	1	2	3	7	-4	5	0	4
13	Claymore Athletic FC	4	1	0	3	8	9	-1	7	0	3
14	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	4	1	0	3	4	9	-5	6	0	3
15	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	4	0	2	2	3	7	-4	7	0	2
16	The Dead Parrots	4	0	1	3	1	6	-5	6	0	1

Would you believe it? Ady is top on alphabetical order!

Previous leaders Final Fantasy were held 1-1 by Cheese Makers, Yaya Toure kneeing on from close range after a Brad Guzan saved penalty gave Matthew an early lead. The end of Ceri's 100% record opened the door for the Muppets to go top but they were on the wrong end of a 4-1 beating by San Dimas. Libor Kozak got his first WSFFL goal for me but the lead lasted less than a minute when Ravel Morrison's shot took a deflection and flew in. The second half was all my team though with Dejan Lovren scoring and getting a clean while Romelu Lukaku powered in a header with five minutes left.

Those two results meant that an Aardvark win over the Parrots would give Ady a shot at top spot. In the end it was fairly routine. Robbie Brady scored midway through the first half and Petr Cech finished things with a clean. With points, difference, goals scored and cancelled cleans all level it comes down to the alphabet. At the other end, the Parrots really haven't clicked this season and are now bottom. Kevin's FCK2 are back to winning ways after edging Mega Bucks. Nathan Dyer's goal early in the second period put FCK2 ahead but Mark Noble levelled from the penalty spot for Dave on 76 minutes. Five minutes later Noble was dismissed and the highly-rated Luke Shaw got the winning clean.

The Fabulous Artisans added to the reigning champions' wos with a 3-2 win. The CFJs had gone ahead through Michu inside two minutes but a brace from Loic Remy had Ben in front by the break. Sone Aluko's volley put the Artisans out of reach and Chico's clean for Chris was a consolation. If the CFJs are struggling what about Claymore? Clive's team fell to another defeat, 3-1 at home to Trusted. Stephane Sessegnon notched from close range after 20 minutes to open the scoring and it took Clive more than 50 minutes to square the match through Bacary Sagna's looping header. Parity lasted less than five minutes though as Liam Ridgewell scored for Beef and Michael Dawson's clean completed the victory.

Nil Satis picked up their first win of the season, 2-1 at Athletico Phoenix. Aaron Ramsey is finally looking like the player Paul thought he'd bought and fired Nil Satis ahead on five minutes. Per Mertersacker glanced Brian level before the break but Oscar restored Paul's lead from close range early in the second half. An RvP-less Phoenix failed to find an equaliser. Struggling YTFIB and Fred fought out a 1-1 draw. Samir Nasri's volley early in the second half gave Julian the lead but Paulinho's clever backheel right at the death earned Fred a point.

Week 3 rearranged game result

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 0 v 0 The Dead Parrots

Well that was worth waiting for!

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	CC	SP	Pts
1	Final Fantasy XI	3	3	0	0	9	2	7	2	1	9
2	Real Muppets	3	3	0	0	10	4	6	4	0	9
3	Aardvark Abacus	3	2	1	0	8	3	5	4	0	7
4	FCK2	3	2	0	1	5	2	3	6	0	6
5	San Dimas High School	3	2	0	1	5	3	2	5	1	6
6	Athletico Phoenix	3	2	0	1	6	6	0	4	0	6
7	The Fabulous Artisans	3	1	1	1	5	6	-1	5	0	4
8	The Cow-Faced Juniors	3	1	1	1	2	3	-1	4	0	4
9	Mega Buck Bandits	3	1	1	1	2	4	-2	2	0	4
10	Claymore Athletic FC	3	1	0	2	7	6	1	5	0	3
11	Cheese Makers	3	1	0	2	3	4	-1	2	0	3
12	Trusted By Millions	3	1	0	2	4	6	-2	5	0	3
13	YTFIB	3	1	0	2	2	6	-4	4	0	3
14	The Dead Parrots	3	0	1	2	1	4	-3	6	0	1
15	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	3	0	1	2	2	6	-4	6	0	1
16	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	3	0	0	3	2	8	-6	4	0	0

PCMT 1st Round results

Cheese Makers 0 v 3 The Cow-Faced Juniors
FCK2 2 v 1 Real Muppets
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 2 v 1 Final Fantasy XI
Mega Buck Bandits 1 v 1 The Fabulous Artisans
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 4 v 1 Claymore Athletic FC
San Dimas High School 1 v 0 Trusted By Millions
The Dead Parrots 0 v 2 Aardvark Abacus
YTFIB 0 v 3 Athletico Phoenix

Replay
The Fabulous Artisans 3 v 1 Mega Buck Bandits

Holders the CFJs are into the quarter finals with a win over Cheese Makers. Gylfi Sigurdsson has been a bit of the forgotten man in Chris's midfield but scored either side of half time and Michu completed the win just after the hour. Last year's beaten finalists San Dimas are through too. Hatem Ben Arfa getting the only goal against Trusted.

The two teams with 100% records in the league were both knocked out. Final Fantasy took an injury time lead through Gareth McAuley but Fred turned it round through cleans from Nemanja Vidic and Alex Kolarov. Real Muppets also took the lead in their game, in the fourth minute through another Danny Sturridge goal, but cleans from Luke Shaw and Rio Ferdinand see Kevin progress in his first Cup competition.

Charity Shield holders the Parrots will get the chance to defend their title as they went out to the Aardvarks. Peter Whittingham scored on the hour and Matija Nastasic added a clean for Ady. Athletico Phoenix were the previous Charity Shield winners but Brian's team will get a crack at the PCMT this year. Robin van Persie's penalty and two cleans were too much for YTFIB.

Biggest win of the week was in the Evertonian derby but not the way you think. Nil Satis fell behind to Olivier Giroud's goal for Claymore but Steven Naismith levelled right on half time and Aaron Ramsey added a brace to see Paul through. The Fabulous Artisans have had the PCMT on their mantelpiece recently but Ben needed a replay to get past Mega Bucks thanks to Christian Benteke equalising a Curtis Davies goal.

In that replay it was a Loic Remy brace that put Ben in control and although Dave's team hit back with a Mark Noble penalty it was an excellent Sone Aluko volley that sent the Artisans through.

Quarter finals of the PCMT and Charity Shield are set for w/c 26 October.

Week 3 results

Hello, good evening and welcome to tonight's results.

Aardvark Abacus 2 v 1 Claymore Athletic FC
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI  P v P The Dead Parrots

Mega Buck Bandits 0 v 3 Final Fantasy XI
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 0 v 2 The Fabulous Artisans

Real Muppets 4 v 1 YTFIB
San Dimas High School 1 v 2 Cheese Makers

The Cow-Faced Juniors 2 v 0 FCK2

Trusted By Millions 0 v 3 Athletico Phoenix


	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	CC	SP	Pts
1	Final Fantasy XI	3	3	0	0	9	2	7	2	1	9
2	Real Muppets	3	3	0	0	10	4	6	4	0	9
3	Aardvark Abacus	3	2	1	0	8	3	5	4	0	7
4	FCK2	3	2	0	1	5	2	3	6	0	6
5	San Dimas High School	3	2	0	1	5	3	2	5	1	6
6	Athletico Phoenix	3	2	0	1	6	6	0	4	0	6
7	The Fabulous Artisans	3	1	1	1	5	6	-1	5	0	4
8	The Cow-Faced Juniors	3	1	1	1	2	3	-1	4	0	4
9	Mega Buck Bandits	3	1	1	1	2	4	-2	2	0	4
10	Claymore Athletic FC	3	1	0	2	7	6	1	5	0	3
11	Cheese Makers	3	1	0	2	3	4	-1	2	0	3
12	Trusted By Millions	3	1	0	2	4	6	-2	5	0	3
13	YTFIB	3	1	0	2	2	6	-4	4	0	3
14	The Dead Parrots	2	0	0	2	1	4	-3	3	0	0
15	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	2	0	0	2	2	6	-4	3	0	0
16	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	3	0	0	3	2	8	-6	4	0	0

Final Fantasy took over the top spot of the league in week three last season and have done it again this time. The Okus Derby against Mega Bucks looked to be drifting towards a goalless draw until Yaya Toure curled home a free-kick in the final minute. Angel Rangel and Javier Garrido added cleans and Ceri will look to stay top longer than the three weeks her team managed last season. The Muppets are the only other team left with a 100% record after a 4-1 win over YTFIB. Ryan was two ahead inside ten minutes. Danny Sturridge steering in a close range header after four of those minutes and a deflection off Danny Gabbidon doubling the advantage. Dwight Gayle's penalty pulled one back 11 minutes from time for Julian but Joleon Lescott and Daniel Agger completed the scoring in Ryan's favour.

The Aardvarks are the other unbeaten team and are up to third after inflicting a second defeat of the campaign on Claymore. Clive took the lead in this one, Olivier Giroud guiding in at the near post midway through the first half, but Ady settled it with cleans from Phil Jagielka and Matija Nastisic. Kevin suffered his first defeat as a WSFFL boss, going down 2-0 to the CFJs. Chris's team still couldn't find the net but at least had two cleans from Michael Turner and Geoff Cameron to get his season up and running.

San Dimas suffered their first defeat too and Cheese Makers picked up their first win in the process. Matthew had lost his first two matches late on but it was roles reversed this week. Hatem Ben Arfa had slammed my team ahead with four minutes to go but cleans from Sebastian Bassong and David Santon made it a happy return journey to Cornwall for the Cheesers. The Phoenix suffered a heavy defeat last week but showed the sort of bouncebackability Brian would have called for when downing Trusted 3-0. Nathan Redmond got his first WSFFL goal on 68 minutes, Ashley Williams and Pablo Zabaleta added cleans. That's two defeats out of three for Beef.

The Artisans picked up their first win of the season, 2-0 over Nil Satis. Alvaro Negredo is looking like a good signing and he headed Ben's team ahead on 65 minutes. Leighton Baines got the clean to finish matters and keep Paul bottom for now. That's slightly misleading as the two teams above him, Fred and the Parrots, failed to play due to a nasty outbreak of Chelseaitis in the Fred camp. Symptoms include arrogance, adultery and inappropriate use of firearms.

Week 2 results

Still four teams with 100% records. 

Athletico Phoenix 0 v 4 Aardvark Abacus
Cheese Makers 1 v 2 Mega Buck Bandits

Claymore Athletic FC 3 v 0 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI

FCK2 3 v 0 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Final Fantasy XI 3 v 0 The Cow-Faced Juniors

The Dead Parrots 0 v 2 Real Muppets
The Fabulous Artisans 1 v 4 Trusted By Millions
YTFIB 0 v 2 San Dimas High School

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	CC	SP	Pts
1	FCK2	2	2	0	0	5	0	5	4	0	6
2	Final Fantasy XI	2	2	0	0	6	2	4	1	1	6
3	Real Muppets	2	2	0	0	6	3	3	3	0	6
4	San Dimas High School	2	2	0	0	4	1	3	4	1	6
5	Aardvark Abacus	2	1	1	0	6	2	4	3	0	4
6	Mega Buck Bandits	2	1	1	0	2	1	1	1	0	4
7	Claymore Athletic FC	2	1	0	1	6	4	2	4	0	3
8	Trusted By Millions	2	1	0	1	4	3	1	4	0	3
9	YTFIB	2	1	0	1	1	2	-1	3	0	3
10	Athletico Phoenix	2	1	0	1	3	6	-3	3	0	3
11	The Fabulous Artisans	2	0	1	1	3	6	-3	3	0	1
12	The Cow-Faced Juniors	2	0	1	1	0	3	-3	2	0	1
13	Cheese Makers	2	0	0	2	1	3	-2	1	0	0
14	The Dead Parrots	2	0	0	2	1	4	-3	3	0	0
15	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	2	0	0	2	2	6	-4	3	0	0
16	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	2	0	0	2	2	6	-4	2	0	0

FCK2 still proudly on top after a second win. In their first match at Furze Fields Kevin's team secured a comfortable win over Nil Satis. Darren Bent wasn't always in favour under the previous regime but opened the scoring from close range on 77 minutes. John Terry and Rio Ferdinand added clean sheets to round off the win and drop Paul's team to bottom spot. Final Fantasy are doing their best to build on last season and a 3-0 win over the CFJs is the way to do it. Aron Gunnarsson opened the scoring on the hour, slamming home after a goal mouth scramble, and Gareth McAuley and Jose Enrique finished this one with clean sheets. Chris is still without a goal this season.

It's been a while since Real Muppets were title contenders but is this the year Ryan is at the sharp end again? Daniel Sturridge looks the part up front and he skipped through the Parrots' defence on 21 minutes to break the deadlock. The only other score in this game was a Daniel Agger clean and the defeat leaves Dean still without a point. San Dimas are the last of our 100%ers. My strikers haven't started firing yet but clean sheets from Sylvain Distin and Kyle Walker saw me past YTFIB 2-0.

The Aardvarks are fifth after a resounding win over Athletico Phoenix. Summer signing Robbie Brady opened the scoring from the spot and a brace from Lukas Podolski either side of the break had Ady in control. We were waiting for a Robin van Persie inspired fightback for Brian but it never came and a Danny Rose clean iced the Aardvark cake. Mega Bucks are one place behind after victory at Cheese Makers despite being reduced to ten men by Yannick Sagbo's debut headbutt. Jose Fonte's late header looked to have broken Matthew's duck but cleans from Guy Demel and Curtis Davies sent the points back with Dave.

Fred's spending spree has yet to bear fruit and his team fell to a 3-0 defeat at Claymore. Clive's team took just three minutes to break through, Emmanuel Giaccherini turning a header in from six yards. Olivier Giroud doubled the lead 11 minutes later and a second Roberto Soldado penalty of the campaign finished this one. Trusted are off the mark and it was another match where clean sheets did the damage. Edin Dzeko's screamer put Beef ahead seven minutes into the second period but an injury time goal from Alvaro Negredo looked to have secured a point for Ben. Not so. Liam Ridgewell, Gary Cahill and Phil Jones all got cleans to complete a 4-1 Trusted win.

Week one results

Last season's big two muster a point between them and the new boy is on top.

Aardvark Abacus 2 v 2 The Fabulous Artisans

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 2 v 3 Athletico Phoenix

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 2 v 3 Final Fantasy XI

Real Muppets 4 v 3 Claymore Athletic FC

San Dimas High School 2 v 1 The Dead Parrots

The Cow-Faced Juniors 0 v 0 Mega Buck Bandits
Trusted By Millions 0 v 2 FCK2

YTFIB 1 v 0 Cheese Makers

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	FCK2	1	1	0	0	2	0	2	3
2	Real Muppets	1	1	0	0	4	3	1	3
3	Athletico Phoenix	1	1	0	0	3	2	1	3
4	Final Fantasy XI	1	1	0	0	3	2	1	3
5	San Dimas High School	1	1	0	0	2	1	1	3
6	YTFIB	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	3
7	Aardvark Abacus	1	0	1	0	2	2	0	1
8	The Fabulous Artisans	1	0	1	0	2	2	0	1
9	Mega Buck Bandits	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
10	The Cow-Faced Juniors	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
11	Claymore Athletic FC	1	0	0	1	3	4	-1	0
12	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	1	0	0	1	2	3	-1	0
13	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	1	0	0	1	2	3	-1	0
14	The Dead Parrots	1	0	0	1	1	2	-1	0
15	Cheese Makers	1	0	0	1	0	1	-1	0
16	Trusted By Millions	1	0	0	1	0	2	-2	0

Well Kevin must think this WSFFL business is a piece of cake! In a week of low scores and small margins, goals from midfield stalwarts Frank Lampard and Kevin Nolan see the fledgling FCK2 top after a week one win over Trusted. A clean sheet comeback from the Muppets saw them win the verdict over Claymore. The most expensive man from the August auction, Roberto Soldado, had scored from the spot for Clive and a Ross Barkley screamer had the Swordsmen 3-2 up but cleans from Ashley Cole and Daniel Agger delivered the three points to Ryan.

Fred's splurge at the auction didn't pay dividends in week one as his team went down 3-2 to the Phoenix. Wilfried Bony struck eight minutes from time to level the game at 2-2 after another RvP brace for Brian and Pablo Zabaleta celebrated his new contract with the winning clean. Two new boys at Final Fantasy had a big say in their victory. New keeper Alan McGregor saved an early penalty to open the scoring and Ricky van Wolfswinkel headed what proved to be the winner on 71 minutes against Nil Satis.

It all happened late at San Dimas this week. Simon Mignolet's 89th minute penalty save was immediately cancelled out by Rickie Lambert converting from the spot. Just as I was rueing two points lost new defender Dejan Lovren got the deciding clean. One goal was enough for YTFIb to edge Cheese Makers. Samir Nasri teed up to fire past a helpless Tim Krul and win the points for Julian.

Three teams who might expect to be at the sharp end of the table had to settle for a point. The CFJs, without Gareth Bale and Luis Suarez, couldn't break through the Mega Bucks defence. The Artisans will be moaning about officiating all week after an erroneous offside flag denied Alvaro Negredo a debut goal and what would have been a winner. Ben's team were 2-0 up at that point, both from Christian Benteke, but the Aardvarks latched on to that reprieve and found cleans from Winston Reid and Danny Rose to grab a point. 

PCMT 1st round draw

WSFFL Champion and last season's PCMT winner Chris drew the names as follows...

Cheese Makers v The Cow-Faced Juniors
FCK2 v Real Muppets
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI v Final Fantasy XI
Mega Buck Bandits v The Fabulous Artisnas
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum v Claymore Athletic FC
San Dimas High School v Trusted By Millions
The Dead Parrots v Aardvark Abacus
YTFIB v Athletico Phoenix

Games to be played w/c 14 September