Monday, 22 December 2014

Week 14 Results

Another sticky week for the pacesetters. 

Cheese Makers 1 v 1 The Dead Parrots

FCK2 2 v 0 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

Final Fantasy XI 1 v 0 YTFIB

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 0 v 2 Athletico Phoenix
Mega Buck Bandits 5 v 1 The Cow-Faced Juniors

Real Muppets 0 v 3 Trusted By Millions

San Dimas High School 2 v 1 Aardvark Abacus

The Fabulous Artisans 3 v 3 Claymore Athletic FC




Team P W D L F A Diff Pts
1 Aardvark Abacus 14 10 0 4 27 20 7 30
2 Claymore Athletic FC 14 8 4 2 43 23 20 28
3 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 14 8 3 3 39 25 14 27
4 Athletico Phoenix 14 8 1 5 38 27 11 25
5 FCK2 14 6 5 3 26 20 6 23
6 Trusted By Millions 14 6 3 5 23 25 -2 21
7 Final Fantasy XI 14 6 3 5 20 23 -3 21
8 San Dimas High School 14 6 3 5 21 28 -7 21
9 The Cow-Faced Juniors 14 5 4 5 33 30 3 19
10 The Dead Parrots 14 6 1 7 23 20 3 19
11 Mega Buck Bandits 14 5 3 6 26 24 2 18
12 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 14 5 3 6 28 32 -4 18
13 Cheese Makers 14 3 6 5 18 18 0 15
14 Real Muppets 14 4 1 9 16 28 -12 13
15 The Fabulous Artisans 14 3 2 9 17 31 -14 11
16 YTFIB 14 1 2 11 10 34 -24 5

Silva Service - David Silva's two goals gave San Dimas the win over the Aardvarks despite a Romelu Lukaku og.

Kolared! - But Ady stays top as Claymore are held by the Artisans. Clive needing an Alex Kolarov clean after Martin Skrtel's late, late header for Ben looked to have won it.

Phoenix Rising - And Fred is beaten as well. Stewart Downing's goal and an Ashley Williams clean put Brian's team in the title hunt.

Terry's All Gold - John Terry's early goal from a set-piece set up Kevin for a win over Nil Satis and Harry Kane added to his tally to seal the win before the break.

L of a result - Goals from Lescott and Lamela plus a clean from Cahill saw Beef to a 3-0 win over the Muppets and reach a season high sixth in the table.

Toure De Force - It's no wonder they sing about him at the darts! Yaya powered in the only goal in the game to get Ceri going in the right direction and end Julian's two game unbeaten run.

Austin Powers - £16m for Charlie Austin not looking so silly now! His hat-trick set up the win for Dave over Chris. Fraser Forster hasn't been a bad buy either.

Ki, but forgot to lock the back door - The Parrots and Cheese Makers played out a draw. Ki Sung-Yeung deflecting Matthew into the lead after a quarter hour but Wes Brown got the clean for Dean.

Monday, 15 December 2014

FA Cup 1st round draw

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

A potential banana skin for the holders, a repeat of the Charity Shield Final, the current top two are paired together and a battle of the brothers to boot.

Games are set for w/c 3rd January.

Week 13 results

The top three all win again with perhaps only the Phoenix looking like credible challengers. 

Aardvark Abacus 4 v 1 The Fabulous Artisans

Athletico Phoenix 6 v 0 San Dimas High School

Claymore Athletic FC 5 v 0 FCK2

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 3 v 0 Mega Buck Bandits

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 2 v 2 Cheese Makers

The Dead Parrots 1 v 0 Real Muppets

Trusted By Millions 3 v 1 Final Fantasy XI

YTFIB 1 v 1 The Cow-Faced Juniors



Team P W D L F A Diff Pts
1 Aardvark Abacus 13 10 0 3 26 18 8 30
2 Claymore Athletic FC 13 8 3 2 40 20 20 27
3 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 13 8 3 2 39 23 16 27
4 Athletico Phoenix 13 7 1 5 36 27 9 22
5 FCK2 13 5 5 3 24 20 4 20
6 The Cow-Faced Juniors 13 5 4 4 32 25 7 19
7 The Dead Parrots 13 6 0 7 22 19 3 18
8 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 13 5 3 5 28 30 -2 18
9 Final Fantasy XI 13 5 3 5 19 23 -4 18
10 Trusted By Millions 13 5 3 5 20 25 -5 18
11 San Dimas High School 13 5 3 5 19 27 -8 18
12 Mega Buck Bandits 13 4 3 6 21 23 -2 15
13 Cheese Makers 13 3 5 5 17 17 0 14
14 Real Muppets 13 4 1 8 16 25 -9 13
15 The Fabulous Artisans 13 3 1 9 14 28 -14 10
16 YTFIB 13 1 2 10 10 33 -23 5

Routine wins for the top three this week. The Aardvarks did leave it late to get their win over the Artisans, three clean sheets delivered the points to Ady after Christian Eriksen's late goal for Ben equalised a rare Craig Gardner strike. It was easier for Claymore who cruised to a 5-0 win over the previously in-form FCK2. Clive might have lost Sergio Aguero to injury but he has got Olivier Giroud back from injury and the Frenchman rewarded his manager with a brace. Wayne Rooney and Ross Barkley also added goals from range.

Early goals in either half set up Fred for a win over Mega Bucks. Eden Hazard nodded the Gardeners in front on seven minutes and a cool Wilfried Bony strike three minutes into the second half doubled the lead before Eliaquim Mangala killed Dave off with a clean. Athletico went one better than Claymore with a 6-0 win over San Dimas. Stewart Downing started the goal rush on 29 minutes, Frank Lampard added a second before the break then a Santi Cazorla double bookended strikes from Robin van Persie and Diego Costa to complete the rout.

YTFIB are now unbeaten in two games after holding the CFJs to a draw. Peter Crouch opened the scoring for Julian for the second week in a row but Bacary Sagna got Chris's levelling clean. The Parrots are up to seventh after edging out the Muppets 1-0. Joe Hart's clean the only action of note in this one.

Trusted came from behind to see off injury hit Final Fantasy 3-1. Ayoze Perez got the only goal of the game for Ceri but Beef had three cleans, David De Gea, Gary Cahill and Joleon Lescott providing them to get the points. A game of two halves saw Nil Satis draw with Cheese Makers. Matthew was two up at the interval thanks to Juan Mata's (offside) header and Kevin mirallas but Paul hit back thanks to Steven Nailsmith's goal and a clean from Filipe Luis.

Monday, 8 December 2014

Week 12 results

A rare Aardvark defeat allows Fred and Clive to close. At the other end - Julian gets a point!

Cheese Makers 0 v 0 Claymore Athletic FC

FCK2 3 v 0 Aardvark Abacus

Mega Buck Bandits 1 v 1 YTFIB

Final Fantasy XI 2 v 6 The Dead Parrots

Real Muppets 1 v 2 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

San Dimas High School 1 v 4 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
The Cow-Faced Juniors 4 v 0 Trusted By Millions

The Fabulous Artisans 0 v 5 Athletico Phoenix



Cup semi-final replay results

PCMT semi-final replay
Mega Buck Bandits 1 v 2 San Dimas High School

My team edge through to my fourth PCMT Final - fourth time lucky?

Charity Shield semi-final replay
The Dead Parrots
 5 v 0 Cheese Makers

Dean sets up a Boxing Day clash with Brian.

Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Charity Shield semi-final results

Athletico Phoenix are through to their third Charity Shield final

Cheese Makers   2   v  2  The Dead Parrots   
FCK2   1  v  2   Athletico Phoenix   

Athletico Phoenix are through to their third Charity Shield final following a 2-1 win at FCK2. Kevin Nolan scored from close range ten minutes before the break but Pablo Zabaleta dinked over the keeper ten minutes after half time to square things up. It was another of Brian's defenders, Big Funky German Per Mertersacker, who got the winning clean.

The other semi goes to a reply after the Parrots came from behind twice to draw with Cheese Makers. Maroune Fellaini powered a header home to open the scoring but a Papiss Cisse volley equalised early in the second half. Juan Mata restored Matthew's lead on the hour as his free-kick drifted in but Wayne Routledge forced a replay with a calm finish seven minutes from the end.

Paul Cartmell Memorial Trophy semi-final results

Ben has a chance to get his name on the PCMT for a second time but he'll need to wait to learn his opponents.

San Dimas High School   1  v  1    Mega Buck Bandits   
The Fabulous Artisans   3   v  0    Real Muppets   

The Artisans have been edging back into form in recent weeks and it all clicked in this one. Christian Benteke robbed a Muppets defender and raced forward to place the Artisans ahead on 32 minutes, Sone Aluko added a second at the start of the second half and with 17 minutes left Loic Remy held of Ryan's defenders to slide in the third.

San Dimas and Mega Bucks will try again on the weekend after a 1-1 draw. Much-maligned keeper Simon Mignolet scored an own goal with his face midway through the first half to put Dave ahead but Romelu Lukaku got me back on level terms 12 minutes later, smashing in from six yards. And that's where the scoring ended.