Week 29 Results

There will be a last day shoot-out between FCK2 and Cheese Makers for the final top-half spot.

Cheese Makers 2 v 5 Aardvark Abacus

Claymore Athletic FC 2 v 2 Athletico Phoenix

FCK2 1 v 0 YTFIB

Mega Buck Bandits 0 v 3 The Cow-Faced Juniors

San Dimas High School 2 v 1 Real Muppets

The Fabulous Artisans 1 v 1 Final Fantasy XI

The Wateringhole Society 3 v 2 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI

Trusted By Millions 0 v 1 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Claymore Athletic FC	29	18	7	4	93	48	45	61
2	Athletico Phoenix	29	15	7	7	67	54	13	52
3	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	29	15	4	10	72	59	13	49
4	The Cow-Faced Juniors	29	14	7	8	66	60	6	49
5	The Fabulous Artisans	29	14	6	9	71	39	32	48
6	Aardvark Abacus	29	15	3	11	63	51	12	48
7	San Dimas High School	29	12	9	8	66	53	13	45
8	Cheese Makers	29	12	7	10	50	54	-4	43
9	FCK2	29	12	4	13	51	50	1	40
10	Trusted By Millions	29	10	7	12	35	47	-12	37
11	The Wateringhole Society	29	10	6	13	41	57	-16	36
12	Real Muppets	29	11	1	17	56	63	-7	34
13	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	29	7	9	13	38	48	-10	30
14	Mega Buck Bandits	29	8	6	15	36	56	-20	30
15	Final Fantasy XI	29	6	8	15	38	65	-27	26
16	YTFIB	29	7	1	21	24	63	-39	22

Athletico’s draw at Claymore puts them in a strong position to hold on to second spot. Clive had clearly fired his team up after last week’s defeat and Aguero and Giroud had fired them two up inside ten minutes. Brian soon hit back through Diego Costa and a Paul Dummett clean earned his team a deserved point. Fred lost ground though with defeat at the Wateringhole Society. Despite scoring first through Solomon Rondon, Fred was 3-1 down at the break. Wayne Rutledge got his first of the season and then Andre Ayew and a screamer from Wabi Khazri put Kiran in control. Jermain Defoe pegged one back but it wasn’t enough.

The CFJs joined Fred on 49 points with a routine win at Mega Bucks. Two goals in two minutes from Borini and Sanchez midway through the second half doing the main business for Chris and Co. The Artisans haven’t given up on third either but could have gone third with victory over Final Fantasy. Roberto Firmino put Ben ahead 14 minutes from time but Matt Ritchie got the equaliser for Ceri six minutes later.

The Aardvarks are our final team with a shot at third following a big win at the Stade de Fromage. Ady has been a bit short of goals to mount a full title challenge so would have been surprised to have seen any one of Son, Joe Allen and Sean Davis on the scoresheet. You’d have got good odds on them all scoring and Davis getting a brace. San Dimas secured a top half spot with a win over the in-form Muppets. Two Jamie Vardy goals, either side of on for Kevin de Bruyne for Ryan, were enough. A wasted Vardy penalty not proving important in the grand scheme of things.

FCK2 go into a last day showdown with the Cheesers for a top half spot thanks to a 1-0 win over YTFIB. Chris Smalling’s clean the only score in a game that may be remembered as John Terry’s last WSFFL appearance after his sending off. The result condemns Julian to bottom spot for the third straight year. Nil Satis lifted themselves to 13th with a  1-0 win at Trusted. Bafetimbi Gomis notching deep in injury time to settle it in Paul and Dan’s favour.

Week 28 Results

Claymore hit the beach early. 

Athletico Phoenix 3 v 2 FCK2

Claymore Athletic FC 0 v 3 Cheese Makers

Mega Buck Bandits 1 v 3 The Fabulous Artisans

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 0 v 0 Final Fantasy XI

Real Muppets 6 v 0 The Cow-Faced Juniors

San Dimas High School 1 v 1 The Wateringhole Society

Trusted By Millions 2 v 2 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI

YTFIB 1 v 5 Aardvark Abacus

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Claymore Athletic FC	28	18	6	4	91	46	45	60
2	Athletico Phoenix	28	15	6	7	65	52	13	51
3	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	28	15	4	9	70	56	14	49
4	The Fabulous Artisans	28	14	5	9	70	38	32	47
5	The Cow-Faced Juniors	28	13	7	8	63	60	3	46
6	Aardvark Abacus	28	14	3	11	58	49	9	45
7	Cheese Makers	28	12	7	9	48	49	-1	43
8	San Dimas High School	28	11	9	8	64	52	12	42
9	FCK2	28	11	4	13	50	50	0	37
10	Trusted By Millions	28	10	7	11	35	46	-11	37
11	Real Muppets	28	11	1	16	55	61	-6	34
12	The Wateringhole Society	28	9	6	13	38	55	-17	33
13	Mega Buck Bandits	28	8	6	14	36	53	-17	30
14	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	28	6	9	13	37	48	-11	27
15	Final Fantasy XI	28	6	7	15	37	64	-27	25
16	YTFIB	28	7	1	20	24	62	-38	22

Champions they may be but Claymore were well and truly turned over by Cheese Makers. Matthew’s team have all but secured a top half finish and become only the second team to shut Clive out. Shane Long poked in after 25 minutes and a late Troy Deeney double finished the job. Athletico have regained second place after edging FCK2 3-2. After goals were shared in the first ten minutes Harry Kane fired Kevin and Jon ahead ten minutes before the break. It looked like that would be the end of the scoring but cleans from Per Mertersacker and a first of the season for Paul Dummett gave Brian the points.

Fred lost ground with a 2-2 draw at Trusted. A late goal from Eden Hazard and a late, late penalty from Jermain Defoe swung the game in Fred’s favour after trailing to a Gary Cahill goal but Adrian’s clean got a point for Beef. The Artisans are finishing strongly and brushed the Bandits aside 3-1. Dave had been ahead through Wes Morgan’s header but a first of the season from Almen Abdi in first half injury time gave Ben a boost. Two goals in two second half minutes, from Leighton Baines and Christian Benteke, give the Artisans a fighting chance of top three spot.

The CFJs suffered a setback, and how!, after a recent good run. They were battered by the Muppets for who (or is it whom) Sadio Mane notched a hat-trick. Bet Ryan wishes the season was going on a while longer. Six of his league wins have come in the last ten games. The Aardvarks went to the in-form YTFIB and left them out of form. Son scored for Ady just before the break, Arnautovic for Julian just after and then it was al about the cleans. Montreal, Lascelles, Cech and Reid all on the scoresheet for Ady.

San Dimas and The Wateringhole Society played out an end-of-term 1-1 draw. Danny Welbeck got his first of the season for me on the hour but a Chancel Mbemba clean for Kiran tied things up. And in the Nil Satis/Final Fantasy basement battle nothing happened at all.