Week 24 Results

Another defeat for Fred. Another week of the chasers not taking advantage.

Aardvark Abacus 4 v 3 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI

Cheese Makers 2 v 0 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

FCK2 1 v 2 San Dimas High School

Real Muppets 0 v 2 Mega Buck Bandits

The Cow-Faced Juniors 4 v 3 Athletico Phoenix

The Wateringhole Society 2 v 2 Wheel Madrid

Trusted By Millions 3 v 3 The Fabulous Artisans

YTFIB 1 v 2 Claymore Athletic FC

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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	24	16	0	8	70	51	19	48
2	Real Muppets	24	13	5	6	39	31	8	44
3	Wheel Madrid	24	12	5	7	46	45	1	41
4	The Cow-Faced Juniors	24	13	1	10	71	50	21	40
5	The Fabulous Artisans	24	12	4	8	46	39	7	40
6	Trusted By Millions	24	11	6	7	49	36	13	39
7	Athletico Phoenix	24	10	8	6	53	43	10	38
8	Cheese Makers	24	11	4	9	39	42	-3	37
9	San Dimas High School	24	10	5	9	55	49	6	35
10	Claymore Athletic FC	24	11	2	11	55	57	-2	35
11	Mega Buck Bandits	24	10	3	11	46	41	5	33
12	Aardvark Abacus	24	8	6	10	34	38	-4	30
13	FCK2	24	6	4	14	34	46	-12	22
14	YTFIB	24	6	3	15	39	65	-26	21
15	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	24	6	2	16	32	51	-19	20
16	The Wateringhole Society	24	3	10	11	26	50	-24	19

A third defeat in four in the league leaves Fred reeling like a punch-drunk prizefighter - but his opponents are unable to deliver a knockout blow. When Dele Alli put the leaders 3-2 up with two minutes to go all looked well in the Gardeners’ garden but a goal from Son and a Monreal clean turned the game on its head and gave the win to the Aardvarks. (Fixture Stat No. 1 - Fred’s last four games are against teams in the current top six). The Muppets missed the chance to close with defeat to Mega Bucks. Phillipe Coutinho in the first half and Josh King late on have Dave easing away from the bottom four.

Wheel Madrid led twice but ultimately had to settle for a draw with draw specialists The Wateringhole Society. Negredo and Vardy goals cancelled by a first for Niang and a clean from Keane. (Fixture Stat No.2 - Kiran’s last three games are against the other members of the bottom four). Have the CFJs left their charge too late? They inflicted the first league defeat of 2017 on Athletico thanks to cleans from Mustafi and Janmaat after Brian had led 3-2 with five minutes left.

The Artisans and Trusted played out a 3-3 draw which keeps them both on the outskirts of the title race. Beef was 2-0 up after 14 minutes through Afobe and Markovic but needed a Mee clean to get a point after Origi, Yoshidi and Eriksen had given Ben a sniff of all three points. Cheese Makers added to Nil Satis’ woes with a 2-0 win. Troy Deeney just after the break and a Robert Huth clean gave Matthew the points and make it five without troubling the scorers for Paul.

Maarten de Roon’s first for San Dimas and one from Theo Walcott gave me enough of a buffer to hold on against FCK2 while Claymore made it out wins out of nine in the league. YTFIB were Clive’s victims this time but the Swordsmen needed Cathcart’s clean after Zlatan’s penalty looked like grabbing a point for Julian.

FA Cup semi-final results

The top half teams see off the bottom half teams and will meet in the final at the end of April.

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 3 v 2 The Wateringhole Society

The Cow-Faced Juniors 4 v 2 San Dimas High School

Fred will have a chance to become the first manager to win the FA Cup three years in a row when he plays the CFGs in the Final. Fred edged out a brave Wateringhole Society effort, Dele Alli’s late strike taking the game out of Kiran’s reach.

The CFJs have been beaten in the Final three times and need the FA Cup to complete the full WSFFL set. Their game against San Dimas looked to be heading to a replay before Mustafi and Janmaat got winning cleans.

Week 23 Results

Normal service resumes at the top.

Athletico Phoenix 0 v 0 YTFIB

Claymore Athletic FC 5 v 1 Cheese Makers

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 3 v 1 FCK2

Mega Buck Bandits 3 v 1 The Cow-Faced Juniors

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 0 v 3 Aardvark Abacus

San Dimas High School 2 v 1 The Wateringhole Society

The Fabulous Artisans 2 v 1 Real Muppets

Wheel Madrid 1 v 0 Trusted By Millions

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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	23	16	0	7	67	47	20	48
2	Real Muppets	23	13	5	5	39	29	10	44
3	Wheel Madrid	23	12	4	7	44	43	1	40
4	The Fabulous Artisans	23	12	3	8	43	36	7	39
5	Trusted By Millions	23	11	5	7	46	33	13	38
6	Athletico Phoenix	23	10	8	5	50	39	11	38
7	The Cow-Faced Juniors	23	12	1	10	67	47	20	37
8	Cheese Makers	23	10	4	9	37	42	-5	34
9	San Dimas High School	23	9	5	9	53	48	5	32
10	Claymore Athletic FC	23	10	2	11	53	56	-3	32
11	Mega Buck Bandits	23	9	3	11	44	41	3	30
12	Aardvark Abacus	23	7	6	10	30	35	-5	27
13	FCK2	23	6	4	13	33	44	-11	22
14	YTFIB	23	6	3	14	38	63	-25	21
15	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	23	6	2	15	32	49	-17	20
16	The Wateringhole Society	23	3	9	11	24	48	-24	18

Fred’s lead is back to four points after the weekend games. The Gardeners saw off FCK2 3-1 with cleans from Mawson and Dawson proving the difference. The Muppets lost to the resurgent Artisans despite scoring first through Sadio Mane. Christian Benteke’s calm dink (you’ve got to love a dink) levelled the scores before Maya Yoshida got Ben’s winning clean to send his team to fourth.

Other results mean that Wheel Madrid are back up to third. Jamie Vardy’s stunning volley a worthy winner against Trusted who slip to fifth. Athletico are unbeaten in eight but five of those have been draws to stifle Brian’s title chances. This week’s draw was a goalless one against YTFIB which takes Julian up a place.

The CFJs recent run of good form came to a grinding halt at Mega Bucks. Zaha and Coutinho put Dave two up in half an hour and although Mustafi pulled one back on 53 minutes for Chris but Antonio Valencia’s clean wrapped it up for the Bucks. Claymore are still rampaging there way through the second half of the season and are surely favourites for a top eight finish. This week Clive’s team bulldozed Cheese Makers 5-1 with Fabregas, Aguero and Ranocchia on target.

San Dimas needed cleans from Daniels and Bailly to come from behind against the Wateringhole Society who had led through Wilfrid Ndidi’s first goal for the club which may well prove to his best. Nil Satis and the Aardvarks had only one game between them this year so it would’t have been a surprise if both teams had lost*. Ady came out on top. Son’s breakthrough on 77 minutes leading to a two more cleans and a 3-0 win.

*it would.