Week 18 Results - Artisans lead the league

Cheese Makers 4 v 1 Stanley Athletic FC

Claymore Athletic FC 2 v 1 San Dimas High School

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 2 v 2 Aardvark Abacus

Mega Buck Bandits 6 v 1 Markian United

The Cow-Faced Juniors 2 v 1 The Wateringhole Society

The Fabulous Artisans 1 v 0 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

Trusted By Millions 0 v 3 Real Muppets

Wheel Madrid 4 v 4 YTFIB

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Fabulous Artisans	18	11	2	5	40	36	4	35
2	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	18	9	7	2	46	34	12	34
3	Aardvark Abacus	18	10	4	4	45	33	12	34
4	The Cow-Faced Juniors	18	9	2	7	39	29	10	29
5	Mega Buck Bandits	18	8	4	6	34	28	6	28
6	Stanley Athletic FC	18	8	3	7	32	35	-3	27
7	The Wateringhole Society	18	8	2	8	52	37	15	26
8	Trusted By Millions	18	7	5	6	31	32	-1	26
9	Real Muppets	18	7	4	7	44	35	9	25
10	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	18	7	2	9	27	29	-2	23
11	Wheel Madrid	18	6	4	8	48	48	0	22
12	San Dimas High School	18	6	4	8	21	31	-10	22
13	YTFIB	18	5	6	7	35	34	1	21
14	Claymore Athletic FC	18	6	2	10	29	37	-8	20
15	Cheese Makers	18	6	2	10	26	36	-10	20
16	Markian United	18	4	1	13	23	58	-35	13

Week 17 Results - Wins for the top three, Fred takes charge

Markian United 1 v 6 The Fabulous Artisans

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 2 v 1 Trusted By Millions

Real Muppets 3 v 2 Mega Buck Bandits

San Dimas High School 1 v 3 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI

Stanley Athletic FC 2 v 3 Aardvark Abacus

The Cow-Faced Juniors 3 v 1 Wheel Madrid

The Wateringhole Society 1 v 3 Claymore Athletic FC

YTFIB 2 v 0 Cheese Makers

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	17	9	6	2	44	32	12	33
2	Aardvark Abacus	17	10	3	4	43	31	12	33
3	The Fabulous Artisans	17	10	2	5	39	36	3	32
4	Stanley Athletic FC	17	8	3	6	31	31	0	27
5	The Wateringhole Society	17	8	2	7	51	35	16	26
6	The Cow-Faced Juniors	17	8	2	7	37	28	9	26
7	Trusted By Millions	17	7	5	5	31	29	2	26
8	Mega Buck Bandits	17	7	4	6	28	27	1	25
9	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	17	7	2	8	27	28	-1	23
10	Real Muppets	17	6	4	7	41	35	6	22
11	San Dimas High School	17	6	4	7	20	29	-9	22
12	Wheel Madrid	17	6	3	8	44	44	0	21
13	YTFIB	17	5	5	7	31	30	1	20
14	Claymore Athletic FC	17	5	2	10	27	36	-9	17
15	Cheese Makers	17	5	2	10	22	35	-13	17
16	Markian United	17	4	1	12	22	52	-30	13

A change of lead with Fred taking over by virtue of having scored one goal more than Ady. The Gardeners ended San Dimas’ run of eight without a defeat with a 3-1 win. A brilliant Bruno Fernandes goal just before halftime put Fred ahead and when Antonio Rudiger poked past his own keeper ten minutes into the second half it was 2-0. Mo Salah’s penalty made it three and Fred could allow me an Antonee Robinson consolation clean. The Aardvarks got past Stanley 3-2 to move six points ahead of those rivals. Ollie Watkins opened the scoring inside two minutes and Lewis Dunk had added a second before half-time. A brilliant James Ward-Prowse free-kick reduced the deficit on 48 minutes but it was 3-1 ten minutes later when Son Heung-Min finished off a breakaway. Craig Dawson’s clean didn’t change the destination of the points but did knock the Aardvarks off the top.

The Artisans swept struggling Markian aside 6-1 to keep on the leaders’ heels. Ben’s team led through Mason Mount’s first-time finish and Patrick Bamford pounced a rebound to double the lead seven minutes after the break. The returning Harry Kane had time and space to pull one back for Ian two minutes laster but the Artisans had cleans from Fabianski, Alioski, Evans and Tete to make it an eighth straight defeat for the bottom side. The Wateringhole lost ground going down 3-1 to a recovering Claymore. Takumi Minamino gave Kiran the lead on the half-hour but Claymore were the stronger after the break. Abdoulaye Doucoure and James Rodriguea had turned the game around with goals within seven minutes of the restart and Aaron Cresswell finished it off with a clean.

The CFJs did all their good work in the first half of their 3-1 win over Wheel Madrid. Edison Cavani put the Cows in front on 24 minutes, Miguel Almiron doubled the lead two minutes later and found another goal in first half injury time. Wheels could only muster a second-half Jorginho penalty in response. Trusted had gone seven without defeat before running into Nil Satis this weekend. Joe Willock’s early goal looked to have given Beef all the Points but Dominic Calvert-Lewin finished off a knockdown deep into injury time and Stuart Dallas got the winning clean while Beef’s team were still reeling.

Three goals in 14 minutes gave the Muppets a PCMT Final repeat win over Mega Bucks. Jack Harrison’s early deflected shot had Dave ahead for over an hour before Scott McTominay, Raheem Sterling and a stunner from Phil Foden turned the game on its head. Luke Ayling’s clean in reply for the Bandits wasn’t enough for a point. Ilkay Gundogan skied a first-half penalty for YTFIB against Cheese Makers but made up for it in the second half with two close range finishes to complete the win for Julian.

FA Cup Quarter-final Results

Cheese Makers 0 v 1 San Dimas High School

Real Muppets 3 v 1 Wheel Madrid

The Fabulous Artisans 1 v 1 Stanley Athletic FC

Trusted By Millions 3 v 1 The Wateringhole Society

Replay

Stanley Athletic FC 1 v 4 The Fabulous Artisans

Report

The three previous FA Cup winners left in all made it through to the semi-finals. 

The Muppets are in the hunt to win two cups this season after beating Wheel Madrid 3-1. Kelechi Iheanacho made a rare appearance for Ryan’s team and headed in a pinpoint cross on 17 minutes to open the scoring. Paul W levelled inside 10 minutes through Jorginho’s penalty but the Muppets were back in front seven minutes from half-time when Raheem Sterling was on hand to sidefoot home from close range. Wheels chances got tougher in first half injury time when David Luiz was sent off and Scott McTominay’s first time shot from 25 yards with 19minutes left made it 3-1 and finished the scoring.

Trusted last lifted the FA Cup in 2003/4 but are still in the hunt after beating the Wateringhole Society 3-1. Gabriel Jesus gave Beef a great start nodding in after a shot was parried straight to him but Kiran was level on 25 minutes when Marcus Rashford side footed in from 10 yards. Trusted were back in front three minutes after the break with a well-placed effort from Raphinha then the game went away from the Society when Bernd Leno was dismissed for handling outside the area. Adam Webster’s clean wrapped it up for Beef

Charity Shield winners San Dimas are still in the hunt for a fourth FA Cup win after a single clean sheet from Antonio Rudiger decided my tie with Cheese Makers. The Artisans and Stanley will try again this weekend after a 1-1 draw. All the action came late. A deft touch close in from Dan James looked to have won it for Ben three minutes into injury time but the celebrations had barely died down when Harry Maguire’s clean got the equaliser for Aaron.

In the replay - A flurry of goals either side of half-time brought this game to life. Mason Mount’s first-time shot from 15 yards put Ben ahead, a stunning free-kick from James Ward-Prowse brought Aaron level before Patrick Bamford pounced on a rebound to make it 2-1 to the Artisans. They didn’t relinquish the lead again and two cleans sees them comfortably into the semis.