Week 27 Results - Four points cover the top five

Aardvark Abacus 2 v 1 YTFIB

Cheese Makers 4 v 4 The Cow-Faced Juniors

Claymore Athletic FC 1 v 3 Wheel Madrid

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 3 v 3 The Wateringhole Society

Mega Buck Bandits 0 v 2 Trusted By Millions

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 3 v 0 Markian United

Stanley Athletic FC 1 v 2 San Dimas High School

The Fabulous Artisans 2 v 3 Real Muppets

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	27	13	11	3	69	49	20	50
2	The Fabulous Artisans	27	14	6	7	58	48	10	48
3	Trusted By Millions	27	14	6	7	51	41	10	48
4	The Cow-Faced Juniors	27	14	4	9	63	42	21	46
5	Aardvark Abacus	27	13	7	7	59	48	11	46
6	Stanley Athletic FC	27	12	4	11	45	56	-11	40
7	The Wateringhole Society	27	11	5	11	73	52	21	38
8	Real Muppets	27	11	5	11	61	50	11	38
9	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	27	11	2	14	41	45	-4	35
10	Cheese Makers	27	10	5	12	47	54	-7	35
11	Mega Buck Bandits	27	9	6	12	45	48	-3	33
12	Wheel Madrid	27	9	5	13	59	66	-7	32
13	San Dimas High School	27	9	5	13	29	49	-20	32
14	YTFIB	27	8	7	12	48	53	-5	31
15	Claymore Athletic FC	27	7	6	14	41	55	-14	27
16	Markian United	27	7	4	16	42	75	-33	25

At the top - Two wins, two draws and a defeat for the top five. Fred still leads, now by two points, but was held 3-3 by the Wateringhole. A great Matheus Pereira strike and a Michael Keane clean in the last few minutes hauled Kiran back from 3-1 down and keeps Fred honest at the top. The Artisans stay second but went down 3-2 to the Muppets. Ben led twice but Ryan’s team had levelled by half-time and won the game through Kelechi Iheanacho with three minutes left. As well as getting the winner in the FA Cup Final replay Joe Willock set up Trusted’s 2-0 win to put Beef third, two points off the top. Two points further back are the CFJs, who played out a fantastic 4-4 draw with Cheese Makers, and the Aardvarks who held off YTFIB 2-1 despite Lewis Dunk seeing red early in the second half.

At the bottom - Markian’s April form seems to have gone and they sank 3-0 to Nil Satis. Stuart Dallas scored again for Paul S and is very much in the running for the Defender of the Season prize. Claymore stay two points off bottom spot after going down 3-1 to Wheel Madrid. Hakim Ziyech gave Clive the lead but that lasted barely a minute as the fit-again Callum Wilson scored his first of two for Wheels to turn the tables. Clean sheets from Vicente Guaita and Tyrick Mitchell gave San Dimas a 2-1 win at Stanley that probably keeps my team out of bottom place ignominy for this season at least.

FA Cup Final Replay

San Dimas High School 0

v

Trusted By Millions 1

Willock 22

(two cancelled cleans)

At Wembley    Virtual attendance 90,000

Teams

San Dimas: Guaita; Robinson, Cancelo, Rudiger, Mitchell; Bissouma, Kante, Davis, McNeil; Grant, Roberts            

Subs: Guaita; Fofana; Mahrez; Perez

Trusted: De Gea; Alexander-Arnold, Mee, Koch, Coady; Trossard, Fornals, Willock, Redmond; Jesus, Richarlison

Subs: Areola; Aurier; Raphinha; Mitrovic

Report

San Dimas made half a dozen changes from the first game while Trusted had just the one change in defence. After the previous dreary match the virtual crowd only had to wait 22 minutes for goalscoring action this time.

Joe Willock seized on a defensive error before bursting into the penalty area to fire beyond the Saints goalkeeper and into the bottom corner.

After this action it was another tight affair but San Dimas lacked bite in the final third and Trusted saw out the game with little trouble.

It's Trusted's third FA Cup win (their first since 2003/4) and could be one half of the Double.

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How they got there

San Dimas High School 0

v

Trusted By Millions 0

(two cancelled cleans)

At Wembley    Virtual attendance 90,000

Teams

San Dimas: Martinez; Struijk, Cancelo, Fofana, Ajayi; Bissouma, Dendoncker, Davis, McNeil; Gayle, Roberts            

Subs: Guaita; Walker-Peters; Mahrez; Perez

Trusted: De Gea; Alexander-Arnold, Mee, Aurier, Coady; Trossard, Fornals, Willock, Redmond; Jesus, Richarlison

Subs: Areola; Webster; Lamela; Adams

Report

The first WSFFL cup final that ended goalless. A game that won't live long in the memory.

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Semi-finals:

San Dimas High School 4 v 3 Real Muppets

The Fabulous Artisans 0 v 3 Trusted By Millions

Quarter-finals:

Cheese Makers 0 v 1 San Dimas High School

Real Muppets 3 v 1 Wheel Madrid

Stanley Athletic FC 1 v 4 The Fabulous Artisans (after 1-1 draw)

Trusted By Millions 3 v 1 The Wateringhole Society

First Round:

Cheese Makers 1 v 0 Mega Buck Bandits

Claymore Athletic FC 1 v 3 The Fabulous Artisans

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 0 v 5 The Wateringhole Society

Real Muppets 3 v 2 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI

San Dimas High School 6 v 2 YTFIB

Stanley Athletic FC 3 v 1 The Cow-Faced Juniors

Trusted By Millions 2 v 1 Aardvark Abacus (after 2-2 draw)

Wheel Madrid 2 v 1 Markian United

Week 26 Results - Top four covered by four points

Aardvark Abacus 2 v 2 Claymore Athletic FC

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 3 v 2 Cheese Makers

Markian United 0 v 2 Trusted By Millions

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 1 v 4 Real Muppets

San Dimas High School 0 v 5 The Cow-Faced Juniors

Stanley Athletic FC 3 v 2 Wheel Madrid

The Fabulous Artisans 2 v 3 Mega Buck Bandits

YTFIB 0 v 0 The Wateringhole Society

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	26	13	10	3	66	46	20	49
2	The Fabulous Artisans	26	14	6	6	56	45	11	48
3	The Cow-Faced Juniors	26	14	3	9	59	38	21	45
4	Trusted By Millions	26	13	6	7	49	41	8	45
5	Aardvark Abacus	26	12	7	7	57	47	10	43
6	Stanley Athletic FC	26	12	4	10	44	54	-10	40
7	The Wateringhole Society	26	11	4	11	70	49	21	37
8	Real Muppets	26	10	5	11	58	48	10	35
9	Cheese Makers	26	10	4	12	43	50	-7	34
10	Mega Buck Bandits	26	9	6	11	45	46	-1	33
11	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	26	10	2	14	38	45	-7	32
12	YTFIB	26	8	7	11	47	51	-4	31
13	Wheel Madrid	26	8	5	13	56	65	-9	29
14	San Dimas High School	26	8	5	13	27	48	-21	29
15	Claymore Athletic FC	26	7	6	13	40	52	-12	27
16	Markian United	26	7	4	15	42	72	-30	25

The top of the table seems like some sort of ‘hot potato’ as Ben could no longer hang on to it and Fred takes over. The Artisans went down 3-2 to Mega Bucks, two goals from Michail Antonio and one from P-E Aubameyang putting Dave three up. Jonny Evans replied for the Artisans and Billy Gilmour picked up a clean but that was the end of the scoring. Fred needed a clean to beat Cheese Makers 3-2. It was the Gardeners’ young guns with the goals, Fabio Silva’s deflection equalising Chris Wood’s early penalty and Ferran Torres well-placed shot making it 2-1. A brilliant Anwar El Ghazi strike levelled it for Matthew with ten minutes to play but Kurt Zouma’s clean decided the game in Fred’s favour.

The CFJs are up to third after smashing San Dimas 5-0. Gareth Bale scored his first WSFFL hat-trick since the PCMT Final of 2012/13 against - San Dimas. Danny Welbeck also added a smart goal against one of his former clubs. Trusted are up to fourth, just four points off the top, after beating Markian 2-0. Jannik Westergaard was sent off after ten minutes to take Ian down to ten but it took cleans from Aurier and Webster to do the job for Beef.

The Aardvarks slipped back after being held 2-2 by Claymore. Ady led 1-0 at the break, courtesy of Ollie Watkins then Sergio Aguero equalised with a stunning strike, it’s his first goal of an injury-truncated season. Mbaye Diagne put Clive ahead but Son Heung-Min curled in from the edge of the area to earn the Aardvarks a point. Stanley are in sixth after edging Wheel Madrid 3-2. Aaron was three up just after the hour mark, two from Kai Havertz and a James Ward-Prowse penalty, before Paul W hit back with cleans from Zinchenko and Thiago Silva to make the end of the game a bit twitchy.

The Wateringhole and YTFIB played out a drab 0-0 which leaves Kiran’s top half space looking vulnerable. Real Muppets are back in eighth after a big clean sheet win at Nil Satis. Dominic Calvert-Lewin put Paul S in front on 19 minutes and held on until Ryan rolled out cleans from Emerson, James, Bellerin and Christensen.