Week Six Results

The Muppets stretch their lead to three points.

Aardvark Abacus 1 v 1 San Dimas High School

Athletico Phoenix 2 v 1 Claymore Athletic FC 

Cheese Makers 1 v 2 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 

FCK2 0 v 2 Wheel Madrid

The Cow-Faced Juniors 2 v 3 Real Muppets

The Wateringhole Society 0 v 4 The Fabulous Artisans 

Trusted By Millions 1 v 2 Mega Buck Bandits

YTFIB 2 v 1 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts		CC	SP	Counters	Ave Counters
1	Real Muppets	6	5	0	1	16	12	4	15		5	0	21	3.50
2	Athletico Phoenix	6	4	0	2	13	8	5	12		4	0	17	2.83
3	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	6	4	0	2	16	12	4	12		1	0	17	2.83
4	Claymore Athletic FC	6	3	1	2	15	9	6	10		5	0	20	3.33
5	Wheel Madrid	6	3	1	2	12	10	2	10		2	0	14	2.33
6	Aardvark Abacus	6	3	1	2	9	9	0	10		5	0	14	2.33
7	The Cow-Faced Juniors	6	3	0	3	14	10	4	9		4	0	18	3.00
8	Cheese Makers	6	3	0	3	10	10	0	9		4	0	14	2.33
9	Trusted By Millions	6	2	2	2	10	8	2	8		3	0	13	2.17
10	San Dimas High School	6	2	2	2	10	8	2	8		5	1	15	2.50
11	The Fabulous Artisans	6	2	2	2	10	10	0	8		2	1	12	2.00
12	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	6	2	1	3	8	8	0	7		5	1	13	2.17
13	YTFIB	6	2	1	3	11	17	-6	7		3	0	14	2.33
14	Mega Buck Bandits	6	1	1	4	10	15	-5	4		7	0	17	2.83
15	FCK2	6	1	1	4	7	13	-6	4		1	0	8	1.33
16	The Wateringhole Society	6	1	1	4	6	18	-12	4		2	0	8	1.33

Match of the Week

September’s Manager(s) of the Month taking on the league leaders, the season is warming up. The game was everything we wanted too with goals and controversy.

The first goal came on 35 minutes. The CFJs broke quickly and Nacer Chadli continued his recent run of good form with a calm finish, sliding the ball int the far corner. The Muppets were missing midfield maestro Kevin de Bruyne and low were on chance creation but pulled level six minutes after the break. Christian Stan’s header looked to have been hacked off the line but the goal decision system showed it was over. Parity lasted just 10 minutes before the CFJs were in front again. Willian’s excellent curling shot to the far corner making it 2-1. It was injury time when the game changed. Up for a desperate last minute corner Laurent Koscielny seemed to deflect a shot into the net with his arm from an offside position but the goals stood. As Chris was still lambasting the officials the Frenchman added a clean and it ended 3-2 to Ryan’s team. He’s now three points clear.

Elsewhere in the league

The Phoenix are second after defeating Champions Claymore. A magnificent Ricky Villa-esque mazy run and shot from Diego Payet put Clive ahead on the hour but Diego Costa got Brian level shortly after and Jan Vertonghen secured the points for Athletico. Fred edged out the Cheese Makers to climb to third. Dele Alli benefited from a superb pass to put Fred in front but he needed a Cesar Azpilicueta clean to get all three points after Troy Deeney equalised for Matthew.

Wheels had gone without a win since the second game but saw off FCK2 2-0 to start going the right way again. A Callum Wilson header and David Luiz clean sending him to fifth. The Aardvarks and San Dimas played out a 1-1 draw. Romelu Lukaku scored his first WSFFL free-kick to open the scoring ten minutes before the break but Nacho Monreal’s clean stopped me leaving with all the points.

Trusted are vying for ‘inconsistent team of the season’ and went down 2-1 to Mega Bucks. Beef trailed to Leroy Fer’s goal early on but Isaac Success opened his WSFFL account on 65 minutes to level. A Wes Morgan clean was Dave’s winner. Kiran has learnt everything he knows about WSFFL from Ben. Only Ben hasn’t taught Kiran everything he knows. (That phrase works much better spoken than written down). Level at half-time, the Artisans eased away with goals from Firmino, Benteke and goal and a clean rom Patrick van Aanholt. Do we need a new term for that? Is it a glean? Nil Satis were one up at YTFIB thanks to a Claudio Bravo penalty save but ended up 2-1 losers with Joe Allen and James Milner (from the spot) scoring in the last ten minutes for Julian.

Week Five results

The Muppets are top for the first time in oooh… two years! 

Athletico Phoenix 1 v 2 The Cow-Faced Juniors

Claymore Athletic FC 3 v 3 YTFIB

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 2 v 4 Aardvark Abacus 

Mega Buck Bandits 2 v 3 Real Muppets 

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 1 v 2 Cheese Makers

San Dimas High School 2 v 2 FCK2

The Fabulous Artisans 1 v 1 Trusted By Millions

Wheel Madrid 2 v 3 The Wateringhole Society

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Real Muppets	5	4	0	1	13	10	3	12
2	Claymore Athletic FC	5	3	1	1	14	7	7	10
3	The Cow-Faced Juniors	5	3	0	2	12	7	5	9
4	Athletico Phoenix	5	3	0	2	11	7	4	9
5	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	5	3	0	2	14	11	3	9
6	Cheese Makers	5	3	0	2	9	8	1	9
7	Aardvark Abacus	5	3	0	2	8	8	0	9
8	Trusted By Millions	5	2	2	1	9	6	3	8
9	San Dimas High School	5	2	1	2	9	7	2	7
10	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	5	2	1	2	7	6	1	7
11	Wheel Madrid	5	2	1	2	10	10	0	7
12	The Fabulous Artisans	5	1	2	2	6	10	-4	5
13	FCK2	5	1	1	3	7	11	-4	4
14	YTFIB	5	1	1	3	9	16	-7	4
15	The Wateringhole Society	5	1	1	3	6	14	-8	4
16	Mega Buck Bandits	5	0	1	4	8	14	-6	1

Match of the Week

Over 75,000 flooded into Kingham Park to see last season’s runners-up take on the 2012/13 champions who have shown signs of retuning to that sort of form and it was the CFJs who continued in that rich vein.

Only 11 minutes had passed when Alexis Sanchez latched on to a poor backless and coolly put his side ahead. Chris and Sons were two up two minutes later. Fernando Llorente had too much space in the area and lashed home his first WSFFL goal. For Athletico Riyad Mahrez was having an off day and got hooked at half time. Diego Costa was kept quiet too so Brian’s best efforts were coming from Nathan Redmond and Cedric Soares. After going close Soares got on the scoresheet with a clean but that was the last score and the CFJs leapfrog Athletico to go third.

Elsewhere in the league

We have new leaders in the shape of the Muppets. Ryan had a great battle with the desperately unlucky Mega Bucks, who had led 2-1. Raheem Sterling scored a great solo goal and a Laurent Koscielny clean turned the game in the Muppets’ favour. They take over at the top as Claymore blew a two goal lead at home to YTFIB. Sergio Aguero got his traditional brace for Clive but James Milner hit two from the spot for Julian and Joe Allen’s finish on 73 minutes meant the points were shared.

Jermain Defoe was another player who scored two and finished on the wrong end of the result for Fred. Son had already scored twice for Ady and Ben Gibson powered home a header to put the Aardvarks 3-2 up before Nacho Monreal clinched it with a clean. Cheese Makers are up to sixth after edging Nil Satis 2-1. Juan Mata gave Matthew the lead but Paul Pogba opened his account with a header from a corner five minutes later. We had to wait until the end for a decider, Tom Heaton’s clean giving the points to the Cheesers.

Trusted are eighth after a clean rescued a point for them at the Artisans. Ben’s team had waited until the 94th minute to take the lead before Ben Mee squared things for Beef. San Dimas needed a clean to get a point as well, at home to FCK2. A thumping James McArthur header had put Kevin’s team 2-1 up on 76 minutes. Charlie Daniels (a late replacement for the injured Dejan Lovren) got the clean to give me a point. Kiran picked up his first win of the season at Wheel Madrid. Paul had led 2-0 before Marcus Rashford pulled one back five minutes before the break. A great header for Michael Keane (it was a bit of a headers week) was the leveller and then it was a Keane clean that proved the winner.