Wednesday, 16 February 2022

Club transfer records

Another list I need to keep together but it might be worth it!

Fees paid

£89m - The Cow-Faced Juniors for Viktor Gyokeres (Aug 2025)
£79m - Wheel Madrid for Alexander Isak (Sep 2025)
£77m - Markian United for Benjamin Sesko (Aug 2025)
£70m - The Wateringhole Society for Hugo Ekitike (Aug 2025)
£70m - Real Muppets for Erling Haaland (Jul 2022)
£62m - San Dimas High School for Josko Gvardiol (Sep 2023)
£61m - The Fabulous Artisans for Florian Wirtz (Aug 2025)
£60m - Stanley Athletic for Timo Werner (Sept 2020)
£59m - Trusted By Millions for Estevao Willian (Aug 2025)
£58m - Mega Buck Bandits for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Feb 2018)
£51m - Claymore Athletic for Rasmus Hojland (Sep 2023)
£48m - Fred West LG XI for Pepe (Aug 2019)
£45m - Nil Satis Nisi Optimum for Moise Keane (Aug 2019)
£42m - Cheese Makers for Jeremy Jacquet (Aug 2026)
£35m - Aardvark Abacus for Alexandre Lacazette (Aug 2017)
£16m - YTFIB for Julio Enciso (Aug 2025)

Fees received

£125.4m - Trusted By Millions for Alexander Isak (Sep 2025)
£108m - Mega Buck Bandits for Philippe Coutinho (Jan 2018)
£105.75m - Wheel Madrid for Jack Grealish (Aug 2021)
£100.1m - Aardvark Abacus for Declan Rice (Jul 2023)
£99.8m - San Dimas High School for Moises Caicedo (Aug 2023)
£92.3m - Nil Satis Nisi Optimun for Sandro Tonali (Jul 2026)
£90m - Fred West LG XI for Eden Hazard (Jun 2019)
£86.4m - Markian United for Harry Kane (Aug 2023)
£85.3m - The Cow-Faced Juniors for Gareth Bale (Sep 2013)
£84.8m - Claymore Athletic FC for Mateus Fernandes (Jul 2026)
£80m - Real Muppets for Cristiano Ronaldo (July 2009)
£68.6m - Cheese Makers for Anthony Gordon (Jul 2026)
£61.02m - Stanley Athletic (as Athletico Phoenix) for Riyad Mahrez (July 2018)
£54.9m - The Fabulous Artisans for Mason Mount (Jul 2023)
£51.4m - The Wateringhole Society for Pedro Neto (Aug 2024)
£23.4m - YTFIB for Allan St-Maximin (Jul 2023)

Monday, 14 February 2022

FA Cup Quarter-final results

Cheese Makers 2 v 0 Wheel Madrid
Claymore Athletic FC 2 v 0 Markian United
Stanley Athletic FC 4 v 4 Real Muppets 
The Wateringhole Society 5 v 0 The Cow-Faced Juniors

Replay

Real Muppets 1 v Stanley Athletic FC 4

The Wateringhole Society are battling on two fronts now. The league leaders made the semi-finals with a big win over the CFJs. Raul Jimenez opened the scoring on six minutes for Kiran having been given time to chest down and volley in. Rodrigo hit the bar for the CFJs twelve minutes later but five minutes after that it was 2-0, Michael Keane getting up highest in the area to head home. Neil Maupay hooked in a half-volley to make it 3-0 a minute before the break before Rodrigo hit the bar again in first half injury time. The second half was less eventful with cleans from Ruben Dias and Tariq Lamptey making it 5-0 to the Society.

Claymore will also be thinking about a Double after getting past Markian 2-0. Clive making it through thanks to a Youri Tielemans spot-kick at the end of the first half and a Roman Saiss clean.

Cheese Makers have made the semi-finals for the first time since 2010/11, Matthew’s first season in charge, following a 2-0 win over Wheel Madrid. Fabinho reacted quickest to his own blocked shot to force the Cheese ahead five minutes before the break. A nervy second half was settled in Matthew’s favour with a Joel Ward clean. It’s Paul’s fourth quarter-final exit in his six seasons in the hot-seat.

Stanley Athletic and the Muppets will try again at the weekend after an entertaining 4-4 draw. Excellent first half strikes from Kieran Trippier and Raheem Sterling sent the game in level at the interval but it took just three minutes after the break for Ryan’s team to take control with a scruffy Phil Foden finish. Raheem Sterling added a header and completed his fifth WSFFL hat-trick, tapping in after his penalty was saved, to put the Muppets 4-1 up as the clock ran down. Almost immediately Craig Dawson replied for Aaron, in controversial circumstances too as the ball struck his arm on the way in. The goal stood and with the Muppets feeling hard done by cleans from Virgil van Dijk and Rico Henry levelled the game and set up the replay.

After Craig Dawson’s controversial goal in the first match set up the replay it was the same player who (fairly) headed Aaron ahead in that game. Three more goals in 20 minutes from Maguire, Rashica and Armstrong put Stanley into their second semi in three seasons.

Thursday, 10 February 2022

Week 19 Results - Wins for the top three

Aardvark Abacus 5 v 1 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Claymore Athletic FC 2 v 0 Fred West Landscape Gdg XI
Real Muppets 5 v 2 YTFIB
San Dimas High School 1 v 1 Mega Buck Bandits
Stanley Athletic FC 1 v 1 The Fabulous Artisans
The Cow-Faced Juniors 2 v 2 Cheese Makers
The Wateringhole Society 2 v 0 Markian United
Wheel Madrid 1 v 3 Trusted by Millions

TeamPWDLFADiffPts
1The Wateringhole Society19124349272240
2Claymore Athletic FC19121646291737
3Trusted By Millions19113547341336
4The Cow-Faced Juniors19102738271132
5The Fabulous Artisans1910274239332
6Aardvark Abacus19101846321431
7Nil Satis Nisi Optimum198472531-628
8San Dimas High School197663126527
9Cheese Makers197662629-327
10Real Muppets198294144-326
11Stanley Athletic FC197483037-725
12Fred West Landscape Gardening XI197393236-424
13Wheel Madrid1954103035-519
14Mega Buck Bandits1953112937-818
15YTFIB1950141847-2915
16Markian United1935111636-2014

The top three got wins to create a bit of separation at the top. The Wateringhole edged out bottom-placed Markian 2-0. An unlucky Mason Holgate own goal and a Ruben Dias clean getting the job done for Kiran. Claymore keep in touch after a 2-0 win over Fred. A mis-hit shot from Teemu Pukki after 38 seconds wasn’t added to until Aaron Cresswell’s clean completed the scoring. A daft sending off for Gabriel Martinelli didn’t help The Gardeners' cause. Trusted got back to winning ways with a 2-0 win at Wheel Madrid Both goals came in the last half hour, Diego Llorente slamming in from close range on 63 minutes and Che Adams' well-placed header seven minutes from time.

The teams in fourth and fifth both drew. The CFJs 2-2 with Cheese Makers, The Artisans 1-1 with Stanley. Gabriel got the close range opener for the Cows but Matthew led after a debut strike from Philippe Coutinho and a first of the season from Ryan Fraser. Aymeric Laporte got the equalising clean. Ben’s team were denied all the points by a Virgil van Dijk clean after Jarrod Bowen’s deflected shot had put him ahead on 68 minutes. If a team is going to come out of the pack to challenge the top three will it be the Aardvarks? They put Nil Satis away 5-1 this week after going behind to Paul Pogba’s first of the season. Diego Jota struck twice for Ady with Son Heung-Min getting one in-between. Cleans from Ben White and Kieran Tierney rounded out the scoring.

San Dimas hold on to the last place in the top half after a 1-1 draw with Mega Bucks. Riyad Mahrez scored from the spot for me five minutes before the break, Wilf Zaha equalised with a stunner on the hour for Dave but also missed a penalty. Dan James doubled his tally for the season with a brace for YTFIB but was on the wrong end of a 5-2 scoreline against the Muppets. Jason Ramsey scored two of his own with Armando Broja getting his first WSFFL goal, Kevin De Bruyne scoring after a keeper blunder and Emerson’s clean completing the scoring for Ryan.

Tuesday, 8 February 2022

FA Cup Quarter-final draw

Cheese Makers v Wheel Madrid
Claymore Athletic FC v Markian United
Stanley Athletic FC v Real Muppets 
The Wateringhole Society v The Cow-Faced Juniors

Games to be played on the weekend of 12/13 February.

Sunday, 23 January 2022

Week 18 Results - Three point lead for the Society

Aardvark Abacus 4 v 1 Stanley Athletic FC
Cheese Makers 1 v 2 The Fabulous Artisans
Markian United 1 v 1 Mega Buck Bandits
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 0 v 1 Fred West Landscape Gdg XI
The Cow-Faced Juniors 2 v 1 San Dimas High School
The Wateringhole Society 2 v 1 Real Muppets
Trusted by Millions 0 v 2 YTFIB
Wheel Madrid 1 v 1 Claymore Athletic FC

Rearranged week 17 game

Fred West Landscape Gdg XI  1 v 4 Aardvark Abacus

TeamPWDLFADiffPts
1The Wateringhole Society18114347272037
2Claymore Athletic FC18111644291534
3Trusted By Millions18103544331133
4The Cow-Faced Juniors18101736251131
5The Fabulous Artisans1810174138331
6Aardvark Abacus1891841311028
7Nil Satis Nisi Optimum188462426-228
8San Dimas High School187563025526
9Cheese Makers187562427-326
10Fred West Landscape Gardening XI187383234-224
11Stanley Athletic FC187382936-724
12Real Muppets187293642-623
13Wheel Madrid185492932-319
14Mega Buck Bandits1852112836-817
15YTFIB1850131642-2615
16Markian United1835101634-1814

The Wateringhole have a three-point lead after this week’s games. Kiran’s team trailed 1-0 to the Muppets after Patson Daka finished off some penalty area pinball a minute into the second half. A clean volley from Ivan Toney on 71 minutes levelled the scores and Tariq Lamptey came of the bench to get the winning clean for the leaders. Claymore stay second but were held 1-1 by Wheel Madrid. A brilliant strike, right in the postage stamp, from Hakim Ziyech put Clive’s team ahead two minutes after the interval but that lead only lasted eight minutes before Thiago Silva headed the Wheelmen level.

Trusted’s poor run goes on with a 2-0 defeat to YTFIB. This game was settled in Julian’s favour with cleans from Ben Gibson and Erik Pieters and the result gets him off the bottom of the table. The CFJs home in on the top three after a 2-1 win over San Dimas. My team went ahead early with a cracking Kyle Walker-Peters goal but it turned round after the break when Odsonne Edouard sprung the offside trap to equalise and then Aymeric Laporte headed the winner 10 minutes later. 

The Artisans are also on 31 points after edging Cheese Makers 2-1. The points looked to be staying at Le Stade when Fabinho scored from the spot after 89 minutes but Ben turned hit back with cleans from Lucas Digne and Diogo Dalot. The Aardvarks are up to sixth after their two victories this week. After beating Fred 4-1 Ady’s team took down Stanley by the same score. Virgil van Dijk headed Aaron in front inside 10 minutes but it was all Aardvarks after half-time. Jamaal Lascelles got the equaliser with an early clean and Jonjo Shelvey put Ady in front with a direct free-kick 15 minutes from time. Ben White and Kieran Tierney added cleans to add gloss to the victory. 

Nil Satis’ recent good run stalled after a 1-0 defeat to Fred. Emi Buendia’s flick header in first half injury time proving to be the only score. Markian’s bottom three scrap with Mega Bucks ended all square. Ruben Neves put Dave ahead with 12 minutes to go with a strike from 20 yards but the recalled Fabian Schar got the clean for Ian meaning that the points were shared.