BEASTER
Easter is traditionally the time which sorts the real title contenders from the also-rans, and at the end of it Aardvark Abacus are still on course for the Championship, but are now facing a stern challenge from Real Muppets. Let’s take the weekend in 2 parts;
It was seventh heaven for Bevan, as Aardvark knocked 7 past fading Prettier Than You on Saturday, with 3 goals from subs Cort and Solano. After that performance, they had to scoop the Performance Of The Week £100,000, so well done Ady. Muppets and Claymore kept pace with a 2-0 win over Viola’s Pier and a 2-1 win over Yorks respectively, whilst Trusted slipped up badly, losing 2-1 to revitalised San Dimas.
The Groovers were the real movers on Saturday, their 3-2 win over Mega Bucks moving them from 9th to 6th, whilst the heavy defeat to Aardvark, coupled with draws for both Fred West and Boston Rock, saw Prettier Than You swap places with the Big Man.
At the bottom, Nil Satis kept their recent winning streak going with a 3-0 win over Elland Road to go above them into 14th, the Big Boys’ boss Dean’s scouting trip to New Zealand surely not helping matters much.
On Easter Monday, however, San Dimas High School taught the leaders a lesson, beating a weakened Aardvark side 2-0 to win the Performance Of The Week £100,000 and to move up into 4th, thanks to Trusted By Millions slipping up 3-1 to a rejuvenated Prettier Than You, who once again leapt up to 6th. The other big clash at the top saw Real Muppets close to within 2 points of the leaders, after beating Claymore Athletic FC 3-2 to seriously dent their own title hopes.
At the bottom, Yorks won for the first time in ages, beating fellow strugglers Viola’s Pier with a single Tomas Radzinski goal, and Nil Satis slipped back to 15th, after Kylie halted their revival with a 4-0 spanking, and Elland Road Big Boys, Boston Rock’s “bogey” team since “that” cup final, once again put the Sky Heroes to the sword with a 2-0 win. No surprise there!
Also no surprise really that the top 2 teams shared the Manager of the Month Award for March 2002, both Aardvark Abacus and Real Muppets posting 100% records during the month. So Ady and Ryan are both £250,000 richer; well done to the pair of ‘em.
TRANSFER NEWS
The man I described in last years’ Newsletter 16 as looking like “a collection of coathangers clinging to a lamppost, with a blue and white hooped tarpaulin chucked haphazardly over it” now has a different coloured tarp to hide under. Yup, Peter Crouch, all 6 foot 7 inches, and 8 stone wringing wet of him, has joined Prettier Than You, who outbid 3 other managers for his services.
Player (Pos’n) From To Fee
Hamilton Ricard (A) Elland Road Big Boys CSKA Sofia £0
Luke Wilkshire (M) Middlesbrough Eland Road Big Boys £500,000
Stephen McPhail (M) YKY Boston Rock FC Pool £250,000
Matthew Etherington (M) Tottenham Hotspur YKY Boston Rock FC £500,000
Joseph Desire Job (A) Prettier Than You Pool £250,000
Peter Crouch (A) Portsmouth Prettier Than You £5,200,000
(48 hour rule top bid)
(G = goalkeeper, D = defender, M = midfielder, A = attacker)
Don’t forget that the players highlighted are subject to the pool “cooling off” period. Any managers interested in buying them can bid until 8 p.m. on Monday 8 April 2002, after which time they go into the pool proper and are readily available.
THE FF£100,000 QUESTION
And staying with the footy fanzine/ rock connection;
Whose fanzine rejoiced in the title of “Brian Moore’s Head Looks Uncannily Like London Planetarium”?
Extra rock cred points if you can name a) the band who performs the song from whence the above lyric quote is drawn, and b) what footy team they support! One entry per person as usual please, to me by close of play on Saturday 7 April 2002.
The fanzine Voice of the Beehive was published by fans of Brentford FC. Other fun facts about Brentford include the fact that there’s a pub at each corner of the ground. I can vouch for that, having once left one at 5 to 3 and still managed to take my seat for 3 p.m., thence to witness a most eventful 0-0 draw between the Bees and Swindon Town, wherein both White and Mitchell were sent off for the Town in the first half. Sheffield United, you think you invented it, don’t you?!?
Correct guesses from Dean and Ryan, and Dean won the coin toss, so £100,000 goes to Elland Road Big Boys. A wrong guess from Clive, who guessed Barnet!
WSFFL RESULTS; Week 25, W/E 30 March 2002
Kylie Bumcheeks 3-3 You Know Your Boston Rock FC
Hyypia Scholes
Shearer DeFoe
Mark Delaney (OG) Bowyer 33,871
Elland Road Big Boys 0-3 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Wiltord
Ferguson
Luzhny 31,258
Prettier Than You 0-7 Aardvark Abacus
Sol Campbell
Gallas
Harte
Smicer
Solano 2
Cort 40,058
San Dimas High School 2-1 Trusted By Millions
Queudrue (1) Owen
Bergkamp 51,921
22 Legged Groove Machine 3-2 Mega Buck Bandits
Strupar Seaman
Solskjaer 2 Henchoz 38,047
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 1-1 Short Straw Rovers
Giggs Nolan 37,849
York’s Returning Glory 1-2 Claymore Athletic FC
O’Brien Alexandersson
Marlet 31,616
Real Muppets 2-0 Viola’s Pier
Dudek
Viduka 44,094
Performance of the week: Aardvark Abacus
WSFFL RESULTS; Week 26, W/C 1 April 2002
Aardvark Abacus 0-2 San Dimas High School
(1) Distin
Kanoute 44,950
Trusted By Millions 1-3 Prettier Than You
Hreidarsson N’Gotty
Reyna 2 36,597
You Know Your Boston Rock FC 0-2 Elland Road Big Boys
(1) Le Saux
Dixon 28,851
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 0-4 Kylie Bumcheeks
(1) Ian Pearce
Dailly
Mustoe
Shearer 28,053
Viola’s Pier 0-1 York’s Returning Glory
Radzinski 26,339
Claymore Athletic FC 2-3 Real Muppets
Henry 2 (1) Ashley Cole
Southgate
Viduka 39,784
Mega Buck Bandits 2-2 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
Stockdale (1) Pistone
Sheringham Ljungberg 35,167
Short Straw Rovers 1-1 22 Legged Groove Machine
Venus (2) Iversen 30,822
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