WELL I LOVE THAT DIRTY WATER, OH BOSTON YOU’RE MY HOME
Well, being the cad I am, I had to go and spoil my good lady wife’s birthday, didn’t I? You Know Your Boston Rock won the 2005/06 WSFFL FA Cup Final, beating Prettier Than You 4-0. Now I’m really going to hell…
A full report of the final is featured in this newsletter.
THERE’S NO TRUST BIG ENOUGH FOR THIS ROOM
And now, following this weekend’s fixtures, the title race is down to a two-horse race, and possibly a one-horse race. A 1-1 draw with Thommo’s Titans ended Trusted By Millions’ title chances – Beef missed the midfield drive of Steven Gerrard as a late Justin Hoyte strike for Thommo equalised an earlier Titus Bramble header. In fact, in the absence of any other major surprise results this week, I’m going to give Pete the POTW £500,000 for getting one of my title pursuers off my back. Well done Thommo!
You Know Your Boston Rock FC took a giant stride towards the title this weekend with a 2-0 win over Mega Buck Bandits, the team whose last-day win over “The Sky Heroes” robbed Boston Rock of the title last season. Sweet revenge was exacted for Boston Rock via goals from Frank Lampard, finally rediscovering his shooting boots, and recent signing Danny Gabbidon. Aardvark Abacus also continued their relentless form of late, with a 5-1 thrashing of The Dead Parrots, including a Milan Baros double. This means Aardvark can still take the title, but they need to win their 3 remaining games and hope that Boston Rock loses their last 3, and also turn around a +6 goal difference. A mountainous task for sure, but if anyone can do it, Aardvark can. That’s what I’m worried about…
Fred West Landscape Gardening continued their recent surge, tightening their grip on 4th place with a 4-1 win over Claymore Athletic. Goals from Del Horno, Evra, Brown and Silvestre helped “Nibs” to see off his old chap. San Dimas High School snuck into 5th with a 3-0 win over poor Prettier Than You, John Terry the architect of this win with a double. Eleven Imaginary Boys slip to 6th as they were held to a 2-2 draw by Nil Satis. And demonstrating the tight nature of the mid-table, the 22 Legged Groove Machine leapt from 12th to 7th with a 1-0 win over Final Fantasy XI, Lee Young-Pyo (or is it Young-Pyo Lee?) getting the winner in a tight game.
It could still go either way in the wooden spoon race – York’s Returning Glory matched Thommo’s performance, drawing 2-2 with Real Muppets, and remain 3 point behind Pete’s team. This battle could go to the wire…
ARE YOU RECEIVING?
Important news about the Premiership fixtures over the next couple of weekends, so please pay attention! WSFFL Week 28’s fixtures will include the 5 Premiership games being played on Saturday April 22, PLUS the Fulham-Wigan game on Monday April 24, PLUS the Aston Villa-Man City game on Tuesday April 25. It will also include BOTH FA Cup Semi Finals, i.e. Chelsea-Liverpool on Saturday April 22, and Middlesbrough-West Ham on Sunday April 23.
The Villa-Man City game was only postponed by a couple of days due to the potential use of Villa Park for the Boro-West Ham Semi Final venue, so I thought it best to include it in the weekend’s fixtures. Sorry it’s a bit of a mess, and sorry that it also means 2 Premiership teams, namely Manchester United and Blackburn, are not in action over this fixture due to postponements caused to accommodate the FA Cup Semi Finals. But at least it’s tidier than Easter Monday’s (and Tuesdays and Wednesday’s) fixtures, when 4 Premiership teams would be benched!
WSFFL Week 29’s fixtures are less complicated but still need your attention. Week 29 will include the 7 Premiership fixtures being played on Saturday April 29, PLUS the Spurs-Bolton game on Sunday April 30, PLUS 2 of the 3 Premiership fixtures on Monday May 1. The 2 that will count are Sunderland-Arsenal and West Brom-West Ham. The one that will NOT count is Man Utd-Middlesbrough, as both these teams will have already played on the Saturday (United at Chelsea, and Boro at home to Everton). This is one of the rearranged fixtures from Semi Final weekend, but will NOT count in our game.
Now all I need is for Sky to rearrange any of these fixtures, and we might be in an even worse mess…!
TRANSFER NEWS
Player From To Fee
Talal El Karkouri (D) York’s Returning Glory Pool £500K
Don’t forget that the players highlighted are now subject to the pool “cooling off” period, Any managers interested in buying them can bid until close of play Saturday 22 April 2006, after which time they go into the pool proper and are readily available. All bids to me please.
THE FF£100,000 QUESTION
With their recent shut-out of Juventus, Arsenal set a new Champion’s league record of 7 games without conceding a goal, beating the previous mark, which was held by Italian giants AC Milan. Which current Premiership midfielder scored the goal that brought AC Milan’s clean sheet run to an end?
THE FF£100,000 QUESTION (continued)
Answers to me by close of play Saturday 22 April 2006. As usual, first correct one out of the metaphorical hat gets the dosh.
In the history of the Premiership, the fixture in which there been the most sendings-off is Liverpool vs Everton. A total of 13 sendings-off, including 2 – Steven Gerrard and Andy Van Der Meyde – in the game at Anfield on 25 March 2006. And we all thought it was such a friendly rivalry…
Two correct replies this week, from Rachel and Ryan. Prettier Than You won the coin toss, so Rachel wins the hundred grand. Well done to her, but scant consolation for a Cup Final defeat…
I also got a half right guess from Peej (Arsenal-Liverpool) and completely wrong guesses from Dean and Ceri (who both went for Man United-Arsenal). Thanks for guessing guys, and for complimenting the question, Peej!
SHORTS
· Whoops again – with everything else happening last weekend, I forgot to mention Clive’s correct guess for the Peter Crouch question. Humble apologies Clive-lad! Now, you didn’t have a guess this week, did you…?
· The Big Man gave me a heads-up about the new Carlsberg advert on TV. Under the strapline of “Carlsberg don’t do Pub Teams, but if they did…”, it features a team of England legends (Charlton, Bearsley, Pearce, Ball et al) jogging out onto a rutted Gasworks playing field and giving some hapless team of Sunday league hackers a right tupping. The kicker here is that the victims are wearing the original TTP strips of yellow and black striped shirts, black shorts and socks! D’oh!
The 2005/06 WSFFL FA CUP FINAL
W/E of 15 April 2006
You Know Your Boston Rock FC 4 - 0 Prettier Than You
Ferdinand 1
Lampard 59
Gabbidon 90
Robinson 90
At the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Attendance 75,000
You Know Your Boston Rock FC Team:
Paul Robinson
Steven Taylor, Micah Richards, Danny Gabbidon, Liam Ridgewell
David Bentley, Harry Kewell, Frank Lampard, Jermaine Jenas
Darren Bent, Georgios Samaras
Subs: Radek Cerny, Rio Ferdinand (on 1 for Taylor), Robert Pires, Jermain Defoe (on 66 for Samaras)
Prettier Than You Team:
Thomas Myhre
Jonathan Spector, Aaron Hughes, Richard Dunne, Bruno N’Gotty
Charles N’Zogbia, Matthew Etherington, Claudio Reyna, Reto Ziegler
Craig Bellamy, Shola Ameobi
Subs: Dean Keily, Zurab Khizanishvili, Kevin Kilbane (on 1 for Etherington), Darius Vassell (on 18 for Ameobi)
In this historic first ever husband vs. wife WSFFL FA Cup Final, You Know Your Boston Rock FC beat Prettier Than You by 4-0 to win the trophy for the third time, having won it in 1999/2000 and retained it in 2000/01. Only time will tell if it’s the first part of a double…
Boston Rock boss Sheriff sprung a surprise naming a young defence, one of which, Steven Taylor, didn’t last long in this contest. But it was his replacement Rio Ferdinand who opened the scoring early doors with a stout header. Prettier Than You were however undaunted by going behind, and took the game to the favourites. Shola Ameobi missed a glorious far post header following an inch-perfect cross from N’Zogbia, before he was forced off dazed following a collision with Boston Rock goalkeeper Robinson. N’Zogbia’s mazy runs were a constant worry for young full-back Richards, but Craig Bellamy, in such rich goalscoring form of late, was out of sorts and squandered his opportunities.
Both sides continued to attack in the second half. PTY’s Vassell had a goal disallowed for a marginal offside decision. Boston Rock’s Jermaine Jenas also had one chalked off after Richards had strayed offside. Finally, on 59 Frank Lampard ended his recent lean run in front of goal with a run and toe-poke past Myhre. PTY resistance crumbled thereafter, and Jenas’ drive from midfield prompted a late Boston Rock charge, led by substitute Defoe, who hit the crossbar with a rasping drive, before late goals for Gabbidon and Robinson gave the final score a lopsided look, and secured victory for the “Sky Heroes.”
WSFFL RESULTS;
Week 27, W/E 15 April 2006
Claymore Athletic FC 1-4 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
Hleb Del Horno
Evra
Wes Brown
Silvestre 52,302
The Dead Parrots 1-5 Aardvark Abacus
Fowler (2) O’Neil
Robbie Keane
Baros 2
Riise 34,305
Eleven Imaginary Boys 2-2 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Shearer 2 (1) O’Shea
Primus 39,856
Final Fantasy XI 0-1 22 Legged Groove Machine
Lee 29,142
Prettier Than You 0-3 San Dimas High School
Terry 2
Stefanovic 38,167
Trusted By Millions 1-1 Thommo’s Titans
Bramble (1) Hoyte 40,158
York’s Returning Glory 2-2 Real Muppets
Boa Morte 2 Reina
Gary Neville 27,266
You Know Your Boston Rock FC 2-0 Mega Buck Bandits
Lampard (2)
Gabbidon 72,519
Performance of the Week: Thommo’s Titans
THE WSFFL LEAGUE TABLE, Season 2005/06
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As at 16 April 2006
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Team
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P
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W
|
D
|
L
|
F
|
A
|
Diff
|
Pts
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1
|
You Know Your Boston Rock FC
|
27
|
19
|
3
|
5
|
75
|
32
|
43
|
60
| |
2
|
Aardvark Abacus
|
27
|
15
|
6
|
6
|
79
|
42
|
37
|
51
| |
3
|
Trusted By Millions
|
27
|
14
|
7
|
6
|
58
|
40
|
18
|
49
| |
4
|
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
|
27
|
13
|
4
|
10
|
64
|
45
|
19
|
43
| |
5
|
San Dimas High School
|
27
|
11
|
7
|
9
|
53
|
43
|
10
|
40
| |
6
|
Eleven Imaginary Boys
|
27
|
11
|
6
|
10
|
38
|
44
|
-6
|
39
| |
7
|
22 Legged Groove Machine
|
27
|
11
|
4
|
12
|
32
|
57
|
-25
|
37
| |
8
|
Claymore Athletic FC
|
27
|
9
|
9
|
9
|
53
|
47
|
6
|
36
| |
9
|
Real Muppets
|
27
|
10
|
6
|
11
|
48
|
48
|
0
|
36
| |
10
|
Mega Buck Bandits
|
27
|
9
|
8
|
10
|
34
|
38
|
-4
|
35
| |
11
|
Prettier Than You
|
27
|
10
|
5
|
12
|
41
|
48
|
-7
|
35
| |
12
|
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
|
27
|
10
|
5
|
12
|
39
|
56
|
-17
|
35
| |
13
|
Final Fantasy XI
|
27
|
8
|
9
|
10
|
39
|
42
|
-3
|
33
| |
14
|
The Dead Parrots
|
27
|
8
|
7
|
12
|
48
|
50
|
-2
|
31
| |
15
|
Thommo's Titans
|
27
|
6
|
3
|
18
|
23
|
62
|
-39
|
21
| |
16
|
York's Returning Glory
|
27
|
3
|
9
|
15
|
25
|
55
|
-30
|
18
| |
TOTAL
|
432
|
167
|
98
|
167
|
749
|
749
|
0
|
599
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