LYING ON THE FLOOR, I’VE COME UNDONE
Last week’s top 3 found this weekend that it’s tough at the top of the WSFFL league table, all 3 failing to win and allowing the Champions to sneak once more to the top. Previous leaders Aardvark Abacus were undone by a Didier Drogba hat-trick, going down 3-2 to Fred West Landscape Gardening and slumping to 3rd in the table. Prettier Than You, formerly 2nd, dropped to 5th after a 5-0 whacking by Trusted By Millions, Beef’s team “going nap” thanks to goals from Shevchenko, Sidwell and Knight amongst others. And the 22 Legged Groove Machine couldn’t take advantage, only moving up 1 place to 2nd after being held by Real Muppets, 1-1 the scoreline.
This meant Champions You Know Your Boston Rock FC once again head the table; a 2-1 win over bottom club Eleven Imaginary Boys, thanks to a controversial Darren Bent goal (see “Shorts”), put the “Sky Heroes” one point clear of the Groove Machine. Aardvark, now 3rd, are 2 points off the pace, and up to 4th, level on points with the Abacus, go San Dimas High School, Peej winning 3-1 against Mega Buck Bandits with a sterling defensive performance.
Eleven Imaginary Boys stay bottom following their loss to Boston Rock, and are now 4 points adrift, as York’s Returning Glory took a jump away from the basement slot, in points if not in position, by beating in-form Final Fantasy XI thanks to a Rob Hulse goal. This rightly won Julian the POTW half a million. Well done Jools!
Elsewhere, Nil Satis bucked their recent bad form, beating Thommo’s 3-0 with a rare Mathieu Flamini goal a feature. And the Dead Parrots beat Claymore Athletic 2-1 with Davies and Tuore goals, Clive dropping down to 12th following this loss.
TRANSFER NEWS
Clive notices that an Arsenal loanee has been banging them in for Falkirk…
Player From To Fee
Anthony Stokes (A) Pool Claymore Athletic £500K
Olivier Bernard (D) Claymore Athletic Pool £1.75m
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 18 November 2006, after which time they go into the pool proper and are readily available. All bids to me please.
THE FF£100,000 QUESTION
Last of the World Cup 2006-related questions (hooray, I hear you cry, it’s nearly December). So let’s end with a question about the only goalie with his own 50 mile exclusion zone…
Just before the start of this season, Arsenal and Germany goalkeeper Jens Lehmann claimed to have “played through massive pain” at the World Cup. Why?
Answers to me by close of play Saturday 18 November 2006. As usual, first correct one out of the metaphorical hat gets the dosh.
Amado Flavio was given a house for scoring the only Angolan World Cup goal. Simple as that. Bet you thought it was a witch doctor kit or a herd of wildebeest or something like that…
Correct guesses from the Big Man (who also said he was given some cash) and Ryan (who valued the house, obviously being a real estate agent on the quiet). The 22 Legged Groove Machine won the coin toss, so the hundred grand goes to Rich. Well done bloke!
Wrong guesses from Rachel (a goat) and Peej (a cow), which means you both fell into my little trap! Lovely.
SHORTS
· Total confusion reigned regarding Charlton’s first goal this weekend, as soccernet’s match stats section credited it to both Darren Bent and Arjan De Zeeuw (OG)! Since soccernet is our sole incontrovertible data source for such issues as goalscorers, I then had to go with whatever it said on the soccernet match report. This referred to “Darren Bent's seventh league goal of the season”, reporting that “under pressure from Darren Bent, Andy Webster made a hash of an attempted pass back and allowed the England man to nip in and claim his seventh Premiership goal of the season”. I checked this on Saturday night (when I book in the Saturday scores) and again on Sunday, and soccernet still said the same thing. Decision made, the goal goes to Bent.
WSFFL RESULTS;
Week 9, W/E 11 November 2006
Aardvark Abacus 2-3 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
Gallas (2) Drogba 3
Keane 60,110
The Dead Parrots 2-1 Claymore Athletic FC
Kevin Davies (2) Pogatetz
Tuore 24,110
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 3-0 Thommo’s Titans
Camara
Flamini
O’Shea 26,162
Real Muppets 1-1 22 Legged Groove Machine
Ashley Cole (1) Saha 28,294
San Dimas High School 3-1 Mega Buck Bandits
Terry McCulloch
Distin
Steve Harper 40,571
Trusted By Millions 5-0 Prettier Than You
Shevchenko (1)
Andrew Cole
Gary Cahill
Knight
Sidwell 36,376
York’s Returning Glory 1-0 Final Fantasy XI
Hulse (2) 25,898
You Know Your Boston Rock FC 2-1 Eleven Imaginary Boys
Darren Bent (1) Shorey
Rio Ferdinand 41,936
Performance of the Week: York’s Returning Glory
THE 2006/07 WSFFL LEAGUE TABLE
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As at Sunday 12 November 2006
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Team
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P
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W
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D
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L
|
F
|
A
|
Diff
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Pts
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1
|
You Know Your Boston Rock FC
|
9
|
5
|
3
|
1
|
24
|
14
|
10
|
18
| |
2
|
22 Legged Groove Machine
|
9
|
5
|
2
|
2
|
15
|
10
|
5
|
17
| |
3
|
Aardvark Abacus
|
9
|
5
|
1
|
3
|
23
|
11
|
12
|
16
| |
4
|
San Dimas High School
|
9
|
5
|
1
|
3
|
16
|
15
|
1
|
16
| |
5
|
Prettier Than You
|
9
|
5
|
1
|
3
|
14
|
13
|
1
|
16
| |
6
|
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
|
9
|
5
|
1
|
3
|
14
|
15
|
-1
|
16
| |
7
|
Final Fantasy XI
|
9
|
4
|
2
|
3
|
15
|
10
|
5
|
14
| |
8
|
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
|
9
|
4
|
1
|
4
|
17
|
17
|
0
|
13
| |
9
|
Trusted By Millions
|
9
|
3
|
3
|
3
|
13
|
11
|
2
|
12
| |
10
|
Mega Buck Bandits
|
9
|
3
|
2
|
4
|
12
|
15
|
-3
|
11
| |
11
|
Real Muppets
|
9
|
3
|
2
|
4
|
15
|
20
|
-5
|
11
| |
12
|
Claymore Athletic FC
|
9
|
3
|
1
|
5
|
21
|
19
|
2
|
10
| |
13
|
The Dead Parrots
|
9
|
3
|
1
|
5
|
13
|
18
|
-5
|
10
| |
14
|
Thommo's Titans
|
9
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
12
|
15
|
-3
|
9
| |
15
|
York's Returning Glory
|
9
|
3
|
0
|
6
|
11
|
21
|
-10
|
9
| |
16
|
Eleven Imaginary Boys
|
9
|
1
|
2
|
6
|
5
|
16
|
-11
|
5
| |
TOTAL
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144
|
59
|
26
|
59
|
240
|
240
|
0
|
203
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