“Young players are like melons. Only when you open and taste the melon are you 100% sure that the melon is good.”
– Jose Mourinho
The pressure mounts. As you know, December means extra gameweeks – lots of goals, lots of excitement…and a few injuries. When every team has to squeeze eight or more games into 32 days, there’s going to be a few changes.
Who’s ready?
“It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.“
– Lionel Messi
Premier League
The Premier League waltz continues to play and the dancers continue to dance. The Money Team made it to the Champions League Final this week, but lost their place at the top of the League. That well-earned win for Boss moves them up to fourth at the expense of Bigger than Brolin, who let three points go to AC Reykjavik. BtB go up against Money next and AC Rey play new leaders Smash & Grab.
S&G beat the League Champions to go top and wins for FC Santa Barbara and Mighty fine feeling also move them up one place each.
Championship
I mentioned last week that Branwellington beat Tralfamadore Zoo last time they met and that they’d love to do it again, not for a moment expecting it would happen, but it appears that it did. Branwellington remain bottom, and Tralfamadore remain top and both are three points closer to their nearest rivals.
AFC Chester beat East Loop for the second time this season and will play third-placed GoFYS next while The Zoo meet fourth-placed Sporting Wicker Park. Elsewhere, Chucky Pad Warriors play Banana Swans hoping to win their fourth consecutive game against them, East Loop face bottom of the League Branwellington who have just ended a big losing streak, and SB Town need some luck against Voyageurs to escape from the relegation zone.
League One
This week Cornballers dropped the ball against a poor Webuiltthis City, and could consider themselves unlucky not to get a win against the former League One Champions. The result moved City out of the relegation and allowed the winner of the next match to move to within two points of the current leaders.
Second played third last weekend in a six-pointer that was, disappiontingly, decided by poor goalkeeping. Neither ‘keeper was able to appear for KH Granitza Sting and they had to struggle on with ten men. A goal for Todd Cantwell against Arsenal and two assists covered Hung’s two goals (Lindelof and Ings) and then the game was decided by a red card for Alisson. Sting close the gap on Cornballers and Hung stay in third.
League Two
There was a shock win for tenth-placed side Sugar Daddies, beating runaway leaders Tiger Tail 44-28 and lifting themselves off of the bottom. TTR remain top, but Harambe in second won with the biggest score of the week and take a step towards catching them.
The Globes won a 2-ponter, and below them there are now five teams level on 18; Obi-Wan and Yer Man sharing sixth place with both on 445 matchpoints. Obi-Wan lost 27-26 to BattleVAR, allowing them to join the pack.
National League
For the first time this season there is a top two pairing in the NL that doesn’t include Housewives’ Favourite or Chi Spurs. Not only that, but Chitown Gooners won their first game in eight against a Katner side that were the overall topscorers for the last two weeks. The National League managers really know how to shake things up!
Klopps and Robbers also won, keeping Gooners at the bottom, and there is now only one point between the bottom four. Slab Head held back Chi Spurs by a point and Cumberland & DS7 both won to go first & second, just five matchpoints separating them. Coincidentally, they play each other next. Watch this space.
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