Week 41: The Penultimate Week

...and there we have the crux of the matter.  Of the season.

As we enter the final week's worth of play the race for the League Championship is tied at the top.

Remarkable.

It's as if Our Most Gracious Chairman had designed it so.

Having lost the OFFL Cup Final to Manager of the Week Lionel Larking's Pompey Puss, who hammered home 21 points in the week they needed it most, Alun Edwards' Radnorshire Tigers now rest in First Place on Points per Pound difference knocking Rick 'First Place' Beecroft's RS T-Boys off his, um, First Place perch.

And it isn't just RS T-Boy and Radnorshire Tigers who fight for everything on the last day of the season.  Three other teams have the potential to sprint for the line too...  Current Champions BM Mingmongs could reclaim their title while it's still not over for Inter Milandrover and Olymping Macdrid.

And without actually needing to make it sound any more exciting than it really is, we here at Studmarks should just perhaps rest this edition of Studmarks to bathe in the exquisitely exciting anticipatory light that it has managed to generate itself over the past 41 weeks.

But no.  We had to labour it for just two last paragraphs.

Week 39

The fight for second place is getting a little crowded up there while Beecroft's T-Boys enjoy another little surge away from the melee. And it's one of this year's OFFL cup finalists, Pompey Puss, pawing over this week's Manager of the Week certificate.

Nice.

Week 41 (Week beginning 11th May)
The OFFL Cup Final

Radnorshire Tigers
Alun Edwards
v
Pompey Puss
Lionel Larking

Radnorshire Tigers v Pompey Puss
GK - E van der Sar MU v M Schwarzer FUL
FB - P Chimbonda SUN v A Arbeloa LIV
FB - J Lescott EVE v P Jagielka EVE
CB - B Hangeland FUL v J Bosingwa CHE
MF - M Taylor BOL v T Walcott ARS
ST - F Torres LIV v D Drogba CHE

The Year of the Cat

With Jagielka out injured for the rest of the season and two Fulham defensive players possibly cancelling each other out it appears that the upper hand may be gloved with Radnorshire Tigers. However the smaller feline quadruped doesn't have the potential burden of a Sunderland defender.

Both teams have
CB N Vidic
MF S Gerrard
MF T Cahill
MF Geovanni
ST A Arshavin

Results out in 2 weeks.

Week 24: Low Scoring Week and Not the Heroes of '66

It seems that the Premier League has finally gone fantasy mad. OFFL officials thought it bad enough to have one A Ramsay grazing his knees on the top flight's hallowed turf but now there is a Pele. And we're not referring to P Pele of West Brom. No, we're talking about Pele. Portsmouth's new Midfielder.

What next we wonder? Maradonna looking for a house on the outskirts of Hull? Or was that J Cruyff we saw in that Wigan estate agents?

Actually it was neither. We were just trying to find an interesting opening to what would have been another dull and uninteresting Studmarks. Now on to the dull and uninteresting bits...

Managers of the Week are, thanks to a particularly low scoring week, Russ Bielby of Livercoolio, Lionel Larking of Pompey Puss and Poof of the North, Mark Norman, all of whom score an enormous 5 points.

All eyes, wincing beneath concerned and screwed-up eyebrows, are still on Metatarsenal's believably poor season. There, at the bottom of the league. And, amazingly, still in the cup. Gavin?

Week 06

Manager of the Week is Lionel Larking who scores 14 points for his Pompey Pussies. Which is nice. Meanwhile Gavin Ward's Metatarsenal's overwhelming consistency means that for the third week running they pick up one point.

Watch out for Ant & Bex macheteing their way up the table without a care in the world. It's obviously been rocking the table enough to wobble Steve Tierney's Abeerden off the top. Our new leaders, Charlie's Angels, are led themselves by the transfer crazy Rob Ivison.

Can he keep it up?

According to his wife, Philippa, not for the duration.

Apparently.

So the rumour goes.

Hilary Hilarious Straw. Minus 4. Ahem.

Teams are still being submitted.