cont. from hereCMSC XXXIX Matchday Twenty-Eight... And
this, on the other hand, was the weekend when Port of Clotaire lost the overall lead for the first time this season and dribbled back into second place on goal difference. Losing at the Marbles is no crime, of course and, having failed to beat Cassa’s men in their last three encounters in the space of a week (don’t ask where we slotted in that replay… just don’t…), the Harpies’ll be glad to see the back of them and looking forward to next week’s all-important Clotaire derby. On the face of it, they still have slightly the kinder run-in compared to Albrecht FC – but both sides will also face Caires City away from home. Don’t discount Dionísio’s underdogs entirely just yet.
I think we might have done a few weeks ago, but since when have you paid any attention to
us, hm?
Other results saw Turkish win at still-not-sacked-yet-WTF?-Alejandro-da-Costa’s MarquezOW to keep the race for fourth exciting (with all their major rivals for that slot, the Marbles aside, failing to make further headway; while Mayo Valley now need to win every remaining game this season to have any hope of staying up, and will have to do it without an out-for-the-season (and, presumably,
forever, muah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha…) Justin Tillström. This is not going to occur.
Albrecht FC 1-0 Cathedral City (Morrison 59)
Arrigo Portuguese 2-2 KT Hotspur (Anderson 21 and 29; Rass 4, Clayton 45)
El din Marbles 2-0 Port of Clotaire (Nixon 18, Hooper og 59)
Green Island 2-1 Mayo Valley (Clayton 8 and 49; Sheppard 24)
Marquez-Onwere 1-2 Albrecht Turkish (Van Dyke 7; Robinson 10 and 74)
McDonald SC 0-0 Tenderville United
NAPPC 0-1 Caires City (Gorrie 3)
Radyukevich CSC 1-1 AFC MN Smith (McDermott 90+1; Budden 12)
Turks’ Club 3-2 Caires Sports (Endekov 16, Peithner og 28, Wetl 88; Majorheily-Orinova 33, Alsheris 49)
Matchday Twenty-Nine… So, two huge fixtures that, frankly, deserve big ol’ match reports of their own, but which aren’t going to get them because there are most important things in the world, like sunshine and bunnies. Happity, hippity, flappy-floppy bunnies. How I do love them so.
So, short versions:
Best. Clotaire. Derby. EVER.
We-ell… It’s up there, certainly. Two-two, an equaliser for the home side deep into second half stoppage time, world-class displays from Tommy Scarborough and Tadhg Ó Lorcáin as they repeated made every other player (and each other, off and on)… lovely stuff. Well done, all. And, I must say, played in the right spirit – i.e. exceptionally bloody. Garrett off, Fox off, and if you don’t like it
you can damn well blame the players, not the referee, alright!?!?!Second short version: Caires City came back from behind to beat the Scorpions and moved to within three points of new-leaders-for-the-second-time Port of Clotaire.
Oh, and
technically; Radyukevich, Tenderville and Turkish could still take the honours as well, so… yay.
AFC MN Smith 0-1 Cathedral City (Delara 29)
Albrecht Turkish 0-1 Green Island (Pond 82)
Caires City 2-1 Albrecht FC (East 48, Gorrie 85; Go 20)
El din Marbles 1-1 Turks’ Club (Macanás 80; Wetl 78)
KT Hotspur 0-1 NAPPC (Prescott 71)
Marquez-Onwere 2-1 Caires Sports (Van Dyke 43, Brown 45+1; Muniz Allman 55)
Mayo Valley 1-3 McDonald SC (Miloševic 5; Bastard 2, Kenroe 18, García 21)
Port of Clotaire 2-2 Radyukevich CSC (Ó Lorcáin 55 and 90+3; Narquelie 10, Edwards 44)
Tenderville United 0-1 Arrigo Portuguese (Gómez 14)
Matchday Thirty… As we reach the business end of the season, nerves are certainly setting in.
On the face of it, the team with the least excuse for that kind of behaviour are Albrecht FC, who’re well used to glory and, as we speak, have made it into yet another Champions’ Cup final. Heaven only knows how, all things considered, and we’re only getting a smattering of their games on the telly over here because of… because of… Stuff, so I’m probably not best placed to offer my opinion. Jesse Nakatsuru being utterly wonderful has helped though, certainly. And you cannot undervalue the sheer weight of experience brought by the likes of George Morrison and Francois St. Louis – or William, come to that – who have seen and done it all before.
Particularly when you’re facing Raynor City, and other such immortals.
But their overseas campaigns are clearly proving just a little bit distracting, and it was an exhausted Scorpions XI – Torrealba opting to rest a number of key players against the struggling Spur this weekend, but still being forced to send out a group of walking wounded – that toiled to break down the visitors to the TSS. A moment of second-half brilliance from Darren Rass – a nineteen year-old too beautiful for this world or, more particularly, KT Hotspur – gave Giuseppe Abellardo’s chaps a rare and vital victory.
The defeat could prove extremely costly for Albrecht FC, but the emphasis has to be on ‘could’ – for their major rivals also appeared nothing if not lethargic this weekend as the effects of two grinding Globe Cup campaigns kicked in. Second best in Bove, Caires City clung onto a point courtesy of an equalising bustle-and-shot from Harvey Wilkinson, Rass’ most obvious – Candelariasian – rival for the Young Player gong; while Port of Clotaire’s collective head dropped badly after Catedral’s teenage winger Enrique Espínola (where the hell are all these good kids coming from all of a sudden…?
Not great timing, people) gave the Marquezians a comeback lead. The Harpies remain top, but the division’s upper echelons, rather thrillingly, now look like this:
Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Port of Clotaire 30 18 5 7 56 35 21 59
2 Albrecht FC 30 17 7 6 51 28 23 58
3 Caires City 30 16 9 5 56 39 17 57
4 Radyukevich CSC 30 13 11 6 47 39 8 50
5 Tenderville United 30 13 8 9 43 40 3 47
Plenty to play for, then…
AFC MN Smith 1-1 Caires City (Williams og 18; Wilkinson 29)
Albrecht FC 0-1 KT Hotspur (Rass 60)
Caires Sports 2-2 Green Island (Reuberson-Mohammed 1, Muniz Allman 10; Pond 55, Robertson 66)
Cathedral City 2-1 Port of Clotaire (Castillo 39, Espínola 68; Hamblett 31)
Mayo Valley 1-0 Arrigo Portuguese (Darby og 18)
McDonald SC 2-1 Albrecht Turkish (Kenroe 14, Bastard 54; va Drake 2)
Radyukevich CSC 2-1 El din Marbles (Kennedy-Workington 61 and 66; Macanás 90+1)
Tenderville United 1-1 NAPPC (Tibbets 84; Irin’lur 60)
Turks’ Club 1-1 Marquez-Onwere (Wetl 83; Riesgo 45)
Matchday Thirty-One… Are you going t’gamble? What should he do, audience? Should he gamble?
GAMBUUUUULLL!!!!
Jeff?
Yes?
I’m gonna gamble!
HE’S GOING T’GAMBLE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!
And gamble he did – on the proposition that Nakatsuru and a host of little’uns would be sufficiently fired up by the prospect of making rare starts in the league, beating a bunch of Nethertopians, and possibly, just possibly, giving Torrealba something to think about when it comes to naming his TQCC final XI. So, with the Scorpions facing Tenderville mid-week, just days (although it felt like less… let’s not discuss this
now, shall we?) before the Saturday night meeting with Dunboor; the likes of Hamizi, Kouakou Kouamé, Go and William were rested once more. For many, Torrealba was making his priorities perfectly clear here – that winning the Champions’ Cup in his club’s own back yard would mean more than merely winning the crummy old CMSC title. If they could do that as well, it would just be a bonus, and would have to be left in the not-necessarily-capable hands of Jagatprakasa Pankharia, Tara Bekker, Ian Knight, Jake Bullingham, and other people you’ve never heard of. And Nakatsuru. How could they
possibly hope to win
anything without him?
So Nakatsuru played alongside the kids, and this time Albrecht FC won – not by much, and it was pretty hairy late on until Miss Bekker tied the game up on the breakaway, but it was enough to send them, temporarily at least, to the top of the table.
Come the weekend, then, and Caires City faced Port of Clotaire.
It was quite a good game. You can’t be sniffy about eight goals really, can you?
It sees somewhat churlish to bemoan the PoC’s defensive deficiencies, for their Goals Against record is still no worse than City’s despite this weekend’s… thing. But it’s not unreasonable to suggest that thirty-five year-old Brian Andrews and his Candelarian partner Noah Garrett were exposed by the Errant Knights in a manner that someone
really should have done before now. Odd, really, that it took the callow youth and superbly regressive partnership of lanky Quentin and squat Eric to do it.
But do it they did – for this was simply a massacre, and one that may well prove terminal for the Harpies. Now down into third, they remain only two points behind Albrecht FC – but how on Earth are they supposed to shrug off a defeat of such horrific proportions.
Elsewhere, Albrecht Turkish better watch themselves if they want to take even a Globe Cup place with Brandon Qiu and Werner among an extensive injury list, Espy va Drake looking as though he’d really rather be somewhere else entirely already, and Mannasuch resorting to his old trick of chucking in the kids just as the season starts slipping away from him. The Kinsmen (old school nicknames starting to come out of the woodwork now, apparently… you can tell we’re approaching the closing down sale, can’t you?) have a three point lead over Portuguese and (disturbingly) McDonald SC, with the second Albrecht derby of the season still to come. Could be awkward…
Albrecht FC 2-0 Tenderville United (Nakatsuru 39, Bekker 90+3)
Arrigo Portuguese 2-0 Albrecht Turkish (Ramón 22 and 66)
Caires City 6-2 Port of Clotaire (Gorrie 32 and 73, Zoric 38, González 43, Agostinho 68, Gordon og 86; Hamblett 7, Ó Lorcáin 47)
El din Marbles 1-0 Cathedral City (Macanás 36)
KT Hotspur 4-2 AFC MN Smith (Clayton 18 and 31, Collins 61, Salt 61; Nenov 45+1, Simpson 56)
Marquez-Onwere 2-1 Green Island (Van Dyke 15, Brown 83; Whistler 80)
McDonald SC 0-0 Caires Sports
NAPPC 0-0 Mayo Valley
Radyukevich CSC 3-2 Turks’ Club (Narquelie 45, Kennedy-Workington 60, Williams 70; Fox og 23, Wetl 55)
International Round-Up…Alright, not really a round-up, just a brief moment of crowing on Albrecht FC’s behalf. The Scorpions have certainly continued to buck something of a trend towards Candelariasian sides not doing
quite as well as they used to in the Champions’ Cup, and kept up the honour of the CMSC to add to a total of five – count ‘em –
five TQCC titles. Aren’t we great?
Anyway, the match ultimately came down to a clash between two Candelariasians – with the Marquezian Jordan Hawker proving unable to control the Candelarian Nakatsuru, who set up Hamizi for two early goals that gave the ‘home’ side a very solid base from which to defend. Tactically, Torrealba got the better of things in the clash between, um, two Candelariasians in the dug-outs; while Lúthien Anwamanë (who we kind of like to think of as one of ours, however boggling that concept may now be in the light of… events…) was probably Dunboor’s best performer and kept Javier Sanchez’s side right in the game and forced Arian to keep on his toes until an eightieth-minute counter saw Kouakou Kouamé slide in the decisive third to send the crowd into, if not raptures (the TSS is state of the art, but it doesn’t make allowances for anti-gravity), then certainly a lot of cheering and hugging. T’was like the post-12/5, XXX league title all over again, really. Except… not. Because of Events.
For the likes of William, this represented pretty much the culmination to a superb career, but no man in Songstress could have been prouder than Matteo Corradini – the club’s legendary former captain having missed out on touching the Champions’ Cup by a matter of months, but on hand to witness his young lad Enrico, trusted by Torrealba to start at full-back in the biggest game in club football, starting a brand new family tradition.
So… well done them! The whole school can have a half-holiday!
CMS Cup Semi-Finals…Shattered but on an almighty high; the Scorpions struggled against Portuguese in their semi and arguably deserved to lose overall…but didn’t, in fact, and kept up their hopes of a triple (quadruple if you count the Super Cup… but who counts the Super Cup?) as they prepare to face Port of Clotaire in, oh yes, their home stadium.
Someone
really should have thought up a way to deal with that eventuality…
Ho hum.
Arrigo Portuguese 2-3 Albrecht FC (Ullrich 6, Gómez 75; Hamizi 21 and 90+3, Go 45)
@ McNeil Bingo Arena, CairesPort of Clotaire 3-1 Green Island (Gordon 29, Arrigorriagakoa 44, Paterson og 55; J. Aldren 12)
@ Solidarity Stadium, AlbrechtMatchday Thirty-Two… A trip to the rural market town of Hodgehill could well have represented a sizable flollop back down to earth for Albrecht FC, were it not for the fact that Mayo Valley have long since been relegated and lost all heart. Three-nil up inside half an hour; a true drubbing for the Sky Blues seemed in the offing, but the Scorpions have bigger fish to fry in their remaining two games and soon took their feet off the pedal.
For the other two residual challengers, life was altogether harder. Abellardo might not, perhaps foolishly, have identified Andrews and Garrett as the PoC’s weak link (although he’d’ve had a job in any case, given that Muscat opted to start Jamie Alvbåge and everyone’s favourite plastic pedro, James Mag Flannagain, instead), but defensively KT Hotspur were on-song themselves and can always rely on the mercurial talents of Damien Rass to haul them out of a hole. As such, it took until the ninetieth minute for the PoC to snatch victory…
…and move second again, for Caires City’s challenge now rests on a knife edge with defeat at the Marbles on Monday night. It’ll probably take until next season for Cassumba Domingos’ men to be able to turn results like these into a title challenge (except it won’t, obviously, because they won’t have any Sargossans… naha!), but there’s no shame in defeat at La Canica. Even if it does mean that City have a very sizable chunk of points to make up in two games. Four of them, in fact.
So. Albrecht derby, next? Oh, yes please…
Albrecht Turkish 0-1 NAPPC (Izorigor 81)
Caires Sports 3-1 Arrigo Portuguese (Dariegan 25, Alsheris 27, Wilson 51; Ramón 40)
Cathedral City 1-1 Radyukevich CSC (Castillo 19; Williams 89)
El din Marbles 1-0 Caires City (Macanás 31)
Mayo Valley 1-3 Albrecht FC (Sheppard 39; Tekeste 12 and 28, Hamizi 19)
McDonald SC 2-2 Marquez-Onwere (Subudhi 34, Thompson 41; Small 3, Riesgo 77)
Port of Clotaire 2-1 KT Hotspur (Hamblett 77, Sánchez García 90; Rass 51)
Tenderville United 1-2 AFC MN Smith (Holtz 83; Draesh’o 20, Vine 48)
Turks’ Club 1-2 Green Island (Cotton 27; J. Aldren 54, Pond 60)
Matchday Thirty-Three… T’was Saturday morning in Songstress, and the sun did shine o’erhead, when the Scorpions took on their rivals, and… dumpity-dumpity bed. Red. Something red. Dressed all in red. ‘Cept, it’s the home side dressed in red, not…
Poetry sucks.
Anyway. In the anals of history, this particular vintage of Albrecht FC may not be remembered as a truly great team – they need three more points just to finish on a relatively lowly seventy – and probably not an especially beautiful one to watch, either, but one absolutely cannot argue with the fact that what they do they do very well indeed. Over the last few weeks, with tiredness an ever increasing factor, Torrealba’s group have abandoned much of their affection towards possession football and become something of a counter-attacking outfit, but this weekend it did for Turkish every bit as much as Dunboor. As chance after chance were comfortably shunted away by the home side’s defence before even reaching Arian, so Turkish were forced to push further and further forward, betray a near total lack of invention (Espy va Drake is a skrull by this point, there’s no other reasonable explanation) and leave themselves to get caught on the break. Again, and again, and again.
So much for Albrecht Turkish, then. Now it was up to North-East Candelaria’s finest to stop the Scorpions winning a twelfth CMSC title.
Tch. So much for
that, then.
Yes, they were playing against useful sides comfortably ensconced within the top half of the table but, when push came to shove, the Errant Knights and the Harpies bottled it like Codd. There’s not much more to say than that. Caires City at least gave it a go, despite trailing at home to the Jukos for much of the game, with Salvador González turning it an equaliser five minutes from time to set up a desperate but ultimately fruitless finish; and the still-assembled masses at the TSS – watching Saturday afternoon’s fixtures on the big screen – were able to celebrate a second, unexpected, victory.
Soo…
What that all meant was that, in the fifteen CMSC seasons taking place during the International Era, five clubs took the ultimate domestic honour – with the Scorpions’ five titles putting them foremost among them. If anyone was keeping some kind of score over the past thirty years, it’s probably fair to say that Albrecht FC have ‘won’.
Albrecht FC 4-1 Albrecht Turkish (Nakatsuru 4, Hamizi 60 and 75, Morrison 78; St. Louis og 41)
Arrigo Portuguese 0-2 Marquez-Onwere (Small 75, Van Dyke 79)
Caires City 1-1 Radyukevich CSC (González 85; Narquelie 12)
Cathedral City 1-0 Turks’ Club (Tiller 20)
Green Island 0-0 McDonald SC
KT Hotspur 0-0 El din Marbles
Mayo Valley 1-0 AFC MN Smith (Gaynor 31)
NAPPC 1-1 Caires Sports (Izorigor 51; Reuberson-Mohammed 33)
Port of Clotaire 1-1 Tenderville United (Hooper 56; Tico 72)
Matchday Thirty-Four… Soo… Relegation, yes. Hm.
The table, rather thrillingly, looked a little something (indeed, quite a lot something… exactly something, in fact) like this:
13 KT Hotspur 33 9 9 15 32 38 -6 36
14 AFC MN Smith 33 10 6 17 52 60 -8 36
15 Marquez-Onwere 33 9 9 15 33 42 -9 36
16 Turks’ Club 33 8 11 14 46 50 -4 35
17 NAPPC 33 8 11 14 26 35 -9 35
18 Mayo Valley 33 4 7 22 18 54 -36 19 REL
For those five clubs, their season – and quite possibly long-term futures as well – rested on a knife-edge. Financial ruin was from impossible. For the Spur and naranja, serious dollops of honour were at stake, for neither club had ever been relegated from the CMSC1, and were alongside the Albrecht giants, PoC and GIZ as ever-presents during the International Era. And they always would be, of course, on account of it coming to a close… but this was hardly the way that neither Mr Adamczyk nor Snr Wendell (nor, more to the point, the fans; but who gives a toss about them) would’ve wanted to go out.
So…
Shall we? For old time’s sake?
No?
Oh, thank God.
Here’s your news in briefs, then. On the fifth minute, MN Smith appeared to all but save themselves with an Alex Budden putting themselves one-nil up in Hoxton; the Smudgers’ enviable record against their old foes from down the coast, coupled with Turkish pretty much having a Globe Cup place sewn up, leaving most pundits calling survival for Medlin’s boys, girls and assorted Vegans there and then. And it was a similar case at the Hilltop Stadium when KT Hotspur full-back Ryan Elder popped up at the far post to divert Ras Rataran’s early corner into the back of Cockburn Wu’s net. Radyukevich, for their part, had nothing of any intrinsic value left to play for either.
As such, all eyes were on Khatib-Gassett – where Turks’ Club’s green youngsters and refugees from out Dancougar way would surely have enough to get what they needed against the Dons – and Onwere. And surely there too, could MarquezOW’s ludicrous nightmare of a season not result in the relegation of one of the country’s wealthiest clubs?
After nine minutes, it appeared that the giant jelly babies were set to chase us around Tesco’s for another matchday when Crublig Ellad fired in for NAPPC and plunged the naranja deep into the mire; down on goal difference.
On the eightieth minute in Khatib, Jerome Cotton gave Turks’ Club an equaliser to Jaival Subudhi’s sliced opener and once again allowed the Candelarians to leapfrog Alejandro Blanco da Cruz’s men and squat out of danger – but they, and NAPPC, could not account for the brilliance of Ishmael Van Dyke.
The old-timer has his own wiki page, after all. It was about time he did something of real note.
This consisted of powering through Van Syle and Dotos to score against his former side and leave the naranja clinging to survival by a point.
Except…
Except that we all discovered soon after that NAPPC and Tenderville were buggering off from whence they came, and that Turks’ Club’s relegation would be rescinded in order to maintain the top division at eighteen teams.
So. So much for all
that, then.
Albrecht Turkish 0-1 AFC MN Smith (Budden 5)
Caires Sports 0-0 Albrecht FC
Cathedral City 0-1 Caires City (Gorrie 37)
Green Island 0-2 Arrigo Portuguese (Gómez 14, Blake 46)
Marquez-Onwere 1-1 NAPPC (Van Dyke 89; Ellad 9)
Mayo Valley 1-3 Port of Clotaire (Gaynor 25; Hamblett 53, Arrigorriagakoa 61, Hooper 68)
Radyukevich CSC 2-2 KT Hotspur (Parker 72 and 75; Elder 7, Rass 22)
Tenderville United 1-1 El din Marbles (Tico 33; Macanás 90)
Turks’ Club 1-1 McDonald SC (Cotton 80; Subudhi 53)
CMSC1 XXXIX Final Standings
Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Albrecht FC 34 20 8 6 60 30 30 68 CHAMPIONS/TQCC
2 Port of Clotaire 34 20 6 8 64 44 20 66 TQCC
3 Caires City 34 18 10 6 64 43 21 64 TQCC
4 Radyukevich CSC 34 14 14 6 54 45 9 56 TQCC
5 Caires Sports 34 13 12 9 58 50 8 51 GC
6 El din Marbles 34 13 12 9 44 40 4 51 GC
7 Tenderville United 34 13 10 11 46 46 0 49 REL
8 Albrecht Turkish 34 13 6 15 46 45 1 45 GC
9 Arrigo Portuguese 34 12 9 13 51 55 -4 45
10 McDonald SC 34 10 15 9 43 50 -7 45
11 Green Island 34 10 12 12 35 39 -4 42
12 Cathedral City 34 11 9 14 34 39 -5 42
13 AFC MN Smith 34 11 6 17 53 60 -7 39
14 KT Hotspur 34 9 10 15 34 40 -6 37
15 Marquez-Onwere 34 9 10 15 34 43 -9 37
16 Turks’ Club 34 8 12 14 47 51 -4 36
17 NAPPC 34 8 12 14 27 36 -9 36 REL
18 Mayo Valley 34 4 7 23 19 57 -38 19 REL
Players of the Season:Golden Boot:
1st Tico, Tenderville United, 19 goals
2nd Quentin Gorrie, Caires City, 19 goals
3rd Alex Budden, AFC MN Smith, 18 goals
Players’ Player of the Season:
1st Jesse Nakatsuru, Albrecht FC
2nd Will Hooper, Port of Clotaire
3rd Jamie Hamblett, Port of Clotaire
Sportswriters’ Player of the Season:
1st Will Hooper, Port of Clotaire
2nd Jesse Nakatsuru, Albrecht FC
3rd Warren Kennedy-Workington, Radyukevich CSC
Young Player of the Season:
1st Tadhg Ó Lorcáin, Port of Clotaire
2nd Darren Rass, KT Hotspur
3rd Harvey Wilkinson, Caires City
Manager of the Season:
1st Mosada Juhan, Caires Sports
2nd Luís Enrique Torrealba, Albrecht FC
3rd Dionísio Madeira Lobos, Caires City
Foreigner of the Season:
1st Ahershk Valinial, Caires Sports
2nd Tico, Tenderville United
3rd George Morrison, Albrecht FC
Candelariasian of the Season:
1st Jamie Hamblett, Port of Clotaire
2nd Jesse Nakatsuru, Albrecht FC
3rd Harvey Wilkinson, Caires City
Goalkeeper of the Season:
1st Arian, Albrecht FC
2nd Erika Larrenta Ibanez, Cathedral City
3rd Cobus van Linschoten, Albrecht Turkish
Defender of the Season:
1st William, Albrecht FC
2nd Darren Hastings, El din Marbles
3rd Sven van Syle, NAPPC
Midfielder of the Season:
1st Will Hooper, Port of Clotaire
2nd Jesse Nakatsuru, Albrecht FC
3rd Warren Kennedy-Workington, Radyukevich CSC
Forward of the Season:
1st Tico, Tenderville United
2nd Gabriel Macanás, El din Marbles
3rd Jaival Subudhi, McDonald SC
CMS Cup Final… WAAAAAAAAAAAAAIT!!!!!
For there t’was still the CMS Cup final – and, perhaps fittingly, perhaps not, it ultimately became the very first in thirty-nine editions to go to penalties.
And almost certainly fittingly, the winning spot-kick was put away by brave young Enrico Corradini and,
undoubtedly fittingly, the cup was lifted by Francois St. Louis, the player with the most CMSC1 appearances of the International Era – of the
first International Era – under his belt.
There was joy, there were tears, there were black armbands and presentations, and a small child chocked to death on his own vomit (but let’s not let it spoil the afternoon), and everyone – Albrecht FC fans, Port of Clotaire fans and neutrals, men and women, boys and girls, one or two gnomish folk, several physic octopuses and much of the turf – joined hands, tentacles and blades in a rousing rendition of
You’ve Got a Friend in Me, until some fucker called the police and the whole ghastly business ended in a fist-fight.
But it was all mildly diverting while it lasted, wouldn’t you say? We ‘ad a laff, didn’t we? Didn’t we have a laff.
Albrecht FC 1-1 Port of Clotaire (1-1 AET) (Tekeste 12; Garrett 88) (
Albrecht FC wins 4-1 on penalty kicks)
(Candelariasian) Fans’ Players of the SeasonAFC MN Smith ~ Alex Budden
(FW)Albrecht FC ~ Jesse Nakatsuru
(AM)Albrecht Turkish ~ Darren Robinson
(AM)Arrigo Portuguese ~ Ramón
(FW)Caires City ~ Quentin Gorrie
(FW)Caires Sports ~ Freire Muniz Allman
(FW)Cathedral City ~ Siarhiej Karatkevich
(DM)El din Marbles ~ Gabriel Macanás
(FW)Green Island ~ Jhanna Young
(AM)KT Hotspur ~ Darren Rass
(AM)Marquez-Onwere ~ Kaeton Fishsnapperbottom
(DC)Mayo Valley ~ Alice Gaynor
(DC)McDonald SC ~ Jaival Subudhi
(FW)Port of Clotaire ~ Will Hooper
(AM)Radyukevich CSC ~ Warren Kennedy-Workington
(MR)Turks’ Club ~ Jerome Cotton
(AM)The T4S CMSC2T4S CMSC2 XXXIX Final Standings
Team P W D L For Ag +/- Pts
1 Gamboa FC 38 28 4 6 66 20 +46 88 PROMOTED/SBCC
2 Candelaria-Allemali 38 27 1 10 73 30 +43 82 PROMOTEDSBCC
3 Ironside-Talinger 38 24 10 4 59 18 +41 82 P-O/SBCC
4 Webley Stadium 38 21 10 7 44 28 +16 73 P-O/SBCC
5 Candelaria Arsenal 38 20 9 9 47 26 +21 69 P-O
6 Brayton Town 38 18 8 12 46 39 +7 62 P-O
7 Abiodun North 38 15 10 13 38 33 +5 55
8 Albrecht Independent FC 38 14 13 11 31 31 +0 55
9 Magnus United 38 14 10 14 39 40 -1 52
10 Fallon United 38 12 14 12 48 52 -4 50
11 Castillo FC 38 13 10 15 48 53 -5 49
12 Dyce FC 38 12 10 16 50 49 +1 46
13 Melin & Nader 38 12 10 16 31 34 -3 46
14 Castellano Hills 38 11 12 15 28 47 -19 45
15 Sloane Wanderers 38 11 9 18 49 56 -7 42
16 Melin Professionals 38 10 9 19 30 42 -12 39
17 Deportivo María 38 10 4 24 28 51 -23 34
18 San Juan 38 8 5 25 43 83 -40 29
19 Blackwell Island 38 5 13 20 39 67 -28 28 REL
20 Alvery Blades 38 4 11 23 29 67 -38 23 REL
CMS2 Play-OffsIronside-Talinger 2-0 Brayton Town
Brayton Town 1-2 Ironside-Talinger
Aggregate: Ironside-Talinger 4-1 Brayton Town
Candelaria Arsenal 4-1 Webley Stadium
Webley Stadium 2-1 Candelaria Arsenal
Aggregate: Candelaria Arsenal 5-3 Webley Stadium
Ironside-Talinger 1-0 Candelaria Arsenal
@ Tristar Songstress Stadium, AlbrechtThe Regional DivisionsPatton-Carmichael Candelarian Premier League XXXIX
Team P W D L For Ag +/- Pts
1 Preece Town 33 19 9 5 47 18 +29 66 PROMOTED
2 Maidment SC 33 21 3 9 60 37 +23 66
3 Khatib FC 33 19 5 9 59 25 +34 62
4 The New Saints 33 18 5 10 43 33 +10 59
5 Thoth Town SC 33 15 6 12 59 51 +8 51
6 Exeter Trident 33 13 7 13 46 43 +3 46
7 Caires FC 33 13 7 13 49 54 -5 46
8 Saurin I.A. 33 12 8 13 30 35 -5 44
9 Dublynne Raiders 33 10 6 17 31 48 -17 36
10 Liverpool Knights 33 9 7 17 15 42 -27 34
11 Di Alfonso Phoenix 33 8 7 18 26 41 -15 31
12 Starless City Nationals 33 3 6 24 17 55 -38 15 REL
The El Monstruo Verde Elite Championship XXXIX
Team P W D L For Ag +/- Pts
1 Nader FC 33 22 8 3 64 22 +42 74 PROMOTED
2 Condory Bantams 33 19 10 4 61 30 +31 67
3 Miranda FC 33 17 8 8 40 22 +18 59
4 Onwere University 33 13 11 9 44 36 +8 50
5 Arrigo C.d.F. 33 13 11 9 42 35 +7 50
6 Riverton Olympic 33 12 8 13 36 41 -5 44
7 Swords of Bass 33 10 11 12 36 39 -3 41
8 C.G.y.F.d.C.d.L.T. 33 11 8 14 44 49 -5 41
9 Marquez Athletic 33 11 8 14 32 41 -9 41
10 Bass FC 33 8 9 16 23 40 -17 33
11 Club Atlético Lugar 33 5 8 20 16 45 -29 23
12 Newport Island 33 5 4 24 11 49 -38 19 REL
Cristal Chemical Stragetic Candelarian Second League XXXIX
Team P W D L For Ag +/- Pts
1 Alber City Wasps 33 21 6 6 45 21 +24 69 PROMOTED
2 MSS Scorpions 33 20 5 8 66 34 +32 65
3 Lesperance Knights 33 17 10 6 47 25 +22 61
4 Bulent GBC 33 16 11 6 46 29 +17 59
5 Catherin FC 33 14 9 10 42 39 +3 51
6 Lower Wessaxontown Magicians 33 16 3 14 48 47 +1 51
7 Gentle Rangers 33 10 11 12 35 42 -7 41
8 Etienne United 33 10 7 16 45 53 -8 37
9 Abiodun South 33 8 12 13 29 35 -6 36
10 Cleal Beck 33 5 11 17 18 43 -25 26
11 Scruggs Picking Sharks 33 5 9 19 18 41 -23 24
12 Hanlon Warbirds 33 5 8 20 23 53 -30 23 REL
Campeonato de la Doble Vidriera de la Élite XXXIX
Team P W D L For Ag +/- Pts
1 Atlético San Cristobal 33 23 3 7 79 35 +44 72 PROMOTED
2 Club Marquez 33 20 9 4 44 20 +24 69
3 Gómez United 33 20 6 7 52 24 +28 66
4 Club Atlético Fasnia 33 15 8 10 59 52 +7 53
5 Vegaipala Steelworks 33 15 7 11 55 38 +17 52
6 Guerreros de Agujero 33 14 10 9 41 34 +7 52
7 New Taylor Road 33 10 6 17 52 57 -5 36
8 Estrellas Brilliantes 33 9 7 17 28 51 -23 34
9 Chapon FC 33 8 9 16 34 48 -14 33
10 Korslund 33 9 5 19 19 43 -24 32
11 Los Realejos Storks 33 6 10 17 20 42 -22 28
12 Fallon Town 33 7 4 22 17 56 -39 25 REL
The Tropica CAMAFA League TrophyThoth Town SC 0-1
Arrigo C.d.F. UICA Qualification FlannelTQCC25* ~ Albrecht FC, Port of Clotaire, Caires City, Radyukevich CSC
GC22 ~ Caires Sports, El din Marbles, Albrecht Turkish
SBCC22 ~ Gamboa FC, Candelaria-Allemali, Ironside-Talinger, Webley Stadium
*Should any of the TQCC qualifiers go on to lift the Champions’ Cup title, they will not
be entered into TQCC26. The CMSC will pay the subsequent fine on their behalf. Or possibly ask for a government hand-out.