The Isle of Sodor FA congratulate their English Premier League cousins on a stellar finish to a captivating season! Manchester City ran the table after 1/29. One-loss Liverpool finished as the runners-up with most points in EPL history. Gofightwin. Now, IoS PL have their own high drama to complete!
Tied-for-1st Peel Godred and Dryaw had home matches against Relegation candidate clubs they were expected to win. The weekend’s Feature Match was #3 Knapford Town hosting the tougher #7 outfit. Could KTFC keep presumed pace two points back of the co-leaders?
Here are the updated table and weekend results:
Sat., 5/11
T1 Dryaw 2 vs. 0 #19 Tidmouth City
#11 Marron 2 vs. 0 #20 Arlesburgh Utd.
#3 Knapford Town 11 vs. 5 #7 Wellsworth
T1 Peel Godred 7 vs. 3 T17 Ulfstead
#9 Glennock 4 vs. 4 #14 Castle Rolf
Sun., 5/12
#12 Vicarstown 8 vs. 5 #16 Brendam Utd.
#15 Brendam Harbor 7 vs. 0 #8 East Coast Diesel
#10 Suddery 12 vs. 4 #6 J&S
#13 Lakeside 12 vs. 3 #5 Crovan’s Gate
T17 Ffarquhar 3 vs. 1 #4 Kirk Ronan
Review Highlights * Top three remain the same. #3 Knapford Town puts on an offensive clinic in beating #7 Wellsworth. * We bid farewell to #4 Kirk Ronan as a title contender. Another loss has left them eight points behind the league leaders with just three Matchdays remaining. * It was Ffarquhar that beat KRFC. The win vaults them out of their former tie on the Relegation line with weekend losers Ulfstead and ahead of losers Brendam United as well.
Feature Match in Review
Let’s hear it for the grounds crew at Knapford Town, credit them with this W! Their pitch was not soggy as some others. Last Wednesday, a storm swept over the entire Isle, leaving pitches waterlogged. Noob predicted a 2-2 draw in the Matchday Preview post largely based on that.
But the aeration program KTFC‘s pitch caretakers put in place has been second to none! Couple that with the fact that the underlying ground isn’t as clayey as many parts of Sodor and the pitch and conditions weren’t terribly sodden, if hardly dry.
Wellsworth practiced on the field, but didn’t fully process just how OK the pitch was going to be by kickoff. They were in their poor-weather cleats. KTFC – in their standard gear – ran absolute circles around them, figuratively and sometimes literally, scoring from all over their offensive third. When halftime and a chance for the visitors to change into proper footwear arrived, they were already down 7-0.
Three Matchdays to go! The FA have made a slight adjustment to the remaining sched:
Matchday 36 Sat./Sun. 5/18-19
Matchday 37 Wed. 5/22
Matchday 38* Sun. 5/26
* previously, the matches were to be Sat./Sun. this weekend
Fin.
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With four matches in this inaugural league season to go, we now have a tie atop the table! More, there’s once again a tie for 17th, right on the Relegation line. And remember, in IoS PL, even on points means even – period. No goal differential or other tiebreakers. If needs be, tied teams will have a playoff match in Suddery at season’s end.
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CW hung back at the edge of the box, understandably seeming to not want to risk further neck injury in the scrum up front. But it was trickery! 
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Kirk Ronan, how are you still within double-digits of the table’s top? 2-2 in the last four isn’t awful at a glance. But that stretch started with a quirky back-to-back split against #19 Arlesburgh Utd. Last week’s 2-3 road win at top-half Glennock was admirable, but Noob doubts it washed away the bitter taste of an 0-7 loss to Marron right before the Easter break.
While that may be working in Loon-land, things went catastrophically awry Tuesday night when some supporters of the Isle of Sodor’s Championship club Ballahoo A.F.C. tried singing it. 15 people ended up being treated after the ensuing brawl in the stands, with three still in intensive care at Vicarstown Memorial Hospital.
So what happened? After Ballahoo’s 4-2 win over Cross-ny-Cuirn FC, some home supporters started singing “Wonderwall”. A few catcalls aside, the crooners continued unimpeded until the beginning the chorus.
Sheela Boyd, president of the creatively-named Ballahoo Supporters, had this to say after hiding her brass knuckles: “Many of us thought it was a joke and they’d stop. But we no more than heard, ‘Because maybeeeeeeey,’ and knew they were for real and that chorus had to be stopped.”
We welcome them. But they should've left their Oasis fanboyishness back in the Kingdom. Look, we understand the band is considered iconic there. The instrumentation is superb. The production choices they made for studio albums were concrete and admirable. But Liam Gallgher's singing is unbearable to anyone with an ear.
Ethel Merman. Stevie Nicks. Both Brooks and Dunn. Liam Gallagher. There's your top four list of most awful, nasally singers the Lord God saw fit to create. We will never know why, as His ways are higher than ours."
“Ballahoo FC will be docked one point in the table. Dumping beer on anyone is wasteful, alcohol abuse. Liam Gallagher’s singing is terrible and his tambourine-playing is marginal at best.”
The key match of the weekend turned out to be Dryaw’s home loss to Lakeside A.F.C. The league leaders were missing star striker Christopher Wilbertson. Was it the difference? Hard to say. Sodor’s “L.A.F.C” held them to just one goal in their other match this season, too.
Sunday — The other club that managed 14 this year was #14 Castle Rolf. They did it at home against #2 Knapford Town, who they now visit. Since they’re tied for the first Drop Zone slot, Ffarquhar visiting Suddery will be the other match to key in on today.