Jeff Stelling Shield - Round Up

The Jeff Stelling Shield kicked off with four preliminary round games. Unusually, only two of these games were decided with Somerset Fruitcakes and Kings Road United easily disposing of Taxbore Wanderers and Smegma United respectively. Tosspot League leaders Naked Ladies were held by AFC Grumpledon and they will have to battle it out again. The same goes for Slinger's Ringers and current SSPA leaders and JSS holders Wandering Dog, these two teams fought out a gruelling six-all draw at the weekend but you wouldn't give the Ringers much of a chance on Dog's own patch.

Naked Ladies 8 AFC Grumpledon 8
Slinger's Ringers 6 Wandering Dog 6
Taxbore Wanderers 5 Somerset Fruitcakes 16
Smegma United 4 Kings Road United 17

Two of the hot favourites tumbled out at the preliminary round stage at the hands of the Riedlingers. The Naked Ladies edged out AFC Grumpledon by the odd point in 17 while Slinger's Ringers put their league form behind them to hammer Wandering Dog by seven clear points in another 17 point game.

The draw for the quarter finals will be held at the auction but in the meantime here are the results of those of you that are shit at maths...

Replays

AFC Grumpledon 8 Naked Ladies 9

Wandering Dog 5 Slinger's Ringers 12

The draw for the quarter finals was made at the Red Lion on Friday night at approximately 8.37pm. The team names of the fallen Grumpledon, Dog, Taxbores and Smeggers were ceremonially burned in the Fire of Doom just behind where Chairman Pip was sat. For some reason Scott E Dog was staring at Pip like he was a hog roasting on the spit. That man was so hungry last night!

Kings Road United v Naked Ladies
Somerset Fruitcakes v Slinger's Ringers
Eintracht Skipton v Armitage Shankers
R-Dick-U-Lose v Unathletico Jillbao

Ties to be played 9th to 15th December 2008