GOALS from the unlikeliest source saw Piedmonte climb to second with just nine weeks left in the season.
More than a year since suffering an horrific injury sustained while sleeping in his car outside Loftus Road, Peter Odemwingie appears to have recovered his fitness and confidence to score twice this weekend.
Until last month’s transfer window, the Nigerian had been passed from club to club, unable to build any sort of momentum and at one point considered less reliable than an email from his home country.
Piedmonte put £5m worth of faith in the striker in February, set club doctors about treatment of a sore neck and some discomfort in the buttock where he’d slept on his wallet, and the manager’s already got back three goals and an assist.
Whether Odemwingie can go on to inspire his team to glory, much as Ian Botham did with bat and ball against Australia in 1981, remains to be seen.
Looking at the misfits in the rest of the Piedmonte side it seems less likely than the FC Testiculadew manager dropping his villain tag.
Abandon Cup!
Canesten Combi Cup holders Spartak Mogadishu were dumped out of the competition on the weekend, but reports filtering out of Somalia suggest the club’s manager has other priorities.
Upon learning a Boeing 777 could be floating around in the Indian Ocean last week the Somali immediately put out to sea.
Visitors to the club’s Spyglass Hill training facility found the site deserted, save for an elderly, khat-chewing groundsman who talked of an entire community swept up in the swarthy promise of hundreds of untouched Halal meal options.
The defeat means Headless Chickens will face KS West Green in the first leg of this weekend’s quarter finals.
In a classic top-versus-bottom clash, FC Testiculadew will take on PSV Mornington after Hairy Fadjeetas added to their recent league woe by losing on points in the second leg of their match against a side managed by a cardboard cut out of Pep Guardiola.
In the other last 16 tie settled on points, Northern Monkeys beat Rapids de Cullons, and will face Newington Reds this weekend.
The winners of that fixture will play either St Reatham FC or the treasurer’s team Bala Rinas.
Kenna table
Weekly scores
| Manager | Points | Goals | ||
| 1 | Piedmonte | Phil | 39 | 4 |
| 2 | Young Boys | Denney | 32 | 1 |
| 3 | KS West Green | Stix | 32 | 0 |
| 4 | Pikey Scum | Jack | 31 | 1 |
| 5 | Lokomotiv Leeds | Ben S | 28 | 0 |
| 6 | Team Panda Rules OK | George | 26 | 0 |
| 7 | Sporting Lesbian | Ben M | 25 | 2 |
| 8 | Bala Rinas | Lewis | 25 | 0 |
| 9 | Headless Chickens | John N | 24 | 1 |
| 10 | Northern Monkeys | Hugo | 24 | 1 |
| 11 | St. Reatham FC | Mike | 24 | 1 |
| 12 | PSV Mornington | El Pons | 23 | 1 |
| 13 | Still Don’t Know Yet | Pete | 21 | 0 |
| 14 | Judean Peoples Front | Sholto | 19 | 1 |
| 15 | Rapids De Cullons CF | Jorge | 18 | 0 |
| 16 | Newington Reds | Dudley | 17 | 0 |
| 17 | FC Testiculadew | James N | 15 | 1 |
| 18 | Dynamo Charlton | Alex | 14 | 0 |
| 19 | Dulwich Red Sox | Luke | 13 | 0 |
| 20 | Spartak Mogadishu | Abdi | 13 | 0 |
| 21 | This is Sparta…Prague | Rich | 11 | 1 |
| 22 | Just put Carles | Carles | 11 | 0 |
| 23 | Hairy Fadjeetas | Aiden | 10 | 0 |
| Points | Player | |||
| Player of the week | 12 | Odemwingie, P – STO – STR | ||
| Club | Piedmonte |
