More on Towell Injury

Doctors at Leeds Hospital have concluded that defender Nick has broken his collar bone. He is likely to be out of action for a couple of months.

Player Awards for 2002/3 Announced

Midfielder Simon Field has been voted Player of the Year 2002/3 and James Durrant has been awarded the Young Player of the Year award. The results were announced after the Portsmouth match at Bodington Hall.

PDFC fail at Leeds

Punch Drunk failed again to reach the second round of the competition and also the plate. PDFC lost the first game 2-0 to Watford, drew 1-1 with Stockport (James Durrant the scorer) and lost 1-0 to Queen of the South. In the plate competition the drunkards lost 2-1 to eventual plate winners Portsmouth in a match they should have done better in. Mike Marsh scored a header from a corner to set up a tense last ten minutes to the match. A good weekend was marred by a serious injury to Nick Towell. A more in depth report on the Worldnet 2003 experience will follow shortly.

Digital Line defeated by Drunkards

Punch Drunk came away from deepest darkest Essex with a 4-2 victory over Digital Line. The blues found themselves 2-0 down early on following a couple of defensive errors but goals from the latest PDFC academy member to make it into the first team, David, Ryan Prout, David again and Dan Parsons sealed the victory. For a full match report click here.

PDFC 2 Norwich 4

Norwich went 4-0 up very early on, but a super second half performance from Punch Drunk brought it back to 4-2. Martin Beecroft on his return grabbed a brace. Click here for the full match report.

Comfortable Victory for Mariners

Punch Drunk were beaten 7-1 against Grimsby at Gainsborough Sports Centre today. A Simon Field wonder-goal brought hope to the boys in blue, but the Drunkards were well beaten. Click here to read a bigger report.

Morecambe Match Photos

A photo from the Evening Star is now on the website. Click here to view it.

Game against Norwich arranged

A match against rivals Norwich has been scheduled for the 1st March. The game is likely to be played at Norwich's Colney Training Ground and attract its normal media attention. The blues will be looking to avenge their defeats in previous years to the Canaries away from home.

Blades Home Match Cancelled

Sheffield United have pulled out of Saturday's clash at Gainsborough due to them not having enough players. Some interesting facts followed this announcement this afternoon. Of 20 games arranged, 15 have been cancelled this season.

Drunkards beaten at Sheffield

PDFC were well beaten in Sheffield last weekend. With no Brian Durrant or Steve Cunnew in attendance, David Pilgrim took over the reins for this gaem. Playing for the blues included a number of the InterOwls team. On a muddy pitch the Blades triumphed 8-3. The goals came from Jim Nicholls flicking in a Mike Marsh header, and one of our loanees. Punch Drunk look forward to a return match in a couple of weeks time.

PDFC beat Morecambe

A Si Parsons goal seperated the two teams in an evenly matched game at Northgate Sports Centre. On a freezing cold morning, many Morecambe players and spectators turned up. Punch Drunk would like to thank them for making the long trip down to Ipswich, and also David Pilgrim, who organised the match.

Friendly Arranged

A Friendly match has been arranged against a set of Morecambe fans, due to be played on the morning before the FA Cup game on the 4th January.
The match is being arranged by PDFC's newest recruit, David Pilgrim.

A vs B Result

Due to the Intergills not fancying a trip to Suffolk, a Punch Drunk A vs Punch Drunk B match was arranged. The A team won confortably 5-0 with goals from James Durrant (1), Luke Jones (1) and Jim Nicholls (3).
The match saw a return between the sticks for veteran Chris Towell as well as a few new and younger faces.
A full match report will follow soon.

Three Matches cancelled

The match against Millwall scheduled for the 24th of August and the Preston game on the 1st September have been cancelled due to not enough PDFC players willing to make the trips to London and Preston respectively.

The Leicester match on the 18th August at home has also been cancelled, this time it was due to not enough of the foxes' players able to make the game.

2002/3 Fixtures Announced

Punch Drunk's opening fixtures for the 2002/3 campaign have been announced. Should everything go to plan the blues will kick off their first match on August 18th against Leicester at home.
On the 24th August PDFC will play away at Millwall and then at Preston on the 1st September.

To see this years fixtures click here

Award Winners for 2001/2002 season decided

While everyone was together for Worldnet 2002 the player awards for 2001/2 were announced.
The results were as follows:-

Player of the Year: Richard Gough
Young Player of the Year: Ryan Prout
Most Improved Player of the Year: Simon Field

Punch Drunk progress to 2nd Round of plate shocker!

PDFC failed to qualify for the competition proper, finishing 3rd in their group, but managed to reach the second round of the plate competition..... via a bye, before losing 3-0 to Motherwell.

In the first match, Punch Drunk went down 4-0 to QPR but then followed that up with a good 1-1 draw versus Hearts. An Animal goal sealed a 1-0 win against Grimsby which was the first and only victory for the blues.

Let the voting begin!

Punch Drunk players will cast votes for their fellow players during the week before Worldnet. The categories are:-
Player of the Year
Young Player of the Year (U23)
Most Improved Player of the Year

PDFC beaten by Gills

Punch Drunk lost again to the Intergills 4-2. Dan Parsons struck twice for the blue boys, before unfortunate Darren Ockleton conceded a penalty which Gills scored from. This was PDFC's final warm-up game before Worldnet 2002.

Young-guns triumph over Oldies

This match saw a few young drunkards make their debuts. Punch Drunk will stage several more of these type of matches throughout next season.

Worldnet warm-up games announced

A kickabout match for Punch Drunk players has been arranged for Sunday 30th June at 11:00am, ending just before the World Cup final kicks off.
A match against the Intergills has also been arranged, this will take place on Saturday 6th July. Punch Drunk players must note that the matches will be played on an astro-turf surface.

Animal to wed

Punch Drunk defender Richard Gough AKA Animal, has announced he is to marry girlfriend Lindsay. The marriage will be scheduled so that it will not interfere with any Worldnet 2003 arrangements.
The news will come as a blow to all of Punch Drunk's female fans.

First match of 2002/3 arranged

Nottingham Forest have challenged Punch Drunk to a match in Nottingham on the 30th of November. This will coincide with the professional match later that day.

Times for Worldnet announced

Punch Drunk's first match of Worldnet 2002 is against QPR A at 11:00. Hearts then follow at 13:40, before Grimsby take on the blues at 15:00.

There is a bit more time between the matches this year as there are 64 teams playing, split into 16 groups of 4, and this means 2 groups to a pitch. Also playing on pitch D will be Stockport, Brentford A, Dunfermline and Leicester.

The full schedule for Group 8 is as follows:-

09:40 GRIMSBY vs HEARTS
11.00 QPR 'A' vs IPSWICH
12.20 GRIMSBY vs QPR 'A'
13:40 HEARTS vs IPSWICH
15.00 GRIMSBY vs IPSWICH
16.20 HEARTS vs QPR 'A'

Worldnet groups drawn!

PDFC have been drawn against QPR A, Grimsby and Hearts in Group 8. QPR A are one of the favourites to win it this year and Punch Drunk manager Steve Cunnew reckons "it's going to be tough to qualify, but not impossible!". An analysis of Punch Drunk's opponents will be conducted shortly on the website. The full draw is as follows:-

Group 1 - Middlesboro B, Aberdeen, West Ham, Reading
Group 2 - Crewe, AC Celtic, Watford A, Aston Villa
Group 3 - Everton, AEK, Southampton, WBA
Group 4 - Hull, Airdrie, Millwall, Wolves
Group 5 - Lincoln, Ayr, Fulham, Notts Co
Group 6 - Man Utd, Dumbarton, Crystal Palace, Norwich
Group 7 - Stockport, Dunfermline, Brentford A, Leicester
Group 8 - Grimsby, Hearts, QPR A, Ipswich
Group 9 - York, Hibs, Arsenal, Exeter
Group 10 - Wednesday, Motherwell, QPR B, Derby
Group 11 - Man City, Queen of the South, Brentford B, Coventry
Group 12 - Leeds, Rangers, Charlton, Colchester
Group 13 - Huddersfield, RC Lens, Luton, Birmingham
Group 14 - Doncaster, Sports Interactive, Portsmouth, Gillingham
Group 15 - Bradford, St Mirren, Spurs, Nottm Forest B
Group 16 - Middlesborough A, Derby & Hove Albion, Watford B, Nottm Forest A

Worldnet groups drawn soon

The draw for the Worldnet groups is to be made very soon. The IFA are grouping the teams by regionalising them, given them numbers, passing these numbers and regionalisations to someone else who will make the draw, and then passing the results of the draw back so that the numbers are turned back to team names and then the groups will be published.
This is being done so that nobody can claim the groups were fixed and in order to play teams from other parts of the country (so PDFC are unlikely to be drawn in the same group as Norwich).

The system has already recieved fierce critism, most notably from Punch Drunk forward and Hull City manager Martin Beecroft who was upset about not being able to play against some of their local rivals.

New league table

The new IFA League table was updated for May. Punch Drunk occupy 56th place out of 62, in-between Londoners Tottenham and Chelsea. To view the full league table, click here.

Punch Drunk repel the invaders

Punch Drunk beat the Vikings 3-2 in a thrilling end-to-end encounter. Drunkards Animal, Dave Baker, Martin Beecroft, Matt Durrant and Brendan Holmes represented the Vikings to make up their numbers. The blues were 1-0 up at half-time due to a Ryan Prout goal, but midway through the second half found themselves 2-1 down before Prout struck again.
An own goal from Dave Baker sealed PDFC's first ever win over the Danes.

Towell retires again

PDFC veteran has retired again after he further damaged his left achilles tendon whilst playing cricket. He decided enough was enough because of the time taken for his joints to recover from matches is too much. The first time he retired was against Luton in December 2000. He then went on to make 4 more appearances before retiring again yesterday.

Possible match against Cybury Gooners

Punch Drunk have been asked if they could get a team to play the Arsenal Internet team before the televised game between Arsenal and Ipswich. This would be down in London somehere (not sure where, most probably Regents Park). The Gooners were due to play Rangers on the 20th but have asked them to move the game to the Sunday due to the move of the Arsenal v Ipswich game, so if Rangers can't make it then the drunkards are next in line, so this might not go ahead at all.

It has been suggested that if Rangers don't have enough, and Punch Drunk could get a few names down, that there could be the possibility of a 'Rangers and Ipswich XI' play if there are enough in total.

Viking Hordes invading our shores again!

The morning of the Man Utd game sees the Viking boys invading us again. April 27th will mark the fourth time that Punch Drunk have played against the Vikings.

Match arranged against cockney boys

A match against West Ham has been pencilled in for the morning of March 30th. The game will be played in the morning at Hackney Marshes before the 'real' teams come face to face in the afternoon. The previous meeting between these two sides ended in a 2-0 win for the Hammers at Gainsborough.

Punch Drunk B triumph over A team

A Beecroft hatrick ensured a 4-2 win for the boys who weren't going to Worldnet. In Beecroft's case he will be playing for the Hull team in the summer. His first was a low shot in to the corner, just out of reach from Blues keeper Durrant. Ex-boss Phil Porter equalised with a close range effort. Beecroft got his second latching on to a one-two with Dave Baker then clipping it into the net, his third was a hugely wind-assisted shot. The boys in blue got one back through Dan Parsons to make it 3-2 before 14 year old Darren Ockleton scored from a corner at the far post when he tripped over and the ball flukely hit his back, a defender and the bar before going in. It was a good workout for Punch Drunk and in particular the youngsters who did well.

Yet another match cancelled

The proposed match against Southampton IFC has been cancelled due to the Saints being unable to raise a team. Punch Drunk will still be playing some sort of game as it has been suggested that the Drunkards play those who are going to Worldnet against those who aren't, in a kick-about match. The final decision will be made on Saturday morning. Those who are attending should remember to bring an orange kit if they have one.

Gills game cancelled

The tie against Intergills scheduled for the 10th February has been cancelled. Punch Drunk have been unable to raise enough players for the match to go ahead. Only the home leg against the Gills has been arranged for the rest of the season, however manager Steve Cunnew is confident of persuading Southampton and West Ham into playing a match.

Derby 5 Punch Drunk 7

This highscoring encounter ended with Punch Drunk's first win of the season. The Drunkards started with 10 men against 11, but was soon evened up with the injury of a county player. The score was 3-3 at half-time and with the blues playing uphill, against the wind and with the sun in their eyes, still came through to triumph 7-5, with Nicholls getting a hatrick, and Beecroft scoring 4. Click here to read the full match report.

Nicholls end 6 month goal drought

Blues striker Jim Nicholls has ended his goal drought with a fantastic hatrick at Derby today. Before Saturday he went 9 games without scoring and is now delighted at ending the run.

Punch Drunk bottom of League

Punch Drunk have now sunk to the bottom of the league after the latest table was published by the IFA on the 26th November 2001. Five other teams join them on 1 point but the Drunkards have a worse goal difference, -8 compared with the -5 of Wolves, who are directly above them.
Many of Punch Drunk's supporters have been calling for the head of newly appointed manager Steve Cunnew, but Club officials have urged supporters to give Cunnew more time as they have only played in one competitive match this season, and that new players are required.

Vikings Conquer Ipswich!

The annual visit of the Danish Supporters club ended in a 5-2 victory to the visitors. The Vikings were lent a few players in order to make the numbers up, these were Andy Jump, Animal and the veteran Chris Towell. The scoreline was flattering to the side with the multi-coloured shirts but the Danes were always stronger. Dan Parsons' 35 yard wonder goal and Dave Baker's tap in (his first for Punch Drunk) completed the scoring.

PDFC will be at Worldnet

Punch Drunk have been registered to play at Worldnet 2002. This will be the team's 5th appearance in a Worldnet tournament. This year's will be held in Leeds again, on the weekend of the 13/14th July, where PDFC will aim to get past the elusive group stage for the first time. If you fancy representing us in this years tournament view the contact us section of the site

Gills game back on?

Gillingham have been asked if they can take the place of West Ham on the 28th October as both the Hammers and Punch Drunk failed to raise enough numbers for a match. The last time Gillingham visited Ipswich, it ended in a 5-1 victory for the Drunkards back in 1999, and so the Gilld must be keen to overturn that result.

Gills game cancelled

The traditional match against Gillingham has been cancelled due to both sides not having enough players. Gillingham could make it on Sunday but not Saturday, whereas with Punch Drunk it was the other way around.
The match may well be played at a later date.

Punch Drunk knocked out of cup

9-1 was the final result of the IFA Cup first round match against Watford at the Gainsborough Sports Centre in Ipswich. Five Punch Drunk players made their debut at this game, in what was a bit of a new-look team. The blue boys got they ray of sunshine in what was otherwise a damp and dreary day both weather and football wise, through James Durrant latching on to a poor defensive mix-up.
Jim Nicholls recieved the man of the match award for his performance (is that alright now Jim?)
Interesting/ boring fact of the day is that both the Durrant brothers made their debuts against Watford.

PDFC draw Watford in cup

Punch Drunk were drawn against Watford in the first round in Southern Group of the IFA Cup. The proposed date for the tie is the 29th September. The last match between the two teams ended in a 5-0 victory for Watford in London.

Zebras gallop to victory

The Zebras of Cambridge gallopped to an 8-0 victory over Punch Drunk. Although in black and white the score may seem to be large, it was more than they honestly deserved. Brian Durrant, Martin Beecroft and Simon Field all had half-chances to score for the blues but unfortunately didn't get the rub of the green, and the chances were blasted away by big zebra hooves. A more detailed report is available by clicking here

Charlton game cancelled

The game arranged for the 25th August against the Net Addicks has been cancelled due to the south Londoners not being able to raise a team. This was because of many of their players not be able to get their hands on any tickets for the afternoon match.

Double joy for Cunnew

Steve Cunnew, has two reasons to celebrate as the 29 year-old was appointed the man with the duty to follow in the success (?!) of Philip Porter the other day. Also, Cunnew's fiance gave birth to a baby girl - Alicia Marie Cunnew, who was born on the Saturday morning of Worldnet 2001. Punch Drunk wish Steve and Kirsty all the best.

Phil Porter Resigns as Manager

Phil Porter today stepped down as manager of Punch Drunk FC after more than 3 years in charge with Brian Durrant. A tearful Porter, 28 said "I've enjoyed organising things and with Brian helping to pick sides which sometimes win." He mentioned his highlights being Worldnet '98 and the Charlton BHF Tournament of 2000, "It was lovely to see people come off the pitch with a smile on their face after we had spent some time losing every match."
The favourite to take over the helm is Steve Cunnew, with Stuart Williams ruling out any possibility of himself taking charge, but Chris Towell is known to be considering the position. All candidates have been acknowledged/ warned that Brian Durrant will be keeping his title as Assistant Manager.

Player Awards Announced!

After the Arsenal match at Worldnet '01 the Punch Drunk awards were announced. Click here to see the results.

PDFC battle bravely in Leeds

For the first time at a Worldnet tournament, Punch Drunk triumphed in their first game. Martin Beecroft and Si Parsons sealed a 2-1 victory over the Net Foxes. Two good nil-nil draws followed against Crystal Palace and Bradford before a physical and whinging Hibernian side lashed out a 5-0 walloping to us - forcing us into the plate competition. After a heavy night's (bacardi breezer) drinking at the pub, Arsenal beat us 1-0, knocking us out of the plate. A more detailed report is available here.

Punch Drunk crash out in the Group Stages of the BHF Tournament

PDFC finished 3rd in Group D, narrowly missing out on qualifying for the Quarter Finals of the Tournament. A 2-1 loss against Bradford in the first game was made up for with an impressive 3-1 win over Group favourites Luton. This put us top of the group on goals scored. But sadly a 2-0 loss versus Gillingham was a disappointing result, seeing as we had the lion's share of the match. Click here to read a more detailed report of the tournament..

PDFC beaten by local rivals

Punch Drunk were well-beaten 10-1 at Norwich on Sunday. The 10 men who turned up for the game tried hard, but were never given a chance as Norwich repeatedly fired in shots at goal. We were initially believed to be playing on astro-turf, but then the venue was quickly changed to a grass pitch at short notice. Matt Kelly scored for the blues.

Animal piles on the pounds shocker!

We can exclusively reveal that right-back Richard Gough, nicknamed Animal for obvious reasons if you've ever seen him play, has been piling on the pounds. It has been well reported that Gough has been spotted in numerous McDonalds all over the country. Animal's weight has now soared to a bloated 8 3/4 stones.

PDFC player becomes parent

Barnaby Burch, the ex-ponytailed midfielder has become a father. Wife Imogen gave birth to a healthy baby boy, weighing in at 7lbs 8oz.