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Punjab United 1-0 Down: Chipie Sian’s Jabs show FA Vase pride

Elated Chipie Sian couldn’t hold back the tears as Jack Hopkins’ late winner helped Punjab United reach the semi-finals of the Isuzu FA Vase for the first time.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
1 March 2026

Punjab United’s Jack Hopkins celebrates his winning goal in front of a record crowd

By Ben Brown

PUNJAB UNITED 1
Hopkins 86
DOWNTON 0
Elated Chipie Sian couldn’t hold back the tears as Jack Hopkins’ late winner helped Punjab United reach the semi-finals of the Isuzu FA Vase for the first time.
In only their ninth season in the National League System, the Southern Counties East League side are just 180 minutes from Wembley, leaving the popular chairman/manager, who set the club up as a Sikh-based community hub in 2002, almost speechless afterwards.
“Today was a great occasion for the club with our highest ever attendance of 655,” he said.
“I can’t be more thankful to every...

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