Ex-Goalie's Drink-Drive Collision

A journeyman former goalkeeper, who has signed for nine different football clubs, was over twice the drinks limit when his BMW collided with another vehicle, a court heard.

Michael Poke, 36, who was appointed as Portsmouth FC's goalkeeping coach a year ago, kept going after hitting the black Ford Fiesta in King's Road, Chelsea.

The former Southampton and Torquay United stopper, of Horsham Road, Feltham appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court.

Poke pleaded guilty to driving the white two-litre diesel with excess alcohol in his breath on April 14.

He had 89 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. 

The legal limit is 35.

Poke also pleaded guilty to driving without due care an attention; failing to stop after an accident and without insurance.

He was placed on a twelve-month Community Order, which includes an Alcohol Abstinence Requirement to be alcohol-free for a period of thirty days.

Poke must also obey a twenty-eight day, electronically-tagged, home curfew between 9.00pm and 6.00am.

The court also disqualified him from driving for twenty months and ordered him to pay £85 costs and a £95 victim surcharge.