Benjamin Thompson

Defensive Midfielder - Queens Park Rangers U18
7 Mar 2027
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Marked for Benjamin Thompson

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The Queens Park Rangers Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Jimmy Dunne in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Queens Park Rangers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Queens Park Rangers

2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

Words at Queens Park Rangers training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ronnie Edwards is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Rumarn Burrell gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Benjamin Thompson steps up from the Queens Park Rangers academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Benjamin Thompson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Alexander Hughes steps up from the Queens Park Rangers academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alexander Hughes has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Jimmy Dunne

A mark of 7.50, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Boardroom

No investment in the facilities at Queens Park Rangers

Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Koki Saito

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief