The Bromley Courier
Match31 Oct 2026
13 matches without a win for Bromley
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Bromley are no longer polite ones.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Byron Webster
74 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bromley lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad2 Nov 2026
9 saves: Sam Long was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Michael Golding, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.80
A mark of 7.80 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Michael Golding 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 Bromley this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match31 Oct 2026
Bristol Rovers take the points off Bromley
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Jack Cunningham signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jack Cunningham and Bromley agree another 3 years.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Simon Johnson to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Raphael Borges Rodrigues runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Looking ahead The leaders are next for Bromley
- The dugout No hiding place for Alfie Brooks
- Looking ahead Richard Taylor faces his old club