Ben Thompson

Defensive Midfielder - Bromley
30 Sep 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Ben Thompson

9 Edition

The Bromley Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ben Thompson damages knee ligaments — 50 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 50 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Damola Ajayi at 20 — 8.11

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Damola Ajayi did not need any: 8.11, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings

David Muñoz runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Bromley Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Damola Ajayi

Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Bromley

Corey Whitely was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

A bad afternoon for Bromley against Newport County

0‑1 to Newport County, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief

3 Edition

The Bromley Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Damola Ajayi

Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Bromley

Corey Whitely was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

A bad afternoon for Bromley against Barrow AFC

1‑2 to Barrow AFC, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

No hiding place for Grant Smith

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Grant Smith, and the manager let it.

Squad

Words at Bromley training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kyle Cameron 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.

Boardroom

No investment in the facilities at Bromley

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.

Squad

Ben Thompson dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Market

Still no ink between Bromley and Louis Flower

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Bromley, another week without a signature from Louis Flower.

Market

Alex Stepien-Iwumene placed on the list

Bromley have made Alex Stepien-Iwumene available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief