Alfred Thompson

An inside forward, Thompson began his career in the Football League as a youth with Liverpool, before joining with Second Division team Glossop. He moved to Woolwich Arsenal, where he failed to make a first team appearance and instead spent his time with the club in the reserves. Thompson later dropped into non-League football and had a spell with Birmingham & District League club Walsall. After the First World War, Thompson signed for Southern League First Division club Brentford. He scored eight goals in 28 appearances during the 1919–20 season and earned another shot at league football, with Brentford being elected into the new Football League Third Division South for the 1920–21 season. He managed 16 appearances and two goals and was released at the end of the season. Thompson moved again into non-league football and linked up with former Brentford teammate Jimmy Hodson at Southern League South Division club Guildford United. He remained with Guildford for only one season and in the summer of 1922 signed with Queens Park Rangers. He did not make any league appearances for QPR nor at Gillingham with whom he was subsequently attached. In late October 1923 Thompson joined Sheppey United of the Kent League and he remained with them for the following 1924–25 season, then he signed with their league rivals and near neighbours Sittingbourne for a two season stint between 1925 and 1927. He followed this with one season with Southern League Eastern Division club Chatham before…

Thompson served as a gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery during the First World War.