Glyn Thompson
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| Glyn Thompson | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | February 24, 1981 (age 26) | |
| Place of birth | Shrewsbury, England | |
| Height | 6'3" (1.90 m) | |
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Hereford United | |
| Number | 14 | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| 1997-1998 | Shrewsbury Town | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1998-1999 1999-2003 2000 2001 2002-2003 2003-2005 2005 2005-2006 2006- |
Shrewsbury Town Fulham Mansfield Town (loan) Shrewsbury Town (loan) Northampton Town (loan) Northampton Town Chesterfield Shrewsbury Town Hereford United |
1 (0) 0 (0) 16 (0) 0 (0) 10 (0) 9 (0) 1 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Glyn Thompson (born 24 February 1981 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire) is an English footballer who currently plays for Hereford United, after leaving Shrewsbury Town on May 12, 2006. He plays as a goalkeeper.
Shrewsbury is his hometown club, where he began his career as a youth player. He got his senior début as a 19-year-old under manager Jake King, in a 3-0 away win over Torquay United on the last day of the 1998-99 Division Three season. He made one more appearance for the club — a 3-0 League Cup defeat to Sheffield United — before joining Fulham for a £50,000 fee in October 1999.
Fulham sent him on loan to Mansfield Town January 2000. He made 16 appearances (with 5 clean sheets) before his loan spell ended in May of that year. Shrewsbury was again his next club, but he was only drafted in on loan as cover, and didn't play.
He spent three months on loan to Northampton Town and made 10 league appearances. Northampton made the move permanent, but Thompson was only to start eight more league matches in the following two years. Chesterfield of League One bought him on a free transfer in March 2005.
A 1-1 draw with Swindon Town on the final day of the 2004-05 season was his only match for the Derbyshire club. Before the 2005-06 season began, Thompson rejoined The Shrews. He spent the whole season as second-choice keeper behind Joe Hart and as a result opted to leave at the season's end, in order to find first-team action. On June 29 he signed for Hereford United.
Shortly after his arrival at Edgar Street, he picked up an injury and so missed out on the opportunity to play when first choice keeper Wayne Brown was injured in the first league game. With both registered keepers injured, the Bulls were forced to use two further keepers for a spell, both of whom have now left the club. As of November 22, 2006, Thompson is second-choice keeper but made his first team debut in the JP Trophy against former club Shrewsbury.
Glyn was also one of three players to hit the crossbar in Soccer AM's Crossbar Challenge recently.
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| Hereford United F.C. - Current Squad |
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1 Brown | 2 Travis | 3 Thomas | 4 Rose | 5 Mkandawire | 6 Purdie | 8 Ferrell | 9 Sills | 10 Fleetwood | 12 Connell | 14 Thompson | 15 Gwynne | 16 Williams | 17 Giles | 18 McClenahan | 19 Palmer | 20 Jeannin | 21 Webb | 22 Fitzpatrick | 23 Gulliver | 24 Guinan | 25 Smith | 28 Beckwith | 30 Lewis | 31 Jennings | Manager: Turner |
