The September manager of the month award hoodoo well and truly struck on Saturday in Birkenhead, as Bromley were emphatically beaten 4-0 by Tranmere Rovers, ending the Ravens' six match winning League run.

A defensive error led to Tranmere’s first-half goal, following an even forty-five minutes when both sides might have had a couple of goals each, but once the second goal was conceded early in the second half, it was downhill from there on in for Bromley.

The visitors had the first chance of the game in the 4th minute when Anthony Cook’s cross picked out Reece Prestedge, but the midfielder’s header was a poor one straight at Tranmere goalkeeper Scott Davies.

Prestedge then intercepted a pass to put Moses Emmanuel in on goal, but Davies just got enough on Bromley’s leading goalscorers chip to divert the ball for a corner; before Emmanuel’s 20 yard effort flew past the post.

The home side appealed in vain for a penalty when Rob Swaine and Andy Magnan came together in the penalty area, before Magnan opened the scoring in the 28th minute.

Ben Chorley, playing against one of his former clubs, failed to deal with Ritchie Sutton’s cross to the far post and Magnan took the ball off his feet to crash home from an acute angle.

One minute later Bromley’s goalkeeper Chris Kettings brilliantly tipped over Jonny Margetts’s rasping shot, after he had been put in on goal by Magnan’s through ball.

Controversy followed on 31 minutes when Davies was very fortunate to escape a red card, after he had raced from his goal to scoop the ball away with his hands from Cook’s feet, two feet outside his penalty area.

Neither the referee nor his assistant saw anything wrong with the goalkeepers' actions.

Kettings saved well from Margetts’s header just before the interval, tipping the ball over the crossbar.

Bromley fell further behind seven minutes into the second half when the normally reliable Rob Swaine presented the ball to Louis Maynard and his cross was blasted home on the half-volley by Margetts.

Cook should have reduced the arrears immediately as he smartly controlled the ball in the area, but his final shot did not match his control and he fired over.

Ali Fuseini’s shot on the turn was well wide, while Jay Harris shot wildly over at the other end, before Bromley were unlucky not to reduce the arrears on 76 minutes.

Cook’s corner from the right was only palmed away by Davies as far as Swaine, but the goalkeeper somewhat redeemed himself by a brilliant block from the Bromley captain’s rasping shot.

But with twelve minutes remaining any hope of a Bromley recovery was thwarted as Swaine tripped  Margetts in the box and Magnan stroked home the resultant penalty kick.

Lee Minshull came on for Reece Prestedge in the 83rd minute, and his contribution to the game was to last just seven minutes as he was red carded in the 90th minute for retaliation following an off the ball incident.

It got worse for Bromley in injury time as Swaine was beaten once again and Margett took full advantage with a free shot from around twelve yards that gave Kettings no chance, to complete a miserable afternoon for the Kentish side.

Bromley: Kettings, Udoji, Anderson, Fuseini, Swaine, Chorley, Holland (Wall, 71), Prestedge (Minshull, 83), Cook, Emmanuel, Dennis (Joseph-Dubois, 73), SUBs (not used): Goldberg, Francis