He hit six goals in 28 games in 1914–15, helping the club to the Southern League Division Two title with his accurate crosses to the free-scoring Arthur Watkin.

He scored two goals in 20 First Division games in 1922–23, as the club were relegated straight back out of the top-flight; Tempest missed the end of season run-in with a broken collarbone.

[1] A slight figure at just 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) tall, Tempest used his pace to beat opposing full-backs.

[4] The Sentinel described his "graceful progression, an immobile body being borne along on a very mobile pair of legs.

He used to have a knack of taking the ball very cleverly across the toes of the man who tackled him and another characteristic of his play is to double back and centre with his right.