Thudd

you british people sure do spell "soccer" weird

almost as weird as how Americans spell "hand"

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2007/Nov/Week4/1615935.jpg

Clearly more footballers should fall into the cauldron of magic potion as a baby.

I love Two Ton Tom, even when he's a bit rubbish.

guys we should not be fighting on this , not ont he one thread where the glory of soccer meets the dramatic majesty of the all american 7 ft quarterback

xp this from a guy that accuses me of not being a real spurs fan, i ask you. there's nothing more spurs than loving a footballer like BTH

Yes, this is a thread of love. Big, big love.

Propose we should rename it the quarterpounder position after Tom.

I can't tell you how much I wanted him to score a proper thunderbolt equaliser against Brazil. In the 90th minute.

One this this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnSfs170XPw

BOOOM like dynamite explode.

quarterpounder

jesus i gotta be honest between that and 'jews did 9-1' ilx just keeps on giving this week.

the official footballer of ilx

i think so, i mean who ever even heard of dave kitson?

he gained stoke city and lost our hearts

jimmy bullard pulled a similar move

whereas i could never begrudge tom a move to real/milan.

maybe liverpool- i'd begrudge him that, even though he'd be IMMENSE there

ugh the thought is hateful- benitez in charge of our beautiful innocent and carefree tom. he'd have him playing sideways passes to lucas the whole time.

Big Thudd aka THE UNIT

thudd lyfe

I <3 THUDD.

lucky that thudd and alex song are completely different styles of DM or you'd have to choose between them.

three man central midfields, in a perfect world they'd work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTY8zsFd29w

atm think i'd pick thudd over song tbh.

in a highlights package thudd, but watching song over 90 mins against liege, i was seriously impressed. guys moves the ball like a player in his 30's

tell me what is happening with the kyle you didn't loan straight back to us.

jeremy?

this one went to my school. we sold him to you then loaned him back for the season: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Walker

this one we sold to you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Naughton. but not much sign of him in the team yet.

Walker in particular is hilarious.

good touch for a lad who runs the 100m in about 10.5.

naughton has had a few appearances, i think he's got a good choice of being the backup right back next season (hutton rubbish) if the whispered micah richards move doesn't materialise.

think he's got a sub appearance or two at right mid as well, so looks like he's at least going to get first team exposure while we see how he develops.

i wonder if he is friends with thudd

We need a new footballing mascot every season really Kitson -> Bullard -> Thudd.

I tried to do it with qualified chemical engineer Lolofinjana last season but it didn't quite work :(

Also, only player to start every single game this season. I feel bad for not having paid enough attention to him but maybe its because he hasn't played as many of the 40-yard wonderpasses.

Where's that picture of Huddlestone and Lennon wearing pink shorts and playing in the sea? It needs to be here.

there's the one with his overhang gut in pink shorts on the other thread.

Also, only player to start every single game this season.

palacios/thudd such a *huge* improvement on zokora/jenas. 90% of our improvement on last few seasons right there.

Best thing about this is that Modric is still to come.

could spell trouble for thudd, that, even though i'm assuming it's krancjar that'll make way.

but either way

                             ^
                             |
modric ---->              Lennon
              Thudd
  <--------- Palacios ---------->

compares pretty well to last season's starting midfield, or any midfield going back to carrick, david et al

Krancjar Out?

(wish i knew how to graphically illustrate thudd's sweeping passes tbh, just showing his movement doesn't do him full justice i feel)

krancjar isn't likely to start ahead of modric, but the question might well be determined by form, fitness and the opposition. i don't think he'll lack games, given that he can play behind the striker or on either wing.

I'm a full convert to Kranjcar after his performance last week - not sure you can work him and Modric into the same team but he's way better than Robbie Keane or for that matter Lennon either out on the left or in the hole.

wish i knew how to graphically illustrate thudd's sweeping passes

Maybe a cross between an elephant and a flamingo?

eh, using only the /code/ tags, that'd be pretty good work

krancjar is great, but he is essentially a not-quite-as-good modric, so fitting them both in poses questions.

they play together for croatia, right? might be worth looking into. could be our own xavi-iniesta axis right there, BUT WITH THUDD. my god, it's a monster.

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new club crest imo

great work here today.

This is a banner day for ILX football threads.

we need to get more of the mainstream traffic on to the thudd thread, i firmly believe, as stated, that he could be the player to get the yanks behind soccerball once and for all.

I like that LJ's mod request managed to get Thudd's picture in the admin log, twice!

It should come up on the 'confirm ban' page.

Are you sure you want to ban this poster?

I mean, look at Thudd, a few short months ago people suggest banishing him to the reserves for being fat and rubbish and yet here he is now:

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11_01/101huddleston_468x811.jpg

the very definition of the beautiful game

let's start a thread

at least 1/3 as obsessive as this one

<3

Sad realisation that i like this guy a lot more than the club he left

oh Thudd is totally my Premiership team yeah

saw the second half; to say he was imperious does augustus c a grand deal of flattery

it was fulham, lads

The fulham that fucked us out of cl place at whl this sixmonth past, tbh theyve prob fucked us since but thats the one avb can thank

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tom-Huddlestones-hair-/221345205566

this lad at hull thom huddelston tell of him someone he looks an interesting mix of strength and technique

for posterity, there is little more joyous than an act of pure, savage bullying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7fo2FOPvaw

ah, now if only he could play in League One every week eh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ASCB1kSpU

p special

Half-time: Hull 0-3 Arsenal

Hull seemed to have got themselves into this game, and missed a great chance through Aluko, but now they’re well out of it. Even if the first two goals owed a lot to deflections, sloppy play – twice by Tom Huddlestone – was part of their undoing and you have to praise Arsenal too.

Thudd has had a nigh-appalling season

the line about huddlestone that he was a 16st xabi alonso cast before the swine of english fitba is about as accurate as those sentiments usually are

his notable skill is being able to drop well weighted passes over 20-60 yards with minimal backlift and a lowish trajectory but with a slight backspin so it sits at the feet of the recipient

it's a neat trick to have but it's also the most common such talent for an english midfielder or pseudo midfielder to have, gerrard, carrick, twp &c

his control and short passing are not especially good

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 16 August 2013 00:43 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

1 month passes...

He's made a perfect career move. Midfields have to be built around him, and at Spurs this was not the case. He's looking absolutely imperious at Hull. Obviously an England recall would be out of the question as Wilshere is his more-mobile equivalent, although I think Thudd's deep-lying style is more suited to controlled possession football - perhaps Wilshere will develop in this regard. Thudd's a better passer and dead-ball striker. Let the love-in continue!

― C/3 Jenks kakling Neu! military£ absinthe snkkt! pckls Özil JTCF njhtdgs (imago), Saturday, 21 September 2013 21:18 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the fuck

Huddlestone's main virtue relies on having very fast attacking players around him to capitalise on those long balls, he was never going to work well for long in a side as slow as Hull, and that's before you get into his own lack of mobility. Elmohamady is probably their best player and he is no Bale/Lennon.

Sounds like he's covering himself in glory today if Twitter is anything to go by.