lol at celebrations of mourinho and mark hughes
― mizzell, Thursday, 26 November 2009 02:16 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah seriously, essien wins - it's not the strike itself, it's that he's running off to the fans a full second before anyone else knows its in
fucking hell what a month though
― r|t|c, Thursday, 26 November 2009 02:36 (fourteen years ago) link
bentley's is amazing too just for the sheer i-guess-i-have-no-option-left-but-to-do-THIS-! of it
― r|t|c, Thursday, 26 November 2009 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
you british people sure do spell "soccer" weird
― NAKES HAVE THE STAPLES IN THEM (jjjusten), Thursday, 26 November 2009 02:53 (fourteen years ago) link
almost as weird as how Americans spell "hand"
http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2007/Nov/Week4/1615935.jpg
― nearly 50 in vagina years (onimo), Thursday, 26 November 2009 10:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 26 November 2009 10:07 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 10:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 10:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, this is a thread of love. Big, big love.
Propose we should rename it the quarterpounder position after Tom.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 26 November 2009 10:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't tell you how much I wanted him to score a proper thunderbolt equaliser against Brazil. In the 90th minute.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 26 November 2009 10:21 (fourteen years ago) link
One this this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnSfs170XPw
BOOOM like dynamite explode.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 26 November 2009 10:23 (fourteen years ago) link
quarterpounder
jesus i gotta be honest between that and 'jews did 9-1' ilx just keeps on giving this week.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 10:24 (fourteen years ago) link
the official footballer of ilx
― GET THAT BABY JESUS RIGHT UP YE (acoleuthic), Thursday, 26 November 2009 11:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i think so, i mean who ever even heard of dave kitson?
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 11:20 (fourteen years ago) link
he gained stoke city and lost our hearts
― GET THAT BABY JESUS RIGHT UP YE (acoleuthic), Thursday, 26 November 2009 11:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 11:23 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 11:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Big Thudd aka THE UNIT
― 9-1 changed everything (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 26 November 2009 11:27 (fourteen years ago) link
thudd lyfe
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 11:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I <3 THUDD.
― liverpolol da don (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:10 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTY8zsFd29w
― liverpolol da don (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:12 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:15 (fourteen years ago) link
tell me what is happening with the kyle you didn't loan straight back to us.
― caek, Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:16 (fourteen years ago) link
jeremy?
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:20 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― caek, Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Walker in particular is hilarious.
― caek, Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:33 (fourteen years ago) link
good touch for a lad who runs the 100m in about 10.5.
― caek, Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i wonder if he is friends with thudd
― caek, Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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 :(
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:50 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:52 (fourteen years ago) link
there's the one with his overhang gut in pink shorts on the other thread.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Best thing about this is that Modric is still to come.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:23 (fourteen years ago) link
could spell trouble for thudd, that, even though i'm assuming it's krancjar that'll make way.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
but either way
^ |modric ----> Lennon Thudd <--------- Palacios ---------->
Thudd
<--------- Palacios ---------->
compares pretty well to last season's starting midfield, or any midfield going back to carrick, david et al
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Krancjar Out?
― E Poxy Thee Fule (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
(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.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
wish i knew how to graphically illustrate thudd's sweeping passes
Maybe a cross between an elephant and a flamingo?
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
eh, using only the /code/ tags, that'd be pretty good work
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
.-. (-`)) ( // // ((_.="""=. '. ,. \ '-._,)__\ |\ ` __|_\ ((` | THUDD | __ "- __ / \~~~/ \ ,----( .. ) / \__ __/ /| (\ |( ^ \ /___\ /\ | |__| |__|-"
― nearly 50 in vagina years (onimo), Thursday, 26 November 2009 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
new club crest imo
― MPx4A, Thursday, 26 November 2009 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
great work here today.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
This is a banner day for ILX football threads.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 26 November 2009 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
heavy drinking has turned my posting style into a hoy hoy's. perhaps time for a ban
― C/3 Jenks kakling Neu! military£ absinthe snkkt! pckls Özil JTCF njhtdgs (imago), Saturday, 21 September 2013 21:03 (ten years ago) link
ilf is missing a hoy at least in the high volume a hoy of 2k10 vintage
― Lama Bloody SwagYurt (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 21 September 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link
re: Kuyt Yeahh, maybe. I think Weimann has it in him to be more prolific from the flank than Kuyt was. 12 goals in 38 isn't a bad return for a lad playing in our shower of shite (as we were for much of last year) and I think he could push on well past that if he keeps progressing
― Third Rate Zoo Keepers With Tenth Rate Minds (Windsor Davies), Saturday, 21 September 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link
let's start a thread
― C/3 Jenks kakling Neu! military£ absinthe snkkt! pckls Özil JTCF njhtdgs (imago), Saturday, 21 September 2013 21:08 (ten years ago) link
at least 1/3 as obsessive as this one
<3
― VENIET IMBER (imago), Saturday, 28 December 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
Sad realisation that i like this guy a lot more than the club he left
― lorde othering (darraghmac), Saturday, 28 December 2013 17:04 (ten years ago) link
oh Thudd is totally my Premiership team yeah
― VENIET IMBER (imago), Saturday, 28 December 2013 17:12 (ten years ago) link
saw the second half; to say he was imperious does augustus c a grand deal of flattery
― VENIET IMBER (imago), Saturday, 28 December 2013 17:14 (ten years ago) link
it was fulham, lads
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Saturday, 28 December 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
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
― lorde othering (darraghmac), Saturday, 28 December 2013 18:30 (ten years ago) link
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tom-Huddlestones-hair-/221345205566
― ailsa, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
this lad at hull thom huddelston tell of him someone he looks an interesting mix of strength and technique
― CSI BONO (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 00:31 (ten years ago) link
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
― halber mensch halber keks (imago), Monday, 14 April 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ASCB1kSpU
p special
― r|t|c, Friday, 1 August 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
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.
― nakhchivan, Monday, 4 May 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link
Thudd has had a nigh-appalling season
― another understated post from (Noodle Vague), Monday, 4 May 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link
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
― nakhchivan, Monday, 4 May 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link
the fuck
― thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Monday, 4 May 2015 23:33 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 08:46 (eight years ago) link
Sounds like he's covering himself in glory today if Twitter is anything to go by.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 16 February 2019 13:30 (five years ago) link