THD

Former Professional Footballer - Charlton Athletic, Huddersfield Town & Bristol Rovers.

[ashe @ashebytes]

you've gotta be more afraid of wasting your life than embarrassing yourself

[Big Smoke - @Skepta]

Captain!

[Jordan Patu @Jordan_Patu]

This is so precious. They’re just two kids. Big bro just happens to be one of the coldest athletes on the planet.

[THD @Tareiq395]

🤣🤣 Class

[England @England]

John Stones 🕺😂

The energy in the changing room last night 🔥

[Tai Lopez @tailopez]

Denzel Washington was right, always be thankful for the bad things in life. They open your eyes to see the good things you weren't paying attention to before.

[George Heaton @geoheaton]

Your character is more-so revealed when things aren’t going your way.

[Tyreece Simpson @tyreecesimpson9]

This kid looked lonely today so I said come join in with me let’s do a sesh, he was buzzing. spent an hour doin different drills n it’s Got me thinkin this is what it’s all about man, giving back to the ppl it’s free❤️

[NEDU @Nedu_brazil01]

Eberechi Eze impressed England’s chess Team manager with just one move😂… That was smooth😂😂

[FTBL_Planet @FTBL_Planet]

When Dylan Tombides found a lump, he was still a teenager trying to make his way at West Ham.

He went to a local doctor and was told it was a benign cyst.

He was 17, living away from home, trying to become a footballer, and the last thing on his mind was cancer.

“All I was thinking about was getting in the West Ham team and taking my driving test.”

Then he went away with Australia to the Under-17 World Cup in Mexico.

After the last game, he was selected for a random drugs test.

The result came back with two possibilities.

He had either taken a banned substance, or there was a tumour in his body.

Dylan knew which one it was.

He came back to England on the Thursday.

On the Friday, West Ham arranged the scan.

By the Monday, he had his testicle removed.

By the weekend, he was starting chemotherapy.

His mum Tracy tried to give him something to hold on to.

“I believe you’re going to be a cancer patient for a very short time, but you’ll be a professional athlete for a long, long time.”

So Dylan treated it like that.

He dealt with the treatment when he had to.

But whenever his body let him, he went back to being a footballer.

He kept going into training.

He kept trying to build himself back up.

And inside West Ham, people could not believe what they were seeing.

Carlton Cole later said nobody at the club really knew what to do with it at first.

“It was a difficult situation, especially for someone so young, but the boy just kept on going.”

Matt Jarvis came in that summer and did not even realise straight away what Dylan had already been through.

“I only ever saw him smiling.”

That was what made it so hard to understand.

Dylan was going through something most people could not imagine, and yet around the club he was still smiling, still training, still trying to get closer to the first team.

Then, on the 25th of September 2012, Sam Allardyce gave him that moment.

West Ham were playing Wigan in the League Cup at Upton Park.

Dylan came on for his debut with six minutes left.

He was 18.

Just over a year earlier, he had been told he had cancer.

Allardyce never forgot it.

“He was one of the bravest characters I have ever met.”

“Football was his life, and he didn’t miss a day’s training even when he wasn’t fit enough to train because of his treatment.”

By December, he was back on high-dose chemotherapy.

He needed stem-cell transplants.

Then in January 2014, after everything his body had already been through, he still went to play for Australia at the AFC Under-22 Championship.

Four games in eight days.

When he returned to England, he was told the treatment was no longer working.

Dylan passed away on the 18th of April 2014.

He was 20 years old.

The next day, West Ham played Crystal Palace at Upton Park.

His dad Jim and his brother Taylor walked out and laid his number 38 shirt on the centre spot.

West Ham then retired the number.

Before Dylan, the only player in the club’s history to receive that honour was Bobby Moore.
#football

[THD @Tareiq395]

@JoshStaunton55 Love it Staunts well done mate 👏🏽

[Jimmy Stone @JimmyStone_]

A Champions League winner and two Europa League winners came through Charlton's academy in 2014/15.

The best in the country. #cafc

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

⭐️🇫🇷 Désiré Doué wins back to back Ligue1 Best Young Player of the Season Award.

His father, emotional to see that moment. ✨

[Lorenzo Davids @UrbanLo]

This is what humans do. We are humans.

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Arjen Robben: "I don't see the same obsession that I had with football back with the current generation. The way I experienced the sport, I don't really see it back anymore."

"I understand that it's a different generation. But I miss the awareness of what you truly need in order to make it in football. They all shout: 'I want to make the first team, I want to realize my dream', but then you have to show this EVERY SINGLE DAY, not just ONCE A WEEK, no.. you have to give 100% EVERY SINGLE DAY!"

"This generation shouts a lot, but you need to DO."

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 Toni Kroos tells Marca: “Luis Enrique subbed out Ousmane Dembélé, his best player, in the 65th minute of a Champions League semi-final and nobody complained. He exits the pitch, shakes his coach’s hand and sits on the bench cheering his teammates. There are some counter examples to this.”

“You look at Ousmane Dembélé, and how he's yelling at his teammates to keep fighting, from the bench. That's not what 90% of players who think they're stars would do. They start to do bad gestures on the pitch, then sit on the bench sulking.”

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: The Government of Mexico has decided to END the school year 40 DAYS EARLY, just one week before the World Cup begins.

School holidays will run from June 5 to August 31, meaning kids in Mexico will have nearly 3 MONTHS of holidays.

The measure is introduced so children can fully enjoy the World Cup, with Mexico being one of the host nations.

[Football Away Days @FBAwayDays]

Crystal Palace have become the first club to offer an aftercare programme for released players that don't have a future in football.

The three-year aftercare package will support released academy players in making a way of life, outside of football.

This is a fantastic thing for the club to do, hopefully the first of many. 👏

[PitchSavant @PitchSavant]

L’ailier du futur

[Trilly @YoungsTeflon]

Too much focus on defending n defensive tactics ruined the entertainment value of football

[THD @Tareiq395]

The quality on this pitch and the way football is being played is a delight.