High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thomas Andrew "Tom" Huddlestone is a professional English footballer who plays for English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the England national football team. Huddlestone made his Derby debut on the opening day of the 2003-04 season in a 3-0 home defeat to Stoke City, but despite the defeat, he was voted Man of the Match. Huddlestone signed for Tottenham in January 2005 for a fee reported to be worth up to Pds. 3 million, but remained at Derby until the summer. Huddlestone spent a few months of the 2005-06 season on loan to Wolverhampton Wanderers, scoring his first league goal, ironically at Derby, before returning to make his début for Tottenham as a substitute in the 1-0 defeat away at Fulham on 31 January 2006. His first start for Tottenham came on 14 September 2006, away to Slavia Prague in the UEFA Cup, a game which Tottenham won 1-0. His first goal for Spurs came in the Carling Cup 4th Round match against Port Vale on 8 November 2006.