Mark Hudson (footballer)

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Mark Hudson
Personal information
Full name	Mark Hudson
Date of birth	March 30, 1982
Place of birth	Guildford, England
Position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Crystal Palace
Number	5
Youth clubs
	Fulham
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
2000-2004 2003 2003 2004 2004-	Fulham → Oldham Athletic (loan) → Oldham Athletic (loan) → Crystal Palace (loan) Crystal Palace	3 (0) 11 (0) 4 (0) 14 (0) 43 (2)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18/11/2006.

Mark Hudson (born March 30, 1982 in Guildford) is an English footballer who plays for Crystal Palace in The Championship. He wears the number 5 shirt and is a centre half.

Hudson began his career with Fulham but never managed to establish himself in the first team. He spent two months on loan at Oldham Athletic while Iain Dowie was manager there. After Dowie moved to Crystal Palace, Hudson moved back to Fulham where he now began to get small amounts of first team football.

Mark then went on a three month long loan with Palace, helping to secure a Play-off victory and promotion to the Premiership at the Millenium Stadium, before being signed by Dowie for the start of the 2004-05 season.

Despite scoring only his home debut, Hudson has never managed to establish himself in the Palace first-team, with Dowie prefering Darren Ward and Fitz Hall, and Dowie's replacement as manager, Peter Taylor prefering Ward and Leon Cort at centre-back.

Crystal Palace F.C. - Current Squad
1 Flinders | 2 Lawrence | 3 Granville | 4 Ward | 5 Hudson | 6 Cort | 7 McAnuff | 8 Scowcroft | 9 Freedman | 11 Morrison | 12 Speroni | 14 Watson | 15 Kennedy | 17 Hughes | 18 Borrowdale | 19 Soares | 20 Butterfield | 22 Reich | 23 Fletcher | 25 Green | 28 Király | 29 Turner | 31 Fray | 32 Kuqi | 33 Grabban | 34 Starkey | 35 Wiggins | 36 Spence | 37 Sheringham | 38 Wilkinson | Manager: Taylor