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The 10 minute video is quite interesting. Both him and his wife took the twitter criticism pretty badly.

DeANDRE YEDLIN rolls up his right sleeve and talks through the tattoos on his upper arm. Under the words “One Family” is a series of inkings dedicated to his great grandparents. Pointing to some Hebrew writing, Yedlin, 24, said: “This was my first tattoo. I got it for them because they are Jewish. “The plane — my great grandpa flew this kind of plane in World War Two. “The writing which says ‘Red Skies at Night’ is the name of the illegal diary he wrote when he was in the war, which he later got published. “His name is Irving Schaffer but I called him Poppy, so that’s why I have a poppy flower.” Yedlin has “too many tattoos to count” — but they only begin to explain his extraordinary family history. The Newcastle defender reveals that he has never met his dad, who is in prison for life as a persistent offender with past robbery, kidnapping and assault convictions. He was also raised by his grandpa and step grandma in Seattle after they claimed custody from his mum, who was a teenager when she gave birth and had brushes with the law herself. Yedlin said: “I couldn’t really tell if it was a different childhood because I was used to it, it was kind of normal to me. “The only time I remember it felt a bit odd was when I went to other people’s houses and they were calling people ‘dad’. I wouldn’t get that. “But my uncle, who also lived with me, was a father figure. “I think at some point I would like to meet my dad. “He’s in prison in the US for life, so it’s about figuring out where he is stationed and making time to see him. “When I go back and I’m a bit older with a family and have settled down, I’ll see. “It’s not a huge priority for me right now.” Yedlin — who is a quarter African American, a quarter Native American and half Latvian — now has a “good relationship” with his mum and sees her when he visits the States. But he insists he owes his career to his grandparents, who are regular visitors to his home in Newcastle. Yedlin said: “They are probably over for four months of the year and come and stay with me. “They have always been a part of it. “In America you don’t just have free academies, you have to pay to play soccer and they put in a lot of money.” Yedlin admits he was “pretty good at every sport” as a kid — including basketball, American football and even wrestling, about which he says he was “small but stronger than everybody else”. And, not surprisingly to anyone who has seen him sprint up the wing for Newcastle, he was also a 100 metres runner at school. But Yedlin admitted: "I knew there was no money in track and field unless you were unbelievable. “So I stopped it when I was 13. I just really wanted to focus on soccer and with soccer training and high school, it would have been too much if I did track and field as well.” Yedlin played college soccer at the University of Akron in Ohio. Then after two years in the MLS with Seattle Sounders and impressing for the USA at the 2014 World Cup, the right-back was signed by Tottenham. But he made just one sub appearance for Spurs in two years there, the second spent on loan at Sunderland. Yedlin said: “I had Kyle Walker in front of me. I tried to pick his brain a bit, absorb what I could from him. “I learned a lot and we became really good friends and still are. I have nothing bad to say about Mauricio Pochettino. “He’s been great for Spurs and tactically he’s a genius.” Having helped Sunderland stay up in 2015-16, Yedlin signed for bitter rivals Newcastle, who had just gone down. He said: “The rivalry was definitely in my mind — ‘Is it the right thing to do?’. "But I had to be selfish and think about what’s best for my career. Looking back, it was a great step for me. “Obviously the chance to work with Rafa, there’s not really a better situation I could be in. “He’s great. He takes his time with you. One-on-ones, he’ll stay out after training for another hour if you need it. He’s been one of the best managers I’ve had. “I’m playing in the Premier League, week in, week out and as a kid you never really think you’ll be doing that. “I think I’m one of three Americans in the Premier League, so it’s an honour to represent your country like that.” Yedlin keeps a close eye on events back home and has strong views on US President Donald Trump. He said: “I’m not a fan, I’ll tell you that. I’m not a fan of his policies and the things that he says and the things he’s brought to the table. “I have friends that are over there and things are a little bit difficult for them.” But Yedlin has enough occupying his time in England – and not just Newcastle’s survival scrap. He lives with his English bulldog Simba, who he says is a “funny guy” who “likes to run into people”. And he is about to launch his own fashion label, which he has called Roselle, after his middle name. He added: “It’s actually been a goal of mine since I turned professional to launch my own line. “And finally I got the ball rolling last summer with some people I met in LA. I’ve got the first samples in. “After everything is created, the first step is to send it to big-name people, try and get it out there, then set up an online store and hopefully get it in some stores. “We’ll see if the Newcastle lads will wear it… I think my style is a little bit different than all of theirs so it depends if they want to take the risk!”

Aye, if we win, West ham beat Soton and Arsenal beat Stoke it's job done. No way Soton / Stoke make up a 7 point gap in 7 games.

The replies to the Sunderland twitter account are hilarious. Just full of comments about how brilliant they were. No mention of Derby being dogshite. GERRRRRIN, NOT GOOD FRIDAY, BUT GREAT FRIDAY!

HBA left the atmosphere

I look forward to reading some concrete statistical evidence to refute these FACTS, Footsoldier.

He takes a touch with his left foot before punting it out of play with his right and then gets stepped on. Do we lose context of the situation and give a foul despite the fact he was never catching that ball then? I'll refer you to the final paragraph of my last post Appreciated. I get what you are saying but similar to your "acceptable shirt pulling", fouls in the box are also different to those outside. As he was never reaching that ball whether he was stepped on or not, So your point about late fouls doesn't work. Likewise Triggs, you do realise this entire conversation proves VAR is wrong The fact it was so clear and obvious people are debating it surely makes the decision null and void? It never needed to go to VAR in the first place.

Must be bad if Bruno has came from Brighton to see it

apparently his whole elg was virtually facing the wrong way... His leg is so messed up it's now an elg.

He takes a touch with his left foot before punting it out of play with his right and then gets stepped on. Do we lose context of the situation and give a foul despite the fact he was never catching that ball then?

Luke Berrys broke his leg for Luton against Colchester. Apparently it's not just bad, but bad bad.

Exactly, and even with VARs input, the ref should still be able to say with confidence "No, not for me. Play on."

Yeah, but that means VAR will be giving 6 pens a game for shirt grabbing in the box then? Fair point really, probably not, but it just seems to be a football wide acceptance that shirt pulling is allowed, video reffing or not Is part of football not based on luck and subjectivity? Different people have different opinions on what is a bad tackle or foul. The fact people can argue both for and against Italy getting a pen shows it simply isn't as easy as "VAR says it's a pen". Would Italy have felt hard done by for not getting a pen? Probably not. Yup. VAR will never bring 100% accuracy because there is no such thing, it’s too subjective. How many times do different pundits, fans, players and managers see the same decision in a different way? The Italy one a prime example. Any player going down in the box with any sort of contact will probably always be a penalty in the eyes of VAR, even though it probably shouldn’t. The referee is influenced as soon as the VAR referee says ‘you should look at that’, it puts doubt into his mind straight away being told by another referee that they think it’s foul. It’s all just a load of crap and totally unnecessary. Any sort of ‘pause’ in our game is a load of shite and can fuck off. Imagine the Forest game last season? Aye, we may have actually drew/won that game but it would have been totally unwatchable due to VAR. The ref should still be able to look at VAR and say "IMO that is not a foul". As it stands refs feel they have to agreed with the video, no matter how soft the touch / contact. That is wrong and it'll ruin everything to the point it's a non-contact sport.

When you have people talking about the fanciful dream of resigning HBA, it's obviously not going to happen and therefore a joke. However when some tongue in cheek comments saying he's a legend or we would win the league with him as number 10 are met with this cliched Pardew nonsense... It's inevitably going to reignite the same arguments.

Yeah, but that means VAR will be giving 6 pens a game for shirt grabbing in the box then? Fair point really, probably not, but it just seems to be a football wide acceptance that shirt pulling is allowed, video reffing or not Is part of football not based on luck and subjectivity? Different people have different opinions on what is a bad tackle or foul. The fact people can argue both for and against Italy getting a pen shows it simply isn't as easy as "VAR says it's a pen". Would Italy have felt hard done by for not getting a pen? Probably not.

Yeah, but that means VAR will be giving 6 pens a game for shirt grabbing in the box then?

He's obviously not untouchable, he's had a broken leg.

I never pointed the finger Heron, but if you wanna pick sides be my guest. My HBA tattoo and room dedicated to his memorabilia will beat you down until you are one of us.

We may aswell get rid of the ref full stop. The Italian players wanted a corner the other night, nobody appealed for a pen until "VAR wants the ref to have a look at something". It's just going to micromanage every decision and ruin the game. I for one, cannot wait.

It's comical when people talk about "rabid, obsessed, fascinated HBA lovers", when in fact it's the "rabid, obsessed, fascinated HBA haters" who constantly start this argument every 3 months. Coming out with outrageous statements like the fuckwit in my sig, yet they expect it to slide. Get to fuck.

But he does pocket the money, he sacked the clubs PR firm, hired a PR firm owned by himself and charged the club twice as much for the privilege. He's a dirty scummy cunt. It won't be the full 100mil obviously, but he'll take his bit on the sly.

HBA was loved before he even signed. The absolute pantomime of him leaving OM and turning up at the airport, breaking his leg yet signing him anyway, the goals, the bums off seats, the pardew crap, the hope. "These fans shout go go go, take him on take him on... and you go and you can fly".

Ah. The old " it isn't ben arfa's fault its the rest of the teams fault" argument. Nice one. Ah the old "ignore the reply that destroys my argument and answer something else". Facts say he is roughly involved in a goal every 3 games. You claim its between 5 and 10. Explain with appropriate sources that aren't just your opinion to back this up. Ta.

Facts aren't subjective you lunatic

I'm sure stats show he got either a goal or assist every 3 games for us. So maybe cut it back again.