Newcastle Assistant Manager Jason Tindall has returned to his critics in an X-rated response.
Eddie How's no 2 has often reached the headlines for his passionate nature on the touchline, and the fact that he is often the front and center of Newcastle's off-field antics, even though he is not actually in charge of the team.
Whether it is the center of team photos, the first to shake the hand of an opposite manager or fans singing his name, Tindall is no stranger to the average Premier League fan.
Apart from a short stint as manager of Bournemouth, Tindall has been Trusted No 2 for 17 years and has contributed to the first major trophy of Newcastle in 70 when they defeated Liverpool in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley.
Many fans have an opinion about him – supporters of Newcastle love him – and it is something he is rightly aware of, but he has claimed that he will not let him achieve that.
Tindall told De Telegraaf that he does not intentionally act in a certain way – he is only himself and if that does not suit someone, then that is their problem.
“It's not my intention to attract attention if that makes sense,” he said. 'People say that I am too high a profile for an assistant manager, how that came about, but again, I will not pay attention to it or think I will do this to get more attention.
“The outside world can say what they say, but it's just me. I'm just going to my business. This is not new and Ed will say the same, the way I am at Newcastle is exactly the same as I was in Bournemouth.
'It is part of my character, I don't care what people think. I know who I am, the job I do and the influence I have on many things. And all I care about is doing my work as well as possible for Newcastle United.
'I don't care if I am upset people along the way. People will probably judge what I look like, what I wear and how I behave. This is nothing new to me.
'The reality is that I don't give what people think and what people say because I trust my own skin, I have faith in what I do. If you don't know me, what you think it doesn't matter in the least. '
Tindall is no stranger to the strange disagreement. In December he and Aston Villa analyst Victor Manas were sent away by referee Anthony Taylor after tempers flared up in the tunnel in St James.
Tindall was previously involved in a heated exchange with visiting manager Unai Emery during a tough first half with a straight red card for Villa striker Jhon Duran.
In the fall -out he said he doesn't care if he makes opposition staff upset, but insisted that he would never succeed a handshake as Emery did him this week.
He also believes that the Premier League rule change that only one coach in the technical area has, specifically, has been brought in to an impact on him and Howe.
It was Jurgen Klopp who suggested that the change in rule in which coaches were involved in the technical area was the target of Newcastle, and Tindall agreed.
“It was probably,” he said in February. 'But I always say, I have never had problems if a coaching staff wants to get up next to their manager to help their team or to talk to anyone.
'I think you should do it in a respectful way and you have to stick to the rules. I think we did that well this year. Maybe from time to time I will be taken a little away, but I am always dragged back in my place by the fourth civil servant, and that's fine. '
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