Reuben Yates-Salt

Acton United and the promise of number 22

Reuben Yates-Salt is an 18-year-old. In the parlance of the ClawFA, he is a generational talent. To the Acton United faithful, it means he is the man expected to solve every problem that has plagued the club since the dawn of time. He o…

Don't Rush the Kid. But Don't You Dare Hide Him Either.

Every generation, a club gets handed a talent this early and immediately faces the same impossible choice: play him and risk breaking him, or protect him and risk stalling him. There is no safe answer. There is only the honest one. Yates…

The 18-Year-Old Acton Are Building Around: Meet Reuben Yates-Salt

Acton have a teenager, and they have made the unusual decision not to hide him. Reuben Yates-Salt is eighteen, an attacking midfielder with a ceiling his own club's scouts describe in hushed, slightly frightened terms, and he will start …