Andy Gray leaves Sky Sports (continued)

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I WOKE UP THIS MORNING BRIGHT AND EARLY WENT TO WORK LIKE YOU DO THEN FINISHED EARLY WHICH WAS A NICE TREAT I THEN SET OFF FOR THE EMIRATES WITH HIGH HOPES AND DREAMS EVERYTHING WAS RIGHT WITH THE WORLD IPSWICH HAD HOPE AND ALTHOUGH FOOTBALL CAN HURT YOU AT TIMES ITS STILL FOOTBALL IT STILL BRINGS YOU ALL THE HIGHS AND LOWS, IT WAS COMPLETE. I WAS TRYING TO GET SOME SLEEP IN THE CAR AS I WAS PRETTY TIRED THE DOWNIES WERE PLAYING BADMINTON AGAIN FFS I REALLY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY'RE PLAYING AT. ALL OF A SUDDEN I GET A TEXT FROM SCHOLES READING "ANDY GRAY SACKED FROM SKYSPORTS" AND IM SAT THERE THINKING IS THIS SOME KIND OF SICK JOKE??? THE WHOLE JOURNEY I COULDNT STOP THINKING ABOUT IT MY HEAD WAS SPINNING I COULDNT FOCUS ON ANYTHING I REALLY COULDNT CONCENTRATE I WAS LOOKING ON MY EUROSPORT APP FOR NEWS ON IT BUT THERE WAS NOTHING UNTIL AN HOUR INTO THE DRIVE WHEN THE NEWS EMERGED, ANDY GRAY HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY SACKED. I JUST COULDNT BELIEVE MY EYES I WAS HONESTLY WELLING UP MY EYES WERE GOING WATERY I HAD TO TELL MY FRIENDS THAT HE'D BE SACKED BUT IT WAS LIKE TELLING SOMEONE YOU'VE GOT CANCER I HONESTLY COULDNT GET THE WORDS OUT I COULDNT BARE TO SAY IT I THOUGHT ABOUT LAUGIHNG ABOUT IT I THOUGHT ABOUT PASSING MY PHONE OVER AND SAYING LOOK AT THIS I JUST DIDNT KNOW WHAT TO DO WHAT TO SAY I JUST STARED AT MY SCREEN FOR 5 MINS TRYING TO TAKE IT ALL IN IM GETTING A LITTLE UPSET RIGHT NOW JUST WRITING THIS SENTENCE AS IT'S SO HARD TO SWALLOW THE MAN WILL NOT PLAY ANY FURTHER PART IN MY LIFE.

20 YEARS HES BEEN AT THAT PLACE, 20 YEARS OF WORLD CLASS SERVICE, 20 YEARS OF ICONIC BROADCASTING, WHEN YOU THINK OF SKY SPORTS YOU THINK OF ANDY GRAY, WHEN YOU THINK OF COMMENTARY WHEN YOU THINK OF ALL THE GREAT LINES YOU THINK OF ANDY GRAY I MEAN EVEN WHEN MARTIN TYLER WAS HAVING A GREAT BURST OF COMMENTARY ANDY WOULD COMPLIMENT THE COMMENTARY NICELY HE'D BE IN THERE WITH AN "OOOOH MYYYY GOODNESS" OR A "TAKE A BOW SON, I MEAN THAT" HE UNDERSTANDS THE GAME SO WELL IT'S GREAT LISTENING TO HIS OPINIONS ON THE GAME AS FOR THE MOST PART YOU KNOW YOU CAN TRUST HIM OR TAKE IT IN SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO.

BUT, THIS IS LIFE, GREAT PEOPLE COME AND GO, SOME PEOPLE RETIRE SOME PEOPLE GROW OUT OF THE JOB AND MOVE ON BUT THIS IS NOT THE CASE WITH ANDY GRAY AND LET ME TELLL YOU I AM SO ANGRY, WHEN I HEARD THE NEWS I WAS STUNNED AND IT'S ONLY REALLYY BEGINNING TO SINK IN THAT FOOTBALL HAS LOST ONE OF ITS ICONS AND YOU KNOW WHY ????????????/ BECAUSE SOME FUCKING SLAG THINKS SHE CAN COME REFEREE IN THE MENS GAME, WELL I TELL YOU WHAT YOU BETTER STAY AWAY FROM EASTLANDS WHEN IM THERE SIAN MASSEY AS THERE WILL BE 2P COINS FLYING TOWARDS YOUR HEAD AND TRUST ME YOU DO NOT WANT TO TAKE ON MY ARM. IT'S ALL WELL AND GOOD THROWING COINS AT HER BUT THAT WILL NEVER REPAY ME THAT WILL NEVER GIVE ME BACK THE YEARS I'LL BE MISSING THAT WILL NEVER EVER DO ANY JUSTICE I JUST WISH SHE DIED AT BIRTH I WISH SHE NEVER CAME INTO THIS WORLD YOU CAN FUCK OFF woman THERE IS NO PLACE FOR WOMEN IN FOOTBALL YOU CAN ALL BURN AND ROT IN HELL FOR ALL I CARE YOU HAVE LITERALLY LEFT ME SPEECHLESS TODAY I HAVENT BEEN ABLE TO FOCUS ON ANYTHING TODAY WAS MEANT TO BE ABOUT GOING TO THE EMIRATES WITH MY MATES AND HAVING A GOOD LAUGH BUT BY THE TIME I GOT THERE ALL I COULD THINK ABOUT WAS ANDY GRAY AND HOW HE WILL BE MISSING FROM MY FOOTBALL FOREVER

THIS MIGHT SOUND WEIRD AS HE''S ONLY AN ANALYST BUT HE'S MORE THAN THAT TO A FAN LIKE ME I'VE GROWN UP WITH HIM I'VE GROWN UP WITH HIM BY MY SIDE IN MOST BIG GAMES AND WHEN HES NOT THERE IM DISAPPOINTED IT'S JUST A LET DOWN YOU CAN HAVE YOUR MARTIN TYLER BUT WOULD YOU DRINK TEA WITHOUT ANY MILK IN IT??? I CERTAINLY WOULDNT AND INSTEAD NOW THAT ANDY GRAY IS GOING WE'RE REPLACING YOUR SEMI SKIMMED MILK WITH SOME SOYA MILK IT'S JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH AND IF I DIDNT CARE SO MUCH ABOUT FOOTBALL I'D BE CANCELLING MY SKY SPORTS PACKAGE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. I STILL REMEMBER BEING A VERY YOUNG KID, AS YOUNG AS 6/7 AND I REMEMBER WATCHING SUPER SUNDAY, I HATED SUNDAYS AS WE ALL DID SCHOOL IN THE MORNING, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW, GOING OUT FOR WALKS AND DRIVES WITH THE PARENTS, SUNDAY ROAST SHIT LIKE THAT IT WAS ALL TERRIBLE BUT THE DAY WAS OK, BECAUSE SUPER SUNDAY KICK OFF AT 4PM WITH ANDY GRAY AND MARTIN TYLER THATS JUST THE WAY ITS SUPPOSED TO BE IT MADE THE DAY WORTH IT AND THATS HOW YOU GROW UP THATS WHY YOU LEARN TO LOVE FOOTBALL SO MUCH IT GETS YOU THROUGH THE HARD TIMES IT GETS YOU THROUGH ANYTHING, GIRLFRIENDS WILL COME AND GO BUT FOOTBALL STAYS FOREVER, FOOTBALL HAS BEEN BY MY SIDE AND ANDY GRAY IS THE MAN WHO MADE THE PACKAGE SO COMPLETE.

WHAT MAKES THIS SUCK SO MUCH IS THE FACT ANDY CAN DO NOTHING ABOUT IT, HE'S BEEN FRAMED, WELL AND TRULY FRAMED TO SHIT AND THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS ABOUT IT. ANDY GRAY HAS DONE NOTHING WRONG, HE WAS HAVING A CHAT WITH A MATE OF HIS, HE MADE SOME "SEXIST" REMARKS ABOUT A WOMAN BEING IN FOOTBALL, I MEAN THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT IMO YOU'VE JUST GOT TO ACCEPT MEN AND WOMEN AREN'T EQUAL YOU'VE GOT TO REALISE THIS AND IF YOU DON'T YOU'RE NOT EVEN WORTH MY TIME BOTH GENDERS ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT IM NOT SAYING MEN ARE BETTER (THEY ARE BUT IM NOT SAYING THAT) BUT THEY ARENT EQUAL, THEY HAVE DIFFERENT QUALITIES AND WOMEN DONT HAVE FOOTBALL IN THEIR REPERTOIRE OR SPORTS FOR THAT MATTER BUT I WONT DELVE FURTHER AS I MAY GET FUCKING SACKED FROM MY JOB IF MY BOSS SEES THIS???????????? WILL I???????? OR WONT I??????/// COME ON SUM IT UP FOR ME SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE RULES ARE NOW ARE WE ALLOWED TO TALK ARE WE ALLOWED TO SAY SOMETHING PRIVATELY TO A MATE OF OURS OR DO WE JUST HAVE TO KEEP OUR MOUTHS SHUT AND BEND OVER AND TAKE IT UP THE ASS LIKE GOOOD LITTLE BOYS??? YOU KNOW IT REALLY DOES MAKE ME SICK TO THINK I LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE PEOPLE ARE GETTING SACKED FOR HAVING A JOKE WITH THEIR MATE THERE'S NO MALICE INVOLVED FROM GRAY HE JUST HAS A LAUGH WITH KEYS AND THEN ONCE THEY'RE ON AIR THEY'RE PROFESSIONAL AND HE ACTUALLY PRAISED HER DURING THE WOLVES-SCUM GAME IM JUST WONDERING HOW LONG IT IS BEFORE I CANT ASK FOR MY COFFEE BLACK FOR FEAR OF BEING ACCUSED OF RACISM

GET THIS INTO YOUR HEAD PEOPLE, WOMEN HAVE NO PLACE IN THE MEN'S GAME, THEY CANT PLAY ON THE FIELD, MANCINI CANT SIGN UP MARTHA TOMORROW AND GET HER IN THE SQUAD, IS THAT NOT DISCRIMINATION? NO IT ISNT, IT'S THE MENS GAME, SHE'S NOT ALLOWED TO PLAY IN THE MENS GAME REGARDLESS OF HOW GOOD SHE IS, SO, WHERE'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A WOMAN LINO JOINING IN OR NOT? SHE COULD BE THE BEST WOMAN LINO IN THE WORLD, SAME AS MARTHA, MARTHA MIGHT BE BETTER THAN A FEW LEAGUE 2 PLAYERS, BUT YOU DONT SEE HER JOINING IN WITH THEM OR EVEN ASKING TO JOIN IN WITH THEM, IT'S JUST HOW IT IS, IT'S LIFE, SO GET USED TO IT. MAN I THINK I WAS BORN IN THE WRONG ERA ALL OF MY VALUES MY MORALS POINT TO THAT OF SOMEONE WHO HAS THEIR HEAD PROPERLY SCREWED ON, THE TIMES BEFORE SEXISM WAS BAD, THE TIMES WHEN WE ALL HAD A FREEDOM TO SAY WHAT WE WANTED, ANDY GRAY IS AN INNOCENT MAN HE'S NOT HURT ANYBODY HE'S NOT DONE ANYTHING THAT COULD POSSIBLY HURT ANYBODY'S FEELINGS, IT'S THE **** THAT LEAKED THE VIDEO THAT HAS DONE THE DAMAGE SHE HAS DISTRIBUTED THE VIDEO AND CAUSED UPROAR OFFENDING MILLIONS OF WOMEN AALL OVER THE PLANET, IM SURE THERE IS SOMETHING THAT CAN BE DONE AGAINST THIS WHORE SURELY SHE HAS BROKN SOME KID OF PRIVACY LAWS OR SOMETHING?

ANYWAY, I REALLY SHOULDN'T GO TOO MUCH INTO THAT AS THIS IS ABOUT ANDY GRAY, SOMEONE WHO HAS SHAPED A FOOTBALLING COMMUNITY, SOMEONE WHO HAS TAKEN PEOPLE AND BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER, SPREADING HAPPINESS TO MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, FAR OUTWEIGHING SOME SILLY COMMENT WHICH WAS LEAKED UNNECESSARILY. THE MAN IS THE VOICE OF FIFA IM SERIOUSLY WORRIED ABOUT FIFA NOW I MEAN I DONT EVEN HAVE THE SOUND ON I BARELY LISTEN TO THE COMMENTARY BUT MY WORD IT JUST WOULDNT BE THE SAME GAME WITHOUT HIM I DONT KNOW IF EA WILL TERMINATE HIS CONTRACT BUT LETS FACE IT HOW WEIRD WOULD IT BE TO HEAR HIM AND TYLER TOGETHER WHEN YOU WOULDNT EVEN HEAR THEM TOGETHER ON TV.

NOTHING I SAY OR DO WILL EVER CHANGE THIS I JUST HAVE TO ACCEPT THE FACT ANDY GRAY IS NO LONGER A SKY SPORTS MAN CHANGE ALL THE ADVERTS GET RID OF HIS FACE AND HIS COLUMNS FROM THE WEBSITES THERE'S SUCH A DRAMATIC OVERHAUL NEEDED NOW BUT I WILL NEVER EVER FORGET WHAT HE'S DONE FOR THE GAME AND WHAT HE'S DONE FOR ME AS A PERSON, I STILL REMEMBER ALL OF HIS GREATEST MOMENTS I WOULD HONESTLY RATHER SIT DOWN PLUG MY HEADPHONES IN AND LISTEN TO SOME COMMENTARY THAN LISTEN TO SOME MUSIC I MIGHT SOUND LIKE A FREAK BUT THATS GENUINELY HOW I FEEL IM NOT SAYING IM A MASSIVE ANDY GRAY FAN I DONT HAVE POSTERS OF HIM OR WORSHIP HIS EVERY WORD BUT HE'S PART OF THE MAGIC HE'S A HUGE PART OF MY UPBRINGING AND I THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO BE A HUGE PART OF MY FUTURE BUT THANKS TO ONE **** OF A WOMAN THIS HAS ALL BEEN WRECKED, IM SORRY woman BUT GO FIGHT FOR EQUALITY ELSEWHERE AS FOOTBALL DOESNT WANT YOU HERE YOU SCUMBAG YOU FUCKINGGGGGGGGGG SCUMMMMMMMBAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH I COULD FUCKING STRANGLE YOU RIGHT NOW IF YOU WANT EQUALITY I'LL GIVE YOU EQUALITY.

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES ANDY :)

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GAME WELL AND TRULY OVER INDEED ANDY. I'M SORRY FOLKS, THE WORLD'S GONE MAD

Now THAT, boys and girls, is sarcasm!