Andre Gray’s sorry tweeting case far from straightforward | Daniel Taylor

The striker’s offensive but old tweets raise issues with which the game struggles to cope, from homophobia to race to sexism, to the price Burnley face for offences committed elsewhere

The first England squad of Sam Allardyce’s reign is named on Sunday and whatever you think of Andre Gray – whether you have decided he has all the personal charm of head lice, or you would rather take a more sympathetic view – we can probably assume that if he was ever being considered as an outside choice, or a possible back-up player, a cross has temporarily gone through his name.

It isn’t ludicrous, though, to think that Gray will eventually become part of the Allardyce era if he can maintain the forward momentum of his career.

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