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QPR continue to state intent, adding Gray to attack - Signing
Tuesday, 31st Aug 2021 23:03 by Clive Whittingham

Andre Gray became the tenth and final signing of QPR's prolific, expensive summer recruitment drive today, adding further weight to the idea that the club is dead set on a promotion push this season.

Facts

Andre Gray is a 30-year-old, 5ft 10 in striker who initially came up through the youth ranks at his hometown Wolves, and later at League Two Shrewsbury.

He made five sub appearances without scoring for the Shrews’ senior side, played six times and scored once against Stafford for Conference North side Telford, and was eventually released to join Conference North side Hinckley in the summer of 2010 having also had a previous five-game loan spell there. He was with Hinckley for two season, scoring 14 goals in 35 appearances in the first, and 23 goals in 45 in the second.

This was enough to tempt then Conference National outfit Luton Town. He moved to Kenilworth Road in March 2012, with the idea that a longer-term permanent deal would be offered that summer if he impressed. He scored on debut against Grimsby, and in his first four matches for the Hatters as they headed for the Conference play-offs. He scored in the semi-final against Wrexham, and the final against York after 74 seconds, but Luton lost 2-1 and missed out on promotion. Needless to say, he’d done enough for the deal and a further 18 goals followed in 50 appearances in 2012/13, a season which included FA Cup giant killings of Wolves in round three and Norwich in round four, but Luton missed the play-offs entirely. Town won the Conference title in 2013/14, with Gray banging in 30 goals in 44 appearances, including a red hot streak of 19 goals in 15 games through the winter with hat tricks against Nuneaton and Hereford.

As the Conference’s top scorer, and Luton’s Young Player of the Year, he attracted attention from higher up and moved for an undisclosed fee in the summer of 2014 to join Mark Warburton’s Brentford. A sizeable three division leap to the Championship took some time to get used to, though there were early goals against Rotherham and Brighton to go with on in a 6-6 draw against Dagenham in the League Cup. Again, he hit a purple patch in the cold weather, seven in eight through November and December, and Brentford made the second tier play-offs in their first season after promotion before losing in the semi-final to Middlesbrough. Gray finished with 18 in 50 appearances, and scored against Boro in the semi.

Goals against Ipswich and Bristol City in the opening two matches of 2015/16 was enough for Burnley to take him before the transfer window closed for an undisclosed fee, said to be a club record north of £6m. He scored on home debut against Sheff Wed and continued to net prolifically for the Clarets, ending up with 25 goals across 44 Championship games. He was named the club and division Player of the Year as Burnley won promotion to the top flight as champions. In his first Premier League season, 2016/17, he scored on his second appearance as Burnley shocked Liverpool 2-0 at Turf Moor. He bagged a hat trick in a 4-1 New Year’s Eve win at home to Sunderland — Burnley’s first top division treble since 1975. His final totals for the first year at the top table were ten goals in 36 appearances.

Premier League Watford then paid a fee reported anywhere between £11.5m and £18m, depending on which website you’re using, to bring him back south to Vicarage Road. His time there has been less successful, with five goals in 33 apps in year one, nine in 34 in year two, two in 27 and a relegation in year three, and then just five in 30 appearances back in the Championship as Watford were promoted in second last season.

Internationally Gray scored twice and won six caps for the England C team while playing non-league, but as of March 2021 is a full Jamaican international. He won five caps at the end of last season, scoring in a friendly against Serbia, and turning out three times in the Gold Cup over the summer.

Reaction

“Obviously the manager had a massive part to play in it having worked with him before. I wanted to go somewhere where I can try to get back to my best and I felt this was the best option. It was an easy decision. I love playing in the Championship, I love the Tuesday night games. I was in a position where I could have gone abroad and had a nice lifestyle and enjoyed the sun, but that’s not what I wanted to do. I want to come in and score goals. I want to bring that to the team but I have changed as I have got older — it’s more about the team now.” -Andre Gray

“I am absolutely delighted we have been able to bring Andre in. I know him very well, he is a very good character around the place and he will fit in very well to the group. He has pace and power, he knows the division, he has a fantastic work ethic, an eye for goal and is a real athlete. I also think Andre has a point to prove and I very much hope he does that here with us. Andre’s arrival is a statement of intent and concludes a very good window for the club.” -Warbs Warburton

Opinion

Let’s do the football bit of this first, because in football that’s apparently all that matters. Andre Gray is a striker whose career has rather stalled and lost its way since he moved to Watford. He scored a goal every other game for Luton (55 in 106), not far off that at Brentford (20 in 52), 33 in 78 at Burnley, and then dipped down to 21 in 59 starts and 67 sub apps at Watford. Always a raw and pacy striker who “needs three chances to score”, he’s become a raw and pacy striker that needs six or seven chances to score. The Watford fans aren’t shedding any tears at his departure, but then the Hull fans weren’t too fussed about Jordy De Wijs, we were ridiculed for paying what we did for Lyndon Dykes, Sheff Wed fans hate Moses Odubajo and so on.

The one thing this current QPR team does lack is pace, since the departure of Bright Osayi-Samuel. Getting in behind teams, particularly at Loftus Road, when they sit in against us can be a problem, and we are occasionally prone to playing around in front of them. The drawbacks of trying to use Charlie Austin as a lone striker were laid bare for an hour against Coventry on Saturday, as was the value in adding somebody completely different to that from the bench — Lyndon Dykes scored after a minute. Gray will run in behind more than those two. He may thrash the thing over the bar when he gets there, but he’s something different. If you’d said, even a couple of years ago when we were choosing between Sylla, Washington and Polter, and talking about how the £8m Gary Madine transfer market made signing strikers of any kind of standard on anything other than loan deals for us impossible, that we’d get Charlie Austin, Lyndon Dykes and Andre Gray in here within our budget, I’d have laughed at you.

The financials of this summer continue to intrigue me. Having spent six years hacking the wage bill down from its extraordinary, unsustainable highs I felt simple maths would dictate that making the Johansen and Austin deals permanent would be beyond us. To have signed up all of last season’s loans, spent a significant transfer fee on Andre Dozzell, brought in several others besides, kept hold of our best players, and now added Andre Gray… I am incredibly surprised to put it mildly. His wage at Vicarage Road was fairly infamous. Getting reasonably big money for Luke Freeman, then £20m for Ebere Eze, has transformed us to a certain extent, but that cash only goes so far, particularly without crowds for 18 months. I would have said even a week ago that if you’ve signed all these players, and you have Dykes and Austin up front already, then you have to probably make do with Charlie Kelman as your reserve through financial necessity, and the fact the team lacks a bit of pace is a first world problem. Kelman, instead, is going to spend time on loan with Gillingham. To have signed Gray on top of it all says to me they really believe circumstances have aligned for us and this is the season to have a dig. Fail in that quest, we have assets in Dickie, Dieng, probably Willock and possibly Chair who we’ll be able to get an Eze-like fee for to cover ourselves. The value of the buy low, develop, sell high, reinvest model really showing through for us.

Off the field is where this one gets a bit icky.

I wrote a piece for A Kick Up The R’s years ago that I now regret profoundly. It was at the start of the Rainbow Laces campaign and I was annoyed for the same reason I was annoyed this time last year when Sky came after QPR over not taking the knee at Coventry - because football obsesses over gestures without ever actually making a significant, positive change. QPR’s commitment to equality and diversity is shown through their recruitment and hiring - more black coaches than the rest of the EFL put together - and for a company like Sky, without a single BAME representative among its European-wide senior management, to come after us because we’d deprived their all-white commentary team the chance to trot out one of their increasingly sickly, trite phrases before kick off pissed me off. The Rainbow Laces seemed very worthy on the face of it but were quickly latched onto by Paddy Power for one of its hilarious viral marketing campaigns and Joey Barton - suddenly the champion of inclusion and diversity because his expensively assembled public relations team had decided it would be useful in their quest to rebuild his tattered image if only he could stop belting people in the face in the meantime. Football feels better about itself, more people bet with Paddy, Joey doesn’t look like a complete cunt for a day, and once it’s all over nothing has changed at all.

I still think that. But where the article went was into that dangerous territory of ‘why do we need to know which footballers are gay any more than we need to know which footballers have a foot fetish’. That old US Army thing of don’t ask, don’t tell. Which I now obviously do not believe, shouldn’t have believed then, and shouldn’t have written. A gay QPR supporter wrote into the following issue of AKUTRs explaining, far more eloquently and politely than I really deserved, why I was wrong. It was a thoughtful piece across two pages when all it needed to say, all I deserved it to say, was “shut up you fucking idiot”. I dare say a few of you will be thinking that now reading this, but having a sport where not one of the obviously many gay people within it feels able to speak about that part of them, in 2021, is desperately sad. It’s important because for gay lads struggling with their sexuality, going through brutal secondary schooling experiences, feeling lonely and ostracised into their later life, or even just quite happily living their lives, seeing openly gay professional footballers, people like them on the field, would be incredibly valuable, make a huge difference to attitudes and help to normalise and de-stigmatise this for generations of young gay men to come. As it is, if you’re a gay lad following QPR at the moment, not only are you watching a sport where none of the gay players feel able or want to talk about it (and there will be gay players, in every team, including ours), but you’re watching it set to the backing track of the oh so hilarious “Chelsea are rent boys, everywhere they go” song.

Now, I’m not sure what value we get out of trawling back through 20 years of social media posts, to find some stupid thing somebody said when they were a daft kid, and then holding it against them a decade later because they’ve just got a Premier League move, or a call up to the England Cricket Team, other than cheap clickbait. I certainly wouldn’t want you to judge me now against that article I wrote for AKUTRs years ago, because I’ve grown and developed and educated myself and think and feel differently. Andre Gray says he has as well, and whenever confronted with the comments he made previously is very open and honest about it and how he’s changed his views since. But Gray wasn’t a kid, and nor were his comments merely an ill-advised or poorly expressed opinion, it was: “is it me or are there gays everywhere? #burn #die #makesmesick”. The words are so abhorrent, so jarring, is it really enough to say "well it was a while ago and he's a nice lad now"? What education, exactly, was required for a 20-year-old to know gay people don’t deserve to burn and die? Now, if you’re a gay lad following QPR at the moment, not only are you watching a sport where none of the gay players feel able or want to talk about it (and there will be gay players, in every team, including ours), not only are you watching it set to the backing track of the oh so hilarious “Chelsea are rent boys, everywhere they go”, but you’re also being asked to support a player who at age 20 thought you should be burned to death. Still, once a year they’ll change the colour of the corner flags to let you know you’re accepted here.

Everybody deserves a second chance of course. If you’re able to grow, reform yourself and make a success of life from past failures, criminal convictions, tough upbringings, or whatever it may be, they’re often the most heart warming stories in sport. These people are often the best agents for change in society, mentoring others not to make the same mistakes they did. We should absolutely be a club where those second chances are possible. Those comments were made in 2012, the scar on Gray’s cheek is from a gang-related attack in 2011, so it’s fair to say his life is somewhat different now in 2021. His partner, who is in something called Little Mix it says here, gave birth to twins earlier this month. Although, how much Gray has actually reformed, when set alongside last season, when he infamously had more breaches of the lockdown regulations than he did goals for Watford, or a 2019 trial for assaulting a woman in a Las Vegas nightclub (found not guilty, but still not doing much to enhance the overall picture) remains to be seen.

If Andre Gray scores goals for QPR, gets QPR promoted, nobody will care either way. Even before we know whether this is a success, I’m expecting to cop some abuse for being “woke” and “a lefty” simply for expressing the concern I am here. That’s how football works. Observe the complete airbrushing of Cristiano Ronaldo’s sexual conduct from the coverage of his latest move and grotesque salary. Or Man City happily continuing to select Benjamin Mendy, just as Sunderland continued to select Adam Johnson. But as I said when the club came out hot and heavy in defence of Todd Kane, trying to distinguish what is ok and what isn’t between ‘diving cunt’, ‘diving foreign cunt’, ‘diving Spanish cunt’, or ‘diving spik cunt’, when you’re a club like QPR, that sets itself up and presents itself like QPR does, is part of the community that QPR is part of, and has the values that QPR and its support has long held, you have to be very, very careful about turning blind eyes to things that don’t suit that image simply because the guy responsible is valuable to your team for that particular moment.

And if you do want to focus purely on the football, then the team spirit and harmonious dressing room that has been fostered here, and is such a big part of our recent success, is so highly treasured that Todd Kane’s comments about Osman Kakay in an interview with a fan site were treated as a far more heinous crime than his remarks to Sergi Canos. He departs today, literally sent to Coventry, because he disrespected Osman Kakay, not because he got a seven match ban for abusing a player on the field in a manner that referenced nationality or race. Bringing a character like Gray into that is, again, something you must weigh up very carefully, because his behaviour hasn't been great, even recently, and there will be gay footballers at QPR - whether you know about them or not, it’s a statistical racing certainty.

Les Ferdinand and Mark Warburton’s records to this point demand respect and the benefit of the doubt. Warburton has worked with the player before, and hopefully their judgement is sound once again. Warburton, naturally, knows far more about Andre Gray than you or I. If you think he, of all people, is going to do anything to jeopardise dressing harmony then where have you been? I guess I place my trust in them that they’ve got it right again. I’ll be there next week, celebrating when Andre Gray scores, praying he’s the final piece in the promotion puzzle, urging him on. Still, it’s not a signing that sits particularly comfortably with me.

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xianwol added 23:22 - Aug 31
Excellent and v honest piece Clive. Like you I trust Warbs and Les. Let's hope we're right and this is not an Asprilla moment.
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sprocket added 23:46 - Aug 31
Excellent Clive. Fingers crossed
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EalingHoop81 added 23:49 - Aug 31
Another excellent, wonderfully articulate and balanced piece Clive. Thank you for all the effort and research you put into these pieces.

I too share your concerns but also have faith in the management team to have considered the character and impact to the dressing room along with the wider issue on his previous comments, which were clearly horrendous. I’ll back their judgement and hope he has both grown and changed over the decade since.
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saxbend added 23:57 - Aug 31
For all your wit and humour that goes into each match report, I think this is where your writing ability really shines through.
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Burnleyhoop added 00:24 - Sep 1
Great piece Clive. There is clearly some dubious and contradictory messages emanating from this signing around the clubs moral stance on behaviour and attitude. It’s a complex issue and divides opinion. Warburton and Les will no doubt have pondered on the implications of this signing and the potential flak that might ensue. They have put their necks on the line somewhat in favour of what is needed on the footballing side. This is probably the biggest gamble of all our signings.
Still, Gray has come out and said he would rather play on Tuesday nights and find his form again than take the easy option of a nice life in the sun abroad some where. That is just what I needed to hear. In this game you get out what you put in. The proof will be in the pudding.
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PaulB added 00:35 - Sep 1
Really excellent, thoughtful and informative piece Clive, thanks.
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simmo added 00:44 - Sep 1
This, even by your own amazing standards, is really fúcking good. As Sax mentions above I think these more serious questions are where your writing really sets you apart.

Thank you for being able to articulate how I feel better than me, and once again giving me something to send to people that aren't QPR when they ask me how I feel about the latest QPR happenings
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nix added 00:59 - Sep 1
Hell I know it's a hard one. But I tend to favour rehabilitation rather than eternal punishment, especially for something said when they were young (extreme violence and sexual offences are much harder). The language used was extremely inflammatory and offensive obviously. But then I wasn't surrounded by other people who used that kind of language at that age, so I wouldn't have dreamed of using it myself. I did, however, have some reactionary views probably influenced by the people around me, that seem almost to belong to a completely different person.

When we have a PM who acceded to the job after calling gay men tanked topped b*m boys, while in his thirties, it seems reasonable to give someone who was in his early twenties some slack to play football.

I'd want to give him a chance for a fresh start, but I think he'll be a short leash, from both the management and the fans.

He's not 21 any more and we expect a lot higher standard from him now; who you are has become a really important aspect for those playing for us as much as how you play.

I really hope for all our sakes that it comes off.
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VancouverHoop added 02:46 - Sep 1
Very well put, however I wince at context-free statements from twenty years ago being used as "Scarlet Letters."

Twitter is unforgiving, it's relentless, it doesn’t check facts or provide context. Like those who condemned Hester Prynne the internet keeps track of past deeds, ensuring that no error, no mistake, no mis-spoken sentence or clumsy metaphor is ever lost. It’s not that everybody’s famous for 15 minutes. It’s that everybody gets damned for 15 seconds.” And if you have the misfortune to have the worst 15 seconds of your life shared with the world, there is nothing to guarantee that anybody will weigh that single, badly worded comment against all the other things you have done in your career.

Secondly, even if Gray really was an intolerant, prejudiced, bastard twenty years ago, doesn't he — doesn't everyone — deserve the opportunity to make it right? Shouldn't forgiveness be something that's always on offer? I think I read that in a book somewhere once.

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thehat added 08:05 - Sep 1
Like you Clive I'm not sure with this one but as you say Warbs has earnt the right for us to trust his judgement. I believe (hope) the Hornets are still picking up a large percentage of his wages and with Masterson, Bettache and Kelman just gone on load and Kane leaving in the window it does free up some salary costs to help finance the deal. He is also out of contract in the summer so needs to prove himself for his own future. Hope he doesn't upset team morale.
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Gianluca added 08:33 - Sep 1

I honestly think it's ridiculous that a straight guy cannot have an informed opinion of his own and needs to "shut up", especially conversing with someone who's gay.

Just as it is ridiculous to claim that there MUST be a gay person within every squad. I'm LGBT myselft but I kown that guys like me make up for only 1-2% of the population and I don't need that number to be manipulated to appear higher. So, hypothetically, that's 1 to 2 footballers from a 100. 1 to 2 LGBTQ+ folks total from 5 FC’s.

Yeah, but so why there are literally NONE that come out, when 'statistically' there should be around from 5 to 10 in the whole league?

And the answer is... I don't know! Is it because the society is 'homophobic'? You know what, I just don't believe that. I can't fully judge the English (I'm an Eastern European with Italian descent myself - yeah, that's the worst kind of combination for someone who's not straight) but when I see thousands of middle aged working class straight men cheer their captains and clubs honouring the inclusivity cause and wear rainbow armbands, because they're just OK with that and essentially don't care because it's a normal thing to do, I feel the UK has come a long way and should be proud of that.

OK, so... if the fans and the society ain’t homophobic (let's just suppose that) - why not then? Why not come out?

Well. maybe the answer is simple. Because sexuality is something that is ... private. And human nature tells us to keep something private to ourselves.

If I meet new people and I’m comfortable around them because I have a sense there’s zero homophobia and everyone’s openminded I still won’t want to reveal my sexuality, because that’s just not what people do around strangers.

The stadiums, the leagues, the fans, the media, the ‘football community’, as much as it is inclusive (which it is, and it’s awesome), - they’re still all strangers.

Please don’t let a single “gay opinion” replace your own thinking. Sexuality is something that is very personal and has a unique experience attached to it. Sexuality is complex, figuring it out can take a lot of trauma that comes from within. Blaming the society is easy. Coming out is not. Because it just isn’t.

So maybe your foot fetish analogy is not that wrong after all :-)

Many gay people are just not comfortable to give it away. And I respect that. No one should be ‘encouraged’ to share their sexuality in exchange for applause. That’s not how it works.

Perhaps, of course, I am wrong. That happens too.

Lots of love. Peace. Keep up the good work. Your reports are awesome. You R’s!
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CliveWilsonSaid added 09:51 - Sep 1
Excellent piece Clive. As you say we’ve all done stupid things so let’s not sit on our high horse too proudly. An interesting signing and hopefully Gray will come good for us.
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sinceApril66 added 10:48 - Sep 1
I echo most of what you say, Clive, while thinking it can be too easy to judge people who grew-up in very different cultures. My trust in Warbs’ ability to read people and create such a brilliant group spirit probably tips the balance… Just as I really appreciate the community of voices on this website even/especially when we disagree…
Is it heresy to suggest that this move might be partly rooted in a sense that Austin’s best contributions now could be off the bench, rather than starting..?
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HastingsRanger added 11:12 - Sep 1
Clive, just another fantastic and poignant read! We are privileged with your tomes. It does worry me, given the history of Barton's signing by a very experienced Warnock and the consequences of that to team spirit etc... Once a c*t, always a c*t, in this instance.

Good people do change, they live and learn but I am not convinced there is any evidence here of homophobia being addressed.

The club right now is ticking so many boxes for me (and all of us) to really enjoy (regardless of the results), it is a shame that this choice was made. I hope it gets addressed. I guess at least he is on loan, rather than permanent.

Again, thanks for such a stimulating and well reasoned piece.
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HastingsRanger added 11:15 - Sep 1
Twitter might well be damming of your past but in some cases, people should think before they speak or better still think.
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E15Hoop added 12:48 - Sep 1
I suspect that behind the scenes Warbler has been very direct with Mr. Gray and told him words to the effect of" You're drifting, and now you're a father to twins you need to get your act together." Warbler is probably one of the few people that Mr. Gray might actually listen to, and I suspect that he also knows he needs to do this, hence his willingness to come here (as well as it being just down the road). The words "Andre has a point to prove" are probably the most important ones in what Warbler had to say on this, I think.
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PastCaringNW2 added 18:24 - Sep 1
I think it is probably important not to expect total consistency on political and social matters from the people who occupy key positions on and off the pitch.

Would it be at all surprising if self-made men (especially those born in the early to mid 60s), who are effectively all wealthy freelancers with short careers in a cut-throat team sport, were a lot less interested in issues of social diversity and inclusivity in the work place than winning the next football match and the one after that?

Unless an issue touches them very personally it probably doesn't feature much on their radar. Certainly not their professional one and even if it does I am not expecting Lee or Les or Warbs to show up on Novara Media or in Tribune any time soon talking about the relevance of the Paris Commune or the Fifth International to the scheduling of midweek away games and replica shirt pricing. There isn't ever going to be an equivalent of Chris Hughton writing for the Morning Star at the height of the Thatcher era.

Point being is that I very much doubt that Gray's history even came up when they were thinking about signing him. 30 year old bloke has daft views on whatever subject is not exactly a surprise is it? How many of Geoff Cameron's personal opinions were wholly consistent with the Rangers brand as a diverse club in a very diverse part of one of the most diverse cities on the planet and did anyone care?

I doubt it ever got a moment's thought as long as Cameron kept it reasonably clean and kept the views about his country rather than this one. We won more often with him on the field. End of story for most of the executive and the coaching staff I would imagine. And of course for most fans. So there is that.

The other side of this is about marketing and about how the owners want to develop the club. The last few seasons my youngest daughter (now 25) has been coming a lot. She's gone from being an armchair fan of players rather than of a specific club to being a QPR full-timer at home and wanting to go to away games.

The post Grenfell community work, the stadium renaming, seeing the likes of Seny, Chair, Eze, Manning, Kakay and Bright et al come into the first team and thrive has had a lot to do with that. She certainly hasn't been coming for the wins until very recently and she sees the club as something she can support whole heartedly in a sport that she likes but otherwise thinks of as being a moral vacuum.

I am also pretty sure that she is not alone in being attracted by this dynamic and if you want a new younger breed of fan then you probably don't want to openly mess with it. I expect the owners and marketing people are very very aware of this. Though not everyone else at the club will think you need to do more than win games to sell tickets. That despite the fact that a lot of our relatively recent history (certainly post going all seated) suggests that this is not the case.

So there is a fine line being walked where a bunch of not entirely compatible outlooks within the club and in the stands have to agree to rub along for the good of the bigger picture. Seeing and yet not seeing the past indiscretions of Andre Gray is going to be a small part of walking that line. Meanwhile there is no one in the stadium booing the taking of the knee that I can hear from the upper Loft and that for me is definitely a sign of something somewhere heading in the right direction.
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Russian__Bot added 20:11 - Sep 1
Needless to attack him for something from 2012. Seemingly as some sort of penance for your own guilt from an article you wrote yourself on a related topic only a few years ago

“What education, exactly, was required for a 20-year-old to know gay people don’t deserve to burn and die?”

I think the mistake you are making is judging him from your White Middle Class background. You mention mention he plays for Jamaica. This a country that Time magazine called “the most homophobic place on Earth” in 2006.

Homosexual acts between men is criminalised in Jamaica. So if you view things from that perspective it becomes more reasonable that he could have held homophobic views back then but doesn’t now

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/dec/06/


He was expressing a view that he essentially doesn’t approve of homosexuality through saying an obviously exaggerated statement to make that point.

You reference the year before that in 2011 he was involved in gang violence. Would suggest maybe he wasn’t on the most stable path. So I think it’s wrong to judge him from your white middle class lens and we have no reason at all to not take him at his word. And that he has learned his mistake on this subject just as you have


So let’s not attack a player needlessly. Let’s judge him for how he acts and performs now and take him at his word and not seek out negative narratives on what has been shaping up to be a very positive season


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Gleni1977 added 21:26 - Sep 1
Great piece. Personally, I will judge him based on his conduct, on and off the pitch, whilst he has the honour of wearing our shirt.
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tonyQPR added 11:07 - Sep 3
Clive do you think the senior players at the club would off been consulted and asked to gauge feeling amongst the others players at the club before committing themselves to the signing off Andre gray ? If they did and approved by the players then I’m ok with this signing.
OMFG I so love our QPR right now ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️
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