Andy Gray

Now and then you read something in the papers that you find so astonishing and mind-boggling that you have to read it again just to make sure your eyes aren't playing tricks on you. That's how I felt when I read Carlos Tevez's comments a few days ago saying he was bored, tired, fed-up of the stress of playing in the Premier League and thinking of quitting the game altogether. Regular readers of this column will know just how highly I rate the Manchester City captain in terms of ability, work-rate, determination and his uncanny knack of saving his best performances for the biggest games. Which is why I'm really hoping these were off-the-cuff remarks made when he was in a bit of a mood or that something was lost in translation here. But let's just assume for a minute that they weren't...

Every week, Betfair Football's star tipster Andy Gray will be picking out and answering his favourite question out of those he is asked on Twitter and Facebook. Here's his answer to this week's poser... "Was the Dutch coach right to drop Nigel de Jong? And was SI.com's Grant Wahl right to call him the 'dirtiest player in world soccer'?" - @PaulLomax A lot has been made of Nigel de Jong's tackle on Hatem Ben Arfa last weekend. The incident has since attracted extra attention as a result of Bert van Marwijk's decision to drop the Manchester City man from his Dutch squad to play Moldova and Sweden, claiming this time he went too far. His decision is an interesting one and must be interpreted as him making the point to de Jong that he doesn't condone those sort of tackles, nor does...