CONTROVERSIAL football pundits Richard Keys and Andy Gray are heading to the Lighthouse Poole on October 28.

Credited with being the driving force behind Sky Sports’ rise to football supremacy, the pair is now embarking on their first theatre tour, Live and Loud.

The show will begin with one hour of talk, anecdotes and opinion taking in two intertwining careers that have spanned almost 40 years in football, television and radio.

Following this will be a half-hour, no-holds barred Q&A session where the controversial duo will put themselves in the firing line with anything the audience want to throw at them.

A topic of conversation may well be the colourful off-air remarks that saw Keys and Gray part company with Sky Sports earlier this year.

Richard Keys has almost 30 years’ experience as television and sport presenter.

In the mid to late 1980s, he co-presented TV-am, a breakfast show on the ITV network, with Anne Diamond whilst also commentating on football matches for ITV.

However, he is best known for his time with Sky Sports from 1991 until 2011 where, along with Gray, he clocked up over a thousand games and became synonymous with the rise of Premiership football throughout the world.

Andy Gray scored 433 goals in a glittering football career that took in Aston Villa, Wolves and Everton amongst others.

In 1978 he became the PFA Young Player of the Year and Players’ Player of the Year awards (a feat not repeated until Cristiano Ronaldo won both awards 30 years later).

After retiring as a player, Gray became a football commentator, pundit and analyst on Sky Sports for its Premier League coverage since its inception in 1992.