Watford legend Luther Blissett has outlined his disgust at the club mentioning him and his tabloid nickname during an interview with striker Andre Gray.

The club's all time record goalscorer has described the video, in which Gray discusses his poor form of late and his two lockdown breaches, as "shameful PR" and is unhappy with the club "portraying his goal scoring ability in a negative way" so they could, in his opinion, gain sympathy for their former record signing, who has scored just three times during this season and last.

During the video, the person conducting the interview with Gray mentions Blissett's tabloid nickname "Luther Miss it" which the club's record appearance maker felt was unacceptable.

Posting on his Facebook page, Blissett said "Speaking honestly myself - this is shameful PR. I am disgusted that the Club has included me in this artful production.

Portraying my goal scoring ability in a negative way simply to justify their player and gain sympathy for his behaviour both on and off the pitch to unhappy fans is not the way.

Do i not like this... indeed not.

My career, from scoring goals to anti racism and community work has been built on genuine humility and gratitude to the fans. I was always first to criticise myself for a lost opportunity, trust me. And Graham Taylor made sure if there was any doubt.

I would never say that I "excelled" but our style was to get shots away, we as a team though were "extraordinary". They didn't always go in, no striker scores with every shot- but maybe their surnames don't rhyme enough for the tabloids... who
also thought "black flash" was an acceptable name.

To beat lan Rush to the Golden Boot, for Europe with 27 league goals (33 overall) is only a couple short of Mo Salah's Premier League record. And that of Alan Shearer and Andy Cole (both part of Premier League winning teams). So I won't apologise again for any that didn't go in.
Nor, would Graham have made excuses for me..."

The club declined to comment.