Gareth Bale interview in Esquire August edition

[elDiablo]

He isn't.

In his acceptance speech for PFA of the year award; he said something along the lines of:

'I can't believe I won the award over all these gooder footballers'.

Not sure the exact quote but he definitely used the 'word' gooder.

“I was never too much into school, I liked lunchtimes and breaks, but nah, I hated sitting at a desk,” he says. “I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.”
Think that bit sums it up

He reminds me of Rooney but without the granny-f**cking.

I also liked the HR quote: “Bale. Stop fucking about with your barnet.”

was he referring to his hair or agent?

 

[NEVILLEB]

Champions League Football is important.

Careless.

 

[riggi]

Madrid is nicer than Cardiff or Essex.

Clearly never been down safend pier.

 

[spivmaster]

When Harry Redknapp arrived at Spurs in 2008, the team were bottom of the table and he went round the dressing room critiquing the players. When he reached Bale, he looked at his meticulously gelled hair and said: “Bale. Stop fucking about with your barnet.” Redknapp would have given him the hairdryer, the joke went, but Bale would have just used it to tease his quiff into meringue peaks. He was humiliated, even though he wasn’t the only player that the new manager picked on. “This was when he first came and he didn’t like me,” remembers Bale. “But we needed a kick up the arse and it worked, I must say.”

I really want to know what Redknapp said to everyone else!