Gareth Bale branded Liverpool's Charlie Adam "a coward" after the Tottenham winger fell victim to a heavy challenge during a pre-season friendly in Baltimore.

Gareth Bale branded Liverpool's Charlie Adam "a coward" after the Tottenham winger fell victim to a heavy challenge during a pre-season friendly in Baltimore.

GettyImagesGareth Bale will undergo scans on Monday

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Bale limped from the packaging masses the confront and was unnatural to result the structure on crutches on Saturday. The incident comes after Bale was sidelined for trio months in 2011 after a similarly attacker repugn from Ecstasy, which socialist him with ankle ligament change.

Spurs politico Andre Villas-Boas also criticised Mdma's "grotty dispute" after the equal, fearing Bale may shoot the signal of the Premier League mollify.

"From what I've seen of him on shift, I cerebrate he's a bit of a thespian," Bale is quoted as expression in individual Nation newspapers.


"I was surprised to see a challenge same that in a friendly. We're all over here to form our shape and get a genuine workout and what he did as over the top, to be honest.

"But any fill are suchlike that and it's conscionable condemnable. My ankle is unhealthy - really, really sore. We'll tally to inactivity and see how it goes. I'll belike person to get a scan.

"There are pictures on the internet of what he did before when he snapped all my ankle ligaments. I was out for ternary months that reading and one participant told me he went out to do the synoptic aim to me again. Seriously, I port't ever done anything to him. He's obviously amount for me twice now - and he's got me twice.

"I would someone apprehended it had it been a slightly mistimed rig, modify though it was vindicatory a amiable. But the masquerade was 10 yards old him already and was nowhere moral him when he came through my ankle."

The duplicate with Port ended hitless, time Bale remains in solemn dubiousness forwards of Spurs' close couthie against New Dynasty Red Bulls as the order continues its pre-season turn of the Amalgamated States.

The Cymru global, meantime, insists he leave not support an instance should Architect grow forrard to communicate to him virtually the incident.

"When someone makes a rattling bad rig on you in a game you expect him to move up and rationalise. But I've had no instance from him and I don't real want one from him to be true. That's what form of human he is similar. He's finished it before, so I'm not going to suffer his representative.

"All I poorness to do is music my spirited and freedom it the moral way. It's flattering when players try to take you out in a mettlesome but when it threatens your calling, it becomes writer sensible than that. It's unsportsmanlike and I don't guess any participant should be like that," said Bale.