Gareth Bale

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1,084 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 5 Mar

Gareth Bale’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Spanish press created it.

Again, you asked me just before we come on, how much did you play golf?

I'm like, I played... I reckon I played once every two or three weeks.

At Madrid?

Yeah.

That's not bad.

Well, that's what I mean.

But the problem is...

If you're the press and you keep writing something, if you read something, you believe it, right?

So they created this kind of character, the perception that I'm constantly playing golf.

Because you're not really talking to them.

So I'm not going to come out and defend myself.

I just can't be bothered.

It just creates a bigger... Sometimes you add smoke to the fire and it just kicks off even more.

So...

I never bothered with that and I would always have my own rule.

I could never play 40 hours for a game.

So if we played Saturday, Wednesday was the last time I could play.

And that was just from my point of view because I like to be professional and I would always do the things I need to do to be ready for a game.

So again, it's just the media creating this thing and then it turns fans against you and then...

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