Gareth Bale

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

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Stick to Football · Gareth Bale: Real Madrid Reality, Turning Down United & Life With Ronaldo | Stick to Football 119 · 5 Mar 2026 podcast

You say some people, oh, he's making excuses.

Again, I just, I don't need to speak, but

It was past the medicals, it was fine.

They knew about it, but it's manageable.

But I think for me, over time it caught up with me.

I went to see a back specialist, one of the best in the world, and he was like, because where the tear is is next to a nerve, which I always used to do my right or left soleus.

Right.

And he basically was like, because if it misfires, because obviously stuff comes out of the nerve, then you go into all scientific stuff.

But he said, you're just as likely to tear your soleus brushing your teeth as you are sprinting.

Right.

So I was like brushing my teeth on my heels.

But again, I never knew when it would come.

And obviously people were like, oh, he doesn't look after himself.

I would literally make sure my calves and slaves were like bulletproof.

They would be the strongest things ever.

But again, if it misfires and it goes, there's nothing I could do about it.

I'd have an injection in my back to calm it all down.

So you go through all these things in your career and it kind of gets to a point where it starts to then go the other way.

And it's like started to catch up with me.

So, and I was always like, got to a point where I guess a lot of people do in their career, do you keep going?

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