? Bale forced out of Wales squad with hamstring injury
? Gary Speed claimed winger was injured playing for Spurs
The Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has denied the Wales manager Gary Speed's version of events surrounding the injury to Gareth Bale.
Bale has been ruled out of Wales's Euro 2012 qualifier against England tomorrow with a hamstring problem which Wales manager Gary Speed claims was present when he arrived for training.
However, Redknapp has rejected that claim and insists the 21-year-old was fit when he joined the Wales camp earlier this week. "I wouldn't have let him go if he had an injury," Redknapp told the Daily Mail.
"Gareth played for 90 minutes against West Ham on Saturday and they tell me the figures from that game show he covered more ground than he's ever done before. There was no sign of a hamstring injury. He's not come in after the game and said his hamstrings were tight.
"When he left here on Saturday, off he went and he certainly wasn't injured. Now he's got a hamstring (injury). He must've done it with Wales. I'm not blaming anyone. It's no one's fault."
Speed had said on Thursday that Bale reported for duty with the problem. "Gareth reported from Spurs with stiffness," he said. "We left him out of training Sunday and Monday just to assess him and put him through the recovery process.
"He did the warm-up Tuesday morning and he still felt a bit of tightness in his hamstring, so we took him off.
"He didn't train Wednesday so we took him for a scan. The results came back that he has an injury there. I think you can tell on scans now, with the fluid and the blood that it was an injury from last week."
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/mar/25/gareth-bale-tottenham-harry-redknapp
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