The sun was up again during that endless summer on France’s Brittany coast when Gareth Bale walked into a classroom for a discussion, which has been remembered across the six years for just one of the many words he spoke.
How many England players would make Wales’s line-up? he was asked. ‘None,’ he replied. His discussion of Wales, England and why he wouldn’t have played for the latter, even if it had meant never gracing a tournament finals, was so mesmerising that Bale left the room to a round of applause. ‘We feel more pride and passion than anyone else,’ he said at the Wales base in Dinard.
That confidence was borne of soaring self-belief, at what we now know was the high tide mark of a glorious Welsh footballing generation. But contrast the way Bale has assiduously avoided any…
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