Behold. For he is risen. Gareth Bale is feeling better. Pictures of Bale training happily in Cardiff this week confirmed there are no lingering effects from the back pain (or “not feeling right”, according to Carlo Ancelotti) which had kept Bale out of Real Madrid’s 4-0 shellacking at home against Barcelona on Sunday night.
And as miracles of healing go, this is a timely one, after an absence which just happened, by pure coincidence, to fall four days before the biggest (and surely last) opportunity Bale is going to get to lead Wales to a World Cup. Let’s face it, he was never going to miss this one.
