{"id":419772,"date":"2011-05-08T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/08\/blackpool-star-charlie-adam-claims-horror-tackle-on-tottenhams-gareth-bale-was-unintentional\/"},"modified":"2011-05-08T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T21:30:00","slug":"blackpool-star-charlie-adam-claims-horror-tackle-on-tottenhams-gareth-bale-was-unintentional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/08\/blackpool-star-charlie-adam-claims-horror-tackle-on-tottenhams-gareth-bale-was-unintentional\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackpool star Charlie Adam claims horror tackle on Tottenham&#8217;s Gareth Bale was unintentional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Luke Reddy<\/h3>\n<h4>8 May 2011 22:30:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"60.196251768\">\n<div readability=\"14.6119402985\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EPL: Gareth Bale, Tottenham Hotspur v Blackpool\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/130900\/130922_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>EPL: Gareth Bale, Tottenham Hotspur v Blackpool<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"21.1663585952\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/1094\/blackpool\">Blackpool<\/a> captain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/scotland\/14001\/charlie-adam\">Charlie Adam<\/a> insists the horror tackle which left <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/105\/tottenham\">Tottenham<\/a> winger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/wales\/13913\/gareth-bale\">Gareth Bale<\/a> in need of crutches after Saturday\u2019s draw was not intentional.<\/p>\n<p>The Scot caught Bale\u2019s left ankle just after the hour mark at White Hart Lane, a challenge which forced the PFA Player of the Year off on a stretcher and will result in a scan on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A goal scorer later on in the game which ended 1-1, Adam escaped the incident without caution and protested his innocence afterwards. He told <em>Eurosport<\/em>: &#8220;I just saw the ball and tried to get it. It was never intentional.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Scotland international visited Bale in the changing rooms after the game in order to apologise and later spoke glowingly of the Welshman\u2019s ability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never tried to hurt him because he&#8217;s a wonderful player and at the end of the day I&#8217;d rather see these players on the pitch,&#8221; added Adam.<\/p>\n<p>After an incredible start to the campaign, Bale was thwarted by injury throughout February and could now be set to miss Tottenham\u2019s remaining fixtures against Liverpool and Birmingham, pending the results of a scan.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Go here to read the rest:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/05\/08\/2477599\/blackpool-star-charlie-adam-claims-horror-tackle-on\" title=\"Blackpool star Charlie Adam claims horror tackle on Tottenham's Gareth Bale was unintentional\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blackpool star Charlie Adam claims horror tackle on Tottenham&#8217;s Gareth Bale was unintentional<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Luke Reddy 8 May 2011 22:30:00 EPL: Gareth Bale, Tottenham Hotspur v Blackpool Related Links Teams Players Blackpool captain Charlie Adam insists the horror tackle which left Tottenham winger Gareth Bale in need of crutches after Saturday\u2019s draw was not intentional. The Scot caught Bale\u2019s left ankle just after the hour mark at White Hart Lane, a challenge which forced the PFA Player of the Year off on a stretcher and will result in a scan on Monday. A goal scorer later on in the game which ended 1-1, Adam escaped the incident without caution and protested his innocence afterwards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":413489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-419772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blackpool star Charlie Adam claims horror tackle on Tottenham&#039;s Gareth Bale was unintentional - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/08\/blackpool-star-charlie-adam-claims-horror-tackle-on-tottenhams-gareth-bale-was-unintentional\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Blackpool star Charlie Adam claims horror tackle on Tottenham&#039;s Gareth Bale was unintentional - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Luke Reddy 8 May 2011 22:30:00 EPL: Gareth Bale, Tottenham Hotspur v Blackpool Related Links Teams Players Blackpool captain Charlie Adam insists the horror tackle which left Tottenham winger Gareth Bale in need of crutches after Saturday\u2019s draw was not intentional. 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