Bale future no clearer

Gareth Bale has been ruled out of action for two weeks by Andre Villas-Boas, but the Tottenham manager failed to clear up the uncertainty surrounding the star’s future on the brink of the new Premier League season.

Bale’s on-off switch to Real Madrid has dragged on through most of the summer, but if Spurs fans were looking to their manager to clear things up yesterday at the official launch of the new campaign at a school in south London, then they were to be disappointed.