OLIVER HOLT: Gareth Bale has been a humiliating and expensive bust at Tottenham this season in what looks to be a public relations stunt gone wrong.... where is the hunger to prove his talent?

The second coming of Gareth Bale was not meant to be like this.

He was supposed to be the final piece in a glorious attacking trident at Spurs who would light up the Premier League and take us all back a decade to when he terrorised Inter Milan and became the best player in England.

This was supposed to be a triumphant homecoming after he had conquered the world with Real Madrid.

Except it hasn't turned out like that. The exuberant cry of 'Taxi for Maicon' summed up the Welshman's brilliance once but it is a distant memory.