AS editor and El Chiringuito pundit Tomas Roncero has taken aim at Real Madrid attacker Gareth Bale.

Bale was superb for Wales in their World Cup playoff against Austria, scoring the winning goal just days after claiming he couldn't play in the defeat at home to Barcelona due to injury.

The situation has produced an angry backlash from Real fans and Madrid media, with Roncero joining the critics this morning.

He wrote for AS: "Last night he rose again, as a kind of Braveheart of the country of the Dragon with a formidable performance. For a madridista it would be a pride if it weren't for the fact that four days ago he left the team stranded alluding to a false back injury to miserably erase himself from the Clasico against Barça. His team, the one that is going to pay him 16 million euros net this season, needed him at a decisive moment of the season and even more so in the absence of Benzema, but Gareth had his priorities very clear. He already said it on his day with the famous flag: 'Wales. Golf. Madrid. In that order.'

"The club did not stop this in its day and at that time it should have called him to order. Far from that, Jonathan Barnett, the player's agent, has devoted himself to underestimating and insulting the Real Madrid fans without being forced by the entity to publicly apologise to the sacred tenants of the Bernabéu.

"Bale has felt impunity that has allowed him to laugh at Madrid and the Madridistas in the last three years. My banner is already written: 'Bale. Go. Now. In that order.'"