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26th March 2017
03:08pm BST

Asked about Bale's tackle, O'Shea was relatively magnanimous. "Thankfully I’m walking away from it, which is no problem," he told The Irish Times
"I’ve had plenty of stitches put in there. I was lucky considering what has happened to Seamus. On another night there could have been two red cards.
"I can’t remember how many stitches it was. The doctor had to stick some in deep and a few dissolvable ones on top. Hopefully it will heal quickly."
The Sunderland centre-half is set to miss Tuesday's friendly with Iceland as a result of the tackle.
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