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Ex-Tottenham youngster Hamed receives damages after brain damage

A former Tottenham Hotspur youth player has accepted a reported £7 million in damages after he was left brain damaged from a cardiac arrest on his debut.

Radwan Hamed collapsed during a youth game in Belgium in August 2006 and last year a High Court judge ruled Spurs breached its duties to the then-17-year-old.

Mr. Hamed's heart was shown to be "unequivocally abnormal" in an electrocardiogram test performed in a screening but he was not told, and signed for Spurs 11 months later.

He suffered oxygen starvation to the brain after collapsing in a match against Cercle Bruges.