A former Tottenham Hotspur player, who was left severely brain-damaged after he suffered a heart attack during a game, was on Tuesday awarded damages of around £7million.
Despite scans showing that his heart was ‘unequivocally abnormal’, Radwan Hamed was allowed to continue playing football by Spurs medical staff including Dr Charlotte Cowie — who is now the FA’s medical director and will sit on the bench for England’s World Cup qualifier against Malta at Wembley on Saturday.
Tottenham-mad youngster Hamed, then aged 17, collapsed six minutes into his first match as a professional for the Spurs youth team in Bruges in August 2006.