A man has successfully claimed for personal injury compensation after injuring himself playing on a football pitch that was waterlogged. The man, who remains unnamed, won £13,000 in personal injury compensation after he fractured his tibia and his shinbone when he was playing on a five-a-side match with friends at the JJB Sports Soccer Dome.

Staff at the sports centre told them that the pitch was playable even though it was waterlogged. The injuries caused the man to miss 15 weeks of work.

JJB argued that the football pitch wasn’t dangerous and the injuries sustained by the man were as a result of the tackle he experienced, rather than the state of the pitch.

Personal injury lawyers Ellis-Fermor & Negus fought the case in Derby, winning the man £13,404 in injury compensation.

Kevin Bampton is the head of law at the University of Derby, stated:

This is not someone letting teams play on their field. It’s a major sports company which should have known about the risks involved.

An amateur footballer isn’t going to know about the full potential for injury.

For that sort of injury, the time off work, ongoing physiotherapy, that sort of thing, that’s a relatively small amount.