As reported earlier this week, former West Ham footballer Dean Ashton is set to make a personal injury compensation claim against the Football Association (FA) following an ankle wound that ended his footballing career in 2009.
Ashton is claiming that the FA is responsible for vicarious liability for the personal injury, which occurred during a tackle in an England training session in 2006 between himself and Manchester City right winger Sean Wright Phillips (who played for Chelsea at the time) and resulted in the 26-year-old becoming forced to end his professional sporting career.
Dean was 18 months into a five month contract for the London-based club at the time of suffering his personal injury, and West Ham subsequently paid him out of his legal tie with a year’s salary. This amounted to more than 5.8 million pounds.
Ashton has decided to pursue compensation following the loss of a payout from his insurance provider, as he decided to try and recover to full fitness for three years after the injury rather than admitting his career was over and retiring there and then – making the policy void as it was more than two years since the incident occurred.
The former footballer admitted in an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live that his battle has now become about walking properly again rather than trying to resume his sporting career, but that he feels no animosity towards Sean Wright Philips for his involvement in the situation.
In a separate move, West Ham is now attempting to claim the year’s salary that was paid to Ashton back from the Football Association.
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