Yes, it doesn't seem like it from the article. Yet our own club website has stated that we have been supporting Radwan throughout this unfortunate period, something that could easily be refuted if there was evidence that we hadn't. It would be very unlike Spurs to not support a young player who had hit misfortune. Just ask Jon Obika or Simon Dawkins, whose young careers with us were constantly hampered by severe injuries but we kept them at the club, on our payroll, getting them experience whenever and wherever possible until such time came that we found them permanent homes elsewhere, in their early twenties, for fees that would come nowhere near what we spent on their wages and rehab, at clubs of decebt stature where they could make good careers. Let us not forget Mason and how much patience and support we gave him till his eventual breakthrough. At one time it looked like he'd not even have a career in the game, now he's on the verge of an international call up.
Mr Hamed's father, Raymon, claimed that his injuries resulted from the negligence of Dr Peter Mills, a cardiologist who screened his son, and of the club - through Dr Charlotte Cowie and Dr Mark Curtin, specialist sports physicians it employed.
Tottenham is vicariously liable for the actions of Dr Cowie and Dr Curtin, but it was agreed during the case that it would be indemnified by their insurers in respect of any damages.
Ruling that the club was 70% liable and Dr Mills 30%, and that compensation should now be assessed, the judge said that Dr Cowie, who was head of the medical services department, made a serious error of judgment when she concluded that the teenager bore no risk of an adverse cardiac event.
Heart attack: Radwan Hamed
"The club owed a duty of care to the claimant as a result of both the doctor/patient and employer/employee relationship.
"With regard to the former, the club doctors were not only in effect the claimant's general practitioners, but specialist sports physicians who were - or should have been - well-acquainted with the cardiac risk faced by young athletes.
"In addition to the usual obligations of a doctor to a patient, the FA protocol placed an obligation upon them to ensure that the claimant and his parents were made aware of any risk that the claimant faced.
"It was their responsibility, as specialist physicians and employers, to ensure that relevant risks were identified and communicated to the claimant and his parents to enable them to make an informed decision as to whether to bear them. In this, they singularly failed.
"In this case, despite the July 2005 recommendation by Dr Mills and the understanding of Dr Curtin that a review was required, the club never requested any such review of Dr Mills or any other cardiologist.
"Whilst Dr Cowie said that she did not wish unduly to concern the claimant's parents before the investigations were complete, she was the claimant's medical practitioner; and she unfortunately but unreasonably gave them false assurance that theclaimant's heart was normal - on any view, it was not - and there was nothing to worry about - when, even after the MRI scan, the cardiologist had specifically indicated to the club that he was worried by the electrocardiogram (ECG).
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"Although she said he was sometimes busy and difficult to get hold of, given that she was dealing with a risk of a potentially fatal condition, in the event of any doubt she was obliged to obtain any necessary clarification from him."
He added that the record keeping at the club's medical services department fell far short of the acceptable.
After the ruling, Raymon Hamed said: "We are very happy because we have been waiting for this a long time. We are very relieved."
You're trying to reason with the sort of person who is glad that a young man has had a terrible thing happen to him because it gives him a stick with which to beat Levy and our board.
