Player and club sued over injury

[JohnInglisIsGod]

on 19th March 2005 Altrincham entertained Ashton United. During the game "Marcus Hallows was badly injured after a tackle by Danny White - he suffered fractures of both tibia and fibula and had to wait over 30 minutes before an ambulance arrived - on the way to the hospital his heart stopped. Danny White was not even booked for the tackle by the referee who was only about five yards away from the incident.
Three years after the event, Ashton United Football Club (now members of the Unibond Premier League) and player Danny White were sued by Marcus Hallows in respect of the injuries received and for loss of earnings – and the judge has ruled in favour of Hallows."

Imagine if Shab had / was sued for his tackle last night VS NCAFC (had it done more damage than it did to their skipper) then Worcester City would probably go out of business because of it. This decision could create a legal precedent in football whereby any injury could result in players or clubs being taken to court, and the financial implications could bankrupt both club and player. As it is with this ruling, I bet Insurance policy premiums will raise enormously for clubs now!
If we are not careful we are soon going to be having a non contact sport or worse still no tackling allowed. How boring would that be? Imagine the Leeds Utd side of the 70s playing now or not aloud to tackle back then! A joke.... they wouldn't have a player left on the park each week.

A petition has been raised which you might want to take a read of, but I wanted to post this up to see what peeps think of this decision? There are going to be pros and cons as it is a semi-pro game and people do have to work too but the consequences to the sport are huge, don't you think?

The link to the petition is www.ipetitions.com/petition/aufcdanwhite/