€5.7m for career-ending tackle on gifted Man Utd boy

ONE of Britain’s most promising young footballers — praised by Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson as “outstanding” — will receive at least £4.5 million (€5.7m) compensation over a tackle which ended his career.

Ben Collett, now 23, was at the High Court in London to hear a judge award him more than £4.3m damages, including £3,854,328 for future loss of earnings.

But Mrs Justice Swift pointed out that when additional sums for future loss of pension and interest on past loss of earnings are determined, the final payout was unlikely to be less than four and a half million pounds.