Newcastle sued over Nolan’s tackle

March 4th, 2011 | 30 Comments |

Newcastle United were sued by Everton’s Victor Anichebe over a Kevin Nolan tackle in February 2009.

To be honest I don’t remember the tackle because I have a memory like a sieve and can barely remember what I did five minutes ago, but apparently a ‘six figure sum’ was settled upon for lost earnings.

Apparently the player was on a highly-incentivised contract and his legal team argued he had lost out on a substantial sum of appearance bonuses that he would have earned had he remained fit.

My point, though, is does this happen regularly? As I said, my ill-fated memory does not work very well but I can’t remember one player suing another for a tackle before.

Why, for example, have we not sued Manchester City for Nigel De Jong’s tackle on Ben Arfa? (more…)