"I was in a row of three seats. But only the one next to me was free - and it wasn't enough to take my plastered leg."
The kid needed THREE seats.
Tom's ordeal began when he was playing for a Hertfordshire youth team at an international football tournament in Milan.
I would imagine there should have been full insurance cover for this kind of incident. Ultimate blame goes to the team staff for not taking care of the situation properly. The kid should never have been near a Ryanair check-in desk. While not absolving Ryanair of screwing up either, the real issue is the quality of care of the kids by the people who are supposed to look after them. Do they really know what they are doing?