Chelsea move to digital tickets after banning 2,000 fans for touting May 1, 2025 Chelsea have revealed further details of their switch to digital tickets next season, which the football club says it hopes will stamp out touting. The Premier League outfit have cancelled 2,000 memberships linked to touting this season and believe that the new digital system will provide greater security. It comes a year before the top [...]
Major London venue to host 2026 World Cup final May 1, 2025 Major London venue Lord’s will host the Women’s Cricket T20 World Cup this year as the tournament’s venues were revealed. The Home of Cricket will stage the showpiece final in next year’s World Cup in a win for the capital amid competition from other major UK Test arenas. Manchester’s Old Trafford, Leeds’ Headingley, Birmingham’s Edgbaston, [...]
City of London to host padel and football during London Sports Festival May 1, 2025 The Square Mile will this summer bask in the opportunity to get active with the launch of the London Sports Festival across the capital from this month. Beginning later this month and running through until October, iconic London landmarks will play host to a number of sports to merge the City’s working engine with the [...]
FA issues blanket ban on transgender women playing in female football May 1, 2025 The FA has followed other major sports and banned transgender women from playing in women’s football from next month. Just weeks ago it was still resisting calls to implement a blanket ban but has now updated its policy following last month’s landmark Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act, which decreed that the lawful exclusion [...]
2025 London Marathon raises world record £75m for charity May 1, 2025 The London Marathon has broken its own record for the world’s biggest one-day fundraising event after the 2025 race generated more than £75m for charity. The final total won’t be revealed until later this year but has already eclipsed the £73.5m raised last year, which set a new global benchmark for contributing to good causes. [...]
Dubai real estate firm to sponsor Chelsea for rest of season April 30, 2025 Chelsea have announced major Dubai-based firm Damac Properties as its front-of-shirt sponsor for the remainder of the season. The deal will see the UAE brand on the Stamford Bridge team’s shirts from tomorrow evening, when the Blues take on Djurgarden in the Europa Conference League in Sweden. But the deal will conclude at the end [...]
RFU Council should be scrapped, says review it commissioned April 30, 2025 A wide-ranging review of rugby union’s governance has suggested scrapping the RFU Council in what would be the domestic game’s biggest shake-up since the advent of professionalism. The year-long review, which was commissioned by the RFU Council itself, raises the prospect that the 63-strong committee be disbanded or replaced by a smaller group of expert [...]
Nottingham Forest owner Marinakis gives up control of club April 30, 2025 Nottingham Forest and Olympiacos owner Evangelos Marinakis has relinquished control of the Premier League club in order to avoid scuppering their Champions League qualification. Marinakis has placed his Forest shares in a blind trust to ensure that he does not fall foul of Uefa rules preventing control of two teams in the same European competition. [...]
Formula 1 doesn’t need fourth US race, says Miami Grand Prix boss April 30, 2025 Formula 1 chiefs should resist further cashing in on the sport’s growth in the US and adding a fourth American race to the calendar, says the boss of this week’s Miami Grand Prix. The explosion in interest, credited in large part to Netflix show Drive To Survive, has seen the sport’s Colorado-based owners, Liberty Media, [...]
The Punter Podcast Episode 28: Classics at HQ, Ascot’s Trials Day, Goodwood, Thirsk and Happy Valley April 30, 2025 Tom Marriott and Bill Esdaile preview the key races across the UK this week and are joined by trainer Mick Appleby. Hong Kong expert Wally Pyrah is on hand with fancies at Happy Valley. The Punter ‘The Punter’ has been City AM’s dedicated sports betting section for over a decade with a primary focus on [...]