Liverpool kick off January transfer window with £37m signing of Cody Gakpo December 29, 2022 Liverpool have fired the starting pistol on an intriguing January transfer window by confirming the £37m signing of Netherlands forward Cody Gakpo. The Reds beat rivals Manchester United to Gakpo, who arrives on a five-and-a-half year contract from his boyhood club PSV Eindhoven. “There is a lot to like about Cody,” said Liverpool manager Jurgen [...]
Sport business predictions for 2023 with Deloitte’s Tim Bridge December 28, 2022 Deloitte’s Tim Bridge looks back on the last 12 months and makes his sport business predictions for 2023. The final whistle of the men’s football World Cup concluded an epic year for sport which included the Winter Olympics, the Commonwealth Games, the Women’s Euros, the Rugby League World Cup, as well as women’s World Cups [...]
Best of 2022: England win Cricket World Cup to do double December 28, 2022 Last month England lifted the T20I Cricket World Cup to become the first men’s side to hold both limited-overs trophies at once . Read our report from the final. Article originally posted 13 November 2022. England became the first men’s team to hold both the one-day Cricket World Cup and the ICC Twenty20 World Cup yesterday when [...]
Leeds United owner Radrizzani confirms plans to sell Premier League club December 28, 2022 Leeds United owner Andrea Radrizzani has confirmed that he intends to sell the Premier League football club in the near future. US investment group 49ers Enterprises has been tipped to make it minority shareholding a majority one at the end of the current season. “Perhaps Leeds can grow further, but in the future they will [...]
Best of 2022: Six Nations rugby in talks with Netflix over series December 27, 2022 In October a City A.M. exclusive revealed talks between streaming giant Netflix and the Six Nations over a documentary series for the 2023 tournament. Article originally published on 19 October 2022. Six Nations chiefs are hoping to develop their fanbase through a new series set to be shown on streaming site Netflix. Rugby bosses have [...]
England to face Bangladesh in 2023 white-ball tour December 27, 2022 England will travel to Bangladesh in March next year for three one-day matches and three Twenty20 games in their latest white-ball tour. It will be the first time since 2016 that England have played in the country and it follows a successful T20 and Test tour to Pakistan. When the two sides last faced off [...]
Ineos hire new chief executive for sporting branch December 27, 2022 British chemicals company and growing sports player Ineos have hired Jean-Claude Blanc as the firm’s new sport chief executive. Blanc will begin in post from February of next year and will be responsible for the development of facilities for each of the teams and franchises Ineos owns. The company, founded by Britain’s richest man Sir [...]
A year in track and field: Britain back shining on the global stage? December 27, 2022 Some would say 2022 was the year Great Britain and Northern Ireland announced themselves as a track and field team once again after a poor couple of years in athletics. But other nations and athletes have performed well, too. So here are some of the big moments from the year in the world of track [...]
Lampard asks Everton crowd to “stick” with players after loss December 27, 2022 Everton manager Frank Lampard insisted the Goodison Park crowd “stick” with the team after their 2-1 loss to Wolves last night in the Premier League. The Merseyside club conceded in the 95th minute to hand Julen Lopetegui his first league win as manager of Wolverhampton. “It was a poor goal and we had control on [...]
Best of 2022: Michael Doughty on quitting football to found ethical brand Hylo Athletics December 26, 2022 In this interview first published in October 2022, former Premier League footballer Michael Doughty explains why he walked away from the game to set up sustainable sportswear brand Hylo Athletics. The longer that Michael Doughty’s playing career went on, the harder he found it to ignore the effects of climate change. “I saw way more [...]