Downie claims European crown May 18, 2014 GYMNASTICS: Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Rebecca Downie became only the second British woman ever to win an individual European title yesterday. The 22-year-old scored 15.500 points on the uneven bars.
Surrey blast past Somerset May 18, 2014 CRICKET: Surrey opening batsman Jason Roy powered 64 runs off 47 balls to steer his side to a 14-run victory over Somerset in their Twenty20 blast group match. Surrey posted 173-7, with Somerset falling short on 159-6.
Football tackles its loss makers May 18, 2014 Frank Dalleres looks at the landscape for this week’s City A.M. panel discussion ON FRIDAY evening, after what has at times seemed an interminable wait, European football chiefs Uefa took a pin to Manchester City’s Premier League title celebrations and, in so doing, attempted to silence critics who have claimed that financial fair play (FFP) [...]
Platini’s grand plan will end in tears May 18, 2014 FOR CLUBS aspiring to compete in the Champions League, Uefa’s financial fair play (FFP) rules have reached their first monitoring hurdle and the offenders are now facing the imposition of sanctions. The rules embodied in a 90-page document are mired in complexity and open to accounting and legal interpretation. Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain have [...]
Why England’s clubs must stick to rules May 18, 2014 FINANCIAL fair play (FFP) rules are now a huge part of everyday life in the business of running a football club. Each Uefa league, and in our case in England each division, has its own set of FFP rules. In our view, none we’ve seen are perfect and they all present their own particular set [...]
Stay up to date on FFP May 18, 2014 Back in March we reported the impending punishment of squad sizes being cut for European competitions In May last year we brought you news of lawyer Jean-Louis Dupon taking on a legal challenge to FFP on behalf of a football agent City A.M. has been running detailed analysis of FFP as it is implemented both [...]
Discount retail firm B&M gets ready to float May 18, 2014 DISCOUNT retailer B&M is readying a stock market debut that values the firm at more than £2bn, in a move which could be announced as early as this week. The Liverpool-based company would follow discounting rival Poundland, which raised £375m on its entry into the London market back in March. B&M, which has grown from [...]
Shareholder spring is back May 15, 2014 MEMORIES of 2012’s shareholder spring returned yesterday as investors rallied against the pay packages and policies of top British firms. Hiscox was hit hardest after 42 per cent of its voting shareholders failed to support the specialist insurer’s remuneration policy – the biggest protest vote so far this year – after it didn’t cap the [...]
Bank hires US economist to vote on interest rates May 15, 2014 THE BANK of England yesterday hired Kristin Forbes to the monetary policy committee, replacing outgoing external policy maker Ben Broadbent. She is an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and previously worked in the US Treasury and the World Bank. Forbes will be the monetary policy committee’s first female member in five years when she [...]
Eurozone missing out on recovery with flat growth May 15, 2014 EUROPE is struggling to escape stagnation, with the sluggish French and shrinking Italian economies holding to continent back, official figures showed yesterday. The Eurozone economies grew by just 0.2 per cent in the first three months of the year, well below the 0.8 per cent in the UK. Germany led the Eurozone with growth of [...]
