By: Frank Dalleres

Sports Editor Frank Dalleres is Sports Editor of City AM. He has almost two decades' experience covering the business of sport and has reported from Olympic Games and major international football, rugby union, tennis and golf competitions, both at home and abroad. Get in touch with stories and tip-offs and follow him on X at @frankdalleres

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Football betting: Slaven Bilic to mastermind end to West Ham’s Goodison blues at former club Everton

March 3, 2016

West Ham boss Slaven Bilic returns to Everton on Saturday hoping to end his team’s remarkable and unwanted run against their opponents. Since Bobby Zamora’s winner in a 1-0 win in April 2007, the Hammers have gone 18 matches without a win over the Merseysiders . However, with his side flying high in sixth place, [...]
Arsenal 1, Swansea 2: Petr Cech injury compounds sorry night for Arsene Wenger as Gunners waste chance to close gap on Tottenham before north London derby

March 2, 2016

Arsenal 1, Swansea 2 Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger banned title talk after his team's Premier League challenge crumbled further with a dispiriting defeat to struggling Swansea. The Gunners missed a huge chance to close the gap on leaders Leicester and rivals Tottenham — ahead of Saturday's north London derby — despite winger Joel Campbell putting them in [...]
Antonio Conte to Chelsea: Guus Hiddink has turned the Blues around but they need to be bold and Italy boss is a better choice for a long-term project

March 1, 2016

I don't think even Guus Hiddink realised how big a job he was taking on when the experienced Dutchman returned for a second stint as caretaker manager of Chelsea in December, following the sacking of Jose Mourinho. Confidence seemed to be at rock bottom but less than three months later the mood at Stamford Bridge [...]
Manchester United 3, Arsenal 2: Marcus Rashford strikes again but Arsene Wenger insists the Gunners are still in title race

February 28, 2016

Manchester United 3, Arsenal 2 Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger insists his team are still in the Premier League title race despite seeing their hopes severely dented by Manchester United’s newest hero Marcus Rashford. Eighteen-year-old Rashford took his tally to four goals from his first two senior games with a quickfire first-half brace that laid the [...]
Racing betting: Well-handicapped Ericht to bounce back for Henderson

February 25, 2016

Kempton is the last big trials day before Cheltenham and it’s normally the Adonis and Dovecote Hurdles that punters associate with potential Festival winners. There are some promising horses in both of those races on Saturday, but in the past four years the winner of the 2m4½f handicap chase (4.45pm) has gone on to land [...]
Racing betting: Thomas Brown can cook up a storm for Harry Fry at Kempton

February 25, 2016

Harry Fry has made an incredibly bright start to his training career and he returns to the scene of his first big triumph on Saturday at Kempton. It was three years ago when the seven-year-old novice Opening Batsman landed the Racing Plus Chase, beating Rolling Aces, ironically trained by Fry’s former boss Paul Nicholls. Opening Batsman [...]
Capital One Cup final betting: Liverpool to beat Manchester City to first trophy of season

February 25, 2016

Liverpool and Manchester City go head to head for the first silverware of the season in the Capital One Cup final on Sunday. The match sees two managers at opposite ends of spells at their respective clubs. City boss Manuel Pellegrini has announced he will leave in the summer. After being knocked out of the FA [...]
Six Nations betting: England to keep Grand Slam dream alive against Ireland

February 25, 2016

Grand Slam chasers England are two fifths of the way towards the ultimate Six Nations prize, but on Saturday they face their first real obstacle. Negotiating Scotland and Italy may not have been a given, but a loss to either would have posed real questions to Eddie Jones’s nascent tenure. Now reigning champions Ireland head to [...]
Tottenham v Fiorentina: Dele Alli warned by Mauricio Pochettino to curb temper as Spurs prepare to go for jugular in Europa League

February 24, 2016

Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino has admitted taking Dele Alli to one side in an attempt to transmit some of his own placid sensibilities to the tenacious teenage midfielder. Alli has hurtled from MK Dons to the forefront of Spurs’ title challenge and a place in the England squad in just seven months, although the journey [...]
Fifa cuts Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini bans on eve of election to decide which of Sheikh Salman, Gianni Infantino, Prince Ali, Tokyo Sexwale or Jerome Champagne takes charge of scandal-hit body

February 24, 2016

Fifa president Sepp Blatter plans to take his fight to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after his appeal against an eight-year ban succeeded only in reducing it to six years. The scandal-hit world governing body, whose top officials are scheduled to elect Blatter’s successor tomorrow, issued the same judgement on Michel Platini, the [...]

Starmer took sport freebies worth tens of thousands of pounds while PM

Starmer took sport freebies worth tens of thousands of pounds while PM

The PlayStation Portal 2026 review: Japanese innovation, hampered by UK infrastructure

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