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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Champions League: Arsenal deliver but Wenger hit by fresh injuries

November 26, 2014

ARSENAL 2 BORUSSIA DORTMUND 0 PROUD Arsene Wenger celebrated leading Arsenal into the Champions League knockout stage for the 15th consecutive season last night — but his joy was tempered by further additions to a burgeoning injury list. Much-maligned striker Yaya Sanogo’s first goal for the club and a 13th strike of the season from [...]
Spurs boss in plea for Monday match move

November 26, 2014

TOTTENHAM manager Mauricio Pochettino believes his team’s woeful home record in domestic competition would improve if they were allowed an extra day’s rest following Europa League fixtures. Spurs have lost four Premier League games at White Hart Lane already this term – more than any other team – and all came directly after Thursday night [...]
Lara: Don’t ditch bouncer because of Hughes injury

November 26, 2014

FORMER West Indies batsman Brian Lara insists cricket must not abandon the short ball despite one such delivery leaving Australia’s Philip Hughes fighting for his life. Hughes remained in an induced coma and in critical condition last night after being struck on the head by a bouncer while playing for South Australia in a Sheffield [...]
Fifa facing Serious Fraud Office probe over World Cup bidding

November 26, 2014

THE SERIOUS Fraud Office has stepped up efforts to open an investigation into football’s world governing body Fifa amid allegations of corruption surrounding the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding process. It came as Sajid Javid, secretary of state for culture, media and sport, joined calls for Fifa to publish in full a controversial inquiry [...]
Cesc puts end to Ramos row

November 26, 2014

CHELSEA midfielder Cesc Fabregas has revealed he confronted Sergio Ramos after the Real Madrid defender appeared to question his commitment to the Spanish national team. Ramos raised the issue after Fabregas and Blues team-mate Diego Costa missed this month’s international double-header despite playing 90 minutes for their club days earlier. “I said to him he [...]
Champions League: Job done for Mourinho as Chelsea cruise into last 16 after five-star demolition job

November 25, 2014

SCHALKE 0 CHELSEA 5 CHELSEA manager Jose Mourinho eased concerns over a December fixture pile-up by masterminding a thrashing in Gelsenkirchen that guaranteed his team qualify for the Champions League last 16 as group winners. Strikes from captain John Terry, Willian, an own goal, Didier Drogba and fellow substitute Ramires barely reflected the Blues utter [...]
Wenger takes aim at Usmanov as Arsenal train their sights on wounded Dortmund

November 25, 2014

UNDER-FIRE Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has issued a thinly-veiled rebuke to Alisher Usmanov, the club’s second largest shareholder, for breaking ranks and publicly criticising the team. Russian billionaire Usmanov, who owns 30 per cent of the Gunners but is not on the board, accused Wenger of failing to learn from his mistakes after Saturday’s defeat [...]
Pellegrini: City can beat Bayern and make last 16

November 24, 2014

MANCHESTER City manager Manuel Pellegrini insists his team can tonight overcome a patchy start to the season and the suspension of key players to snatch Champions League survival from the brink of extinction. City likely need to inflict Bayern Munich’s first defeat in 19 fixtures at the Etihad Stadium to resuscitate their European hopes and [...]
McIlroy rivalling Lewis for Sports Personality gong

November 24, 2014

GOLF’S world No1 Rory McIlroy is the favourite to win BBC Sports Personality of the Year after he was named on the 10-strong shortlist last night. McIlroy, who won two Majors and helped Europe successfully defend the Ryder Cup this year, faces competition from newly-crowned Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton. The world’s most expensive footballer [...]
Hamilton: I toasted title with watermelon juice not bubbly

November 24, 2014

Britain’s new F1 champion stayed sober for second title celebration CHAMPAGNE may have rained down in the immediate, giddy aftermath of his Formula One world championship victory, but Britain’s Lewis Hamilton insists that is as boozy as Sunday’s title celebrations got. The clean-living racer from Stevenage revealed yesterday that he toasted his second title with [...]

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