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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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 [...]
Hamilton toasts greatest victory as Mercedes aim to seal contract

November 23, 2014

MERCEDES chiefs vowed to keep Lewis Hamilton at the team “for a long time” after the British driver clinched his second Formula One world championship in Abu Dhabi yesterday. Hamilton won his 11th grand prix of the season as a mechanical failure prevented colleague and closest title rival Nico Rosberg from turning the decider into [...]
Premier League: Bruce blasts Vertonghen as Spurs fight back

November 23, 2014

HULL CITY 1 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 2 AGGRIEVED Hull manager Steve Bruce accused Tottenham defender Jan Vertonghen of getting Gaston Ramirez sent off after Spurs came from behind to continue their strong away form. Former White Hart Lane midfielder Jake Livermore put the hosts in front but Ramirez’s red card precipitated their collapse, as Harry Kane [...]
Sport Comment: It’s not too late to salvage season

November 23, 2014

ANY hopes of resisting Chelsea’s procession to the Premier League title vanished for Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United and Tottenham before the clocks even went back. But so collective is their failure that there is still much to gain for the next out-of-sorts “big” team to settle down and find a winning formula. Chelsea aside, faltering [...]

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