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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Angry Marussia rubbish Bianchi speeding claims

October 15, 2014

FORMULA One team Marussia have angrily denied suggestions that driver Jules Bianchi was asked to bend rules and speed up just before his crash at the Japanese Grand Prix earlier this month. Bianchi, 24, remains in critical condition with severe head injuries almost two weeks after his car ploughed into a trackside recovery vehicle at [...]
Steenkamps decline to testify at Oscar hearing

October 15, 2014

THE PARENTS of Reeva Steenkamp have declined to testify against Oscar Pistorius at the Paralympic star’s sentencing hearing for the fatal shooting of their daughter. Pistorius, 27, was back in court in Pretoria, South Africa, yesterday for the third day of the process, having been found guilty last month of culpable homicide. Lawyers for the [...]
McDowell defeats in-form Levy in winning start to title defence

October 15, 2014

DEFENDING champion Graeme McDowell made a winning start to his World Match Play title defence yesterday by beating Alexander Levy at the London Club in Kent. The Northern Irishman beat Frenchman Levy, who arrived fresh from his victory at the Portugal Masters on Sunday, 3&2 in the tournament’s opening clash. McDowell’s Ryder Cup team-mate Victor [...]
Platini’s historic accord inflicts major blow to FFP opponents

October 14, 2014

LEGAL challenges to football’s financial fair play rules have been dealt a “possibly fatal wound” after the European Commission yesterday signed an unprecedented cooperation agreement with governing body Uefa. The controversial regulations saw Premier League champions Manchester City fined £49m this year and have prompted outcry from some clubs, as well as two separate court [...]
Steenkamps called £20,000 Pistorius offer blood money

October 14, 2014

PARALYMPIC star Oscar Pistorius offered to pay his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp’s family more than £20,000 as compensation for killing her, a court heard yesterday in Pretoria, South Africa. The Steenkamps rejected the payment, calling it “blood money”, probation officer Annette Vergeer told a hearing to determine Pistorius’s sentence for culpable homicide. Vergeer added that Pistorius [...]
Debt on agenda as Man City and Euro elite mull changes to FFP

October 13, 2014

Europe’s top football clubs, including Premier League champions Manchester City, have held talks with governing body Uefa over a possible clampdown on debt levels. Such a move could prevent teams from accumulating large debts, as City’s neighbours and rivals Manchester United have, and was one of several changes to controversial financial fair play (FFP) rules [...]
Fifa like intelligence agency, says investigator

October 13, 2014

THE LAWYER tasked with investigating allegations of Fifa corruption has urged football’s world governing body to stop operating under a cloak of secrecy better suited to an intelligence agency. Michael Garcia used an appearance yesterday in the City of London to call for Fifa to implement greater transparency and a change in tone of leadership [...]
Pistorius should avoid jail term, sentencing told

October 13, 2014

PARALYMPIC superstar Oscar Pistorius should be spared jail and instead serve three years of house arrest and community service for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a probation officer told his sentencing hearing in Pretoria, South Africa, yesterday. Prosecutor Gerrie Nel criticised the suggestion, calling it “shockingly inappropriate”. Pistorius was last month found guilty of culpable homicide [...]
FFP dispute faces battle

October 13, 2014

A SECOND legal challenge to financial fair play rules aimed at preventing European chiefs Uefa from tightening spending controls faces a difficult battle, according to a leading sports lawyer. It emerged on Friday that Jean-Louis Dupont, one of the lawyers involved in the landmark Bosman ruling, has filed a request with the Court of First [...]
Kroenke to be grilled at AGM

October 13, 2014

ARSENAL majority owner Stan Kroenke is expected to be grilled by minority shareholders at Thursday’s AGM over a £3m payment to his holding company for unspecified advisory services. The Gunners received a boost yesterday, meanwhile, when forward Theo Walcott returned to full training following his nine-month injury lay-off. Striker Olivier Giroud, ruled out until the [...]

Two centuries of Old Pulteney

EuroLeague CEO interview: ‘NBA Europe? We have never been stronger and will never disappear’

Two centuries of Old Pulteney

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