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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Footballers’ union calls for safeguards that threaten Club World Cup

June 12, 2025

Global footballers’ union Fifpro has issued a set of 12 recommended minimum protections designed to safeguard players’ physical and mental health from the sport’s increasing workload. The recommendations – which include a “blackout” period of at least two weeks in which players have no contact with their club or national team – are the result [...]
Five Surrey Scorchers basketball players banned over match-fixing ring

June 12, 2025

Five former Surrey Scorchers players have been banned after being found guilty of operating a “match-fixing ring” in British basketball’s top division. Quincy Taylor, Charleston Dobbs, Shakem Johnson and Padiet Wang were all given life bans, while Joshua McFolley was handed a 10-year suspension. The men, all US nationals, were charged with fixing at least [...]
Sam Renouf: From athlete to CEO and City AM Triathlon Team Challenge

June 12, 2025

The CEO of the Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO), Sam Renouf, on his journey from athlete to founder and launching the City AM Triathlon Team Challenge. Sam Renouf knows exactly when he realised he had to give up on his dream of becoming an Olympic champion. A rising star in the British triathlon set-up, the 21-year-old [...]
Premier League operating profit hits five-year high as PSR bites

June 12, 2025

Premier League clubs recorded their highest collective operating profit since 2019 last year as controversial PSR regulations enforced a greater emphasis on balancing the books. Aggregate operating profits among the 20 teams in the top division increased by 36 per cent to £533m in 2023-24, according to Deloitte’s latest Annual Review of Football Finance published [...]
Anthony Joshua will probably retire next year, says Eddie Hearn

June 11, 2025

Anthony Joshua is likely to retire next year after three more fights, ideally including a double bill with Tyson Fury, says his promoter Eddie Hearn. The two-time world heavyweight champion is still planning his next move, having not fought since a damaging knockout defeat by fellow Briton Daniel Dubois nine months ago. A long-awaited showdown [...]
Channel 4 bets on U21 Euros to drag younger viewers back to TV

June 11, 2025

Channel 4 head of sport Pete Andrews on the broadcaster’s rights strategy, punching above their weight and why they’re showing England at the U21 Euros. If you’ve watched an England team win a men’s international football tournament then it was probably on Channel 4. When Lee Carsley’s Under-21 side reached the final of the age-group [...]
Exclusive: R360 rugby breakaway will have a player draft and be free-to-air

June 11, 2025

The R360 global rugby breakaway plans to be broadcast free-to-air, beginning with a draft of big-name male and female players where club owners are mic’d up, City AM has learned. The franchise-based project is slated to launch next year and – if successful – promises to fix the loss-making club game and change the face [...]
Ball in Chancellor’s court as LTA waits on support for covered courts project

June 10, 2025

While grass court season unfolds, Britain’s tennis chiefs at the LTA have another project on their hands: unlocking government funding to build the covered courts the country lacks. As the eyes of the tennis world turn towards London, hopes are understandably high for the home contingent at Queen’s Club and Wimbledon. Jack Draper has broken [...]
BHA cyber attack: British Horseracing Authority forced to close office

June 10, 2025

The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) insists that the UK’s schedule of meets will not be affected after hackers launched a cyber attack on the sport’s governing body. BHA staff have been asked to work from home or remotely after the attack forced the organisation to temporarily shut its London head office, according to reports. It [...]
Club World Cup tickets: Chelsea fans say Fifa shot themselves in foot

June 10, 2025

Will the first expanded Club World Cup be a success or did Fifa bungle the ticket sales irreparably? City AM asked two Chelsea fans who are spending thousands to attend. For lifelong Chelsea fan John Hand, 62, a trip to the Club World Cup has been several years in the making. “When we won the [...]

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