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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‘It’s good vibes’: How Patty Tavatanakitgot her groove back

October 30, 2024

Teenage sensation turned major winner and star of Asian golf, Patty Tavatanakit reflects on rediscovering top form and returning to Riyadh this week for the Aramco Team Series. Golf always seemed to come easy to Patty Tavatanakit. She started playing in her native Thailand aged eight after being inspired by Tiger Woods and, after her [...]
Haka ‘ridiculous and needs binning’, England star taunts All Blacks

October 30, 2024

England rugby star Joe Marler has inflamed tensions ahead of their clash with New Zealand on Saturday by branding the haka “ridiculous” and saying that the All Blacks’ traditional pre-match dance “needs binning”. Harlequins prop Marler, 34, made the comments on social media just days before the teams meet in Twickenham this weekend and deactivated [...]
Manchester United ready to pay £8m for new manager, say his club

October 29, 2024

Manchester United have moved a step closer to appointing Ruben Amorim as their new manager after Sporting Lisbon confirmed the Premier League club had made an approach for the 39-year-old. The Portuguese champions issued a statement to the stock market on Tuesday announcing that United had made contact with a view to paying Amorim’s £8.3m [...]
Football regulator boss should come from the Square Mile, says Crouch

October 29, 2024

Former sports minister Tracey Crouch says the incoming football regulator should be run by someone with a background in the City. Crouch has done more than anyone to give rise to the regulator by making it a key recommendation in her fan-led review of football governance. A revised bill laying out the watchdog’s proposed powers [...]
Spotlight falls on Ratcliffe and Ineos after sacking useful shield Ten Hag

October 28, 2024

It might have taken a year of seemingly interminable negotiations, but buying into Manchester United was the easy bit for Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Ineos. Now, following the sacking of Erik ten Hag, comes the difficult bit. Ratcliffe and Ineos, who took over football operations from the Glazer family as part of their minority investment [...]
Man Utd name interim manager after sacking Erik ten Hag

October 28, 2024

Manchester United have sacked manager Erik ten Hag after Sunday’s defeat at West Ham United compounded their worst ever start to a Premier League season. The decision comes less than four months after United handed Ten Hag a new contract, despite sounding out potential replacements during the summer. Ruud van Nistelrooy, the former United striker [...]
Red Bull chief warns that F1 is ‘flipping overtaking laws upside down’

October 28, 2024

Verstappen’s bid for a fourth successive drivers’ championship suffered another blow on Sunday.
Arteta claims Arsenal deserved all three points after Liverpool draw

October 27, 2024

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta insisted his team had deserved all three points after a 2-2 draw with Liverpool that denied the visitors a return to the top of the Premier League. Twice the hosts went in front, through Bukayo Saka and Mikel Merino, but twice Liverpool fought back, with goals from Virgil van Dijk and [...]
Ten Hag blames soft penalty as Man United fall to 14th in Premier League

October 27, 2024

Erik ten Hag blamed a soft penalty decision after a late 2-1 defeat at West Ham left his Manchester United team 14th in the Premier League. Jarrod Bowen’s injury-time spot-kick decided the game after a lengthy VAR check for a collision between United defender Matthijs de Ligt and Hammers forward Danny Ings. The result heaps [...]
Stokes needs love from England after Pakistan, says McCullum

October 27, 2024

England head coach Brendon McCullum has urged the team to “wrap our arms around” Test captain Ben Stokes following defeat to Pakistan. Since a 3-0 whitewash of the West Indies in July, Stokes has experienced arguably his most challenging spell as skipper. He suffered a badly torn hamstring during a rare outing in The Hundred, [...]

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