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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Best of 2022: How Freed From Desire became an England football anthem

December 31, 2022

This piece, originally published during the World Cup earlier this year, charts how Gala’s Freed From Desire, a 90s dance hit about Buddhist philosophy, became the official goal music for the England team, via Irish football and the lower leagues. Lashed home by Harry Kane, dinked by Bukayo Saka or headed by Jude Bellingham, each [...]
Best of 2022: Claressa Shields v Savannah Marshall and the rise of women’s boxing

December 30, 2022

Women’s boxing enjoyed unprecedented prominence in 2022, not least when Britain’s Savannah Marshall and American Claressa Shields met in a blockbuster fight at the O2. This preview, originally published in October, set the scene for the biggest night of women’s boxing ever seen in the UK. The last time Savannah Marshall and Claressa Shields met [...]
Best of 2022: Greg Norman explains LIV Golf’s blueprint for transforming the sport

December 29, 2022

In this exclusive interview from June 2022, LIV Golf commissioner Greg Norman explains how the Saudi Arabia-backed big-money circuit plans to disrupt the sport and amplify the earning potential of the world’s top players. Greg Norman has conquered some of the world’s finest golf courses and forged a successful career as an entrepreneur but he [...]
Ring of steel: Wembley Stadium chiefs plan fencing to prevent Euro 2020 final repeat

December 29, 2022

Wembley Stadium bosses plan to erect a ring of steel around the venue in the hope that fences will prevent repeats of the crowd trouble at last year’s Euro 2020 final. The move was one of the recommendations of a report by Baroness Casey into the chaotic scenes, which marred England’s appearance in a first [...]
Liverpool kick off January transfer window with £37m signing of Cody Gakpo

December 29, 2022

Liverpool have fired the starting pistol on an intriguing January transfer window by confirming the £37m signing of Netherlands forward Cody Gakpo. The Reds beat rivals Manchester United to Gakpo, who arrives on a five-and-a-half year contract from his boyhood club PSV Eindhoven. “There is a lot to like about Cody,” said Liverpool manager Jurgen [...]
Leeds United owner Radrizzani confirms plans to sell Premier League club

December 28, 2022

Leeds United owner Andrea Radrizzani has confirmed that he intends to sell the Premier League football club in the near future. US investment group 49ers Enterprises has been tipped to make it minority shareholding a majority one at the end of the current season. “Perhaps Leeds can grow further, but in the future they will [...]
Best of 2022: Michael Doughty on quitting football to found ethical brand Hylo Athletics

December 26, 2022

In this interview first published in October 2022, former Premier League footballer Michael Doughty explains why he walked away from the game to set up sustainable sportswear brand Hylo Athletics. The longer that Michael Doughty’s playing career went on, the harder he found it to ignore the effects of climate change. “I saw way more [...]
Best of 2022: Sir Geoff Hurst: ‘My own memory could fade. You expect it to happen’

December 25, 2022

In this exclusive interview first published in July 2022, Sir Geoff Hurst says seeing most of his 1966 World Cup winning team-mates suffer with dementia convinced him to preserve his memories in the form of a digital artwork and raise money for Alzheimer’s charities. Every morning Sir Geoff Hurst goes for an hour-long walk through [...]
World Cup hangover: Now Premier League is back, which clubs will be most affected?

December 24, 2022

As the Premier League prepares to resume, which clubs are likely to be most affected by fatigue and suffer a World Cup hangover? City A.M. crunches the numbers to find out. No sooner has the ticker tape been cleared from the field of the Lusail Stadium following the World Cup final than the Premier League [...]
Best of 2022: Brexit transfer shake-up not helping English players in Premier League

December 24, 2022

In this article from November 2022, Frank Dalleres reveals that tougher transfer market regulations following Brexit are not yet having any beneficial effect on the progress of English players in the Premier League. Brexit has drastically shrunk the pool of footballers available to English clubs without having any clear benefit to the prospects of homegrown [...]

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