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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Man Utd 1-1 Liverpool: Five things we learned as the leaders stumbled

October 20, 2019

It would be a stretch to call this a slip for Liverpool, yet it was a stumble of sorts in their quest to become champions of England for the first time in 30 years. Instead of equalling Manchester City’s record of 18 consecutive Premier League wins, they had to battle back from Marcus Rashford’s opener [...]
Player ratings: Raheem Sterling and Ross Barkley shine for England in Bulgaria

October 14, 2019

England thrashed Bulgaria 6-0 in Sofia tonight in a Euro 2020 qualifying match overshadowed by persistent racist abuse from the stands. Here is how the visitors rated on a dark night for European football. Jordan Pickford: 6 Saved what came his way, which was very little in an embarrassingly one-sided match. Some wayward kicking. Kieran [...]
England have a midfield quandary but the system needs fine-tuning, not dismantling

October 13, 2019

Overreaction clings to international football, where the relative infrequency of fixtures lends absurd weight to every result. So it was inevitable that England’s flat performance and surprise defeat in Friday’s European Championship qualifying match against the Czech Republic prompted not only justifiable soul searching about the team’s level but also some wild calls to abandon [...]
European football chiefs quick to co-opt ‘the dream’ in fight for future of Champions League

October 8, 2019

They may be on opposite sides of a bitter dispute over the future of European football but they both came to defend “the dream”, that somewhat nebulous but impossible-to-oppose tenet of sporting competition. Andrea Agnelli, the latest figurehead of a dynasty that has owned Juventus for nearly a century and the chairman of the European [...]
Ian Poulter interview: Englishman confident the Italian Open can spark a strong end to the season

October 7, 2019

Ian Poulter does not have to look far for inspiration as he aims to launch a late-season charge at the Italian Open. The English Ryder Cup hero, 43, won his first European Tour title at the event in 2000 and two years later repeated the feat at Olgiata, near Rome – where he returns this [...]
Crystal Palace hawked for sale in £210m deal

October 1, 2019

Crystal Palace are being hawked to prospective buyers in a deal which would value the Premier League football club at £210m. A document circulating among bankers and seen by City A.M. offers to facilitate the purchase of at least 75 per cent and up to 90 per cent for either a single buyer or a [...]
Interview: City Football Group marketing chief Nuria Tarre on innovating at Manchester City and the future of the sports industry

September 29, 2019

“My ultimate objective – day-to-day, the reason I wake up and enjoy doing the work that I do – is because I truly think we want to be there for the fans in an authentic way,” says Nuria Tarre, chief marketing officer of City Football Group. Since joining CFG in 2015 from her role running [...]
Did Manchester United and Arsenal break each other last season?

September 29, 2019

It was Arsenal who broke Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s Manchester United towards the end of last season, or so the theory goes. United arrived at Emirates Stadium on 10 March at the height of Solskjaer’s reign, just days after their improbable Champions League comeback at Paris Saint-Germain – their 14th win from 17 games under the [...]
Premier League round-up: Heady Hammers; United striker light; Aubameyang saves Emery’s skin – again; and Howe’s Fab Four

September 22, 2019

After an inauspicious start to the season, these are heady times at West Ham. Unbeaten in six games, no goals conceded in their last four and yesterday a win over Manchester United, thanks to goals from Andriy Yarmolenko and Aaron Cresswell. The fixture list has not been the most daunting – United were the first [...]
Eintracht Frankfurt 0-3 Arsenal: Young guns paper over the cracks

September 19, 2019

Crisis averted – for now, at least. Following the damaging collapse at Watford on Sunday, Arsenal and Unai Emery could hardly have asked for a better start to their Europa League campaign than a three-goal win at last year’s semi-finalists. Throw in exciting displays from youngsters Bukayo Saka and Joe Willock, who both scored, Pierre-Emerick [...]

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