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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Olympiacos 2-2 Tottenham: Spurs stuck in limbo after slipping up in Greece

September 18, 2019

Champions League hangover or the lingering effects of a summer of uncertainty? Whatever the cause, Tottenham remain a team in limbo, seemingly determined to take one step back for every stride forward. In their opening European fixture at Olympiacos on Wednesday night Spurs contrived to secure a third 2-2 draw from as many away games [...]
Watford 2-2 Arsenal: Five things we learned as Sanchez Flores enjoys bounce

September 15, 2019

New manager bounce is not reserved for brand new managers, as Quique Sanchez Flores proved on Sunday when his second spell at Watford began with a rousing come-from-behind draw with Arsenal. Trailing 2-0 against the run of play after two Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang goals in the first 32 minutes, it looked like being a bittersweet return [...]
Norwich win over Man City highlighted all that’s exciting about new season

September 15, 2019

There is an invigorating unfamiliarity to the new Premier League season, with some eye-catching displays from the promoted teams introducing a new cast of exciting players and, most surprisingly of all, a feeble start to their title defence from Manchester City. Norwich City’s improbable 3-2 victory over City on Saturday evening wrapped all of those [...]
Raheem Sterling hits new heights and shows why sponsors are in hot pursuit

September 11, 2019

Last month it emerged that Raheem Sterling was being courted by Air Jordan, the Nike sub-brand reported to be considering making him the face of a new range of football boots in a £100m deal. If anyone was in any doubt why Sterling is in line for one of the sport’s most lucrative ever boot [...]
Why England should beware in-form Kosovo in Euro 2020 qualifier

September 9, 2019

England play Kosovo for the first time on Tuesday as both sides attempt to take another step towards qualifying for next summer’s European Championship. Here’s the lowdown on the opposition. Kosovo are ranked below Tajikistan, so this should be easy, right? England will be expected to maintain their 100 per cent start to Group A, [...]
Jadon Sancho can relieve England’s reliance on Raheem Sterling if given chance ahead of Marcus Rashford

September 8, 2019

It sounds pernickety to demand more from a football team that has just won 4-0, taking their record in the current competition to: played three; won three; goals for: 14; goals against: one. But such is the nature of major tournament qualifying matches that England did not need to conjure an abundance of chances to [...]
Home affairs: All five British Isles teams can still reach Euro 2020 and lend tournament a distinctly British flavour

September 5, 2019

For a tournament that is supposed to be pan-continental there is already a distinctly British flavour to next summer’s European Championship. Of 51 matches, 10 will be staged in London or Glasgow, with Wembley hosting both semi-finals and the final. But the Britishness could yet go up several notches, with all five British Isles teams [...]
Arsenal 2-2 Tottenham: Honours even as Eriksen shines in frenetic north London derby

September 1, 2019

This was a result that both teams would probably have taken beforehand but truly satisfied no one – except perhaps the neutrals, who were treated to an early contender for most breathless, frenetic and combustible Premier League match of the season. Arsenal would have settled for a point and improvements in all departments on last [...]
Return to Anfield, scene of harrowing recent defeats, offers early test of Arsenal’s putative revival

August 22, 2019

If any fixture can puncture the fragile early-season optimism that has broken out at Arsenal then it is surely the prospect of a 200-mile journey north to face Liverpool. Saturday’s trip to Anfield promises to be a reminder of harrowing experiences for the Gunners in recent seasons, with the manner of their defeats even more [...]
Clear and obvious cases of misplaced outrage as VAR and new handball rule deny Manchester City against Tottenham

August 18, 2019

Another weekend of Premier League football, another batch of outrage at the correct implementation of new rules. This time at Manchester City, where Gabriel Jesus’s stoppage-time would-be winner was disallowed after consultation with the video assistant referee. Jesus’s strike was chalked off because it hit City defender Aymeric Laporte’s arm on its way to the [...]

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