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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Watford shed revolving-door policy and enjoy best ever start to a season

August 30, 2018

In among the multiple English champions in the early Premier League pace-setters, one place above last season’s runaway title-winners Manchester City, is an incongruous name: Watford. With three wins from three fixtures so far, the unfashionable Hornets are enjoying their best start to a top-flight season. Not since 1982-83, when a teenage John Barnes was [...]
Why are Premier League clubs being paid in Bitcoin for their commercial deals with trading platform eToro?

August 23, 2018

If 2018 has been the year of football dipping its toe into the world of cryptocurrency, then this week saw some teams go a little deeper into uncharted waters. On Tuesday, seven Premier League clubs including Tottenham and Crystal Palace announced that they had signed commercial partnerships with investment platform eToro. What made these deals [...]
Arsenal v West Ham: Old foes reunited as Unai Emery and Manuel Pellegrini meet again with new clubs

August 23, 2018

Familiarity will be in the air at Emirates Stadium on Saturday when West Ham visit Arsenal. Most eyes will be trained on Jack Wilshere, who is set to face the club at which he spent his formative footballing years for the first time since his summer switch from north to east London, while Spanish forward [...]
La Liga to play matches in the US: Why the Premier League will be watching Spanish football’s stateside experiment closely

August 22, 2018

The hackneyed joke about Spanish football’s top flight used to be that there was only one fixture worth watching: the bi-annual collision of domestic superpowers Real Madrid and Barcelona. La Liga’s announcement today that it is to stage matches in the United States has rubbished that notion further still – there will be no shortage of [...]
Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United future: Why former Chelsea manager could only ever be a short-term fix at Old Trafford

August 21, 2018

The twin tenets of Manchester United’s ethos are stated in black and white in their investor prospectus of summer 2014, issued when the Glazer family put shares up for sale on the New York Stock Exchange. Under a section highlighting the qualities that made then-manager Louis van Gaal an attractive hire, it notes that the [...]
Five things we learned from the Premier League weekend: Man City can do no wrong, Man Utd worries mount, don’t write off Chelsea, Spurs calm in storm and West Ham need support

August 19, 2018

No Kevin De Bruyne? No problem. Come to that, Manchester City also rested Raheem Sterling and Kyle Walker and used Leroy Sane sparingly against Huddersfield on Sunday. Ominously, the record-breaking Premier League champions still won 6-1. City can currently do no wrong; every tactical tweak made by Pep Guardiola pays off in spades. Here, it was [...]
Premier League overseas TV rights: English top flight makes concessions to Big Six but still treads carefully

June 7, 2018

You would be forgiven for missing it but, muffled somewhat by the noise surrounding Amazon’s purchase of a Premier League broadcast package and the news of chief executive Richard Scudamore’s imminent departure, today saw another significant announcement regarding English football’s top division. From the 2019-20 season, when the next set of broadcast contracts takes effect, [...]
Hold the praise for Sergio Ramos: our willingness to applaud the dark arts of football has gone too far

May 29, 2018

Football’s loose and ever-shifting moral code has been thrown under the spotlight by Real Madrid’s Champions League triumph over Liverpool, the injury to Mohamed Salah that changed the momentum of Saturday’s final, and the foul by Sergio Ramos that ended the Egyptian’s participation – and possibly his hopes of playing at the World Cup next [...]
Cliveden House review: Celebrate your last moments of childlessness with a luxury babymoon to this stately home

March 9, 2018

A babymoon may sound like a wheeze designed to milk that most susceptible of consumers, the prospective parent, but dismiss it at your peril: it’s a last chance to indulge your egocentric childless selves, so grab it with both hands. With that in mind, I whisked my better half to Cliveden House and Spa. Where: [...]
Arsenal players want Arsene Wenger to sign a new contract, insists Gunners striker Olivier Giroud

March 20, 2017

Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud has declared that he and his team-mates want Arsene Wenger to sign a new contract despite the team’s current alarming slump. Wenger’s future remains uncertain, with the Frenchman yet to reveal whether he intends to extend his 20-year stay in north London and club chiefs silent on an increasingly sensitive issue. [...]

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