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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Arsenal 2, Basel 0: Boom boom! Basel brushed aside by Arsenal and two-goal fox in the box Theo Walcott

September 28, 2016

Arsenal 2, Basel 0 Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger tipped Theo Walcott for an England recall after the revitalised forward took his tally to four goals in three games in a comfortable victory over Basel. Walcott headed the opener and swept home a second as the rampant Gunners earned their first Champions League win of the season to sit [...]
Phil Mickelson: US Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III has teed us up perfectly to beat Europe

September 28, 2016

Five-time Major winner Phil Mickelson believes captain Davis Love III has given the United States team the perfect platform to end Europe’s stranglehold on the Ryder Cup this week. Mickelson was highly critical of previous skipper Tom Watson after the 2014 defeat at Gleneagles, complaints which resulted in the formation of a committee tasked with [...]
Jacksonville Jaguars: London’s unofficial NFL franchise, their plans to put down roots in the capital, and the threat Tottenham Hotspur pose to their British affair

September 28, 2016

More than three years have passed since Mohamed Al Fayed, in a fitting coda to his eccentric reign, donned an oversized fake moustache and faced the cameras with Shahid Khan to mark the bewhiskered American sports mogul’s takeover of Fulham Football Club. It marked the second play of Pakistan-born, Florida-based Khan’s incursion into the capital’s [...]
Gone in 67 days: Football Association make Sam Allardyce’s reign shortest in national team history over “significant error of judgement”

September 27, 2016

Crestfallen Sam Allardyce has admitted his disappointment after the Football Association ended his 67-day tenure over what it called “a significant error of judgement”. Allardyce was forced to apologise after he was secretly filmed discussing how to break rules on third-party ownership of players and making disparaging comments about his predecessor Roy Hodgson, former assistant coach Gary Neville, [...]
Chris Froome admits TUE rules are open to abuse and says riders must avoid ‘win at all costs’ approach

September 27, 2016

Tour de France champion Chris Froome insists that it is the responsibility of riders themselves to ensure they are not bending rules on controversial therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs). Questions have been posed to Sir Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky after it emerged that he was granted a TUE for strong medication shortly before his historic [...]
Sir Dave Brailsford defends Team Sky and Sir Bradley Wiggins over Therapeutic Use Exemption controversy

September 26, 2016

Team Sky boss Sir Dave Brailsford insists they and rider Sir Bradley Wiggins have done nothing wrong amid the controversy over Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs). Wiggins has said that a TUE which allowed him to take a powerful steroid days before his successful 2012 Tour de France campaign was a legitimate measure to combat an [...]
Golf salutes its pioneering king Arnold Palmer after he dies, aged 87

September 26, 2016

Former world No1 Tiger Woods led the tributes to Arnold Palmer on Monday after one of golf’s most popular, successful and influential figures died aged 87. Palmer, who won seven Major championships and became one of the faces of the sport’s burgeoning popularity during the 1960s, passed away in a Pittsburgh hospital where he was [...]
Rory McIlroy: FedEx Cup triumph marks accomplishment of long-standing career goal

September 26, 2016

World No3 Rory McIlroy insists he ticked off another career goal by scooping the $10m FedEx Cup with his dramatic victory at the Tour Championship on Sunday night. McIlroy beat Americans Ryan Moore and Kevin Chappell in a play-off to win at East Lake – a result that saw him overtake Dustin Johnson at the [...]
Dele Alli praises Heung-Min Son after Korean’s double lifts Tottenham to second in Premier League

September 25, 2016

Tottenham midfielder Dele Alli has hailed Heung-Min Son’s start to the season after the South Korea forward struck his second brace in three Premier League games to sink Middlesbrough 2-1 on Saturday. Son almost left Spurs in the summer after a patchy first campaign in north London but has helped the club to second in [...]
Branislav Ivanovic calls on Chelsea players to stick together following consecutive league defeats

September 25, 2016

Defender Branislav Ivanovic has urged the Chelsea squad to stick together after their early-season wobble continued with Saturday’s 3-0 defeat at Arsenal. The result condemned the Blues to consecutive Premier League losses, following last week’s 2-1 reverse at home to Liverpool, and came after a midweek EFL Cup scare at Leicester. “I know it’s very [...]

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