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 boss Arsene Wenger tips Takuma Asano for stardom after clinching deal for Japan striker

July 3, 2016

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has tipped Japan striker Takuma Asano as a star of the future after the Gunners agreed a deal for the 21-year-old. Asano is set to join from Sanfrecce Hiroshima, subject to receiving a work permit, where he scored 11 goals in 56 appearances and was in 2015 voted the J-League’s Rookie of [...]
Horse racing betting: Rainfall means Time faces his biggest Test yet

June 30, 2016

All eyes are once again on the weather ahead of Saturday's Coral Eclipse (3.45pm), the most valuable race run in Sandown’s 130-year history. Aidan O’Brien’s French Guineas winner The Gurkha is as short as evens with Betway for the £525,000 Group One with rain-softened ground unlikely to harm his chances. Investec Derby disappointment Deauville and [...]
Horse racing betting: Duretto can land Old Newton Cup for in-form Balding

June 30, 2016

Trying to find the winner of Saturday's Old Newton Cup (2.50pm) at Haydock is a pretty unenviable task, particularly now the rain has arrived. The Lancashire track was hit by 17mm on Wednesday and, with more forecast, the ground will ride soft. Andrew Balding’s DURETTO, available at a best-priced 5/1, has proved himself over the trip and on [...]
Football betting: Germany face their fears as they attempt Italian job

June 30, 2016

It's almost bizarre to think of Germany having a bogey team. But, in Italy, they have one. In eight tournament matches against their rivals, the Germans have never come out on top, being knocked out of the 1970, 1982 and 2006 World Cups, and losing the Euro 2012 semi-final to the Italians. They have a chance [...]
Football betting: Chris Coleman’s Wales to bow out against Belgium but back Gareth Bale

June 30, 2016

Wales readies itself for the biggest match in the country’s recent footballing history on Friday, when the Dragons will face Belgium in the Euro 2016 quarter-final. Chris Coleman’s men have surpassed what even the most optimistic Wales fan would have thought possible, topping a group containing England and beating Northern Ireland to be within a [...]
Football betting: Hazard could give Wales a moule-ing on way to Golden Boot

June 29, 2016

Chelsea fans must be wondering which version of Eden Hazard will return to their club for the next Premier League campaign. He had a forgettable season but, going into Friday's Euro 2016 quarter-final against Wales, he’s finally showing the form that won him PFA Player of the Season for the 2014/15 campaign. It’s bad timing for [...]
Football betting: Portugal to win with Ronaldo and Lewandowski poles apart

June 29, 2016

Euro 2016’s first quarter-final takes place in Marseille on Thursday as Poland take on Portugal. Both sides have flattered to deceive so far in France, but one of them will be lining up as semi-finalists in a few days’ time. Portugal, spearheaded by Cristiano Ronaldo, are yet to actually win a game in normal time at the [...]
“Golfers dream of Green Jackets and Claret Jugs – not Olympics”: Rory McIlroy defends Rio withdrawals

June 29, 2016

World No4 Rory McIlroy has conceded that the insufficient allure of a gold medal played a part in his decision to withdraw from contention for this summer’s crisis-hit Olympics in Rio. McIlroy cited concerns over the Zika virus when he announced last week that he would not, as previously indicated, be representing Ireland at the Games [...]
“Why would anybody want it?”: Chairman Greg Dyke admits FA faces battle to attract top managers

June 29, 2016

Football Association chairman Greg Dyke has admitted the organisation faces a battle to convince top managers to take the England job. The FA has begun the search for a replacement for Roy Hodgson, whose underwhelming four-year tenure was brought to an abrupt end by Monday’s humiliating Euro 2016 elimination by Iceland. England Under-21 boss Gareth [...]
We beat you before and we’re even better now, Gareth Bale tells Wales’s Euro 2016 opponents Belgium

June 29, 2016

Talisman Gareth Bale has warned Belgium that Wales have evolved into an even better team than the one that beat the feted Red Devils during qualifying for Euro 2016. The teams meet in Friday’s quarter-final in Lille, a rematch of last June’s fixture at Cardiff City Stadium, in which Bale’s 25th-minute goal sank Belgium and [...]

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