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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Tottenham 0, Crystal Palace 1: Alan Pardew backs Wilfried Zaha for a place in England’s Euro 2016 squad after Eagles dump Spurs out of FA Cup

February 21, 2016

Tottenham Hotspur 0, Crystal Palace 1 Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew tipped winger Wilfried Zaha for England’s Euro 2016 squad after they inflicted Tottenham’s first defeat in nine games in the FA Cup on Sunday. Zaha teed up right-back Martin Kelly for the game’s only goal in first-half stoppage time as the Eagles set up a quarter-final [...]
Blackburn 1, West Ham 5: Dimitri Payet compared to Luka Modric as Hammers crush Rovers to set up possible FA Cup clash with Manchester United

February 21, 2016

Blackburn Rovers 1, West Ham United 5 West Ham manager Slaven Bilic compared Dimitri Payet to Real Madrid star Luka Modric after the playmaker inspired a five-goal drubbing of Blackburn to send the Hammers into the FA Cup quarter-finals on Sunday. Championship side Rovers took a shock lead through right-back Ben Marshall but winger Victor [...]
South Africa thrash England to complete series win but Eoin Morgan insists his men can still win World Twenty20

February 21, 2016

England captain Eoin Morgan insists his team can win next month’s World Twenty20 despite suffering an emphatic nine-wicket loss to seal a 2-0 series defeat in South Africa on Sunday. Proteas skipper AB de Villiers plundered 71 off 29 balls and fellow opener Hashim Amla 69 off 38 as the hosts raced to their target [...]
Racing betting: Trust Rigadin De Beauchene back at his beloved Haydock

February 18, 2016

Ground conditions are sure to be testing at Haydock on Saturday for their Grand National Trial (2.40pm) where the ability to stay and handle heavy ground will be imperative. Market leaders Mountainous and Cloudy Too have both shown their love for quagmire-like conditions by winning the Welsh National and Peter Marsh Chase respectively on bottomless [...]
Racing betting: Flemenstar has the class to take Ascot Chase

February 18, 2016

Saturday's Ascot Chase (3.35pm) has been won by some top class chasers over the years, including Kauto Star back in 2008. It’s a Grade One event, but this year’s renewal doesn’t look the strongest on paper. Silviniaco Conti would have been a very short price if we turned the clock back 12 months, but he [...]
Football betting: Chelsea cup win a priority against under-strength Manchester City

February 18, 2016

It might be over-selling things to say that Chelsea’s season rests on Sunday’s FA Cup fifth round match against Manchester City, but it means a lot more than it would in any other year. Premier League failings and Champions League struggles means the most realistic chance of silverware for the Blues this term comes in the [...]
Football betting: up-for-the-FA Cup West Ham fancied to run riot against Blackburn

February 18, 2016

West Ham boss Slaven Bilic never won the FA Cup as a player, but he’s got it firmly in his sights as a manager. The Hammers overcame Liverpool in the last round after Angelo Ogbonna’s 120th-minute winner, and Bilic has said he’d rather win the cup than qualify for the Champions League. Standing in his [...]
Cricket spot-fixer Mervyn Westfield admits he is “a bit rusty” as former Essex bowler wins appeal to be allowed to return to professional game a year early

February 18, 2016

Jailed fixer Mervyn Westfield has been granted permission to return to professional cricket this season despite having a year still to serve on a five-year ban from the game. Former Essex bowler Westfield will be permitted to be play for a county’s second XI or for minor counties following a ruling by an England and [...]
Gareth Bale’s Real Madrid transfer faces European probe after British MEP Daniel Dalton demands investigation into possible use of taxpayers’ money in world record £86m transfer

February 18, 2016

Real Madrid’s world record £86m signing of Gareth Bale from Tottenham could come under investigation from the European Commission after concerns were raised over the role of bailed-out Spanish banks. Conservative Daniel Dalton and two fellow MEPs have formally asked the Commission to probe the 2013 deal in light of leaked documents purporting to relate [...]
Turning FA Cup into a midweek competition is an experiment worth trying for sake of the England team – and it might help out clubs in Europe too

February 16, 2016

There is no doubt in my mind that the FA Cup would suffer if mooted plans to move all ties to midweek and scrap replays in order to make room for a winter break do come to be implemented. Saturday afternoon FA Cup matches are still something special and doing away with them would risk [...]

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