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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Champions League: Chelsea boss Guus Hiddink warns Eden Hazard to forget possible Paris Saint-Germain move as teams prepare to meet again

February 15, 2016

Chelsea manager Guus Hiddink has urged Eden Hazard to forget any prospect of a big-money move to Paris Saint-Germain and focus on proving he is fit again by helping to halt the in-form French champions. Hazard appeared to give his suitors fresh hope when he said it would “difficult to say no to PSG” in a [...]
FA Cup final tickets to be cut by £5 each as Football Association responds to growing fan unrest at match-day costs

February 15, 2016

Football Association chiefs have cut ticket prices for this year’s FA Cup final and semi-finals amid supporter unrest at the growing cost of attending top-level matches. All tickets for the 21 May showpiece have been reduced by £5 while seats at the two semi-finals in April, which are also held at Wembley, have been cut [...]
Vaughn Taylor leaves a decade of choppy waters behind to finally catch wave of success again

February 15, 2016

A seismic week in the golfing world it may not have been, but it did throw up a lovely story of a player putting more than a decade of struggle on off the course behind him with a long overdue win. That man was Vaughn Taylor, a former world top 40 player around the time of [...]
Ronnie O’Sullivan deliberately avoids 147 break because £10,000 prize was “too cheap”

February 15, 2016

Maverick five-time world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan has admitted to sabotaging his own chance at making a maximum break of 147 because the £10,000 prize on offer was too low. O’Sullivan grinned as he opted for the pink, rather than an achievable black, off the penultimate red ball as he coasted to a first-round victory at the [...]
Arsenal 2-1 Leicester: Arsene Wenger hails Danny Welbeck return as super-sub strikes winner in title duel on comeback from 10-month injury lay-off

February 14, 2016

Arsenal 2-1 Leicester Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger toasted an 11th-hour decision to include fit-again Danny Welbeck after the striker climbed off the bench to head a stoppage-time winner against title rivals Leicester on Sunday. Welbeck marked his first appearance following a 10-month injury lay-off with his first Premier League goal since December 2014 after fellow sub [...]
Arsenal 2-1 Leicester: Proud Ranieri gives players a week off despite defeat in top-of-the-table clash

February 14, 2016

Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri has given his team a week’s holiday to recover from a morale-sapping blow to their hopes of completing a fairytale Premier League title triumph. A 2-1 defeat at rivals Arsenal cut their lead to just two points with 12 games remaining, as the Gunners and second-placed Tottenham stepped up their chase of [...]
Football betting: Table-topping Leicester to continue to surprise against Arsenal

February 11, 2016

Leicester have made a habit of proving people wrong this season. Going into last Saturday’s trip to Manchester City, there were plenty, myself included, who expected it to be the day the bubble would burst. What followed was one of the best Premier League away performances in memory, with a 3-1 win that puts them five [...]
Six Nations 2016 betting odds: England Rugby hoping to hammer Italy – but Rome wasn’t built in a day

February 11, 2016

England head to the Italian capital on Sunday looking to take a second step towards World Cup redemption. Their victory against Scotland last week under new coach Eddie Jones was a case of evolution rather than revolution. Getting the win at Murrayfield was paramount, and Jones made sure of it by only making minor personnel changes in [...]
Racing betting: Label Des Obeaux might just be a class above at Kempton

February 11, 2016

Trainer Alan King’s fine season can continue at Kempton on Friday when he saddles LABEL DES OBEAUX in the novices’ hurdle (1.35pm). The five-year-old found Grade One company a little too hot when finishing a well-beaten third to Barters Hill in the Challow Hurdle at Newbury over Christmas. He should prove very hard to beat now [...]
Racing betting: Red-hot Richard Johnson can land Betfair Hurdle for Philip Hobbs

February 11, 2016

The weather gods are unrelenting at the moment, yet fortunately Saturday's meeting at Newbury looks like going ahead. Betway Champion Chase hero Dodging Bullets makes his eagerly awaited reappearance in the Game Spirit (3.00pm). He’s easily the best in this line-up, hence Betway make him just 1/2, but the ground is going to be very [...]

Why HMRC is huge Premier League transfer window tax headache

Why HMRC is huge Premier League transfer window tax headache

A tribute to wine legend Matthew Jukes by his friend Libby Brodie

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