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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Michael Johnson refuses to give up on Grand Slam Track despite bankruptcy

December 12, 2025

Michael Johnson insists he won’t give up on Grand Slam Track despite filing for bankruptcy after creditors who are owed millions of dollars rejected an offer of 50 per cent payment. Big-name athletes who took part in the series, such as Britain’s Zharnel Hughes and Matt Hudson-Smith, have been paid only half of their contracted [...]
Everton’s Hill Dickinson Stadium Beats Fulham’s Riverside Stand to top award

December 11, 2025

Everton FC’s Hill Dickinson Stadium has beaten Fulham’s Riverside Stand, Sevilla’s La Cartuja and arenas in Sweden, Hong Kong, Japan and Morocco to a major international award. The 53,000-seater stadium in Liverpool’s Bramley Moore Dock opened its doors earlier this year and has quickly become one of the country’s top sports venues. It was named [...]
Mondo Duplantis: Pole vault star driving Bolt-like interest in athletics tickets

December 11, 2025

Pole vault superstar Mondo Duplantis is driving levels of demand for track and field tickets not seen since Usain Bolt, says UK Athletics. The national governing body says sales of seats at next summer’s London Athletics Meet increased by more than 1,000 per cent after it was announced last week that Duplantis would be competing. [...]
Salah offered Liverpool escape route as Saudi Pro League chief talks up interest

December 10, 2025

The Saudi Pro League would welcome Mohamed Salah if his bust-up with Liverpool results in him leaving Anfield, the competition’s chief executive has said. Salah was dropped from the Reds’ squad for their Champions League fixture with Inter Milan this week after his bombshell claim that the club had “thrown him under the bus”. “Mohamed [...]
ITV to show England’s 2026 World Cup opener, BBC bets on knockout rounds

December 10, 2025

ITV will show England’s opening match of the 2026 World Cup against Croatia after it and the BBC confirmed their allocations for the tournament. All 104 matches will be broadcast on free-to-air television in the UK, with the BBC and ITV sharing the fixtures and both showing the final on 19 July. While ITV has [...]
‘Luke Littler is the Tiger Woods of darts. He’s made the sport aspirational’

December 10, 2025

When Target Darts, which supplies and now manages Luke Littler, decided to test the sport’s popularity with younger audiences by exhibiting at the London Toy Fair for the first time earlier this year, the company hit a bullseye. “We made quite a bit of noise,” Target group CEO James Tattersall tells City AM. “We put [...]
English football clubs facing financial distress drops by 50 per cent

December 10, 2025

The financial health of English football appears to be improving, with the number of clubs in the EFL deemed to be facing distress halving since last year. Only three of the 72 teams in the English Football League, which comprises the three professional divisions below the Premier League, meet that bar, according to an annual [...]
Paul Pogba announces move into camel racing with Saudi team Al Haboob

December 10, 2025

World Cup-winning former Manchester United footballer Paul Pogba has become an investor in the world’s first pro camel racing team, Saudi Arabia-based Al Haboob. Pogba, who now plays for Monaco after returning from a ban for anti-doping breaches, has also been named an ambassador for the team, which competes across the Middle East. “I’ve watched [...]
Verstappen future in doubt as Red Bull rocked by third key departure in a year

December 9, 2025

Red Bull Racing have been rocked by the departure of Helmut Marko, the man credited with turning them into Formula 1’s most dominant team, after 26 years with the organisation. Marko is the third pivotal figure in the team’s F1 success to leave in the last year, following design guru Adrian Newey and team principal [...]
Pro Climbing League names London first venue for new bouldering tour

December 9, 2025

London is the first venue to be announced for the new Pro Climbing League, with Team GB’s Olympic champion Toby Roberts among those set to compete. The indoor bouldering competition is to be held at Greenwich venue Magazine London on 28 February and feature 16 of the world’s leading climbers, including Paris 2024 gold medal [...]

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