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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Bale a doubt as prolific Real head to Anfield

October 20, 2014

REAL Madrid could be without Gareth Bale for tomorrow’s Champions League trip to Liverpool after confirming that the world’s most expensive player has a muscular injury. The European champions left the former Tottenham winger out of the side for Saturday’s victory over Levante and revealed yesterday that the 25-year-old has an abdominal problem. Real face [...]
Arsenal CEO Ivan Gazidis supports Premier League overseas talks

October 16, 2014

Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis has welcomed the Premier League’s renewed consideration of controversial plans to take competitive matches between England’s top football teams overseas. Leading clubs are once again exploring the possibility of international expansion, having been encouraged by the league’s ever-increasing global popularity and the successful transplanting to London of American basketball and [...]
Nadal appendix concerns raise hopes of Murray O2 appearance

October 15, 2014

BRITISH No1 Andy Murray’s hopes of playing in next month’s ATP World Tour Finals in London could be set for a major boost amid increasing uncertainty over the participation of injured Rafael Nadal. Nadal’s camp was yesterday forced to deny reports in his native Spain that the world No3 had already made up his mind [...]
MP asks clubs to cut ticket prices

October 15, 2014

SPORTS minister Helen Grant has warned England’s football clubs not to take their supporters’ loyalty for granted following evidence of the growing cost of attending matches. The average price of the cheapest tickets at league clubs has risen 4.4 per cent this year – more than three times the rate of inflation – to £21.49, [...]
Angry Marussia rubbish Bianchi speeding claims

October 15, 2014

FORMULA One team Marussia have angrily denied suggestions that driver Jules Bianchi was asked to bend rules and speed up just before his crash at the Japanese Grand Prix earlier this month. Bianchi, 24, remains in critical condition with severe head injuries almost two weeks after his car ploughed into a trackside recovery vehicle at [...]
Steenkamps decline to testify at Oscar hearing

October 15, 2014

THE PARENTS of Reeva Steenkamp have declined to testify against Oscar Pistorius at the Paralympic star’s sentencing hearing for the fatal shooting of their daughter. Pistorius, 27, was back in court in Pretoria, South Africa, yesterday for the third day of the process, having been found guilty last month of culpable homicide. Lawyers for the [...]
McDowell defeats in-form Levy in winning start to title defence

October 15, 2014

DEFENDING champion Graeme McDowell made a winning start to his World Match Play title defence yesterday by beating Alexander Levy at the London Club in Kent. The Northern Irishman beat Frenchman Levy, who arrived fresh from his victory at the Portugal Masters on Sunday, 3&2 in the tournament’s opening clash. McDowell’s Ryder Cup team-mate Victor [...]
Platini’s historic accord inflicts major blow to FFP opponents

October 14, 2014

LEGAL challenges to football’s financial fair play rules have been dealt a “possibly fatal wound” after the European Commission yesterday signed an unprecedented cooperation agreement with governing body Uefa. The controversial regulations saw Premier League champions Manchester City fined £49m this year and have prompted outcry from some clubs, as well as two separate court [...]
Steenkamps called £20,000 Pistorius offer blood money

October 14, 2014

PARALYMPIC star Oscar Pistorius offered to pay his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp’s family more than £20,000 as compensation for killing her, a court heard yesterday in Pretoria, South Africa. The Steenkamps rejected the payment, calling it “blood money”, probation officer Annette Vergeer told a hearing to determine Pistorius’s sentence for culpable homicide. Vergeer added that Pistorius [...]
Debt on agenda as Man City and Euro elite mull changes to FFP

October 13, 2014

Europe’s top football clubs, including Premier League champions Manchester City, have held talks with governing body Uefa over a possible clampdown on debt levels. Such a move could prevent teams from accumulating large debts, as City’s neighbours and rivals Manchester United have, and was one of several changes to controversial financial fair play (FFP) rules [...]

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