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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Record six-year Lancaster contract is entirely right, insist rugby chiefs

October 1, 2014

ENGLAND rugby chiefs have defended the decision to hand head coach Stuart Lancaster and his staff bumper new contracts lasting for two World Cups and into the next decade. The deals until 2020 indicate that Lancaster and assistants Graham Rowntree, Mike Catt and Andy Farrell are likely to keep their jobs regardless of how England [...]
Rio’s blast at England policy

October 1, 2014

FORMER England captain Rio Ferdinand has criticised national team bosses for treating players “like babies” at major international tournaments. QPR defender Ferdinand compares England’s policy unfavourably with that of Holland, whose players were allowed to go to bars during the World Cup in Brazil this summer, yet reached the semi-finals. “Our players are treated like [...]
Champions League: Milner laments dropped points as City fail to fire in Europe again

September 30, 2014

MANCHESTER CITY 1 AS ROMA 1 MANCHESTER City midfielder James Milner rued two points dropped after England’s champions were left fighting for their European survival by a hard-fought draw at home to Italy’s pace-setters Roma. City looked to have conjured the perfect response to defeat in their Champions League group opener at Bayern Munich when [...]
Wenger seeks winning formula as reign enters nineteenth year

September 30, 2014

ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger has challenged his team to get their Champions League campaign back on track by rediscovering the winning habit at home to Galatasaray tonight. The Gunners lie bottom of Group D having lost their opening fixture at Borussia Dortmund – part of a stuttering start to the season in which they have [...]
Corbisiero out until next year

September 30, 2014

ENGLAND coach Stuart Lancaster’s autumn international selection worries are mounting after Northampton Saints prop Alex Corbisiero was ruled out until next year with a shoulder injury. Lancaster is now set to be without four regular front-row forwards for the November schedule, having already lost Saracens’ Mako Vunipola and Leicester Tigers pair Tom Youngs and Dan [...]
Hart rejects lure of Italy and vows to fight on

September 29, 2014

MANCHESTER City goalkeeper Joe Hart has praised former team-mates Ashley Cole and Micah Richards for embracing moves to Italy but insists he is not ready to follow suit, despite facing a renewed fight for his place. Hart’s former England colleague Cole is part of the in-form Roma team facing City in tonight’s Champions League clash, [...]
Feud won’t hit Clarke hopes, insists skipper

September 29, 2014

VICTORIOUS Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley insists ill-feeling between him and would-be successor Darren Clarke will not affect his input into who should skipper Europe’s title defence in 2016. McGinley, who masterminded an emphatic defeat of the United States on Sunday at Gleneagles, is part of a five-man panel tasked with choosing his successor for [...]
Scrap B teams, fans urge Dyke

September 29, 2014

LEADING football fans’ groups have stressed their opposition to Greg Dyke’s proposals for a league composed of big clubs’ B teams in face-to-face talks with the Football Association chairman. The Football Supporters’ Federation and Supporters Direct also rejected Dyke’s commission’s suggestion of strategic loan partnerships as “feeder clubs by the back door”. A joint statement [...]
Chelsea mull relocating to Twickenham

September 28, 2014

CHELSEA have held exploratory talks over a temporary move to Twickenham as the Premier League leaders look to expand the capacity of Stamford Bridge, the Rugby Football Union has confirmed. The Blues revealed their intention to overhaul their 41,837-capacity ground earlier this year, having been frustrated in attempts to relocate to a new stadium at [...]
Arsenal’s pivotal week hit by injuries to Ramsey and Arteta

September 28, 2014

ARSENAL boss Arsene Wenger admits he is sweating over a deepening injury crisis as his team prepare for a potentially pivotal week in which they face Galatasaray and Chelsea. Wenger saw Aaron Ramsey and Mikel Arteta limp off in Saturday’s 1-1 draw against neighbours Tottenham, while fellow midfielder Jack Wilshere also needed lengthy treatment after [...]

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