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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English sides are Euro champions at selling shirts

August 6, 2014

ENGLAND’S football team may have lagged behind their Continental rivals at the World Cup, but in the lucrative replica shirt market they are Europe’s undisputed superpower. Premier League clubs sold 5.1m shirts last season – more than those from the top divisions in Germany (2.3m), Italy (1.2m) and France (1.2m) combined, according to a report [...]
F1 chief pays £60m to end bribery trial

August 5, 2014

FORMULA One boss Bernie Ecclestone eliminated one of the obstacles to his continued running of the global motorsport series yesterday when he agreed to pay £60m to settle his bribery trial in Germany. The deal, which confers neither guilt nor innocence on Ecclestone and is based on a clause in German law, signalled an end [...]
Selfless Pooley tees up Armitstead for road gold

August 3, 2014

CYCLIST Lizzie Armitstead paid tribute to the heroic selflessness of England team-mate Emma Pooley after winning road race gold on the final day of the Commonwealth Games yesterday. Armitstead improved on her silver medals from Delhi four years ago and the London 2012 Olympics as England finished top of the medal table in Glasgow for [...]
Courtois ships two in first 45 minutes for Chelsea

August 3, 2014

Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois conceded two goals in 45 minutes as he made his long-awaited Chelsea debut. The Blues keeper played for the first half of a pre-season friendly which ended in a 3-0 defeat at Werder Bremen yesterday. Two contentious penalties, converted by Eljero Elia and Felix Kross, plus a glancing header from Ludovic Obraniak [...]
Hammers suffer third loss in four

August 3, 2014

WEST Ham’s troubled pre-season suffered another setback yesterday when they suffered their third loss in four games, a 2-0 defeat to Malaga in Germany. Goalkeeper Adrian saved a penalty as defender Carl Jenkinson picked up an injury on his debut. The Hammers face Sampdoria next on Saturday at Upton Park.
Woods in Ryder Cup injury blow

August 3, 2014

FORMER world No1 Tiger Woods’s Ryder Cup place was plunged deeper into doubt last night when he quit the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational with a back injury. Woods, who had back surgery in March, is set to miss out on an automatic spot in the USA team but was in contention for a captain’s pick at Gleneagles [...]
West Ham starlet Morrison refused bail over double assault allegation

July 31, 2014

WEST Ham midfielder Ravel Morrison’s future is in doubt again after he was denied bail and remanded in custody accused of assaulting his ex-girlfriend and her mother. England Under-21 star Morrison was arrested on Wednesday following the alleged incident on Sunday morning, in which it is claimed he punched and slapped Reah Mansoor, 19, and [...]
Goodwood glory may mean shot at Melbourne Cup for Cavalryman

July 31, 2014

EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Cavalryman boosted his chances of a tilt at the Melbourne Cup after becoming the oldest horse to win the Goodwood Cup since Persian Punch in 2001 yesterday. Jockey Kieren Fallon held off the veteran’s Godolphin stablemate Ahzeemah by a neck, with last year’s winner Brown Panther third and the Queen’s mare Estimate last of [...]
£28m Lukaku quits Chelsea for Toffees

July 30, 2014

BELGIUM striker Romelu Lukaku last night revealed that he jumped at the chance to leave Chelsea and rejoin Everton on a permanent transfer for a club record £28m. Lukaku, who scored 16 in 33 games on loan last term, said signing for the Toffees “felt right” because the coaches had faith in him. He only [...]
Kingman on track to bow out at Ascot after dethroning Toronado

July 30, 2014

KINGMAN is likely to be aimed at the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot in October after underlining his status as the leading miler with victory in the Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood yesterday. The John Gosden-trained three-year-old won his Duel on the Downs with Toronado, beating last year’s winner by a length in a [...]

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