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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Manchester United sued by former star for clinical negligence

July 14, 2025

Manchester United are being sued for clinical negligence by their former player Axel Tuanzebe, two years after he left Old Trafford. Lawyers acting for Tuanzebe, 27, filed the claim, which makes reference to “medical advice”, last week, records show. The defender, who joined Premier League club Burnley from relegated Ipswich Town this month, spent more [...]
Olivia Smith: First £1m transfer shows good and bad of women’s football

July 13, 2025

As a snapshot of the state of women’s club football, Arsenal’s world record £1m signing of Canadian forward Olivia Smith from Liverpool works pretty well. The first ever million-pound transfer in the women’s game underlines the rapid financial evolution it has undergone since the turn of the decade, as investment has poured in from clubs, [...]
Wimbledon, Euros and Test cricket set to boost pubs and supermarkets

July 12, 2025

Pubs and supermarkets are bracing for a bumper weekend thanks to the heatwave and a deluge of live sport on TV including Wimbledon finals, Test cricket and the Lionesses. A British and Irish Lions tour match, England and Wales rugby internationals, other Women’s Euros fixtures, Tour de France cycling and a trilogy fight between Katie [...]
Crystal Palace face CAS appeal after being kicked out of Europa League

July 11, 2025

Crystal Palace must take their case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport if they want to play in the Europa League after being kicked out by Uefa over multi-club conflicts. European football’s governing body decreed on Friday that Palace and Lyon breached rules on multi-club ownership because of their common links to US investor [...]
Fiba ‘monitoring’ dispute tearing British basketball apart

July 11, 2025

World governing body Fiba says it is “monitoring developments” in British basketball amid the civil war threatening the future of both the BBF and SLB. Super League Basketball has begun legal action against the British Basketball Federation over the removal of SLB’s licence to run the domestic top flight and what it sees as anti-competitive [...]
UK Athletics boosted by new five-year contract with BBC

July 11, 2025

UK Athletics has achieved a significant boost by agreeing a new five-year deal for the BBC to show its flagship events on free-to-air TV. The agreement between the BBC and Athletic Ventures covers the annual London Athletics Meet, which takes place next weekend and features the likes of Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson, and the national [...]
Exclusive: T100 triathlon Olympic proposal to be discussed

July 11, 2025

The possibility of the T100 Tour’s 100km triathlon format being added to future Olympic programmes will be publicly discussed by the sport’s chiefs for the first time today. Currently, Olympic Games only feature triathlons that take place over around half that distance but there are hopes in the swim-bike-run world that long-distance races could be [...]
Andy Anson: British Olympic chief poached by London private equity firm

July 10, 2025

Knightsbridge-based private equity firm BD-Capital Partners has poached British Olympic Association CEO Andy Anson to join the board of its recently acquired performance nutrition brand Science In Sport. Former Manchester United and Walt Disney Company executive Anson will depart the BOA in October after six years as chief executive, during which time Team GB won [...]
Fans will end up paying for football regulator, Tories warn

July 9, 2025

Fans of clubs outside the Premier League should expect ticket price rises following the approval of a football regulator, Shadow Sport Minister Louie French has warned. The Championship, League One and League Two are all heavily loss-making but could face a bill of almost £50m towards the operation of the Independent Regulator for English Football. [...]
Regulators, mount up: FCA taking on City AM Triathlon Team Challenge

July 9, 2025

They’re used to tracking them in their day jobs but next month the FCA will be hunting the Square Mile’s finest in water, by bike and on foot when they take part in the City AM Triathlon Team Challenge at the London T100. The financial services watchdog is entering no fewer than five teams in [...]

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