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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The Open at Turnberry? Trump given fresh hope of hosting major

April 22, 2025

The Open Championship organisers have raised hopes that Donald Trump’s Turnberry could come in from the cold and stage the golf major again. Turnberry has not staged the Open since five years before the current US president’s 2014 purchase of the Ayrshire resort, amid suspicions that it has been unofficially blackballed over the Trump connection. [...]
Manchester City v Premier League legal hearing set for October

April 22, 2025

Manchester City’s latest legal challenge to Premier League rules on associated party transactions is expected to go to trial in October. The reigning champions launched proceedings in January against a new version of the rules, having succeeded with a claim against the legality of the old regulations last year. Other Premier League clubs received details [...]
Gary Lineker: BBC pushed me out of £1.3m Match of the Day job

April 22, 2025

Gary Lineker has revealed that the BBC pushed him out of his long-running £1.3m job as presenter of Match of the Day. Lineker’s departure at the end of this season after 26 years in the role was announced in November, with the BBC describing the move as him “stepping down” and saying he’d be “hugely [...]
England cricket chiefs blasted for ‘refusing to hold India to account’

April 21, 2025

England and Australia have been castigated for a “refusal to hold India to account” after allowing the cricket-mad nation to tighten its vice-like grip on the game. India now boasts the chair of the International Cricket Council, Jay Shah, to go along with the largest share of revenues from the game and the world’s leading [...]
All Italian football postponed following death of Pope Francis

April 21, 2025

Italian football chiefs have postponed all games due to be played today, including four in Serie A, following the death of Pope Francis. The fixtures affected include key games in the race for Champions League qualification involving Juventus, who were due to face Parma, and Lazio, who were to meet Genoa. Pope Francis died aged [...]
Rising Ballers: From Foden DMs to Nike campaigns and multi-million revenue

April 21, 2025

How three friends turned the Rising Ballers Instagram account into a lucrative content business, via Phil Foden, Jamal Edwards, Iliman Ndiaye and some big life decisions. Jamie Pollitt vividly remembers the day that changed his life. He was spending more time on his hobby – a social media account showcasing promising young footballers – than [...]
How League One Lincoln City are helping to shape the football regulator

April 14, 2025

Consultation has been one of the hot topics surrounding the introduction of the independent football regulator, although one club at least is trying to ensure that it is not a one-way street. While much of the discussion has been on what the watchdog will demand of clubs in return for being granted a licence, Lincoln [...]
Vinai Venkatesham: Former Arsenal chief to join rivals Tottenam as CEO

April 11, 2025

Former Arsenal chief executive Vinai Venkatesham is joining the handful of footballers and staff to cross the north London divide by becoming CEO of Tottenham Hotspur. Venkatesham has agreed to take up the post at Spurs in the summer, a year after he ended his 14-year stint at their fierce local rivals “to pursue another [...]
Masters 2025 prize money: How much do players earn at Augusta?

April 10, 2025

Prize money at the 2025 Masters has doubled in under a decade, with the winner at Augusta National this week set to earn $3.6m (£2.8m). The total prize fund at the year’s first major has now swollen to $20m (£15.5m) and the top three players are all assured of seven-figure payouts. As recently as 2016, [...]
Premier League could scrap PSR replacement plan, says barrister De Marco

April 9, 2025

Premier League clubs could scrap plans to replace controversial PSR rules with a squad cost ratio and so-called “anchoring”, according to leading sports law barrister Nick De Marco KC. Top-flight clubs were on course to introduce the new spending rules next season but shelved those plans in February amid uncertainty caused by Manchester City’s partially [...]

‘Dispiriting’: Ministers speed up crackdown on Shein and Temu – by just six months

Government is set to deal major blow to Big Tech’s moves into sports rights

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