By: Matt Hardy

Deputy Sports Editor - City AM Matt Hardy is the City AM Deputy Sports Editor with a specialism in the business of sport. He covers the likes of rugby, cricket, sporting investment and venture capital funds; while also being across golf, cricket, and the politics of sport.

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Saracens chief Mark Thompson: TV deals, club losses and future of rugby

September 17, 2024

Saracens Rugby’s new chief executive Mark Thompson discusses TV broadcast deals, the club’s path away from their recent £5m loss and the state of rugby union and its future. Being a rugby bigwig cannot be far from the most stressful job in sporting governance; the English game is a borderline failure and clubs are churning [...]
Emery wants Villa victory for Shaw as pubs get set to cash in on Champions League

September 17, 2024

Unai Emery has called upon his Aston Villa side to win their first top flight European tie since 1983 in honour of Gary Shaw, who won the cup with the Midlands outfit. Shaw, who was a key part of the victorious 1982 European Cup team, died on Monday at the age of 63. Aston Villa [...]
US survive Team Europe surge to win Solheim Cup for first time since 2017

September 15, 2024

Team Europe came agonisingly close to a sensational comeback but fell just short as the United States won golf’s Solheim Cup. Team USA led 10-6 before the third day’s 12 singles matches at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia, and looked favourite to surge towards their first Solheim Cup win since 2017. But [...]
Great Britain out of Davis Cup as Evans questions tennis future

September 15, 2024

Great Britain were knocked out of the Davis Cup on Sunday after losing to Canada in Manchester as Dan Evans questioned his future in the competition. The team, who beat Finland but lost to Argentina last week, needed to win all three of their matches at the AO Arena to progress through to the quarter-finals [...]
Glorious Glosters beat big dogs and prove there’s life beyond The Hundred

September 15, 2024

If you looked up “Glorious Glosters” in the sporting dictionary its entire synopsis would be focused around Saturday afternoon. Because the rank outsider of T20 teams, the forgotten bunch who some said were at Finals Day to make up the numbers, handed cricket a healthy reminder of what is cooking around the counties, no matter [...]
F1 Driver Standings after Piastri wins in Baku and Norris closes gap on Verstappen

September 15, 2024

Oscar Piastri won a thrilling F1 race in Baku on Sunday as McLaren overtook Red Bull in the Constructors’ Standings and Lando Norris inched towards title leader Max Verstappen. Piastri and Ferrari rival Charles Leclerc were in a bitter battle for the race win before the McLaren driver pulled away and a crash between the [...]
Back in Baku, F1 season in for fierce run-in between McLaren and Red Bull

September 14, 2024

The Formula 1 paddock is in Baku this weekend for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in the first of back-to-back street races. The final race, partially at least, in Europe for the rest of the season, Baku should throw up a number of surprises where the most successful driver – surprisingly – over the race’s six-edition [...]
T20 finals day: Favourites, format and can I still get tickets?

September 14, 2024

Today at Edgbaston in Birmingham four teams will battle it out to be crowned T20 Vitality Blast champions on Finals Day. The traditional Finals Day has been held in Birmingham uninterrupted every year since 2013 and it’s a day where fans get three matches for their ticket cost. So who is in Finals Day and [...]
MK Dons investigating misogynistic posts by new owners’ spokesperson

September 12, 2024

MK Dons say they are investigating dozens of misogynistic, racist and homophobic posts written by the mouthpiece for the League Two club’s Kuwaiti ownership. Moath Al Manayes, whose now deleted profile on X stated that he was the “owner’s representative at Milton Keynes Dons”, is understood not to be a direct employee of the club [...]
Aston Martin door open for Max Verstappen move

September 12, 2024

The door is open for Max Verstappen to join Aston Martin, according to team principal Mike Krack, after the Formula 1 team signed Adrian Newey from Red Bull. The design guru turned down opportunities at Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren to join Lawrence Stroll, Lance Stroll and Fernando Alonso at their Silverstone base. But the Formula [...]

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