By: Matt Hardy

Deputy Sports Editor - City AM Matt is the Deputy Sports Editor covering sport, the business of sport and the politics of sport. He covers the likes of football, rugby, cricket, Formula 1, golf and tennis.

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Six Nations tickets: How much will the tournament cost you?

January 12, 2025

We’re just days from the Six Nations getting underway in Paris when France host Wales with tickets for this year’s competition all but sold out. The Stade de France in Paris, Allianz Stadium in London, Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh and Stadio Olimpico in Rome will [...]
Most profitable sports clubs of 2025 list features three Premier League sides

January 11, 2025

Three Premier League clubs have made the Forbes most profitable sports teams list of 2025, with the top 20 generating an estimated £3.2bn in profit during the most recent season. The figures, calculated using Forbes’ estimates of operating income with total value using the enterprise values, suggest an average £159m profit per team, up 12 [...]
Industry slams Labour government plans for ticket reform

January 11, 2025

Leading industry voices have slammed government plans to change the secondary ticketing market in sport, describing proposals as “draconian”. The government on Friday announced plans to tackle touts and potentially further regulate the secondary market following instances of extreme dynamic pricing relating to the sale of Oasis tickets. Measures could include a cap and a [...]
NFL 2025 London Games: Jets, Browns and Jaguars heading to capital

January 10, 2025

The New York Jets, Cleveland Browns and Jacksonville Jaguars will play in London on this year’s NFL International series. The New York Jets return to the capital a year on from their 23-17 defeat to the Minnesota Vikings at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The Browns return to London for the first time since 2017, when they [...]
Over 1m tune in for Tiger Woods hybrid golf show TGL

January 9, 2025

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s debut TGL broadcast peaked at 1.1m viewers in the USA this week. The digital brainchild – in which top golfers team up and compete across both a simulator and a recreated green – kicked off this week and had an average audience of 910,000 across the two-hour show. Reports suggest [...]
Wada crisis: US Anti-Doping Agency backs government withholding funds

January 9, 2025

The US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) has insisted it “fully supports” the US government’s call to withhold millions to the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada). Usada chief executive Travis Tygart said withholding the funds, given the US has been Wada’s biggest funder since its founding, was “the only right choice to protect athletes’ rights, accountability and fair [...]
Champions Cup: Le Showbizz Racing 92 must rediscover je ne sais quoi

January 9, 2025

For all of the pizzazz, grandeur and elegance that comes with saying you’re a Racing 92 player, there’s little to show for it in the trophy cabinet. In the professional era the Parisian powerhouse have won just one major trophy, a 2016 Top 14 final against Toulon, and have lost three Investec Champions Cup finals [...]
Majority of Brits back England cricket boycott of Afghanistan match

January 8, 2025

The majority of Brits have backed calls for England to boycott upcoming cricket matches against Afghanistan in protest of the Taliban’s gender apartheid. Research from YouGov shows just 14 per cent of Brits say England should continue matches against the nation, with the two teams scheduled to play each other in the Champions Trophy in [...]
UK Athletics faces £20m blow after manslaughter charge

January 8, 2025

UK Athletics is staring down the barrel of a huge £20m fine after the cash-strapped track and field governing body was charged with corporate manslaughter. The Crown Prosecution Service charged UK Athletics over the death of Abdullah Hayayei, a Paralympian from the United Arab Emirates, after a metal throwing cage fell on him while training [...]
Gloucester Rugby forced to pull Russia flag from player shirt

January 8, 2025

Gloucester Rugby has been forced to remove a Russian flag from the shirt of one of their players after a complaint from a fan. The Cherry and Whites have operated a policy, since 2015, of rewarding their international stars with the flag of their Test nation on their club shirt. But Gloucester were forced to [...]

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