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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Leicester Tigers fined £47,000 for breaching salary cap

April 1, 2024

Premiership Rugby club Leicester Tigers have been fined £47,000 for breaching the salary cap in the 2019-2020 season. The club has accepted and paid an overrun tax with the club’s chief executive Andrea Pinchen stating: “While disappointed to again have historic salary cap spending relating to 2019/20 season result in this overrun tax, as was [...]
Former Tottenham Hotspur owner Lewis set to be sentenced this week over insider trading

April 1, 2024

The former owner of Tottenham Hotspur Joe Lewis is this week set to be sentenced after pleading guilty to insider trading in the United States. The 87-year-old Londoner is due to learn his fate on Thursday 4 April when his sentence is handed down by US district judge Jessica Clarke in New York. He pleaded [...]
Hamilton says he was ‘obviously’ robbed of 2021 F1 world title

April 1, 2024

Lewis Hamilton has admitted he was “robbed” of an eighth world F1 title in 2021 after Max Verstappen took the crown in controversial circumstances. During the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi Hamilton was leading Verstappen but a series of events, including an incorrect safety car restart procedure that eventually led to the [...]
Swimming: British Championships are sink or swim for Olympic hopefuls

April 1, 2024

It’s a sink or swim week for Britain’s Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls in the pool as the British Championships offer qualification to Paris. The winners of each event at the London Aquatics Centre in Stratford will automatically qualify for the 2024 Summer games. The other allocated spot will be chosen at a later date by [...]
Can recycled rugby balls help sport’s fast fashion-style dilemma?

April 1, 2024

Rugby balls are set to go green after major manufacturer Rhino announced they will produce balls made of recycled rubber. The initiative, which is set to be fully in place by the end of the decade, will look to bring an end to a sport’s version of fast fashion, whereby a high churn culture does [...]
The Boat Race: Who are favourites and where do Oxford and Cambridge race?

March 30, 2024

It’s that time of year again, when the Gemini Boat Race makes west London’s Thames banks become awash with current and former Oxford and Cambridge students. So with the annual rowing regatta returning to the capital on this Easter weekend, albeit with a warning not to enter the water due to E. coli, we’ve taken [...]
London Lions: ‘Do-or-die’ EuroCup semi-final has crowds flocking to Copper Box

March 29, 2024

Over 7,000 fans are expected to cram into the Copper Box tonight as London Lions take on Paris in the EuroCup semi-finals. The British Basketball League side come into this second leg of three with a deficit but know they’re on the cusp of an incredible achievement against competition favourites Paris. “I’ve already forgotten about [...]
Premiership rugby: Saracens make £5m loss and clubs to battle government?

March 27, 2024

England’s top-flight Premiership rugby clubs are at loggerheads with the government over the repayment of loans worth over £150m from the Covid-19 pandemic. The first raft of repayments are due imminently, according to the Mail, and clubs are hoping to get repayment dates pushed back. The government is said to have provided low interest loans [...]
The Boat Race: Rowers urged to stay out of water due to E. coli

March 27, 2024

Celebrations for the winning teams in this year’s Boat Race have been warned not to throw their cox in the Thames, as per tradition, due to the threat of E. coli in the water. Men’s and women’s crews from Oxford and Cambridge universities will take part in the iconic Boat Race along a stretch of [...]
Prosecutors seek two-and-a-half-year sentence and £86,000 from Rubiales over ‘kissgate’

March 27, 2024

Spanish prosecutors yesterday announced that they are seeking a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence and a €100,000 (£86,000) fine from Luis Rubiales, the former Spanish football chief at the centre of the “kissgate” scandal with international player Jenni Hermoso. The Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court (AN) spoke with regards to the former chief of the Royal [...]

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