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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Erling Haaland in numbers: Man City striker hits goal No35

May 4, 2023

He’s not even been in the Premier League for a full season yet Erling Haaland has taken the English top flight by storm. The Leeds-born Norway striker netted his 35th league goal last night as Manchester City beat West Ham 3-0 to return to the top of the Premier League table. It was his 51st [...]
Lord’s cricket ground to open its doors to food festival in autumn

May 4, 2023

Sports stadiums such as Lord’s can gather dust for much of the year. Whether to do with the length of the off-season, the time between home matches or the circumstances surrounding a given season, venues often need to be used for non-sporting purposes to ensure they turn a profit throughout the calendar. Some turn into conference [...]
Jenson Button: ‘Lewis Hamilton will stick around for eighth F1 title fight’

May 3, 2023

Jenson Button has backed former McLaren-Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton to stay in Formula 1 and win more world titles. Hamilton has reportedly pondered his future since coming within less than a lap of winning a record eighth crown in 2021, only to have the Drivers’ Championship controversially snatched away from him by Red Bull rival [...]
Ballance among six given recommended punishments for slurs

May 3, 2023

The England and Wales Cricket Board has recommended a number of bans and fines for six former cricketers, including ex-England international Gary Ballance, over their involvement in the racism scandal at Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The six players were found to have used racial slurs at a disciplinary commission hearing in March. Former England batter [...]
Emma Raducanu OUT of Wimbledon due to surgery on three limbs

May 3, 2023

British No1 tennis player Emma Raducanu will miss Wimbledon and the French Open this year after having procedures on both wrists and an ankle. The former US Open winner has been struggling for form lately and the surgery confirms that she will be unavailable for the next two Grand Slams. In a statement, Raducanu said: [...]
Exclusive: Wasps apply to RFU to use Worcester Warriors’ Sixways Stadium

May 3, 2023

Former Premiership club Wasps have applied to the Rugby Football Union to play at Worcester Warriors’ Sixways Stadium from next season, City A.M. understands. The Coventry-based club fell into administration just weeks after the Warriors but with news of the Atlas consortium’s purchase of Worcester earlier today, it is understood that Wasps have asked the [...]
England cricket team to tour Caribbean, West Indies to host 2024 World Cup

May 2, 2023

England’s white-ball cricket team will play three One-Day Internationals and five Twenty20 Internationals in the Caribbean, Cricket West Indies announced today. Jos Buttler’s side – coached by Matthew Mott – will head to Antigua for two 50-over matches on 3 and 6 December against the West Indies before travelling to the Kensington Oval in Barbados [...]
Brecel’s Crucible win ‘can help push on generation of snooker players’

May 2, 2023

Luca Brecel’s 18-15 win against Mark Selby on Monday at the Crucible can spearhead a new generation of snooker players, according to the World Governing Body of Snooker and Billiards chairman Jason Ferguson. The Belgian became the first from continental Europe to win a world title in Sheffield when he beat his British opponent at [...]
Track and field must shine in 2023 or risk a painful death

May 2, 2023

So a new track and field season is upon us, with the Diamond League set to begin on Friday in Doha. And while those in Qatar may have their eyes fixed on Manchester United at the moment, the athletics circus is returning to their back yard in a year in which the sport is looking [...]
D-Day for Worcester Warriors as deadline looms for rugby club

May 2, 2023

It is D-Day for former Premiership rugby club Worcester Warriors with the deadline between the proposed owners Atlas Consortium and administrators Begbies Traynor set to expire today. The administrators, who took over the club in September, swapped contracts with Atlas – led by former Worcester chief executive Jim O’Toole and ex-player James Sandford – on [...]

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