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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Calvin Lo interview: Billionaire on finding a way into Formula 1

December 14, 2022

Hong Kong businessman and billionaire Calvin Lo wants to deepen his roots in Formula 1. The Michael Schumacher fanboy is the latest wealthy individual looking at the motor racing circus that is F1 as a major sporting investment. “If whoever comes in plays their cards right, there are lots of opportunities,” Lo told City A.M. [...]
World Rugby No2 Laporte and club owner Altrad guilty of corruption

December 13, 2022

World Rugby vice-chairman Bernard Laporte and president of Top14 champions Montpellier Mohed Altrad have been found guilty of corruption-related charges at the Paris Criminal Court this afternoon. The duo – along with three others – went on trial in September over a number of bribery and corruption allegations and were sentenced today. Mohed Altrad was [...]
Key Laporte-Altrad court decision could send rugby into a pit of chaos

December 12, 2022

The world order of rugby could descend into a pit of chaos should World Rugby vice-chairman Bernard Laporte and Top14 club Montpellier’s billionaire owner Mohed Altrad – as well as three others – be convicted of bribery and bribery-related charges in the French courts tomorrow. Rose-Marie Hunault, the president of the 32nd courtroom, is due [...]
England keep riding the cricket wave with another Test series in the bag

December 12, 2022

England’s last overseas Test cricket tour was a shambles. Two draws and a loss to the West Indies ended a run of international Test cricket few were proud of. Joe Root left the captaincy, Chris Silverwood was already sacked as head coach and the remaining void lingered for a number of months. But less than [...]
European rugby returns with a smidge of South African summer

December 11, 2022

England may have lost to the French in the football but in the weekend’s European Champions Cup rugby the English sides won five matches while the French could muster just four. Here are some talking points as the two European rugby competitions returned – this time accompanied by five South African teams. THE BIG EUROPEAN [...]
Qatar World Cup in brief: Why you should watch today’s matches

December 9, 2022

We’re down to the final eight and there’s a spot in the semi-finals of the Qatar World Cup within grasp. Brazil and Argentina will catch eyes but the resilient Europeans won’t let the South Americans have it all their own way. Croatia vs Brazil, 3pm, BBC The first of the Qatar World Cup quarter-finals will [...]
You can still reach the Qatar World Cup final. Here’s how

December 8, 2022

It may be coming home in nine days’ time, but what if you want to be anywhere but home when England lift the World Cup in Doha next Sunday? City A.M. got the travel magazines out and scoured the web to see just whether it was still possible to get to Qatar. Where in the [...]
‘Part of life’: the official response to a migrant death at the World Cup

December 8, 2022

The chief executive for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Nasser Al-Khater, has faced criticism for his response to the death of a migrant worker at one of the country bases around Doha. The reported death of a Filipino national working as a migrant worker in Qatar has added to the growing list of migrants [...]
The rise, rise and fall of Eddie Jones at the helm of England

December 6, 2022

He has the best winning percentage of any coach to have been in charge of England and he took a team from one of their lowest points in recent times to an unlikely World Cup final, but Eddie Jones is down and out – and English rugby is poorer for it. Whether it was his [...]
England head coach runners and riders: Borthwick, Smith and McCall

December 6, 2022

With Eddie Jones given the boot by the Rugby Football Union yesterday, attention quickly turned to who could take over one of the biggest coaching jobs in world rugby. While many of the favourites are shackled in coaching jobs with other teams, there’s no doubt England will do all they can to get the man [...]

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