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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Over 60 per cent of Premier League contracts open to abuse, research suggests

August 8, 2022

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs believes that a “significant number” of Premier League football clubs and players are underpaying tax, new analysis from law firm Pinsent Masons will reveal today. Pinsent Masons says that 64 per cent of Premier League footballers’ contracts now take a form which HMRC says is open to abuse. This follows [...]
Premier League: Haaland shines for City while Man United get wake-up call

August 7, 2022

Only one club have managed to win three Premier League titles back-to-back – Manchester United, twice – but Manchester City made the perfect start in their bid to be the second club to do so when Erling Haaland became the second City player after Sergio Aguero to score two goals on his league debut. Haaland’s [...]
The Hundred returns as London team look to get back into Spirit

August 3, 2022

It’s the competition so many said they didn’t want but also the tournament that shattered records and became a success in its inaugural season: The Hundred is back. With a century of balls for each side, live music, a party atmosphere and two very sparkling trophies, English cricket’s newest property returns to its most iconic [...]
The Ferrari flop and the runners and riders of the Formula 1 summer break

August 2, 2022

Much like a group of kids in school, the Formula 1 class of 2022 is on its summer break. We’ve seen brilliant solo drives, atrocious strategy costing leaders and superb overtaking, but here are our four takeaways as the series heads into a recess which will last until the end of the month. Classy to [...]
Buttler must find a new route for England after Morgan successes

July 31, 2022

It hasn’t been a dream start for Jos Buttler’s tenure as England’s white-ball captain. His side’s 90-run loss in the third match decider in Southampton against South Africa yesterday leaves the 31-year-old without an aggregate win in his opening four series. A 2-1 loss to India in the shortened Twenty20 format was followed by a [...]
Player ratings: Lionesses ranked as England win Women’s Euro 2022

July 31, 2022

England won their first Euro championship on Sunday evening in front of a record crowd at Wembley, but how did the Lionesses rank against Germany? England starting XI Mary Earps A standout throughout the tournament, scrambled to save England in key moments. Very much a stalwart of the team’s success 9/10 Lucy Bronze Saved her [...]
Four-time champion Sebastian Vettel to retire from Formula 1

July 28, 2022

Four-time Formula 1 world champion Sebastian Vettel this morning announced that he’d retire from the sport come the end of the season. The German, who drives for Aston Martin, announced the news on his newly-created Instagram account. Having made his Formula 1 debut in the United States in 2007 with BMW Sauber, 35-year-old Vettel currently [...]
‘London can be to Formula E what Monaco is to Formula 1’

July 26, 2022

Nothing conjures up images of east London quite like the warm Mediterranean and a plethora of casinos, right? Because that’s where Formula E’s sporting director Frederic Espinos believes organisers of the London E-Prix should set their sights. Alright, the Swiss bigwig isn’t actually suggesting that Formula E turn the banks of the Thames adjacent to [...]
Great Britain and Northern Ireland in strong showing but no gold rush

July 25, 2022

If the Great Britain and Northern Ireland performance at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was turned into a secondary school attendance report, the team would have received a C plus. On one hand, the seven medals the team captured in Oregon, United States were the most by a contingent of athletes since 2015 – when [...]
Verstappen pounces on Leclerc and Ferrari’s errors

July 24, 2022

Yesterday’s French Grand Prix result saw a top three that could have been from so many races last season: two Mercedes drivers and one from Red Bull. Because at Circuit Paul Ricard the Silver Arrows of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell achieved their team’s first double podium of the season, flanking Drivers’ Championship leader and [...]

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