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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Formula 1: Verstappen wins on last lap of last race on last weekend

December 12, 2021

After the way this 2021 Formula 1 season had been going up to this concluding weekend, you probably would have got short odds on it coming down to the last lap of the last race of the last weekend. It’s what we deserved. All hail Max Verstappen, the 24-year-old Dutchman who joins a roster of [...]
Max Verstappen wins first world title in last lap drama

December 12, 2021

Max Verstappen has won his first ever world title after an astonishing last lap victory over rival Lewis Hamilton in the season finale in Abu Dhabi. The title makes it the first for a Dutchman and the first since Kimi Räikkönen’s in 2007 that has gone to a driver that’s not a Brit or a [...]
McLaren boss Zak Brown: ‘I can’t remember a F1 season more exciting than this one’

December 10, 2021

Sunday’s showpiece final Formula 1 race of the season will see either Max Verstappen or Lewis Hamilton crowned world champion and Red Bull or Mercedes win the constructors’ title. But a few spots behind the two current big hitters are McLaren Racing. A team with a longstanding F1 history is now in the hands of [...]
Ashes talking points: Head shines as England tail off

December 9, 2021

It was day two despair for England as a rampant Australia started piling on the runs at the Gabba in the first Ashes Test. The touring side may have started their innings in the field well but it soon unravelled. Here are the talking points from the second day. Heading the tail Travis Head’s 85-ball [...]
Ashes talking points: England weren’t good enough, but Aussies shone

December 8, 2021

There was a deep feeling of dread when Haseeb Hameed and Rory Burns walked out onto the Gabba’s moderately green crease to open the batting in the first Test of this winter’s Ashes. But no one would have predicted the collapse that followed. Here are the talking points from England’s batting on day one of [...]
Challenge Cup rugby gives teams the chance to hit reset

December 7, 2021

A weird quirk of top flight European rugby is that in the big three leagues – England’s Premiership, France’s Top14 and Scotland, Italy, Ireland and Wales’s United Rugby Championship – every northern hemisphere team gets continental action. For the sides who finish in the bottom half of their league, except those who are relegated, are [...]
Ashes: Relentless bowling attack can carry the Australian fight

December 7, 2021

It tends to be the Ashes knocks that get the most recognition in a Test match – Adam Gilchrist, Ben Stokes and Kevin Pietersen come to mind – but it’s the relentless bowling attacks that provide the pressure. And in this year’s series, the Aussies have a fearful foursome. In spinner Nathan Lyon and seamers [...]
Winter Olympics: USA announce boycott of Beijing games over ‘ongoing genocide’

December 6, 2021

The White House yesterday confirmed a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 winter Olympics, due to be held in Beijing in February. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said:“The Biden administration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games given the [People’s Republic of China’s] ongoing genocide and [...]
All eyes turn to Europe as rugby’s Champions Cup gets underway

December 6, 2021

Come winter every season, European rugby halts its domestic competitions and looks towards the Champions Cup – the premier international club rugby competition in the world. This season, in a revised format, it’s imperative that teams get off to a flying start. Here’s what to look out for. Fast Start Last season saw a new [...]
San Francisco 49ers in position to buy Leeds United in coming years

December 6, 2021

The San Francisco 49ers could exercise a clause in their deal with Leeds United which could see them buy the Premier League club by 2024. The group that funds the NFL this year increased their stake in United to 37 per cent in January before acquiring another seven per cent last month. The deal would [...]

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Great Britain bid to bag $2m at Davis Cup continues

Arcadia at the Old Vic is a brilliant farewell to Tom Stoppard

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