By: Matt Hardy

Deputy Sports Editor - City AM Matt is the Deputy Sports Editor covering sport, the business of sport and the politics of sport. He covers the likes of football, rugby, cricket, Formula 1, golf and tennis.

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Ineos boss Sir Jim Ratcliffe wants to buy Manchester United stake

August 17, 2022

Billionaire boss of Ineos Sir Jim Ratcliffe wants to buy a stake in football club Manchester United with a view to holding a controlling stake in the Premier League outfit in the future. A spokesperson for the billionaire told The Times: “If the club is for sale, Jim is definitely a potential buyer.” “If something [...]
Premiership club Worcester hit with HMRC winding-up petition, reports suggest

August 17, 2022

Premiership Rugby club Worcester Warriors have been hit with a winding-up petition by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, according to reports. A liquidation of the club is sought by the UK tax authority unless a debt is settled for an unpaid tax bill, the Telegraph report. This follows reports in recent months surrounding the late [...]
Bazball the buzzword ahead of England Test against South Africa

August 17, 2022

When the five-minute bell rings around Lord’s this morning, Ben Stokes’s England and Dean Elgar’s South Africa will walk through the Pavilion’s Long Room and out, past the members, into the arena known as the Home of Cricket. But this England side, under their New Zealander coach Brendon McCullum, have embraced a style of Test [...]
McColgan leading the British long-distance athletics charge

August 17, 2022

Ask the casual sports fan to name a McColgan and many might say Liz, the former Olympic, World and Commonwealth medalist. But now it’s her daughter, Eilish, who has taken the baton – and British women’s long distance running by storm. Before 2022, no woman in history had recorded more than two sub-31-minute 10,000m track [...]
Stephan Lewies: Fan power a huge boost to Harlequins’ hopes of Premiership success

August 15, 2022

Harlequins captain Stephan Lewies believes that being one of just two clubs in the Premiership to sell out their season tickets for the 2022-23 campaign can propel them towards the play-offs. Quins and Bath announced in recent weeks that their allocation of season tickets – usually around two thirds of stadium capacity – had sold [...]
A green and gold decade: Australia prepares for spell as host of sport’s biggest events

August 15, 2022

The sun-kissed nation of Australia is about to embark on a decade-long installation as the centre for world sport. Although it was beaten by Qatar to the rights to stage the men’s football World Cup later this year, the country is set to co-host the women’s equivalent as well as Rugby World Cups, a second [...]
Saracens won’t let internationals derail Premiership bid, says coach Joe Shaw

August 11, 2022

Saracens head coach Joe Shaw has vowed to ensure that international call-ups don’t derail the Premiership runners-up’s attempts to go one better next season. With many European internationals set to miss over 10 weeks of domestic action and players representing countries further afield likely to miss a similar number of weeks, strength in depth at [...]
European Championships: Six athletes to watch in Munich

August 10, 2022

This has already been one of the most congested track and field seasons in recent history – and now it’s about to get even busier. On the back of an impressive World Championships and a superbly attended Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, the athletics circus is rolling into Munich for the European Championships, which officially start [...]
Lessons from Lionesses: What English rugby can learn from Euros for 2025 World Cup

August 9, 2022

The iconic Chloe Kelly goal celebration, the record attendance for a final, success on home soil; England Women’s Euro 2022 victory felt like a watershed moment for women’s sport. But in a few years’ time England will be doing it all over again. This time, however, it will be with the oval ball. It was [...]
Olympic race walker King slams ‘toxic’ British Athletics

August 9, 2022

Two-time Team GB Olympic race walker Dominic King has accused British Athletics of being “a toxic governing body” which “fails to learn from its previous errors”. Last year, in March of 2021, King broke the 50km race walk British record which had stood since 1990. Subsequently the 39-year-old from Essex has achieved the required qualifying [...]

Orange or CMA CGM: Who could replace Altrad as France Rugby’s shirt partner?

Orange or CMA CGM: Who could replace Altrad as France Rugby’s shirt partner?

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