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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Premiership talking points: Top four, cancellations and London’s showpiece

March 27, 2022

Round 21 of England’s premiership rugby competition saw the battle for the semi-finals intensify as Leicester secured the first of the four spots, while we saw yet another draw – this time not involving London Irish. Here are the talking points as internationals returned to their clubs from Six Nations duty. One down The league [...]
Verstappen on top in Saudi as Formula 1 fans in for relentless title battle

March 27, 2022

We’re just two races into the Formula 1 season and already it looks like fans the world over could be in for one mighty drivers championship battle. Reigning world champion Max Verstappen pipped Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc with a handful of laps remaining in a relentless Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, to get his first points on [...]
Women’s Six Nations: New dates, new sponsor, same old winners?

March 24, 2022

Change is in the air at this year’s Women’s Six Nations, which now has its own slot in the calendar and a first title sponsor in TikTok – but that looks unlikely to extend to the outcome. Champions England start as hot favourites this weekend – no surprise given their 18-game winning run, which includes [...]
London Irish: Exiles desperate to seal return to play-offs, says captain Matt Rogerson

March 22, 2022

“As a group we want to leave a mark on the club,” says London Irish captain Matt Rogerson as his side look to clinch a Premiership play-off place for the first time since 2009. “We don’t want to leave here – whether through retirement or whatever – having said we could have done more. “We [...]
First, England. Next, the world? Why those behind The Hundred have big ambitions

March 21, 2022

“Every successful brand in the world has to start somewhere, in one geography,” says Nick Sykes, global chief executive of FutureBrand, the company that developed the branding for The Hundred, English cricket’s newest tournament. “But if you look at sporting formats around the world, many of them have travelled geographies and there are large parts [...]
Six Nations 2022: Free-flowing France leave static England with questions to answer

March 20, 2022

Le tournoi est bleu. The words of a nation that has waited more than a decade to taste Six Nations glory. The tournament is indeed blue after they clinched the Grand Slam against England on Saturday night, and how happy so many were to see the day come. France play some of the most attractive [...]
England must treat French game like World Cup final, says Dallaglio

March 18, 2022

Former England captain Lawrence Dallaglio has urged Eddie Jones’s team to treat tomorrow’s Super Saturday Six Nations match with France as a World Cup final. England cannot win the title in Paris but do have a chance to end a disappointing championship on a high and deny one of the in-form international sides their first [...]
Chelsea ‘remove’ request for behind closed doors FA Cup tie

March 15, 2022

Sanction-governed Premier League club Chelsea have ‘removed’ their request to have Saturday’s FA Cup quarter-final match against Middlesbrough played behind closed doors, according to an FA spokesperson. In a statement, the FA said: “After constructive talks between the FA and Chelsea, the club has agreed to remove their request for the FA Cup quarter-final tie [...]
Dallaglio: Eddie must stay with England until end of World Cup

March 15, 2022

Former England No8 Lawrence Dallaglio has insisted that England must stick with head coach Eddie Jones until his contract expires at the end of next year’s World Cup in France. “I would say that Eddie Jones is our coach until the World Cup, that’s the reality of it,” 85-cap Dallaglio told City A.M. “I don’t [...]
Six Nations: A look at when France won the Slam in 2010

March 15, 2022

It’s been just the 4,378 days since France last won a Grand Slam in the Six Nations, and on that day in 2010 the Super Saturday replicated the one we will see in just four days’ time. It was the year the Burj Khalifa opened in the UAE marking new heights for architecture. It was [...]

Celtic and when does financial prudence become sporting underinvestment?

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