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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Short Track World Tour: The league revolutionising for relevance

October 29, 2024

When you think of sporting innovation, what comes to mind? The Hundred, maybe, or Saudi’s tennis showcase 6 Kings Slam? Well what about short track speed skating? Because the International Skating Union (ISU) has just launched the first leg of a totally revamped world tour in which 28 franchises compete across six meetings. The ISU [...]
Spencer to make first England start against New Zealand

October 29, 2024

Ben Spencer will make his first international start for England after Steve Borthwick named his XV for Saturday’s Autumn Nations Series game against New Zealand. The 32-year-old Bath scrum-half made his England debut in 2019 but has been in and out of the international game since. Spencer will partner Marcus Smith in a back line [...]
Tom Brady team wins E1 championship

October 29, 2024

Tom Brady’s E1 team won the inaugural championship after a curtailed opening season. After only five races the former NFL star’s team were crowned winners of the all-electric boating series. He fended off teams with involvements from the likes of Sergio Perez, Virat Kohli and Rafael Nadal. Winning team owner, Brady, said “It feels amazing [...]
Appalling, laughable, not fair: Chinnor and Cambridge go it alone after Premiership Rugby Cup exclusion

October 29, 2024

Championship sides Chinnor and Cambridge will compete in the Not The Premiership Rugby Cup after being excluded from the original competition. On Friday night at Mennaye Field in Penzance, Cornish Pirates will fancy themselves against a winless Exeter Chiefs in the opening fixture of the Premiership Rugby Cup. The competition has been one of the [...]
Past Ballon d’Or winners as Rodri wins 2024 award

October 28, 2024

Manchester City’s Rodri has beaten Vinicius Jr to the 2024 Ballon d’Or at a prestigious event in Paris. The Spaniard became the first Premier League winner of the Ballon d’Or since Cristiano Ronaldo in 2008, when the Portuguese was at Manchester United. “A very special day, for me, my family and my country,” he said. [...]
Harry Kane wins gong at Ballon d’Or awards

October 28, 2024

England striker Harry Kane has won an award at the prestigious Ballon d’Or evening in Paris. The Bayern Munich man was handed the Gerd Müller trophy in a joint win with Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe. Previous winners include Erling Haaland (once) and Robert Lewandowski (twice). Mbappe was supposed to be at the ceremony alongside favourite [...]
Is it written in the F1 stars for Hamilton at Ferrari?

October 28, 2024

As Lewis Hamilton prepares for life at Ferrari, the Prancing Horses are beginning to find some Formula 1 form. “I feel incredibly fortunate, after achieving things with Mercedes that I could only have dreamed of as a kid, that I now have the chance to fulfil another childhood dream. Driving in Ferrari red.” Those were [...]
Premiership Rugby: Chiefs winless as top four pull away

October 28, 2024

That’s it. The Premiership is done and finished for a month. After six rounds the 10 teams will take a month-long break while the Autumn Nations Series takes place. So what have we learned from the final week of action in the first block of top-flight matches? Devonian drought Few would have thought Exeter Chiefs [...]
Jack Draper wins biggest title of his career

October 27, 2024

Jack Draper won his first ATP 500 title in Vienna on Sunday with a steady victory over Karen Khachanov at the Erste Bank Open in Vienna. The British number one will also move to a career-high ranking as a result of the victory having beaten the likes of Italian Lorenzo Musetti on his way to [...]
If McLaren end Red Bull and Mercedes duopoly, it’s great for F1

October 26, 2024

In just one corner at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Lando Norris looked to have blown his shot at winning a first ever Formula 1 world championship, despite there being another five races between now and the coronation in Abu Dhabi. Max Verstappen is by no means driving with the confidence he has [...]

Fifa’s credibility is shot because it can’t decide what it wants to be

Fifa’s credibility is shot because it can’t decide what it wants to be

Ford Mustang Sutton CS800DH review: Taming a wild horse

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