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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Harlequins humbled by Toulouse as French giants chase sixth title

December 17, 2023

Harlequins couldn’t cope with the class of five-time Investec Champions Cup winners Toulouse on Sunday as the Londoners fell to a 19-47 defeat at the Stoop. The French outfit crossed the whitewash seven times despite Harlequins fighting hard to stay in the game at the break. Two tries for South African Irne Herbst and one [...]
2025 Club World Cup to last 29 days, Fifa confirm in Saudi Arabia

December 17, 2023

The 32-team quadrennial Club World Cup will stretch across nearly a month in the summer of 2025, Fifa confirmed on Sunday. The competition will launch from 15 June to 13 July 2025 and will be hosted in the United States. The move restricts the amount of time players from qualifying Premier League teams will have [...]
Exeter Chiefs stun Munster with glorious Champions Cup comeback

December 17, 2023

Exeter’s rebuild hit a landmark milestone today after the Devonians came from behind to beat Irish giants Munster and go two from two in the Investec Champions Cup. Many were worried about how Rob Baxter’s men would deal with the ferocity of the biggest club competition in rugby after the Chiefs faced an exodus of [...]
F1’s Coulthard, Hakkinen and McNish in classic car firm seeking £50m injection

December 17, 2023

Former racing drivers David Coulthard, Mika Hakkinen and Allan McNish are looking to raise £50m as part of a consortium of investors focusing on classic cars. The trio of motorsporting stalwarts are non-executive directors of a classic car investment firm that is listed on the London Stock Exchange as Tertre Rouge Assets PLC (TRA). TRA [...]
Should oil nations bankroll hydrogen car racing? The sport’s boss says ‘it is the only way’

December 13, 2023

Oil nations bankrolling hydrogen car racing is "the perfect metaphor of how the future is going," the sport's boss told City A.M.
Nico Rosberg: I’d have found Drive To Survive ‘horrible’ and ‘a disaster’

December 12, 2023

The German is now a successful team owner in electric off-road series Extreme E.
Garry Ringrose: Leinster beating La Rochelle would not be revenge

December 6, 2023

Last year's finalists meet again in a titanic clash on the opening weekend.
Stormers lock Dixon: Champions Cup is hostile for South African sides but I love the travel

December 6, 2023

Stormers lock Ben-Jason Dixon on their Champions Cup aspirations.
Raymond Rhule: Everybody is coming for La Rochelle’s heads

December 6, 2023

The title-holders are gunning for a hatr-trick in the Champions Cup.
Liebenberg: Our job to return Champions Cup glory to Leicester Tigers

December 6, 2023

Two consecutive Champions Cup trophies at the turn of the century cemented Leicester Tigers’ position among Europe’s greats. And a string of domestic success that followed only elevated their status. But an appearance in the 2009 final, in which Leinster claimed their first victory, was the Premiership team’s last in the European showpiece. And it’s [...]

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