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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Alonso on the podium as Verstappen wins Bahrain F1 Grand Prix

March 5, 2023

Max Verstappen began his campaign for a third consecutive Formula 1 world title with a comfortable victory in Bahrain this afternoon. The Dutchman, who began on pole, only conceded the lead when he entered the pits to change his tyres. Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez came home in second place with 41-year-old Fernando Alonso completing [...]
Johnson brace keeps Everton in bottom three as Forest earn point

March 5, 2023

A Brennan Johnson brace pegged Everton back twice as Nottingham Forest squeezed a point out of their Merseyside opponents in a 2-2 draw yesterday afternoon at the City Ground. The Toffees took the lead from the spot after Dwight McNeil was fouled by Jonjo Shelvey, VAR took a look at a handball in the build-up [...]
Jacks out of England’s tour to Bangladesh with thigh injury

March 5, 2023

England and Surrey all-rounder Will Jacks will miss the remainder of his team’s One-Day International and Twenty20 tour to Bangladesh with a thigh injury. The 24-year-old suffered the injury on his left leg while in the field for England’s win in the second ODI in Dhaka on Friday. He will miss Monday’s third ODI against [...]
WPL: Women’s Premier League cricket owners and are there links to IPL?

March 4, 2023

This afternoon sees the first ever Women’s premier League (WPL) match take place as the India-based domestic franchise competition, sister to the IPL, takes off. Five teams will take part in the competition – the Delhi Capitals, Gujarat Giants, Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore and UP Warriorz. The sides will compete in a double round-robin [...]
Weekend in sport: What’s on, when is it on and what channel is it on?

March 3, 2023

The return of the Formula 1 season is the height of the sport action this weekend but domestic football and rugby, as well as the inaugural Women’s Premier League cricket continues. Here’s what you must watch this weekend. Golf: Arnold Palmer Invitational, Thursday – Sunday The PGA Tour continues this week with the Arnold Palmer [...]
‘I’m just months away from filing papers on my marriage with Formula 1’

March 3, 2023

I am just months away from filing the divorce papers on my cold marriage with Formula 1. Like many in my generation, I was hooked on the world’s greatest motor racing series in 2008 when Lewis Hamilton overtook Timo Glock on the final lap at Interlagos to deny Felipe Massa a world title and claim [...]
Formula 1: Hamilton hits back at Button and Hill over retirement talk

March 2, 2023

Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton has rejected talk from former drivers Jenson Button and Damon Hill about the seven-time world champion retiring. The season begins this weekend and it will be Hamilton’s 17th year on the grid, but Hill and Button have called into question the future of the driver. Hamilton on a mission When [...]
FA Cup: Fifth round recap and quarter-final draw

March 2, 2023

This week has seen a number of upsets in the world of football as the fifth round of the FA Cup took place across Tuesday and Wednesday. There were epic scenes last night as League Two Grimsby knocked Premier League Southampton out of the famous knockout competition while Sheffield United beat Tottenham on Wednesday, too. [...]
Formula 1 to target China expansion? McLaren commercial chiefs hope so

March 2, 2023

Formula 1 team McLaren would back the sport venturing further into China and the surrounding Asian continent amid a growing feeling that the series is yet to cash in on the opportunities the Far East market provides. Nick Martin, the director of new business at the Woking-based F1 outfit, told City A.M. that McLaren acknowledges [...]
Women’s Lions ‘must be based on form’ after tour gets early green light

February 28, 2023

Former England international Shaunagh Brown has backed the idea of a women’s Lions tour following a feasibility report but insisted that the squad must only be made up of the best players and not employ quotas to stop English dominance. The study, funded by Royal London, investigated key aspects of what would make up a [...]

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