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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Six Nations set for Netflix show as rugby union seeks Drive to Survive effect

October 19, 2022

Six Nations chiefs are hoping to develop their fanbase through a new series set to be shown on streaming site Netflix. Rugby bosses have held talks with programme makers and a deal is thought to be close, paving the way to start at next year’s edition of the international tournament. The programme is expected to [...]
England set for World Cup but must peak at right time

October 19, 2022

It has not even been a year since the conclusion of the last edition of the ICC Men’s Twenty20 World Cup – just 339 days to be precise – yet here we are 11 months later already in the midst of another. Australia plays host to the 2022 edition of the most explosive World Cup [...]
Jamie George: Premiership turmoil ‘darkest week in rugby history’

October 18, 2022

England hooker Jamie George has described recent days in the Premiership as the “darkest week in rugby history” after Wasps joined Worcester Warriors in administration. The Saracens front rower is out of England’s Autumn Nations Series with metatarsal damage but says watching domestic rugby’s financial crisis worsen is concerning. Wasps plunged into administration on Monday [...]
Wasps enter administration with MPs set to question rugby’s chiefs

October 18, 2022

Wasps, one of English rugby’s most decorated clubs with a history dating back 155 years, has gone into administration as the Premiership yesterday lost its second team in a month. The Coventry-based side admitted last week that they were likely to be handed over to administrators within days and that came to pass on Monday [...]
Jones mixes old and new in latest England squad ahead of autumn

October 17, 2022

Eddie Jones has overhauled around a third of his squad for the Autumn Nations Cup as the England head coach looks to add to the depth of his team ahead of next year’s World Cup. November will see England play three of the southern hemisphere’s big four – Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa, as [...]
Rugby chief suggests French-style governance can save game in England

October 16, 2022

England rugby chief Bill Sweeney has insisted the Premiership and Championship should look across the Channel to France for inspiration as the domestic game faces a crisis unlike anything it has seen in the professional era. Two clubs – Worcester Warriors and Wasps – have been suspended from the league after going into administration, with [...]
Thompson wins Aramco Team Series title for first victory since 2019

October 16, 2022

American Lexi Thompson claimed her first individual victory since 2019 yesterday when she won the New York leg of the Aramco Team Series by three shots. The 27-year-old claimed her first triumph – at the Trump Golf Links Ferry Point – on Saturday since the ShopRite LPGA Classic in three years ago when she completed [...]
Ollie Phillips: A good culture can give a side that extra one per cent

October 14, 2022

“Rugby values” aren’t always renowned by those who look at the sport from the outside, but few could deny that the development of culture within a squad can be paramount to positivity on and off the field. We have seen in recent days and weeks how Worcester Warriors and Wasps have been smothered with wellwishers [...]
Once, twice, goald: Maradona ‘Hand of God’ ball to go under hammer

October 13, 2022

The ball which became the infamous victim of Diego Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ fist in the 1986 World Cup is set to go under the hammer next month. The ball, used for the entirety of the match between Argentina and England in Mexico, is being sold by the man who refereed the match – Ali [...]
Wasps teeter on the brink as Premiership club suspended

October 12, 2022

One of the Premiership Rugby’s most successful and historic clubs has become the second English side within a month to be suspended from the top flight after Wasps announced that they would likely fall into administration in the coming days. The Coventry-based outfit today said that they had withdrawn from their Premiership fixture against Exeter [...]

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