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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Key Laporte-Altrad court decision could send rugby into a pit of chaos

December 12, 2022

The world order of rugby could descend into a pit of chaos should World Rugby vice-chairman Bernard Laporte and Top14 club Montpellier’s billionaire owner Mohed Altrad – as well as three others – be convicted of bribery and bribery-related charges in the French courts tomorrow. Rose-Marie Hunault, the president of the 32nd courtroom, is due [...]
England keep riding the cricket wave with another Test series in the bag

December 12, 2022

England’s last overseas Test cricket tour was a shambles. Two draws and a loss to the West Indies ended a run of international Test cricket few were proud of. Joe Root left the captaincy, Chris Silverwood was already sacked as head coach and the remaining void lingered for a number of months. But less than [...]
European rugby returns with a smidge of South African summer

December 11, 2022

England may have lost to the French in the football but in the weekend’s European Champions Cup rugby the English sides won five matches while the French could muster just four. Here are some talking points as the two European rugby competitions returned – this time accompanied by five South African teams. THE BIG EUROPEAN [...]
Qatar World Cup in brief: Why you should watch today’s matches

December 9, 2022

We’re down to the final eight and there’s a spot in the semi-finals of the Qatar World Cup within grasp. Brazil and Argentina will catch eyes but the resilient Europeans won’t let the South Americans have it all their own way. Croatia vs Brazil, 3pm, BBC The first of the Qatar World Cup quarter-finals will [...]
You can still reach the Qatar World Cup final. Here’s how

December 8, 2022

It may be coming home in nine days’ time, but what if you want to be anywhere but home when England lift the World Cup in Doha next Sunday? City A.M. got the travel magazines out and scoured the web to see just whether it was still possible to get to Qatar. Where in the [...]
‘Part of life’: the official response to a migrant death at the World Cup

December 8, 2022

The chief executive for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Nasser Al-Khater, has faced criticism for his response to the death of a migrant worker at one of the country bases around Doha. The reported death of a Filipino national working as a migrant worker in Qatar has added to the growing list of migrants [...]
The rise, rise and fall of Eddie Jones at the helm of England

December 6, 2022

He has the best winning percentage of any coach to have been in charge of England and he took a team from one of their lowest points in recent times to an unlikely World Cup final, but Eddie Jones is down and out – and English rugby is poorer for it. Whether it was his [...]
England head coach runners and riders: Borthwick, Smith and McCall

December 6, 2022

With Eddie Jones given the boot by the Rugby Football Union yesterday, attention quickly turned to who could take over one of the biggest coaching jobs in world rugby. While many of the favourites are shackled in coaching jobs with other teams, there’s no doubt England will do all they can to get the man [...]
England win in Pakistan one of their greatest ever Test victories

December 5, 2022

Pakistan legend Waqar Younis said he’d never seen a crowd like it on the fifth day of a match in Rawalpindi, and they flocked to the cricket stadium not too far from Islamabad yesterday for the crescendo of one of the great Tests in recent times – and arguably England’s greatest ever win in Asia. [...]
Premiership half-way review: Stylish Saracens and bottom three bonanza

December 4, 2022

It was not supposed to be occurring at this point in the year but the Premiership season has reached its half-way stage. Given the downfall of Worcester Warriors and Wasps, the 11 remaining sides hit the milestone at the weekend – albeit there were only four fixtures played. There are just eight points separating second [...]

Sydney Sweeney Novig ad backlash shows how much women’s sport has changed

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