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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New Chelsea owners revert to same old ruthlessness over Tuchel sacking

September 7, 2022

It feels like a lifetime ago since we were watching then Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel and current Tottenham Hotspur manager Antonio Conte in each other’s faces on the touchlines of Stamford Bridge like Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk . But nearly a month on, and just two victories for the Blues later, Tuchel was today [...]
Chelsea sack manager Thomas Tuchel after 100 days of new ownership

September 7, 2022

Premier League club Chelsea have sacked their manager Thomas Tuchel as the club reaches the end of its first 100 days under new management. Tuchel’s Chelsea fell to a humiliating defeat last night at the hands of Croatian side Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League leaving the Blues on a three-match losing streak in all [...]
US Open ready to crown new winners as singles tennis enters new era

September 7, 2022

With New York’s Flushing Meadows awaiting its men’s and women’s singles finalists this weekend, one thing is for certain: both trophies will see a new name carved into its metal plated surface. Because of the remaining contenders across the men’s and women’s US Open singles competitions, none of them have ever won the Grand Slam. [...]
Phil Dowson: ‘Academy players will always be key to Northampton Saints’

September 7, 2022

Northampton Saints’ incoming director of rugby Phil Dowson has stressed the importance of his club continuing to be a side with a core of local players as the former back row gets set for his first season in charge of the east midlands club. Dowson takes over the top spot from Chris Boyd, who is [...]
Agustin Creevy: ‘I love London Irish. Why can’t we be champions?’

September 6, 2022

Veteran Argentina and London Irish hooker Agustin Creevy is heading into his third year with Premiership club London Irish and there’s little sign of the front rower wanting to turn his back on the Exiles just yet. Joining ahead of the 2020-21 season, Creevy arrived in time for the transition from Reading to Brentford and [...]
Dustin Johnson bags £3.4m jackpot as he wins on LIV Golf circuit in Boston

September 5, 2022

Dustin Johnson bagged the individual prize fund at the weekend’s LIV Golf Invitational Series event in Boston in dramatic style as the American sank a play-off eagle to snatch the $4m (£3.4m) jackpot. The 38-year-old from South Carolina won on America’s East Coast after fending off Joaquin Niemann and Anirban Lahiri in a play-off after [...]
Cameron Norrie within reach of first US Open quarter-final

September 5, 2022

British No1 Cameron Norrie may be featuring in the fourth round of the US Open for the first time today, but it’s not unreasonable to suggest that he could find himself in the quarter-finals come tonight’s close of play. The 27-year-old Brit faces Russia’s Andrey Rublev this evening on the Louis Armstrong court for a [...]
The Hundred: Teams gear up for Eliminator before finals day

September 2, 2022

After its inaugural, but delayed, season of broken records and minor teething problems, The Hundred returned this year across August – to the continued anger of many traditionalists. But English cricket’s new format – yet to be adopted elsewhere – has seen impressive, and in some cases record, crowds for women’s games, and exciting cricket [...]
Premiership Rugby chief says Worcester aren’t out of the woods yet

September 1, 2022

Premiership Rugby chief executive Simon Massie-Taylor insists troubled club Worcester Warriors will take their place alongside the other 12 teams in this year’s league next week but warned that doubts remain over their future. Speaking at the launch of the season at Twickenham Stadium, Massie-Taylor said that the West Midlands club had enough funds for [...]
Worcester future unclear despite owners saying player wages paid

September 1, 2022

The close of play yesterday, the last day of the month, was the deadline for troubled Premiership rugby club Worcester Warriors to pay their players and staff. But as we reach September, just a week out from the new Premiership season, it’s still not certain as to whether Worcester will take the field against London [...]

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