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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Parliament warns against extending Premiership Rugby Covid-19 loans

April 2, 2025

A top parliamentary committee has insisted Premiership Rugby clubs who are “financially unviable five years post-pandemic” should not have their Covid-19 loans extended. The damning report from the Public Accounts Committee – an influential group of backbench MPs who probe state spending – singled out the process in which £124m of loans funded by the [...]
Premier League to introduce new offside tech this month

April 1, 2025

The Premier League will finally introduce semi-automated offside technology this month after a number of delays. The system, seen as an upgrade on the controversial VAR system currently used to judge offsides, has been tested in a non-live capacity across a number of Premier League and FA Cup games. But it comes much later than [...]
Ancelotti in Spanish court accused of €1m tax fraud

April 1, 2025

Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti will tomorrow appear in court accused of tax fraud of more than €1m. The 65-year-old former Premier League manager will stand trial in Madrid on charges of defrauding the Spanish tax office to the tune of £836,857 in undeclared earnings from image rights a decade ago. The trial is expected [...]
America’s Cup: Government reject New Zealand attempt to host on home soil

March 31, 2025

America’s Cup winners New Zealand will not defend their title at home in Auckland after the nation’s government refused to back plans for the 2027 regatta. New Zealand are double defending champions having won the 36th America’s Cup in 2021 in Auckland before successfully winning a second consecutive title in Barcelona. The Government of Catalonia, [...]
Investec Champions Cup Barometer: Munster ready for La Rochelle

March 31, 2025

In the lead up to the 2024-25 Investec Champions Cup round of 16, City A.M. has put together a barometer in partnership with Investec to assess which teams are hot – and which are not – ahead of this week’s knockouts. Team of the week: Munster, Ireland It hasn’t been a smooth season for Munster: [...]
Levy slams Spurs critics: We cannot spend what we do not have

March 31, 2025

Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy has hit out at the club’s transfer spending critics after the north London club made a loss after tax of £26.2m last year. The figure is a reduction on the £86.8m loss suffered in 2022-23 and the accounts for the year to 30 June 2024 showed a huge decrease in [...]
Former Scuderia Ferrari F1 manager loses €50m court claim

March 31, 2025

Former manager of the Scuderia Ferrari F1 team Luca Cordero di Montezemolo has lost a €50m claim against wealth manager XY UK. The Montezemolo family alleged that XY UK and its owner Daniele Migani had provided “seriously flawed” financial advice to their affiliate companies between 2016 and 2020. But Mr Justice Jacobs refuted the claims [...]
London City 7s: Rugby returns to the HAC in boost for Square Mile

March 31, 2025

Those who have trodden the streets of the City’s Finsbury Square and the surrounding area will be well aware of the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC). Guarding the rare expanse of City grass is Armoury House, home of the HAC since 1735. It boasts its own cricket, football and rugby clubs, and is flanked on all [...]
Does Liam Lawson have a legal case against his Red Bull demotion?

March 30, 2025

The big Formula 1 news of last weekend was the demotion of Liam Lawson from Red Bull to junior sister team Racing Bulls. His former teammate Yuki Tsunoda has been promoted to the senior team to partner four-time world champion Max Verstappen, while Lawson will line up alongside Isack Hadjar in what is now a [...]
Andy Farrell Lions coaching picks are smart but uninspiring

March 29, 2025

It can take as long as four months to sail from the shores of the British Isles to the port of Brisbane, where the first Test of the British and Irish Lions tour will take place. Given there’s only 114 days until that first Test, it would be one hell of a shift for Shaun [...]

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