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Best Football Betting Sites UK in January 2025 Sport At City AM we have reviewed the UK’s online sports betting sites and carefully selected the best football bookmakers for our readers to try. Key features of the best UK football betting sites that players can expect include fantastic new and existing player promotions, a wide range of betting types, and incredible mobile platforms for on-the-go wagering. [...]
Entain reveal sports events punters bet on the most in 2024 Sport Business Betting giant Entain has revealed the biggest sporting events of 2024, using their global sportsbook to identify which events saw the most bets placed. The Grand National was the runaway winner but 60 per cent of the top 10 featured matches from the summer’s Euro Championships in Germany. The NFL, Champions League final and golf’s [...]
The best and worst sports marketing campaigns of 2024 Sport Business In the true Christmas spirit of judging others, I’ve looked at my favourite – and not so favourite – sports marketing campaigns of 2024. I had planned to hand out awards with categories based on the startling number of current football pundits who were in Graham Taylor’s Euro 92 England squad. The Gary Lineker Award [...]
How betting markets reflect Manchester City’s shock slump December 13, 2024 Betting markets might not tell the whole story but they do reveal certain underlying truths and, right now, they don’t make easy reading for Pep Guardiola or Manchester City. This week their wholly unexpected and utterly miserable run continued with a 2-0 defeat against Juventus in Turin that has left them fighting to avoid elimination [...]
West Ham chief snubbed over ‘alarming’ football regulator letter demand November 28, 2024 The Government has rejected calls from West Ham chief Karren Brady to publish a letter from Uefa which warns that domestic clubs and the England team could be banned from the Champions League and Euros over interference from the incoming football regulator. Speaking in the House of Lords, Conservative peer Baroness Brady described the correspondence [...]
Champions League absence and shorter US tour clobber Man Utd revenue November 26, 2024 Manchester United suffered a £14m drop in revenue for the first quarter of their current financial year after missing out on qualification for the Champions League. Broadcast income for July to September fell by £8m, or 20 per cent, from the same period last year due to Manchester United this season playing in the less [...]
Incoming Man United boss Amorim makes Alex Ferguson warning November 4, 2024 Incoming Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim has warned the club’s fans not to get over-excited if his Sporting Lisbon side spring a Champions League surprise against Manchester City. Sporting host United’s local rivals on Tuesday in one of the last games before Amorim leaves the Portuguese champions to take over at Old Trafford next week, [...]
Ahead of the Game: A$AP Rocky’s Tranmere takeover hits a snag October 30, 2024 City AM has learned that one of Tacopina's key investors, who was providing around 30 per cent of the funding, pulled out last week.
Gabriel Jesus needs a second coming at Arsenal. Is this his chance? October 22, 2024 When Gabriel Jesus latched onto a loose ball, dummied a defender and slotted low into the net against Lens in November last year the Arsenal striker set a new Champions League record. It made Jesus the only player from any English club to score in each of his first four games of the season in [...]
Revealed: Chelsea considered 40 per cent increase in ticket prices September 17, 2024 The huge price hike was rejected on the grounds that it was unfair to penalise fans.