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ON THIS DATE IN SPORTING HISTORY

1893: Liverpool beat Middlesbrough Ironopolis to claim

their first win in the Football League.

1973: Ian Botham played his first game for Somerset

when he turned out in a Sunday League game against

Sussex at Hove.

2001: John Daly secured his first tournament win for

six years with victory in the BMW International in

Germany.

2011: Celtic were reinstated to the Europa League after

UEFA threw out Swiss side FC Sion for fielding ineligible

players.

2013: Arsenal completed the signing of Germany

midfielder Mesut Ozil for a club-record £43million fee

from Real Madrid. Manchester United signed Marouane

Fellaini from Everton for £27.5m.

THOSE WERE

THE DAYS

and Lomachenko will fight the

winner of that.

“Then he will move down

super-feather or feather and get

rid of these belts. That’s when

you go and be in position to

fight for a vacant belt. I don’t

want Luke to fight Lomachenko

again, so we’ve got to challenge

for a vacant belt.”

Campbell was given the all-

clear after routine hospital tests

after the fight. Hearn,

meanwhile, has called for VAR

to be brought into boxing after

you’re crippled to the body,

you’re on one knee, and you

don’t want to go down and,

when you do, you get up. And,

he didn’t need to do that.

“At times in the fight he

could have been excused for

saying, ‘That’s enough, because

I’m not winning this fight’. But

he always kept trying. Even the

last round he was always trying

to win. I can definitely see him

become a world champion.

“Teofimo Lopez will fight

Richard Commey for the IBF

by Jorge Linares in 2017 just

two weeks after his father died.

But promoter Eddie Hearn is

confident Campbell – who

picked himself up off the

canvas in the 11th – will

become a world champion.

Hearn said: “Sometimes in

defeat, your stock rises

considerably. And that’s

happened. He’s like a hero and

the crowds love the fact that

BOXING

By Chris McKenna

GETTING

SHIRTY:

World Cup

winner

Mesut Ozil

joined the

Gunners in

2013 and

has been

in three

FA Cup-

winning

teams

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the death of Leclerc’s father,

Herve, in June 2017 following

a long illness.

That devastating news came

shortly before the starlet

drove to victory in Baku as

part of his F2-title winning

campaign, a triumph that

earned him a seat in F1 last

season. And yesterday, the

Monaco-born racer overcame

grief again to produce a

mature drive that has finally

earned him a deserved Grand

Prix victory.

The 21-year-old was in

imperious form, though he

was arguably fortunate that

Ferrari gave Sebastian Vettel

team orders to give Leclerc

the lead on lap 27.

Hamilton was on his tail in

the latter stages but Leclerc

held on to secure Ferrari’s

first win of the season.

The sister Mercedes of

Valtteri Bottas came home in

third, leaving the Finn now

trailing championship leader

Hamilton by 65 points.

Vettel had to make do

with fourth, and there

was frustration for

British McLaren

driver Lando Norris,

19, who was in fifth

place before a

technical failure on

the last lap and

ended up 11th.

British team Arden in the

championship which acts as a

feeder series to F1. He lost

control of his car on the exit

of the notorious uphill Eau

Rouge corner before

slamming into a barrier.

The Frenchman flew off the

tyre wall and slid helplessly

across the circuit, before he

was hit head-on by the

unsuspecting American Juan-

Manuel Correa.

The force of the

impact tore Hubert’s

car in two and

ripped off the front

of Correa’s

machine – the

American was

launched airborne

before landing

upside down.

Emergency crews

rushed to the scene but,

one hour and 28

minutes

after the second-lap accident,

Hubert was pronounced dead

at the on-track medical

centre.

He becomes the first driver

since Ayrton Senna died at

the 1994 San Marino Grand

Prix to be killed while driving

in an FIA-accredited race

during an F1 weekend.

Jules Bianchi, Leclerc’s

godfather, close friend and

predecessor in the Ferrari

Driver Academy, died in July

2015, nine months

on from the

brain injuries

he sustained

after he

crashed into

a crane at the

rain-hit race

in Japan.

The loss of

Bianchi was

followed two

years later by

By Matt Maltby

Leclerc dedicates his maiden F1 victory

to crash victim Anthoine as sport unites

in mourning after tragedy on Spa track

THAT WIN IS

CHARLES LECLERC won an

emotionally-charged Belgian

Grand Prix on a dark and

tragic weekend for Formula

One.

This race was played out

less than 24 hours after

22-year-old French driver

Anthoine Hubert was killed

in a devastating 160mph

Formula Two crash at Spa.

That left the motorsport

fraternity heartbroken and

there was a minute’s silence

held by the drivers ahead of

yesterday’s race.

Hubert’s mother and

brother held his racing helmet

on the grid as they gathered

for the tribute along with

drivers and racing staff.

There was also a standing

ovation on Lap 19 to honour

the number he carried in F2,

while the teams carried a

tribute to Hubert on their

race cars.

It was perhaps a fitting

tribute that Leclerc – who

raced alongside Hubert in the

junior ranks and was a good

friend – converted his pole

position into his maiden F1

victory. Indeed, he dedicated

his race victory to him.

Leclerc was in a league of

his own for Ferrari and

brought his iconic red car

home ahead of Lewis

Hamilton in his Mercedes.

It was the most difficult of

circumstances for Leclerc and

his F1 rivals after the shocking

news that Hubert had lost his

life on this same Spa circuit

on Saturday. Hubert raced for

FULL OF

EMOTION:

Charles

Leclerc

on the

podium

LUKE CAMPBELL has been

backed to win a world title

after winning over fans in

defeat by Vasiliy Lomachenko.

The Brit came up short in his

WBC, WBA and WBO

lightweight bout against the

Ukrainian great.

Campbell, 31, had his

moments against Lomachenko

• hurting the defending
  champion in the seventh – but
  it proved an impossible task. It
  was his second world title
  defeat after he was outpointed

FANS’ FAVOURITE CAMPBELL WILL