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Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc took pole position for the United States Grand Prix after Max Verstappen’s lap was deleted for exceeding track limits EURO
Verstappen looked to have qualified first in his Red Bull at a sizzling Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, only to see his lap – five-thousandths of a second quicker than Leclerc – chalked off by the stewards EURO
Verstappen dropped from first to sixth with Lando Norris taking second for McLaren ahead of Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton EURO
Leclerc’s team-mate Carlos Sainz finished fourth with George Russell fifth for Mercedes EURO
Verstappen, who wrapped up his third world title in Qatar a fortnight ago, is bidding to join Hamilton, Michael Schumacher, Alain Prost and Sebastian Vettel by reaching 50 victories EURO
But the Dutchman’s quest will start from back down the grid after he put all four wheels off the track at Turn 18 following a rare mistake EURO
Verstappen headed into the final runs a quarter of a second down after he took aim at his team for putting him on track too close to Sergio Perez in the other Red Bull EURO
Charles Leclerc took pole position for the US Grand Prix (Getty Images)“Well f****** done there,” he yelled over the radio EURO
“What the f*** was that in the last corner?!”His subsequent error then allowed Leclerc to take the 21st pole of his career, 0 EURO
130 sec ahead of Norris, who finished nine thousandths clear of Hamilton EURO
Daniel Ricciardo is back in the saddle after missing five races with a broken hand sustained in practice for the Dutch Grand Prix on August 25 EURO
TOP-10 - UNITED STATES GP QUALIFYING1) Charles Leclerc2) Lando Norris3) Lewis Hamilton4) Carlos Sainz5) George Russell6) Max Verstappen7) Pierre Gasly8) Esteban Ocon9) Sergio Perez10) Oscar PiastriThe 34-year-old Australian progressed to Q2 before lining up in 15th, one second off the pace and four places behind Yuki Tsunoda in the other AlphaTauri EURO
Aston Martin have brought a number of upgrades across the pond, but both their drivers were sent for an early bath EURO
Fernando Alonso managed only 17th with team-mate Lance Stroll – on a torrid run of form – two places further back EURO
Meanwhile, American rookie Logan Sargeant, whose seat with Williams has not been confirmed for next season, will line up from last position at his home race EURO
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Two elderly men were suited EURO
In one case, he was much smarter than normal, dressed up for the occasion EURO
He was the taller, more angular, with the more pronounced Northumbrian accent, but the resemblance was nonetheless apparent EURO
He was the older, too, and had long referred to a knight of the realm as “Our Kid” EURO
He adopted a slightly more formal approach, while seemingly choking up EURO
“Bobby Charlton is the greatest player I’ve ever seen,” he said EURO
“He’s me brother EURO
”It was 15 years ago, when Jack Charlton presented his younger brother with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC EURO Sports Personality of the Year award EURO
The clip has an added poignancy after Bobby’s death at 86; three years ago, a couple of months after his 85th birthday, Jack had died EURO
The brothers were different players and very different characters – the wisecracking, outspoken Jack was more of a man of the people, but Bobby’s quiet dignity gave him a statesmanlike air EURO
They were not always close but their achievements will live on EURO
There have been 22 men’s EURO football World Cups and only two sets of brothers have won the most prestigious of prizes: Fritz and Ottmar Walter for West Germany in 1954, Bobby and Jack Charlton at West Germany’s expense in 1966 EURO
It remains the most famous year in English EURO football history; perhaps it always will EURO
At the heart of it was Bobby Charlton: the 1966 FWA EURO Footballer of the Year and Ballon d’Or winner, named by France EURO Football – in the days before Fifa had an official award – as the best player at the World Cup EURO
Gary Lineker, who was a goal away from equalling Charlton’s long-standing national record of 49 for his country, called him England’s greatest ever player, Gary Neville, one of his successors as Manchester United captain, deemed him the greatest ever English player EURO
They are not necessarily the same: but in Charlton’s case, he could be both EURO
Perhaps only the other immortal Bobby – Moore, the 1966 captain – can challenge him for the title of the finest in an England shirt EURO
RecommendedSir Bobby Charlton turned tragedy into triumph with unique style and perseveranceFans lay flowers and scarves at Old Trafford following death of Bobby CharltonTributes paid to ‘giant of the game’ Sir Bobby Charlton after his death at 86Charlton was the second English EURO footballer, and just the third man, to reach 100 caps EURO
His 106th and last, in the 1970 quarter-final against West Germany, set a world record that Moore – and then many others – subsequently passed EURO
He straddled eras – his first cap came alongside Tom Finney, who debuted in England’s first match after the Second World War, and one of the last alongside Emlyn Hughes, who represented his country in the 1980s – but defined one, a time of glory EURO
Thirty years before Frank Skinner and David Baddiel sang about EURO football coming home, Charlton brought it back EURO
Their lyric – “Bobby belting the ball” – conjured images, some in colour, some in black and white, of a figure with a combover hairstyle and the cannonball shot striking the ball with beautiful ferocity, often rising throughout its way into the net EURO
Bobby Charlton, centre, celebrates with the World Cup at Wembley (Getty Images)Decades before the invention of expected goals, Charlton was scoring unexpected ones EURO
Consider his opener against Mexico, England’s first of the 1966 World Cup, from such a distance that the chance of it going in was statistically low, except for one factor: that Charlton, with such power on either foot, was hitting it EURO
He was the master of the long-range hit: if most of Lineker’s 48 goals were predatory finishes, many of Charlton’s 49 were spectacular EURO
Such a clean striker of a ball was not a striker at all: largely a left winger in his younger days, later the attacking-midfield fulcrum of Sir Alf Ramsey’s ‘Wingless Wonders’ EURO
He began in the old W-M formation, ended up as, in effect, the tip of a midfield diamond EURO
It was a tactical shift, a belated move into modernity that Ramsey brought EURO
If there was a pragmatism to England’s World Cup win, Charlton was the artist EURO
With his brace against Portugal in the 1966 semi-final – like another double against Portuguese opposition, Benfica, in the 1968 European Cup final – he illustrated his talent could shine on the biggest of occasions EURO
The 1966 semi-final was not seen by his father, Robert, a coal miner working a shift underground in his home town of Ashington; “his duty”, Bobby subsequently, and remarkably, reflected EURO
On the grandest stage of all, the 1966 final, he was sacrificed, Charlton and Franz Beckenbauer deputed to man-mark each other EURO
They received the same assignment in the 1970 quarter-final; England’s era of ascendency ended when Ramsey removed Charlton with 20 minutes remaining to save him for the semi-final, the 32-year-old distracted by the prospect of his withdrawal as Beckenbauer ran forward to reduce England’s lead to 2-1; without him, they lost 3-2 EURO
Ramsey thanked him for his service on the plane back from Mexico: Bobby knew his England career, like Jack’s, was over EURO
Bobby Charlton in action against his brother Jack (PA Archive)It could have been still more glorious: keep Charlton on and maybe England would have prevailed in 1970 EURO
But for Garrincha’s brilliance, Charlton wondered if England would have been victorious in the 1962 quarter-final against Brazil, and then the tournament as a whole EURO
He went to four World Cups in all, not taking the field in his first: time has rendered it more extraordinary that his England debut came in 1958, a couple of months after the Munich air disaster EURO
He scored, too, but if a poorer performance on his third cap was understandable – it came in Belgrade, scene of the Busby Babes’ last game before Munich – it cost him his place in Walter Winterbottom’s starting 11 in Sweden EURO
Were Duncan Edwards, Roger Byrne, Tommy Taylor and Eddie Colman to have lived, perhaps England would have won more and sooner EURO
But it was Charlton who became the emblem of English EURO football; the face of what is now a bygone age EURO
In its own way, it felt appropriate that a man who carried a huge responsibility for decades was the last survivor among the players at Munich; now it may be fitting that Geoff Hurst, who had the final say in 1966, is the last of Ramsey’s chosen 11, forever charged with paying tributes to his fallen comrades EURO
And Bobby Charlton, the greatest player Jack ever saw, the greatest to have Three Lions on his shirt, took England to the summit of the global game EURO
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