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Max Verstappen took pole position in Melbourne while Lewis Hamilton, George Russell and Fernando Alonso were all happy – but Ferrari and McLaren had a session to forget

Julian Alvarez replaced Erling Haaland as Manchester City faced Liverpool in the Premier League on Saturday, with the Norwegian striker injured for Pep Guaridola's side

Arsenal fan Piers Morgan was understandably pleased to see that Erling Haaland missed Manchester City's crucial Premier League clash with Liverpool due to injury

Wally Meets...Thomas Frank: Although he was a player of no fixed distinction in Denmark, Frank has led Brentford to the gates of Europe with his workaholic application and relentless positivity

Casemiro will miss Manchester United's next three Premier League fixtures against Newcastle, Brentford and Everton - although he is available to face Sevilla in Europe

Lewis Hamilton was delighted with his result in Australian Grand Prix qualifying, even though Mercedes team-mate George Russell went one better to start on the front row

Manchester City talisman Erling Haaland was not fit enough to play against Liverpool on Saturday - with Darwin Nunez starting the Premier League game from the bench

Erling Haaland missed Manchester City's Premier League clash with Liverpool through injury and Pep Guardiola has explained his decision not to "risk" the Norwegian striker

Former England Test captain Michael Vaughan learned on Friday that he had been cleared of the charge made against him, and now he has discussed the effects the case has had on him

Lewis Hamilton and George Russell were thrilled with their results in a good qualifying session for Mercedes, which prompted a snarky comment from Fernando Alonso as he faced the TV cameras

Pep Guardiola's Manchester City welcome Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool to the Etihad on Saturday afternoon - with 19 Premier League points separating last season's top two

Manchester City face former Premier League title rivals Liverpool on Saturday, as they bid to cut Arsenal's lead at the top to five points, and Pep Guardiola has issued a rallying cry to the Citizens

Heavyweight Jermaine Franklin was undefeated until a controversial loss to Dillian Whyte at the OVO Arena Wembley back in November, and has been rewarded for his performance with a Joshua bout

Marcus Rashford has scored 27 goals for Manchester United this season but his boss Erik ten Hag has called on his teammates to step up their scoring contributions

Anthony Joshua could pocket another eight-figure payday for his upcoming clash with Jermaine Franklin in London tonight, but he is still far behind YouTube star Jake Paul who boasts huge earnings from inside and outside the boxing ring

Alonso and Hamilton as team-mates was a recipe for disaster in the one year they spent together at McLaren, but the Spaniard would like to give it another go before he retires from F1

Gloucester star Santi Carreras believes he can emulate compatriot Lionel Messi with global glory this autumn but first he must confront Mission Improbable away to European champions La Rochelle

Few people know Lewis Hamilton's F1 routine better than Angela Cullen, who worked as his physiotherapist and close ally in the paddock before they parted company last month

Anthony Joshua is set to face heavyweight contender Jermaine Franklin this weekend in London as he eyes a successful heavyweight comeback, but has demanded that he is handed a rematch clause

Thomas Zilliacus has been a revolutionary in the tech industry and is hoping to bring those forward-thinking ideas to Manchster United, as he battles Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani for ownership

Finnish entrepreneur Thomas Zilliacus is battling Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani to buy Manchester United from the Glazer family - and has come up with an interesting proposal

Jesurun Uchegbulan has opened up on his journey from the AC Milan academy, being rejected by Everton and working his way back through the non-league pyramid to Chesterfield

Anthony Joshua returns to the ring tonight against Jermaine Franklin in London on a stacked bill which will see the return of heavyweight talent Fabio Wardley and Campbell Hatton

Ricciardo is not on the F1 grid this year but returned to the paddock in Melbourne this weekend as a Red Bull reserve, and dropped a subtle hint about his future after qualifying

Arsenal will aim to maintain their significant advantage over Manchester City at the top of the Premier League table when they take on Leeds at the Emirates on Saturday