Virgil van Dijk, David de Gea, Mo Farah: The sporting weekend in pictures
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The Professional Footballers' Association's awards rounded off the sporting weekend.
Liverpool centre-back Virgil Van Dijk was named the Professional Footballers’ Association’s Players’ Player of the Year for 2019.
Van Dijk saw off tough competition from Manchester City forward Raheem Sterling.
Norwich City and Sheffield United were promoted to the Premier League, while Valtteri Bottas took over the lead in the world championship after victory in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
Here, Press Association Sport takes a look at some of the weekend’s best sporting action in pictures.
Virgil van Dijk won the PFA Player of the Year Award (Steven Paston/PA)
Arsenal’s Vivianne Miedema poses with her PFA Player of the Year award (Barrington Coombs/PA)
PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor (left) and chairman Ben Purkiss with Manchester City Women’s Steph Houghton, who won the PFA Special Achievement award (Steven Paston/PA)
Valtteri Bottas celebrates after winning the Azerbaijan Grand Prix (Sergei Grits/AP)
Bottas crosses the finish line to win in Baku (Srdjan Suki/Pool Photo via AP)
David De Gea sits dejected after his error allowed Chelsea’s Marcos Alonso (not pictured) to score (Martin Rickett/PA)
Eliud Kipchoge crosses the line to win the 2019 Virgin Money London Marathon (Andrew Baker/PA)
Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei crosses the line to win the Women’s London Marathon (Paul Harding/PA)
Exeter’s Joe Simmonds gets away from Harlequins’ Matt Symons during the Gallagher Premiership match at Sandy Park (David Davies/PA)
Kye Whyte, right, goes on to win the mens final during day two of the 2019 UCI BMX Supercross World Cup in Manchester (Richard Sellers/PA)
Mohamed Salah celebrates the fifth goal in Liverpool’s 5-0 win over Huddersfield (Peter Byrne/PA)
Celtic players stand for a minute’s applause in memory of the late Billy McNeill (Ian Rutherford/PA)
Arsenal celebrate winning the FA Women’s Super League (Mark Kerton/PA)
Bournemouth’s Dan Gosling (centre) scores during the 3-3 draw at Southampton (Adam Davy/PA)
Norwich’s Alexander Tettey celebrates winning promotion (Chris Radburn/PA)
Dominic Thiem celebrates winning the Barcelona Open (Felipe Dana/AP)
Altior and Nico De Boinville go on to win the bet365 Celebration Chase at Sandown (Julian Herbert/PA)
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