Metro – ‘Don’t Be Sorry, Smile … It’s Been Fantastic’
The Metro leads with tributes to Sven-Goran Eriksson, who died aged 76. The paper says the former England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson ‘delivered a tear-jerking message’ in his final public appearance before he died. ‘I hope you will remember me as a positive guy trying to do everything he could do,’ Eriksson said, poignantly.
British band Oasis are covered on a side bar article on the front page as many of the front pages speculated over whether they Brit pop band would reunite. The papers had already gone to print before the official announcement. Online, the Metro offers up its thoughts on the reunion tour.
Sven-Goran Eriksson’s tear-jerking final public message before his death
Former England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson delivered a tear-jerking message in his final public appearance prior to his death in which he revealed his hope that football fans would remember him.
The Swede, who passed away aged 76 on Monday following his battle with pancreatic cancer, was in charge of England’s ‘Golden Generation’ men’s football team from 2001 to 2006.
Eriksson revealed in January that he had a ‘best case a year’ to live and a new documentary about his life was released on Amazon Prime last Friday.
‘I hope you will remember me as a positive guy trying to do everything he could do,’ Eriksson said, poignantly.
Oasis ticket scramble for reunion tour dates could be ‘worse than Taylor Swift’ — live
Oasis have finally announced their highly anticipated UK and Ireland tour, their first gigs in 16 years and tickets are going to be like gold dust.
Noel and Liam Gallagher, who have put their long-running feud aside, will kick off their Oasis Live 25 world tour with dates in Manchester and London as well as Cardiff, Edinburgh, and Dublin next summer.
However, getting tickets — with unknown prices — could prove an impossible task with fans worried it will be harder than Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour.
Tickets will go on sale on August 31 at 9am and if you thought Swift’s ticket buying was frantic, this is going to be full-blown madness as fans scramble to secure their place at the reunion tour.
Today’s news summary – Paper Talk
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Editorial 27 August 2024.
Many of Tuesday’s newspapers lead with the death of Sven-Goran Eriksson who died at the age of 76 following a terminal cancer diagnosis. Eriksson, the first foreign manager of the England football team is pictured on both the front and back pages. Many of the papers quote a recent documentary on his life, in which he told the audience: “Don’t be sorry, smile.”
Beyond the tributes, the headlines on the front page are fairly varied but are centred around domestic news, with politics being the most popular this morning.
Several tabloids speculate on whether British band Oasis is planning a reunion – the band announced early on Tuesday that they are going on a reunion tour in 2025.