Newspaper headlines: 'Hero' Sir Bobby Charlton will 'never be forgotten'

Sir Bobby Charlton: BBC Sport looks back at the life of the Manchester United and England legend

By BBC News
Staff

Photos of England icon and Manchester United legend Sir Bobby Charlton are on most of Sunday's front pages after his death at the age of 86.

The Sunday Express calls Sir Bobby a "World Cup legend", while the Sunday Mirror carries a sub-headline quote from Sir Bobby's fellow World Cup winner Sir Geoff Hurst - who is now the last surviving member of the famous 1966 squad. "We will never forget him and nor will all of football," Sir Geoff writes. "A great colleague and friend he will be sorely missed by all of the country beyond sport alone."

David Beckham is the England star quoted on the front of the Sun on Sunday who describe Sir Bobby as "a hero to the whole world" - touching on his global reach.

Finally, in the Sunday Times Martin Samuel writes "with his passing, a little piece of England dies too". He says Sir Bobby was a great footballer and a good man, but also "our connection to what we believe was a gentler, nobler time. Our bridge to loyalty and duty, to modesty and diligence".

In their coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, many of the papers focus on Iran.

An Israeli minister tells the Mail on Sunday that Tehran's religious leaders will be "wiped off the face of the earth" if its "proxy" group Hezbollah attacks Israel. Nir Barkat claims in the tabloid that Iran's plan is to attack Israel on all fronts. The paper calls the comments "incendiary", and says they raise the grave spectre of a wider war.

Turning to the Observer, the paper reports the Israeli government is being pressured by hardliners in its own security establishment to launch a pre-emptive strike on Hezbollah in Lebanon. The paper says the US is "holding Israel back" from any strike, fearing a major regional conflict.

The Sunday Telegraph talks about Washington urging Britain and other allies to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard as terrorists, citing what they call its "complicity" in the massacre carried out by Hamas.