The Papers: Messi ‘the greatest’ and strikes to ‘wreak havoc’

Argentina's triumph implicit France successful the World Cup last features crossed the beforehand pages. The Sun is the lone insubstantial to pb solely connected the triumph - carrying an representation of Lionel Messi holding aloft the trophy successful Qatar. The insubstantial calls Messi "the greatest" and quotes BBC presenter Gary Lineker calling the crippled - which Argentina won connected penalties - "the top I've ever witnessed". It was, the Sun suggests, the top World Cup last since England's triumph successful 1966.

The Daily Express features a photograph of the full Argentina squad celebrating their World Cup win. But similar galore different papers overmuch of the absorption is connected the strikes taking spot successful the UK this week. The Express claims nursing unions are "willing to compromise" implicit their wage demands, raising hopes that a woody to extremity the quality could beryllium reached earlier Christmas.

The Times World Cup communicative says the "epic" lucifer ended up successful triumph for "marvel Messi". On the strikes, the Times says walkouts by Border Force unit "threaten misery" and volition "wreak havoc" astatine UK airports during the Christmas period, with Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester and Birmingham each expected to beryllium hit.

The Metro leads with comments made by Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, the caput of UK's equipped forces implicit the weekend, who said it would beryllium "perilous" to trust connected troops to capable gaps caused by the strikes, and could hamper the military's different work. It describes Argentina's World Cup triumph arsenic "Mess Hysteria".

The Daily Mirror says the authorities is "risking lives" successful failing to avert this week's strikes by NHS staff, which includes walkouts by nurses and ambulance workers. The nonfiction quotes Unite wide caput Sharon Graham arsenic saying wellness caput Steve Barclay is "holding the state to ransom" by "refusing to clasp talks" connected nurses' pay. The authorities has said caregiver wage emergence demands are unaffordable.

The strikes besides pb the mode successful The Daily Telegraph, which quotes a "senior NHS source" arsenic saying aged patients who are "fit to beryllium sent home" are apt to beryllium stuck successful infirmary implicit Christmas owed to the walkouts. The insubstantial besides warns that Britain's postulation could beryllium "the busiest ever" arsenic obstruction disruption pushes millions much drivers onto the roads.

The beforehand leafage of the Financial Times says Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing "a mounting governmental challenge" implicit the strikes, with immoderate Tory MPs urging his authorities to reopen talks connected nurses' pay. The insubstantial besides reports connected the "rapid advance" of Covid successful China, which has pb to wide illness, concern disruption and medicine shortages.

The one besides describes Lionel Messi arsenic "the greatest" successful the aftermath of Argentina's World Cup win. Ahead of the ambulance strikes, the insubstantial focuses connected reports that delayed 999 telephone effect times are costing lives.

The Guardian reports that workers astatine a Thailand mill that erstwhile supplied apparel for Tesco successful the state are to instrumentality a "landmark lawsuit" against the supermarket elephantine successful the UK implicit moving conditions. The Myanmar migrant workers assertion they were trapped successful effectual forced labour and are suing for alleged negligence, says the paper.

The Daily Mail covers comments made by erstwhile footballer Gary Neville during ITV's sum of the World Cup final, erstwhile helium reportedly said conditions for striking nurses and railway workers successful the UK were "like those faced by Qatar's immense overseas labour force". The Mail quotes erstwhile levelling-up caput Simon Clarke arsenic describing Neville's comments arsenic "grotesque", adding that ITV stressed the views were not endorsed by the channel.

The Daily Star avoids the strikes connected its beforehand page, and though it references Argentina's World Cup win, it's main absorption is connected dogs, and however they overheat if they stock a furniture with their owners and slumber nether the covers. "Fur crying retired loud," barks its screen story, "have they ever tried to get a 75lb Labrador to slumber successful its basket!"