The anguish and disappointment felt by England’s Lionesses at their loss to Spain in the Women’s World Cup final was palpable across the UK front pages on Monday, but many also offered consoling words.
The Guardian summed up the mixed feelings of the result with the page one headline “Pride and pain”, with an image of the English side standing arm-in-arm as one player sits dejectedly on the ground among them with head bowed.
