Shane Warne funeral

The private memorial service was held at St Kilda Football Club. Two Saints scarves were laid over the wooden coffin as pallbearers, including Warne's son ...

The event, with McGuire playing a key organising role, will be free, with a public ballot held to secure tickets and seating. “I met him a few other times; he was a really lovely guy.” He spent six years in London working for The Guardian.Connect via “Their speeches were magnificent and the people who were there just felt keenly for the whole experience – it was as wonderful a send-off as I think I’ve been involved in. Officials expect the event to begin at 7pm. “[The funeral] was about as good as you can get under the circumstances. Mourners also heard Yellow by Coldplay – a “favourite of Shane’s”, McGuire said, as well as My Way by Frank Sinatra. He took the hat-trick, he took the 700. “I made his first chocolate milkshake at the tearooms down at Ricketts Point when he was 16,” the Moorabbin local said. It really hits home, and the family carried themselves with great dignity and decorum. He wasn’t one of these people who then became a hermit and forgot his friends. “Anyone who has been through a funeral knows it is a real full stop.