Southgate: Won nothing, got a knighthood...

[Old Blue 2]

New Year Honours 2025: Gareth Southgate is knighted

Former England manager Gareth Southgate is awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours list.

www.bbc.co.uk

Unbelieveable...

 

[Rita_Poon]

Services to the waistcoat industry?

 

[tommye]

Couldn't care less about Southgate but was pleased to see Davie Moyes get an OBE

 

[Old Blue 2]

Couldn't care less about Southgate but was pleased to see Davie Moyes get an OBE

It's just the awarding of a Knighthood to a Manager who had the team absolutely capable of winning two trophies and screwed up both that annoys, tommye...

 

[chrismpw]

Means nothing. Most knighthoods are handed out to people who have done little more than acquire vast porsonal wealth, or who have kept embarrasing state secrets to themselves.

 

[KaiserEFC]

I mean at this point they may as well be getting This Morning to give them out to the winner of a phone in.

Pointless poncey anachronism

 

[Billy Dean]

I think he added some much needed wholeness to the England football team and for that he deserves it imo

 

[SJB]

He's exactly the sort of person I would expect to see knighted.

Regardless of trophies he didn't win he can now deservedly be mentioned in the same breath as Jimmy Savile.

 

[Billy Dean]

I think he added some much needed wholeness to the England football team and for that he deserves it imo

Wokeness not wholeness

 

[MikeH72]

Jimmy Savile had a knighthood.

 

[gonetomorrow]

I actually got mixed up reading the paper and thought that Stephen Fry's emotional reaction to his award - going on about his disturbed childhood and period in prison - was Gareth Southgate.

It's a funny old game!

 

[WA Toffee]

He got to two Euros finals and a world cup semi. Probably the best manager England have had.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Excellent bait thread

 

[Kurt.]

Maybe they also mixed Khan up with Kane ??? We’ll never know

 

[Blue 1]

Toby Young got one, and you complain about Gareth Sputhgate?