By GB News (World News) | Created at 2024-12-14 22:35:51 | Updated at 2024-12-15 00:53:16
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Former England manager Gareth Southgate will receive a knighthood in the 2025 New Year Honours, according to reports.
Southgate, 54, led his country to two successive European Championship finals, a World Cup semi-final and a World Cup quarter-final in his eight years at the helm of the Three Lions.
The Sun has revealed the ex-national team boss will receive the gong for services to sport - following in the footsteps of England greats Sir Walter Winterbottom, Sir Alf Ramsey and Sir Bobby Robson.
Letters for 2025's honours are understood to have already been sent out by the Honours Committee - with other recipients said to include Labour Party big names Sadiq Khan and Emily Thornberry.
He had already been handed an OBE back in 2019 - but Southgate and now-King Charles will meet again for his latest honour
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One source told the newspaper: "Gareth is a football legend who achieved great things this year."
He had already been handed an OBE back in 2019 - but after stepping back from the national team this summer after England's heartbreaking 2-1 Euro final loss to Spain, Southgate is set to enter the history books.
