Former England regulater Gareth Southgate will get a knighthood in the 2025 New Year Honours, according to increates.
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 uncovered the ex-national team boss will get the gong for services to sport – complying in the footsteps of England fantastics 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 greet aget for his postponeedst honour
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One source telderly the newspaper: “Gareth is a football legend who accomplishd fantastic skinnygs 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 heartshattering 2-1 Euro final loss to Spain, Southgate is set to go in the history books.
