Arise Sir Kenny!

Delighted to read this this morning, fully deserved and as has been said long overdue!
Sir Kenny and Lady Marina Dalglish has a nice ring to it.

Read somewhere last night that he was only the 11th footballer or manager to be knighted.

Not sure how Trevor Brooking got one, doubtful services to commentary, but he was the last one.

Bobby Robson, Ferguson, Geoff Hurst, Bobby Charlton, Bert Millichip, Walter Winterbottom, Matt Busby, Alf Ramsey, Stanley Matthews, Stanley Rous and Charles Clegg (1927).

We should be really proud to have 2 of our ex footballers knighted.

If ever there was a man deserving of recognition its The King.

Well done Sir!

congratulations, Kenny, long overdue, for his great service, to a great club.

Terrible, Thatcherite oversight in a horridly flawed system.

The above about Bob.

Agreed.

However Blair couldn't wait to get more votes by recommending one for Ferguson.  For what .... compared to Bob ?

Well deserved too. Was always surprised why Paisley never got one.

The above about Bob.

Agreed.

However Blair couldn't wait to get more votes by recommending one for Ferguson.  For what .... compared to Bob ?

It's a bit worse than that. Ferguson actually got one because he donated hundreds of thousands to the Labour Party during their election campaign with a knighthood his reward by Blair and Campbell. It was never for 'achievements and services to football' or whatever official line was given at the time.

The above about Bob.

Agreed.

However Blair couldn't wait to get more votes by recommending one for Ferguson.  For what .... compared to Bob ?

Yup

I know it's called the Queen's Birthday Honours but these ones are recommendations by the Prime Minister, yes?

We should be really proud to have 2 of our ex footballers knighted.
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I should of mentioned that both Kenny and Matt Busby are/were highly respected.

It's a bit worse than that. Ferguson actually got one because he donated hundreds of thousands to the Labour Party during their election campaign with a knighthood his reward by Blair and Campbell. It was never for 'achievements and services to football' or whatever official line was given at the time.

In 1998 Ferguson was named in a list of the biggest private financial donors to the Labour Party.[232] He is a self-described socialist.[233]

[234] In January 2011 Graham Stringer, a Labour MP in Manchester and Manchester United supporter, called for Ferguson to be made a life peer.[235] Stringer and fellow Manchester Labour MP Paul Goggins repeated this call after Ferguson announced his retirement in May 2013.[236]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Ferguson

Arse crawlers trying to make him a Lord FFS.

A great sportsman but an even greater man.

Congrats Sir King Kenny!

About time this happened. The man has been a legend of the game, both in terms of talent and the way he conducts himself as an ambassador of the game for decades. Class.

Congrats Sir Kenny.

Great news, but long overdue.

YNWA

Not sure I understand enough about this knighthood thing (especially for our king), but, congrats Sir Kenny

He's been demoted! Typical Bureaucrats..