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Sir Gareth Southgate
- Topic starter beak
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That New Year's Honours List:
Services to Insomnia - Sir Gareth Southgate.
Fans across the country have lauded his ability "It's the best sleep I've had in years".
Services to Knife Crime - Sir Sadiq Khan.
"That Sadiq had been great we've never ad it so good" Gang Member.
Services to the Food Industry - Dame Emily Thornberry
A spokesman said "If it wasn't for Emily I'm not sure our business would have made it through the winter".
Services to Mediocre
Too many to mention but apparently turning up to work* as a Civil Servant is one of the requirements.
*Or WFH
etc. etc.
Services to Insomnia - Sir Gareth Southgate.
Fans across the country have lauded his ability "It's the best sleep I've had in years".
Services to Knife Crime - Sir Sadiq Khan.
"That Sadiq had been great we've never ad it so good" Gang Member.
Services to the Food Industry - Dame Emily Thornberry
A spokesman said "If it wasn't for Emily I'm not sure our business would have made it through the winter".
Services to Mediocre
Too many to mention but apparently turning up to work* as a Civil Servant is one of the requirements.
*Or WFH
etc. etc.
Apollofuzz
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Not sir but Alan Mullary MBE
fish mitten
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For services to football, Roy Hodgson is far more deserving of the accolade. As much as Southgate did reasonably well with England, to bestow this honour upon him this soon after retiring as England manager seems wrong to me.
As for Sadiq Khan, i'd be tempted to cut his head off with the sword.
As for Sadiq Khan, i'd be tempted to cut his head off with the sword.
eritheagle
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And Patricia Hewitt being made a Dame has upset some too, as years ago she wanted the age of consent lowered to 10(!!) but as long as consent could be clearly proved (wtf!!).
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For all the millions and millions he's raised for research into leukaemia (by really grafting for donations too with his cycle rides), Geoff Thomas only ever made MBE
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Quite right, he’s always been Sir Steve Coppell to me 😎
Stirlingsays
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Teddy Eagle
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Scotland
Roy Hodgson was knighted in Finland. Probably makes it easier to book a table in Helsinki restaurants.
Willo
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Our well known supporter, the late Sir Bernard Ingham, was knighted in 1990.
Teddy Eagle
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For services to eyebrows?
Jimenez
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USA
No Sir Wisbech of Truro then?
silvertop
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Bobby Robson was touched with the butter knife within moments of return from dragging England to one semi final. Southgate took us to 2 major finals and reinvigorated the England team to our best winrate since Ramsay (a very different world). You can't give one and not the other.
I suspect the last Tories snubbed him given their reactionary populism and Southgate's woke associating.
Willo
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😀 😀
Bright-eyed and bushy eyebrowed.
A jolly nice gentleman and a pillar of rectitude.
RIP.
silvertop
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Loads of gongs are always bestowed on lollipop ladies and tireless life long volunteers for charities and the like. They aren't all people you don't like.
Stirlingsays
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The video makes it quite clear what the situation is about so referring to worthy people at the local level isn't the focus.
silvertop
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If you ignore his vociferous support for the demonisation by the police and Murdoch press of the victims of Hillsborough, something he continued to argue and refused to recant even after the Panel's damning verdict against the police in 2012.
Hrolf The Ganger
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The most shameful honours list ever.
Thornbury and Kahn got a title as a consolation prize. They are both despicable.
Southgate is just another example of rewarding failure. We are good at that in this country.
He took a side that should have won two tournaments and screwed it up.
Thornbury and Kahn got a title as a consolation prize. They are both despicable.
Southgate is just another example of rewarding failure. We are good at that in this country.
He took a side that should have won two tournaments and screwed it up.
Stirlingsays
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Indeed, I think Southgate can be accused of letting his politics affect what happened on the pitch as well....that penalty line up seemed suspect to me. Regardless, considering the players he had and the easier than most groups he had, I think he under performed and produced boring football to boot.