The shameful misunderstanding about Gareth Southgate’s knighthood ...Middle East

“What’s he won?” went the social media cry. Sir Alf Ramsey and Sir Bobby Charlton won the World Cup for England. Southgate won nothing.

The failure to acknowledge Macari and Sinfield had nothing to do with Southgate, yet he was the example raised by many in protest.

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I experienced his essential goodness before he embarked on his astonishing crusade to help Stoke’s homeless, and share the frustration that such public facing charity was not given its due in the New Year’s Honours list.

In his devotion to his friend and former team-mate, the late Rob Burrow, his Herculean fund-raising endeavours to raise awareness as well as cash in the fight against MND, sometimes carrying the prone, diminished frame of his old pal on his sponsored walks, Sinfield touched the essence of loyalty and commitment.

Southgate has never been anything other than a decent human being. In his career as a player he made a life he could never have imagined for himself, leaving behind his boy-next-door destiny to represent Crystal Palace and England.

Southgate was an articulate voice in the fight against racism (Photo: Getty)

Big Sam left his post after one match and 67 days, his exit triggered by allegations of using his appointment as England manager to gain from extra-curricular business dealings with a Far East firm. Southgate was promoted to a caretaker role from his job as England Under-21 coach and went on to transform the England experience.

I was critical of his approach, particularly against Italy and Spain last summer, when England clearly had the squad to triumph. At the same time I recognise the fundamental change he brought about. As Adrian Bevington, former head of communications at the FA, remarked on BBC Radio Four, making the national team likeable again ranked among his greatest achievements.

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He talked to players, listened to their concerns and offered real leadership in moments of crisis, particularly during the Black Lives Matter period when England players suffered racist abuse in Bulgaria and at Wembley following defeat to Italy on penalties.

They were being abused for the colour of their skin, a bitter wind that continues to blow, one alien to the white community. Southgate understood that, and the importance of standing at their sides. This was leadership of the highest standard, an act of socio-political importance way beyond his brief as a football coach.

For that, and for the radical transformation of the England team, what it means to be an England footballer, Southgate was absolutely deserving of his knighthood. And none would feel more frustrated and disappointed at the exclusion of Macari and Sinfield than him.

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