Liverpool legend Sir Kenny Dalglish has received his knighthood from the Prince of Wales in recognition of an outstanding career on and off the pitch.
Daglish won three European Cups in seven years with Liverpool, and as a manager earned top-flight league championship titles with the Anfield club and Blackburn Rovers.
His off-field heroics include supporting the families of the Hillsborough disaster and his charity work with his wife Marina which has raised more than £10million.
When the announcement was made in June, Dalglish admitted he thought the letter was from the taxman.
“I got a letter through the door. I thought it was the taxman!” he said.
“I saw a wee bit of the crown but as I went to open it the door bell went so I said to Marina, ‘here’ and she went, ‘Ooooh…’ That was it.
“It is some journey, aye. You start off in your life just hoping to be a footballer.
"You become a footballer and have a bit of success in the football world and that seems to give you a platform to go on to other things.
“We (with wife Marina) only set out to do the best we possibly could, even through all the other stuff. The charity or Hillsborough; it was to help people because somebody helped us.
“You start off with your parents and they put you on the right road. Then the football; you couldn’t get any better tutors than Jock Stein and Bob Paisley.
“People might say they didn’t get a recognition like this. I wouldn’t get into a discussion about that but I’m not saying I’m any more deserving than those two great men.
“Someone has thought it was fitting for me to get it and that’s all we can deal with at the moment. We are hugely proud to have got this accolade.”
Bournemouth striker Jermain Defoe was awarded an OBE for services to his foundation.
Defoe’s foundation was launched in 2010 after a hurricane in St Lucia, the Caribbean island his grandparents came from.
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