Andy Murray & Mo Farah knighted in New Year Honours list

Andy Murray, Mo Farah, Lee Pearson, Jessica Ennis-Hill and Katherine Grainger are all honoured
British tennis champion Andy Murray and athlete Mo Farah have been knighted in the Queen's New Year Honours list.
Paralympic dressage rider Lee Pearson also becomes a Sir, while heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill and rower Katherine Grainger are made dames.

There are CBEs for cyclists Jason and Laura Kenny, swimmer Sascha Kindred and equestrians Charlotte Dujardin, Nick Skelton and Sophie Christiansen.

Former athlete Sir Roger Bannister is made a Companion of Honour.

Boxer Nicola Adams, Great Britain hockey captain Kate Richardson-Walsh and Wales football manager Chris Coleman receive OBEs.

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Other OBEs include rowers Pete Reed and Andrew Triggs Hodge, cyclist Ed Clancy, Paralympians Jody Cundy and Anne Dunham and racehorse trainer John Gosden.
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew is made a MBE, as are a host of gold medal winners from the Olympics and Paralympics in Rio, with more than 100 people in sport included on the list.
Great Britain's women's hockey players - including Richardson-Walsh's wife Helen - are all honoured, together with other champions including gymnast Max Whitlock, swimmer Adam Peaty, golfer Justin Rose, and Paralympic gold medal-winning cyclist and athlete Kadeena Cox.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/38462146

I sense at least 1 of the knighthoods won't be too well received by a select few on this forum.

I'm glad Mo got one, BUT, Personality of the year Murray, he's got no personality, listening to him drone on he's better than a Valium.

nicko wrote:I'm glad Mo got one,   BUT,    Personality of the year Murray,   he's got no personality,   listening to him drone on he's better than a Valium.

Agreed Nick.
He does need a personality transplant.
He might have a problem after retiring - his voice simply isnt media friendly.
Others from sport have gone on to enjoy rather successful media careers - Gary Lineker, Jon Agnew, Sue Barker, Andrew Castle.
But Murray . No chance.

          WITH the few  $$tens of millions$$  in prize money and endorsements that he must have earned already, a professional sportsperson of AM's calibre doesn't need a media career in his retirement years...

There's plenty of other things he could do, to fill in his time :

Business owner
'Gentleman farmer'
Live off his investments
Set up a tennis academy
Be a generous benefactor to charities, medical research, the arts..

Or, any combination of the above..      

He can do all that Wolfie, just don't ask him to do any public speaking !

Philanthropy is a good career move for retired but uber rich stars. Hasn't done The Beckhams any harm.

Hey - Murray could audition for the remake of Dr Doolittle. He could talk to sloths.