Sir Gareth Southgate receives knighthood

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Sir Gareth Southgate speaks to the press after being knighted by the Prince of Wales during an Investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle, Berkshire. The former England player and manager received the knighthood for his services to football.  Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Well, it sounds a little bit odd, but it was, I have to say, very emotional.

00:05It's an amazing experience to meet everybody that's receiving honours today

00:09and hear their own stories and realise how many brilliant people we have in this country

00:16and how talented and how much people give.

00:20I'm privileged to be here representing football,

00:24but there were so many other deserving people in that room.

00:27No, I mean, he was an amazing supporter of the team.

00:32Very strong supporter for me within the FA in his time, or in my time there.

00:38And, yeah, he is genuinely, as you can see, when he's watching England

00:42and when he's watching Aston Villa, he is a genuine football fan.

00:45At the time, you think there's going to be no way back from them

00:48and you have to find it within yourself to take on the challenges to get yourself back,

00:53but it's all possible and I hope if there are, even if that's influenced one or two young people,

00:59then that's great.

01:00There is a responsibility with the job to do it in a certain way

01:04and whether that's helping young coaches, whether that's helping youth football

01:09and then more broadly you are a spokesman for your country when you're standing as I am now.

01:15So I looked at Sir Bobby as a really important example to me of how I felt that should be

01:22and hopefully I've done that and hopefully that will guide other people in the future.

01:29They've proved themselves to be winners.

01:32I'm sure they'll represent the country brilliantly again.

01:36They've got a lot of talent.

01:37They've obviously got some senior players that have just faded away from the team.

01:43So, as always, it's not straightforward for a team when that process is happening,

01:47but I'm sure they can go and give a really strong performance.

01:50I'm sure they can go and give a really strong performance.

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