Cup-winning former Rovers boss awarded CBE in King's Birthday Honours

Former Blackburn Rovers manager Graeme Souness, who guided the club to a promotion and a League Cup win, has been made a CBE.

Mr Souness, from Edinburgh and now residing in Dorset, was one of the most successful Rovers' managers in recent decades, leading the club back into the Premiership after they were relegated in 1999.

He then masterminded a famous League Cup win against Tottenham Hotspur at the Millenium Stadium in 2002, when Matt Jansen and Andy Cole both scored to help Rovers lift the trophy.

Mr Souness, 71, has been awarded a CBE for services to football and charity in the King's Birthday Honours.

Mr Souness featured in three World Cups for Scotland and enjoyed great success at club level with Liverpool, where he won five league titles and three European Cups.

Mr Souness is also vice-president of DEBRA, a charity which raises funding for, and awareness of, the skin condition epidermolysis bullosa (EB).

Since leaving management, he has carved out a successful television career as pundit.

Manx Missle Mark Cavendish has been made a knight (Image: PA)

Elsewhere in the world of sport, the 'Manx Missile', cyclist Mark Cavendish, has been awarded a knighthood in recognition of his joint-record 34 Tour de France stage wins and various other cycling achievements.

Fellow cyclist Chris Boardman, who won gold at the 1992 Olympics and has been a passionate cycling and safety campaigner, has been awarded a CBE.

Sandy Lyle, who won golf's two most illustrious major titles, the Masters and the Open Championship, in the 1980s, was awarded an OBE, as was legendary cricketer Katherine Sciver-Brunt.