NewsGraeme Souness receives CBE for services to football and charity
Former Liverpool captain and manager Graeme Souness has been made a CBE.
The 71-year-old was recognised in the King's Birthday Honours list for his services to football and charity.
Souness enjoyed a glittering playing career with Middlesbrough, Liverpool, Sampdoria, Rangers and the Scotland national team before moving into management.
He is now a vice-president for DEBRA UK, a charity that supports those with the rare skin disease epidermolysis bullosa (EB).
Souness began working with the organisation in 2019 and last year completed a swim across the English Channel that raised more than £1.5 million to help it clinically test existing medication that could improve the quality of life for people with the condition.
"I am delighted and humbled to receive this honour," he said. "It has been a life-changing few years working so closely with DEBRA UK as vice-president and none more so than this last year when I was part of a great team, swimming the English Channel to raise vital funds and awareness for DEBRA UK and EB.
"It is wonderful that the King has honoured me with a CBE and it is important to acknowledge the whole team which works tirelessly to find solutions to the intolerable pain, itch and inflammation of this horrendous condition. This is for my friend Isla and everyone else living with EB."
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