(Video) Why this former Liverpool player turned down an MBE

For many across the country, receiving an honour like the MBE from the Royal Family is something to aspire to but Liverpool isn’t like most other places and that was on show from one former Red.

Speaking on The Football Historian Podcast, Howard Gayle explained why he turned down the award in 2016:

“I’d always had this thought about those gongs, and those gongs originated in and are poured on by a royal family that was implicated in the slave trade, in Africa.

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