Upgrades surely?

Nearly time for the Honours List to do its thing...

When the Palace releases the King’s New Year’s Honours List, it will be interesting to see who gets what from the Cup world and it would be no surprise to see two names getting the ultimate gong of a knighthood and the right to be addressed as ‘Sir.’

In fact there’s any number of Commonwealth members that should be recognised and given an upgrade with the stand-out candidate being a certain Kiwi that has led his team to no less than three in a row. In the UK if we won just one, the sailors would be heralded from the hilltops and perhaps would never need to buy a drink at a bar in a yacht club ever again. In New Zealand however, recognition comes at a pace that snails think is fast and with the Cup being something of an emotive football in the corridors of power, honours are highly political.