Jack Charlton 's wife and son have made fresh calls for the football legend to receive a posthumous knighthood.
The family said that the Northumberland -born icon deserves the honour to recognise the "team effort" of the England team who won the World Cup in 1966. Jack was famously one of the players who helped to bring home the historic win, but fellow teammates Sir Bobby Charlton - also his younger brother, of course - and Sir Geoff Hurst are the only two members to have been knighted since.
There have been many calls to give Jack a knighthood since his death aged 85 in July 2020, from his family as well as from Wansbeck's MP Ian Lavery. However, current rules around knighthoods do not allow for them to be given posthumously, The Mirror reports.
