This has nothing to do with sport, but come on!

In a move possibly designed to bring a subversive and comedic end to the honours system in this country, The Spoiler has learned that amongst the next crop of honourees is none other than celebrity barber Nicky Clarke - OBE for services to hair!

Mr Clarke is almost certainly an excellent person, and few people can claim to “make every day a good hair day,” as his website states (although many have tried), but can a senior member of the royal family be wheeled out to bestow this honour and ever hope to be taken seriously again?

Gordon Taylor somehow ended up with an OBE

The 2008 New Years honours list was chock full of professors, researchers, emergency services officers, philanthropists, and many other folks whose time and effort have contributed to making the nation a better place in the past year.

Also in the list sits Gordon Taylor, Chief Executive of the PFA and the highest