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Former England football manager Sir Bobby Robson will be given the Lifetime Achievement Award at Sunday's BBC Sports Personality of the Year show.
The award recognises his contribution as both player and manager in a career spanning more than half a century.
Players from the 1986 and 1990 England World Cup sides and Ipswich teams he led to the 1978 FA Cup and 1981 Uefa Cup wins will form a guard of honour.
An audience of 5,000 will watch the show at Birmingham's NEC from 1900 GMT.
Robson, 73, is currently Ireland's International Football Consultant.
His professional playing career spanned nearly 20 years during which he played for Fulham, West Bromwich Albion and Vancouver Royals.
He also made 20 appearances for England, scoring four goals.
He managed Ipswich from 1969 to 1982 before taking the England job.
After spells in Europe with PSV Eindhoven, Sporting Lisbon and Barcelona he returned to England to take the helm at Newcastle from 1999 to 2004.
Previous winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award include Bjorn Borg (2006), Pele (2005), Sir Ian Botham (2004), Martina Navratilova (2003), George Best (2002) and Sir Alex Ferguson (2001).
A shortlist of 10 stars has been named for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, with the winner to be decided by phone poll during the two-hour programme on BBC One
The award recognises his contribution as both player and manager in a career spanning more than half a century.
Players from the 1986 and 1990 England World Cup sides and Ipswich teams he led to the 1978 FA Cup and 1981 Uefa Cup wins will form a guard of honour.
An audience of 5,000 will watch the show at Birmingham's NEC from 1900 GMT.
Robson, 73, is currently Ireland's International Football Consultant.
His professional playing career spanned nearly 20 years during which he played for Fulham, West Bromwich Albion and Vancouver Royals.
He also made 20 appearances for England, scoring four goals.
He managed Ipswich from 1969 to 1982 before taking the England job.
After spells in Europe with PSV Eindhoven, Sporting Lisbon and Barcelona he returned to England to take the helm at Newcastle from 1999 to 2004.
Previous winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award include Bjorn Borg (2006), Pele (2005), Sir Ian Botham (2004), Martina Navratilova (2003), George Best (2002) and Sir Alex Ferguson (2001).
A shortlist of 10 stars has been named for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, with the winner to be decided by phone poll during the two-hour programme on BBC One
