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ALEX Salmond has called on Andy Murray to be given a knighthood in David Cameron’s farewell

honours list.

The Wimbledon champion was tipped to receive the honour following his Davis Cup heroics last year but didn’t make the list.

And Salmond believes the tennis ace’s last-minute declaration for independence before the 2014

referendum was behind the shock decision.

The former First Minister is now calling for Cameron to make amends following Dunblane-born Murray’s second Wimbledon triumph last week.

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Salmond, who was sitting behind the PM and waved a saltire when Murray won Wimbledon in 2013, said: “I would say Andy Murray would be the most popular Scottish knight since Sir William Wallace. Winning

Wimbledon should make it a slam dunk.

“David Cameron gets a resignation honours list so it’s a chance to right a wrong from his time as Prime Minister.

“If Cameron has got over the saltire incident from 2013 and then getting booed by the All England Club this year, I think the decent thing would be to put Andy on his resignation honours list.”

Salmond claimed England’s national football team would be at the front of the Buckingham Palace queue had they triumphed during Euro 2016.

He added: “If the England football team had returned from Euro 2016 having won it, Wayne Rooney would have been the first in line for a knighthood.”

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Salmond thinks that failure to award Murray the knighthood would have echoes of Sean Connery’s battle to be honoured.

The Hollywood star’s support for the SNP and an independent Scotland saw then Labour Scottish Secretary Donald Dewar veto attempts to make him a Sir in the 1997 and 1998 honours lists.

British No1 Murray came out in support of Scotland breaking from the UK on the eve of the 2014 referendum.

He tweeted: “Huge day for Scotland today! No campaign negativity last few days totally swayed my view on it. Excited to see the outcome. Let’s do this.”

But Murray appeared to try to smooth things over with the former PM minutes after defeating Milos Raonic in straight sets last Sunday.

He paid tribute to Cameron, who watched the action from the Royal Box, and resulted in a loud crescendo of booing from the crowd.

But Salmond, now an MP for Gordon, said: “All I will say is that Westminster has form on this, if we remember the revelations about Sean Connery in the 1990s when that was exposed as a piece of chicanery.

“So supporting independence is not necessarily good for your knighthood prospects.

“Cameron and company are certainly petty enough because these are small-minded, petty people.

“This is a crew who will make his election guru Lynton Crosby a peer but deny Andy a knighthood.

“Forget winning Wimbledon twice, which is extraordinary and exceptional, but even just the Davis Cup basis when he single-handedly carried them to triumph with Jamie – it is more than justified.”