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[rahl]

Brilliant, best news this season!!!

Last chunk of turd from the yanks i hope (Hicks and gillette) i mean!

King Kenny will get a great start at OT, no better baptism of fire!!

[Offspring]

Hell fucking yeah!!!

Fisnish your unfinished business king Kenny!!! Hope you will galvanized the boys.

[SCB2011]

Originally Posted by rahl

Brilliant, best news this season!!!

Last chunk of turd from the yanks i hope (Hicks and gillette) i mean!

King Kenny will get a great start at OT, no better baptism of fire!!

Strange isn't it?
King Kenny made his debut for Liverpool in 1977 against Man Utd after his transfer from Celtic.

[rahl]

Liverpool Football Club confirmed on January 8 the appointment of Kenny Dalglish as the club's manager until the end of the season.

The Kop legend returns to the Anfield helm in a temporary capacity following the departure of Roy Hodgson.

Dalglish is revered on the Kop having represented the club as both a player and manager with great distinction.

With a delicate touch and the ultimate football brain, King Kenny is regarded by the majority of Liverpudlians as the club's greatest ever player.

When he joined in August 1977, it was hard to see how Bob Paisley's side could top their first European Cup triumph of the previous season. But, with the highly influential Dalglish in the team, the next 13 years brought untold riches.

Unlike many Liverpool signings of the era, the Scotland international was already a household name when he made the switch from Parkhead to Anfield. His deeds in the green and white hoops of Celtic had made him one of the most sought-after figures in British football and it required a record £440,000 fee to secure his services.

Dalglish was brought in to replace Kop idol Kevin Keegan, who'd moved to Hamburg earlier that summer, though any fears he couldn't fill those illustrious boots were quickly laid to rest.

The Glasgow-born forward found the net seven minutes into his league debut against Middlesbrough at Ayresome Park, and followed that with a goal on his first appearance in front of the Kop as Newcastle were beaten 2-0.

Dalglish slipped seamlessly into Paisley's all-conquering red machine and the new King of the Kop crowned his first season by topping the club's goalscoring charts. The most memorable of his 31 strikes came in the 1978 European Cup final against FC Bruges at Wembley, a delicate dink over the 'keeper that clinched a 1-0 victory.

The move south increased his profile dramatically, though Dalglish was never one to seek the limelight and remained typically modest despite his new found superstar status.

In 1979, his talent was recognised by the football writers of England, who voted the canny Scotsman their Footballer of the Year. The award was just desserts for a player whose every touch made Kopites purr with delight.

A selfless team player who brought others into play, Dalglish was an on-the-field visionary who could spot openings that few, if any, of his contemporaries could see.

David Johnson was the first grateful recipient of this in the late Seventies but it was the King's strike partnership with Ian Rush that was to fire the Reds to greater glory during the Eighties.

The club may have had a new chief goalscorer, but Dalglish remained the man pulling all the strings. If assists were recorded back then, he'd have been the first name on everyone's Fantasy Football teamsheet.

A double Footballer of the Year in 1983, he was without doubt the finest British-born player of his generation and was rightly spoken about in the same breath as Maradona, Zico, Platini and Rummenigge.

With the ball at his feet, he was a pure genius - a contention backed up by footage of just about every one of his 172 Liverpool goals. There's the aforementioned European Cup winner, his sublime curlers at Highbury, Portman Road and Goodison, a mazy dribble through the Man United defence at Maine Road, his stretching volley in the League Cup final versus West Ham and title clinchers against Tottenham and Chelsea.

Everyone has their own particular favourite but the one common denominator in all the above was the famous Kenny celebration: a quick turn with arms aloft and a beaming smile that would have lit up even the murkiest Mersey sky.

The Kop hero-worshipped him like no other. Dalglish was the first name they sang and many a bed sheet was converted into a homemade banner paying homage.

In the aftermath of the Heysel Stadium disaster, the playmaker was a surprising but popular appointment as player/manager.

Fears his new role would result in more time on the touchline and less on the pitch were initially unfounded. It was on his return to the side during the 1985-86 run-in that Liverpool embarked on a winning streak that would see them clinch a coveted league and FA Cup double. How fitting it was at Stamford Bridge when Dalglish 'the player' scored the goal that secured the title.

Inevitably, his appearances became fewer and fewer over the next couple of years but there was still the odd flash of brilliance as the master sought to teach his apprentices.

What Dalglish went on to achieve as Liverpool manager cemented his legendary status.

His double in 1986 was followed by league titles in 1988 and 1990, with another all-Merseyside Cup triumph in 1989.

Who knows how many European trophies would have found their way back to Anfield during this period had English clubs not been barred from continental competition.

It could be argued that it took a decade for the club to fully recover from his shock resignation in February 1991, but more than 18 years later, The King was emotionally reunited with the Reds when he accepted a role at the Academy in 2009.

As well as aiding the development of Liverpool's stars of the future, Dalglish also worked in an ambassadorial role helping develop the commercial side of the business around the globe.

A year later, the 59-year-old was back in the Anfield hot seat almost two decades after his resignation, assuming an interim position as Reds boss.

[Alkano]

Only a Kop legend can bring back the good old Liverpool to it's peak and beyond.
Hope the team can turns thing round....

[Xgenre]

Hail the return of the King. What a match to begin his reign! I'm sure the players are fired up now. Who is his assistant? Sammy Lee still? I wonder if Phil Thompson will be back too. He's legendary. Still remember how Phl managed us when Houllier was sick. He did well.

[pirambi]

Originally Posted by beck7777

News is Roy will be meeting the owners and rumours are he will be ask to leave after the FA Cup game at Old Toilet...

useless, after lying at relegation spot, u comment about the champion.
go get a life.. btw y do u use the champions player name....

[pirambi]

Originally Posted by Alkano

Only a Kop legend can bring back the good old Liverpool to it's peak and beyond.
Hope the team can turns thing round....

now u call him a legend. if he loses two or three matches, u ask him to be replaced.All liverfoolians are sick

[Offspring]

Originally Posted by pirambi

now u call him a legend. if he loses two or three matches, u ask him to be replaced.All liverfoolians are sick

Why don't you just fuck off from this thread you piece of mother fucking shithead.

[hawksbay]

Originally Posted by Xgenre

Hail the return of the King. What a match to begin his reign! I'm sure the players are fired up now. Who is his assistant? Sammy Lee still? I wonder if Phil Thompson will be back too. He's legendary. Still remember how Phl managed us when Houllier was sick. He did well.

really guys i don t noe if shd rejoice or wat but dalgish has been out of the scene for a long time,hopefully he puts in a good set of backroom staff n galvanise the team.well the fans wanted it n they have got the man,like sumone said finish the unfinished biz kenny.

[no no]

Roy Hodgson said: "Being asked to manage Liverpool Football Club was a great privilege. Any manager would be honoured to manage a club with such an incredible history, such embedded tradition and such an amazing set of fans. Liverpool is one of the great clubs in world football. I have, however, found the last few months some of the most challenging of my career. I am very sad not to have been able to put my stamp on the squad, to be given the time to bring new players into the club in this transfer window and to have been able to be part of the rebuilding process at Liverpool. The club has some great, world-class players, with whom it has been a pleasure to work and I wish the entire squad well for the rest of the season. I thank those with whom I have built up a close working relationship at the club for their loyalty and support during very testing times, and finally of course to the Liverpool fans, your passion and dedication to the club will see Liverpool at the top of the game once more."

RH never fail to find excues didn't he

[joew2005]

2 be fair 2 RH, nowdays managers r only given a few months 2 proof themselve ..... not a season or 2.

[rahl]

Originally Posted by hawksbay

really guys i don t noe if shd rejoice or wat but dalgish has been out of the scene for a long time,hopefully he puts in a good set of backroom staff n galvanise the team.well the fans wanted it n they have got the man,like sumone said finish the unfinished biz kenny.

Well bro, Kenny is not just about feel good and motivation. He is a winner first and foremost. Been reading some of the YNWA threads and although there is a lot of nostalgia, several things stand out.

He played the sweeper system when he thought it was useful (most English managers and pundits didn't care for it then).

He rested Beardsley (the top scorer) in the more physically demanding games.

He rotated other players.

He might play for a draw one week to get a win in the next game (think Europe).

He was adaptable and his teams had no fear, knew they were always going to win.

Originally Posted by joew2005

2 be fair 2 RH, nowdays managers r only given a few months 2 proof themselve ..... not a season or 2.

It's not just that Woy was useless, but he practically lost the fans - that is really what got him sacked. Henry & Co might have stuck with him longer otherwise.

E.g. telling the fans we played decently where we had been abject is just as insult to very intelligent Pool fans.

[Offspring]

Dalglish made his debut in 1977... against manure.

[qw2op]

wud have been a 4gone conclusion 4 tonite's match if ah roy were stil in charge ... iz shud b mor interesting now wif ah kenny ...