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Kenny Dalglish (Liverpool) signed black and white photograph
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Kenny Dalglish personally signed black and white 10x8"photograph with anxious look! Very popular Liverpool Manager.

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Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish MBE (born 4 March 1951, Dalmarnock, Glasgow) is a former Scottish international football player. He was famous for his successes with Celtic in the 1970s and with the English club Liverpool in the 1970s and 1980s. A prolific goalscorer, he was the first to score 100 league goals in both the English and Scottish leagues. He is regarded by many as the greatest Liverpool player of all time, and was recently crowned the 'Player Who Shook The Kop' the most in its history. He beat the likes of Steven Gerrard (2nd), Ian Rush (3rd), Billy Liddell (6th), Kevin Keegan (7th) and Emlyn Hughes (10th) to name just 5.

More recently, Dalglish has also enjoyed success as a club manager: he is one of only three people to have won the English League Championship as a manager with two different clubs. He was also the first man to win 100 caps for Scotland and won a total of 102 caps. With 30 goals, he holds the scoring record for his country jointly with Denis Law.

Playing career
Dalglish grew up supporting Rangers. Though born in Dalmarnock in the East End of Glasgow, he was brought up in the docklands of Govan, just a stone's throw from Ibrox.

Dalglish began playing football, like so many others, at primary school, he attended Milton Bank primary school where he started out as a goalkeeper! Thankfully, for the footballing world, by the time he appeared for the Scotland under 15's in a fixture against their Northern Irish counterparts he was playing outfield as a right-half scoring twice. He caught the eye of a journalist reporting for Sunday paper 'The People' during his next game for the U/15's game against England, the reporter was so impressed he wrote of Dalglish, "a brilliant ball player," quite an accolade.

He wanted to join his idols at Rangers, but the call never came. He did have trials at West Ham (twice) and Liverpool, but they came to nothing. A few years later it is said that Shanks went mad when he found out he could have had Dalglish as a 15 year-old, especially considering Dalglish actually played in the Reds 'B' team in a fixture against Southport reserves.[citation needed] And so it was that Dalglish, the Protestant son of an engineer, found himself playing for Celtic, a Catholic side and age-old fierce Old Firm rivals of his childhood favourites, Rangers.

His signing, on a provisional contract in May 1967, was not without amusement. Jock Stein, the legendary Celtic manager, had sent his assistant Sean Fallon to see Dalglish and his parents at their home. Hearing that Fallon was at the door, Dalglish raced to his bedroom and frantically tore down the posters of his boyhood Rangers idols. Dalglish was farmed out to a Celtic nursery side, Cumbernauld United for whom he scored 37 goals during the 1967-68 season. He also worked as an apprentice joiner. By the following year he had turned professional and was a regular member of a Celtic reserve team so good it was known as the Quality Street Gang.

Dalglish made his debut coming on from the bench for Charlie Gallagher in Scottish League Cup quarter-final tie at Hamilton Academical at Douglas Park on 25th September 1968, he helped Celtic to a 4-2 victory.

It took Dalglish three years to establish himself in the first team. At that time Celtic were not only the best team in Scotland, they had become the first British team to win the European Cup after beating Inter Milan 2-1 at the Estádio Nacional, Lisbon. Stein took a great interest in Dalglish, recognising his potentially outstanding talent. Eventually he gave him his chance in a benefit match. The result was Celtic 7 Kilmarnock 2. Dalglish scored six of the Celtic goals.

In 1971 Dalglish attended the Old Firm derby at Ibrox, where 66 people died as stairway 13 of the aging stadium collapsed under the weight of the supporters rushing back into the ground after Colin Stein secured a late equaliser for the Govan side.

The 1971-72 season saw Dalglish score his first goal for Celtic, it came via the penalty spot in the 2-0 Scottish League Cup tie win over childhood favourites Rangers at Irox on the 14th August '71, he went on to amass 23 league and cup goals in just 49 appearances by the end of the season.

By 1972-73 Dalglish was Celtic's leading marksman with a seasonal tally of 41 goals in all competitions. And that Dalglish trademark of shielding the ball with his back to the goal had emerged. Dalglish was made Celtic captain in 1975-76, but it was a miserable year. Stein was badly hurt in a car crash and missed most of the season and Celtic failed to win a trophy for the first time in 12 years.

He had been a full Scotland international for six years by the time he had decided t leave Celtic. Tommy Docherty gave him his debut as a substitute in the 1-0 Euro '72 qualifier victory over Belgium on the 10th November 1971 at Pittodrie. He scored his first goal for the Scots a year later on the 15th November '72, it came in the 2-0 World Cup qualifier win over Denmark at Hampden Park. Scotland eventually qualified and he went to the '74 World Cup in West Germany. Like a lot of the Scottish squad, he did not play that well and Scotland were eliminated at the end of group stages, even though they were undefeated.

During the Summer of '77 he scored, putting the ball between, against soon to be team mate, Ray Clemence's legs during Scotland's 2-1 victory over England at Wembley, the massive Tartan Army that followed the Scots south for the game were so overjoyed at the famous victory over the Auld Enemy they invaded the pitch at the sound of the final whistle. Unlike many of the bad tempered, modern day pitch invasions the Scots were in high spirits, dancing and singing on the Wembley pitch, many of the supporters grabbed a chunk of the playing surface as a souvenir and a handful of them actually climb onto the crossbar with it snapping under the weight.

On the 10th August 1977, after 269 appearances and 167 goals, an average of a goal every 1.6 games, for the Hoops, Dalglish moved to Bob Paisley's Liverpool for a then-record £440,000 transfer fee, he was bought as a replacement for Kevin Keegan who left to play for Hamburg in Germany.

The Liverpool support had reservations about Dalglish's ability to replace their idol, Keegan, but they did not need to worry as Dalglish settled in straight from the start. Dalglish made his debut, wearing Keegan's famous No.7 shirt, in the season opener at Wembley, the Charity Shield, it was the 13th August '77 and Manchester United were the Reds opponents for the day, both sides shared the shield as neither could break the deadlock. He scored his first goal in his league debut a week later on the 20th August, Liverpool went to Ayresome Park to face Middlesbrough with Dalglish's 7th minute goal earning the Reds a 1 all draw. He also scored on his Anfield debut 3 days later on the 23rd, with the half-time score at 0-0, Dalglish scored in the first minute of the second period to set the Reds up for a 2-0 victory over Newcastle United as well as putting the doubters minds at rest.

At the end of his first season Dalglish had played 62 times scoring 31 goals, a goal every other game, the most important goal he scored was the winning goal in the 1978 European Cup final at Wembley against Belgium side Bruges, he latched onto a through ball by fellow Scot Graeme Souness and calmly dinked the ball over the onrushing goalkeeper. He went on to become arguably the most influential member of the most successful club team in English football history, winning further League Championships and European Cups in a period stretching to the mid-1980s. To this day most Liverpool fans regard Dalglish as the best player ever to wear the Red shirt, giving him the nickname 'King Kenny', this statement was backed by the 2006 poll 100 Players Who Shook The Kop in whick Dalglish was voted number 1 ahead of the likes of Steven Gerrard, Billy Liddell, Ian Rush and John Barnes.

He went on to play in both the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina, scoring against the Netherlands in the famous 3-2 win that included one of the best ever World Cup goals by Archie Gemmill, and the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain, scoring against New Zealand, both times the Scots failed to get past the group stage. In total he played 102 times for Scotland (a national record) and scored 30 goals (also a national record, shared with Denis Law).

In the April of 1980 Liverpool paid £300,000 for a young, gangaly striker named Ian Rush, after an initial settling in period, which most newly signed youngsters had to endure, he was introduced to the first team. Alongside the enigmatic Scotsman, Rush thrived, he began to understand the way Dalglish played, and vice-versa. The partnership they made together was arguably the best in the clubs history, even topping the Keegan/Toshack partnership of the 1970's.[citation needed] It did not matter how opposing defences set up against them Dalglish seemed to open the door for Rush to barge right to score a numerous amount of goals.

By the end of Rush's first full season he had scored 30 goals in 49 games, finishing top scorer for the club and Dalglish had chipped in with 22 goals of his own from 62 matches, finishing second in the club's goalscoring chart, not bad considering the amount of goals he set up for his young strike partner. The pairs goals helped the Anfield club the League championship and a 3-1 League Cup final win over Tottenham Hotspur in which Rush scored the settling goal in the 119th minute, a minute from the end of extra time.

Dalglish would have played in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, at the ripe old age of 35, but it is believed he was either carrying an injury into the 1986 FA Cup final against Everton or, as more people believe, withdrew from the squad as a protest at Liverpool team-mate Alan Hansen being snubbed by Scotland's caretaker boss, Alex Ferguson.[citation needed] His place in the squad was taken by Steve Archibald of FC Barcelona with Scots again failing to get past the group stages.


[edit] Managerial career
After the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985 in which 39 Juventus supporters died when rioting fans caused a wall to collapse (the second tragedy witnessed by Dalglish), and in the wake of the resignation of manager Joe Fagan, Dalglish became player-manager of the Anfield club and guided them to the clubs first-ever "double" by the end of his first season in charge, 1985-86. Liverpool achieved the historic feat by winning the League Championship by 2 points over Merseyside rivals Everton (Dalglish actually scored the winner in a 1-0 victory over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge to secure the title on the final day of the season) and the FA Cup, again, beating derby rivals Everton 3-1 in the first ever all Merseyside cup final.

The following season was trophyless as Liverpool surrendered their league title to Everton, lost to Arsenal in the League Cup final and were knocked out of the F.A Cup by underdogs Luton Town. Amazingly, over a 15 year period it was only the third time the Reds had ended the season without winning the league title or one of the domestic or European cups.

Liverpool topped the league virtually all season long in 1987-88, although Dalglish's appearances were becoming increasingly rare after he signed Peter Beardsley from Newcastle. Kenny had put together, arguably, the most entertaining Liverpool team ever, alongside Beardsley he already had signed John Aldridge from Oxford United, who replaced the Juve bound Rush, he also added exciting winger John Barnes from Watford and Crystal Palace midfielder Ray Houghton to the likes of Hansen, Ronnie Whelan, Steve McMahon, Mark Lawrenson and Steve Nicol. They went on a run that saw them go 37 matches (29 in the league, 22 wins, 7 draws) unbeaten in all competitions from the beginning of the season, ironically, the run was ended by old foes Everton who beat them by a single goal at Goodison Park on the 21st February 1988, the run began on the 15th August 1987. They were eventually crowned champions, with 4 games to play, having suffered just two defeats from 40 games, but were denied a unique second double by a shock defeat at the hands of Wimbledon in the FA Cup final.

Dalglish guided Liverpool to victory over Everton in the second all Merseyside F.A Cup final in 1989, but they squandered the chance of a second double in the last minute of the final game of the season. A last-minute goal by future Liverpool player Michael Thomas gave Arsenal the 2-0 victory they needed at Anfield and the league title went to the north Londoners on goal difference.

1989-90 saw Liverpool win their third league title in their first five seasons under Dalglish's management. It came after a late surge by Aston Villa had knocked them off the top of the table in April, a strong run during the final weeks of the season saw Dalglish's men win the title by nine points. The run that finally saw off the Villa Park clubs challenge had an Israeli international at the centre of it. Dalglish brought the unknown Ronnie Rosenthal to Anfield to boost the attack, it worked wonders with the flamboyant Rosenthal scoring 7 times in his 10 outings, this included a hat-trick during the 4-0 win over Charlton Athletic at Selhurst Park. 1989-90 was also the season that saw the 38-year-old Dalglish play the final game of his career, he came on as a 71st minute sub for Jan Mølby in Liverpool's final home game of the season against Derby County on the 1st May 1990, the Reds made it a happy farewell for the 'King' by winning by a goal to nil, the goal coming via an 81st minute strike from centre-back Gary Gillespie. Dalglish also received his 3rd Manager of the year award.

Dalglish was the man in charge of the club at the time of the Hillsborough disaster, 96 Liverpool supporters died on the 15th April at the beginning of the 1989 FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest. Kenny won many admirers for his exemplary dignity during this tragedy, he attended many of the funerals as did the other Liverpool players, he is still well-regarded by Liverpool supporters for this reason as well as for his on-field successes; ultimately, though, the trauma, the third he had witnessed, took its toll on his health, and he resigned as manager of Liverpool on the 21st February 1991, his last act being a confidence vote in future homegrown talents Steve McManaman, Mike Marsh and his last signing, youngster Jamie Redknapp. Dalglish departed with Liverpool still ranked as Champions, and as the dominating force of the English game for the past two decades, a time that Dalglish was very much at the fore-front of all that the club was achieving. Dalglish's parting gift to the club was the legacy he had left behind.

Dalglish's Liverpool record reads: 515 appearances, 172 goals (plus a numerous amount of assists, especially for Ian Rush), 307 games in charge of the Reds, 8 League Championships, 2 FA Cup wins, 3 European Cup wins, 4 League Cup wins, 1 European Super Cup win, 5 Charity Shield wins, 1 Football Writers Footballer of the Year award, 1 PFA player of the year award and 3 Manager of the year awards, he also can add a numerous amount of runners-up medals to the list.

Dalglish returned to management in the of October 1991, with Second Division Blackburn Rovers, whom he led into the English Premiership by beating Leicester City 1-0 in the Second Division Play-off final at Wembley, Dalglish certainly had the Midas touch, he did this in his first season in charge of the Ewood Park club, it was also the first time Blackburn had been in the flight of English football since 1966.

Jack Walker's money and ambition plus Dalglish's knowledge of the game lead to the acquisition of Southampton's Alan Shearer for a, then, record fee of £3.3 million, he helped Dalglish's newly promoted Rovers to a very respectable 4th position. The club finished 2 positions higher the following season finishing as runners-up to Man United, by this time Kenny had added England internationals Tim Flowers and David Batty to his growing squad.

1994-95 saw Dalglish up the ante, he, again, broke the transfer record paying Norwich City £5 million for the services of Chris Sutton who along with Shearer formed a formidable striking partnership the was known as the SAS (Shearer And Sutton). He had now spent the, then, huge sum of £27¾ million putting together a squad that could make a serious challenge for the ultimate prize, the Premier League Championship. The challenge came and by the last game of the season both Blackburn and Man United were pushing for the title, Blackburn had to go to, of all places, Dalglish's former home Anfield with United having to go to East London to face West Ham United at Upton Park, Dalglish had to sweat for all of 30 seconds as Rovers went 2-1 down to a late Redknapp winner and the news that United had failed to get the result they needed filtered through to him via the radio's in the crowd, the game was being screened live by Sky Sports and they had a camera trained on the tense Dalglish, you could see the worried expression leave to become a beaming smile as he received the news, the following Rovers support erupted and so did the Liverpool support as they didn't want their fierce rivals to win the league.

The title meant that Dalglish had been part of 9 championship winning sides and the title win also sent Dalglish into the record books once again, he was only the third manager in the history of the game to lead two different clubs to league championships, Herbert Chapman (Arsenal and Huddersfield Town) and Brian Clough (Derby County and Nottm Forest) being the others.

After winning the Premiership Dalglish "moved upstairs" on the 25th June '95 to become Director of Football with Ray Harford taking over the reigns as manager of Blackburn, this was a largely-symbolic role that freed up his time for golf and TV punditry. Feeling that he was not contributing enough he parted company, through 'mutual consent,' with the club at the end of the following season.

On the 14th January 1997 he took control at a third top-flight English club, once again replacing the departing Kevin Keegan, this time as manager of Newcastle United. Despite, an initial, strong start, he guided the Magpies to second spot in the premiership thus qualifying for the Champions League, Dalglish's dismantling of one of the most exciting footballing sides in the Premiership and the subsequent squad finishing a very disappointing 13th lost him the support of the fans, although he took the 'Toon Army' to the FA Cup final, however, they were outclassed and lost 2-0 to Arsenal. After just 2 games of the 1998-99 season he was sacked by the Newcastle board.

In June of 1999 he was on his way back to the club where he started his career, he was appointed Director of Football at Celtic, with his former Liverpool signing John Barnes appointed as Head Coach. The'dream team' of Dalglish and Barnes turned into a nightmare. Barnes was sacked in February 2000 and Dalglish was appointed caretaker manager until the end of the season, and he guided them to the Scottish League Cup final where they beat Aberdeen 2-0 at Hampden Park. The departure from Celtic left a bitter taste in the mouth of all concerned with Dalglish receiving a £600,000 settlement for the dismisal, disappointingly it came via lawyers and an appearance at the Court of Sessions in Edinburgh.

Since leaving Celtic Kenny has been linked with a number of managerial vacancies, including those at Preston North End (March 2002), Liverpool (May 2004) and the Scottish national team (November 2004), but has yet to make a return to management.