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I think we need to have a rule on 6CM that we don't criticise Kenny. At least nothing abusive or offensive. He's risking his own reputation and a taking on a huge amount of stress to help rescue the club he loves. He's also doing something he hasn't done for a long, long time. It's not going to be easy. Whatever problems he faces, and whatever defeats we suffer in the next six months (and we will: the squad is still pretty poor), we need to stick together now and get behind the manager, the players and the club.

YNWA King Kenny.
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+1
Especially anyone who clamoured for his return, including those who chanted his name at matches.
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Deal
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I'm in (prays Kenny has been keeping up to date in coaching methods, game changes etc)
 
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pauldalglish Paul Dalglish
Kenneth the hr Kenneth the man.Bitter sweet 4 me as wanted Roy 2 succeed but it'll make me so proud 2 see Dad in charge at the club he loves

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*like*

the kenny man ken
 
He's the greatest player in our history, one of our greatest ever managers and now Kenny Dalglish is back in the hot-seat following the departure of Roy Hodgson.

We've delved through the archives to pick out a selection of quotes said about our legendary number seven over the decades.



"Kenny is the best player to have ever worn the red shirt and is the undisputed king of Liverpool Football Club."

Phil Neal


"I never saw anyone in this country to touch him. I can think of only two players who could go ahead of him - Pele and possibly Cruyff. He was He was better than Maradona, Rummenigge or Platini. I would say that on his day he was, without any shadow of a doubt, the best player in the world."

Graeme Souness


"He is one of the best players I have ever seen and one of the best players in the history of football."

Franz Beckenbauer


"For me he's not just Liverpool's best player but probably Britain's best ever football person if you like. We're the most successful club and he's the best player so I don't think anyone beats him."

Jamie Carragher


"Kenny Dalglish is probably the most modest man who has ever been handed the nickname 'King' but King Kenny he will always be."

Billy Bremner


"I suppose above everything else when you try to assess Kenny's importance you must talk about his attitude to the game. He just wanted to play football. He had tremendous skill and the ability to set the pace of the game for the other players around him. When I had to sell Kevin Keegan to Hamburg - and we didn't have any choice because Kevin wanted to go to Europe - I didn't think it would be possible to replace him. Yet we did it so easily by buying Kenny from Celtic. In many ways he was a better player for Liverpool than Kevin was. Kenny is a model professional and was the best buy we ever made - it's as simple as that."

Bob Paisley


"Kenny had unbelievable vision and strength as a player. He was really aware of people around him. He had great balance and was a good finisher, courageous too. People often forget that the one quality great players need is courage. Kenny is as brave as a lion. He would take a kick from anyone and come back for more. Kenny is a man I shall always respect."

Alex Ferguson


"Kenny was a tremendous player, absolutely tremendous. I would have paid to have seen him play. I loved the way he could hold the ball up and make goals as well as score them."

Ron Yeats


"Kenny Dalglish is a hero of mine and is the best player to ever wear a red shirt."

Steven Gerrard


"After Kevin Keegan left no one was quite sure how Bob Paisley would fill the gap but it was a masterstroke to sign Kenny from Celtic. With his football brain and ability to score goals out of nothing, Dalglish became the main man of the Liverpool sides throughout the late '70s and '80s. Kenny seemed almost continually capable of writing his own script - from his dramatic first ever Liverpool goal to his strikes that clinched the 1978 European Cup win and 1986 championship against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. The way he could score goals and also create them for other players around him was special. He will always be remembered as the king here at Anfield."

David Fairclough


"I actually played against Kenny when and he turned me inside out. I thought to myself I'd love to play alongside him, and luckily for me I got that chance. Kenny is the best player I've ever played against and with."

Alan Kennedy


"Unfortunately for me I never got the chance to play with Kenny Dalglish for Liverpool so when he did play I was sat in the stands watching him. When you are up in the stand you have more of a bird's eye view of what's happening on the pitch and we had a superstar in Kenny Dalglish, without a shadow of a doubt. When Kenny put on that red shirt he was playing for it and the other 10 players in the team. He is the best player I have ever seen at this football club and he was a genius."

Brian Hall


"Kenny wasn't the quickest of movers but he was 20 yards quicker than anybody else with his football brain and he would be in position before any defender knew what was happening. I've always said the best signing that Liverpool ever made was Kenny Dalglish."

Ronnie Moran


"Kenny Dalglish would be my first choice for Liverpool's best ever player because he was a great player with a lot of qualities."

Rafael Benitez


"Kenny was a magnificent player by any analysis and one of the all-time greats."

Rick Parry


"Kenny is probably the most gifted player I have ever seen. He could turn on a five pence piece and he was an out and out footballer. He was just a tremendous player."

Tommy Smith


"I think Kenny is the best player Liverpool have ever had. Many great players have worn the Red shirt - going back to the days of Billy Liddell - but Kenny was just a genius."

Joey Jones


"Quite simply Liverpool's greatest ever player. Kenny was my hero when I was growing up. I tried to model my game on his and he was just the master."

Paul Walsh


"Kenny is the best player to ever play for Liverpool and he was just a phenomenal player. The way he looked after himself was second to none. He was just a true professional, a great talent and he was successful, which is the most important thing."

Roy Evans


"Purely and simply the best player I ever played with or against. His record speaks for itself and he is idolised on Merseyside."

Gary Gillespie


"When he took over from Kevin Keegan you thought 'How can anyone replace Kevin?' Kenny was just a fantastic player."

David Johnson


"I think Kenny was the best player in and around the box Liverpool have ever had."

Ian Callaghan


"Kenny Dalglish, he's probably one of the nicest men you'll ever meet and as a player - the partnership he had with Ian Rush was phenomenal. There's that many players over the years who've tried to get partnerships going but I don't think you'll get a better partnership that that between Dalglish and Rushie. I can remember when I was a schoolboy and I used to get the bus up to Melwood. It was raining one night and Kenny's come past me and picked up me and my dad at the bus stop. I can't remember what car it was - maybe a big white Mercedes - and I think I was only used to buses then so I was just excited to be sitting in a car never mind a Mercedes one! He dropped me off by my house and I was absolutely devastated that no one got to see me getting a lift home form the Liverpool manager. Any young kid, no matter who you support, it doesn't get much better than that, does it? Ever since I've played Kenny's been very supportive of me but I think as a player, what he's achieved has been nothing short of exceptional."

Robbie Fowler


"Kenny is Liverpool's greatest ever player simply I played with him and he made a lot of my goals. He gave me the confidence that I needed. Whenever Kenny had the ball I always knew it was going to come to me."

Ian Rush


"When I was growing up my hero was Di Stefano. Kenny for me was on a par with Di Stefano. That is the best compliment I can pay him."

George Best


"Kenny was the best Scottish player I ever played with. He could hold his own in any company and go anywhere in the world. He was a genuine world-class player."

Billy McNeill


"Kenny was a genius of a player and he is a credit to the game on and off the pitch. He always played for the team rather than himself."

Tommy Docherty


"Jimmy Greaves and Kenny Dalglish had similar know-how, but Dalglish's knowledge and reading of the game was far superior. He was the most complete footballer in British soccer."

Jimmy Armfield


"Kenny was actually here at Melwood as a 15-year-old schoolboy. He came on trial and he went home afterwards. It was only later that Bill Shankly realised that Dalglish was here as a boy and he went mad! He said 'how did we miss him?' Kenny just had the football brain. He was born with it and you can't give that to people. He had that natural born talent."

Ian St John


"I will never have a bad word said about Kenny because as a person he is fantastic. As a manager I think he was fantastic as well. He did not have the best of times at Newcastle but he won trophies at Liverpool as a manager and as a player. He won the title at Blackburn as a manager. Some of his signings did not work out for him at Newcastle but I tell you, if you ask any player who was at Newcastle when Kenny was manager, they will not have a bad word said against him because for a player he was fantastic, he treated you as a man. He treated you how you wanted to be treated. He was great for us as players, certainly here at Newcastle and definitely at Blackburn."

Alan Shearer
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Fuck me. Everton at home with Kenny's first game back as manager in front of the Kop.

I want me a ticket. Anyone do a swap for my first born?
 
I'd swap a child for a fruit pastel.

You're asking the wrong guy.
 
Kenny Dalglish isn't the long-term solution. But he understands LiverpoolEven if Liverpool's decline continues, Kenny Dalglish is unlikely ever to find himself, like Roy Hodgson did, walking alone


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Kenny Dalglish: not a long-term solution, but he will at least carry the Liverpool support. Photograph: John Walton/Empics Sport

Here's a thing about Roy Hodgson. An intelligent man, one of the few football types who knows which way up to hold a book, Hodgson's favourite novelist is JP Donleavy. A grand choice, is that; the Irish-American is one of the 20th century's greatest writers. But Roy's pick from the Donleavy canon – defined by the bona fide 1955 classic The Ginger Man – is a throwaway 1979 effort called Schultz, a novel the author himself would struggle to recall. This is like saying your favourite Shakespeare play is Timon of Athens, or that your favourite Beatles song is PS I Love You. Or that the most dependable left-back in the world is Paul Konchesky.


It's not a particularly relevant point, granted. But it is an instructive one. The man's judgment is shot to bits. Anyway, it's less brutal to raise the subject this way, instead of picking on poor old Christian Poulsen again.


No doubt there will soon be paeans published to Hodgson's abilities, bemoaning the old boy's luck. And indeed it wasn't his fault that his reign was doomed from the start, tarnished as he was for being appointed by the reviled former owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett, and the club's erstwhile CEO, confused real-life Championship Manager addict Christian Purslow. Hodgson also replaced the sainted Rafael Benítez, who had probably run his course at Anfield – his ill-fated tilt at the title in 2009 always looked more like the bittersweet denouement of a glorious golden age, rather than the first blossoming of a bright new era – but nevertheless had deservedly cemented his status as an Anfield legend after a series of giddy successes.


So yes, Hodgson's task was always nigh-on impossible. But for a man so feted by his peers, he went about his business in a remarkably cack-handed way. Konchesky and Poulsen were, it hardly needs pointing out, laughably bad signings. On the other hand, Raul Meireles was an inspired purchase, yet sticking him out on the wing was akin to splashing out on a Bentley then taking it to Sainsbury's car park to spin a few doughnuts.


His interviews, designed to keep the Sir Alexes of this world happy, were excruciating for fans brought up on rallying cries. The tactics were not quite route one, but lumpen and regressive enough to be dismissed as route zero. (Brief tactical aside: whenever Liverpool conceded, Benítez copped regular flak from pundits for employing a zonal marking system; Andy Gray has kept very quiet about Hodgson's less successful man-to-man deployment.) And the manager's repeated attempts to keep Steven Gerrard happy by stationing him in the middle, where the player simply has no clue, pleased nobody other than the deluded captain, who should stick to what he is good at.


And there's the rub. Hodgson is at heart a politician, a nice industry man, saying and doing the right thing in order to keep everyone happy and get along. His modest achievements were, as a result, talked up by other nice industry men – is anybody outside the media bubble seriously impressed by a 35-year gadfly career untainted by success outside Scandinavia? – and like all good company men who keep ploughing their furrow, Hodgson was eventually rewarded with the keys to the executive bathroom. Promoted to a level above his competence, he soon flooded it, a comedy tail of toilet paper found sticking out the back of his trousers.


So to the future. Is King Kenny a wise appointment? Possibly not – Dalglish's stints at Newcastle and Celtic were pretty poor, and he's not worked at the top level of the game since then, a decade away from the heat of the kitchen. Yet his achievements are strangely underplayed: the man has won four English titles, for goodness sake, and fashioned arguably the greatest pure footballing side the league has ever seen. (Liverpool's 1987-88 team could teach modern-day Arsenal a thing or two about trying to walk the ball into the net.)


Though the sideline snipers will doubtless try to argue otherwise, the denizens of the Kop aren't stupid. Despite joyfully throwing their arms open to greet a loved one finally coming home, they know deep down that the 59-year-old Dalglish isn't the long-term solution to Liverpool's travails. Big decisions will be made down the line. But Dalglish understands the club, and at the moment that's all the fans ask. His presence should be enough to steady a rocking ship, though FA Cup defeat followed by mid-table anonymity is the likeliest outcome. But even if the worst happens – if the team's decline continues inexorably, and a shocked Liverpool find themselves in the Championship next season – Dalglish is unlikely ever to find himself, like Hodgson did, walking alone.
 
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I think we need to have a rule on 6CM that we don't criticise Kenny. At least nothing abusive or offensive. He's risking his own reputation and a taking on a huge amount of stress to help rescue the club he loves. He's also doing something he hasn't done for a long, long time. It's not going to be easy. Whatever problems he faces, and whatever defeats we suffer in the next six months (and we will: the squad is still pretty poor), we need to stick together now and get behind the manager, the players and the club.

YNWA King Kenny.
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+1
Especially anyone who clamoured for his return, including those who chanted his name at matches.
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Deal
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I'm in (prays Kenny has been keeping up to date in coaching methods, game changes etc)
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Dont forget that even if he believes in his old methods they are still 20 years newer than roys 😉
 
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Fuck me. Everton at home with Kenny's first game back as manager in front of the Kop.

I want me a ticket. Anyone do a swap for my first born?
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I have the season ticket that day!! Lucky me or what?!?!

Plus today is Elvis Presley's birthday. The king returned on the king's birthday!
 
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We've got the World at our feet
and with Dalglish in the seat
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I fear we'll get beat
if kenny feels the heat
 
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I'm suffering from this ^.

I'm trying not too, but I can't help it.

We trash Man U tomorrow, Fergie implodes in the dressing room after the game and their form falls to pieces.

We win every game for the rest of the season and win the league.

Gotta dream.
 
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So what are the Dalglish songs?
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The one we used for Fowler was originally that of Dalglish.

Its simplicity.
Clap, clap....clap, clap, clap, clap...clap, clap, clap, clap....Dalglish!
 
The Kop will be delirious and in great voice for the return of The King!

Souness, Beckenbauer and Best tributes stand out!
 
Fucking made up about this.

Read on another site that Rush may be his nr 2, anyone else heard this?
 
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Fuck me. Everton at home with Kenny's first game back as manager in front of the Kop.

I want me a ticket. Anyone do a swap for my first born?
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I have the season ticket that day!! Lucky me or what?!?!

Plus today is Elvis Presley's birthday. The king returned on the king's birthday!
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......And it's Lucas' tomorrow.
 
[quote author=Paddy link=topic=43495.msg1246689#msg1246689 date=1294501637]
Firat premiership game is Blackpool away.
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First home game is Everton!!!
 
Absolutely marvellous news. What I wrote in the summer still stands today.


The possibility of Kenny becoming our manager again reminds me of one of my first jobs.

I spent a year at an advertising firm selling space because I wanted to get good on the 'phone before moving into my career as a financial advisor. I worked on publications for Rangers and Celtic, Wigan and Widnes rugby clubs etc and sold my fair share as part of a group of 8. I was very excited when the firm announced that we were going to produce a LFC wallchart with advertisers around the perimeter, so much so that I sold EVERY SINGLE space.

I said pretty much the same thing over the phone however my passion and enthusiasm for this publication came across in my voice, something that cannot be manufactured or faked.

A manager has to sell the importance of playing for his team and their fans as well as his own philosophy on football. All the money in the world cannot buy the passion and enthusiasm that Kenny has for Liverpool. He's won the League four times in management and shares a quality that Mourinho also has, players want to play for him.

One other thing - the atmosphere at Anfield these past few years has been rather drab and there probably won't be much of a change should Roy be appointed. Imagine the knock on effect to the players witnessing Anfield thundering the old Dalglish! Dalglish! chant for their manager?
 
Yes, that wonderful Bilko story about his first job selling media space certainly bears repeating. Brings a lump to my throat every time.
 
[quote author=Wilko link=topic=43495.msg1246699#msg1246699 date=1294502157]
Absolutely marvellous news. What I wrote in the summer still stands today.


The possibility of Kenny becoming our manager again reminds me of one of my first jobs.

I spent a year at an advertising firm selling space because I wanted to get good on the 'phone before moving into my career as a financial advisor. I worked on publications for Rangers and Celtic, Wigan and Widnes rugby clubs etc and sold my fair share as part of a group of 8. I was very excited when the firm announced that we were going to produce a LFC wallchart with advertisers around the perimeter, so much so that I sold EVERY SINGLE space.

I said pretty much the same thing over the phone however my passion and enthusiasm for this publication came across in my voice, something that cannot be manufactured or faked.

A manager has to sell the importance of playing for his team and their fans as well as his own philosophy on football. All the money in the world cannot buy the passion and enthusiasm that Kenny has for Liverpool. He's won the League four times in management and shares a quality that Mourinho also has, players want to play for him.

One other thing - the atmosphere at Anfield these past few years has been rather drab and there probably won't be much of a change should Roy be appointed. Imagine the knock on effect to the players witnessing Anfield thundering the old Dalglish! Dalglish! chant for their manager?



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Ferguson and Moyes will both be cursing their luck today. 8)
 
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Yes, that wonderful Bilko story about his first job selling media space certainly bears repeating. Brings a lump to my throat every time.

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And you getting a hard on for his posts could be considered in the same way.

Come on, at least Lucas is still with us....
 
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Yes, that wonderful Bilko story about his first job selling media space certainly bears repeating. Brings a lump to my throat every time.


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I haven't read any of your posts for a couple of years or so but this caught my eye probably because it's in a thread welcoming Kenny Dalglish back, something I'm really happy about.

You appear to be as sad as ever. Have I missed much during all this time or do you still tend to write something about Lucas every other post?
 
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Fucking made up about this.

Read on another site that Rush may be his nr 2, anyone else heard this?
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Yep. Was told he is a possibilty.
 
I'm not sad Bilko, I just think you're irritating, unfunny, pious and dull, and so I don't really like your posts
 
WOOO HOOOO

Brendan, can't you just leave everyone you dislike on the site alone and focus on 'positive' posts? Cheers
 
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