In 1966 Dalglish had unsuccessful trials at West Ham and Liverpool.

By the 1971 – 72 season, Dalglish had become established in the Celtic first team.

By the end of his first season with Liverpool, Dalglish had played 62 times and scored 31 goals, including the winning goal in the 1978 European Cup Final final at Wembley against Bruges.

The new-look Liverpool side shaped by Dalglish topped the league for almost the entire season, and had a run of 37 matches unbeaten in all competitions ( including 29 in the league ; 22 wins and 7 draws ) from the beginning of the season to 21 February 1988, when they lost to Everton in the league.

By this time, Dalglish had added England internationals Tim Flowers and David Batty to his squad.

After signing Andy Carroll from Newcastle for a British record transfer fee of £ 35 million and Luis Suárez from Ajax for £ 22. 8 million at the end of January ( in the wake of Fernando Torres's sale to Chelsea for £ 50 million ), some journalists noted that Dalglish had begun to assert his authority at the club.

On 12 May 2011, Liverpool announced that Dalglish had been given a three-year contract.

However, United ( now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish ) had a good run in the FA Cup ; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final.

In 1995, Blackburn Rovers manager Kenny Dalglish had expressed interest in signing both Zidane and Dugarry, to which team owner and chairman Jack Walker reportedly replied, " Why do you want to sign Zidane when we have Tim Sherwood?

By the time Larsson had completed his rehabilitation John Barnes had been sacked and replaced by Director of Football Kenny Dalglish as interim manager.

In the same month that Harford left Wimbledon, the former Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish had been appointed as manager of Second Division Blackburn Rovers who had been out of the top division since 1966.

Following the Walker takeover Rovers finished 19th in the Second Division at the end of the 1990 – 91 season, but the new owner had made millions of pounds available to spend on new players and appointed Kenny Dalglish as manager in October 1991.

Arsenal had finished ahead of runners-up Liverpool in the race for the league title that season, and in February of that season Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish had suddenly announced his resignation as manager – and Graham's name was among those mentioned by the media as a possible successor to Dalglish.

It was no surprise that Rush also added the Football Writers Footballer of the Year to the PFA award he had already claimed-the same feat that his strike partner Kenny Dalglish had achieved a year earlier.

Since Dalglish's appointment as player manager in the 1985 close season, Rush had often found himself partnered with Paul Walsh in the Liverpool first team as Dalglish selected himself as a player less frequently.

Rush's former strike partner Kenny Dalglish ( who had been appointed player-manager in 1985 ) was still registered as a player but by then he was in his 37th year and rarely played in the first team, retiring completely in 1990.

On 27 April 2006, Rush was involved in the Marina Dalglish charity match, which pitted the 1986 FA Cup final teams of Liverpool and Everton against each other in aid of Breast Cancer Research, as Kenny Dalglish's wife Marina had been suffering from breast cancer and the proceeds from the match were being donated to the charity.

He wanted to wear the number seven shirt as worn by his childhood hero Kenny Dalglish, but this had already been taken by Vladimir Smicer.

This led to natural speculation that Aldridge would be surplus to requirements, but manager Kenny Dalglish disproved this by regularly playing the two together ( despite reservations that the two were stylistically too similar to be strike partners ) and, indeed, it was Aldridge who enjoyed the better form during the season, with Rush struggling to re-acquaint himself in his familiar surroundings.

With the sale of Ian Rush to Juventus in 1987, Dalglish formed a new striker partnership of new signings John Aldridge and Peter Beardsley for the 1987 – 88 season, and he played only twice in a league campaign which saw Liverpool gain their 17th title.

Dalglish did not play in Liverpool's 1988 – 89 campaign, and he made his final league appearance on 5 May 1990 as a substitute against Derby.

The 1997 – 98 campaign saw Newcastle finish in only 13th place and, despite Dalglish achieving some notable successes during the season ( including a 3 – 2 UEFA Champions League win over Barcelona and an FA Cup final appearance against Arsenal ), he was sacked by Freddie Shepherd after two draws in the opening two games of the subsequent 1998 – 1999 season, and replaced by former Chelsea manager Ruud Gullit.

However, after injury to McMahon and the surprise resignation of Dalglish, Liverpool could only finish runners-up in the league, despite having won their first nine matches of the campaign.

Dalglish led Newcastle into their first Champions League campaign and beat Barcelona 3-2, but the team failed to progress beyond the group stage.

Dalglish has participated in a number of events to raise money for the charity, including a replay of the 1986 FA Cup Final.

Grobbelaar returned to England in 2006 to play in a replay of the 1986 FA cup final against Everton for the Marina Dalglish Appeal, a charity for Cancer research set up by former team-mate and manager Kenny Dalglish and his wife, Marina, a cancer survivor.

Upon returning from the 1986 World Cup, Beardsley helped a struggling Newcastle to avoid relegation, eventually finishing 17th, scoring just 5 goals in 36 appearances, and won a further six caps for his country, before Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish made a national record £ 1. 9 million offer to Newcastle for Beardsley's services.

Aldridge had signed during the 1986 – 87 season as Dalglish prepared to build his new strike force.

Ironically, Kenny Dalglish was still registered as a player ( though he only played four competitives games after the 1986 – 87 season before he finally retired in August 1990 ) at Anfield when Walsh ( the player who had been signed with a view to being his eventual long-term successor ) was on his way out of the club.

In 2006, Ablett appeared as a substitute in Replay 86, a charity match staged in aid of The Marina Dalglish Appeal, which pitted the Liverpool and Everton sides that had contested the 1986 FA Cup Final against each other one more.

Nicol became a first-team regular for many subsequent seasons, winning the League championship and FA Cup " double " in 1986 under the guidance of Kenny Dalglish, pipping Everton to the title by just two points and then beating them 3 – 1 in the first ever all Merseyside FA Cup final.

Staunton was spotted by Liverpool playing in Ireland for his home club of Dundalk as a 17-year-old and was signed on 2 September 1986 by manager Kenny Dalglish for the bargain price of £ 20, 000.

Dalglish also scored three days later on his Anfield debut in a 2 – 0 victory over Newcastle United, and he scored Liverpool's sixth goal when they beat Keegan's Hamburg 6 – 0 in the second leg of the 1977 UEFA Super Cup final.

Dalglish was voted PFA Player of the Year for the 1982 – 83 season, during which he scored 18 league goals as Liverpool retained their title.

After becoming player-manager on the retirement of Joe Fagan in the 1985 close season, Dalglish selected himself for just 21 First Division games in 1985 – 86 as Liverpool won the double, but he started the FA Cup final win over Everton.

Tommy Docherty gave Dalglish his debut for the Scottish national side as a substitute in the 1 – 0 Euro 1972 qualifier victory over Belgium on 10 November 1971 at Pittodrie.

Dalglish scored his first goal for Scotland a year later on 15 November 1972 in the 2 – 0 World Cup qualifier win over Denmark at Hampden Park.

A year later Dalglish scored against the same opponents and goalkeeper at Wembley, in another 2 – 1 win.

Dalglish went on to play in both the 1978 World Cup in Argentina – scoring against eventual runners-up the Netherlands in a famous 3 – 2 win – and the 1982 World Cup in Spain, scoring against New Zealand.

Liverpool achieved this by winning the League Championship by two points over Everton ( Dalglish himself 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 by beating Everton in the final.

Before the 1987 – 88 season, Dalglish signed a number of new players: Peter Beardsley from Newcastle, John Aldridge from Oxford United ( who replaced Ian Rush ); winger John Barnes from Watford ; and Oxford United midfielder Ray Houghton.

Dalglish guided Liverpool to victory over Everton in the second all-Merseyside FA Cup final in 1989, winning the match 3 – 2 after extra time, but was deprived of a second Double in the final game of the season, when Arsenal secured a last-minute goal to steal the title from Liverpool.

In the 1989 – 90 season Liverpool won their third league title under Dalglish.

Dalglish resigned as manager of Liverpool ( on health grounds ) on 22 February 1991, two days after a 4 – 4 draw with rivals Everton in an FA Cup fifth round tie at Goodison Park, in which Liverpool surrendered the lead four times.

Dalglish attended many funerals of the victims – including four in one day – and his presence in the aftermath of the disaster has been described as " colossal and heroic ".

By the turn of 1992 they were top of the Second Division, and then suffered a dip in form before recovering to qualify for the playoffs, during which Dalglish led Blackburn into the new Premier League by beating Leicester City 1 – 0 in the Second Division Play-off final at Wembley.

At the start of the 1994 – 95 season Dalglish paid a record £ 5 million for Chris Sutton, with whom Shearer formed an effective strike partnership.