Eight months later Dalglish made a return to football management with Blackburn Rovers, whom he led from the Second Division to win the Premier League in 1995.

Dalglish made his first-team competitive debut for Celtic as a substitute in the 1968 Scottish League Cup quarter-final tie against Hamilton Academical.

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 appointment was confirmed in July 2009, and Dalglish was also made the club's ambassador.

A month after the title success, Kenny Dalglish was promoted to the position of Director of football and the board made an offer to Harford to fill the manager's seat.

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.

" However in his autobiography Rush says that this was a joke made up by Kenny Dalglish, then in an interview published in The Irish Times in 2008, claimed that the quote was in fact fictional.

Barnes was then snapped up by former team-mate and manager Kenny Dalglish, who was managing Newcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham ; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind.

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.

McMahon agreed to join Liverpool on the 12 September 1985 for £ 350, 000 thus becoming the first signing to be made by new manager Kenny Dalglish, and filling the void left by Graeme Souness over a year earlier.

In May 2012 he made a controversial decision by sacking manager and club icon Kenny Dalglish citing the club's poor league results.

Born in Liverpool and educated at De La Salle School, Jewell began his career as an apprentice with home-city club Liverpool, but because of the dominance of Ian Rush and Kenny Dalglish he never made a first-team league appearance and pursued his career elsewhere.

In May 2012 he made a controversial decision by sacking manager and club icon Kenny Dalglish citing the club's poor league results.

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.

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.

After an impressive run of results, which saw Liverpool rise to 6th on the table, Dalglish was appointed the full-time manager of Liverpool, on a three year contract.

However, Dalglish quickly settled into his new club.

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.

He lured former Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish as manager and a number of player purchases followed, helping the club to gain promotion back into the first division just before it became the FA Premier League at the end of the 1991 – 1992 season.

With the departure of John Aldridge a few weeks into the 1989 – 90 season, Dalglish reverted to a 4 – 4 – 2 formation with Beardsley and Rush as his main strikers, with Beardsley scoring 10 goals in 29 games.

Given initially started the season, but after a string of defeats and five games without a win, Dalglish went back to Hislop in November and he stayed there until an injury in February allowed Given back into the frame.

By the time he recovered Kenny Dalglish had settled on Steve McMahon for the central midfield role and there was to be no way back into the Liverpool first team.

The following season Rush was fully settled back into the Anfield groove and, with Dalglish reverting to a 4 – 4 – 2 formation with Rush and Beardsley as first choice strikers, Liverpool accepted an offer of £ 1million from Basque side Real Sociedad for Aldridge in early September, with Aldridge having played twice in the league for Liverpool that season.

Unfortunately, the emergence of fellow young defender Gary Ablett forced Dalglish into reshaping his defence and Venison was the player who lost his place in the team as a result.

He was gradually brought into the first team over the next 18 months by Joe Fagan, before being given regular games in the left back slot by new player-manager Kenny Dalglish as a replacement for Alan Kennedy in the 1985 – 86 season.

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

It was also around this time that he began to form a potent strike partnership with Ian Rush ; Dalglish began to play just off Rush, " running riot in the extra space afforded to him in the hole ".

He was never again an automatic choice in midfield under Dalglish as Whelan & McMahon became the first choice partnership.

Liverpool's trophyless season, culminating in the disaster at Heysel, in 1985 was followed by a much more successful season for Whelan and Liverpool, under the new management of Kenny Dalglish.

England also had a very different system to Liverpool at the time who were much more free-flowing, and later claimed that to have got the best out of him, they would have needed a similar system to the one used by Kenny Dalglish, which was never likely to happen.

Rush never scored but played well and the following year he was the regular partner to Kenny Dalglish with Johnson being used less frequently.

He also claimed that he could receive the ball as few as six or seven times throughout a match whereas at Liverpool he may receive it more than twenty times, and he had more freedom under Kenny Dalglish who did not ask him to stay on the left wing all the time.

The replays showed that while Dalglish was, indeed, offside for the disallowed strike at Wembley, McDermott could count himself unfortunate to be penalised for hand ball for the goal which was ruled out in the replay.

In January 1997 Dalglish took over as manager at Newcastle United.

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.

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.

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.

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 January 1997 Dalglish was appointed manager of Premier League side Newcastle United on a three-and-a-half-year contract, taking over from Kevin Keegan.

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.

Poor results during the start of that season led to Hodgson leaving the club by mutual consent and former manager Kenny Dalglish taking over.

In 1992, Blackburn was promoted to the new Premier League a year after being taken over by local steel baron Jack Walker, who installed Kenny Dalglish as manager.

Barnes was sacked shortly afterwards, with Dalglish taking over first-team duties until the end of the season.

Grobbelaar was retained by three of Liverpool's greatest managers ; Paisley, Fagan and Dalglish, over a period of 13 years.

The new-look striker partnership of Beardsley and Aldridge took over from the long-standing partnership of Kenny Dalglish and Ian Rush, which was arguably the most successful partnership in English football during the 1980s.

Five years later, during his second caretaker spell, they had just been taken over by local steel baron Jack Walker and were a wealthy, ambitious side building for a challenge for promotion to the new FA Premier League-which was ultimately achieved at the end of the season under new manager Kenny Dalglish.

Fairclough's scored his one and only Liverpool hat-trick on 9 February 1980 during the thrilling 5 – 3 league victory over Norwich City at Carrow Road, the goals came in the 4th, 18th and 75th minutes, Kenny Dalglish ( 88th ) and Jimmy Case ( 89th ) guaranteed a late win for the Reds.

Dalglish took over as manager until the end of the season, during which time Tébily appeared irregularly.

His first full-season at St. James ' Park saw the departure of Keegan, with Kenny Dalglish taking over and guiding the club to another runners-up spot.

Over the next two seasons, Barton's first team opportunities were more limited as manager Kevin Keegan and his successor Kenny Dalglish ( who took over in January 1997 ) chose Steve Watson as a right back more frequently.