In January 2011 Dalglish was appointed Liverpool's caretaker manager after the dismissal of Roy Hodgson, becoming the permanent in May 2011.

Despite winning the League Cup, Liverpool could only finish 8th in the Premier League, and Dalglish was dismissed in May 2012.

Dalglish, the son of an engineer, was born in Dalmarnock in the East End of Glasgow, and was brought up in Milton in the north of Glasgow.

Celtic manager Jock Stein sent Sean Fallon to see Dalglish and his parents at their home ; on hearing that Fallon was at the door, Dalglish rushed upstairs to remove the Rangers posters from his bedroom walls.

In his first season Dalglish was loaned out to Cumbernauld United, for whom he scored 37 goals.

By the following year Dalglish was a full professional and a regular member of the highly-rated Celtic reserve team that became known as the Quality Street Gang, due to its having a large number of future Scottish internationals, including Danny McGrain, George Connelly, Lou Macari, and David Hay.

Dalglish was in the stands when the Ibrox disaster occurred at an Old Firm match in January 1971, when 66 Rangers fans were killed.

The following season Dalglish was Celtic's leading scorer, with 41 goals in all competitions.

On 10 August 1977, after making 320 appearances and scoring 167 goals for Celtic, Dalglish was signed by Liverpool manager Bob Paisley for a British transfer fee record of £ 440, 000.

In his second season Dalglish recorded a personal best of 21 league goals for the club, and he was also named Football Writers ' Association Footballer of the Year.

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 ".

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.

Dalglish had a personally better campaign in the 1986 – 87 season, scoring six goals in 18 league appearances, but by then he was committed to giving younger players priority for a first team place.

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.

Dalglish was the manager of Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough disaster on 15 April 1989.

The title meant that Dalglish was only the third football manager in history to lead two different clubs to top-flight league championships, after Herbert Chapman and Brian Clough.

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.

Barnes was sacked in February 2000 and Dalglish was appointed manager, and he guided them to the Scottish League Cup final where they beat Aberdeen 2 – 0 at Hampden Park, and he left the club shortly thereafter.

Dalglish was unhappy with the departure and Celtic's termination of his contract.

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

Dalglish signed a provisional contract with Celtic in May 1967.

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.

The resulting promotion meant that Blackburn were back in the top flight of English football for the first time since 1966. In the 1992 close season, Dalglish signed Southampton's Alan Shearer for a British record fee of £ 3. 5 million.

Redknapp was the last player to be signed by manager Kenny Dalglish before his surprising resignation on 22 February 1991 and later became the youngest Liverpool player to appear in European competition, at 18 years 120 days when making his Liverpool debut against Auxerre in the UEFA Cup on 23 October 1991, by which time Liverpool were being managed by Graeme Souness.

More than 110, 000 supporters worldwide voted for their 10 favourite players of all time, Barnes finished 5th behind Robbie Fowler ( 4th ), Ian Rush ( 3rd ), Steven Gerrard ( 2nd ) and the man that signed him three times ( for Liverpool, Newcastle and Celtic ) Kenny Dalglish ( 1st ).

His performances for the youth team did, however, bring him to the attention of Blackburn Rovers manager Kenny Dalglish, and he signed for the English side on a free transfer in the summer of 1994.

Kenny Dalglish – an established Scottish international – signed from Celtic for a then British record fee of £ 440, 000.

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

Despite playing alongside Dalglish as a stand-in for Rush, Walsh had been signed for the Reds as a possible eventual long-term successor to Dalglish, who was now 33 and became player-manager after Fagan's retirement at the end of the 1984 – 85 season.

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.

He signed for Kenny Dalglish's Liverpool on 27 January 1987 for £ 750, 000 and cut his teeth with the club as a partner for Rush ( filling a position previously occupied by player-manager Kenny Dalglish and fellow striker Paul Walsh ).

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.

Hooper received a degree in English Literature at Swansea University before he was signed by newly appointed Liverpool player-manager Kenny Dalglish in 1985.

10 August 1977: Kenny Dalglish becomes the most expense player to be signed by a British club when he joins Liverpool in a £ 440, 000 move from Celtic.

Speed was signed for Newcastle United on 6 February 1998 by Kenny Dalglish, for a fee of £ 5. 5 million.

Dalglish himself had signed Speed for Newcastle, and expressed his sadness at the news, saying that he thought Speed was not only a great footballer but also a great person.

Guivarc ' h was signed for Newcastle United by their manager Kenny Dalglish in the 1998 close season.

On 12 May 2011, Clarke, as well as manager Dalglish, signed a three year contract to remain in his current role as first team coach.

Although Dalglish won the League Cup in the process, his contract was not renewed and the board decided to replace him with Martin O ' Neill.

A trophyless season meant that Dalglish spent big on new players to revive Liverpool's fortunes and Walsh suffered as a result as John Aldridge was bought to replace Rush as the natural finisher of the team with Peter Beardsley coming in at huge expense to provide the craft.