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.

Dalglish was signed to replace Kevin Keegan, and Liverpool supporters were initially sceptical that he could perform this task.

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.

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

Dalglish began his career with Celtic in 1971, going on to win four Scottish First Divisions, four Scottish Cups and one Scottish League Cup with the club.

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.

Between 2000 and 2010 Dalglish focused on charitable concerns, founding The Marina Dalglish Appeal with his wife to raise money for cancer care.

Dalglish signed a provisional contract with Celtic in May 1967.

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.

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.

During the Hillsborough Memorial Service on 15 April 2011, Liverpool MP Steve Rotherham announced he would submit an Early Day Motion to have Dalglish knighted, " not only for his outstanding playing and managerial career, but also the charity work he has done with his wife, Marina, for breast cancer support and what he did after Hillsborough.

Despite a serious injury which ruled Shearer out for half the season, Dalglish achieved fourth position with the team in the first year of the new Premier League.

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.

and with no subsequent improvement in Liverpool's results up to the end of the year ( during which time the club was bought by New England Sports Ventures ), Hodgson left Liverpool and Dalglish was appointed caretaker manager on 8 January 2011.

In February 2012, Dalglish led Liverpool to their first trophy in six years, with victory in the 2011 – 12 Football League Cup.

Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny Dalglish, however the club endured a largely unsuccessful season with a thirteenth place finish in the 1997 – 98 FA Premier League, failure to progress beyond the group stages of the 1997 – 98 UEFA Champions League and defeat in the 1998 FA Cup Final.

Upon reaching his tenth anniversary at the club Moyes received praise from many fellow managers including Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsène Wenger and Kenny Dalglish for his achievements at Everton, despite operating with a limited budget.

Liverpool replaced him with Kenny Dalglish.

In his autobiography, Keane revealed details of his conversation with a swearing and furious Kenny Dalglish, when he informed him the Blackburn signing was off.

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.

He then linked up with Kenny Dalglish at Newcastle United on a one-year contract but lost his place in the side after Christmas, when Alan Shearer returned from a long-term injury.

However, Newcastle lost 2 – 0 to Arsenal, and following the sacking of Dalglish early in the 1998-99 season, he was left isolated and shunned along with a number of Kenny Dalglish and Kevin Keegan era players including Rob Lee and Stuart Pearce.

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

Dalglish went on to be appointed Director of Football at Celtic in 1999, and later manager, where he won the Scottish League Cup before an acrimonious departure the following year.

Following Benítez's departure from Liverpool in June 2010, Dalglish was asked to help find a replacement, and in July Fulham's Roy Hodgson was appointed manager.

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.

After the departure of Moores, Anfield legend Kenny Dalglish returned to the manager's position amid rumours that he had wanted to return in the mid-90s, but was frustrated by the hesitancy and inconsistency of the decision-makers at Liverpool.

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.

Ronnie Moran ( born 28 February 1934 ) is a former Liverpool captain and coach, who twice served as caretaker manager ( after the departure of Kenny Dalglish and when Graeme Souness was absent due to heart surgery ) in the early 1990s.