Dalglish, Kenny Born: 4th March 1951, Position: Forward (Player: Glasgow Celtic, Liverpool and Scotland) (Manager:  Liverpool, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and Glasgow Celtic) (Director:  Blackburn Rovers and Glasgow Celtic)
Major Honours (Player): European Cup, 1977-78, 1980-81 and 1983-1984; European Super Cup 1977  Relevant Career Statistics: 558 games and 230 goals, 102 caps and 30 goals for Scotland. Admitted to the Hall of Fame: 1st January 2002 with 37% of the votes.
Roy of the Rovers References:   Roy of the Rovers comic - "Sign Please" - issues 3rd June 1978 and 17th August 1985. Roy of the Rovers comic "Talk In" feature on the playing career up to that date -  29th March 1980. Roy of the Rovers comic "Talk In" feature on Kenny being the top national goalscorer in the British Isles - 17th January 1981. Roy of the Rovers comic - "Super Snap" - 1st January 1983. Roy of the Rovers comic - Kenny appears in a colour photograph in "Roy Race's Super Strikers Booklet" - 5th March 1983. Roy of the Rovers comic - a full page black and white photograph - 25th October 1986. Between  21st November 1987 and 27th February 1988, Kenny was the subject of a 15 week profile story called "Story of the Star" in the Roy of the Rovers comic (including a superb piece of artwork showing Kenny with the European Cup on the front cover of the 19th December 1987 edition). Roy of the Rovers comic - Kenny features in the "Phone a Star" feature - 14th May 1988. Kenny's son Paul Dalglish is the subject of an Exclusive Roy of the Rovers feature called "Dream Day with Dad!", when Liverpool won the 1990 championship! Kenny is picked by Roy in the Liverpool "Team of the Decade" from the 1980's as part of competition promoted by Candy, Liverpool's sponsors - 16th February 1991. Kenny has the Roy of the Rovers "September - Goal of the Month award" - 12th October 1991. A full page profile on Kenny as he aims to bring Blackburn Rovers back to the Premiership - 26th October 1991. A special two page "This is your Life" feature on Kenny - 2nd November 1991 edition. Kenny has the Roy of the Rovers "October - Story of the Month award" to celebrate his return to management with Blackburn" - 29th November 1991 and the "Manager of the month" for January 1992 - 15th February 1992 edition.
Internet Links: There are no specific web sites dedicated to Kenny Dalglish, but the following links offer great sources of information. The profile of Kenny Dalglish on the Internet's best and free encyclopaedia. This page also give links to other references to this hall of famer. International Hall of Fame  - Kenny's write up in the International Hall of Fame. Great Scots - One of many Great Scots  - A profile on Kenny Dalglish.  Kenny's BT advert -  A critical view about Kenny's BT advert. A profile of King Kenny!  - Kenny profiled on the official Liverpool site. Blackburn Rovers Official Supporters Site  - A Blackburn Rovers supporters profile Soccer-Europe  - A profile on Kenny Dalglish King Kenny  - A Kenny Dalglish tribute site
Books:  Kenny Dalglish's Autobiography - The real story written with Henry Winter. An insight into King Kenny - it tells of the great sadness he felt when "Big Jock" died and the the delight he felt with Liverpool doing the double in 1986. It also gives his views about the stress he was under at the end of his career with Liverpool. Then it goes on to talk about his time at Blackburn. Overall a good book with some great humour. Bob Paisley- A tribute to the great manager jointly penned by Kenny and John Keith.

'King Kenny' Dalglish was born in Glasgow in March of 1951, and as a young boy was a football fan, rooting for the Rangers. At the age of sixteen, he joined the Rangers' rival team, Celtic. As a striker for the team, he scored more than 150 goals while Celtic went on a winning streak that lasted eight seasons.

In 1977, Kenny joined the Liverpool football team. "Let's get out of here before they realise what they've done." Those were Bob Paisley's words to Liverpool chairman John Smith as the pair left the meeting with Celtic officials at which the transfer of Kenny Dalglish to Anfield had been agreed. The men from Parkhead were probably thinking the same thing , as they had just secured £440.000 record fee for a deal between two British clubs. But over the next ten years and more it was quite obvious who had concluded the better piece of business that day. 

In 1985, he became Liverpool's first ever player-manager when he took over for manager Joe Fagan. Fagan resigned following a riot at Heysel stadium in Brussels, while Liverpool played against the Italian Juventus team. 39 people were killed in the riot.

In 1985 Dalglish was appointed as successor to manager Joe Fagan who retired after the Heysel tragedy. But Dalglish's playing days were not over, and as player manager he won the Double in his first season in charge.

Dalglish hung up his boots in 1987 at the age of 36. He signed John Barnes, Peter Beardsley and John Aldridge to help strengthen the Liverpool attack.

He focused on managing the Liverpool team, and over the next four years, he won Manager of the Year three times. Tragedy struck again for the Liverpool team and fans in 1989, when overcrowding in the Hillsborough Stadium resulted in the death of 96 spectators at a game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. Dalglish attended as many of the funerals of victims of the Hillsborough tragedy as he could, and he and his wife worked to do what they could to console the victims' families.

Following the Hillsborough tragedy, the pressures of satisfying the fans of Liverpool mounted, and Dalglish reluctantly resigned in 1991. He went on to manage Blackburn Rovers, and helped lead the team to a championship. However, Dalglish only stayed with the Rovers two years. As he took a break from football management, Dalglish watched his son, Paul, follow in his footsteps. Paul also played for Glasgow Celtic and went on to Liverpool and then Newcastle.

Before managing Newcastle United, Dalglish did a turn as European Scout for Glasgow Rangers, the team he rooted for as a boy. At Newcastle, the challenges for Dalglish were to overcome a reputation for cracking under pressure, and to become the first ever manager to lead three separate teams to league championships. Although Newcastle came close to the championship, they didn't make it during Dalglish's tenure.

Dalglish was appointed Director of Football Operations at Celtic in June of 1999, bringing his career back to hometown Glasgow. After John Barnes was sacked as Celtic manager, Kenny took over as interim manager in March 2000. He fended off talk about taking the job on a full-time basis after his side lifted the CIS Insurance Cup with a 2-0 victory over Aberdeen at Hampden Park. Goals from Vidar Riseth and Tommy Johnson lifted some of the gloom over Parkhead after a troubled season that threatened to end with no trophy in the cabinet for a second successive season.

However in June 2000 "Director of Football", Kenny Dalglish, was sacked by Celtic. 

Always a team player rather than an individual glory hunter, Dalglish was as close to being the complete footballer as one could ever reasonable hope to find. He didn't have the greyhound pace of, say, Ian Rush, but as Bob Paisley once remarked: The first five yards are always run in the head and Kenny's brain was easily the fastest around.

He has received greatest acclaim from those who really know their football: Among his peers Franz Beckenbauer, for one, rates him the finest player he ever saw, while team-mate Graeme Souness ranks only Pele and Johan Cruyff above him. On the streets of Merseyside and Glasgow, his place in soccer folklore has been long assured. A man with perfect 'Roy of the Rovers' credentials, we welcome  "King Kenny" Dalglish to the Roy of the Rovers Hall of Fame.