Sorry lads & lasses need to get this out of my system..... As a 14 year old lad you took me to the streets with a swagger that I could beat anyone in football. I remember that year so well, writing a letter to you begging that you'll win the FA cup for me birthday. Little did I know you'd end up giving me the best birthday present ever, the double. You then went on to master the game and gave us brazilian football with the likes of Barnes Beardsley & Aldo giving us the best football we had ever seen. The biggest regret of that era was for us never to witness the slaughtering of AC Millan by Liverpool football club. When you left us after the Derby it was probably on a par with the great Bill Shankly leaving us. But we understood how such a tragedy, a crime like Hillsborough could take its toll on you as manager of our great club and so we said farewell. Unfortunately with your departure came the demise of LFC. You did come back with Blackburn and gave the Kop it's biggest cheer in a long time when you won the league again. I suppose we could nearly touch with our finger tips what might have been if you were still here. Football changed and money started to eat into this great sport and we honestly flattered to deceive over the next 20 years. With the exception of 2001 & 2005 the years have been unkind to Liverpool. We became also rans in league competitions and yes we won the odd league cup here and there but we were not the same team of the 80's and that was extremely hard to live with. We nearly got ourselves back on track in 2005 when we won the biggest club competition in the world. Yes Rafa was the closest we got to the heights of your great achievements of the 80's and just for that moment in time we were made to believe again. One other thing that Rafa did was introduce you back to the fold and recognised that this club needs its heritage and its history intact as much as it needs great players. A master stroke that probably led to the saving of the club. We entered one of the darkest periods of the clubs history in 2008, when we, as one of the greatest institutions of world football were brought to our knees because we let 2 charlatans come in and rape something we love with all our hearts and thus made us watch it as they did it. But we didn't take it lying down and we took to the streets we took to the ground we even took to hotel lobbies to fight for our right to survive. Although we won over a lot of the football world eventually, we had to endure civil war among ourselves and when Rafa went and Hodgson came in we all wondered were the club would end up. We did manage to get rid of the cancer of that time and that's because we as fans were given a great gift passed down from Shankly to yourself that was bred into us that we are Liverpool FC and we are different. However as a fanbase we were totally split and there was only one person that could have ever brought us back together and in January 2011 you walked back through those famous Shankly gates again and your first home game was a Derby and you could sense a true healing process was about to take place. From Jan to May you made us play a blinder that season and it probably hasn't helped you in the long run as expectation was so high afterwards. However you went into your first full season and although at times it wasn't great we still had great times. You battered the Everton 3 times you got us back to Wembley again and you showed some of our younger fans what it was like when Kenny was King of the Kop. You handled the press like you were a fan. I know some will disagree and say we handled things badly last season. But you did put a lot of people back in their box and you did it because you loved us the same way we love us. You stood by the players rightly or wrongly. And you kept to the old tradition of doing things behind close doors. For once I could sense the siege mentality of old. It's with a heavy heart we now let you go but we will do it with the same dignity that you have shown us and the club, upon leaving. One thing I will take away from your second appointment is you made me feel like a kopite again you built some of the bridges that needed building and who knows what might have been if given that little bit more time. I sincerely hope the club recognises some of this and learns from mistakes of old. Kenny Dalglish will always be cooler than the Fonz! He will always be a hero of mine. See yea Kenny! YNWA
Great post Liam I still remember playing football in my new Liverpool kit with 7 on the back around the back field dreaming I was Kenny playing in the FA Cup final , my mate was Barnes .
Great post liam, I was way to young back then that's why I'm glad I got to sing kennys name in the kop this season