"Of all the players I have played alongside, managed and coached in more than four decades, he is the most talented." (Bob Paisley about Kenny Dalglish) Music: Deep Purple - High shooter ball (instrumental)
There's a story that when Kenny was manager at Blackburn, he was watching the youth team train one day. The young strikers were practising beating the defender and making space for a shot. The defenders kept winning the ball so Kenny walked onto the training pitch and told the lads to use the position of the sun and the shadows on the ground to estimate where the defender was and how much time and space they had, then walked off the pitch. The youth players were left completely confused so the coach told them to forget about it. They'd just been listening to a genius trying to explain how his mind worked.
Kenny doesn't get enough credit when people mention the all times greats. Some of those goals look impossible, the technique required is out of this world. Brilliant, brilliant footballer.
That is true you know and it’s a whole thing with Liverpool as well I mean why doesn’t anyone bring Ian rush into a debate for the best goal scorer to play in England? When you talk about best managers of all time when was the last time anyone even mentioned bill shankly or bob paisley? Some people even say klopp is the best manager we ever had I get it Jurgen a brilliant manager and a legend but come on…
@@FancyCat229 It is because the football world is full of "Johnny come latelys"... people who believe that football only started with the Premier League. 😆
I can still remember walking home from primary school with friends the day he left Celtic for Liverpool. We were regulars at Parkhead and the idea of football without him was unthinkable. Clearly it was the right move for him as he achieved so much in a Liverpool jersey.
I was on the Kop when he came down the road from Celtic. For months there were Celtic flags in the Kop with all the Glaswegians who traveled south to watch him.
@@MrThedonhead Remember Celtic were the first team in the Uk to win the European Cup and that was with all Scottish players, English clubs have never won a European trophy with only English players, most of the English European cup winning teams had more Scot’s than English. Like Liverpool and Nottingham Forrest. For a small population Scotland has produced some great players.
Fergie and Kenny...two Glasgow boys who will forever be remembered as giants of the game. Thanks for the memories lads and for making us Glaswegians proud.
Left foot, right foot, headers. Inside the box finishes, outside the box screamers. Strength, dribbling, awareness, movement. Individual brilliance and team player. Kenny had it all. Up there with George Best as the best UK player of all time.
As a boy I was lucky enough to live in a small town on the outskirts of Glasgow where Kenny owned a bar he had bought while playing for Celtic. He had moved on to play for Liverpool when I went in to a chip shop next to his pub for a bag of chips only to be greeted with Kenny, Alan Hanson, Greame Souness, and Sammy Lee who had all been visiting Glasgow with him and enjoying a drink at his bar. The term "living legend" can often be overused in the modern era, but in Kenny Dalgliesh's case I actually think it is an understatement.
King Kenny was a thinking men's striker. For those of us who watched him play back in the day, he was not just a goal scorer. His vision was quite remarkeble. It was as if he saw a few moves ahead before everyone else.
Striker maybe, the best Scottish ever is a tough one, we had the likes of Baxter, Johstone, Cooper, Strachan, Law, Souness, McNeil, Grieg etc. Many world class players. The English league was full of Scots from the 60's to the 90 (probably half the players) and Scottish teams during those years made loads of European finals, Ramgers, Celtic, Aberdeen and Dundee Utd all won European trophies and should have won more. God knows what happened to our national team though, it's like some sort of curse. Like the Red Sox in Baseball. We could never play together, even when we had some of the worlds best players.
The headline should read "Kenny Dalglish, best televised goals." During this era not all games were televised, so there will have been many more great goals we will never see.
After watching this I've wiped away a tear for they certainly where the best days,not only in football but in life too. Sir Kenneth Dalglish I'd follow you anywhere my brother,my captain,my King
He knew where the goal was didn't he. Most of these goals are brilliant. He's proved to be a great person also. The service he's given to the families of the poor deceased fans has been beautiful. The greatest Liverpool player ever for me.
@@thunderhammer593 Kenny miles ahead. Vison, touch, pass, left foot right foot he had everything. This is just a clip. Gerrard was a complete player too but Kenny edges him. If Liverpool didn’t have the European ban Kenny would have won more CL and more Balon Dors for sure. Stevie G is second though but just narrowly. Both are goats
@@leebrown486 I guess he meant miles ahead in terms of skills and narrowly ahead in impact and what he did with the club? I’m not so sure either but I think he edges Stevie a little bit.
@@relentero8547 I honestly think he just contradicted himself. I grew up watching Gerrard so maybe I'm biased in that sense but I think Gerrard is Liverpool's best ever player, although they are two completely different players so hard to compare. Can see from this video and other highlights though just how good dalglish was.
This guy doesn't get talked about as much as he should. What a player. The best of his generation, and the best player in the history of Liverpool football club.
When Kenny's move from Celtic to Liverpool was announced I recall Malcolm McDonald ('Supermac'), in a TV interview, saying that Kenny would find the English First Division a very different experience to playing in the Scottish First Division - the underlying suggestion being that Kenny's success and reputation in Scotland were rather more easily won than his own success with Newcastle and England at that time. Let's just say that if you say 'Dalglish' anywhere in the world, football fans will rhapsodise enthusiastically about one of the greatest football players that ever lived - if you say 'McDonald' they will show you where to buy a hamburger! Make no mistake - at his peak Kenny Dalglish was the best player in the world!
What would he be worth in 2019? He could just print money these days to pave his garden path. Absolutely incredible goal hungry striker, playing with endless energy, heart and joy. King Kenny, I salute you!
I love Dalglish - what a man and what a player. This video made me appreciate his footballing ability even more. I only saw him play live once when he was playing in a charity match in Southport I think... at the end of the match my dad lifted me over the fence and I ran onto the pitch and ran over to him :) (I was about 7 years old)
How his Celtic side of the early 70's with Dalglish, Mcgrain , Macari , as well as Lisbon lions like Johnstone, Mcneill, Murdoch , didn't win more European cups is beyond me. Unlucky in a couple of semi finals and lost a final on pens. Kenny was the jewel in that crown , even with those Lisbon lions. In terms of pure talent, he is the greatest the UK has ever produced.
Agreed. Even the Scottish national team... The very idea that they never really achieved what they could have is tormenting. Look at the shite we’ve to put up with now...
@@jonpool9030 At club level, Dalglish had it all and did it all. And for longer than all others (from starting at Celtic to ending his player-manager role at Liverpool). He signed for Liverpool in '77 and then they won 3 more ECs with the Heysel defeat on top of that. And then there were all the other trophies. He was the best player at England's best ever club during ever their best ever spell. Easily one of Britain's very best ever and up there with the world greats (though Scotland were always going to be second-tier on the international stage - hence his minimal recognition on the world stage).
@@A6kilr as far as I know Scotland is in the UK (for now anyway) so he's British. But that's like an overarching term. He was always Scottish of course
A compilation of best goals by my favourite player ever with a soundtrack by my favourite guitarist ever, the person who put these two together has just made my day.
The King ,broke our hearts when he left after winning the double in 77 ,he called it right though nine months later scored the winner in the European cup final while Celtic without him watch Rangers win the treble.
He wasn't the quickest player but the first five yards were in his head. A truly great player his awareness was second to none more importantly he was a great team player as well without a doubt Scotland's greatest ever player.
Kenny dalglish you were my hero after Kevin keegan left in 1977 i hope you get better soon my friend love from Leicester ps i love Liverpool and leicester
If it's an engerlish player he's english but if you are from Wales Northern Ireland or Scotland then you are British! Typical shit statement from engerland.
Top top class real easy style on the eye beautiful finisher with either foot and lethal defence splitting through balls coupled with fantastic balance when dribbling or turning with the ball first touch was sublime
@@fizzymilkshake0341 You shouldn't be, you didn't see him play. And he's not of the Eusebio, Cruyff, Pele , Garincha calibre so they don't show him that much.
I think he might be the greatest. Who is/was better? Charlton? Moore? Shearer? Best? Law? Johnstone? Giggs? Scholes? Lampard? Keegan? Savage? (That last one was a joke) I'd say he was a better all-round player than any of them. And he made everyone around him better too. He is in the category of Zidane, Cruyff and Platini. With the exception of Messi, and Maradona, I think if you put hi in any team at any time in football history, he would arguably be that team's best player. he literally never had a bad game. Almost never dispossessed over his entire career and never marked out of the game.
He's been voted the best player ever to play in England a few times, Alex Ferguson the best ever Manager to work in England, funny. Neither of them are English😂
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