Kenny Dalglish (born March 4, 1951) was a Scottish international football player widely regarded as one of the greatest players of his generation and 'King Kenny' to both Celtic and Liverpool supporters. Dalglish built his reputation with Celtic, winning the Scottish Championship in five consecutive seasons in the early 1970s. When asked what was Dalglish's best position in the team (he had begun in midefield) Jock Stein said simply, 'Ach, just let him oot on the park'. He then moved to Liverpool in 1977, for a record £440,000 transfer fee, to replace Kevin Keegan.  In his first season, Dalglish scored the winning goal in the European Cup final, against the Belgian club F.C. Bruges. He quickly established himself as a key member of the club’s most successful era winning further League Championships and European Cups in a period stretching to the mid-1980s.  He was twice elected Footballer of the Year and is Scotland's most capped player having played 102 games since is debut in 1971 at the age of twenty. After the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985, in the wake of the resignation of manager Joe Fagin, Dalglish became player-manager of the club; he coached them to their first-ever double  winning the League Championship and F.A. Cup his first season.  He continued as manager when he retired as a player, winning the League again in 1987/88 and 1989/90, and the F.A Cup in 1988/89.  Dalglish was also in charge of the club at the time of the Hillsborough disaster. The trauma took its toll on his health, and he resigned as manager of Liverpool in 1991. Dalglish returned to management with Blackburn Rovers, whom he led into the English Premiership in 1995. He then became Director of Football at Blackburn; before the replaced Kevin Keegan once again, this time as manager of Newcastle United. Despite an initially strong performance, Dalglish's dismantling of one of the most exciting footballing sides in the Premiership lost him the support of the fans, and he was sacked by Newcastle early in the 1997/98 season.  He was later Director of Football at Celtic, but he resigned after one disastrous season which saw Celtic knocked out of the Scottish FA Cup by Inverness Caledonian Thistle and finish 21 points behind their arch-rivals Rangers in the Scottish Premier League.  He returned to football management and his beloved Liverpool in January 2011 following the departure of Roy Hodgson but lasted only 11 months in the job despite winning the Carling Cup and reaching the final of the FA Cup, the club having finished a poor eighth in the League.