“Knowing Christ is the best thing that has ever happened to me, although winning the US Open was a pretty good second.”
My Liverpool home
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Kenny Dalglish with Henry Winter, Hodder and Stoughton, 2010
The publishers sure struck lucky with this book. When it was published Kenny was a Liverpool FC Ambassador. By the time I read it, he was the Liverpool manager. Kenny’s passion for Liverpool FC comes through on every page. In fact, his time at Newcastle, Blackburn Rovers and Celtic is just glossed over.
Kenny’s inside story of the Heysel and Hillsborough take this book well above the norm for football autobiographies. The emotion of being involved in both tragedies is plain to see.
One statistic which jumped off the page was that from 1977-81 Dalglish played in 180 consecutive games for Liverpool, ending his sequence by missing a League Cup tie. So much has changed in 20 years! Squad rotation would make it impossible for a modern player to get near that figure. And no modern superstar would be likely to play in the League Cup.
Well worth reading.