As a player he was Creator Supreme and as Liverpool manager he kept up the winning ways of his great predecessors. The day he resigned as manager we really did lose a talisman. I know my life turned upside down that awful day in 1991. Still, I never lost hope that Kenny Dalglish would return to manage us some day.
Today, that day has arrived.
However, both Kenny and the club are stressing that he is now the temporary manager. That won't do. I hope supporters will put pressure on the owners, and Kenny himself, to make the position his own for many seasons to come. Our team needs to undergo a lengthy period of rebuilding around youthful home-grown players, a task that King Kenny is as qualified as anyone to oversee. If we are to appoint someone else at the end of the season, I fear at the first hint of success, that bright spark of a manager may be lured away by some richer club. I trust Kenny not to leave us in the lurch midway through the job (OK notwithstanding what happened 20 years ago).
Finally, to Roy Hodgson, whom I really did want to succeed at Anfield, I express my gratitude for doing one thing right (signing Raul Meireles, of course) and leave it at that.
