August 27 – Dalglish Sacked by Newcastle
It didn’t take long for a winner to emerge in the sack race in the 1998/99 Premeirship season. Never a club that can be accused of being run with an abundance of common sense, Newcastle sacked manager Kenny Dalglish on this day in 1998, only two games into the season.
Dalglish was persuaded to take over the mantle at St James’ when Kevin Keegan left and took over at Fulham in January 1997.
Dalglish had replaced Keegan once before as he inherited the Liverpool number 7 shirt after Keegan’s move to Hamburg. Newcastle fans had a reason to be optimistic as they were bringing in a man who had picked up the league title for two different clubs, a feat matched only by managerial legends Brian Clough and Herbert Chapman.
However, Dalglish was to find the managerial lark not as easy as in his new job, as he didn’t inherit the star-studded squad from Liverpool or have Jack Walker’s millions to spend like he did at Blackburn. His first season saw a promising second place finish which bought Champions League football to the Toon. Despite success in reaching the final of the FA Cup, the wheels came off the next season as Newcastle dropped to thirteenth place and Dalglish’s position was under threat.
After two games Freddy Shepard had had enough and gave Kenny the boot. Here he was to embark on his final managment appointment, which was to be a disasterous spell in charge of Celtic that started with him employing John Barnes as Head Coach and ended in the courts of Edinburgh, where he received a £600,000 settlement for his dismissal.
Rather than show King Kenny toiling on the sideline, we thought it’d be nicer to show you some of the goals and tricks that lead to Liverpool fans voting him their favourite ever Red. Come back tomorrow and we’ll talk you through a quick-fire scoring session from a cheeky scouser.
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