"For any footballer making the transition from player to manager, a shift in dressing room dynamics can be one of the toughest aspects to deal with. In the blink of an eye, you go from trusted team-mate and confident to feared and respected gaffer. If you're even lucky enough to command respect from your charges, that is. Liverpool icon Kenny Dalglish, arguably the most important figure in the club's long history, knows that feeling better than anybody."
"He can still recall being told he'd got the job by the Liverpool board just weeks after leading his side to defeat in the 1985 European Cup Final a match played in the immediate aftermath of the Heysel disaster which claimed 39 lives. The way I saw it, I was just going to give my best, and if my best transpired not to be good enough, I would hold my hands up and say this isn't for me it's not fair on the club, get somebody else in."
Kenny Dalglish became Liverpool player-manager in the summer of 1985 and remained in that dual role for five and a half seasons. He was appointed shortly after the 1985 European Cup Final, played in the immediate aftermath of the Heysel disaster that claimed 39 lives. Dalglish initially hesitated to pick himself and started only one of the opening eight league games in 1985–86 as Liverpool struggled early on. He found the shift out of the dressing-room dynamic emotionally difficult, particularly making selection decisions that affected long-standing teammates, and vowed to step aside if he was not good enough.
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