A Liverpool icon who has been voted Scotland's greatest ever We look back on this legendary player's remarkable career In 1966, 11 years before they broke the British transfer record to sign him, Liverpool took Kenny Dalglish on trial. The future ‘King Kenny’, then a chubby 15-year-old, stayed only a few days, and the highlight was being given a lift back to his hostel by Bill Shankly. Sadly, Liverpool’s legendary manager did not find the meeting quite so memorable. When Dalglish began tearing up defences with Celtic a few years later, and a furious Shankly learned that the player had been allowed to slip through his grasp, he ordered an inquest, refusing to believe that he could have been responsible.