According to reports in Ireland this morning, Liverpool's best-ever player is set to take on a role with the Irish FA as a consultant to manager Steve Staunton. Kenny Dalglish was announced by Liverpool's official site last week as the top choice in a poll to decide the best 100 players of all time but it's his managerial knowledge the FAI want to tap.
Sir Bobby Robson, former England manager, was originally appointed as ex-Red Staunton's “International Consultant” at the same time as Stan got the manager's job, but it's believed now that 73-year-old Robson has been told to quit the job on medical grounds. Sir Bobby had an operation recently to remove a brain tumour.
Staunton failed to appear for a planned press conference yesterday after he saw his team beaten 5-2 in Cyprus on Saturday, a defeat that has caused panic in Ireland. The Sunday morning training session had been cancelled with the team and management opting to have a meeting to thrash out their differences.
Kenny was successful as manager of Liverpool of course, winning the double in 1986 amongst other things, and he ended his time at Anfield with the club still league champions. After some time out of the game the Glaswegian then took Blackburn from what we used to call Division 2 to the league title, collecting the Premiership trophy at Anfield of all places.
This story remains just that for now, but if it does happen it's likely to be well received by some of the Irish fans, if not the Manchester United supporting Irish fans who'll remember Kenny as the man who helped scupper their league chances for so many years in the seventies and eighties.
Stan was represented at the press conference yesterday by his assistant Kevin MacDonald who explained what had happened at that morning's meeting: “There was an open discussion about football matters, about how we want to play and what we did wrong. The players were the main ones to get stuck into it. I saw them walking out after the team meeting and there was determination in their eyes that they were going to prove everyone wrong.”
The talk of Dalglish coming in the help Staunton might go some way to prove all the more that the former Anfield left-back won't quit after the two defeats. MacDonald said Stan is planning to stay and sort things out: “You know Steve Staunton as well as I do. He's a tough man and he won't walk away because he's proud of having played for his country for so long and he's even more proud of being manager. The characteristics of the man will come out in adversity when you have to rebound from a kick in the b——s”.
According to reports in Ireland this morning, Liverpool's best-ever player is set to take on a role with the Irish FA as a consultant to manager Steve Staunton. Kenny Dalglish was announced by Liverpool's official site last week as the top choice in a poll to decide the best 100 players of all time but it's his managerial knowledge the FAI want to tap.
Sir Bobby Robson, former England manager, was originally appointed as ex-Red Staunton's “International Consultant” at the same time as Stan got the manager's job, but it's believed now that 73-year-old Robson has been told to quit the job on medical grounds. Sir Bobby had an operation recently to remove a brain tumour.
Staunton failed to appear for a planned press conference yesterday after he saw his team beaten 5-2 in Cyprus on Saturday, a defeat that has caused panic in Ireland. The Sunday morning training session had been cancelled with the team and management opting to have a meeting to thrash out their differences.
Kenny was successful as manager of Liverpool of course, winning the double in 1986 amongst other things, and he ended his time at Anfield with the club still league champions. After some time out of the game the Glaswegian then took Blackburn from what we used to call Division 2 to the league title, collecting the Premiership trophy at Anfield of all places.
This story remains just that for now, but if it does happen it's likely to be well received by some of the Irish fans, if not the Manchester United supporting Irish fans who'll remember Kenny as the man who helped scupper their league chances for so many years in the seventies and eighties.
Stan was represented at the press conference yesterday by his assistant Kevin MacDonald who explained what had happened at that morning's meeting: “There was an open discussion about football matters, about how we want to play and what we did wrong. The players were the main ones to get stuck into it. I saw them walking out after the team meeting and there was determination in their eyes that they were going to prove everyone wrong.”
The talk of Dalglish coming in the help Staunton might go some way to prove all the more that the former Anfield left-back won't quit after the two defeats. MacDonald said Stan is planning to stay and sort things out: “You know Steve Staunton as well as I do. He's a tough man and he won't walk away because he's proud of having played for his country for so long and he's even more proud of being manager. The characteristics of the man will come out in adversity when you have to rebound from a kick in the b——s”.