Kenny Dalglish - Achieving the Impossible
Is it fair to say that Dalglish, since he returned to Liverpool, is doing when many thought could not be done and is making Ferguson, in comparison, look like a completely fair minded and honourable individual who in no way shirks responsibility for his own misfortunes.
Dalglish has been a complete and utter joke and (and I hate using this here, because, given his club, it is like a green light for every idiot on Earth to go Scouser bashing) is a prime example of the persecution complex/willingness to play the victim/uable to take personal responsibility culture that infest football and certain parts of society.
Still tonight he is giving interviews where he is spouting nonsense about not being about to say what he wants to say about Suarez. The only reason he 'can't' say what he wants to say is because either he or his club know it would be picked to pieces.
Even putting aside the Suarez stuff though, he cannot wait to absolve himself of responsibility for his shit results - with the mantra usually being that he has been cheated by someone or something. Or sometimes he is the victim of once in a lifetime luck for his opponents, he likes that one. But a lifetime must last four weeks for it to be true. Ferguson was the master of this buck passing, but at least he gets results. Hughes is probably the most recent valid comparison but Dalglish is taking it to another level - method acting the part of the victim 24/7, willing to stoop to any level to stop people asking why he can't get the results for his team.
The man is a disgrace, in my view. Not only for the above but for the demeanour that he plays it with too. You get the impression that very few people have ever said no to him or told him a few home truths. It's the impression you get when former team mates talk of him, almost in awe and certainly apparent in the media, who dare not ever even slightly rile him with anything approaching a probing question, lest 'The King' get upset.
At least Roy Hodgson was getting similar results without spending the silly money and, more importantly, whilst being a man of class and dignity.
When will someone in the media have the bollocks to point out the truth about The King's New Clothes?