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title: "Fantastic Dalglish Anecdote"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "Escapini"
section: "Liverpool Football Club"
published: "2011-02-10T12:24:42Z"
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# Fantastic Dalglish Anecdote

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**NORMAN GILLER can’t believe his eyes (and ears) when the laconic new Liverpool manager is on TV.**

I have to rub my eyes and ears every time I see Kenny Dalglish appearing in front of the television cameras in his role as born-again saviour of Liverpool. He smiles, he speaks, he jokes, he laughs.

Come with me back to February 1972. England under-23s had just been held to a 2-2 draw by Scotland at Derby’s Baseball Ground, and the fast-rising Celtic striker Kenny Dalglish had scored both Scottish goals on a disgraceful mudheap of a pitch.

I was there as a *Daily Express* reporter, and as Dalglish emerged from the dressing-room after his superb solo performance, I asked: ***“Have you ever played on a muddier pitch?”***

***“Nae comment,”*** he said, pushing me to one side as if I was an England defender trying to block his way to goal.

Ian Archer, brilliant Scottish-based reporter, told me: ***“Well done. You got two words out of him, which is a record.”***

> A great raconteur, Ian – sadly taken from us when he was just 59 – had a favourite Dalglish anecdote:  ***“I was strolling through a crowded street in Glasgow when suddenly a familiar figure darted in front of me. It was Kenny Dalglish, who muttered one word:** **‘Wisnae.’***
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> ***“Then he raced off as quickly as he had appeared, with me mouthing after him, ‘Wisnae whit?’ I puzzled over this for hours and then recalled that in a match report the previous month I had suggested one of his goals for Celtic had been off-side.***
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> ***“It was the most informative, piercing and lengthy interview that Kenny ever gave me.”***

Now, the all-talking, all-joking 2011 model of Dalglish is in danger of becoming almost Shankly-like with quotes and quips.

I wonder if he would now tell me whether he had ever played on a muddier field than the notorious pigsty of a pitch at the old Baseball Ground.

Wisnae?

***Please read more of Uncle Norman’s cracking contributions in full [HERE](https://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/the-giller-memorandum/wisnae-whit-kenny-dalglishs-new-found-witticisms/)***

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