Love for these Liverpool legends is about much more than football
PA Images / Alamy - King Kenny: Dalglish, pictured here with Bob Paisley, replaced Kevin Keegan as Liverpool No 7 and won six league titles and three European Cups as a player at the club. 7 Jun 2026 - THE OBSERVER / Sport Paul Hayward Support for Kenny Dalglish and Kevin Keegan , who have cancer, is a given at Anfield, where the bright new head coach Andoni Iraola will soon discover a special bond that connects a club and its community ‘He’s a Liverpool supporter, so I knew I wouldn’t be walking alone, if you know what I mean’ Kevin Keegan meets his specialist Last week The Times led its back page with a cancer diagnosis for a 75-year-old man who stopped playing football in 1990 and left management 14 years ago. But this was no ordinary illness bulletin. The patient’s name was Kenny Dalglish. The previous day, the Liverpool No 7 Dalglish was bought to replace in 1977 revealed he has stage four cancer. Kevin Keegan, also 75, said of the specialist who’s treating him: “He was...