Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish has caring side revealed in new TV show
Dec 26 2011 By Mike Merritt
Kenny Dalglish Image 1
HE'S best known as King Kenny … but this week a TV documentary will reveal Kind Kenny.
It will show how Kenny Dalglish’s charity work stretches to the Outer Hebrides.
Gaelic channel BBC Alba’s King Kenny – Sgeulachd Dalglish (Dalglish’s Story) on Wednesday night looks back at the life of the former Celtic, Liverpool and Scotland striker.
But it also highlights his charity work with his wife Marina in the Western Isles.
In January, Dalglish, 60, became manager of his beloved Liverpool for the second time.
Having recovered from breast cancer, Marina devotes her time to fundraising. She and Kenny have been helping the Bethesda Hospice in Stornoway since 2004.
Manager Carol Somerville said: “You only have to mention his name and people light up.
“When there is a patient well enough, we ask if they want to meet him – and they do.
“Even just having a photo taken – memories are so important for the families and this is another for them.
“But he doesn’t think of himself as a celebrity. When you mention the word, he turns round and says, ‘Who?’”
The programme also hears how Kenny has continued to comfort relatives of the Liverpool fans who died in the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, during his first term as manager.
If anyone has got BBC Alba this is on tomorrow night once again at 9, Watched it last week and its really good.
King Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish
Dec 26 2011 By Mike Merritt
Kenny Dalglish Image 1
HE'S best known as King Kenny … but this week a TV documentary will reveal Kind Kenny.
It will show how Kenny Dalglish’s charity work stretches to the Outer Hebrides.
Gaelic channel BBC Alba’s King Kenny – Sgeulachd Dalglish (Dalglish’s Story) on Wednesday night looks back at the life of the former Celtic, Liverpool and Scotland striker.
But it also highlights his charity work with his wife Marina in the Western Isles.
In January, Dalglish, 60, became manager of his beloved Liverpool for the second time.
Having recovered from breast cancer, Marina devotes her time to fundraising. She and Kenny have been helping the Bethesda Hospice in Stornoway since 2004.
Manager Carol Somerville said: “You only have to mention his name and people light up.
“When there is a patient well enough, we ask if they want to meet him – and they do.
“Even just having a photo taken – memories are so important for the families and this is another for them.
“But he doesn’t think of himself as a celebrity. When you mention the word, he turns round and says, ‘Who?’”
The programme also hears how Kenny has continued to comfort relatives of the Liverpool fans who died in the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, during his first term as manager.
If anyone has got BBC Alba this is on tomorrow night once again at 9, Watched it last week and its really good.
King Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish 
