Kop too. That would mean I had achieved something great.
Dalglish told me, as he later repeated during that meal with Souness, Lee and Robinson, that the key to Liverpool’s success was the harmony within the team. ‘No team has ever been successful without a good atmosphere in the dressing room,’ he said. ‘They don’t have to go out for drinks together or be best friends, but having a good group is very important. We had a great dressing room, we were really united. Even now there are six or seven of us that are still close. We play golf, we go out with our wives. It’s special. That doesn’t happen now, does it? In twenty years time there won’t be six of you still round the club.’ Who knows? What I do know for sure is that we are all committed to keeping Liverpool great.
During that meeting we talked and talked about football. I talked about the fact that there are games when things don’t go for you but that I will never hide. I always want the ball, even if I’m having a bad day. Liverpool’s legendary No. 7 said he was the same. ‘Of course you want the ball. You have to keep going. As a striker, you miss more chances than you score. The goals aren’t what matter most; what matters most are the chances you miss. The more you miss, the closer you are to the next one you’re going to score. You have to think like that: if you don’t have the courage to develop that kind of attitude you won’t make it at this level.’
I’m not the kind of person who watches a lot of football on television; when I do it’s because I want to know about other teams, about my opponents. I have to study them and prepare myself properly to face them.
In Dalglish’s era, there weren’t so many games broadcast on television, so he had to go and watch players, to see what habits the goalkeepers had, what the outstanding qualities of the defences were, to see if he could learn anything. Then, later on, he watched games to see if there was a player he might like to sign. ‘But,’ Kenny said, ‘I don’t enjoy it as much as I did when I was a kid.’
I learned so much from my time with Kenny. I really like him. He’s a normal person who’s very accessible. He says he doesn’t feel like a legend but that’s exactly what he is. The fact that he has stayed so normal really struck me. I can’t be compared to him but I feel proud to have been able to speak to him for so long. It was a real honour for him to have given up his time to talk to me. Meeting Kenny has made me even more hungry for success, even more determined to work hard and maybe, just maybe, see if one day I can compare myself with him.
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