BLACKBURN 

• Appointed manager of Second Division Blackburn Rovers hours before their home game at Ewood Park against Plymouth Argyle on Saturday, 12 October 1991. Rovers win 5-2.
• Appoints Ray Harford as his assistant.
• The Lancashire club climb the table and a 1-0 Wembley win over Leicester City in the Second Division play-off final in May takes Blackburn back into the top flight for the first time since 1966 and in time for the launch of the new Premier League.
• 1992 Breaks British transfer record in July by paying £3.3million to Southampton for Alan Shearer.
• 1994 Breaks transfer record for second time by paying £5million to Norwich for Chris Sutton in July.
• 1995 Steers Blackburn to first championship for 81 years. Becomes Blackburn's director of football, with assistant Ray Harford taking over as manager.

This managerial successes proved his time at Anfield had been no fluke as he joined the select 
 band of men to have taken two clubs to the championship title.

 winning the Premier League
 with Blackburn, at Anfield



Leaves Blackburn by mutual consent.

In December 1996 he was appointed as business development manager for Rangers, chairman David Murray's company Carnegie Sports International.
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1999-2000 

• After a succession of poor results, Celtic manager John Barnes is sacked. Dalglish takes over as interim manager.

• In March, Kenny Dalglish fends off talk about taking the job on a full-time basis after his side lifted the CIS Insurance Cup with a 2-0 victory over Aberdeen at Hampden Park. Goals from Vidar Riseth and Tommy Johnson lifted some of the gloom over Parkhead after a troubled season that threatened to end with no trophy in the cabinet for a second successive season.
• June sees "Director of Football", Kenny Dalglish, sacked by Celtic. After pursuing a £1.2m legal action against the Scottish Premier League club at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, lawyers for both sides reach a settlement, with Dalglish being awarded more than £600,000 from Celtic.