“THE HOTEL BOSS TOLD ME, ‘IF YOU SCORE FOUR MORE GOALS NEXT WEEK, YOU CAN S**T IN THAT POT PLANT’”
Apr 01, 2020
5 minutes
Interview Chris Flanagan
Is it true you briefly played under the name ‘Kevin Dalglish’?
[Laughs] It is! A mate was at university and there were two divisions. In the top division, you got picked up by a coach, dropped off at the match and had showers. In the second division, players had to make their own way there and had no showers, so he wanted to win promotion. I was playing for Stockport at the time, but he said, “Could you play a game or two?” He put me down as ‘Kevin Dalglish’ and I was scoring about nine goals a game. There was a buzz going round the university – “Who’s this Kevin Dalglish?” – so I had to dip out of it. Luckily Stockport didn’t find out!
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