Workmen are dangling precariously from the roof of Anfield’s Kenny Dalglish Stand, repairing a sign bearing the great Liverpool forward’s name which has apparently lost some fluorescence.
‘Something wrong with Kenny’s letters’, says a balding individual who, for the teenagers walking past on a half-term stadium tour, is not of the remotest significance.
He’ll be joining one of the tour parties himself within an hour or so, talking about the time and the places when he helped make Liverpool the best in the land by a mile.
Phil Neal will be 67 next week and though any pub-quiz specialist will identify him as the only player to have appeared in the five European Cup finals Liverpool reached between 1977 and 1985, he is in many ways that great team’s forgotten man.