When Alan Kennedy left Newcastle United it was with a heavy heart, but he got everything he wished for at Liverpool, eight years filled with joy and laden with silverware.
At Newcastle he learnt how to handle disappointment, the crushing sense of letting the supporters and a city down, losing the FA Cup final to Liverpool in 1974 and the League Cup final to Manchester City two years later.
At Liverpool, the left-back, who scandalously won only two England caps, Kennedy “learned not only how to win, but what it takes to keep on winning”.