Graeme Souness has always taken the blame for the so-called Liverpool demise, but I always thought it started under Dalglish. I cant really put my finger on why that was because being a United fan I didnt know the ins and outs of your club. I just felt that Liverpool had always had a way of doing things. They seemed to buy just a couple of players in the summer and bring a couple through the ranks. This way had worked for them for years. Dalglish took over and bought loads of players. Dont get me wrong, that side was the best Liverpool side I have ever seen and I was going to United v Liverpool matches from the Keegan period onwards,( I was at Wembley for the Charity Shield in 77, Dalglishes first game) but it was like the players were mercenaries rather than the Liverpool through and through players that had won championship after championship for almost two decades previous. Up until Dalglish took over, City and Leeds were our main rivals, the teams we hated most and wanted to beat. But something about Kenny and the way he ran the club changed all that and Liverpool became more and more the enemy. Ha ha, that got a lot worse when Fergie took over at OT. Anyway I cant quite put my finger on it, but at the time we (United fans) felt the change at Anfield during the Dalglish era.