Couple of questions for the oldies:
1) Why was he never European Footballer of the year? Always wondered this. Was there always someone better (Platini won 3, Rummenigge & Keegan got 2 each and Rossi got 1 while Dalglish was at his peak)?
Good question; Platini was class but neither Rumenigge nor Keegan were close to Kenny in my opinion. Bear in mind Michael Owen has won one but Messi and Gerrard have not and you can draw your own conclusions about its validity.
Do you not find it interesting that English sides dominated the European trophies from the mid 70s til the ban but no English based player won it during this period? Power bases, politics, dunno. He shoulda! Being a Jock probably didn't help.
2) Taking emotion & sentimentality out of it, was Souness a better footballer? I've always thought so from what I've seen and the guy on here probably considered most knowledgeable of all, Wooltonian, has often said Souness was the best.
Souness was a top class central midfielder both in terms of his actual ability and his physical and mental domination of a football pitch and everyone on it, bearing in mind this was the day when everyone had a proper 'kicker' and booting lumps out fo the opposition's best player was the norm. Would've been horrendous knowing you were going to play against him for any one of a number of reasons.
Dalglish was also a very tough lad, but I would say talent and technique wise was the best I have seen in a British footballer.
It's difficult to separate the emotional side from the player, but overall, I would go for Barnesy
