'Title 19 doesn't come into it'
3rd Mar 2011 - Latest News
Kenny Dalglish insists that Liverpool will be focusing on shaping their own destiny when they face Manchester United on Sunday - and not whether they can dent their rivals' hopes of securing a record 19th title.
The boss accepts that Alex Ferguson's side have enjoyed great success since he ended his first spell in the Anfield dugout but feels they still have some way to go if they are to match the Reds' trophy haul in Europe.
He told a Melwood press conference: "We want to help ourselves first. If we help ourselves and it hinders somebody else then that's not our problem, that's theirs.
"As we always say, you can control an awful lot of your own destiny and not someone else's. If we concentrate on ourselves and prepare as well as we can, then whatever eventualities come from that, fine.
"If we get a result on Sunday it is more helpful to us than it is harmful to them."
He added: "I never considered they would catch us. I was concentrating on what I was supposed to do and that was to manage Blackburn Rovers. You never look too far ahead and I wasn't doing that then.
"To their credit they have won a fantastic amount of Championships and it shows how successful they have been.
"I was working for a good part of that time. I had my own competition with Manchester United when I was at Blackburn and then Newcastle. I never had any feelings. You take greater satisfaction from when your own team is successful and they've been more successful than Liverpool over the past 20 years.
"But at the end of the day we've still got bits we can hang on to. We've still won five European Cups."
Sunday's clash will see two of the finest Scottish managers of all-time renew their rivalry.
Dalglish insists nothing has changed since he has returned to the Liverpool hot-seat and is relishing the opportunity to lock horns with his old adversary.
"It's never been any different. If you read my book it'll tell you!" he joked.
"I've never had a problem with Fergie. I've got respect for the job he has done as a manager. I've never had a problem. I've known him for a long, long time. It must be 40 years or so since I first came across him. I don't have a problem."
Asked if he'll share a bottle of red wine with the United boss to mark his 60th birthday, Dalglish joked: "Well it's my birthday! He'll have what everybody else gets."
The boss was also quizzed about what impact a win over the Reds Devils would have on the rest of Liverpool's season.
He added: "It never does anyone any harm to win a game. Obviously the three points would be very welcome. What they would bring for ourselves and the future, we just don't know. But it certainly wouldn't do us any harm to pick up the three points."
3rd Mar 2011 - Latest News
Kenny Dalglish insists that Liverpool will be focusing on shaping their own destiny when they face Manchester United on Sunday - and not whether they can dent their rivals' hopes of securing a record 19th title.
The boss accepts that Alex Ferguson's side have enjoyed great success since he ended his first spell in the Anfield dugout but feels they still have some way to go if they are to match the Reds' trophy haul in Europe.
He told a Melwood press conference: "We want to help ourselves first. If we help ourselves and it hinders somebody else then that's not our problem, that's theirs.
"As we always say, you can control an awful lot of your own destiny and not someone else's. If we concentrate on ourselves and prepare as well as we can, then whatever eventualities come from that, fine.
"If we get a result on Sunday it is more helpful to us than it is harmful to them."
He added: "I never considered they would catch us. I was concentrating on what I was supposed to do and that was to manage Blackburn Rovers. You never look too far ahead and I wasn't doing that then.
"To their credit they have won a fantastic amount of Championships and it shows how successful they have been.
"I was working for a good part of that time. I had my own competition with Manchester United when I was at Blackburn and then Newcastle. I never had any feelings. You take greater satisfaction from when your own team is successful and they've been more successful than Liverpool over the past 20 years.
"But at the end of the day we've still got bits we can hang on to. We've still won five European Cups."
Sunday's clash will see two of the finest Scottish managers of all-time renew their rivalry.
Dalglish insists nothing has changed since he has returned to the Liverpool hot-seat and is relishing the opportunity to lock horns with his old adversary.
"It's never been any different. If you read my book it'll tell you!" he joked.
"I've never had a problem with Fergie. I've got respect for the job he has done as a manager. I've never had a problem. I've known him for a long, long time. It must be 40 years or so since I first came across him. I don't have a problem."
Asked if he'll share a bottle of red wine with the United boss to mark his 60th birthday, Dalglish joked: "Well it's my birthday! He'll have what everybody else gets."
The boss was also quizzed about what impact a win over the Reds Devils would have on the rest of Liverpool's season.
He added: "It never does anyone any harm to win a game. Obviously the three points would be very welcome. What they would bring for ourselves and the future, we just don't know. But it certainly wouldn't do us any harm to pick up the three points."
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