Sir Kenny Dalglish has been let out of hospital after being diagnosed with coronavirus.
The Liverpool legend, 69, was admitted to hospital on Wednesday for treatment on gallstones.
Despite not showing any symptoms, Dalglish underwent a routine coronavirus test and returned a positive diagnosis for Covid-19.
The former Celtic, Liverpool and Scotland forward is now recovering in self-isolation at home and issued huge praise to the NHS workers across the nation.
Writing in The Sunday Post, Dalglish hailed the hospital workers who treated him as ‘absolutely brilliant’.
“People may think my name got me the best of care but every patient in the NHS gets the best of care,” he wrote.
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“As a nation, we are lucky to have them and I wish them all well as they work tirelessly to help the country through this pandemic.”
Dalglish won six league championships as player for the Reds and a further three as a manager.
He was in charge during the time of the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, when 96 Liverpool fans died as a result of a crush at an FA Cup semi-final tie in Sheffield.
Dalglish ensured all of the fans’ funerals were represented by people at the club, attending many of them himself. He and the 96 victims were awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in 2016.
The Scot also won the Premier League as Blackburn manager in 1995.
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