{"id":709951,"date":"2026-06-02T12:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/709951\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T12:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:02:08","slug":"sir-kenny-dalglish-undergoing-treatment-for-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/709951\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Kenny Dalglish undergoing treatment for cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scotland, Liverpool<\/a> and Celtic great Sir Kenny Dalglish is undergoing treatment for cancer.<\/p>\n

The former forward and manager wanted to keep the news private but confirmed the diagnosis after accidentally sharing the news initially in an “inadvertent social media post”.<\/p>\n

“I am currently undergoing treatment for cancer,” Dalglish, 75, wrote on social media. “Unlike my mobile phone use, the treatment is going well.<\/p>\n

“Ideally, this would have remained private because that’s the way it should be, but my useless technology skills have forced my hand.<\/p>\n

“Obviously I did not mean to make this matter public so I would appreciate it if the privacy of my family and myself are respected.<\/p>\n

“As ever, thank you to the wonderful medical staff who have shown incredible care and discretion, not just for me but for many, many others. They are a credit to themselves.”<\/p>\n

Dalglish scored 167 goals in 320 appearances for Celtic between 1969 and 1977 before going on to make 515 appearances for Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The legendary forward scored 30 goals in 102 caps for Scotland.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Liverpool<\/a> said: “The support, best wishes and love of everyone at Liverpool<\/a> FC are, and will be, with Sir Kenny and his family.<\/p>\n

“The club would also like to underscore his request for privacy moving forward.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland, Liverpool and Celtic great Sir Kenny Dalglish is undergoing treatment for cancer. The former forward and manager…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-709951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}