19 h. ago Kenny Dalglish, my Granny and a Liverpool pilgrimage to see true hero

The Scotsman’s football writer Alan Pattullo chats to the ‘King’ about new film

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4 d. ago Kenny Dalglish review – Liverpool’s everyman football hero who took the city’s woes on his shoulders

Asif Kapadia’s film draws an absorbing portrait of the Liverpool legend whose career was blighted by the Heysel stadium and Hillsborough disastersAsif Kapadia has curated an absorbing portrait of footballer Kenny Dalglish, Liverpool’s legendary player and then player-manager, using a quilt of archive clips with voiceovers. It takes us through his childhood in Glasgow and his sparkling career at Celtic, at a time when the stars were hardly financially better off than the fans, before Dalglish arrived at Liverpool, effectively taking over Kevin Keegan’s position. Kapadia makes his central focus the mysterious inner trial, perhaps Dalglish’s hidden ordeal, that took place between 1985 to 1989; from Heysel to Hillsborough.Dalglish was the easygoing, level-headed everyman whose destiny it was to take the city’s woes on his shoulders. He became player-manager just after the Heysel stadium disaster in 1985, when there were 39 deaths as a result of a riot at the dilapidated Belgian ground b...

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7 d. ago ‘It’s what’s in your heart that counts’: Kenny Dalglish on his love for Liverpool and the long shadow of Hillsborough

The Liverpool legend is the subject of a new film directed by Asif Kapadia on the Scot’s remarkable career in football and connection with his adopted city‘We got the bus and went down to Sheffield to visit the supporters who were in hospital,” Kenny Dalglish says as he remembers how he spent the Monday after the tragedy of Hillsborough in April 1989. “All the players were there so we split up and they walked into different wards to see people. We were trying to give them a wee bit of confidence or belief of anything that could help them. And there was a family around a young boy’s bed and he was unconscious.”Sean Luckett was 20 years old and one of the thousands of fervent Liverpool supporters who had travelled to Hillsborough to support the team who Dalglish managed and had played for with such sublime talent since arriving from Celtic in 1977. Ninety-seven Liverpool fans eventually lost their lives after the unbearable crush during the club’s FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham ...

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1 week ago Kenny Dalglish's bombshell Liverpool phone call and private chat changed football history

Kenny Dalglish had just signed a four-year contract at Liverpool when he received a phone call out of the blue that changed his life and British football history

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1 week ago Kenny Dalglish film shows why Liverpool icon's greatness extends far beyond the pitch

REVIEW: Kenny Dalglish, the new film by Senna, Amy and Diego Maradona director Asif Kapadia, outlines the triumph and tragedy of the Liverpool legend's career

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1 week ago Kenny Dalglish relives Hillsborough horror and heartbreak in new film on Liverpool legend

Liverpool icon Kenny Dalglish opened up about the horrors of the Hillsborough disaster and how it affected him and his family in a new documentary about his life from acclaimed director Asif Kapadia

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1 week ago Kenny Dalglish in tears as he relives Hillsborough horror in new film on Liverpool legend

Liverpool icon Kenny Dalglish opened up about the horrors of the Hillsborough disaster and how it affected him and his family in a new documentary about his life from acclaimed director Asif Kapadia

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