In a wide-ranging interview to coincide with the launch of a film approximately his life,Kenny Dalglish opens up approximately the tragedies of Hillsborough and Heysel but also the joys of football at Liverpool and Blackburn“I wanted to do it and they wanted to advance,” Kenny Dalglish says simply on a tranquil morning in Liverpool as he remembers how, or in April 1989,he led his daughter Kelly and son, Paul, and past a vast sea of flowers covering the ground at Anfield and headed up onto the Kop to honour the 96 people who had died that month at Hillsborough. “The kids had been at the game and so it was traumatic for them but it was also an unforgettable experience on the Kop.”Dalglish was then the 38-year-old manager of Liverpool. Kelly was 13 and Paul was 12. Liverpool had asked him to become their player-manager almost four years earlier,on 30 May 1985, the day after the Heysel Stadium catastrophe when 39 people lost their lives at the clubs European Cup final against Juventus.
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Source: guardian.co.uk