who took over the Liverpool job as a 34-year-old in 1985 after Joe Fagan resigned following the Heysel Stadium disaster. Well, it was a surprise, Dalglish recalls to FourFourTwo. The way that I saw it, I was just going to give my best, and if my best transpired not to be good enough, then I'd hold my hands up and say, This isn't for me it's not fair on the club, so get somebody else in.'
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 before the Juventus v Liverpool European Cup final.
