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.