Editing Kenny Dalglish (section)

====Hillsborough disaster====
Dalglish was the manager of Liverpool at the time of the [[Hillsborough disaster]] on 15 April 1989. The disaster claimed 94 lives on the day, with the final death toll reaching 97. Dalglish attended many the funerals of the victims, including four in one day.<ref name="Hillsborough_Telegraph">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/8832949/Hillsborough-disaster-release-of-papers-is-long-overdue.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/8832949/Hillsborough-disaster-release-of-papers-is-long-overdue.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Hillsborough disaster: release of papers is long overdue |date=17 October 2011 |last=Winter |first=Henry |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |access-date=17 October 2011}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Roper |first=Matt |date=2019-04-15 |title=Kenny Dalglish carried Liverpool after Hillsborough - & it nearly destroyed him |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/kenny-dalglish-liverpool-after-hillsborough-14281396 |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=The Mirror |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |agency=Press Association |date=2021-03-04 |title=King Kenny admired as 'one of the greatest of all time' |url=https://www.thisisanfield.com/2021/03/sir-kenny-dalglish-admired-as-one-of-the-greatest-of-all-time/ |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=This Is Anfield |language=en-GB}}</ref> His presence in the aftermath of the disaster has been described as "colossal and heroic".<ref>{{cite news |last=Herbert |first=Ian |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/king-kenny-loses-grip-on-poisoned-chalice-7758042.html |title=King Kenny loses grip on poisoned chalice |newspaper=The Independent |location=London |date=17 May 2012 |access-date=17 May 2012 |archive-date=2 August 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120802153325/http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/king-kenny-loses-grip-on-poisoned-chalice-7758042.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Dalglish broke a twenty-year silence about the disaster in March 2009, expressing regret that the police and the FA did not consider delaying the kick-off of the match.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7921890.stm |title=Dalglish breaks disaster silence |work=BBC Sport |date=3 March 2009 |access-date=18 June 2009 |archive-date=13 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090313193456/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7921890.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> During the Hillsborough Memorial Service on 15 April 2011, Liverpool MP [[Steve Rotheram]] announced he would submit an [[early day motion]] to have Dalglish knighted, "not only for his outstanding playing and managerial career, but also the charity work he has done with his wife, Marina, for breast cancer support and what he did after Hillsborough. It is common knowledge it affected him deeply".<ref name="Echo_Steve Rotheram ">{{cite news |url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2011/04/27/liverpool-mp-steve-rotheram-tables-parliamentary-motion-to-get-kenny-dalgish-knighted-100252-28590038/ |date=27 April 2011 |title=Liverpool MP Steve Rotheram tables parliamentary motion to get Kenny Dalglish knighted |author=Stewart, Gary |newspaper=Liverpool Echo |access-date=11 October 2011}}</ref>