Dalglish was the manager of Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough disaster on 15 April 1989.

During the Hillsborough Memorial Service on 15 April 2011, Liverpool MP Steve Rotherham 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.

Dalglish was in the stands when the Ibrox disaster occurred at an Old Firm match in January 1971, when 66 Rangers fans were killed.

After the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985 and Joe Fagan's subsequent resignation as manager, Dalglish became player-manager of Liverpool.

Dalglish attended many funerals of the victims – including four in one day – and his presence in the aftermath of the disaster has been described as " colossal and heroic ".

Dalglish broke a twenty-year silence about the disaster in March 2009.

Fagan resigned after the disaster and Kenny Dalglish was appointed as player-manager.

On 29 May 1985, just hours before the Heysel Stadium disaster, Fagan announced he would retire, and was succeeded by leading Scottish and Liverpool forward Kenny Dalglish.

Liverpool's trophyless season, culminating in the disaster at Heysel, in 1985 was followed by a much more successful season for Whelan and Liverpool, under the new management of Kenny Dalglish.

By the following year Dalglish was a full professional and a regular member of the highly-rated Celtic reserve team that became known as the Quality Street Gang, due to its having a large number of future Scottish internationals, including Danny McGrain, George Connelly, Lou Macari, and David Hay.

The largest junior football club in Southport, Birkdale United AFC, played a crucial part in the footballing education of famous Premiership footballers such as Jack Rodwell, Dominic Matteo, Shaun Teale and Paul Dalglish on their way, still has its home in the village and boasts teams for boys from the age of 6 and girls from the age of 7 through to open age teams.

Puma is known for its football shoes and has sponsored acclaimed footballers, including Pelé, Eusébio, Johan Cruijff, Enzo Francescoli, Diego Maradona, Lothar Matthäus, Kenny Dalglish, Didier Deschamps, Robert Pires, Radamel Falcao, Marco Reus, and Gianluigi Buffon.

Kenny Dalglish was livid but later relented and gave his blessing to Johnston when he found out the reason for the player's decision.

After successfully persuaded and installed Brendan Rodgers as the new manager, in July John Henry told the reason behind parting company with Dalglish, citing it had nothing to do with failing to win the FA Cup, nor Suarez case ( as assumed by Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson ), but due to the club's poor performance in the second half of the 2011 / 2012 season.

Between 2000 and 2010 Dalglish focused on charitable concerns, founding The Marina Dalglish Appeal with his wife to raise money for cancer care.

In his first season Dalglish was loaned out to Cumbernauld United, for whom he scored 37 goals.

Dalglish made his first-team competitive debut for Celtic as a substitute in the 1968 Scottish League Cup quarter-final tie against Hamilton Academical.

On 10 August 1977, after making 320 appearances and scoring 167 goals for Celtic, Dalglish was signed by Liverpool manager Bob Paisley for a British transfer fee record of £ 440, 000.

In his second season Dalglish recorded a personal best of 21 league goals for the club, and he was also named Football Writers ' Association Footballer of the Year.

Dalglish was voted PFA Player of the Year for the 1982 – 83 season, during which he scored 18 league goals as Liverpool retained their title.

After becoming player-manager on the retirement of Joe Fagan in the 1985 close season, Dalglish selected himself for just 21 First Division games in 1985 – 86 as Liverpool won the double, but he started the FA Cup final win over Everton.

Dalglish had a personally better campaign in the 1986 – 87 season, scoring six goals in 18 league appearances, but by then he was committed to giving younger players priority for a first team place.

With the sale of Ian Rush to Juventus in 1987, Dalglish formed a new striker partnership of new signings John Aldridge and Peter Beardsley for the 1987 – 88 season, and he played only twice in a league campaign which saw Liverpool gain their 17th title.

Tommy Docherty gave Dalglish his debut for the Scottish national side as a substitute in the 1 – 0 Euro 1972 qualifier victory over Belgium on 10 November 1971 at Pittodrie.

Dalglish scored his first goal for Scotland a year later on 15 November 1972 in the 2 – 0 World Cup qualifier win over Denmark at Hampden Park.

In 1976, Dalglish scored the winning goal for Scotland at Hampden Park against England, by nutmegging Ray Clemence.

In total, Dalglish played 102 times for Scotland ( a national record ) and he scored 30 goals, ( also a national record, which matched that set by Denis Law.

The new-look Liverpool side shaped by Dalglish topped the league for almost the entire season, and had a run of 37 matches unbeaten in all competitions ( including 29 in the league ; 22 wins and 7 draws ) from the beginning of the season to 21 February 1988, when they lost to Everton in the league.

By the turn of 1992 they were top of the Second Division, and then suffered a dip in form before recovering to qualify for the playoffs, during which Dalglish led Blackburn into the new Premier League by beating Leicester City 1 – 0 in the Second Division Play-off final at Wembley.

The resulting promotion meant that Blackburn were back in the top flight of English football for the first time since 1966. In the 1992 close season, Dalglish signed Southampton's Alan Shearer for a British record fee of £ 3. 5 million.

Despite a serious injury which ruled Shearer out for half the season, Dalglish achieved fourth position with the team in the first year of the new Premier League.

At the start of the 1994 – 95 season Dalglish paid a record £ 5 million for Chris Sutton, with whom Shearer formed an effective strike partnership.

After signing Andy Carroll from Newcastle for a British record transfer fee of £ 35 million and Luis Suárez from Ajax for £ 22. 8 million at the end of January ( in the wake of Fernando Torres's sale to Chelsea for £ 50 million ), some journalists noted that Dalglish had begun to assert his authority at the club.

Dalglish became player-manager of Liverpool in 1985 after the resignation of Joe Fagan, winning a further three First Divisions, two FA Cups and four FA Charity Shields, before resigning from Liverpool in 1991.

Arsenal had finished ahead of runners-up Liverpool in the race for the league title that season, and in February of that season Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish had suddenly announced his resignation as manager – and Graham's name was among those mentioned by the media as a possible successor to Dalglish.

1990 – 91 saw Rush continue to score regularly and Liverpool led the table from the start of the season until January, but they were then overhauled by Arsenal and on 22 February 1991 Dalglish announced his resignation as manager.

However, after injury to McMahon and the surprise resignation of Dalglish, Liverpool could only finish runners-up in the league, despite having won their first nine matches of the campaign.

Redknapp was the last player to be signed by manager Kenny Dalglish before his surprising resignation on 22 February 1991 and later became the youngest Liverpool player to appear in European competition, at 18 years 120 days when making his Liverpool debut against Auxerre in the UEFA Cup on 23 October 1991, by which time Liverpool were being managed by Graeme Souness.

In 1990 – 91 he scored 16 league goals, though the title slipped from Liverpool's grasp to that of Arsenal following the sudden resignation of Kenny Dalglish and the appointment of Graeme Souness as manager.

His final competitive goals came in the dramatic first replay of the fifth round FA Cup tie against Everton at Goodison Park on 20 February 1991, which ended in a 4-4 draw and would be the club's last game before the sudden resignation of manager Kenny Dalglish, who by the end of the season had been succeeded by Graeme Souness.

Following the sudden resignation of Kenny Dalglish as Liverpool manager in February 1991, media reports strongly linked Toshack with a return to Anfield as manager, but he ruled himself out of the running and the job went to Graeme Souness instead.

He played 30 league games and scored once, remaining a regular player even after the resignation of Kenny Dalglish as manager on 22 February 1991 – after which he was succeeded by Graeme Souness.

The Reds were still in contention for both the league title and FA Cup when manager Kenny Dalglish stunned the footballing world by announced his resignation on 22 February 1991.

On 14 May 2012 Clarke offered his resignation to Liverpool following the sacking of manager Dalglish and Liverpool's 8th place finish in the 2011 – 12 Premier League.

Everton's form improved under Kendall and they finished ninth, also reaching the FA Cup quarter-finals and ousting Liverpool in the fifth round after two replays ; Cottee was Everton's saviour in the first replay on 21 February as he scored a late equaliser which forced a 4 – 4 draw in Liverpool's last game before the resignation of manager Kenny Dalglish the following day.

When Dalglish sensationally announced his resignation as manager in 1991, Moran was installed as ' caretaker ' boss, a role he occupied for only ten games.