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IAN HERBERT: Kenny Dalglish's greatest achievement is giving a voice to a grieving city after winning the SPOTY lifetime award... his work in the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster has obscured his robust beauty as a player

Related Topics: Kenny Dalglish, Brian Clough

The devastating, sometimes surreal, small details of what Kenny Dalglish had to contend with on that April day in 1989 have not been combed through so very much, because those were times when you were just expected to live with things and move on.

He was led by a police officer through the Hillsborough kitchens, with Brian Clough, towards the police box at the corner of the Leppings Lane stand, where they were both to make an announcement to calm fans in the depths of the stadium disaster which would claim 97 lives.

The police box microphone wasn’t working, so the officer suggested they use the stadium DJ’s booth instead, a few flights further up.