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PA Images / Alamy - King Kenny: Dalglish, pictured here with Bob Paisley,  replaced Kevin Keegan  as Liverpool No 7 and won six league titles and three European Cups as a player at the club. 7 Jun 2026 - THE OBSERVER / Sport Paul Hayward Support for Kenny Dalglish and Kevin Keegan , who have cancer, is a given at Anfield, where the bright new head coach Andoni Iraola will soon discover a special bond that connects a club and its community ‘He’s a Liverpool supporter, so I knew I wouldn’t be walking alone, if you know what I mean’ Kevin Keegan meets his specialist Last week The Times led its back page with a cancer diagnosis for a 75-year-old man who stopped playing football in 1990 and left management 14 years ago. But this was no ordinary illness bulletin. The patient’s name was Kenny Dalglish. The previous day, the Liverpool No 7 Dalglish was bought to replace in 1977 revealed he has stage four cancer. Kevin Keegan, also 75, said of the specialist who’s treating him: “He was...

The big interview An emotional Kenny Dalglish on the scars of Hillsborough, his love of Liverpool and a new film of his life by Asif Kapadia ‘The people who needed the greatest care never got it from the FA, from anybody outside’ 25 Oct 2025 - THE GUARDIAN / Sport Donald Mcrae ‘We got the bus and went down to Sheffield to visit the supporters who were in hospital,” Kenny Dalglish says as he remembers how he spent the Monday after the tragedy of Hillsborough in April 1989. “All the players were there so we split up and they walked into different wards to see people. We were trying to give them a wee bit of confidence or belief of anything that could help them. And there was a family around a young boy’s bed and he was unconscious.” Sean Luckett was 20 years old and one of the thousands of fervent Liverpool supporters who had travelled to Hillsborough to support the team who Dalglish managed and had played for with such sublime talent since arriving from Celtic in 1977. Ninety-seven Live...