It is in a grainy piece of home video footage, from Christmas Day in 1990, that a door is opened to the unbearable stress and strain.
Behind the hand-held camera, the voice of Kenny Dalglish is heard shouting ‘OK! OK!’, but he doesn’t sound a happy man as he beckons his children into the living room of their house to open their presents.
This should be the most joyful day of the year but you can see in the faces of the family who adore him that all is not right.
You then hear Dalglish, his voice strained, again, almost snapping at one of his daughters: ‘Lynsey!