Ian Rush
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Ian James Rush[1] | ||
Date of birth | [2] | 20 October 1961||
Place of birth | St Asaph, Wales | ||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[3] | ||
Position(s) | Forward[4] | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1978–1980 | Chester City | 34 | (14) |
1980–1986 | Liverpool | 182 | (109) |
1986–1988 | Juventus | 29 | (7) |
1986–1987 | → Liverpool (loan) | 42 | (30) |
1988–1996 | Liverpool | 245 | (90) |
1996–1997 | Leeds United | 36 | (3) |
1997–1998 | Newcastle United | 10 | (0) |
1998 | → Sheffield United (loan) | 4 | (0) |
1998–1999 | Wrexham | 17 | (0) |
1999–2000 | Sydney Olympic | 3 | (1) |
Total | 602 | (254) | |
International career | |||
1980–1996 | Wales[5] | 73 | (28) |
Managerial career | |||
2004–2005 | Chester City | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Ian James Rush MBE (born 20 October 1961) is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is regarded as one of the best strikers of all time and one of the best Welsh players in the history of the sport.[6][7][8] At club level Rush played for Liverpool from 1980–1987 and 1988–1996. Additionally, he is the club's all-time leading goalscorer, having scored a total of 346 goals in all competitions at the club. He also holds the records for being the highest goalscorer in the history of the EFL Cup and the finals of the FA Cup. At international level, Rush made 73 appearances for the Wales national football team and remained the record goalscorer with 28 goals between 1980 and 1996, until the record was broken by Gareth Bale in 2018.
Regarded as one of Liverpool's greatest ever players,
Rush was appointed
Club career
Born in St Asaph, Denbighshire,[14] Rush's reputation was enhanced by scoring for Chester City in a shock 2–0 FA Cup third round win at Second Division side Newcastle United in January 1980, with Chester City equalling their best run by reaching the last 16 where they narrowly lost to Ipswich Town. His last game for Chester City was a 2–1 win over Southend United at Sealand Road on 26 April 1980 in which he did not score.[citation needed]
Despite interest from Manchester United, and in spite of Rush being a boyhood Everton fan, Liverpool won the race to sign the 19-year-old in April 1980, though he had to remain at Chester until the end of the season as the transfer deadline (27 March 1980) had passed. Recommended by chief scout Geoff Twentyman, Liverpool paid a record fee for a teenager of £300,000.[15][16] It remained Chester City's record sale until they went bankrupt in March 2010. Rush was managed throughout his time at Chester by Alan Oakes, although much of the credit for his development is given to youth manager Cliff Sear. Nearly 20 years later, Rush and Sear worked together on the coaching staff at Wrexham.[17]
Liverpool: 1980–1987
Rush made his international début, in May 1980, just before he officially became a Liverpool player. His Liverpool début came on 13 December that year in a
During his first season at Liverpool the young Rush mostly played reserve team football, rather than the first team. His first goal for the club came on 30 September 1981 during a
His first two league goals came on 10 October 1981 in a 3–0 home win over Leeds United, and a month later he scored in the
He was voted
Liverpool's third successive League Cup triumph was added through a 2–1 win over
He scored 47 goals in 65 games (making him the highest goalscorer in all competitions for any professional club that season), a goal every 1.4 matches, as Liverpool finished three points clear of closest rivals Southampton in the League. They beat rivals Everton 1–0 in the replayed final of the League Cup (after a 0–0 draw in the first ever all-Merseyside final). They also won their fourth European Cup by defeating AS Roma 4–2 on penalties (Rush made it 3–2 before Bruce Grobbelaar's famous 'jelly legs' antics) following a 1–1 draw after extra time.[24]
The 1984–85 season was Liverpool's first trophyless season in ten years, though they did reach their fifth European Cup final against Juventus in the game of the Heysel Stadium disaster. Before the match kicked off rioting hooligans caused a retaining wall to collapse, killing 39 Juventus supporters. The game ended in a 1–0 win for Juventus. Liverpool were beaten to the title by neighbours Everton, who were crowned champions with four matches to spare. The sequel to the Heysel disaster was an indefinite ban on all English clubs in European competition, with Liverpool set to serve an extra season once the ban was lifted on other English clubs. This meant that Rush and Liverpool were unable to compete in the 1985–86 UEFA Cup.[25]
In the
Since Dalglish's appointment as player-manager in the 1985 close season, Rush had often found himself partnered with Paul Walsh in the Liverpool first team as Dalglish selected himself as a player less frequently.[citation needed]
Juventus: 1987–1988
After attracting much interest from top European sides, Rush accepted an offer to sign for Italian club Juventus on 2 July 1986 for a British record transfer fee of £3.2m.
However, it was viewed as a new challenge for Rush who would have the task of unlocking the much tighter defences in Serie A. His time at Juventus was less than successful, as he scored only eight times in 29 games; though this was partly explained by the Italian tradition at this time of tighter defences meaning that strikers tended to score fewer goals in Italy than they did in England.[29]
It has been said that he had a hard time settling in Turin, and that once he remarked "It's like living in a foreign country."[30] However, he has denied both the feeling and the quote, stating as "absolutely untrue" that he was homesick and did not enjoy his time in Turin. "I was homesick at times, but it is one of the best things I've done in my life".[31] In his autobiography Rush says that the quote was a joke made up by Kenny Dalglish, then in an interview published in The Irish Times in 2008, claimed that the quote was fictional.[32]
After just one season at the
Rush's departure from Liverpool had sparked the acquisition of new strikers John Aldridge (whose physical resemblance to Rush was often remarked upon[33]) and Peter Beardsley, and on his return to the Liverpool side he was partnered alongside these players to form a 4–3–3 formation. Rush's former strike partner Kenny Dalglish (who had been appointed player-manager in 1985) was still registered as a player but by then he was in his 37th year and rarely played in the first team, retiring completely in 1990. Rush published a diary of his frustrating time in Italy titled My Italian Diary, 1989. In it, he reflected on his struggles to integrate himself in the dressing room at Juventus and adapt to the Italian style of play.[citation needed]
Liverpool (second spell): 1988–1996
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On his return to
The 1989 FA Cup Final carried even greater significance because of the events of 15 April that year. In the semi-final, Liverpool had been drawn against Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough, home of Sheffield Wednesday. The game was brought to an abrupt end at 3.06 pm due to the unfolding disaster. 94 fans were crushed to death that day, with the final death toll eventually reaching 97. Rush, along with his teammates, attended many of the funerals.[citation needed]
Rush featured in the 1989
At the end of that season, UEFA voted for the ban on English teams in European competitions to continue for at least one more season, meaning that Rush and his teammates would be unable to challenge for the Cup Winners' Cup.[citation needed]
The 1989–90 season saw Rush win another League title, his fifth and last, as Liverpool finished nine points clear of Aston Villa, with Rush scoring 18 times in 36 games. However, another bid for the League–FA Cup double failed as Liverpool suffered a shock FA Cup semi-final defeat to Crystal Palace, even though Rush had given the Liverpool the lead with a goal in the 14th minute. The game ended in a 4–3 defeat, a surprising result considering that Liverpool had crushed the newly promoted South London club 9–0 in a league game earlier in the season.[citation needed]
Although the ban on English clubs in European competition was lifted for the 1990–91 season, Liverpool were unable to compete in the European Cup as UEFA ruled that they would have to serve an extra year's suspension.[citation needed]
In 1992, he picked up a third FA Cup winners' medal, scoring Liverpool's second goal, in the 67th minute, in the 2–0 win against
1992–93 was perhaps Liverpool's hardest season since beginning their current top flight tenure in 1962. They failed to mount a challenge for the new Premier League title, and as late as March they stood 15th in the table. Dismal form in the league had seen Rush dropped from the starting line-up, having scoring only three league goals by the beginning of March, with Souness favouring the likes of Ronny Rosenthal and Paul Stewart, but Rush returned to his peak during the final weeks of the season with 11 goals during the final two months, and he finished the season as the club's top scorer with 14 league goals, 22 overall. He topped the goalscoring charts once again in 1993–94 with 19 goals, beginning the season with Nigel Clough as his strike partner until the brilliant young Robbie Fowler broke into the first team. It was another disappointing season for Liverpool as they continued to perform unremarkably in the Premier League and Souness stepped down in late January following a shock FA Cup exit at the hands of Bristol City. Long-serving coach Roy Evans took over as manager. Liverpool finished eighth in the league, once again missing out on European competition.[citation needed]
Rush picked up his fifth League Cup winner's medal in 1995, when two goals from Steve McManaman saw off a spirited challenge from outsiders Bolton Wanderers, as Liverpool triumphed 2–1. Earlier in the competition Rush scored a hat-trick as Liverpool beat Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park, the team who would go on to win the Premier League that season. Liverpool themselves achieved their best league finish since 1991, as they finished fourth in the Premier League.[citation needed]
The 1995 close season saw Liverpool pay a national record fee of £8.4million for Nottingham Forest striker Stan Collymore, putting Rush's future at Anfield in doubt. He began the season as Liverpool's first choice striker alongside Collymore, only to be replaced by Robbie Fowler as Collymore's regular partner after a few games.[citation needed]
His loss of a regular place in the first team sparked rumours of a transfer during the season. Peter Reid made an offer to Liverpool to sign Rush on loan for Division One promotion challengers Sunderland in January 1996, but Liverpool manager Roy Evans rejected this offer, despite having not fielded Rush in his first eleven for two months, saying that he needed Rush as cover for Fowler and Collymore, as Liverpool began their quest for the FA Cup and were distant challengers in the league title race.[34]
In late February 1996, it was announced that Rush would be leaving
His long association with Liverpool ended with a substitute appearance in the
Later career: 1996–2000
Rush bid farewell to Anfield on 20 May 1996 when he agreed to sign for Leeds United. Rush spent a season with Leeds and scored three times in 36 Premier League games and was given a free transfer at the end of the 1996–97 campaign.[citation needed]
He had been brought to
He then linked up with Kenny Dalglish at Newcastle United on a one-year contract but lost his place in the side after Christmas, when Alan Shearer returned from a long-term injury. However, Rush did score an important goal in a 1–0 win over Everton in the 3rd round of the FA Cup, his 44th in the competition (a 20th-century record), helping Newcastle on their way to their first FA Cup Final in 24 years. He scored one other goal for Newcastle in a League Cup tie with Hull City.[37]
He went on loan to
International career
Rush made his Welsh debut before he had been handed his first start for Liverpool, playing his first match on 21 May 1980 against Scotland in Glasgow, a 0–1 loss. He played his last international match on 24 January 1996 – a friendly match against Italy in Terni which Wales lost 0–3. Rush played regularly for the Welsh national team for more than 15 years, scoring 28 goals in 73 games.[38]
He scored in a friendly against Italy in
Management and coaching
After working as a part-time striker's coach for Liverpool under Gerard Houllier in 2003,
But after Rush ruled himself out of the running for the vacant Welsh manager's job on 1 November 2004 things never seemed to go as well. Several heavy defeats were inflicted and Rush was criticised for
Rush was interviewed for the Peterborough United manager's job shortly after this but lost out to Mark Wright, who had played in the same Liverpool team as Rush from 1991 to 1996, and had preceded Rush as Chester manager.[49]
Media career and other activities, 2005 to present
In 2005, at the age of 43, Rush considered coming out of retirement to play for TNS, after the Welsh side were drawn against Liverpool for their opening round Champions League qualifying match, but later decided against this.[50]
Since November 2005, Rush has been involved in media work within the game, including a stint as an analyst with ESPN.[51] He also appears as a pundit and reporter for Sky Sports and Sky Sports News. He has also done work on LFC TV.[citation needed]
On 27 April 2006, Rush was involved in the Marina Dalglish charity match, which pitted the 1986 FA Cup final teams of Liverpool and Everton against each other in aid of Breast Cancer Research, as Kenny Dalglish's wife Marina had been suffering from breast cancer and the proceeds from the match were being donated to the charity.[52]
Rush was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2006 due to his achievements in the game.[citation needed]
On 7 September 2007 it was announced that Rush had been appointed Elite Performance Director for the Welsh Football Trust, a part-time role in which he would help develop the next generation of players for Wales' national teams.[53]
Rush released his autobiography on 21 August 2008, Rush: The Autobiography, through
On 26 April 2010, it was announced that Rush had returned to work with Liverpool FC, becoming the Club's new Soccer Schools Ambassador and it was announced he would also work with the Club's commercial team to help develop and support partnerships with other global sponsors and brands.[55] Rush can still be seen wearing the red of Liverpool as he is one of Liverpool's ambassadors on public relations tours for the club.[56]
In summer 2010, as part of an outdoor installation in Chester that featured seventy life sized fibreglass rhinos each with unique artwork, one rhino was in honour of Ian Rush. The rhino was painted with a black moustache and wearing a Chester City football kit and boots.[57]
In August 2014, Rush was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.[58]
Rush was one of the pundits in first season (2014) of Indian Super League.[59]
In August 2016, Rush was named as ambassador for the
In popular culture
Rush is referenced in the Milk Marketing Board television advert
Personal life
Ian Rush was the ninth of ten children born to Francis and Doris Rush, who lived in Flint, North Wales.[61] Francis Rush, who worked in the steel industry for many years, died in July 2003 at the age of 78.[62] Doris Rush died almost seven years later at the age of 82.[63]
Rush married Tracy in 1987. The marriage ended in 2015. They had two sons together: Jonathan and Daniel.[64]
He is the great-uncle of footballer Owen Beck, who made his debut for Liverpool in 2021.[65]
Career statistics
Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | League Cup[b] | Europe | Other | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Chester City | 1978–79 | Third Division | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | ||||
1979–80 | Third Division | 33 | 14 | 5 | 4 | – | – | – | 38 | 17 | ||||
Total | 34 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 18 | ||
Liverpool | 1980–81 | First Division | 7 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | 1[c] | 0 | – | 9 | 0 | ||
1981–82 | First Division | 32 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 4[c] | 2 | – | 49 | 30 | ||
1982–83 | First Division | 34 | 24 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 5[c] | 2 | 1[d] | 1 | 51 | 32 | |
1983–84 | First Division | 41 | 32 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 10[c] | 5 | 1[d] | 0 | 65 | 47 | |
1984–85 | First Division | 28 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 6[c] | 5 | 3[e] | 0 | 44 | 27 | |
1985–86 | First Division | 40 | 24 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 3 | – | 2[f] | 2 | 56 | 35 | ||
1986–87 | First Division | 42 | 30 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 4 | – | 3[g] | 6 | 57 | 40 | ||
Juventus | 1987–88 | Serie A | 29 | 7 | 7 | 5 | – | 3[h] | 1 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 13 | |
Liverpool | 1988–89 | First Division | 24 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | – | 2[i] | 0 | 32 | 11 | |
1989–90 | First Division | 36 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | – | 1[d] | 0 | 48 | 28 | ||
1990–91 | First Division | 37 | 20 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 5 | – | 1[d] | 0 | 48 | 30 | ||
1991–92 | First Division | 18 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5[h] | 1 | – | 31 | 9 | ||
1992–93 | Premier League | 32 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4[j] | 5 | 1[d] | 1 | 42 | 22 | |
1993–94 | Premier League | 42 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | – | – | 49 | 19 | |||
1994–95 | Premier League | 36 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 6 | – | – | 50 | 19 | |||
1995–96 | Premier League | 20 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3[h] | 0 | – | 29 | 7 | ||
Liverpool total | 469 | 229 | 61 | 39 | 77 | 48 | 38 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 660 | 346 | ||
Leeds United | 1996–97 | Premier League | 36 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 42 | 3 | ||
Newcastle United | 1997–98 | Premier League | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1[k] | 0 | – | 14 | 2 | |
Sheffield United | 1997–98 | First Division | 4 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 4 | 0 | ||||
Wrexham | 1998–99 | Second Division | 17 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 23 | 0 | ||
Sydney Olympic
|
1999–2000 | National Soccer League | 3 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 3 | 1 | ||||
Career total | 602 | 254 | 82 | 49 | 83 | 49 | 42 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 825 | 383 |
- ^ Includes FA Cup, Coppa Italia
- Football League Cup
- ^ European Cup
- ^ FA Charity Shield
- European Super Cup, one appearance in Intercontinental Cup
- ^ Appearances in Football League Super Cup
- ^ One appearance and one goal in FA Charity Shield, two appearances and five goals in Football League Super Cup
- ^ UEFA Cup
- ^ Appearances in Football League Centenary Trophy
- ^ Appearances in UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
- ^ Appearance in UEFA Champions League
Honours
- Source:[66]
Liverpool
- Football League First Division: 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1989–90
- FA Cup: 1985–86, 1988–89, 1991–92
- Football League Super Cup: 1985–86
- (shared)
- European Cup: 1980–81, 1983–84
Individual
- PFA Young Player of the Year: 1983
- PFA Players' Player of the Year: 1984
- FWA Footballer of the Year: 1984
- BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year: 1984
- PFA First Division Team of the Year: 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1991
- PFA Team of the Century (1977-1996): 2007[67]
- European Golden Boot: 1984
- First Division Golden Boot: 1984
- Liverpool Top Goalscorer: 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1990–91, 1992–93, 1993–94
- FAI International Football Awards – International Personality: 2010[68]
Bibliography
- Rush, Ian (21 August 2008). Rush: The Autobiography. ISBN 978-0-09-192805-6.
- Paperback (2009): ISBN 978-0-09-192806-3
- Paperback (2009):
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External links
- Ian Rush – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Ian Rush – UEFA competition record (archive)
- Wales Goalscoring Record
- LFC History Profile
- 60 Minutes with Ian Rush Interview
- Ian Rush at Premier League
- Portraits of Ian Rush at the National Portrait Gallery, London