Liverpool's all-time leading scorer and Wales's most feared forward
FootballIan Rush scored the kind of goals that made defenders rewind their VHS tapes in disbelief. Quick, angular, and devastating in the six-yard box, he was for more than a decade the most efficient finisher in British football.
Rush joined Liverpool from Chester City in 1980 and, across two spells at Anfield either side of a year in Turin with Juventus, scored 346 goals for the club, a record that still stands. He won five league titles, three FA Cups, five League Cups and a European Cup, and remains the competition's record FA Cup final goalscorer with five. For Wales he earned 73 caps, finishing as the nation's record scorer until Gareth Bale overtook him decades later.
The partnership with Kenny Dalglish, and later with John Aldridge, produced some of the finest football Anfield had seen. He had a particular genius for running the channel, receiving the ball on the half-turn and arrowing a low drive across the goalkeeper. Everton fans will tell you, through gritted teeth, that he scored 25 goals against them across his career, more than any player against any single opponent in English football history.
Since retiring Rush has worked in punditry, coaching and ambassadorial roles at Liverpool and across the Welsh game. On stage he is generous with his stories and still clearly loves the game that defined him, from the Boot Room years under Paisley to the title chases of the late 1980s.
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