On Monday at the place of a lunch on Castle Street in Liverpool, we familiarize Ian Rush again with an image of himself posing with an Everton shirt.
It was a 1989 Fools Trick for Shoot magazine, which imagined it in the Liverpool Melwood Training Field and the Blue Blue Blue Summ Everton ' – fact.
Rush, a columnist of shooting at that time, had certainly not surreptitiously forgotten the real blue shirt on the floor of the Liverpool FC that day. “Bob Paisley didn't know,” he told me. “It would have been interesting to see his reaction if I had seen me.”
And neither does Peter Reid, his unique adversary in the city, who was with us. It was thought of the protest that such an image would cause these days that the two laugh, and certainly had a point. Can you imagine the answer if MO Salah rocked somewhere in an Everton shirt?
“I jumped to the idea and many fans bought it,” said Rush. But imagine doing it now? I don't think you get yours. There would be a collapse with social networks. It would explode.
Four or five hours in the company of Rush and Reid, which united them in Goodison Park for the last time before the end of Merseyside of the stadium on Wednesday night, was sustenance for the soul. A reminder that the casual hatred that stalks the game these days, with clubs that live in a perpetual fear of some form of “mortal reputational damage”, is not the natural state of football.
The Liverpool Ian Rush icon wore an Everton shirt like a April Fool joke in the eighties
The current club legend, Mo Salah, would receive nothing more than I hate if he tried a similar trick
The Mail Sport columnist, Ian Herbert, remembers how Everton and Liverpool players used to be closer on Rush Day
Talking during lunch turned to how many Evertonians played for Liverpool and vice versa. Jamie Carragher, Michael Owen, Steve Mcmanaman, Steve McMahon and Robbie Fowler were all Blues of childhood, just like Rush, who joined Liverpool for £ 300,000, three months after Everton Gordon Lee manager broke the heart Not signing it.
The two -part players were much closer at the time. Adrian Heath from Everton and Sammy Lee of Liverpool were good friends. Mike Lyons and Phil Thompson, the captains who enter the 1980s, would have a commitment to the beginning of the season on which of the two parts would end higher on the table. Senior administrators, Peter Robinson and Jim Greenwood of Liverpool in Everton, said that a deep mutual appreciation ran through the clubs.
Rush told me that I felt that Liverpool or Everton supporters saw three or four scouses in both teams forged a form of reluctant respect among fans on the rival side. For some, that seems unthinkable now.
Social networks accelerate hatred and vitriol, of course, sending it around houses in an absent way in those analog days. But the hardest attitudes are a product of demographic change, particularly in Anfield, where many more people arrive for games from outside the city and view
Everton as another opponent, neither a rival nor a threat. Some on the Everton side of the division detest that. For them, the residual sense of fraternity between cities has gone.
Occasionally, we see evidence of old relationships that revealed those beautiful hours with Rush and Reid. The move of the late president of Everton Bill Kenwright in the Hillsborough 2013 Anniversary Service, for example, has not been forgotten.
“We get these moments that are a reminder of the ties that used to be there,” says Simon Hart, the journalist and author whose book here is a wonderful reproduction of the glorious days of the 1980s of Everton.
'But the experience of Liverpool fans in recent years has been so eliminated from that of Everton fans. Everton has been living this existential crisis, wondering if we are going to survive. In the 1980s, fans experiences were much more similar. '
The output of the Everton Cup at home to Bournemouth last weekend means that the club's waiting for a trophy will go beyond 30 years. Liverpool has won 16 trophies at that time. The last Good Derby on Wednesday night has great meaning. The Arne Slot's side is desperate to maintain his impulse for the title by extending his advantage to nine points. Everton, resurgual under David Moyes, knows that a few slippery could immerse them in a struggle for survival.
Arne Slot knows that a victory for his team will take Nine clear points to Liverpool at the top of the league
But David Moyes will be desperate because Everton wins the final meseyside derby in Goodison Park
Fans of the winning team will obtain permanent blush rights over their supremacy of Goodison, with Liverpool and Everton who won 41 Derby games in Goodison, with 37 drawn. He recalled that on Tuesday, Moyes observed: “The most important thing is to get a victory to stay in the Premier League.”
The destinations of local fans of the two clubs are intertwined, as always. The transfer of Everton to a stadium on the banks of the Mersey in Bramley-More Dock is demonstrating a catalyst for the most significant regeneration in the city since the reurbanization of the Dock of Albert in the 1980s.
All in the city will benefit from shared wealth.
He simply does not bother to try to tell the contemporary disseminators of bile and resentment. One of them was more interested in filming Reid after having had some drinks, Monday night, and sharing the images in X. Reid laughed that, but they will have chopped. More evidence that anyone would dare to leave Salah anywhere near an Everton shirt.
More Sir Jim test is out of its depth
The coincidence of Sir Jim Ratcliffe cuts relations with almost all elite sports teams that he touches hardly needs to point out. The All Blacks are now demanding ineos for ending a six -year commercial relationship prematurely.
I have touched the greatly over -inflated opinion of Sir Jim of himself more than once. If you can face the wadeing through the sand, the rigor and humor of the book:
The story of INEOS, a tedious hagiography that Sir Jim likes to show in some of his offices, will get the image. Having let Sir Ben Ainslie know that he does not qualify so much in his navigation and did not respect one of the great world sport teams, this seems a time for domestic truths.
Sorry, Sir Jim, but success in sport is much more complicated than fracking. Meanwhile, God helps Manchester United.
Ineos are being sued by the All Blacks, and the man of the property of Man United looks for his depth
Kerr's trial raises police concerns
The trial and acquittal of Sam Kerr, the Chelsea women's footballer accused of racially harassing a MET officer, suggests that the police force has lost his senses.
The jury was asked to believe that the male officer, the poor flower, felt 'alarm or harassment' because Kerr called it 'white and stupid'.
Injured feelings that initially forgot to mention. Kerr immediately apologized. That should have been the end.