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Liverpool's greatest striker. Liverpool's greatest era. The true story.
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In 2006, Liverpool fans voted Ian Rush among the top three all-time greatest players in the history of the club. Taking his place alongside Kenny Dalglish and Steven Gerrard, he surpassed legends such as Fowler, Keegan, Owen, Smith, Carragher and Hansen. Ian Rush is quite simply Liverpool's greatest goalscorer and, along with Jimmy Greaves and Denis Law, one of the finest natural penalty-box predators the game has ever seen. This is the story of a rough-edged Welsh teenager thrust into the ranks of an already great side, who didn't feel up to it, but who learned how to grow as a player and a man until he became the most devastating finisher in English football.Rush's story is bursting with honesty and insight, emotional turmoil and tragedy, and hilarious tales and asides. It is a near-mythical tale of triumph and tragedy. Of an era when Liverpool became nigh on invincible, made the League title their own, and rode the highs of European and FA Cup Finals alongside the devastating tragedies of Heysel and Hillsborough. The drama of Rush's time at Liverpool during the 80s - the decade that defined the club more than any other - is thrillingly captured in this autobiography, which takes you into the thick of the action, as well as offering a frank and insightful analysis of the game today.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
brilliant book by a brilliant striker in a brilliant era.
a great read. especially for us liverpool fans at the moment.
a great read. especially for us liverpool fans at the moment.
Format:Paperback
A really interesting and humble read, well written and good to read an autobiography with 'no swearing'. Have also read Gerrard and Beckham and a number of others.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book suffers from being badly written, which is a shame because Ian Rush was a hero to me when I was growing up. I was looking forward to this book and to be fair the first few chapters were reasonably entertaining, but before long it became the cliched football autobiography and there are long sections explaining the fine details of certain games. As a Liverpool fan, I am aware of these games and I can watch them on DVD if need be; there is nothing more boring than a running commentary of runs, dribbles and passes. Maybe it's because Rushy was naturally a quiet person that there doesn't seem to be too many really interesting anecdotes in this book, however his revelations about not originally warming to Kenny Dalglish and his opinions of his team mates at Juventus are quite interesting. One more thing, the chronology of some of the events are a bit perplexing at times (obviously the proof reading was a bit lax), one passage that springs to mind has Rushy being in Australia playing for Sydney Olympic and getting a call from Rick Parry asking if he'd like to help Rafa with the coaching. Given that Rushy was in Australia until 2000 and Rafa didn't come to Liverpool until 2004....
Bad editing aside, it's still an average read I'm afraid, but thanks Rushy for your 346 goals and lots more besides, you're still and always will be a Legend!
Bad editing aside, it's still an average read I'm afraid, but thanks Rushy for your 346 goals and lots more besides, you're still and always will be a Legend!
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Average read for an outstanding player
This is an average read.There were several mistakes as pointed out by other reviewers.Another was Stan Colleymore???????The error I couldnt believe was the rafa error!!!!!!!!!
Published on 24 Jan 2009 by Mr. Michael Rose
Poor book, great pity.
I queued for 2 hours at a book signing in Waterstone's in London. Ian Rush turned up 40 minutes late, signed a few books and left, disappointing a huge number of us. Read more
Published on 19 Jan 2009 by S. Sellman
Badly edited
Interesting book but lost count of the number of sentences with words missing, or extra words that didn't make sense. Badly edited throughout.
Published on 18 Jan 2009 by Dellboy78
Disappointing
This should have been good, actually it should have been better than good, when you think of the games and times that Ian Rush played in for Liverpool. Read more
Published on 16 Sep 2008 by DF
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