At a lunch place in Liverpool’s Castle Street on Monday, we reacquainted Ian Rush with an image of himself posing in an Everton shirt.
It was a 1989 April Fools’ stunt for Shoot magazine, who pictured him at Liverpool’s Melwood training ground and superimposed blue ‘Goodison’ seats in the background to make it seem like their ‘world exclusive’ — ‘Rush signs for Everton’ — was already done.
Rush, a Shoot columnist at that time, certainly hadn’t forgotten surreptitiously donning the royal blue shirt on Liverpool FC soil that day. ‘Bob Paisley didn’t know about it,’ he told me.