Imagine the hate if Mo Salah ever had an Everton shirt as a joke Ian Rush did in the eighties, writes Ian Herbert – ahead of the last Merseyside Derby in Goodison Park

At a lunch spot in Liverpool’s Castle Street on Monday we recognized Ian Rush with a picture of himself posing in an Everton shirt.

It was an April -Narres Stunt for the 1989 Shoot magazine that depicted him at Liverpool’s Melwood training course and overlaid Blue ‘Goodison’ seats in the background to get it done.

Rush, a Shoot Paltist at the time, had certainly not forgotten creepy to donate the royal blue shirt on Liverpool FC earth that day. ‘Bob Paisley didn’t know about it,’ he told me. ‘It would have been interesting to see his reaction if he had seen me.’

And not Peter Reid, his disposable opponent in the city who was with us. It was the idea of ​​the scream that such a picture would provoke these days that caused the two to hum away – and they certainly had a point. Can you just imagine the answer if Mo Salah shook up somewhere in an Everton shirt?

“I jumped on the idea and lots of fans bought into it,” Rush said. ‘But imagine doing it now? I don’t think you’d get rid of it. There would be a meltdown with social media. It would explode. ‘

Four or five hours in Rush and Reid’s company, which brought them together at Goodison Park for a last time before the stadium’s last Merseyside Derby on Wednesday night, was the sustening of the soul. A reminder that the casual hatred that is pursuing the game these days with clubs living in eternal fear of a kind of mortal ‘reputation’ injury ‘is not the natural state of football.

Liverpool icon Ian Rush had an Everton -Shirt as an April -nar’s joke in the eighties

Current club legend Mo Salah would only receive hate if he tried a similar stunt

Mail Sport -Spaltist Ian Herbert remembers how Everton and Liverpool players used to be closer to Rush’s Day

Talk over lunch turned around how many Evertonian played for Liverpool and vice versa. Jamie Carragher, Michael Owen, Steve McManaman, Steve McMahon and Robbie Fowler were all boy blue, just like Rush – who joined Liverpool for £ 300,000, three months after Everton Manager Gordon Lee broke his heart by not signing him.

The players on the two sides were so much closer back then. Everton’s Adrian Heath and Liverpools Sammy Lee were good friends. Mike Lyons and Phil Thompson, the captains coming into the 1980s, would have an effort at the start of the season, with the two sides to end higher in the table. The senior administrators – Liverpool’s Peter Robinson and Jim Greenwood in Everton – ensured that a deep mutual appreciation ran through the clubs.

Rush told me he felt that Liverpool or Everton supporters saw three or four scousers in both teams’ threw some form of griming respect among fans for the rival side. For some, it doesn’t seem imaginable now.

Social media faster hatred and vitriol, of course – to send it around the houses in a way that was absent in the analog days. But the harder attitudes are a product of the changing demographic, especially at Anfield, where so many more people arrive in games outside the city and view

Everton as just another opponent – neither a rival nor a threat. Some on the Everton side of the gorge detest it. For them, the remaining sense of brotherhood across the city has gone.

Occasionally, we see evidence of old conditions that the beautiful few hours of rush and Reid revealed. The late Everton -President Bill Kenwright’s Moving speech at Hillsborough anniversary memorials’ memorial service, for example, is not forgotten.

“We get these moments, which are a reminder of the bonds that used to be there,” says Simon Hart, the journalist and the author, whose book here we go is a wonderful retelling of Everton’s wonderful days from the 1980s.

‘But the Liverpool fan experience in recent years has been removed from Everton fans. Everton has lived through this existential crisis and wonder if we will survive. In the 1980s, the fan experiences were so much more similar. ‘

Everton’s FA Cup output at home to Bournemouth last weekend means that the club’s waiting time for a trophy will go over 30 years. Liverpool has won 16 trophies in that time. The last Goodison Derby on Wednesday night has tremendous importance. Arne Slot’s side is desperate after maintaining their push for the title by expanding their lead to nine points. Everton, resumed under David Moyes, knows that a few slides could throw them back in a fight for survival.

Arne Castle knows that a win for his side will take Liverpool nine points ready at the top of the league

But David Moyes will be desperate after Everton wins the last Merseyside Derby at Goodison Park

The winning team’s fans will have permanent praise rights on their Goodison Supremacy, where Liverpool and Everton each won 41 Derby matches on Goodison, with 37 drawn. The memory of it on Tuesday observed Moyes: ‘The most important thing is to get a win to keep us in the Premier League.’

Destinies for the local fans of the two clubs are intertwined as always. Everton’s move to a stadium on the banks of Mersey at Bramley-Moore Dock proves a catalyst for the most significant dockside regeneration in the city since Albert Dock’s redevelopment in the 1980s.

Everyone in the city will take advantage of the shared wealth.

Just don’t bother trying to tell it to the contemporary disseminations of the bile and despite. One of them was more interested in filming Reid after he took a few drinks Monday night and shared the footage at X. Reid laughed it off, but it will have stabbed. More proof that no one would dry Salah anywhere near an Everton shirt.

More proof Sir Jim is out of his depth

The case of Sir Jim Ratcliffe Seving Relationship with almost any elite sports team he hardly touches. The All Blacks are now suing ineos prematurely to end a six-year commercial relationship.

I have touched on Sir Jim’s hugely over -earned opinion of himself more than once before. If you can meet wade through the book Grit, Rigor & Humor:

The Ineos story, a boring hagiography that Sir Jim likes to show in some of his offices, you get the picture. After letting Sir Ben Ainslie know that he is not judging his sailing so much and not respecting one of the big teams in world sports, this seems like a moment for the truths of the home.

I’m sorry, Sir Jim, but success in sports is pretty more complicated than fracking. Meanwhile, God helps Manchester United.

Ineos is sued by all blacks and man the United parts owner looks out of its depth

Kerr -Court Case Raises Police’s Concerns

The trial and acquittal of Sam Kerr, Chelsea -Kvinden’s footballer, who is accused of racing a MET officer, suggests that the police force has lost their senses.

The jury was asked to believe that the male officer, poor flowers, felt ‘alarm or harassment’ because Kerr called him ‘white and stupid’.

Wounded feelings he initially forgot to mention. Kerr apologized immediately. It should have been the end of it.