606 Savage Social: Ian Rush
606
BBC
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
One of football's greatest ever goal scorers, Ian Rush, joins Robbie Savage to answer your questions about his incredible career.
Ian talks about both the spells he had as a Liverpool player, his move to Juventus and the differences of playing in Italy. The striker speaks about his heartbreak of never qualifying for a major tournament for Wales and offers his expert advice for all budding strikers on finishing.
Ian scored 346 times for Liverpool during in his two spells at the club between 1980 and 1996. During that time he won 5 league titles, 2 European Cups, 3 FA Cups and 5 League Cups with the reds. He also played for Juventus, Leeds, Newcastle, Chester City, Sydney Olympic and Robbie's home town club of Wrexham.
606 Savage Social is a Shooting Shark Production for BBC 5 Live
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| 0:00.0 | It's 2003 in Birmingham. |
| 0:04.4 | Doors have been slammed in your face, you're not welcome here. |
| 0:07.1 | They were capable of murder. |
| 0:08.4 | Drive-by killings, gang wars, a vigilante group that fought against Jamaica's notorious yardies. |
| 0:15.6 | The home boy thought we're not going to take this anymore. |
| 0:17.8 | We're going to be even more violent than you. |
| 0:19.6 | Before turning on each other. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Livy Haydock and this is gangster, the story of the Burger Bar boys. |
| 0:27.6 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:30.1 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:34.8 | Music, Radio Podcasts. Hi everyone, it's Robbie Semit here thanks for listening we're recording these |
| 0:44.1 | podcasts from my homes during the lock times you might hear the occasional child in |
| 0:48.3 | the background I'm sat home and still lucky enough that a lot my former |
| 0:52.4 | teammates and opponents still talk to me so I'm sat at home and still lucky enough that a lot of my former teenage and opponents still talk to me. So I'm going to get them on the line |
| 0:56.1 | and put your questions to them. |
| 1:00.1 | The play I'm speaking to today is Liverpool's all-time record scorer |
| 1:07.6 | having hit the back of the net an incredible 346 times for the Reds between 1980 and 1996. |
| 1:16.0 | Until 2018, he also held a scoring record |
| 1:20.8 | for his beloved country Wales. |
| 1:23.0 | It's all set up really for a finish here today |
| 1:25.0 | with these 82,000 people on this glorious day. |
| 1:28.0 | Firstly competitive game. |
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