{"id":632163,"date":"2025-12-14T15:41:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/632163\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:41:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:41:21","slug":"liverpool-legend-ian-rush-recovering-from-flu-after-2-days-in-intensive-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/632163\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool legend Ian Rush recovering from flu after 2 days in intensive care"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool\u2019s record goalscorer Ian Rush<\/a> is recovering from flu in hospital, having spent two days in intensive care.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 64-year-old was taken to the Countess of Chester hospital last week after suffering from breathing difficulties.<\/p>\n

Rush then spent a couple of days in intensive care with flu, but is now on the mend after recovering from the worst of it.<\/p>\n

A Reds spokesperson has said that \u201ceveryone at Liverpool wishes him a speedy recovery,\u201d also thanking the hospital for \u201cproviding the best care possible for our legend and ambassador of the club.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Ian<\/p>\n

Rush is Liverpool\u2019s leading scorer of all time, finding the net 346 times in 660 appearances \u2013 a total that may never be broken.<\/p>\n

He once joked that Mohamed Salah<\/a> is frustrated by how many goals he scored for the Reds, in terms of making it too big a tally for even him to catch.<\/p>\n

\u201cI speak a lot to Mo Salah<\/a>, Mo keeps saying why did you score so many goals!\u201d Rush said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"LEICESTER,<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is thinking he might break my record. He would have to be there a good few more years if he is going to break that record.\u201d<\/p>\n

Only five players have appeared more times for Liverpool than Rush \u2013 Ian Callaghan (857), Jamie Carragher (737), Steven Gerrard<\/a> (710), Ray Clemence (665) and Emlyn Hughes (665).<\/p>\n

\u2022 READ: Ian Rush\u2019s beautifully heartbreaking message in honour of Diogo Jota<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n

He also won five league titles and one European Cup with the Reds, as well as scoring 28 times in 73 caps for Wales.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Rush moved to Anfield from Chester City in 1980 for \u00a3300,000, spending six years there before joining Juventus for a couple of seasons.<\/p>\n

Rush then returned to Liverpool in 1988, where he remained until the end of the 1995\/96 campaign, prior to sealing a move to Leeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re wishing you a speedy recovery, Rushie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool\u2019s record goalscorer Ian Rush is recovering from flu in hospital, having spent two days in intensive care.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,6362,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-632163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-ian-rush","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115718684570852794","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}