Ian Rush

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"Playing for Chester and earning up to eighty quid a week with bonuses was the heady heights for a kid who had to start his career in hand-me-down boots. Life was tough in the three-bedroomed council house in Woodfield Avenue, Flint, where I was raised, the last but one of ten children in the Rush household. My father Francis was a steelworker, working at the nearby Shotton Steelworks until it was closed down. He worked all the hours he could to make sure there was always food on the table. But life must have been a gruelling struggle for him and my mother Doris, who seemed to spend her whole day cooking, cleaning, washing and ironing"