A Rush job
from "Press Association"
Liverpool won their final game of the season to finish as League runners-up and qualify for the UEFA Cup.
But it was an anti-climactic affair. Defeat at Nottingham Forest last Monday meant that the League Championship was out of Liverpool'sm reach, and on its way to Arsenal for the second time in the last three years.
But there was a glimpse of what may be the future of Liverpool, as youngsters Mike Marsh and Steve McManaman were given their chances against a Tottenham side whose minds were elsewhere.
So it was little surprise that Spurs offered no more than token resistance.
Ian Rush has been Tottenham's destroyer more than once, and so he proved again. The Welsh striker opened the scoring for Liverpool shortly before half-time after John Barnes and Steve Staunton had created the opening. And he would surely have added to that total but for the inspired goalkeeping of Erik Thorstvedt, Spurs' giant Norwegian international.
Thorstvedt kept out Rush time and time again, but he could not prevent David Speedie from scoring Liverpool's second goal, early in the second half.
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