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Blues' stadium to light rainbow for baby Rupert

Liverpool Echo

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February 23, 2026

"EVERTON is known as a family club, and right now we are a family who need support."

- By JOE THOMAS

And Everton will provide it.Tonight the club’s new stadium will light up to support the cause of Rupert Smith, an eight-month old baby who is battling a one-in-one -million condition that makes his life a constant fight against the threat of paralysis and seizures.

His family hope it will be a moment of unity, one that raises awareness of his condition, Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (AHC), and an occasion they can all draw strength from.

Their hope is that supporters will also hold a minute's applause for their brave little boy in the seventh minute of the match against Manchester United - he was seven months old when he received his diagnosis.

Speaking ahead of the match, when Hill Dickinson Stadium will be lit in the colours of the rainbow between 6pm and 7pm as a nod to Rupert's Rainbow, the name of the awareness and fundraising campaign launched to help Rupert, his dad David explained the significance of the occasion to them.

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