For those too young to remember, a child being carried on his father's shoulders fell as fans were leaving the match a couple of minutes early at Ibrox, this caused a pile up and 66 people were crushed to death after falling onto each other.
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Forty years ago today
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For those too young to remember, a child being carried on his father's shoulders fell as fans were leaving the match a couple of minutes early at Ibrox, this caused a pile up and 66 people were crushed to death after falling onto each other.
hillbilly
In the hill, not over it!
Very sad. I find it strange that they would be playing Celtic on the 40th Anniversary. Some Celtic fans will obviously make reference to this tragedy during the game.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Hopefully the minutes silence will be observed by all at the game.
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Hopefully...............but there are two sets of dickheads up there usually
Stevie Boy
Well-known member
i very much doubt it
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
So do I, think it will end up with a quick advert break.
clippedgull
Hotdogs, extra onions
A sobering piece here:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/life-style/real-lives/the-ibrox-disaster-remembered-1.1074153
just a very short extract
http://www.heraldscotland.com/life-style/real-lives/the-ibrox-disaster-remembered-1.1074153
just a very short extract
Barrel of Fun
Abort, retry, fail
Even after four decades, it is the mist I can see most clearly when I close my eyes in recollection. It draped itself like a grimy shroud over the proceedings, mingling the cigarette fug of close to 80,000 spectators with the smoke from a million coal fires to subdue the meagre light of a Glasgow midwinter day.
The Ibrox Disaster of January 2, 1971 which claimed 66 lives was a tragedy waiting to happen - Telegraph
You know, I can understand (although not agree with) the booing of soldiers, the sectarian songs, the gloating of wars from 320 years ago and all that, even if it is vile, bigoted shite that represents everything that is wrong with that part of the world.
But anyone stupid enough to boo the human tragedy which is 66 deaths of people who chose to watch a football match absolutely deserves a bloody good shoeing.
Art Vs Science
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I never knew of this tragedy, truly awful. Let's hope the silence in honoured in the correct manner
Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
Likewise, I am just too young to have heard about it, though the likes of Hillsborough, Bradford and the Heysel are stuck in my memory forever.
I think we have two hopes of the silence being observed in an appropriate manner, one of them is sadly Bob (who is dead) and the other is no! I really hope, for the memory of those who perished, that for one solitary minute an air of decency rises above the vile, puerile and backward sectarianism that pervades the city of Glasgow and its football teams.
sod1
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At first, it was believed that fans, leaving the stadium before the final whistle, had turned back when Rangers' centre-forward Colin Stein scored an equalising goal in the 89th minute.
But a fatal accident inquiry which heard evidence of the position in which the bodies were found, determined all of the victims had been leaving the ground.
Virtually none of the bodies showed any sign of significant injury. They had died, the inquiry decided, from asphyxiation or suffocation in the crush which left steel safety barriers buckled and broken.
Four decades later, one of the survivors, Ian Loch, recalled the horror of Stairway 13.
He said as they headed for the exits, fans were delighted with Rangers' equaliser, which came just a minute after Jimmy Johnstone had put Celtic into the lead.
"It was like a pack of cards where someone had fallen. Everyone was just going on top of each other and, really, you were just trying to fight for your own life then,"
"The air was just getting squeezed out of you. At first everybody could shout: 'Get back, get back.'
"But that soon fell silent because there was no air left in your lungs. You just felt it was like a vice in your body getting tighter and tighter."
He said he feared for his own safety as he felt his legs wrapped around the person behind him.
But a fatal accident inquiry which heard evidence of the position in which the bodies were found, determined all of the victims had been leaving the ground.
Virtually none of the bodies showed any sign of significant injury. They had died, the inquiry decided, from asphyxiation or suffocation in the crush which left steel safety barriers buckled and broken.
Four decades later, one of the survivors, Ian Loch, recalled the horror of Stairway 13.
He said as they headed for the exits, fans were delighted with Rangers' equaliser, which came just a minute after Jimmy Johnstone had put Celtic into the lead.
"It was like a pack of cards where someone had fallen. Everyone was just going on top of each other and, really, you were just trying to fight for your own life then,"
"The air was just getting squeezed out of you. At first everybody could shout: 'Get back, get back.'
"But that soon fell silent because there was no air left in your lungs. You just felt it was like a vice in your body getting tighter and tighter."
He said he feared for his own safety as he felt his legs wrapped around the person behind him.
bhaexpress
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It pre-dated Hillsborough, Heysel and Valley Parade but if was a truly horrifying tragedy.
Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
I think they mentioned yesterday on R5 that they would be covering the game today, though not sure whether this would be commentary on the game or just some sort of article about the events of 40 years ago.
Guy Fawkes
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surrey jim
Not in Surrey
It was well observed by all at the stadium.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Indeed, well done all the fans
Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
Exactly, on the radio you could hear a helicopter and seagulls...the sound levels on radio tend to amplify even the smallest sounds during a minute of silence...fair play to all in the stadium, who set apart the bitterest of rivalries to mark the anniversary in an appropriate manner, despite all expectation.
fatbadger
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Actually, I'm not surprised this minute's silence was properly observed. I know enough fans of both clubs to know that the Ibrox disaster is one of the few things that they agree on. Well, there are no doubt a very few of the very worst bigots who rejoice in the deaths of Rangers fans, but Celtic have worked hard to make sure the very worst don't have season tickets - and no season ticket, no OF ticket.