Glasgow Rangers Disaster

[bad company]

I’m old enough to have been going to matches since 1966. Thinking back the safety arrangements were appalling but I didn’t appreciate that at the time.

I remember this happening in 1971, 66 football fans died that day:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/B0cJMZS3B1/Fivebo...

[TwigtheWonderkid]

I was brought up by my grandparents. A family friend had got me a ticket to go with him to my first ever game, Chelsea v Man Utd. This happened a few days before and my gran decided it was too dangerous for me to go. Fortunately, reason prevailed and I was allowed to go in the end. Shouldn't have bothered, we lost 1-2, late Man U winner.

[Runnyg]

I don’t remember the old Ibrox but vaguely recall the disaster.

I’ve always believed that it was caused by fans trying to get back up the stairway and was surprised to hear this wasn’t the case.

As a teenager going to matches at Pittodrie in the 70s I was extremely wary of the stairs at the Beach End when leaving the ground and I’m sure they were the worst I encountered.

[aeropilot]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I was brought up by my grandparents. A family friend had got me a ticket to go with him to my first ever game, Chelsea v Man Utd. This happened a few days before and my gran decided it was too dangerous for me to go. Fortunately, reason prevailed and I was allowed to go in the end. Shouldn't have bothered, we lost 1-2, late Man U winner.

We've done this before, but you're first game was about 4/5 weeks before mine, which was Chelsea v West Brom at the end of Jan 71, standing with my Dad and my Uncle in the Shed end, and sitting alternately on my Dad's shoulders or my Uncle's.....4-1 to Chelsea though
However, that hemmed in feeling was slightly scary as an 8 year old with the Ibrox disaster fresh in the mind from the TV news, especially as my older cousin in Scotland was a Rangers supporter and was due to go to the game that day with his friends but an attack of tonsilitis meant he had to miss it. His friend was one of the injured, so who knows what may have happened had he gone that day.

[Drive Blind]

good article in the guardian about the Ibrox disaster, from a few weeks back

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/dec/03/range...