Celtic on this Day – we remember the victims of the Ibrox disaster and look back on numbers New Year matches against both Rangers clubs…
2 January 1971
54 years on, we remember the victims of the Ibrox disaster. Leading to 66 deaths, including the lives of many children, and more than 200 injuries, the Ibrox disaster which occurred on Stairway 13 closest to the Copland Road stand was the worst football disaster until the Bradford stadium fire in 1985, and then Hillsborough four years later. Nobody should ever go to a football match and not return home. Today, we remember those who lost their lives in the tragedy and the heartbreak it caused on families, then, now and always.
You’ll Never Walk Alone.
Continued on the next page…
My main memory of the ‘Mark Walters’ incident was Scotsport the following day. Ian Archer was up first and delivered a well deserved lambasting to the idiots responsible. He then turned to one of the Rangers board who was there to talk about the squillions of pounds then being spent on re-developing Ibrox.
“X million pounds,” he said (can’t remember the exact amount), “that’s a lot of bananas!”
I don’t remember anything else as I was rolling on the floor laughing.