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Rangers fans have paid a moving tribute to the victims of the 1971 Ibrox disaster which saw 66 football supporters lose their lives.

Saturday January 2, 2021, 12:54 PM Rangers and Celtic players mark observe a minutes silence on the 50th anniversary of the Ibrox Disaster ahead of their Scottish Premiership match. Credit: PA Rangers football club has marked the 50th anniversary of the Ibrox disaster ahead of the Old Firm derby on Saturday. The Covid-19 pandemic has meant a scaled-back tribute to remember the 66 fans who lost their lives in a crush on January 2 1971. The Gers had hoped to hold a memorial service to day that "c...

THEY were just fans at a football match. Spectators at a game, a banal everyday occurrence. They were there to support their team, Rangers, but they never came home. Instead on Stairway 13 at Ibrox Park, they met with crushing death and injury. Even 50 years later the sheer unfairness of it makes you weep – no one should die for being a football spectator, no one should die in such a manner. Remember the 66. For the sake of our common humanity, remember the 66. I told last week of how t...