On this day fifty years ago, 66 Glasgow Rangers fans lost their lives in a crush at an Old Firm derby inside Ibrox Stadium. Each of them left their home in Rangers regalia to watch a game of soccer. They returned home in hearses.  

Cost cutting leads to coffin carrying. Sports fans everywhere are communities of people, not herds of cattle. Their safety is a right not a privilege. 

The Ibrox disaster as well as being a sad memory, is a torch that shines a light into the future so that nothing as dark as the tragedy of fifty years ago can repeat itself. 

The dead fans of Ibrox are a living sentinel that guards all sports fans against disasters that can and must be avoided. 

Tonight as they begin their 51st year of eternal sleep, let us not forget the 66.


Bryan Todd
Robert McAdam
Peter Wright
John Gardiner
Richard Bark 
William Thomson Summerhill
George Adams
John Neill
James Trainer
Richard Douglas Morrison
James Whyte Rae
David Douglas McGee
Robert Colquhoun Mulholland
David Ronald Paton
George McFarlane Irwin
Ian Frew 
John Crawford
Brian Hutchison
Duncan McIsaac McBrearty
Charles John Griffiths Livingstone
Adam Henderson
Richard McLeay
David Cummings Duff
David Fraser McPherson
Robert Lockerbie Rae
Robert Campbell Grant
John McNeil McLeay
David Anderson
John Buchanan
John McInnes Semple
John Jeffrey
Robert Maxwell
Matthew Reid
Alexander McIntyre 
Peter Gilchrist Farries
Thomas Melville
John James McGovern
George Wilson
Robert Charles Cairns
Hugh McGregor Addie
James Yuille Mair
Margaret Oliver Ferguson
Robert Turner Carrigan
George Alexander Smith
Walter Robert Raeburn
Andrew Jackson Lindsay
Charles Dougan
William Mason Philip
Russell Morgan 
Peter Gordon Easton 
George Crockett Findlay
Charles Stirling 
Thomas Dickson
James Graham Gray
Thomas McRobbie
Ian Scott Hunter
Nigel Patrick Pickup
Russell Malcolm 
Alexander Paterson Orr 
Thomas Walker Stirling
 
James William Sibbald
Frankie Dover
Walter Shields 
Thomas Grant, 
William Duncan Shaw
Donald Robert Sutherland

The Dead Of Ibrox

On this day fifty years ago, 66 Glasgow Rangers fans lost their lives in a crush at an Old Firm derby inside Ibrox Stadium. Each of them left their home in Rangers regalia to watch a game of soccer. They returned home in hearses.  

Cost cutting leads to coffin carrying. Sports fans everywhere are communities of people, not herds of cattle. Their safety is a right not a privilege. 

The Ibrox disaster as well as being a sad memory, is a torch that shines a light into the future so that nothing as dark as the tragedy of fifty years ago can repeat itself. 

The dead fans of Ibrox are a living sentinel that guards all sports fans against disasters that can and must be avoided. 

Tonight as they begin their 51st year of eternal sleep, let us not forget the 66.


Bryan Todd
Robert McAdam
Peter Wright
John Gardiner
Richard Bark 
William Thomson Summerhill
George Adams
John Neill
James Trainer
Richard Douglas Morrison
James Whyte Rae
David Douglas McGee
Robert Colquhoun Mulholland
David Ronald Paton
George McFarlane Irwin
Ian Frew 
John Crawford
Brian Hutchison
Duncan McIsaac McBrearty
Charles John Griffiths Livingstone
Adam Henderson
Richard McLeay
David Cummings Duff
David Fraser McPherson
Robert Lockerbie Rae
Robert Campbell Grant
John McNeil McLeay
David Anderson
John Buchanan
John McInnes Semple
John Jeffrey
Robert Maxwell
Matthew Reid
Alexander McIntyre 
Peter Gilchrist Farries
Thomas Melville
John James McGovern
George Wilson
Robert Charles Cairns
Hugh McGregor Addie
James Yuille Mair
Margaret Oliver Ferguson
Robert Turner Carrigan
George Alexander Smith
Walter Robert Raeburn
Andrew Jackson Lindsay
Charles Dougan
William Mason Philip
Russell Morgan 
Peter Gordon Easton 
George Crockett Findlay
Charles Stirling 
Thomas Dickson
James Graham Gray
Thomas McRobbie
Ian Scott Hunter
Nigel Patrick Pickup
Russell Malcolm 
Alexander Paterson Orr 
Thomas Walker Stirling
 
James William Sibbald
Frankie Dover
Walter Shields 
Thomas Grant, 
William Duncan Shaw
Donald Robert Sutherland

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