Rangers fans have taken to Twitter to pay tribute to the 66 fans who lost their lives in the Ibrox Disaster as the club commemorates the 49th anniversary of the tragedy.
On January 2nd, 1971 around 80,000 supporters attended the traditional New Yearโs Old Firm derby at Ibrox Stadium.
With the game tied at 0-0, Celtic legend Jimmy Johnstone scored what appeared to be the winner in the 90th minute and fans began to exit the ground.
But before Celtic fans had the chance to celebrate, Colin Stein equalised for Rangers to restore parity.
As supporters left the ground by stairway 13, a devastating crush began as fans swayed and some stumbled down the steps.
This caused a tragic pile up and the eventual deaths of the 66 supporters, with hundreds more being left injured.
The force of the heart-wrenching crush caused steel barriers to bend and crumple, such was the power of the exiting crowd.
Amongst the dead were 31 teenagers, in what is undoubtedly one of the darkest days in not just Rangersโ history but in that of Scottish football and society.
The youngest victim of the terrifying crush was nine-year-old Nigel Pickup, who had travelled to the match from Liverpool.
Five of those who lost their lives were schoolmates from the town of Markinch in Fife, in an event which would rock the small Scottish community to its very core.
Rangers fans have been paying tribute to the 66 as the club remembers those who went to the football, but never got the chance to come home.
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The disaster would change the landscape and regulations concerning football stadia in Britain forever and at the time was the biggest football stadium disaster in British history.
This would later be eclipsed by the 96 lives which were tragically lost at the Hillsborough disaster in the match between Sheffield Wednesday and Liverpool in April 1989.
The names of those who passed away:
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.
