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1971 Ibrox disaster, the Glossary

The 1971 Ibrox disaster, also known as the Second Ibrox Disaster, was a crush among the crowd at an Old Firm football game (Rangers v Celtic), which led to 66 deaths and more than 200 injuries.^[1]

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1970–71 in Scottish football
1970s in Glasgow
1971 disasters in the United Kingdom
Disasters in Glasgow
Fatal accident inquiries
History of football in Scotland
Old Firm matches
Sport deaths in Scotland
Stadium disasters

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Scotland

BBC Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: BBC Alba) is a division of the BBC and the main public broadcaster in Scotland. 1971 Ibrox disaster and BBC Scotland are Govan.

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Bill Struth

William Struth (16 June 1875 – 21 September 1956) was a Scottish football manager.

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Billy McNeill

William McNeill (2 March 1940 – 22 April 2019) was a Scottish football player and manager.

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Borussia Dortmund

Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund, often known simply as Borussia Dortmund or by its initialism BVB, is a German professional sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Bradford

Bradford is a city in West Yorkshire, England.

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Bradford City stadium fire

The Bradford City stadium fire occurred during a Football League Third Division match on Saturday, 11 May 1985 at the Valley Parade stadium in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, killing 56 spectators and injuring at least 265. 1971 Ibrox disaster and Bradford City stadium fire are stadium disasters.

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Burnden Park disaster

The Burnden Park disaster was a crowd crush that occurred on 9 March 1946 at Burnden Park football stadium, then the home of Bolton Wanderers. 1971 Ibrox disaster and Burnden Park disaster are stadium disasters.

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Celtic F.C.

The Celtic Football Club, commonly known as Celtic, is a professional football club in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Clydebank

Clydebank (Bruach Chluaidh) is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

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Colin Stein

Colin Anderson Stein (born 10 May 1947) is a Scottish former footballer, who played for Hibernian, Rangers (two spells), Coventry City and Kilmarnock.

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Crowd collapses and crushes

Crowd collapses and crowd crushes are catastrophic incidents that can occur when a body of people becomes dangerously overcrowded.

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The England national football team have represented England in international football since the first international match in 1872.

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Falkirk

Falkirk (Fawkirk; An Eaglais Bhreac) is a town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, historically within the county of Stirlingshire.

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Fatal accident inquiry

A fatal accident inquiry is a Scottish judicial process which investigates and determines the circumstances of some deaths occurring in Scotland. 1971 Ibrox disaster and fatal accident inquiry are fatal accident inquiries.

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Fife

Fife (Fìobha,; Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Glasgow Sheriff Court

Glasgow Sheriff Court is a sheriff court in the Gorbals (Laurieston) area of Glasgow, within the sheriffdom of Glasgow and Strathkelvin.

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Green Guide

The Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds, colloquially known as the Green Guide is a UK Government-funded guidance book on spectator safety at sports grounds. 1971 Ibrox disaster and Green Guide are stadium disasters.

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Heysel Stadium disaster

The Heysel Stadium disaster (Strage dell'Heysel; Katastrophe von Heysel; Drame du Heysel; Heizeldrama) is a crowd disaster that occurred on 29 May 1985 when Juventus fans were escaping from an attack by Liverpool fans while they were pressed against a wall in the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium, before the start of the 1985 European Cup final. 1971 Ibrox disaster and Heysel Stadium disaster are stadium disasters.

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Hillsborough disaster

The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal crowd crush at a football match at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, on 15 April 1989. 1971 Ibrox disaster and Hillsborough disaster are stadium disasters.

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Ibrox Stadium

Ibrox Stadium (Scottish Gaelic: Stadium Ibrox) is a football stadium on the south side of the River Clyde in the Ibrox area of Glasgow, Scotland. 1971 Ibrox disaster and Ibrox Stadium are Govan.

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Ibrox subway station

Ibrox subway station is a station on the Glasgow subway, serving the Ibrox area of the city. 1971 Ibrox disaster and Ibrox subway station are Govan.

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John Greig

John Greig (born 11 September 1942) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a defender.

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John Wheatley, Baron Wheatley

John Thomas Wheatley, Baron Wheatley, (17 January 1908 – 28 July 1988) was a Scottish Labour politician and judge.

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Kenny Dalglish

Sir Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish (born 4 March 1951) is a Scottish former football player and manager.

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List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll

The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war) which relate to the United Kingdom, Ireland or the Isle of Man, or to the states that preceded them, or that involved their citizens, in a definable incident or accident such as a shipwreck, where the loss of life was forty or more.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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Liverpool Echo

The Liverpool Echo is a newspaper published by Trinity Mirror North West & North Wales – a subsidiary company of Reach plc and is based in St.

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Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England.

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Luzhniki disaster

The Luzhniki disaster was a deadly crowd crush that took place at the Grand Sports Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium (Большая спортивная арена Центрального стадиона им., now known as Luzhniki Stadium) in Moscow during the 1982–83 UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem on 20 October 1982. 1971 Ibrox disaster and Luzhniki disaster are stadium disasters.

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Maddiston

Maddiston is a village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland.

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Markinch

Markinch (Scottish Gaelic: Marc Innis) is both a village and a parish in the heart of Fife, Scotland.

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Matt McGinn (Scottish songwriter)

Matthew McGinn (17 January 1928 – 5 January 1977) was a Scottish folk singer-songwriter, actor, author and poet.

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National Library of Scotland

The National Library of Scotland (NLS; Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba; Naitional Leebrar o Scotland) is one of the country's National Collections.

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Old Firm

The Old Firm is a collective name for the Scottish football clubs Celtic and Rangers, which are both based in Glasgow.

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Rangers F.C.

Rangers Football Club is a professional football club in Glasgow, Scotland. 1971 Ibrox disaster and Rangers F.C. are Govan.

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Safety Science

Safety Science is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier covering research on all aspects of human and industrial safety.

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The Scotland national football teamSgioba Ball-coise Nàiseanta na h-AlbaScotland National Fitbaa Team represents Scotland in men's international football and is controlled by the Scottish Football Association.

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Sheffield

Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Westfalenstadion

Westfalenstadion is a football stadium in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which is the home of Borussia Dortmund.

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Willie Waddell

William Waddell (7 March 1921 – 14 October 1992) was a professional football player and manager.

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1901–02 British Home Championship

The 1901–02 British Home Championship was an international football tournament between the British Home Nations which was meant to herald the arrival of the full professional game of football as both England and Scotland fielded fully professional teams for the first time.

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1902 Ibrox disaster

The 1902 Ibrox disaster was the collapse of a stand at Ibrox Park (now Ibrox Stadium) in Govan (now part of Glasgow), Scotland. 1971 Ibrox disaster and 1902 Ibrox disaster are disasters in Glasgow, Govan, history of football in Scotland, sport deaths in Scotland and stadium disasters.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Ibrox_disaster

Also known as Second Ibrox disaster.

1971 Ibrox disaster, the Glossary

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See also

1970–71 in Scottish football

1970s in Glasgow

1971 disasters in the United Kingdom

Disasters in Glasgow

Fatal accident inquiries

History of football in Scotland

Old Firm matches

Sport deaths in Scotland

Stadium disasters

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