R.I.P.

Heartbreaking

Read it earlier, so sad.

A tough read indeed.

I was 14 at the time, watching World of Sport or Grandstand with my Dad to see the football results. Just felt stunned.
Then 1985 we had the Bradford City fire and Heysell in the same month I think. People enjoying their love for the game dying because of it.
At least the various authorities have learned and made changes.
I'm not convinced about the issues surrounding heading a football though - not nowadays. The old leather ball on a soggy winter's day was a different matter. Comparatively the modern ball is like heading a party balloon.

Very difficult read but an important read nonetheless. Heartbreaking.

Just too sad. 5 boys, who could have become anything, never came home from a game of football. 3 friends who did scarred for life as well. Puts it all in perspective. God rest them and all the 66.

Tough read.

Its just a game we watch as a hobby. No hobby should mean life

I was at that game and as I was only a kid, my old man and I waited in the Celtic end after the final whistle. I remember that it was quite foggy and we could make out police and ambulance folk carrying bodies on stretchers on to the pitch. We saw Jock Stein and the Celtic staff coming on to the pitch to offer help. It was like watching a horror movie. Tragic is too soft a word to describe it

So sad.

Such a horrible incident. Was brought up in the Markinch area and first job there - lots of folk will always remember

Good shout Bluebell.

50 years now.

Christ all those 8 lads were younger than me.

When I think of the many graces I've enjoyed I feel humble.

Words can't describe how tragic that was. The more you read about it the more heart wrenching it is.

I was going to games at Ibrox and Hampden a few years after that and was around 12 years old, with guys similar ages. And we would stand on packed terracings and at the final whistle there were still huge crowd crushes when exiting.

Being that age, we trusted the stadiums were designed to handle that force of bodies all exiting at the same time. It's only when you get older and look back at things that you realise there was no real safety designed into them and it was just luck that more tragedy never happened. Once you are in a big crowd like that exiting a stadium, you get swept off your feet and carried down the stairs. Incredibly scary and lucky to get out uninjured. The force generated to crush those barriers like that is mind blowing.

I met someone in the 80s that had worked in govan shipyards in the 60s and he said one of his colleagues died on the same stairway in the early 60s. On that occasion only 2 died I think but loads were injured. I believe there was also an incident on the stairway in the mid 60s too. So there were several previous incidents prior to that one in 1971. Very sad is the only words I can think of.

Rip , and I feel for all their families and what they must have had to go through. Real heartbreaking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj-7MqIKPzU