FUNNY how everything is the people’s fault when we have an increase (“Covid: 967 positive cases amid warnings NHS will pay ‘cost’ of relaxed Christmas rules”, December 29). The people never stood in front of the camera telling you it was ok to mix. Masks no use, students from all over the world come here for study, schoolkids can’t spread it. These are all things we have been told in the past that were wrong. Not a word about all this – now we are blamed for having Christmas and last month they blamed the varied strains on holiday makers. Always the public’s mistakes, never a mention about the duff information.
Ibrox disaster: Croftfoot man recalls his memories of Scottish football tragedy 50 years on
Bobby Pollock attended the game as a teenager
Bobby Pollock, who was at the Ibrox disaster (Image: Rutherglen Reformer)
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IT is now 50 years since I skirted close to a tragedy and yet knew nothing about it until much later. On January 2 1971, my brother Gerry and myself found ourselves at the wrong end of the ground at Ibrox Park for the New Year Old Firm derby. We had let ourselves in courtesy of the gates being open at half time. We had been travelling from Glasgow city centre and I thought “let’s see the second half of the game”. We climbed the stairs to the top and watched from the back of the terrace, looking over the mass of Rangers supporters sweeping down to the park – two Celtic supporters misplaced, but with no colours.