Ibrox Disaster

The Ibrox disaster refers to two accidents, both at football games held at Ibrox Park (now Ibrox Stadium) in Glasgow, Scotland:

  • The 1902 Ibrox disaster was a partial stadium collapse that caused 25 deaths and 517 injuries
  • The 1971 Ibrox disaster was a crowd crush in a stairway, causing 66 deaths and over 200 injuries, at an Old Firm match

Famous quotes containing the word disaster:

    “It was so long since I’d seen masses of young men that I’d forgotten how much pleasanter men of between twenty and thirty were to be around with than older men. It isnt so true of women. When I was in my twenties I thought the grown adults I ran into were a disaster and now I know I was right.”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)