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Guardian long read on the 1971 Ibrox disaster 10:06 - Dec 3 with 344 views

Two things stand out:

1. The total failure to learn lessons from virtually the same incident a decade earlier (see also Hillsborough in 1981);
2. The ingrained sectarianism of 1970s Glasgow that could hardly bear to stomach any criticism of Rangers.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/dec/03/rangers-football-forgotten-tragedy-

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Guardian long read on the 1971 Ibrox disaster on 10:50 - Dec 3 with 306 views

bluelagos

Expanding on your first point I'd add

3. The abject failure to hold anyone fully to account for their criminal failings.
4. The state/establishment aiding that failure rather than facing the uncomfortable truth that wholly innocent football fans were killed as a direct consequence of those actions/failures to act.

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