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Archie Macpherson recalls the Ibrox Disaster and the harrowing Jock Stein line that brought the tragedy home

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Rangers desperately sought to stop the Celtic juggernaut.Under Jock Stein they had won the previous five league titles and scored late on in so many games that their supporters might have believed divine intervention was on hand.So when, with only two minutes remaining, the irrepressible Jimmy Johnstone scored to put Celtic one up, it seemed a typical Stein coup de grace.However, seconds from the end, Rangers striker Colin Stein equalised.Those tumultuous two minutes – and Rangers’ sudden comeback – was to lead to a thoroughly mistaken but initially credible-sounding theory about what then followed in a far corner of Ibrox Stadium.News that at least 22 people had been killed in an accident reached us at the time I was preparing to present.

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