the Reformer. “You couldn’t hear anything for the crowd shouting, because Rangers had just scored a goal. It was a police officer who approached us, saying: ‘We need your help at the top of the stairway.’“In those days, nobody had a personal radio.
There was only one police radio operator and he carried a field telephone on his back, and its only communication was probably with Govan police office.“Back then, the way of raising the alarm was to wave a white hanky.
There was such a mass of white hankies in the crowd, it was as though folk were waving white sheets.”As Tom and his colleagues forced their way through the tight crowd, spectators responded to shouted orders to make a pathway and let them through.
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