Fans’ ashes would be interred at Rangers memorial garden at Ibrox
RANGERS Football Club has submitted plans to turn a car park at Ibrox stadium into a memorial garden.
The city football club wants to build a memorial wall which would contain a section for the interment of the ashes of Rangers FC supporters.
The club says it wants the memorial garden on Copland Road to have a wall, gates, fencing, public realm improvements and associated works.
The memorial garden would operate 8am to 8pm daily if the plans are given the go-ahead.
Drawings for the ambitious plans, which have been lodged with Glasgow City Council, reveal that the club also wants to have an Ibrox Disaster memorial within the garden.
A total of 66 lives were lost and more than 200 people were injured during the 1971 Ibrox disaster in which there was a crush among the crowd at an Old Firm game.
Victims of the tragedy were remembered earlier this month at an annual service.
Rangers legend John Greig attended the service, which was led by Reverend Stuart McQuarrie, with former player Willie Reid, club director Graeme
Park, club doctor Paul Jackson and supporters’ liaison manager Jim Hannah.
A decision on the plans is expected in March.