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than just being a showbiz snapper. He was on the spot at the Ibrox disaster in 1971, producing some of the lasting images conveying the horror of an event which changed Scottish sport for ever.

Ronnie’s appetite for going in where the Doc Marten boots were f lying is there for all to see in his coverage of an anti-apartheid march in May 1975. One of his favourite series – which he nicknamed the Maryhill Olympics – shows children in Glasgow inspired by the 1980 Moscow games vaulting a home-made high-jump bar and flopping on to a discarded mattress.

Another was of Jock Stein prowling the Celtic Park touchline, shouting on his players against the background of a trackside ad for Rothmans King Size.

Born in 1948, Ronnie went to Penilee primary and secondary schools in the south of Glasgow and fell in love with photography when his brother Bill bought him a 15-shilling camera. Then aged 12, Ronnie was so enthusiastic about h found passion that he began atte after-school photography classes

His first job came in the dark ro the now defunct Glasgow Evening before he moved to the Daily Reco

Long-time colleague Ian Stewa “It wasn’t long before we progres