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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Rangers
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, known as the Gers (Ibrox Park, Glasgow). Football club, founded in 1873, whose recent successes have given them the edge over their long-standing Glasgow rivals, *Celtic.
Ibrox Park has been the scene of two of soccer's tragedies. In 1902 a stand collapsed, killing 25; and in 1971 a crush of spectators on a stairway at the end of a game against Celtic left 66 dead in the worst national football disaster until *Hillsborough.
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