Rangers-daft pensioner will celebrate his Golden Wedding anniversary next week – 50 years after he survived being crushed to death in the Ibrox Disaster.
Billy Robertson was saved from the Stairway 13 carnage after he was dragged from beneath a pile of bodies and unaware that his best friend John James McGovern had lost his life nearby.
Billy, now 74, was rushed to hospital following the horror event on January 2, 1971, that saw 66 fans killed and hundreds left injured.
The Gers supporter then had to bury mate John later that week before he and wife Veronica went ahead with their planned wedding the following day in their hometown of Prestonpans, East Lothian.
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