This coming Saturday is the 50th Anniversary of the Ibrox Disaster - a terrible day when five lads from the village where we now live went to a football match and never came back. Sixty six fans died that day, but the five lads from Markinch were schoolboy friends and all lived in two adjoining roads a stone's throw from each other.

We didn't live in Markinch at the time, but I have driven past the memorial to them most days for the past 20 years.

These are a couple of pieces about it - one an extract from a BBC documentary aired last night, the other a long read.

Even if you have never been to a football match in your life, please try and look at one or the other - and if you, like me, went to so many matches in the 1960s as a teenager - all over the UK - where but for the Grace of God... have a read and a think...

Yvonne and I have been to Ibrox hundreds of times, and met and got to know most of the Rangers FC team who played that day, but driving past that memorial and the five trees really puts everything into perspective...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-55416715

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/B0cJMZS3B1/Fiveboys