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Ibrox Stadium Disaster: Markinch remembers tragic loss of five local boys 50 years on

Ibrox Stadium Disaster: Markinch remembers tragic loss of five local boys 50 years on © SYSTEM The community of Markinch came together to remember the five local boys tragically killed in the Ibrox Stadium Disaster 50 years ago. Sign up for our daily newsletter of the top stories in Courier country Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Residents of a Fife village have come together to pay tribute to five local boys who perished in the Ibrox Stadium Disaster. The close knit community of Markinch suffered its darkest of days on January 2, 1971 when Rangers fans Peter Easton, 13, 14-year-olds Bryan Todd, Ronald Paton and Mason Philip and 15-year-old Douglas Morrison, were among the 66 that were crushed to death as fans left the stadium following the end of a league game versus Celtic.

50 years since Ibrox Disaster when five Fife teenagers died

The aftermath of the Ibrox disaster: We must always remember the 66 who died

THEY were just fans at a football match. Spectators at a game, a banal everyday occurrence. They were there to support their team, Rangers, but they never came home. Instead on Stairway 13 at Ibrox Park, they met with crushing death and injury. Even 50 years later the sheer unfairness of it makes you weep – no one should die for being a football spectator, no one should die in such a manner. Remember the 66. For the sake of our common humanity, remember the 66. I told last week of how the disaster unfolded, and now I will deal with the aftermath. It was the sight of the bodies laid out in lines on the turf of Ibrox Park that broke hearts all over Scotland and beyond. Only some grainy newspaper pictures survive to tell the tale, as there was no filming of what happened – a mercy, given what unfolded that cold, foggy evening in Glasgow.

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