Ibrox Disaster

The papers are full of the story of the Ibrox disaster forty years ago. One of the group of young runners from Braidfield in the club at the time lost his Dad in the incident. He was a good lad and kept on running and doing the shot putt. There is no way that money can compensate at a time like that but there was a lot of talk of compensation for the families. It took a long, long time to sort out but when it was finally, finally arranged the boy told me that it was amazing how many men who didn't know the family wrote proposing marriage to his Mum so that "the boys could have a good upbringing with a father to help look after them."