A teenage Falkirk FC footballer who died after being electrocuted at the club's training ground has been honoured by his former team.
Defender Craig Gowans, 17, died when a metal pole he was carrying came into contact with power lines in July 2005.
He has now been awarded a posthumous graduation certificate by the club's football academy at a ceremony.
A framed strip with Craig's squad number, 37, has also been placed in the tunnel of the Falkirk Stadium.
The club further honoured Craig's memory by putting his name on the graduation certificates given to all of his former team mates from the Scottish Premier League club's under-19 side.
The certificates were handed out in a ceremony at the Inchyra Grange Hotel in Falkirk to every player graduating from the academy to the team's senior squad.
'Senior squad'
Ross Wilson, head of education and welfare at Falkirk FC, said it was a fitting way to celebrate the life of a promising young footballer who had a bright future in the game.
He said: "This is Craig's team, and he would have been among the players graduating to the senior squad, I have absolutely no doubt about that.
"We put the idea to Craig's family and they were happy to have the players graduate in Craig's name."
The former pupil of Stewart's Melville College, Edinburgh, died on 8 July 2005 at the Little Kerse training facility in Grangemouth.
He had been moving 20ft tall transportable nets designed to stop stray footballs behind the goals, when a supporting pole struck an overhead power cable.
"This is Craig's team, and he would have been among the players graduating to the senior squad, I have absolutely no doubt about that"
Craig was taken to Falkirk Royal Infirmary, but was pronounced dead on arrival.
The club's senior stars arrived at the ground just minutes later to be told there had been "a terrible, tragic accident" in which a young apprentice has been killed.
At the time, head coach John Hughes spoke of his "devastation" and "soul searching" after the tragic loss of the young player.
The club was later fined £4,000 for failing to ensure the safety of Craig, who had been signed from Tynecastle Boys' Club and was only two weeks into a two-year contract with Falkirk.
Since the tragedy, Falkirk FC no longer uses Little Kerse and trains at Stirling University instead.
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