Livingston admit to Rangers ticketing own goal as club insist it WON'T happen again

Livingston have offered a full apology in the wake of Rangers supporters gaining match tickets to the home end of Almondvale Stadium on Saturday.

The Ibrox side were backed by three ends of the ground but multiple Livi supporters were left miffed that followers of the Europa League finalists were also able to land briefs from in the main stand. Those complaints have been heard loud and clear by Lions top brass and they insist it will not happen again.

Livingston have given both Celtic and Rangers the majority of tickets in recent seasons but they admits mistakes have been made and will now remove the option to buy tickets from the home end online when Glasgow's big two roll into town, and they will only be made available to existing season ticket holders.

A club statement on their official website read: "Livingston FC would like to go on record acknowledging the issues and complaints raised by our supporters following unacceptable scenes at Saturday’s cinch Premiership opener with Rangers.

"Despite the best intentions from all at the club, particularly after discussions in the week leading up to the game with Police Scotland and our stewarding partner, we absolutely agree and appreciate that what transpired on Saturday fell way short of what we had aimed for and quite simply put, wasn’t good enough in respect to the position it left our own, valued supporters in.

"Having been aware of issues in previous capacity crowd encounters, we weren’t naïve to the belief that opposing fans may try and purchase tickets in the home end. Despite our best attempts at putting measures in place to prevent – firstly at source, secondly at the turnstiles and thirdly within the ground, sadly, this wasn’t carried out to an acceptable