Livingston apologise for Rangers ticketing own goal and vow to learn from error

Livingston have issued an apology to their fans after a large number of Rangers supporters bought tickets in the home stand for last weekend's Premiership opener.

Rangers and Celtic have both been given three stands for their supporters during fixtures at the Tony Macaroni Arena since the Lions' arrival back into the top flight but the Livi faithful were disappointed that some Gers fans were able to purchase tickets for the main stand.

And club officials have released a statement acknowledging the error and have taken steps to ensure it doesn't happen again. From now on, fixtures in which the away side are given three stands will mean that only Livi season-ticket holders can purchase tickets for the main stand.

The statement 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 level.

The club held productive talks with the LFL Supporters Trust, our SLO and