Livingston have issued an apology to their followers after a lot of Rangers supporters purchased tickets within the dwelling stand for final weekend's Premiership opener.
Rangers and Celtic have each been given three stands for his or her supporters throughout fixtures on the Tony Macaroni Area because the Lions' arrival again into the highest flight however the Livi devoted have been upset that some Gers followers have been capable of buy tickets for the principle stand.
And membership officers have launched a press release acknowledging the error and have taken steps to make sure it would not occur once more. To any extent further, fixtures during which the away aspect are given three stands will imply that solely Livi season-ticket holders should purchase tickets for the principle stand.
The assertion learn: "Livingston FC wish to go on file acknowledging the problems and complaints raised by our supporters following unacceptable scenes at Saturday’s cinch Premiership opener with Rangers.
Regardless of the very best intentions from all on the membership, significantly after discussions within the week main as much as the sport with Police Scotland and our stewarding associate, we completely agree and recognize that what transpired on Saturday fell method wanting what we had aimed for and fairly merely put, wasn’t ok in respect to the place it left our personal, valued supporters in.
Having been conscious of points in earlier capability crowd encounters, we weren’t naïve to the assumption that opposing followers could attempt to buy tickets within the dwelling finish. Regardless of our greatest makes an attempt at placing measures in place to forestall – firstly at supply, secondly on the turnstiles and thirdly inside the floor, sadly, this wasn’t carried out to a suitable degree.
The membership held productive talks with the LFL Supporters Belief, our SLO and DLO yesterday, focussing on how we will all work higher collectively going ahead, led by the soccer membership, to ship extra optimistic outcomes.
Going ahead, matches the place we all know our North, South and East Stands shall be occupied totally with visiting followers, we are going to now not supply any choice to buy tickets on-line for the house finish. We recognize the overwhelming majority of our visiting help is well-behaved and a credit score to the sport, however sadly we have to take care of the irresponsible few.
Moreover, ONLY present 2022/23 grownup and grownup concession season ticket holders will have the ability to purchase tickets within the dwelling finish both in particular person or over the telephone with stated season ticket holders card quantity being taken towards these purchases to make sure that there's a degree of accountability for who's buying tickets and for the place these folks shall be seated within the stand.
This may nearly definitely see the membership lose out on a portion of income from ticket gross sales for these video games, however it's elementary that the protection of our followers comes first and takes absolute precedence over revenue.
There isn't any getting away from the truth that we didn’t get it proper on Saturday and the membership desires to placed on file our honest apologies to those that had their matchday expertise tarnished. We would like all supporters and potential supporters to get pleasure from what the membership has to supply. and admittedly, on Saturday, that wasn’t the case.
Placing these measures in place will hopefully alleviate the issues raised by a lot of you on the weekend, and we do recognize these of you who took the time to get in contact together with your experiences to permit us to verify we make this higher for future promote out matches.
As ever, your help is vastly, vastly appreciated and we stay up for seeing you all again right here for the conflict with Hibernian on Saturday 13 th August."
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