Deal agreed to save Livingston

Livingston were hauled back from the brink of extinction yesterday when the Scottish Football League approved a deal which will allow the debt-ridden club to survive. The First Division side looked doomed after Angelo Massone, their chairman, refused to walk away for the £25,000 offered him by interim manager Donald McGruther, of administrator Mazars. McGruther, […]

Year ban for Livingston chairman

Livingston Football Club’s chairman has been fined £800 and banned from driving for a year after admitting being drunk in charge of a car, wites  BBC Scotland. Angelo Massone, 38, from Edinburgh, was found slumped over the steering wheel of his car on 29 November last year. The car was stationary in Edinburgh’s Bonnington Road, […]

Livi liquidation process begins

Livingston’s administrator has started making redundancies after owner Angelo Massone rejected an offer to sell his shares to prevent liquidation, writes BBC Scotland. Massone had earlier told BBC Scotland that he did not believe that Donald McGruther would carry out his threat. But McGruther said: “I am really saddened because obviously the message of the […]

No response from Massone as deadline looms

Angelo Massone, the Livingston chairman, has given Donald McGruther, the interim manager, no indication that he is ready to change his mind and transfer his majority shareholding by today’s noon deadline, writes The Herald. McGruther, who has been appointed to take over the running of the club by the courts due to debts estimated to […]

Livingston fans urge Massone – get out for sake of club’s survival

A DEADLINE of noon tomorrow has been set to save Livingston Football Club after their interim manager threatened to put the club into liquidation unless chairman Angelo Massone accepts a token fee of £25,000 for control of his shares – an offer which the Italian has rejected, writes The Scotsman. Donald McGruther, of accountancy firm […]

Livi given 48 hours to survive

Livingston will go into liquidation unless present owner Angelo Massone sells his shares in the Division One club by Wednesday for just £25,000, writes the BBC. Interim manager Donald McGruther, from administrator Mazars, was appointed on Friday by the Court of Session. And he said on Monday that the football club was “hopelessly insolvent, without […]

Fans urge Massone to go

THE Livi for Life Supporters’ Trust last night claimed they can still save the ailing First Division club along with interested investor Gordon McDougall – if chairman Angelo Massone finally walks away.  The entire future of the cash-strapped club – placed into interim administration by West Lothian Council on Friday – appears to rest with […]

Queen of the South 1 Livingston 0

QUEEN of the South squeezed into the next round of the Alba Challenge Cup at the expense of crisis-hit Livingston, who went into administration a day earlier, writes the Sunday Sun. It might have been too simple for Queens to think they were in easy street because of their opponents’ problems, but they took to […]

Lions’ hearts in mourning

LIVINGSTON FOOTBALL Club, born 66 years ago in Edinburgh as Ferranti’s works team, are on the brink of death. The club in its final incarnation as Livingston is about to pass away at the age of 14, writes the Scotland on Sunday. The obsequies remain to be performed, the funeral orations will be a welter […]

Queens kick off against ‘crisis’ club

DESPITE a lot of speculation Queen of the South will get their new season underway on Saturday, writes Galloway News. Livingston, the “will they, wont they be around” club with financial problems, will get the Alba Cup under way at Palmerston Park.