Fuming Livingston boss says fan abuse has crossed the line as he confronts supporters

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Livingston boss David Martindale reckons fan abuse has crossed the line – after entering the stand to confront some angry supporters that he says have been on his case since last season.The Lions have lost just one league game all season, a surprise 3-0 defeat at Dunfermline last Tuesday, but Saturday’s 1-1 draw at home to Queen’s Park left them six points adrift of leaders Falkirk.Stevie May gave Livingston the lead in 50 minutes, finishing a Matty Clarke cross from close range, but that was cancelled out in 59 minutes by Seb Drozd, four minutes before the Spiders’ Roddy McGregor was shown a straight red card when his high boot caught Jamie Brandon in the head.Martindale entered the stand behind the home dug-out to confront fans he says were ‘waiting on a negative’.He said: “There has been an element, and it’s an overhang from last season, that are constantly on the case of the players and myself.“We have a group of fans that are waiting on a negative to jump on it.

I genuinely wanted to speak to them to find out what they feel we should be doing, because we’ve lost one game, yet get dog’s abuse.“I apologise to any fans if I’ve hurt their feelings, but I care for this club, and I think we can do more as a group – myself included – to help the players on the park.“If we were sitting eighth in the Championship, and maybe won three games, I could probably half-understand a bit of the negativity.“But we have no divine right to get anything from this league.

We don’t have an entitlement to get back in the Premiership, or to beat Queen’s Park. We’re Livingston, we’re a community club.“This is a really tight league and this group of players have lost one game – you would think we were bottom of the league.”Martindale reckons