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Livingston boss hails fans as Lions set to welcome bumper crowd after ticket giveaway

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Livingston boss David Martindale has heaped praise on the fans as the Lions are set to welcome a bumper crowd for Saturday’s league clash with St Mirren.Livi have given away over 3800 tickets to local schools and organisations for the fixture and the gaffer believes the club are starting to get the recognition they deserve in the area.Martindale likened the atmosphere at last weekend’s home clash against Aberdeen with the Premiership play-off fixtures four years ago and hailed the travelling support for making their Scottish Cup tie at Hearts on Saturday feel like a home game.Speaking to the Courier, Martindale commented: “The fans have been brilliant of late.

The game against Aberdeen felt just like the play-offs albeit with a smaller crowd."My daughter usually watches the game inside but she sat in the stands for the final 20 minutes and the first thing she said when I saw her afterwards was 'dad, that was amazing'."Mo, our chef, is usually working during the game but she said she was walking along the corridor and was hearing all the fans and the noise and couldn't help herself.

Two minutes later she's in the crowd shouting at the referee. It's brilliant to hear things like that."At Tynecastle you’d have thought there was 12,000 of them.

They were amazing and it’s something the players feed off.“Then off the back of those two games, we’re going into this fixture against St Mirren with a phenomenal response on the ticket giveaway.“We’ve honestly been trying everything over the years.

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