Congratulations to Livingston who won promotion to the top flight after a 12-year absence following a dramatic 1-0 victory over Partick Thistle in the play off final at Firhill this afternoon.
Livingston arrived in Glasgow with a 2-1 advantage from the Tony Macaroni arena and after a goalless first half, Keaghan Jacobs’ opened the scoring shortly after the restart to the delight of the large travelling support.
Partick desperately tried to get back in the game and passed up a great chance to equalise on the day but Livingston’s goalkeeper Neil Alexander saved a late Conor Sammon penalty to secure the famous victory.
This is a tremendous achievement for David Hopkin’s side who were only promoted to the Championship last year and have now become the first side since Hamilton Academical in 2014 to win promotion via the Premiership play-off final.
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
