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We’ve not done one since the August one, so lets catch up with what happened up until the November review.
September saw the return of David Fernandez in a Livingston shirt, but even his presence couldn’t inspire Livingston over Dundee United at Almondvale. A p*ss poor display made most supporters wish that they had a three second suicide pill on them, but no there was no such luck as both sides showed the full quality of the SPL in it’s usual boring way, and ground out a 0-0 draw. Next up was Kilmarnock, who came to Almondvale knowing fine well that the Lions were beatable at home, and despite being down to ten men for most of the second half, the Rugby Park men still managed to record a 2-1 victory. Livingston’s season was heading the same way as the previous one and head coach Marcio Maximo was starting to feel the pressure of having an less-than average side playing in a less-than average league.
The last match in September saw the Lions make amends for their poor result against Kilmarnock the week before, when they travelled all the way up to Aberdeen and shafted them big style. Marvin Andrews was definitely out of this one, or so the inbred crew thought, but he miraculously made a last minute recovery and was on hand to help the Lions give Aberdeen one hell of a doing. Quino, Rubio and Pasquinelli all got on the score sheet to give the Lions yet another fine victory up in the dark land.
October brought some shocking news Livingston’s way, after another fine advert for Scottish football, Livingston and Dunfermline played out a 0-0 draw at the Boredom Stadium, and a few days later head coach (but not allowed to pick the team) Marcio Maximo quit Livingston claiming that personal reasons was making him go home. Despite him telling half of the Livingston support meeting him in places such as Chicago Rock Café and other places within the vicinity of Almondvale that he was extremely happy with life at Livi, he then decided that enough was enough, and that Alan Preston and Davie Hay had done more backstabbing than what goes on at Bates Motel, and that he was going to walk out on the new side that he had formed, leaving Hay in charge, a role that the ex-Celtic man had been trying to get his grubby hands on for a while.
The Livingston supporters were both disappointed and shocked at the news, and to make it worse, the Chairman went on the “up dated now and again” official site and lied on camera about the reasons behind Maximo leaving. The truth is that he was forced out of Livi, with the full backing of Chairman Dominic Keane by Alan Preston and Davie Hay.
Livingston carved out some great results near the end of October, beating Hibs comfortably 2-0 in the Capital, and then going on to draw with Rangers at home, but in truth, Livi let the Ibrox men off the hook by missing a string of chances, including missing a penalty, but it could be worse for Livi, we could have a stinking striking partnership of Capucho and Ostenstad.
And after such an interesting September and October, November had a lot to live up to. Livingston travelled to Tynecastle to play the jailbirds on the first, and despite having a majority of the play, the smelly crew managed to win 3-1. It was the best that the Lions had probably played all season, but some dodgy refereeing (just the norm) and some slack defending by the usually impressive Marvin Andrews gifted Hearts an undeserved win.
SPL whipping boys Partick were next to visit Almondvale, and anything other than a win was what the Livi faithful were expecting. Derek “PELE” Lilley (although I still don’t think he’s that good) opened the scoring thanks to some generous refereeing by Alan Freeland when he gave the Lions a soft penalty, and Lilley took on the task himself and slotted the ball home. Lee Makel scored the killer second but to be honest Partick played like a pub team, and there manager Gerry Collins looked more like a landlord than a manager of a football club.
The Lions then made the short visit to play the Steelmen, but I think their nickname should be changed to the Stealmen as that’s all there supporters are good at (car stereo’s and all that). It looked as if was going to be a disastrous day, Brian Kerr broke his leg, Motherwell took the lead through a screamer,. But again, Derek Lilley hit the back of the net and earned the Lions a share of the points, along with the help of the referee, the linesman, and Ladbrokes (I bet you their coupon came up).
The last match of November saw Livingston face the club as skint as a hookers knee, Dundee. The Tayside club are said to be over £20 million quid in the red, but the side that was down to its bare bones after letting over 15 of their top start go weren’t going to give the Lions an easy ride. The match was spoiled by the terrible weather conditions, but both sides tried their best to play some decent football, but when the rain is as bad as it was, you have no chance. Livi took the lead through Lilley again, but Dundee deservedly equalized with only 5 minutes remaining, and most supporters were glad that the match was over as the conditions were getting worse.
WINNERS AND LOSERS TIME
WINNERS
Dominic Keane for booting out that no good time waster Cherif who couldn’t even lace my granny’s boots. He was a shocking player, faked injury when he was too cold, and had no skill whatsoever. I would have booted him out a long time ago. David Fernandez for trying his hardest despite his severe lack of confidence.
LOSERS
Davie Hay, Alan Preston & Dominic Keane for all the lying they done over the Maximo incident. They were all against him from day one, and these people should be ashamed of themselves. There is no excuse for this behaviour, and they should all be hung. Aberdeen for giving us Livi supporters such a laugh when we go up there, oh its wonderful seeing them stream out of the stadium with 20 minutes to go, my middle finger was sore for a week. Dundee’s accountant for having the brain of a pea and Spike for giving up this article.
We’ll that’s me done for now, but in the next article (December), we look forward to beating Aberdeen in the cup again, getting humped by Dundee United and hopefully stuffing Killie and once again, beating Aberdeen in the league this time.
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