Livingston have slammed the move to allow Rangers to play at Hampden Park, without discussing the impact on the Scottish Championship.
The newly demoted side were due to play Queen’s Park at the national stadium on Saturday, August 10th, however this game has now been moved to Friday, August 9th with a 7.45pm kick off.
This is to allow Rangers to have use of the stadium for their Premiership clash with Motherwell on Saturday, August 10th.
The Ibrox side are locked out of their stadium while construction work continues on the Copeland Road stand.
David Martindale’s side fumed after revealing the club were not involved in any discussions before the move was confirmed.
A statement on the club’s official website said: “We can confirm that our William Hill Championship clash with Queen’s Park, originally scheduled for Saturday 10th August, has been moved to Friday 9th August with a 7.45pm kick-off instead.
“As originally planned, the game will still be played at the City Stadium (Lesser Hampden).
“We’re disappointed that our own schedule has been impacted by matters entirely unrelated to our own football club. Whilst we have every sympathy that unexpected issues can occur, we don’t believe our game should be the one inconvenienced to remedy that.
“We didn’t have any input into the discussions regarding this, we were only informed of the change when the final decision had already been made.
“Again, whilst understanding the difficulty in rescheduling due to a busier than ever fixture card this season, it’s neither the fault of ourselves nor Queen’s Park which has led to the requirement for change, so we don’t believe, as a club, that it should have had an impact on our fixture list.
“With that said, it’s now done and we’ll plan for the game on the new date as required, amending our own training schedule to suit, and look forward to visiting the City Stadium next month.”
