That’s a result

The achievement of David Hopkin at Livingston FC is truly remarkable and reminiscent of Jim Leishman guiding Dunfermline through the divisions consecutively 30 years ago. It has been achieved with an average gate of less than 1500 and the second smallest budget in the Championship.

Given the catchment area of 80,000, and the youngest population in Scotland, one trusts they will now attract the locals, used to travelling to the big clubs of Edinburgh and Glasgow, to the Tony Macaroni stadium.

The tabloids are now full, predictably, of heartrending stories of the hit Inverness CT, Ross County and Partick Thistle have taken (£1 million each, Ernst & Young reckon).

However, the self-interest of these clubs in the Premiership cartel has prevented the revamp of the league structure, and reallocation of funds, which the fans want, and which, ironically, would have saved them.

To continue blocking big Championship clubs from entering an expanded Premiership in our little country looks increasingly untenable. JOHN V LLOYD

Keith Place Inverkeithing, Fife