Jim is let off the leish

Jim Leishman will return to the Livingston dugout today to honour long-serving midfielder, Keaghan Jacobs.

The 65-year-old will oversee a Legends XI that take on the current team in a testimonial for Jacobs at the Tony Macaroni Arena.

Leishman guided the Lions into the top-flight for the first time in 2001 before leading the side into Europe with a thirdplace finish that season.

Former Livingston players Neil Alexander, Marvin Andrews, James Mcpake, Dave Mackay, Graeme Dorrans, Stuart Lovell, Burton O’brien, Lee Makel, David Bingham and Derek Lilley are also among those set to feature.

Johannesburg-born Jacobs has played for the West Lothian outfit since 2007, with the exception of the 2015/16 campaign that he spent at South African side, Bidvest Wits.

Kick-off is 2pm. Tickets are £10 for adults, £5 for concessions. the last scottish spider? Will Regan Thomson become the last Queen’s Park player to play for Scotland?

That’s a conversation doing the rounds at Hampden right now, after 16-year-old Thomson (above) was called up to Brian Mclaughlin’s Under-17 squad for UEFA qualifiers against Armenia, Iceland and Croatia later this month.

The Spiders’ president, Gerry Crawley is concerned that his club’s prolific youth policy could stop producing talent, with the sale of Hampden next year coupled with the fear of slipping into the Lowland League.

Crawley said: “We hope that we will continue producing players who are good enough to play for Scotland, but there is a cloud on that horizon.

“As an amateur club, we are not presently recompensed for our players that move on to full-time football.

“That, and our financial model changing due to the move from Hampden, will affect our ability to keep producing players as we cannot invest to the same level in youth teams.”