With builiding societies and utility companies not minded to accept late payments, it is little wonder that Livingston players want to be paid on time.

Livingston chairman Angelo Massone is heading back to Scotland from Italy to see if he can reassure his players that they have nothing to worry about despite the delay in being paid their salaries. The players were considering strike action which would mean today's home game with Ross County would have to be postponed. The players have seen their salaries arrive late in the bank accounts in five of the last seven month and it appears their patience has been tested once too often by the chairman and his board. Massone made a statement in January following the late payment of wages over the new year, saying: "When I took over in June I made a change to the date that the wages were paid to players and the club staff, so that everybody was now to be paid on the last day of every month."

Dave Mackay said: "We've spoken to them plenty of times and it just goes in one ear and out the other. They seem to think it's not a problem if you get paid a few days late. We have it in our contracts that we're to be paid in the last Thursday of each month." However, captain James McPake added a word of warning over strike action: "We've spoken about taking strike action but Hamilton did it a few years ago and were hit by a 15-point penalty so it's not a route we'd like to go down."

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