 Preston left Macclesfield within a year to return to Scotland with Livingston as a coach, and in June 2004 he became the club's manager.He brought in another former St. Johnstone teammate, Alan Kernaghan, as his assistant, Kernagahan had been player/manager at Clyde.In November 2004, after just fifteen games in charge, Preston and Kernaghan were sacked after the team's seventh successive defeat.