Summary
SCOTTISH football is shrinking. Literally. Dunfermline are closing a stand, St Johnstone are considering knocking one down. They will not be the only ones to take such drastic action, not the only ones poring over the balance sheet to see where further savings can be possibly made. Out of financial necessity, our game is getting smaller.
Dunfermline's announcement that the North Stand at East End Park would be closed for the foreseeable future would have been embarrassing for the club. It was an open admission that not enough people want to come and watch them, that money was so tight that even a saving of pound(s)20,000 a year could make a big difference.See the full content of this document
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In an interview with this newspaper earlier in the season, chairman John Yorkston had expressed a curious bemusement that home crowds were not higher now that promotion out of the first division had been secured. This latest statement, then, also serves as a warning to ambitious lower league clubs not to bank on entry to the Scottish Premier League as being the answer to a...
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