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Perthshire Supporters Club to close

Mon 8th Mar, 2010 • Perthshire Advertiser

Football fans yesterday called for action to save Perth’s flagship St Johnstone supporters’ club. St Johnstone chairman Geoff Brown said he sympathised with fans who regularly drink in the only Fair City pub officially linked to the McDiarmid Park side. But he cautioned: “The only reason we’re taking it away is because not enough people are using it.The smoking ban has probably sounded the death knell for a lot of supporters’ clubs, they’re all struggling at the moment". The prospect of the former Tay Motel’s closure has attracted a string of posts on the ‘We are Perth’ internet fans’ forum.

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