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Car Parking Prices Show That Sevco Is Squeezing Its Fans Like Never Before.

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Sevco is desperate to squeeze every available penny out of its supports during this close season, and I cannot really blame them. The finance gap – not between us and them, forget about that, but that which is needed to stop making losses – has to be bridged somehow, and especially when their club is preparing to spend £3 million on a Brighton reserve and Gerrard’s circus has rolled into town with a back stage cast that makes Glee look a town hall production.

The story about the Club 1872 cash has been explored elsewhere; I was – and I am – going to write a bit about it tomorrow, but it’s only one front in a broad exercise to hoover up as much disposable income in the here and now as possible.

It’s a giant gamble, predicated on the idea that Gerrard will bring in good players and challenge us.

In other words, it’s fanciful nonsense.

(Unless you’re playing Football Manager, where according to STV there’s nothing to worry about as they’ve just signed a wonder-kid on loan.)

Sevco fans who thought King would pay for this, or that the other directors would stump up, were dead wrong.

Their wallets were always going to be lightened, significantly, as much as possible, in order to give Gerrard anything like a war-chest.

The Club 1872 thing is part of it, but tonight I got told about their car-park fees for next season and the full scope of this became clear for the first time.

No sofa cushion will be left un-turned in the quest for loose change.

Last season, according to a wee bit of research conducted by one of the Twitterati, fans at Ibrox were able to purchase car-parking spaces at the Albion for £7 a time, on a game by game basis. This season they are going to be charged a whopping £250 for a “season ticket” to do the same, and many of them will have no choice but to pay since Glasgow City Council is getting ready to put its own barking mad scheme in place.

It’s clear that Sevco is not going to squeeze the pips until they scream; they are going to squeeze the pips until they burst. There’s just one problem with that, as any confidence trickster could have told them. You can sheer a sheep as many times as you want … but you can only skin it once. If Gerrard flops – as I think he’s certain to – there is going to be more anger in the air than just a couple of fans padlocking the gate at Murray Park.

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