Saints will have to fork out an extra £60,000 on policing between now and the end of the season in the wake of trouble at the last home game with Doncaster.

The match was one of the club’s four police free games a season as it was seen as an unlikely match for any crowd disturbances.

But things got ugly with fans fighting amongst themselves, impromptu protests taking place outside the ground against the current board and even one or two spectators getting onto the pitch after the game had finished.

Those incidents have led to a review of policing for the remainder of the season and it has been decided that there needs to be a greater presence for the remaining home games.

Each game Saints play is rated depending on the likelihood of any crowd problems.

That rating directly relates to the number of officers Hampshire Police have to deploy and the more they do the greater the cost to Saints.

It is believed that each of the remaining nine home games has now gone up in the ratings and so will therefore cost more.

That cost is believed to total around £60,000.

The increase in policing is unrelated to the death threat towards football board chairman Michael Wilde.

The money is cash the club can ill afford as they look to save at every possible opportunity.

They are already in a battle to try and keep Saints afloat and have been battling against having to sell players during the January transfer window.

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