in order to pay off debts as a result of "acquiring the large park". However the club remained in debt, not helped by falling levels of support over the 1899–1900 season. Despite the financial difficulties, in September 1900 the club commissioned a new grandstand, capable of housing 350 spectators. The club's hopes of a Scottish Cup run ended in the fourth round of the Scottish Qualifying Cup, losing a two-goal lead to Forfar Athletic. By the end of the 1900–01 season, the club's finances had taken such a turn for the worse, that the club was looking to sell Muirton Bank Park, despite the significant expenditure, to find somewhere closer to the city centre. City was also being sued by both the original Aberdeen club and Montrose F.C. for match guarantees. The club entered the Perthshire League for a second time in 1901–02, but by this time the competition was at a much lower ebb, made up of amateur sides, and Fair City was in such financial straits that the club was expelled for not fulfilling its fixtures. Towards the end of the season, St Johnstone agreed to play a benefit match "in order to assist the City officials out of their troubles". The club remained on the SFA roll for 1902–03 but the benefit match against St Johnstone - which the Saints won 3–1 - is the last recorded match for the club. The club did enter the Qualifying Cup for 1902–03 but scratched to Crieff Morrisonians F.C. in the first round. Supporters The City supporters were notorious for their conduct. The club's first-ever competitive match, against Pullars Rangers in the 1884–85 Perthshire Cup, was re-played because of their continual pitch invasions. After the 1888 Perthshire Cup final, Dunblane supporters had to buy "Play Up, City" favours to place in their hats, in order to "obtain freedom from unpleasant attention" from the crowd. In 1889–90, three weeks after beating Coupar Angus 8–0 in the Scottish Cup, the Athletics were 5–3 down at the same side in the Perthshire Cup, with ten minutes remaining, City supporters invaded the pitch in protest at an injury, and the four policemen present were unable to clear them; the aftermath left the village "in a state of riot" after 200 City followers ran amok, "and no wonder; everybody knows what Fair City "rowdies" are like." The result was allowed to stand despite an Athletics