IAN McCALL is confident his Partick Thistle team will be able to put a sustained promotion challenge together next season – as the Maryhill club will not be financially handicapped the way they were during the previous campaign.
When Covid relief funding was shared out to SPFL clubs during the height of the pandemic, Thistle were left clutching the short straw. As a full-time club operating in the third tier, they were awarded a £150,000 grant while Alloa and Arbroath – part-time Championship clubs with significantly lower operating costs – each received £500,000 along with the other second-tier sides.
