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Carlisle plan to follow the Bulls in protesting about Police charges after they received a £25,000 bill for their recent game with Leeds.
Speaking to their official site, Managing Director John Nixon said: "It is getting extremely worrying. The figures now involved for policing matches at this level are the sort that will put clubs out of business. The police charges are just going up and up and up.
"The £25,000 plus VAT police bill for our Leeds game has completely wiped away the profit we were looking to make. It would have been even worse but the original figure of more than £28,000 plus VAT was reduced after discussions with Cumbria Police.
"Compare that to last year's League One fixture at home to Leeds, when our policing costs were less than £7,000, rising to £21,000 for the play-off game here. So now we are taking it further and involving our local MP and the Football League. We just cannot afford to sit back and let this situation continue. We have real concerns.
"We fully respect the issue of public safety and we want to continue working with Cumbria Police but we feel the costs we are being presented with are now becoming a grave problem. It should also be pointed out that not all the public order issues on match days are always of the club's making or indeed football's."
More than 70 officers, motorcycle support, and other crowd control measures were in place for the game, costing the club £2.50 of the ticket price of every fan attending. The Bulls received a bill of around £15,000 - £3.75 per fan - for the recent Swindon match, with the Leeds match at Edgar Street classed in the same bracket.
