From The Archive: Evicting Non-League Football Clubs: Powered by iRama

In 2021 a company was buying up non-league grounds and evicting clubs from them.

Imagine, if you will, a world in which a Singaporean property development company could keep a diligent eye on non-league football in England, paying particular attention to clubs in varying states of distress. Once they identify one, they make a bid to purchase the club’s ground – not the club itself – and then, when the time is right, they evict the club concerned from its home.

Imagine no longer. This is world we live in, right now.

It’s important to state from the outset that Irama, the company at the centre of this cesspit, have, to the best of anybody’s knowledge, done nothing illegal. Acting legally, however, is not the same as acting ethically, and the way in which this company has acted now poses a threat to the entirety of the non-league game in this country.