As US businesswoman Michele Kang began speaking in the lavishly decorated Empire room at Mayfair’s Landmark hotel and outlined her vision for the Women’s Championship side London City Lionesses to become the “best team in England”, the scene created an immediate juxtaposition to last season’s typical images of the team that finished eighth in the women’s second tier playing their home games at a sparsely populated Princes Park stadium in Dartford.
Before Kang – who also owns Washington Spirit and Lyon – was even halfway through her opening remarks, Princes Park had already been waved goodbye to. The relatively small, somewhat unknown, independent women’s team she bought in December are to move. Not quite to Mayfair, but to Bromley, where her team will ground-share with the men’s League Two club from the new season.
