HIGHFIELD ROAD 2005 | COVENTRY CITY DOCUMENTARY
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- Highfield Road the home ground for Coventry City F.C. for 106 years.It was built in 1899 in the Hillfields district, close to the city centre, and staged its final game on 30 April 2005 when Coventry City beat Derby County 6-2 in the Football League Championship with the last ever goal appropriately being scored by Andrew Whing, a product of Coventry City's youth academy. A concert by pop star Elton John was held at the stadium afterwards. The club then moved to the Ricoh Arena, at Foleshill in the north of the city.Highfield Road had one of the largest playing surfaces in the English leagues and was the English league's first all-seater stadium (the first all-seater in the UK was Aberdeen's Pittodrie Stadium). The all-seater policy introduced by Jimmy Hill was later abandoned when Leeds United fans tore-out several hundred seats after losing their First Division game to Coventry City 4-0 in 1981, only months after the seats had been installed.Standing accommodation returned to Highfield Road in 1983, but it became all-seater once again 11 years later when all top division clubs were required to have all-seater stadiums as a result of the Taylor Report which was the sequel to the Hillsborough disaster of 1989.[1]
The stadium's record attendance was 51,455 when Coventry City played their West Midlands rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers in a Football League Division 2 game in 1967. However, after it was converted to an all-seater stadium for the second time in the mid-1990s, its maximum capacity was 23,489 at the time of its closure, and all of the pre-1990 seats had been replaced in 1995. The stadium had by then been well-developed with one corner filled to provide a more modern look and feel.
However, it lacked facilities compared to the new stadia of similar-sized clubs, which was one of the main causes of the move to the Ricoh Arena. Another reason for relocation was that parking facilities in the local area were inadequate. When the stadium was first given the go-ahead in 1999, it had been planned to build a 45,000-seat stadium as part of England's bid to host the 2006 World Cup. However, England's failure to win the bid to host the tournament - combined with Coventry's relegation in 2001 - saw the stadium's capacity scaled down.Demolition work began in February 2006 and was completed by the end of the following month.
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16yo apprentice with GEC in 1977 moved to the big city from Newark, Notts - saw my team, Forest win the league at Highfield Road & a LC semi but the best thing I ever saw was Stuart Pearce for Cov reserves on a Tuesday night - couldn't believe my luck when he signed for Forest. Great city, great ground, great times. PS - 22p a drink in Mr Georges Sun & Weds in '77 - happy days.
I was 6 year old my first game was cov v Birmingham, at Highfield Road , from scofland
Best football night of my life at Highfield Road, We played West Ham in the semi final first leg League Cup 1981, We went 2-0 down after a Gary Thompson own goal, we came back and won 3-2 with Thompson scoring the winner at the West end where I was, What a night PUSB.
I still feel gutted never spoke to anyone for a week. Im over it now
I remember the fog you couldn't see much😅
I was at that final match at Highfield Road. 13 years later and we are all 13 years older. The downturn since leaving Highfield Road has been quite sad. Life is too short. Let's hope the upward trajectory happens soon. Thanks to the likes of Jim Brown, Dave Bennett and John Sillett for keeping the history and the spirit alive.
MostlyLoveOfMusic I only went there once in the 88-89 season to watch United lose 1-0 . Seems weird saying that now!! At one point in the 80's Coventry had a good side and I remember a freezing cold day at old Trafford in 87 when we lost 1-0 to a Keith houchen goal in the 4th round of the cup
I thought Highfield Road was quite a decent ground. Such a shame to see it demolished.
Should have stayed at Highfield Road, ran before u could walk
There is nothing that could ever be better than watching football, standing on the terraces. I miss it a lot.
Ive never been to the ricoh but been to highfield road a good few times when i was younger from scotland , i fucking loved it (45) now .
Imps as one good luck Coventry you deserve it all the hat times you've had good luck div by the way thanks for beating Exeter
Jimmy Hill, John Sillett & George Curtis, all three Sky Blues legends!!
And now mark robins
Cov City - the finest team on planet earth. No BS.
i remember my brother in law telling me he could get a ticket for the final from boroughbridge fc who won there league and nobody wanted it ! well as i lived in north yorks at the time i called my brother john to say i would bring it down on the friday night before the game ! can you imagine it took 5 hours to get to coventry on a honda 70 lol ! cold and shivering i handed it over in the bell pub in bell green and a hundred hands tried to grab it lol ! the next morning i set off early to get back to north yorks so i could watch it on tv - john never paid me any petrol money but i think all he could think about was getting transport to london the next morning ! but what a great day for coventry city and the city of coventry ! sisu out !!!
Such a shame what's happened there
Jim Brown club historian and SISU fan.
R.I.P Highfield road. PUSB!
Highfield road looked huge. Not sure why they needed to upgrade.
We didn't need to. We only filled Highfield Road 2 or 3 times a season.
I fucking loved my times
At Highfield Road ,scottish skybmues
Richard Keys says leaving Highfield Road the death of the club
If the legend jimmy hill saw are issues now he would be ashamed
I am portuguea can legend this?
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