We won 2-0 when the fixture was replayed the following month. From 1978 to 2016 the stadium also hosted greyhound racing. Abandoned: Brandon Stadium, Coventry Bees Sunday 28th May 2017. Unlike Madison Square Garden and Old Trafford, these places aren't renovated or beloved, they are abandoned. This is a list of football stadiums in England that are now defunct. The Midland Football League is an English football league that was founded in 2014 by the merger of the former Midland Alliance and Midland Combination. Coventry chief executive Dave Boddy says EFL clubs feel "abandoned" by not being included in £300m of emergency funding by the government. Each stadium is shown alongside the year in which it ceased to be used and the stadium by which it was replaced. Once home of the Coventry Bees speedway team and the CoventryStox stock car operation, the stadium hosted speedway events since 1928 when it was built. Coventry City were considering playing there in 2012, but instead ground-shared with Northampton Town, before then going to Birmingham. At the former arena, also known as the Coventry Stadium, the friends reflected on the fire damage and vandalism the site has suffered, with Tyler recalling his … The wife and I were down in Coventry for the bank holiday weekend visiting her dad in hospital. 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. To this day fans are left extremely gutted at it being no longer. It held Speedway GP meetings and other high profile events numerous times. Coventry ace feared Rochdale game would be abandoned as City battled through storm ... Coventry have made a habit on tasting victory in the rain. It's first speedway meeting was held in 1928 when the stadium was in it's first incarnation, and the current stadium is built upon bulldozed rubble from the ruins of blitzed WWII Coventry. The league has four divisions, which stand at the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th levels of the football pyramid respectively. Coventry was home to speedway, greyhound, stockcar and banger racing decades. It was left abandoned then was demolished in late February 2017 and lasted approximately two and a half months. Coventry Stadium . Abandoned as a … I say we but in actuality I was given the task of dropping off and fetching so we wouldn't have to pay for hospital parking. The club played at the arena for eight years until this summer, but moved amid an ongoing row with stadium operators Arena Coventry Limited. The volleyball stadium (pictured) is filled with rotting wood, watersports arenas have run dry and mascots lie abandoned. 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