Highfield Road

Weed is grown in what kind of field? A High Field. Duh.
First-​Hand Experience: More info about my personal experience at this stadium — I was lucky enough to be brought here as a kid by my older friend David, to watch Coventry v Oxford. Little did I know the stadium would be knocked down. I’m not sure exactly which year it was, but sometime in the 90s when I came here. Within 10 years it had been destroyed.
Definitely a great memory and a loud crowd and a lovely little trip up from Oxford (only an hour by road). However I was very disappointed with some of the facilities, and while it scores a 4 for the large intense crowds and fun memories, it was not a comfortable nor safe stadium and I’m not surprised it was obliterated.
I’ve been to most UK & US stadiums, due to lifelong obsessions with travel, sport & especially footy (soccer to Americans). Born & raised in England, I followed Oxford United (hometown team) to stadia all over the country at away games, and later Liverpool (fave team) around. Every stadium review — like all my reviews — are from first-​hand personal experience, usually from several visits. In 2011, I was on music tour in the UK, and visited most stadiums for fun in my spare time. As recently as Fall 2014, when I was «stuck» in UK for 3 months, I went to hundreds yet again while travelling. I have pictures of me at most, which I’ll post later. Also, when back in UK I’ll take more pix, and add more stadia!
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Highfield Road was one of the great English stadiums, built in the 1800s and with a truly awesome atmosphere. Some of the sides weren’t filled in but it was still one of the better ones. Unfortunately, it has now been demolished and replaced with a generic stadium that doesn’t really have the same atmosphere, is too expensive, etc. It hosted 23k and was shut down in 2005 and was one of the better away grounds for us travelling fans to go to.