My biggest memory of Highfield Road though was when we beat Everton on the final day of the season to stay up. The club moved to the Ricoh Arena in 2005. Highfield Road, Coventry City Ground Opened in 1899. google_ad_height = 90; I've played for a lot of Clubs and the actual football clubs themselves aren't normally the nicest places to spend time at. As I'm from Liverpool, I had lots of family down here that day and they were my boyhood team, to rub their noses in it was fantastic. As of 11 Mar 2019. Man Utd were an unbelievable side when we played them that season - they were untouchable but we put a spanner in their works. ", "I played my first game here, I played my first England Under 23 game for Alf Ramsey at Highfield Road, I played in the English League versus the Scottish League match here, and then there was the big one - the Wolverhampton Wanderers game when there were 52,000 here. This is a rise of 3.08% in the last three months (since June 2020) and rise of 0.54% since 12 months ago. We had to win all three of our games to avoid the drop and bearing in mind we hadn't even won two games back-to-back all season, it was an amazing acheivement. We always ate in the restaurants and it was a great place to be.". The average house price in Highfield Road, Coventry CV2 is £103,013. I always had a great relationship with the Coventry fans so to give them something like that to cheer about will always be one of my favourite footballing memories.". All I had ever wanted was to play for Coventry and even though the fans didn't take too kindly to me at first I went on to score 24 goals the season we got promoted to Division One which was my best ever. The Spion Kop Terrace. Road was demolished and re-developed with a We won the first two - away to Stoke and at home to Luton and then we had to beat Everton who had won the league and had a great team. Shared ownership scheme overhauled to help first-time buyers, What Brits wish they’d known before moving home, Q&A: 'Covid-19 has led to a once-in-a-lifetime re-evaluation of housing requirements'. You may unsubscribe or update your preferences at any time in MyZoopla, List with Zoopla and build your business today, I'm a Zoopla agent, I want to login to ZooplaPro.