The Ricoh Arena (commonly known as The Ricoh), home to Coventry City F.C., is a stadium complex situated in the Rowleys Green district of the city of Coventry, England containing a 32,609 seater football stadium, a 6,000 square-metre exhibition hall, a hotel, a leisure club, and a casino. The site is also home to Arena Park Shopping Centre containing one of the largest Tesco Extra hypermarkets. The site was previously home to the Foleshill gasworks. It is named after its sponsor, Japanese company Ricoh who paid £10million deal for the naming rights over ten years.[3] For the 2012 Summer Olympic Games and the 2015 Rugby World Cup, where stadium naming sponsorship is forbidden, the stadium will be known as the City of Coventry Stadium.[4][5]
The arena was opened officially by DameKelly Holmes and Sports Minister Richard Caborn on 24 February 2007. This was after the arena had been open for a year which included hosting a sell out England under 21 football match against Germany and a full season of Coventry City football matches.
the above is a straight copy from Wikipedia, seems we are stuck with the Ricoh until 2017, still 5 years gives us long enough to sort out a preper name for the stadium,
Always said it should be Phoenix Way, as that's the name of the road it's on. Makes more sense, and has more to do with Cov, than naming it after a Jap printing company.
It's many years since I went riding on my bike, played & fished the canal down there. Can anybody remember the name of the scrap yard, that was there or the nickname for the pikey camp behind it?