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OLIVER HOLT: Ordinary heroes who stood in front of the bulldozers to save a cathedral of sport

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In sport, not all heroes wear football boots. Not all heroes take seven wickets in the second innings of their Test debut or come from two sets down to win the Australian Open men's final or date Taylor Swift and break one of Jerry Rice's most famous NFL records on the way to another appearance in the Super Bowl.

Sometimes, heroes live near Coventry. Sometimes, as the sad light of a January afternoon in the Midlands fades to dusk, they find themselves standing in the shadow of the derelict stadium they have spent much of the last seven years of their lives fighting to save against all the odds.