Sport in the United Kingdom fans to sit behind an athletics track. This means that athletics stadiums have to be separately financed and this can only be done with public funds, which have not been forthcoming on a large scale. The largest athletics stadium built in the United Kingdom between Second World War and the 2010s, the 38,000-capacity City of Manchester Stadium built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, was reconfigured for football-only use after that event. For many years, the largest existing stadium was the 25,000 seat Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield, and London's largest athletics venue was Crystal Palace, which has just 15,500 permanent
Don Shula Stadium of the 1951 NFL Draft. Don Shula Stadium was built around the preexisting Wasmer Field. Wasmer Field has been the "home turf" for the JCU Blue Streaks since 1968. Don Shula Stadium was opened in 2003 with the official dedication and opening event held on September 27th of that year in a football game between the John Carroll Blue Streaks and the Polar Bears of Ohio Northern University. The stadium was named in honor of Don Shula, an alumnus of John Carroll University and a retired Pro Football Hall of Fame coach in the National Football League. Shula was the