This is the Trinity Road Stand at Villa Park. Some might say that I deserve scant sympathy in the circumstances. Until 1981 Villa's offices were partly housed in the former aquarium; until 1966 there was even a bowling green in front of the Trinity Road Stand. It needed doing, I suppose, to increase the capacity etc, but I'm still a bit sad they didn't find a way of incorporating the old brickword or the central sign. Trinity Road Stand is closed off as part of the traffic exclusion zone. Inside there are three levels of concourse and the Holte Suite, a large hospitality room for supporters.Built in 2000, the main Trinity Road Stand is the most recently completed at Villa Park and houses the dressing rooms, club offices and director's boxes. 'The first I heard of the stand being knocked down was when Doug Ellis [the Villa chairman] was interviewed on radio,' says Ian Robathan, a call-centre analyst who launched a belated preservation campaign via his website (www.dougout.ukweb.nu). There is step free access on Trinity Road with multiple dropped kerbs. By March 1922 this price had reduced to £41,775, and the directors pushed ahead with the plans for the new Trinity Road Stand.Villa Park remained in much the same state for another 30 years, with no major developments until the late 1950s. For I concede that the toilets are inadequate, as are the catering outlets. Upper tier seats are claret with "AV" written in blue; the lower tier consists of sky blue seats. There is step free access on Trinity Road with multiple dropped kerbs. I was angry not only at the club but angry at myself and the other fans for not doing more to save this final link with our Victorian past. Quantity: 6 available / 7 sold. 'I do not doubt him. Trinity Road Stand. Not modern enough and he'll be accused of a loss of nerve. The demolition of the old stand began after the last game of the The Holte End is a large two-tiered stand at the south end of the stadium. By contrast, the new stand (costing £10.5 million) will offer 4,000 more seats, have no restricted views, and will accommodate between 80 and 120 wheelchair users and their helpers, in prime positions, compared with only 39 as at present, all confined to the corners.Dennis Swain, the new stand's architect, insists that Villa will salvage as much as they can from the old building; the mosaics and the distinctive roof gable in particular, and, I hope, two turnstiles dating back to 1895. It has hosted 55 Many athletics and cycle events took place at the ground before the First World War,Villa Park was originally listed as one of the six stadiums that would hold Olympic football matches in the Villa Park was chosen as the venue for two pool matches in the Villa Park has been a venue for musicians from multiple genres as well as preachers. Each would become instantly recognisable hallmarks, rivalled subsequently only by stands at Rangers and then Arsenal in the early Thirties.Yet other than the stand, not a single memorial to Rinder exists at Villa Park, largely, I assume, because the costs nearly bankrupted the club, leading Rinder to be ousted by angry shareholders only a year after the stand's inauguration (though he was later forgiven and rejoined the board). But hardly distinctive nevertheless.Of course the Trinity Road Stand is not alone in succumbing to the modernisers. 'How can they pull this building down,' demands Hans van Eijden, a disbelieving Dutchman, one of many visitors who regularly come to feast upon the stand's unique red-brick frontage.Quite easily, is the answer. After today, Villa Park, and the landscape of English football, will never be the same again.Simon Inglis's new book, Sightlines - A Stadium Odyssey (Yellow Jersey Press, £18) is published on 25 May Swain knows he's on a hiding to nothing with the new stand, all the same. There is an easy slope leading from Trinity Road to the Holte End car park.