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History » The Calderdale Sports Stadium
With the council now in control of the Shay, certain councillors suddenly wanted to seek their own publicity out of it all. While their rescue package was more than welcome, unnecessary meddling was not.
If it wasn't bad enough that Halifax Town were banned from training on the Shay in June 1987, it was proposed the following year that the Shay's name be changed to the 'Calderdale Sports Stadium'. This was apparently in an effort to try to unite the people of Calderdale and show that the ground was intended for them all.
It was Todmorden town councillor Grahame Fish who proposed this in the first place, yet the majority of people felt it was abhorrent to think that one of Halifax's most famous names was to disappear. Letters appeared in the local paper in protest, and fans of Halifax Town drew up a petition to keep the Shay's name.
It worked, to a fashion, in that the name of the ground was officially changed to 'The Shay Calderdale Sports Stadium'.
At least the Shay name was to live on after more than four centuries of use.
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