Incredible images have emerged of an abandoned football stadium that hasn't welcomed fans in over a decade.
The Leyton Football Club Stadium was once one of London's oldest sports venues but was abandoned in 2011 when the non-league team dissolved after 143 years of existence.
In October 2009, following an investigation by HMRC, the club's chairman Costas Sophocleous and former director Philip Foster pleaded guilty to their part in a £16m VAT fraud.
In 2010, Sophocleous was sentenced to more than eight years and Foster to five years in prison.
The club found new bosses, but due to debt, they were forced to dissolve.
Now, new pictures have emerged of the stadium, with one showing a collapsed roof in the stands, covering the four remaining seats in the section.
Some of the seats are almost covered in wild plants.
Other photos show a tangled football net, the ‘away’ team area, and the dilapidated seats spectators would once have watched the games from.
The home stand reads "Leyton Timber", with a phone number that has not been ruined over the years.
The pictures were captured by urban explorer Orlando Britain, who said walking through the stadium was "a little eerie and sad".
He explained: "The abandoned football ground is about a mile from my house but you would never know it was there as it is surrounded by residential housing and an Indian restaurant at the front.
"It felt a little eerie and sad walking around looking at the dilapidated seats, supposedly the capacity here was 4,000.
"I kept imagining all the games that would have been played here and the fans cheering on their team. Especially looking at the Home and Away stands.
"It would be great if the stadium could be put to better use than a car park as it currently is, perhaps used for smaller clubs to play and train."
Leyton Football Club was originally founded in 1868 and played until it officially disbanded in 2011.
Since then, the stadium has been left to the passage of time.
At the time that it disbanded, Leyton FC was the second oldest football club in London.
The stadium has previously been known as The Hare and Hounds.
Despite being abandoned, the stadium was never torn down - and was not transformed into a housing development or any other building.
Two years ago, football fans launched a campaign to use the stadium again for matches and possibly bring back Leyton FC as a local community-run football club.
