 During a two-year term with the club, he managed only one first team appearance, coming on as a 73rd-minute substitute for Dean Gordon in a 2–0 away defeat by Millwall on 4 May 2003.He was released by Coventry at the end of the 2003/04 season.Stanford had spells in Poland with Legia warsaw and Ruch Chorzow in the Polish Premier League.