Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

[Bill the Blue]

Great Idea...we could also sell paper cups filled to the brim with moulton bovril so as soon as you pick them up, squeezing the cup as gently as you can, the fucking thing overflows giving you 3rd degree burns to your hand..

You could enter the new stand through the aptly named 'Pete's emergency slush fund turnstile', that clicks every 15 bodies, as a homage to Swailsey (sure we regularly had 60K plus crowds at Maine Road that were recorded as 42759 in the football pink the same evening)..

Once in you are then searched for weapons, anybody found not to have any were immediately offered a selection of bats, bottles, darts and filed down 2 pence pieces before being allowed up the chipped and well worn concrete steps..

Once inside, the doors are locked shut and nobody is allowed out until the game's over no matter how shit the match is panning out..!

Upon being let out, police horses, alsatian dogs, burley policemen and 4000 away fans keep your adrenaline flowing all the way back into town..

Good old fashioned match day experience with not a selfie stick in site..

Oh and it's got to be 75p to get in..!

Sight ffs..!.. Bedtime..!

 

[nmc]

I wonder if the club would consider a Back to the 70s section in any future expansion plans. This would be aimed at those who consider the modern match day experience too sanitised.

In this section everyone could knock fuck out of each other and early leavers could be beaten to a pulp with impunity. Additional amenities could be things like 70s Kippax-style toilets in which you could wade through several inches of urine whilst powdering your nose or even retro red brick walls that you could piss against without even going into the bogs.

It could be a money-spinner I reckon.

can we have cones of chips, Wagon wheels and Greenhalls Bitter?

 

[caseball]

80's? They went up in the seventies. John Nash was the 4th. They've even got a place in Wiki all of their own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulme_Crescents



What a waste of money & time.

They should have built a 5th one called Unusual Sense of Hulmeour Crescent.

 

[come-on-barney]

I'd prefer The Jeremy Corbyn Stand :)

Jon Ashworth likes this.

 

[asahartford1]

This was the best of Manchester. The 1980s Hulme Crescents. It won all kinds of awards for innovative housing but then became regarded as a slum.

There were 4 huge crescents joined by walkways. William Kent Crescent, Charles Barry Crescent, and Robert Adam Crescent. I forget the name of the 4th.

Heaven for bohemia, hell for families. The biggest housing estate in Europe I believe, and right in the heart of Manchester and full of young people, squats, punks and anarchists. Off the grid, and you could do what you wanted with a major drawback that no one had any money. But this was the last era before censorship and it produced Easterhouse, and the Stone Roses. Morrisey was there too.

This was a big part of Manchester's music scene. It's where most of the bands came from.

These blocks replaced a huge slum of terraced housing. Nowadays there are modern town-houses there.

Those walkways had a use. Young scrotes used to wait, armed with half bricks until our school bus came by. They would then attack the bus with a missile barrage. The inexperienced, third formers and the like would be allowed to sit on the front seats and take the hit. The experienced traveller sat braced with satchel on head until the attack was over.
Who said you don't learn nothin at School.

 

[jrb]

The Oak View Group website has a CGI/holding page for their proposed Manchester arena. Stating, coming soon.

 

[gingerprince]

Hope it doesnt fall into the same category as

North Stand Expansion... Coming soon..........

 

[Carver]

Great Idea...we could also sell paper cups filled to the brim with moulton bovril so as soon as you pick them up, squeezing the cup as gently as you can, the fucking thing overflows giving you 3rd degree burns to your hand..

You could enter the new stand through the aptly named 'Pete's emergency slush fund turnstile', that clicks every 15 bodies, as a homage to Swailsey (sure we regularly had 60K plus crowds at Maine Road that were recorded as 42759 in the football pink the same evening)..

Once in you are then searched for weapons, anybody found not to have any were immediately offered a selection of bats, bottles, darts and filed down 2 pence pieces before being allowed up the chipped and well worn concrete steps..

Once inside, the doors are locked shut and nobody is allowed out until the game's over no matter how shit the match is panning out..!

Upon being let out, police horses, alsatian dogs, burley policemen and 4000 away fans keep your adrenaline flowing all the way back into town..

Good old fashioned match day experience with not a selfie stick in site..

Oh and it's got to be 75p to get in..!

Before Pete’s turnstile you would go Through a ginnell signed ‘No. 2 Passageway’, to be known as ‘dog shit alley’ in popular culture.

 

[blueinsa]

If the club doesnt get a grip of the PL and PiGMOB and put a stop to the blatant cheating they might as well not bother building anything as no fucker will be going!

 

[Marvin]

If the club doesnt get a grip of the PL and PiGMOB and put a stop to the blatant cheating they might as well not bother building anything as no fucker will be going!

What do you do when someone cheats? Give up? That's not the City fans I know.