The Kippax

I was a steward in the Kippax late eighties, tunnel by the Northstand. My job was to stop people bringing their drinks into the stand. I could stop someone with 4 pints and ten minutes later he's in the stand with 4 pints after drinking the other 4 pints I told him not to bring in. Don't know how they did it, like fuckin magicians
 
J.G.Blue. said:
My nan & grandad used to tell me it wasnt called the Kippax years ago, cant remember but was it called the popular side or something?
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Don't know how it came about but about 1960 my dad and his generation called it the Popular Side and my mates and l called it the Kippax Stand even though we went together and stood together inside.
 
Bonzo Nododo said:
Don't know how it came about but about 1960 my dad and his generation called it the Popular Side and my mates and l called it the Kippax Stand even though we went together and stood together inside.
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I always knew it as the Kippax Side and I started going in '71
 
Think I've mentioned this before (but cba going back through my posts), but in the late 80s I was in the brewery tap of Charlie Wells' brewery in Bedford, when a Question of Sport came on the TV. The question was "where would you be if you were at this location?", and one of the places was "The Kippax". Nobody knew the answer, so I said that I knew it and brought out my season ticket match book as proof. Unsurprisingly, a few rag "fans" were in there, but none had any idea.
 
What was the name of the small Wilsons pub that was to the left of the school behind the Kippax, heading towards Wilmslow road? It was on the corner of a back street. Been bugging me a while now. Was always ok to get a late pint in as it didn't seem to get too busy.
 
So many memories of standing on the Kippax, good and bad but for noise and sheer emotion nothing beats the return of The King on Boxing day against Newcastle.
 
Kippax..what a great name..I know it was named after the street, but any idea why the street was called Kippax Street ??? After leaving Manchester for Leeds as a teen,, there was a place called Kippax in Leeds.Maybe some link with the cotton trade ??

"The name Kippax is of Anglo-Saxon origin and is first attested as Chipesch in the Domesday Book of 1086, and as "Kippeys" in charters from the 1090s to the 1270s, and Kypask and Kypax from the 13th century onwards."

Would love to see a new standing area called the Kippax at The Etihad. I appreciate that people wish stands to be named after recent greats, but for me resurrecting the Kippax name would mean so much.
Boxing Day, always The King day for me..was lucky to be there..didn't know he would appear, but boy, the noise,the love, was immense.
 
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