Old Maine Road photos thread

[Stelea]

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Dennis Tueart of Manchester City in action against Middlesbrough during a League Cup Semi-final held at Maine Road, Manchester on 21st January 1976.View attachment 94598
Coventry away kit brown/yella

Think that was the Red away kit

 

[dennishasdoneit]

My old fella and his mate took me in there as a kid sat me on piano, fantastic place carried on going in with mates into the 80s great place. Remember winning match ball in Derby once trouble was we’d been stuffed 0-3 Dad chucked it on fire. :-)

Dad clearly did the right thing!

 

[Fat Chance]

Think that was the Red away kit

Think youre on it mate, colour coded collars..

 

[Fat Chance]

 

[Fat Chance]

 

[Fat Chance]

Lcup semi

 

[Fat Chance]

 

[old blue]

Strange looking at the photos of the scoreboard end, in my mind's eye it went a lot further back and steeper. I suppose because I was a regular when I was five or six my perspective was somewhat diminished.

 

[roman totale]

Strange looking at the photos of the scoreboard end, in my mind's eye it went a lot further back and steeper. I suppose because I was a regular when I was five or six my perspective was somewhat diminished.

I think it’s an optical illusion from that camera angle. It was plenty deep enough looking at it here.

 

[cyan]

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What a brilliant photograph - it's like some sort of modern ballet on a mudbath.

 

[spacecadet]

I have hundreds of Old City pictures that I would be happy to share. Some brilliant stuff on this thread, despite working in the industry, I had have never seen. Top thread.

 

[Stelea]

Think youre on it mate, colour coded collars..

Amazing how many colour variations they had that kit in
Blue
Brown
Yellow
Red……

 

[Gabriel]

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That would for sure have been used in the 'spot the ball' competition.

 

[percypawpaw]

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What's interesting in this picture if not already mentioned, you can see that they have started to remove the terracing of the scoreboard end next to the Kippax, and there is a crane behind Colin and Mikes head. I remember the North Stand being built it was an exciting time.

 

[J.G.Blue.]

What's interesting in this picture if not already mentioned, you can see that they have started to remove the terracing of the scoreboard end next to the Kippax, and there is a crane behind Colin and Mikes head. I remember the North Stand being built it was an exciting time.

A couple of years after I started going as a kid, we used to sit in the Platt Lane but dad promised us season tickets in the new North Stand when it was built, as you say exciting times :-),
Dont know if I imagined it but I think the new North Stand was standing for a season before they put the seats in?

 

[xgorton]

A couple of years after I started going as a kid, we used to sit in the Platt Lane but dad promised us season tickets in the new North Stand when it was built, as you say exciting times :-),
Dont know if I imagined it but I think the new North Stand was standing for a season before they put the seats in?

Yes 71/72 season 3-3 v rags the last 63,000 crowd at Maine road,then the seats went in the North Stand following season and capacity down to 54,000.

 

[spinney]

A couple of years after I started going as a kid, we used to sit in the Platt Lane but dad promised us season tickets in the new North Stand when it was built, as you say exciting times :-),
Dont know if I imagined it but I think the new North Stand was standing for a season before they put the seats in?

Yes it was

A couple of years after I started going as a kid, we used to sit in the Platt Lane but dad promised us season tickets in the new North Stand when it was built, as you say exciting times :-),
Dont know if I imagined it but I think the new North Stand was standing for a season before they put the seats in?

 

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[El Gringo]

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Belting - just what i was after - cheers bud