Class that was at them games, remember Wimbledon game first game of season and while the match was on a mob of Chelsea turned up as they had an earlier kick off at Highbury. Good old days.
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It was a red hot day aswell
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I hated the new Kippax and Platt Lane stands. I still miss Maine Road though.
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absolutely.......New kippax and Umbro stands were shyte.
Getting rid of the old Kippax made matchday die for me.
(Them bogs though! FFS Can still smell them)
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Piece of piss wading through the piss wearing 14 eyehole Docs, mate; )
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Funny, because despite attending all three games that's the first time I've ever seen those Fulham goals at Craven Cottage.
In fact, I missed all of Fulham's 4 goals in the First Half, after spending around 30 minutes puking-up in the toilets of the Ernie Clay Stand.
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Manchester City v Fenerbahce, 1st Leg European Cup match at Maine Road, September 1968.
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Manchester City versus Leeds United. A jubilant Charlton and a dejected Booth after the ball had gone into the net from a deflected shot and beaten Mulhearn for Leeds' first goal. November 1969.
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23 at the time . All i can remember about that Wimbledon game is that it was sweltering hot day . Sat on a pavement outside drinking cans of beer before the game . The rest is a blur . Carn`t even remember how i even got there .
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City v Burnley August 1970
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They would never release these blocks so made it so much worse.
Swales was asked at the time why it wasn't joined up, his answer was we could either join them up or buy asa Hartford
We got Hartford
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I sat in there for my first derby, 50 years ago today. Only disappointment was Sir Michael of Doyle didn't decapitate little twat Macari while they were still on the pitch.
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Yeah quite a few Chelsea boys turned up and we could see them outside the ground while it was going on.
They fucked off pretty quickly because after the game we didn't see any of them..
The good old days eh..
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Was at that game it was v Leicester 67/68 season won 6-0 they were in the old scoreboard end.
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Wow! That picture takes me back. As a kid I played football for Openshaw Lads Club / Crossley House. We won the league one year. It was arranged for Stan Ogden, Getty Booth and Len Fairclough to come to the club and present the medals to the team. They eventually turned up two hours late and all absolutely bladdered. They made right arseholes of themselves then fucked off after about 15 minutes. As they say: you should never meet your heroes…
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Well he was a window cleaner!
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I am no so much sure that it was lack of thought, but rather changing plans for what the stadium should be developed and look like.
When the North Stand was built, most assumed that would be the pattern for the full development of the stadium. Then a year later seats were installed.
In the end the Main Stand was retained with a new roof rather than rebuilt following the North Stand style. It was 20 years before the Platt Lane Stand was replaced following the new fashion of smaller stands with fewer seats and more executive boxes.
The final insult was the horrendous new Kippax. It was massive but had very few seats and loads of boxes. The stadium went from 63,000 capacity to just over 30,000 in the process. It was conceived during the Swales era but built after his departure.
Not only was the ground small (even after squeezing the Gene
Kelly seats in, it only accommodated around 35,000) but it was a total visual mess.
Had Maine Road not been so comprehensively destroyed, moving to Eastlands would have been a very had sell.