Old Maine Road photos thread

Mr Ed (The Stables) said:
I was an "Agent" in the late 1970's and sold tickets at work.

I can't even remember what they gave you for doing it. Sometimes I'd end up buying the cards myself, although they weren't scratch cards, but had a perforated edging which you peeled away to see what you'd won.

Anyone else sell these? A lifetime ago yikes.
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I was an "Agent" too! I can't remember if we got 5% or 10% of the sales. My Mum won £500 on the Bingo. The Scratchcards, you would get a free ticket for the Main Stand by selling so many cards.
 
Mr Ed (The Stables) said:
I was an "Agent" in the late 1970's and sold tickets at work.

I can't even remember what they gave you for doing it. Sometimes I'd end up buying the cards myself, although they weren't scratch cards, but had a perforated edging which you peeled away to see what you'd won.

Anyone else sell these? A lifetime ago yikes.
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my mate used to sell them
iirc the club gave him 20 on tick.

he got a small cut/percentage but bought loads off himself, haha

one of the things they gave you for doing it was access to prime tickets.
i'd been to every home game and plenty of aways in 1980-81.
all the f.a.cup matches,
but when it came to the semi i couldn't get a ticket
yet he did despite not having a season ticket.

i had to listen to it in b+w on the wireless
 
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Scaring Europe to Death said:
In a few months it will be the 20th anniversary of the last minute Robbie Fowler miss and City finishing the game with two goalkeepers on the pitch.

Not only does that me feel old, but I also wonder how many of us have now seen more home games at the ETIHAD than Maine Road?

Obviously the younger supporters, but I'm 60 and nowadays we seem to have 25+ home games every season, whereas at Maine Road we needed to get relegated to have anywhere near that.
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tregyblue61 said:
I was an "Agent" too! I can't remember if we got 5% or 10% of the sales. My Mum won £500 on the Bingo. The Scratchcards, you would get a free ticket for the Main Stand by selling so many cards.
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I was also an agent in the late 1960s. It was a weekly draw with the results published in the MEN. I would get a book of 22 tickets to sell but you only had to pay for 20. I also would get 10% of any prize money.

I was initially struggling to sell many tickets. My dad sold a few to his workmates at British Driver Harris on Bird Hall Lane. A couple of them had decent sized wins and after that everyone wanted tickets and I was shifting two or three books a week.
 
I used to flog them straight after the relegation in 1983. Thought I was going to make a difference for the club. I stopped after the 1985 Charlton game. People in the blind seats were laughing when the Swales/Halford attendance was released. You simply could not move on the Kippax that day, or anywhere else for that matter.
 
Citizen Green said:
Anyone remember a game where the new scoreboard in the Platt Lane was on the blink? Think we were losing at the time when suddenly 11 goals were added to our score
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they should do a replica scoreboard display of the old PL scoreboards on the big screen one day for a nostalgia drive. That’d be pretty cool.
 
JGL07 said:
I was also an agent in the late 1960s. It was a weekly draw with the results published in the MEN. I would get a book of 22 tickets to sell but you only had to pay for 20. I also would get 10% of any prize money.

I was initially struggling to sell many tickets. My dad sold a few to his workmates at British Driver Harris on Bird Hall Lane. A couple of them had decent sized wins and after that everyone wanted tickets and I was shifting two or three books a week.
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I think I remember that. Was it called Maine Road Development Association?
I definitely remember a half time game called "Scoreboard Scoop" where you had to match the half time predicted scores in your programme with those on the Scoreboard..Chances of winning must have been quite low I suppose !
 
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