Old Maine Road photos thread

Psychedelic Casual said:
United used to be obsessed with all that stuff, and when I say obsessed I do truly mean fucking obsessed with it, far and away more than we ever have been with them.

Has any set of fans anywhere been as obsessed with their rivals to make up a song about them this long?
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Can you remember the second verse for us?
 
audenshaw blue said:
It went from the back of of the Kippax round the back of the platt lane stand , it was the back passage of the houses on Thornton road.
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Spent many a cold snowy/wet few hours shuffling along there in ticket queues to watch us lose at some outpost.

Wouldn't change it for the world, these days it's all online and nothing like the same buzz getting tickets.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
United used to be obsessed with all that stuff, and when I say obsessed I do truly mean fucking obsessed with it, far and away more than we ever have been with them.

Has any set of fans anywhere been as obsessed with their rivals to make up a song about them this long?
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They do love a lie , the north stand got run in its finest hour, now call me bitter but I’m sure the 100s of cowards that clambered out were reds .. but don’t let the truth get in the way of a good lie .
 
Does anyone know if there’s any suggestion or even hard evidence that United playing at Maine Road from 1946-49 massively helped their post war rise, because they were discernibly better than City when they played there. They finished second in the First Division, three years on the spin.

Before WW2 we were definitely top dogs. And by the late ‘50s I’d say they were. Obviously Munich played a big part in that, but I wonder how much it benefitted them playing at Maine Road when they were the better team.

I reckon quite a bit.

I reckon there was a fair bit of drift when they went back to Old Trafford.
 
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gordondaviesmoustache said:
Does anyone know if there’s any suggestion or even hard evidence that United playing at Maine Road from 1946-49 massively helped their post war rise, because they were discernibly better than City when they played there. They finished second in the First Division, three years on the spin.

Before WW2 we were definitely top dogs. And by the late ‘50s I’d say they were. Obviously Munich played a big part in that, but I wonder how much it benefitted them playing at Maine Road when they were the better team.

I reckon quite a bit.

I reckon there was a fair bit of drift when they went back to Old Trafford.
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From what I understand and have read you reckon correct.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
United used to be obsessed with all that stuff, and when I say obsessed I do truly mean fucking obsessed with it, far and away more than we ever have been with them.

Has any set of fans anywhere been as obsessed with their rivals to make up a song about them this long?
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Your either on a wind up or just weird.
Why would you either care what those sad cunts sing about lickle old citeh or have any clue what the sad cunts sing about us..I might be wrong .
But strange behavior.
If your a blue I apologize..if ur a rag..fuck off .4 in a row we all know you'll never do that
 
Some of the best days I've had in my life were at Maine Rd.
For me and my mates coming from Buxton and going to Maine Rd .
We were accepted
We were lads from a little town but the lads made a fuss.
We came from Buxton to Maine Rd.
I met girls and lads at about 15 maybe a bit younger.
But I met a group of people on the kippax.
And we have been mates since then 30 years ago.
I went to the spurs game and met a lad I've not seen since I was 17..he doesn't even know my name just calls me Buxton..but we have a connection.me him all his mates.
That couldn't happen now.
Unfortunately
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Does anyone know if there’s any suggestion or even hard evidence that United playing at Maine Road from 1946-49 massively helped their post war rise, because they were discernibly better then City when they played there. They finished second in the First Division, three years on the spin.

Before WW2 we were definitely top dogs. And by the late ‘50s I’d say they were. Obviously Munich played a big part in that, but I wonder how much it benefitted them playing at Maine Road when they were the better team.
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It didn't help that City went down in 1938 and didn't really establish themselves in the First Division until the early 1950s. City were certainly second best in the post war era until around 1968-69.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Does anyone know if there’s any suggestion or even hard evidence that United playing at Maine Road from 1946-49 massively helped their post war rise, because they were discernibly better than City when they played there. They finished second in the First Division, three years on the spin.

Before WW2 we were definitely top dogs. And by the late ‘50s I’d say they were. Obviously Munich played a big part in that, but I wonder how much it benefitted them playing at Maine Road when they were the better team.

I reckon quite a bit.

I reckon there was a fair bit of drift when they went back to Old Trafford.
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If they were better or worse .. before or after..one thing we can be proud of..is our club helped them..they shit on us..with that banner..they are and always will be cunts..but that banner was beyond been arrogant..that really was unbelievable..when I was 6 my best mate got a Liverpool shirt for his birthday.
When I told my dad.
He said u can have a Liverpool shirt if you want but I'll never take u to football.
His best mate was a Wednesday ticket holder..he told me if u want to go to Wednesday Dave will take you.

If you want to be like a lot of your mates and support u,it¥d you can live at grans house .if you want to come to city I'll take u.
For the 1st 20 years me and my mate used to say why the fuck have you made us come here
But about I remember playing Barnsley in the fa cup the game before spurs in quarter final.
I was next to the tunnel and remember looking across the kippax.
That was the first time I thought fuck me this place .this thing is absolutely unbelievable.
Problem is Young lads..and girls .
Don't have that now..they will never be amazed by the kippax
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Does anyone know if there’s any suggestion or even hard evidence that United playing at Maine Road from 1946-49 massively helped their post war rise, because they were discernibly better than City when they played there. They finished second in the First Division, three years on the spin.

Before WW2 we were definitely top dogs. And by the late ‘50s I’d say they were. Obviously Munich played a big part in that, but I wonder how much it benefitted them playing at Maine Road when they were the better team.

I reckon quite a bit.

I reckon there was a fair bit of drift when they went back to Old Trafford.
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The average attendances were virtually identical in the 54-55 season and that was a few years after United had returned to Old Trafford.

However, it's always about the next generation and United's emergence had coincided with a huge post war reset amongst football supporters and most of this would probably still have happened, even if City had not been relegated in 37-38.

Amazingly, If you were born in the mid 40s, then before your 30th birthday you might have witnessed Duncan Edwards and the Busby Babes, plus Charlton, Law, and Best, and then United being relegated just six years after all of the emotion of winning the European Cup.

The problem for City was that even when we overtook United on the pitch in the late 60s and early 70s we just couldn't compete with the sheer volume of mass hysteria that followed George Best and then Tommy Docherty all over the country.

The problem for United is that this particular generation are now either dead or 75+ and totally irrelevant.
 
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tolmie's hairdoo said:
That's my childhood street. My house is on, opposite side to the pram, the car parked in front of the lamppost and in front of the white car. White door.

20 Wykeham Street.

Thanks for posting.
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I loved Maine Road but I'm struggling to recall a single new stand or ground renovation at any other stadium that was worse than the way the original Main Stand exterior was bastardised

In fact the only other cock-up that came anywhere close was the new Platt Lane.
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
I loved Maine Road but I'm struggling to recall a single new stand or ground renovation at any other stadium that was worse than the way the original Main Stand exterior was bastardised

In fact the only other cock-up that came anywhere close was the new Platt Lane.
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for a kid like me it was magical , then every 'improvement' made it worserer , seats in the north stand, the new platt lane, the new kippax..... all worse than wot they replaced
 
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