30th April 1994 - The Kippax's Last Stand

[blue44]

I was in the open bit in the Kippax / Platt Lane corner so don't recall hearing that

it definately happened

 

[Zapcity]

The toilets on the back wall of The Kippax were something else for sure!
Certainly necked a few pints of beer over the years to 'numb the pain' of what was often happening on the pitch, but tended to avoid the other 'catering' outlets.
My only memory of eating any actual 'food' was when I found a bit of plastic cutlery when eating some kind of delicious 'turd burger' at Half time during one match.
As I'd had copious amounts of booze prior to the game and we were 3:0 up against the Rags ,looking back I don't remember it bothering me that much. To be honest I soon forgot about it as we went on to batter the twats 5:1.!

 

[der bomber28]

Absolutely adored the Kippax, spent all my formative years there. Loved the fact that when I started going on my own, I could travel down on my own, and there would be at least six of my mates in “our spot”.

 

[kippaxkid74]

I was there... i cried. And if you'dve told me that only 9 years later we'd say bye to all of Maine Road i'd never have believed you.

Cracking picture of me and my mum and sister stood on the kippax corner as leaving - my sister with a scowl, me with a resigned half smile, and mum with Brian May perm.

We always stood first barrier - where new Kippax BBL and East stand 102 is now.

 

[Abattoir Blue]

First ever game I went to on my own, at 14. My dad couldn't get his shift swapped at work. Can still vividly remember butterflies walking down Dicky Rd, Claremont Rd on my own for the first time.

Memories of the game

1. Steel drum band playing City songs. Songsheets with the programme. Some words changed to pro Frannie Lee propaganda.

2. Started awfully

3. Uwe well up for it, got the whole team going

4. People managed to bring hammers and chisels into the ground and chipped away at the stand openly and without challenge.

Stood there after the game/lap of honour trying to take it all. Felt like an hour, probably only 5 mins.

A little part of City died for me that day.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I've dug out this picture from the day.
Me with my eldest, aged 2 years and 3 months, and in a sling on my chest is my youngest aged 11 weeks.
I took her out of the sling and placed her tiny legs on the terrace floor - both my girls being 4th generation Blues to stand on The Kippax

 

[tony adcock]

Supporting City was never the same after that day….. yes I continued in north stand whilst the new kippax got built and then tried to enjoy it as much in there …..and subsequently @ the Etihad

But honestly nothing has really ever replicated standing in the Kippax …..

And probably never will

 

[He’stheleftbackremember]

Niall Quinn’s debut was a night match, I think it was against Chelsea, he equalised quite close to the end with a header, I think from a David White cross, I remember the noise of the Kippax that moment to this day, unbelievable!

 

[1964]

Never been the same club since.

There’s still something missing at the club despite how good we are as a club these days, and it’s a proper vocal stand that we all want to be part of and proud of.

My Uncle stopped going to games after the Kippax was torn down. He went to a few in the years after but said it wasn’t the same and just stopped going.

 

[west didsblue]

Never been the same club since.

There’s still something missing at the club despite how good we are as a club these days, and it’s a proper vocal stand that we all want to be part of and proud of.

My Uncle stopped going to games after the Kippax was torn down. He went to a few in the years after but said it wasn’t the same and just stopped going.

If Maine Road was rebuilt as it was in 1994 and we went back there, most people would want to go back to the Etihad after one game especially now we’ve got the safe standing and even more so when the extended North Stand is built.
Rose tinted spectacles.

 

[its a Barm]

I loved that place so many great memories

 

[Deleted member 77198]

If Maine Road was rebuilt as it was in 1994 and we went back there, most people would want to go back to the Etihad after one game especially now we’ve got the safe standing and even more so when the extended North Stand is built.
Rose tinted spectacles.

I’m not saying 1994 Maine Road is better than 2023 Etihad, I’m saying that despite us being a brilliant club and brilliant team at the moment there’s still something that feels like is missing from our club… and that’s a proper vocal stand.

Hopefully we get the new North Stand right and put the finishing touches to everything this club has been starved of over the decades.

 

[Norbert D]

Niall Quinn’s debut was a night match, I think it was against Chelsea, he equalised quite close to the end with a header, I think from a David White cross, I remember the noise of the Kippax that moment to this day, unbelievable!

Yeah it was 1-1, the floodlight in the corner of the Kippax next to the Platt Lane failed part way through so the game was played out in a sort of weird twilight.

 

[horlock_was_super]

It was fucking shite.
It was our fucking shite though.
Loved it, miss it, want it back? Nah.
Too old to stand up that long these days.
First started off in 1975 sitting in the North Stand and from then until 1978 all I wanted to do was go in The Kippax - 1978 until I finally convinced my Mam that not only was it cheaper but, I would come to no harm. From then on from Ordsall to Maine Road every other Saturday with the few Blues I knew from bandit country. Never stopped getting up to all sorts too.

 

[JULES]

I took a mate in the kippax, a cov fan, and he said the atmosphere was incredible , took a couple of birmingham fans in there , (think it was the game lake swallowed his tongue) they were well impressed, I think all fans thought the kippax was one of the best "ends" in football

 

[Bluesince1979]

That last game v saints. I mourned as much as anyone, but as i walked away i never looked back. Maine road was a part of my life from 79 onwards, but i knew, as i walked away that last game, that it was time to move on

 

[Bluesince1979]

I took a mate in the kippax, a cov fan, and he said the atmosphere was incredible , took a couple of birmingham fans in there , (think it was the game lake swallowed his tongue) they were well impressed, I think all fans thought the kippax was one of the best "ends" in football

Leicester when lakey swallowed his tongue

 

[horlock_was_super]

That last game v saints. I mourned as much as anyone, but as i walked away i never looked back. Maine road was a part of my life from 79 onwards, but i knew, as i walked away that last game, that it was time to move on

I did take a last look back after the Soton game. It wasn’t the Kippax, for that matter it wasn’t the Platt Lane. Went in The Sherwood and Stop Crying your Heart Out was playing on the jukebox. Summed it all up really for me and still go back to that moment whenever I hear it.

 

[Stephen230]

First time I’ve ever heard that the Kippax wasn’t the original name.

So originally the four stands were: Main, Popular, Scoreboard and Platt Lane? Seems an odd mish mash of ideas.

And has anyone ever explained how the Platt Lane Stand came about?

 

[pride in battle]

Never been the same club since.

There’s still something missing at the club despite how good we are as a club these days, and it’s a proper vocal stand that we all want to be part of and proud of.

My Uncle stopped going to games after the Kippax was torn down. He went to a few in the years after but said it wasn’t the same and just stopped going.

Talking shit again...