First game....

1978 - a 1-1 draw with Derby County. Next door neighbour took me as my parents had no interest in football. He parked up near the ground having given 50p to some of the local kids to mind the car (anyone on here owning up to that scam?) and we walked the erst of the way. I remember how big and noisy it seemed (I lived out in a quiet village at the time) and I missed our goal as everyone stood up in unison and, being a 10 year old shortarse at the time, I couldn't see! Fortunately I've seen a fair few since.
 
I think it was Reading in the cup around 92/93. I must have been four at the time.

Vague recollections of my Dad holding me up to the Kippax railings so I could see...
 
Blu3m00n91 said:
What was it like on the kippax back in the day? I wish I could travel back in time and experience city matches in the 60/70/80’s
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It was bloody horrible unless you were over six foot tall. The sight lines were very poor and the toilets were bad.

The best atmosphere for me was in the North Stand before they put the seats in. I think it was only standing for one season.
 
JGL07 said:
It was bloody horrible unless you were over six foot tall. The sight lines were very poor and the toilets were bad.

The best atmosphere for me was in the North Stand before they put the seats in. I think it was only standing for one season.
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Does anyone have any footage of the North stand with fans stood up in it , hopefully when a goal goes in, never seen any not even a photo ?
Someone must have something !
 
Stiff Little Wingers said:
Didn't know there was a "South Stand" at MR. That was the Platt Lane
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Yeah, i think they 'cocked up' with saying it was the South Stand ..... it did go through a short period of being known as the 'Umbro Stand' though apparently!, and i can recall sitting in there for a while whist the new Kippax Stand was built.
That would have been around the time that Brian Horton was here.


Regeneration​


By 1990, some areas of the ground looked antiquated, and the Platt Lane stand was demolished in 1992. Its place was taken by the all-seater Umbro Stand that also incorporated executive boxes, and was opened in March 1993. The stand was renamed back to the Platt Lane Stand in the late 1990s.
 
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Gremlin said:
1978 - a 1-1 draw with Derby County. Next door neighbour took me as my parents had no interest in football. He parked up near the ground having given 50p to some of the local kids to mind the car (anyone on here owning up to that scam?) and we walked the erst of the way. I remember how big and noisy it seemed (I lived out in a quiet village at the time) and I missed our goal as everyone stood up in unison and, being a 10 year old shortarse at the time, I couldn't see! Fortunately I've seen a fair few since.
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Yeah I was a mind your car scally , I actually used the money to pay into the game though . When I met Bert trautman in town when he was signing his book he was asking everybody one by one where they were from , when I eventually got to speak to him he asked & I told him I was from Rusholme & used to mind the cars for money which made him laugh , I said I used to go under or over the turnstiles to watch City when I was younger , he recounted that as a small child he used to do the same to watch Werder Bremen before the war . A lovely man & yes .. he had hands like shovels , he signed my book & died not too long after .
 
nickmcfc1 said:
I think I only saw one goal in that game cos the Kippax was that full it was hard to see as a 14 year old. I do recall being literally carried off my feet on the way out of the ground down the steps until I got to the concourse
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Yep, that humdinger of a match against Charlton was quite some game , and turned out to be quite some day!

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Leeds at Maine Road November 1977. We got beat 3-2 but i was addicted as soon as i got to the top of the steps,
entered the Kippax and saw that massive green pitch through the sea of thousands of people.
Sat on the wall at the front of the kippax and watched my idols in the flesh. Can still smell the heady mix of beer, tobacco and burger vans. The floodlights towers looked massive to me as i looked around the stadium in awe.
Born that moment was another life long blue
 
radcliffe1309 said:
Does anyone have any footage of the North stand with fans stood up in it , hopefully when a goal goes in, never seen any not even a photo ?
Someone must have something !
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On YouTube November 71/72 season City 3 Rags 3,I was stood in the North stand that day the last 63,000 crowd at Maine rd seats put in following season,capacity then 54,000.
 
xgorton said:
On YouTube November 71/72 season City 3 Rags 3,I was stood in the North stand that day the last 63,000 crowd at Maine rd seats put in following season,capacity then 54,000.
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Cheers mate.....seems to be full of rags in that particular game, I was hoping to see something different ..oh well
 
lancs blue said:
A few more from that season.




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Brilliant thanks, cant help wondering what it would be like to return to standing on the terraces especially behind our North stand goal, I really think it would make a big difference to the atmosphere to the Etihad and fans attitude to attending matches etc
 
Early 70's aged 7 or 8, home to WHU (I think), lost (of course) 3-1, seem to remember us conceding from a corner but the rest is a dim and distant memory

first night match, same season but I can't recall any details other than being completely mesmerised by the ground as I emerged from the bowels of the Kippax into the floodlit arena, an image that's stuck with me. Thanks Dad, RIP
 
My first ever live game was actually at the swamp in Jan 74. My dad wasn't really in to football but took us to the local team playing at home that week (rags). 1 -1 draw and a crap game. Couple of weeks later took us to City vs Derby sat on the benches in the platt lane. Won 1 nil but much better game....hooked ever since!
 
March 99 I think. Lost 2-1 at home to Oldham. Thankfully I'd followed city for a few years by then because I'd have definitely binned them off after watching that.

Dad drove me and my brother up from Eastbourne and we stayed the night at my uncles in Hyde. Got the train in to town and walked to maine Road. We were by no means well off but fuck me walking through moss side was an eye opener. Think we went 2-0 down only for gareth Taylor to miss from the spot in 2nd half. Either horlock or pollock got the consolation goal. To top it off a bloke jumped out of the main stand and streaked accross the pitch.

On the bright side that was the game that turned my younger brother from a rag to one of gods own. Terrible game, good times
 
goatboy said:
March 99 I think. Lost 2-1 at home to Oldham. Thankfully I'd followed city for a few years by then because I'd have definitely binned them off after watching that.

Dad drove me and my brother up from Eastbourne and we stayed the night at my uncles in Hyde. Got the train in to town and walked to maine Road. We were by no means well off but fuck me walking through moss side was an eye opener. Think we went 2-0 down only for gareth Taylor to miss from the spot in 2nd half. Either horlock or pollock got the consolation goal. To top it off a bloke jumped out of the main stand and streaked accross the pitch.

On the bright side that was the game that turned my younger brother from a rag to one of gods own. Terrible game, good times
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remember that streaker,goalie was about to take goal kick in North stand end,he pushed him out of the way...twatted the ball in the net then ran like fuck the full length of the pitch pmsl
 
goatboy said:
March 99 I think. Lost 2-1 at home to Oldham. Thankfully I'd followed city for a few years by then because I'd have definitely binned them off after watching that.

Dad drove me and my brother up from Eastbourne and we stayed the night at my uncles in Hyde. Got the train in to town and walked to maine Road. We were by no means well off but fuck me walking through moss side was an eye opener. Think we went 2-0 down only for gareth Taylor to miss from the spot in 2nd half. Either horlock or pollock got the consolation goal. To top it off a bloke jumped out of the main stand and streaked accross the pitch.

On the bright side that was the game that turned my younger brother from a rag to one of gods own. Terrible game, good times
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That was the game when automatic promotion from the second division became basically impossible and we knew it was the playoffs. We were on a long unbeaten run before it.
 
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