mancunial said:
the curse was never lifted, a guy called romark turned up to lift the curse, but swales said he cost too much much to allisons dismay? so the curse remains,the actual curse was that nothing shall ever come to the team that plays at this ground,
The alleged curse was allegedly lifted in December 1998. Descendents of the family who were alleged to have placed a curse on the ground came to Maine Road and performed various actions, involving blue-painted horse shoes. Those horse shoes had to be left at the ground on match day.
The full story is on page 44-45 of "Farewell To Maine Road" (ISBN 1899538194), including photos of the horseshoes and the story of the original curse.
The alleged curse was rarely mentioned when City were doing well, but it was once explained to me that the curse still applied - had City not been cursed (allegedly!) then the late 60s would have brought more success and not been cut short when it was.
Personally, I am always sceptical about these things, but get hold of a copy of Farewell To Maine Road from the library and have a read. It's an interesting story, especially the part about it being lifted.