last game at maine rd

East Level 2 said:
Anyone else at the youth team game four or five days later?
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Yep, i went to that too. In fact the only thing keeping me going through the horrible feelings of the "official last match" against So'ton was knowing i was at least coming back in for a final proper competitive city match a few days later. (annoys me it gets ignored actually!)

The so'ton match was just awful. I was depressed enough about leaving as it was.. but i found stewards were rushing the stragglers out (crying in my seat and being hounded out by 2 in the row was not great for me..), the whole "celebratory" atmosphere city tried to get going backfired too imo - when Ars and now west ham left their grounds they had a parade of legends AFTER the match, but not city, no we had it before the match! Leaving shitty tribute bands, and my happy himself badly drawn boy, and a bit from the doves afterwards. The emotional goodbyes of former players should've been afterwards. Anyway, as you may be able to tell, i just hated that day, been dreading it for years and there it was! :( Like i said, going to watch the youth team a few days later helped. And scottish mike on reception let me in in june and on the pitch for a while (there were no more games to be played on it as all the charity ones had done a few days before, so as there was nothing to save the pitch for i was allowed on), i ran from the centre spot kicking an imaginary ball to the north stand goal and scored a cracking imaginary goal ;) (I'm not mad, honest...)
 
Couldn't get to the game but did go to the u/18's final against Leeds a couple of days later with Micah & Nedum playing.

In typical fashion we lost, my last inside the ground memories are standing at the top of the main stand behind the wooden fence with a small tear in my eye looking around taking in the energy of events there which turned into me chuckling as I walked out as Leeds were being presented with a cup as Teenage Dirtbag was played over the tannoy.
 
It was shite because thats just how things were then, the media these days love a good old wankfest. Even Highbury getting knocked down didnt get anywhere near what west ham got
 
Remember twatty bollocks Stuart peace missing a penalty ended up in the railway Hollingwood till early hours of morning happy days
 
Indaparkside said:
Remember twatty bollocks Stuart peace missing a penalty
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That was the year before against Portsmouth. If I remember right, Dave Beasant was in goal and asked Pearce which way he was going so he could let it in (Psycho was on 99 career goals). Pearce then ran up and blasted it wide. Typical City!
 
Dubai Blue said:
That was the year before against Portsmouth. If I remember right, Dave Beasant was in goal and asked Pearce which way he was going so he could let it in (Psycho was on 99 career goals). Pearce then ran up and blasted it wide. Typical City!
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Typical thick Pearce.

He'd be thinking nobody is going to give him an easy route, I'll do it my own way.
 
Film of Maine Road's final game (actual crowd scenes, behind Kippax, on Kipoax Stand, former players etc.) will be shown at The Boys In Blue film show in a couple if weeks. Details http://thedancehouse.co.uk/events/2016/46-the-boys-in-blue. Over 180 tickets have been sold, so get yours while you can. Also included in the film show Maine Road's first game - amazing to see, the Kippax Last Stand 1994 (filmed on the terrace and shows what the Maine Rd atmosphere used to be like), colour film of City with ECWC that has never been publicly shown anywhere, and so much more!
 
Me and me mate turned up that day with no tickets, £100 each and bag of beers, couldn't buy any tickets so just hung around outside the kippax and north stand drinking beer and hiding in turnstiles when it pissed down, half time comes and were loitering round the north stand near one of the exit doors, I gave the doors a couple of kicks and hey presto some kind Blues unbolted the door, while this is happening about 4 or 5 coppers outside near us see us jibbing in and give chase, the next 10 minutes was like a scene from a benny hill film as were ducking and diving around the north stand hiding from the old bill, ended up just stood on a stairway watching the 2nd half and somehow managed to blag my way onto the pitch at full time near the tunnel when the players had just gone off, still got the Maine Road grass I pulled up that day in a snap bag. Then off to the rampant lion after the match for cocktails and vol-au-vents.
Happy days
 
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