Maine Road redevelopment

[J.G.Blue.]

Imagine high end tourists trying the kippax bogs experiences after dodging horseshit outside to get in

Bit like a weird theme park,
Try to park your car & avoid paying the "mind yer car mister" scrotes,
Try & walk down the dark alley without stepping in the dog shit,
Try eating the greasy hot dog & extra fag ends without getting the shits,
Try to avoid laughing at the old bloke holding up "the end is nigh" sign,
Try & get in the ground without having the right change,
Try not to stand behind the biggest bloke youve ever seen on the kippax,
Try to work out why the crowd is given as 28,000 when the place is packed out,
Try to work out how swales ever became chairman!
Thing is I still loved the place & really miss it, happy days.

 

[cashmereundies]

When watching games again from the 70's on Big Match Revisited, Maine Road doesn't actually look too bad compared to most other top flight stadia of that era. Chelsea fans conveniently forget that their ground was an absolute shithole then with average attendances of just over 20k by the end of that decade and into the eighties. Our problem was that Swales had champagne ambitions for Maine Road but beer funding. Consequently, we ended up with a patchwork quilt of a stadium with none of the stands matching. If I remember correctly, the steelwork went in under the main stand roof in readiness for executive boxes at one point only for the money to run out! For all its faults, we still loved it of course.

If I remember right they built the roof without getting planning permission for the boxes or permission was refused because of health and safety concerns.

 

[ancoats]

You wrote that we were one of the first clubs to have undersoil heating at Maine Road.

No one else has a ground called that, so we will have been the only club to have undersoil heating at a ground called Maine Road.

;-)

hahahahaha

your right hahahahahah

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Anyone ever think of what might of been?

I don’t recall ever seeing those plans before. Great post!

I remember seeing these before…




And this one…

 

[Deleted member 77198]

also manchester city was one of the first clubs at maine road to have undersoil heating

 

[xgorton]

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Stood over that tunnel for my first ever game,1962 60 years ago this April.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

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That’s OVERsoil heating…a precursor! ;-)

 

[GrumpyLegacyFan]

I don't care that it had four mismatched stands - a shop in a portacabin, and was so shit that I remember going away to Luton and seeing their executive boxes, and thinking - wow - one day we might have a ground like this. It was home, and on Derby day the main stand would vibrate with boos when they read out the Unit++ed team, Helen would ring her bell, and the Kippax would surge left to right all game long. It was a very very special place, and I lived in Newlyn Street, just off he Kippax, and would be home to check the scores on TeleText even before the players were back in the tunnel. Wonderful days.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Just be glad you were there…

 

[rickmcfc]

I’m 34, and My first memory of football was stood in the north stand, on a police box. My dad would take me to the game, and stand me with two policemen so I could see the game. Absolutely loved every minute of it and the little that I can remember.