Maine Road redevelopment

[ysmsa]

am not 100% on that ? i thought it was everton was the first club to install it ?

just checked it was everton back in 1958 hahahhahaha

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just checked it was everton back in 1958 hahahhahaha

He caught you ;-)

 

[ysmsa]

The Sheikh could build a replica full-size Maine Road in AbuDhabi and use it for exhibition games and pre-season warm weather training. Could become a tourist attraction in itself.

Ha ha, that's like asking Tesla to build a Sinclair C5

 

[ysmsa]

You know what, I reckon getting to a 50k+ Maine Road in Moss Side nowadays would be a complete friggin nightmare.

Buses only and probably 3 times more traffic in the area than 20 odd years ago.

 

[RadcliffeRick]

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.

So they used to leave at 75 minutes even then?? :-)

 

[Bluesince1979]

Great post.
I remember seeing those initial plans that would match up the north stand/platt lane, main stand/kippax.

so it asks the question… when swalesy did eventually redevelop the platt lane and kippax, why were they completely different to each stand and to those plans?

he really was a wally wasnt he

 

[peter.evans]

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

I remember seeing these before…

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And this one…
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That was one of the classic articles in the programme and ranks alongside Swales' opening day of the season article with the headline " priority this season is not a trophy "!

 

[west didsblue]

The new stadium in the old location would have been perfect, great pubs, curries, kebabs, there’s fuck all around Eastlands

Most of the pubs have shut down and the curry mile is now a shisha bar mile. It’s not just City that have moved on.

 

[Sky Blue Thinking]

Great post.
I remember seeing those initial plans that would match up the north stand/platt lane, main stand/kippax.

so it asks the question… when swalesy did eventually redevelop the platt lane and kippax, why were they completely different to each stand and to those plans?

he really was a wally wasnt he

Think we were lucky he didnt get to oversee the Kippax redevelopment whe we had to go all seater. There were rumours of seats being bolted on to the existing terracing, would have been awful leg room and views from the back/behind the pillars.

 

[Bluesince1979]

Think we were lucky he didnt get to oversee the Kippax redevelopment whe we had to go all seater. There were rumours of seats being bolted on to the existing terracing, would have been awful leg room and views from the back/behind the pillars.

Ill totally stand corrected but wasnt the kippax rebuild already in process (in planning form) before franny arrived ?

 

[Zapcity]

hahaha yep

funny story was when i was younger we would jump into the platt lane end about 15 minutes from the end
the kippax alley one of my mates (ducky) fell and landed in a pile of horse shit head first hahahahahaah

On the pitch after the Wigan play semi final saw this guy I know who had obviously had a lot of pre match/ half time refreshments. He was just about to pick up a 'lump of hallowed Maine Road turf 'when I had to explain to him it had just recently deposited by a Police horse!!!
That was a proper pitch invasion btw, not one to grab a players shirt to sell on e bay!
Used to see that bloke around a fair bit in those days, really nice guy called Paul(?) from Nottingham training to be a Solicitor I seem to remember! (Obviously his law degree didn't tell him how to tell the difference between horse shit and grass though!)