Maine Road redevelopment

[Zapcity]

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!)

Play off rather than play!
Mind you if it was a play in those days it was very much a shitty local pantomime rather than classic Shakespeare.
Not that I'm particularly keen on either tbh!

 

[threespires]

Wembley of the North
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As a child my heart would always thump with excitement when the ground just 'emerged' from the surrounding houses.

It did it as an adult too but by then it was more often fear and trepidation about what we might witness :-)

 

[ancoats]

He caught you ;-)

hook line and sinker matey hahahaha

 

[crazyg]

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

I preferred the Citroen version myself. Had 2 of them.

 

[threespires]

The absence of the omnipresent Mancunian leaden grey skies, accompanied by that cold rain, would take away from the authenticity of the "experience".

Not a problem...

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I will however concede that it would be a 'niche' experience that's got one, maybe two, generations of target audience.

 

[brightwelleyes]

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

From memory Franny certainly used to like to tell people that he'd inherited the plans, and that's why the new Kippax came out hugely expensive but lacking modern facilities eg not as much corporate as he'd have liked.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Whenever I think Maine Road I don't think of that fuckin' awful 'Subbuteo' like rebuilt Platt Lane stand and new Kippax, i think of how it was before then.

 

[Lavinda Past]

If we were still at Maine Road we would have probably been yo yoing between the leagues.

And most of us would still be going every week.

 

[LongsightM13]

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.

Most of the pubs went when City left tbf

 

[eastmanc]

And most of us would still be going every week.

That is very true. The 98/99 season proved that right. It was almost like siege mentality, a sort of we’ll show you what supporting your club is all about. That’s why we are great fans and deserve the success we are getting now.