Maine Road today

[Dubai Blue]

I agree. In the final years Maine Road was a joke.

A right mish-mash. The architect who designed the "new" Kippax should have been shot.

thats my design tec teacher

Probably best you consider a different career then pal.

 

[leewill31]

Am I the only one who couldn't wait to leave Maine Road and was delighted when we finally went? It holds wonderful memories for me, and I loved the place when I was a kid: it was a wonderfully atmospheric ground, but also a pretty impressive stadium even relative to other top grounds of the time.

The shambolic redevelopment of the ground in the 1980s and 1990s completely wrecked it for me, and it lost so much of what had made it a special place. It looked awful, and while the atmosphere could be great even in the last few years, people really look back on that with rose tinted glasses. It was good when we were winning but terrible when we weren't - which was quite a lot of the time in the years coming up to our departure.

The way it was allowed to transform from one of the best grounds in the land to what it became was simply disgraceful. But that simply mirrored the way the club was run as a whole. Giving up on it and starting again was definitely the right thing to do, in my view.

No, i feel excatly the same. If we were still there now we probably would still be flirting between the premier league and championship and we most certainly wouldn't have the sheik as our owner.

great memorys but i all so agree by the time we left Maine road was a bloody right shit hole!

 

[cant spell-dont care]

Lernt to do 'left reverses' on that corner :)

 

[CITY FOR LIFE]

Just sat down with a beer and put on A Celebration of Maine Road DVD.
This will cheer me up, my lad said it was agreat double dvd, anyone else watched it.

 

[dandeman2008]

If I remember rightly, I used to have a collection of old city magazines and theres one from the early 90's before we had built the Kippax, by the pictures from that magazine, the whole ground was to be the same height as the Kippax, and in a circle, however we didnt have the money in the end.

Typical City!

 

[CITY FOR LIFE]

I know I am going to love it, first lines, here is a story of one of the Worlds greatest clubs and some of the world most loyal fans,that will do it for me.

 

[Challenger1978]

Lernt to do 'left reverses' on that corner :)

I actually learnt to drive in the car park and practised my manovers around there as well.

 

[cant spell-dont care]

Lernt to do 'left reverses' on that corner :)

I actually learnt to drive in the car park and practised my manovers around there as well.

Past my test on the kipax street whooooo whooooooo lol

 

[DidsburyCitizen]

I'm going to this play at The Lowry at the weekend set around Maine Road around the time of the last game. Can't say I'm a big theatre-goer but it sounds pretty good.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.thelowry.com/event/maine-road1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.thelowry.com/event/maine-road1</a>

Also - just been looking at the website of the company behind it and it looks like the Club have been doing some filming about it as well - with Nedum involved!!!

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.monkeywoodtheatre.co.uk/monkey/530" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.monkeywoodtheatre.co.uk/monkey/530</a>

Anyone seen anything about it on the OS yet?

Cheers...

 

[Barcon]

Sometimes I wish I hadn't read some of these stories (if that makes sense).
I don't know anything about the " new kippax". I used to go in the kippax every other saturday with my dad at first, and then later with my mate. I moved to Canada in 1978 and only went back to maine rd. occasionaly on holidays, I usually sat in the maine stand or north stand then. I remember being at a game and the kippax was under construction and thinking, "I've never looked at the kippax before". I don't want to hear anymore about the ground being crap, I'll just keep my memories of the ground like, asking some old bloke if I could crawl between his legs as he was going through the turnstile so as not to pay, climbing up in the floodlights so as not to pay, and my all time favourite memory, being passed over everyones heads from half way up the kippax to the touchline and sitting with St. Johns ambulance guy who gave me some bovril. My dad shouting "I'll find you later lad", I was about ten. That's it, going to get pissed and sit on my seat from the ground.

 

[jimharri]

"Mind yer car mister"............... ahhhh those were the days. I only ever refused once, i always gave em a quid after that (once i had bought new windscreen wipers and ariel).

and who could forget the City Chippy?

I swear I've never had better!

Pudding, chips, peas and gravy and a coke............................




(diet of course)

I never realised you could get diet chips!






















"Jeeves; bring me my coat."

 

[Manchester1894]

I'm going to this play at The Lowry at the weekend set around Maine Road around the time of the last game. Can't say I'm a big theatre-goer but it sounds pretty good.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.thelowry.com/event/maine-road1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.thelowry.com/event/maine-road1</a>

Also - just been looking at the website of the company behind it and it looks like the Club have been doing some filming about it as well - with Nedum involved!!!

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.monkeywoodtheatre.co.uk/monkey/530" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.monkeywoodtheatre.co.uk/monkey/530</a>

Anyone seen anything about it on the OS yet?

Cheers...

I saw it at the Manchester Arts Festival. IT'S AWFUL!!! Avoid!!!!

 

[quinny's disco pants]

just one thing to say....................................................
R.I.P. MAINE ROAD

 

[Revol]

Weren't they thinking of using Maine Road as a ground for Sale Sharks at one point?

 

[cleavers]

Make you wonder what the present owners might have done with the old ground??

If we'd stayed there, we wouldn't have had new owners.

Check the pictures on the Eastlands = Las Vegas thread then you'll work out why.

 

[mick hunt]

The biggest con man at Maine Road, was Peter Swales, he was a crafty sod he played to the crowd when we beat Huddersfield, 10-1 he swore he would keep the players together in the close season he sold Paul Stewart. Swales, would buy a player when the crowd were stirring this would then keep them quite thinking better things are round the corner and nearly always in the close season a star player would be sold.

When Swales never had this player trick up his sleeve I remember twice he rolled out what the future Maine Road, would look like enclosed on all four sides corporate boxes, hotel and shopping malls. Another con trick pulled over our blue eyes. I also remember Swales stating that playing in the First Division as oppose to the Second was costing City, money because they play 2 games less.

All in all he was not the best chairman for City, on reflection he held City, back we could have been a force to be reckoned with because when he took over at City, we were the top team in Manchester, and we had already won everything.
What was his famous saying if we haven’t won anything in two years then I will resign it took a revolution to get rid of him after 21 years.

I must agree with others on here Maine Road, was not same when the Kippax, was altered, pre alteration the atmosphere when you stood in there was electric, all that was lost with the so-called modernisation.

Please excuse me I don’t wish ill of the dead the dead are not here to defend themselves and I would wish P. Swales, to rest in peace.