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Dyed Petya said: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.
I just posted a pic in another thread of Maine Road from 1923, capacity 88,000! how it went from that to 35,000 with the awful Platt Lane Stand as it was when we left! The shit Kippax Stand compared to the old one! Maine Road wasnt Maine Road from 1994 onwards!