Dubai Blue
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Probably best you consider a different career then pal.joe mclean said:
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Maine Road today
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Immaculate Pasta said: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.
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
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Lernt to do 'left reverses' on that corner :)
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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.
This will cheer me up, my lad said it was agreat double dvd, anyone else watched it.
dandeman2008
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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!
Typical City!
CITY FOR LIFE
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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
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cant spell-dont care said: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
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Challenger1978 said:cant spell-dont care said: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
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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...
<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
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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.
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.