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.
BufordUSABlue said:Brings a tear to my eye this Balti!
Make you wonder what the present owners might have done with the old ground??
Probably would have sold it and built a new one anyway, as they have no sentiment like us fans, but would have been interesting if they would have bought us back when Maine Road was our home, what would they would have done...
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.
thats my design tec teacherColinBellsjockstrap said: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.
MCFCinUSA said:and who could forget the City Chippy?
I swear I've never had better!
black mamba said:A real shame we couldn't have adapted Maine Road to suit ......
for me it'll always be our home .....
i was raised in the sixties close to COMS .... the area , then known as Bradford , had real 'soul' back then ...... full of terraced streets and back alleys ....... it seems so devoid of it now.