I helped increase the capacity at Maine Road when I emailed the club. It was entitled 'Bloody Big Doors'. I asked why the doors were so large but never used and surely we could put temporary seating there.28,356
I helped increase the capacity at Maine Road when I emailed the club. It was entitled 'Bloody Big Doors'. I asked why the doors were so large but never used and surely we could put temporary seating there.
The rest they say is history.
Not that I ever got an acknowledgement.
Make it five ,you missed the bit about Pep having to gee up the crowd which is true.Seeing as you asked, I did; in terms of the atmosphere he said:
i. it is invariably a soulless experience at the Etihad [emphasis added]
ii. the atmosphere for the recent Derby was stilted and subdued
iii. some (implying a minority) diehards remain [emphasis added]
iv. The Kippax was (invariably) raucous and heaving
Is it all four?
I didn’t miss it. I omitted it because, unlike the other four, it’s factually correct.Make it five ,you missed the bit about Pep having to gee up the crowd which is true.
Nice ............................workNo we didn’t. Our average home attendance that season was around 27,000 and the capacity of Maine Road was around (iirc) 34,000 at the time, which is about 80% capacity. Another Maine Road myth, just like the false claim in that article that it was a cauldron every week.
Thanks xNice ............................work
I went down to the Dale a few seasons back, got to the ground five or ten mins before kick off. Twelve quid in the home ends but they'd only one fuckin' turnstile on and he was having difficulty taking the money, and then I heard 'em kick off, so I thought fuck this, and nipped round the corner to get in the away end, which at Dale is one long side. Cost another three quid but at HT there were no real queues for the pies. And the usual meat'n potato and Bovril was £4-50, compared to, then, £6-50 at The Etihad so I reckoned I was only a quid down which was probably saved on the programme. No tickets just cash at the turnstile!When I started going games, anything over 20k was a big game, northern teams you got around 30k. Rags was bursting well over 40k along with fa cup & Boxing Day.
Other grounds Rags seemed to be biggest with Ave 40k but would get games of 20k. N/W teams had best support, N/E & South were shit.
Lots of clubs could only dream of getting 15k & many less than 10k.
You could go any game on the spur of the moment & get in.
This is all off the top of my head so my memory might be clouded
I did a season in the main stand as I was ill for a while and had to sit down. It was unbelievable! Moan. Groan. Whinge and criticism from the first whistle to the last every single game bar none. That where I must have picked it up from! :-)The main stand was to be avoided at all costs when I was a kid. My mates dad used to get complimentary tickets off someone at the ground in there and I had the mispleasure a couple of times in the 80’s, it really was like the place people went to die to a young teenager.
Lol.I did a season in the main stand as I was ill for a while and had to sit down. It was unbelievable! Moan. Groan. Whinge and criticism from the first whistle to the last every single game bar none. That where I must have picked it up from! :-)