the old abbey
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moss side british legion.upper lloyd st,can i mind your car sir,addidas kick,ska music,the robin hood pub,flickers,slazy jumpers,oh happy days, maine rd was fantastic.
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moss side early 80s
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salfordpaul
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remember playing norwich and a familywere walking down claremont rd (norwich fans) and there was about 10 black lads with bandanas covering their faces at the bottom end. they were ill with fear and started talking to me and my mate who were walking to the game. we told them they could walk with us they d be ok. This was the time there was better shooting outside the ground than in!
when we walked them to their turnstiles the dad tried to pay us money such was his relief!
them wer't days
when we walked them to their turnstiles the dad tried to pay us money such was his relief!
them wer't days
LongsightM13
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Used to play five a side at Moss Side leisure centre on Wednesday nights in the early-mid 80s as a teenager. Fucking hell, that was lively and you soon learned to wear your 'game face' and how not to show any fear. Loved it, though. We were a mixed black and white team and some of the brothers used to call us 'Borstal'.
Alan Oakes Shinpads
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Blue Mist said:Ah but the Old Abbey was in Rusholme.
Thought it was in Hulme,somewhere off Cambridge Street ?
Chrisja1000
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My nana lived just off Platt lane, I used to get a chair and sit in the garden when City were playing and listen for the cheers or boo's. My first city shirt with the SAAB sponser on. I'll never forget the first time my dad said you coming to the game with me today . That walk from Platt lane to to ground, the banter, the cobbled back alleys all leading to the grounds, and then the buzz of concourse of the kippax. Memories that I will never forget.
another generation
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Reading some of this - there's probably a very good reason why my Dad never took me to Maine Road in the early 80s!
salfordpaul said:remember playing norwich and a familywere walking down claremont rd (norwich fans) and there was about 10 black lads with bandanas covering their faces at the bottom end. they were ill with fear and started talking to me and my mate who were walking to the game. we told them they could walk with us they d be ok. This was the time there was better shooting outside the ground than in!
when we walked them to their turnstiles the dad tried to pay us money such was his relief!
them wer't days
Was that the 6-0 cup game ?
jimharri
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Spent my first 9 years in Moss Side. Lived on Claremont Road (No. 198, near the corner with broadfield Road); about 5 minutes walk from Maine Road. Who else was I going to support; the other mob? Happy days spent playing in ''Alec Park'', going to Bishop Bilsborrow School on Princess Road (next to the bus depot; gone now) and going swimming at Broadfield Road baths. Moved to Longsight in late '73.
80s Shorts
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jimharri said:Spent my first 9 years in Moss Side. Lived on Claremont Road (No. 198, near the corner with broadfield Road); about 5 minutes walk from Maine Road. Who else was I going to support; the other mob? Happy days spent playing in ''Alec Park'', going to Bishop Bilsborrow School on Princess Road (next to the bus depot; gone now) and going swimming at Broadfield Road baths. Moved to Longsight in late '73.
I was born in Ridgeway Street (just off Kippax Street) 1970 in my grans house. Used to mind cars on match day on Cowesby Street (my nans house) in the early 80s. Remember well the times when the gates opened and me and my cousin could get in to watch the last 10mins from the back of the stand. Happy days.