Old Maine Road photos thread

bladdered said:
Digital tickets yer having a laugh! View attachment 75583
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That’s not a queue.

I was unused to anything of that sort as I started watching towards the end if the relegation season in 1962-3. The three matches I went to: Blackpool, Spurs, and United were all pay-at-the-gate. I then had two dire seasons in Division 2 before Mercer and Allison arrived.

The only all-ticket match was in the FA Cup against Everton. We had to queue at Maine Road and go through the turnstiles and buy (a maximum of) two tickets.

The queues snaked all around the car park. I must admit that we went around three times but had no problems shifting the tickets.

There were 63,034 there for the 0-0 draw. We then had to queue again for replay tickets. There were 60,349 there was another 0-0 draw. It was encouraging that Second Division City could match a top First Division team.

Eventually City lost 2-0 in the second replay at Wolverhampton in front of 27,948 at Molineux. That was an amazing crowd for a mid-week match so far from either City. I was at all three matches.

Everton went on to beat United in the semi-final and Preston in the final.
 
Stephen230 said:
Think it went that way for Gillingham for some reason.
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The main reason being so they could snake the queue inside the North Stand and then through the Kippax forecourt and back out around the ground to the main stand forecourt, which is where I started queueing at 12-30pm on the Saturday, finally getting to the ticket office just before midnight.
 
JGL07 said:
That’s not a queue.

I was unused to anything of that sort as I started watching towards the end if the relegation season in 1962-3. The three matches I went to: Blackpool, Spurs, and United were all pay-at-the-gate. I then had two dire seasons in Division 2 before Mercer and Allison arrived.

The only all-ticket match was in the FA Cup against Everton. We had to queue at Maine Road and go through the turnstiles and buy (a maximum of) two tickets.

The queues snaked all around the car park. I must admit that we went around three times but had no problems shifting the tickets.

There were 63,034 there for the 0-0 draw. We then had to queue again for replay tickets. There were 60,349 there was another 0-0 draw. It was encouraging that Second Division City could match a top First Division team.

Eventually City lost 2-0 in the second replay at Wolverhampton in front of 27,948 at Molineux. That was an amazing crowd for a mid-week match so far from either City. I was at all three matches.

Everton went on to beat United in the semi-final and Preston in the final.
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The first two games were fantastic, City played particularly well at Goodison but ran out of steam a bit in the third game.

Our cup attendances were huge.....52000 + for the midweek replay agin Blackpool.

12 months earlier cowpat crerand said that City would never get at 30000 attendance again !!

Their arrogance and stupidity is historic.
 
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Bernard and the ticket office, a match made in heaven!
 
JGL07 said:
That’s not a queue.

I was unused to anything of that sort as I started watching towards the end if the relegation season in 1962-3. The three matches I went to: Blackpool, Spurs, and United were all pay-at-the-gate. I then had two dire seasons in Division 2 before Mercer and Allison arrived.

The only all-ticket match was in the FA Cup against Everton. We had to queue at Maine Road and go through the turnstiles and buy (a maximum of) two tickets.

The queues snaked all around the car park. I must admit that we went around three times but had no problems shifting the tickets.

There were 63,034 there for the 0-0 draw. We then had to queue again for replay tickets. There were 60,349 there was another 0-0 draw. It was encouraging that Second Division City could match a top First Division team.

Eventually City lost 2-0 in the second replay at Wolverhampton in front of 27,948 at Molineux. That was an amazing crowd for a mid-week match so far from either City. I was at all three matches.

Everton went on to beat United in the semi-final and Preston in the final.
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You missed out "clutching our envelopes containing carefully cut out vouchers from home games, and front covers of away programmes"

Happy times.

As I recall, the replay was memorable only because of Harry Dowd's great save from Alex Young. Or was it Jimmy Gabriel?

We'd have won the cup in 65/66 if we'd beaten Everton. One of my favourite City seasons ever.
 
JGL07 said:
That’s not a queue.

I was unused to anything of that sort as I started watching towards the end if the relegation season in 1962-3. The three matches I went to: Blackpool, Spurs, and United were all pay-at-the-gate. I then had two dire seasons in Division 2 before Mercer and Allison arrived.

The only all-ticket match was in the FA Cup against Everton. We had to queue at Maine Road and go through the turnstiles and buy (a maximum of) two tickets.

The queues snaked all around the car park. I must admit that we went around three times but had no problems shifting the tickets.

There were 63,034 there for the 0-0 draw. We then had to queue again for replay tickets. There were 60,349 there was another 0-0 draw. It was encouraging that Second Division City could match a top First Division team.

Eventually City lost 2-0 in the second replay at Wolverhampton in front of 27,948 at Molineux. That was an amazing crowd for a mid-week match so far from either City. I was at all three matches.

Everton went on to beat United in the semi-final and Preston in the final.
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Hate to be a pedant, but Everton beat Sheffield Wed in 1966 Final, not PNE. You may be thinking of 1964 - West Ham beat Preston in that Final.
 
JGL07 said:
That’s not a queue.

I was unused to anything of that sort as I started watching towards the end if the relegation season in 1962-3. The three matches I went to: Blackpool, Spurs, and United were all pay-at-the-gate. I then had two dire seasons in Division 2 before Mercer and Allison arrived.

The only all-ticket match was in the FA Cup against Everton. We had to queue at Maine Road and go through the turnstiles and buy (a maximum of) two tickets.

The queues snaked all around the car park. I must admit that we went around three times but had no problems shifting the tickets.

There were 63,034 there for the 0-0 draw. We then had to queue again for replay tickets. There were 60,349 there was another 0-0 draw. It was encouraging that Second Division City could match a top First Division team.

Eventually City lost 2-0 in the second replay at Wolverhampton in front of 27,948 at Molineux. That was an amazing crowd for a mid-week match so far from either City. I was at all three matches.

Everton went on to beat United in the semi-final and Preston in the final.
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I went to the home and away matches, but missed out on the match at Molyneux.
Why? I was on stage at the Free Trade Hall representing Ashton Grammar in the Lancashire County Youth Choir, and the lad standing next to me was an Evertonian!
(The theme was Sea Shanties, ending in a rousing rendition of Rule Britannia, just like Last Night of the Proms. I still watch that and join in to this day).
 
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