Old Maine Road photos thread

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Did we ever play an Anglo Scottish cup tie at Maine Road?

Not sure when we switched from the Texaco Cup to the Anglos Scottish Cup but we definitely played a few games at Maine Road circa 71-75
We drew 2-2 v Airdrie in 71-72, but the other games always seemed to be Blackpool/Oldham/Sheffield United

 

[xgorton]

Did we ever play an Anglo Scottish cup tie at Maine Road?

Yes just the one at Maine road,9th August 75 v Sheffield Utd won 3-1 Royle,Marsh and Leman 11,161.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Not sure when we switched from the Texaco Cup to the Anglos Scottish Cup but we definitely played a few games at Maine Road circa 71-75
We drew 2-2 v Airdrie in 71-72, but the other games always seemed to be Blackpool/Oldham/Sheffield United

texaco cup Blackpool away...................mayhem

 

[radcliffe1309]

texaco cup Blackpool away...................mayhem

Lovely weather that day though :)

 

[AJ71]

Yes - Eric Alexander revealed it to me during an interview. Swales becoming chairman and Niven being put in charge of stadium developments changed it all sadly.

Don't suppose any drawings / plans exist? Would love to see what that looked like.

 

[Gary James]

Don't suppose any drawings / plans exist? Would love to see what that looked like.

Sadly not. I’ll get a post up on my website about it soon. Cheers

 

[Gary James]

YES it was.
but hey. it looks like a decent stadium

Got the colour image you mentioned and posted it here now:

Maine Road 100 – Day 55

Day 55 of my posts counting down to the centenary of Maine Road’s opening game is a follow on from one from a few days ago. I posted a 1994 plan of what might have been in terms of Maine Road…

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[Irlamblue]

Got the colour image you mentioned and posted it here now:

Maine Road 100 – Day 55

Day 55 of my posts counting down to the centenary of Maine Road’s opening game is a follow on from one from a few days ago. I posted a 1994 plan of what might have been in terms of Maine Road…

gjfootballarchive.com

Gary - Thats the one !!
Looks really impressive. I remember being really excited at the prospect .
Thanks Mate

 

[flapjack]

Got the colour image you mentioned and posted it here now:

Maine Road 100 – Day 55

Day 55 of my posts counting down to the centenary of Maine Road’s opening game is a follow on from one from a few days ago. I posted a 1994 plan of what might have been in terms of Maine Road…

gjfootballarchive.com

What I don't get about this is, is that the Kippax they built had a third tier, so differs from this and looked higher than these plans??...so maybe they already had no intention of really doing it

 

[Gary James]

What I don't get about this is, is that the Kippax they built had a third tier, so differs from this and looked higher than these plans??...so maybe they already had no intention of really doing it

The plans are dated January 1994 and Lee took over in December, so it’s just an early version of the plan. Their main aim was to get the Kippax sorted and I think they’d based the drawings on a basic version of what they intended, plus at that time Swales’s plan was to build a second tier on the back half of the Kippax and bolt plastic seats on to the front half existing terracing. Lee may have based these images on Swales’s Kippax.

Lee tried to get special dispensation to retain terracing at Maine Rd for one further season to give them time to get the plans right. NUFC were given an extra year but City were not and so after these plans were produced they focused on getting as big a capacity as possible in a new Kippax. No doubt the longer term would’ve been altered to reflect that.

I do know that at the time the Kippax was built Lee definitely believed he could achieve a 50,000 capacity be doing this plan -or a version of it - on the January version of the plan the final capacity is only a little over 45,000, suggesting the 3rd tier may have added something to that and perhaps could be replicated, at least at the Main Stand.