Old Maine Road photos thread

[Stelea]

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Dennis Tueart of Manchester City in action against Middlesbrough during a League Cup Semi-final held at Maine Road, Manchester on 21st January 1976.View attachment 94598
Coventry away kit brown/yella

Think that was the Red away kit

 

[dennishasdoneit]

My old fella and his mate took me in there as a kid sat me on piano, fantastic place carried on going in with mates into the 80s great place. Remember winning match ball in Derby once trouble was we’d been stuffed 0-3 Dad chucked it on fire. :-)

Dad clearly did the right thing!

 

[Fat Chance]

Think that was the Red away kit

Think youre on it mate, colour coded collars..

 

[Fat Chance]

 

[Fat Chance]

 

[Fat Chance]

Lcup semi

 

[Fat Chance]

 

[old blue]

Strange looking at the photos of the scoreboard end, in my mind's eye it went a lot further back and steeper. I suppose because I was a regular when I was five or six my perspective was somewhat diminished.

 

[roman totale]

Strange looking at the photos of the scoreboard end, in my mind's eye it went a lot further back and steeper. I suppose because I was a regular when I was five or six my perspective was somewhat diminished.

I think it’s an optical illusion from that camera angle. It was plenty deep enough looking at it here.

 

[cyan]

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What a brilliant photograph - it's like some sort of modern ballet on a mudbath.