Old Maine Road photos thread

The Norfolk Blue said:
Slightly off topic, I’ve just watched Blackburn 0 City 1 from 1985 on ITV4 Big Match Revisited.

Steve Kinsey netting the winner which took us top of Division 2. A great turnout of Blues, with pockets all over Ewood Park a bit like 15 years later.

Well worth a watch on ITVX if you missed it.
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Was gutted to miss that one. Was in the Army, based in Southampton and 3 Blues got a lift from a yid who was going up to Stoke. Took so long, we hit Stoke at 2pm and were never going to get train connections to make the game. Had a few pints and all got City tattoos. Watched the final score in a tv rental shop window, then met the spurs fan at his car. Stopped off at Oxford for more beer. One of us had a bad pint and just before we got through the door, he puked on the other lad who was holding the door open. The smell hit him and he puked too. We missed a memorable match, but as usual following City especially away, still made memories.
 
The Norfolk Blue said:
Slightly off topic, I’ve just watched Blackburn 0 City 1 from 1985 on ITV4 Big Match Revisited.

Steve Kinsey netting the winner which took us top of Division 2. A great turnout of Blues, with pockets all over Ewood Park a bit like 15 years later.

Well worth a watch on ITVX if you missed it.
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Just watched it: Jimmy Frizzell having a ciggy in the dug out.
 
calumdown said:
just came across these by accident.

apologies if already posted.


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Remember when you could pay at the turn-style, there were two types, correct money only and the other for people that didn't have the correct change.
Typically, if you didn't have the correct money you had to join the longer turn-style queue not the very short correct money only queue and eventually when you did get to the cashier the first question he asked would be have you got the correct change?
 
Gazza said:
Remember when you could pay at the turn-style, there were two types, correct money only and the other for people that didn't have the correct change.
Typically, if you didn't have the correct money you had to join the longer turn-style queue not the very short correct money only queue and eventually when you did get to the cashier the first question he asked would be have you got the correct change?
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I remember getting kicked out of a derby match when we got back into first division and gave the bloke on turnstile a quid and he let me jump back over

Happy days
 
The kippax was the most unbelievable all consuming thing..I don't know how else to describe it..it to me as a 16 year old had an aura.
It's was truly amazing..I was a young lad from buxton.and met some mates who were from Burbage.
Levenshulme.
Denton etc I thought it was cool as fuck to meet them..we're still mates now.
One of them knew tony mccarroll who was in oasis
Obviously early oasis days .but she got me tickets to oasis.
Me and my mates watched that band all over the country..because of me becoming mates with them oasis became a massive part of my life .
I remember when Liam said they would be the biggest band in the world.
Love them or hate them they were.
And that's how I think about what city have done under pep.
I always dreamed we could be the best team in the world..and we were ..so thanks to city.
The kippax and me meeting them lot..who if they're on here they know who they are..at the side of the tunnel next to the away fans.
But thanks to them..I've lived my dreams
My team have been the best ever.
And my band have or were the best .
Well in my eyes they were..I'm so glad I'm old enough to say I stood on the kippax.
Compared to football now it's like watching a different sport.
Or even living a different life .what a place..I remember fa cup 4th round I think it was against Barnsley.
I climbed up a post or something and looked across the kippax it was amazing..thanks to my old man taking me to city..once a blue always a blue
 
I can certainly remember the battle of the Kippax vs the rags, many a bloody head with missiles chucked.
 
plattlanebenches said:
There were more than pockets of blues there. A load got chucked out of their home end and walked round the pitch. I was corporate that day, loads of blues in the main stand.
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I went to that when I was 16 with a couple of mates. Got the train from Victoria from memory and when we got back, Everton and United mobs were in town as they played the same day.
 
Ray bloody Purchase said:
I passed out for a few minutes at that game, I remember it being very hot under the old Darren end hallf barrel roof, and it was packed, at times my 14 year old feet didn’t touch the ground for minutes on end. The goal was scored at the opposite end and I don’t think we realised it was in until the City fans in the side paddock went mad, was this the game with the scrapping in the graveyard after the game?
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We were discussing this game about a week ago in the thread about Boundary Park Mayhem. You can see the city fans in the side paddock on the TV charging down to the Blackburn end.
 
TheGhost said:
When’s that photo from? What’s being built in the background?
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It'll be about 1969 just as the North stand was starting to be built....the scaffolding is roughly where the open J block was once the new stand was completed.

Edit* looking at it again the scaffolding is too far into the Main Stand for the about to be true, apart from maybe the year.
 
blue b4 the moon said:
It'll be about 1969 just as the North stand was starting to be built....the scaffolding is roughly where the open J block was once the new stand was completed.

Edit* looking at it again the scaffolding is too far into the Main Stand for the about to be true, apart from maybe the year.
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I think you were right first time as it's probably the angle of the photo and the open J Block was relatively small.

I'm not entirely sure when construction started, but by the time of my first game (1-1 v Chelsea April 71) it was starting to take shape
 
bladdered said:
Not Maine Road but Chelsea away in 1971. Them guys weren't messing around. But who was the fella behind Mike Doyle?

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I'm guessing Derek Jeffries

City played at Stamford Bridge three times in 70-71, but that looks like Ian Bowyer at the back, who scored in the FA Cup victory but didn't feature in the other games.
 
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