Old Maine Road photos thread

[MillisleBlue]

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Dipper referee as usual...!

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

July 1968
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Big George Heslop. Alan Oakes, Tony Book, Harry Dowd, Ken Mulhearn, Mike Doyle, Bobby Kennedy, Glyn Pardoe Front:- David Connor, Francis Lee, Bobby Owen, Neil Young, Tony Coleman, Mike Summerbee,.....All wearing Adidas "Gym" trainers which were all the rage at the time.

 

[spinney]

When was the old scoreboard removed and the digital one that never worked at the back of the North Stand installed? Fuck off Swales I hope you rot

When the scoreboard end was flattened and the north stand built , around 1970/1

 

[spinney]

When the scoreboard end was flattened and the north stand built , around 1970/1

It worked great at the start !

 

[spinney]

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Only the right back didn't play 1st team football for City

 

[eastmanc]

When the scoreboard end was flattened and the north stand built , around 1970/1

Opened for standing only in 1971/72 season.

 

[eastmanc]

Big George Heslop. Alan Oakes, Tony Book, Harry Dowd, Ken Mulhearn, Mike Doyle, Bobby Kennedy, Glyn Pardoe Front:- David Connor, Francis Lee, Bobby Owen, Neil Young, Tony Coleman, Mike Summerbee,.....All wearing Adidas "Gym" trainers which were all the rage at the time.

Where's Colin Bell?

 

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[calumdown]

@bladdered

absolutely love your pics, blue

 

[surrounded by idiots]

Only the right back didn't play 2st team football for City

And the Huddersfield number 10, had a decent career on the markets in Eastenders after football

 

[mancblue55]

Where's Colin Bell?

That’s what I was wondering too!

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Opened for standing only in 1971/72 season.

Fully opened in 71/72 but as a kid I remember sitting on a crash barrier with my dad behind me for the 70/71 ECWC semi v Chelsea.

 

[spinney]

Fully opened in 71/72 but as a kid I remember sitting on a crash barrier with my dad behind me for the 70/71 ECWC semi v Chelsea.

YES, parts of the new terracing were opened ( as the scoreboard end ) before the opening of the North Stand , i remember scrambling over rubble as the we left games a few times

 

[BringBackSwales]

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I fucking loved that kit. Ahead of its time

 

[normskih]

I fucking loved that kit. Ahead of its time

I agree, that is by far the best ever.I also loved the one on the 70’s with the slash across the chest.

 

[BlueKolarovWorker]

Is that foden sat on the ball ;-)

I think it's the kid from The Omen. No wonder that side was so successful!!

 

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[Stelea]

Only the right back didn't play 1st team football for City

Sub George McBeth still goes to watch City now

 

[xgorton]

I agree, that is by far the best ever.I also loved the one on the 70’s with the slash across the chest.

We had 2.

 

[normskih]

We had 2.

Preferred the blue.