The Kippax

[eyalluvitt]

 

[spacecadet]

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This is what it became thanks to fuckin Swales. Put us back thirty years.

 

[Grassland Blue]

Found this photo today actually.. thought it was an appropriate place to post it..

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If I should die on Kippax Street - woh o - woh o...

 

[Grassland Blue]

This is what it became thanks to fuckin Swales. Put us back thirty years.

Big Mal should never have been made manager. That was the biggest mistake.

 

[Blootoof]

I was a steward in the Kippax late eighties, tunnel by the Northstand. My job was to stop people bringing their drinks into the stand. I could stop someone with 4 pints and ten minutes later he's in the stand with 4 pints after drinking the other 4 pints I told him not to bring in. Don't know how they did it, like fuckin magicians

 

[Bonzo Nododo]

My nan & grandad used to tell me it wasnt called the Kippax years ago, cant remember but was it called the popular side or something?

Don't know how it came about but about 1960 my dad and his generation called it the Popular Side and my mates and l called it the Kippax Stand even though we went together and stood together inside.

 

[Grassland Blue]

Don't know how it came about but about 1960 my dad and his generation called it the Popular Side and my mates and l called it the Kippax Stand even though we went together and stood together inside.

I always knew it as the Kippax Side and I started going in '71

 

[If I die in the Kippax St]

Do you remember you were allowed to climb over the wall at the bottom of the Platt Lane and go into the Kippax if you fancied it... certainly for some games anyway

If I should die on Kippax Street - woh o - woh o...

With ten bastards at my feet

 

[Grassland Blue]

With ten bastards at my feet

Ten RED bastards

 

[crazyg]

Think I've mentioned this before (but cba going back through my posts), but in the late 80s I was in the brewery tap of Charlie Wells' brewery in Bedford, when a Question of Sport came on the TV. The question was "where would you be if you were at this location?", and one of the places was "The Kippax". Nobody knew the answer, so I said that I knew it and brought out my season ticket match book as proof. Unsurprisingly, a few rag "fans" were in there, but none had any idea.