The "Swales Out" Campaign

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[tony coleman]

Does anyone have a picture of the model showing the plans for a redevloped Maine Road, under Swales. They Main Stand was completed first and then the proposal ground to a halt. All the stands were supposed to have a similar roof.
The large girder structure under the new main stand roof was to hold exec boxes.. the Platt lane was to have the same roof as the North stand and the Kippax to the same as the Main stand only no boxes and to be all standing...sadly all just a dream. would have looked good....happy days

Seen the model numerous times, but I can't find it on Google.

-- Sun Feb 20, 2011 1:12 am --

Whilst you ruffians and urchins were causing trouble outside I had to settle for chatting to FHL, Buzzer and others whilst drinking free booze!

Shame on you little tinkers!

Unlucky you. You missed the fun. ;-) Did you see me on the news by any chance, swinging from the bars like a demented monkey?

Made Tahrir Square in Cairo look like a peace gathering.

 

[Blumers Bloomers]

Although a confirmed KIppaxite of about 20 years at the time I spent that season and a couple more as a regular in the Directors box.

The shenanigans that went on through that period marked everyone involved out as rank amateurs, something I have talked about before.

I was as happy as anyone to see Swales move on but I didn't celebrate the anointing of FHL and have very little time for him as chairman.

There was talk at the time of a much richer person being willing to take on the clubs debt, invest what was then the astronomical figure of £10m on the team and develop Maine Road. The person had apparently provided proof of funds but decided against buying the club as he saw the FHL campaign as to powerful.

We got Franny and as you all now know he made some awful decisions, was worse than Swales for getting involved in team affairs and had now real desire to invest in the club.

Swales might well have loved the power as much as the club, but it is my humble opinion, based on conversations I had with all of those big names at that time (including Buzzer BTW) that FHL loved City less, far less. FHL was in it for profit and for profile.

Fbloke this is spot on - i know for a fact that one of frannie's backers at the time did not have a spare pot to piss in so to speak and that Lee is was totally in it to raise his own profile. TBH i think he did more damage in the short space of time than Swales did.

As a blue at the time of the swales out campaign and being part of the demonstrations - i really wanted him gone we were slipping further and furter behind teams and some of the players who wore the blue shirt at the time were a disgrace, anyone else would have done at the time, but Lee mounted a great campaign saying he was going to invest all this money which never materialised, and we fans took the bait hook line and sinker, in hindsight would have been better if Swales had held on whilst finding an alternative with real money.

In retrospect i think Swailes has always copped the shit end of the stick, his heart was in the club, he just didnt open up to sharing power and possibly floating the club quicker enough. He didnt deserve the abuse he got, but i was one of the ones shouting it too and for that i will always regret to an extent

We werent alone, Steve Coppell fell for it as well.....