The Umbro stand - Greatest moments

Gingers Dad said:
Stuart Pearce's penalty against Portsmouth for his 100th career goal.
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Stuart Pearce's penalty MISS against Portsmouth cost me 150 quid! :( I was on 4-1 and I even remember Beasant asking him where he wanted to put it. There I was waiting for the net to ripple and the psycho bastard goes and leathers it over the umbro stand! I was absolutely GUTTED! :(
 
Gingers Dad said:
Stuart Pearce's penalty against Portsmouth for his 100th career goal.
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That’s a great shout! There is a great article about it on the city website : https://amp.mancity.com/news/club/city-dna-stuart-pearce-penalty-63726790

It would also have been a record amount of goals for City to score in a season; it was a gift from the ref and the goalkeeper and it was the last kick of the season and of his career. I love this bit from the link:

“Up he steps - as he had done on so many occasions throughout his career for Club and country.

The crowd holds its breath as the defender takes aim, curling towards the top left-hand corner and the ball sails...

OVER THE BAR!

Wouldn't you just know it?! Pearce balloons the penalty high over the crossbar and misses the chance to make history, spurning the chance to break his own goalscoring record as well as City's!

Ever stoic however, the setback doesn't faze Pearce - he turns to his teammates, covers his mouth and laughs! You couldn't make it up...

"He (Dave Beasant) said he wasn't going to move and told me just to put it into the corner - and I go and miss the goal," he groaned at the time.”
 
The Umbro stand bless it was the monument that represented the downward spiral, mismanagement and shrinking ambitions of the club. You look at what the Platt lane was during the early to mid 20th century it was part of the vast terraces where over 80,000 people turned up. They then put a roof on it and the benches, then when it finally came for it to be renovated in the early 90s the plan had 6,000 seats incorporated from what I can remember. It doomed Maine Road as being a long term home for City.

The Kippax went up and it looked amazing towering over Moss side when you were walking towards the ground. The idea to redevelop the ground all the way round like the new Kippax ended up being a pipe dream. It’s mad that eight years after the Kippax was built and 10 years after the Umbro/Platt lane stand was completed they were both demolished with the rest of the stadium. You look at what we had to what we have now and in the future going up to 60,000 capacity. We are very lucky to be able to go and watch football in a palace like the Etihad.
 
Are people actually including goals scored at that end of the ground?!

Sat at that end of the ground far, far less than the other three (I would say Kippax, Main Stand, North Stand, in that order). Think I only sat in it twice (once before and once after Swales’ folly) the second occasion being the Derby we lost 3-2 in 1996 when it looked like the gap between us and United had widened to a chasm. Didn’t like the view and thought it felt really cheap. I think it perfectly represented the lack of ambition and vision of Peter Swales. Like him, it was totally fucking small time.

The old Platt Lane was the away end for the duration of my Kippax terrace season ticket from 1985 to 1994 and have a few fond memories around that, especially the 5-1.
 
My first season ticket was in the platt lane before graduating to the kippax. I never set foot in the umbro stand once in its entire existence
 
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