What Happened to Manchester City's Maine Road

Gaudion M said:
I think the site did offer a huge footprint for a big stadium assuming you could build on the car park behind the Kippax. But the location was always going to be limiting. Weirdly I think the old ground was much easier to get to even though it had only small roads all around and no train or tram.
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It was a lot easier for me to get to after I moved South in the 90's. Getting across town to The Etihad can be painful on matchdays.
 
jamesha said:
It was a lot easier for me to get to after I moved South in the 90's. Getting across town to The Etihad can be painful on matchdays.
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Ha, some will say, "serves you right for moving dahn sarf" James! Joking aside, I suppose it just depends on the direction from which you're travelling. My journey's far easier since the move. Also, the post match traffic from Maine Road used to be horrendous.
 
I have some photos I took on the last day, if I get time I will try to upload ( may need some advice on that) Through my time I sat/ stood in every permanent stand, In the end my seat in the Kippax was just in front of Ricky Hatton box, it’s now in bits in my garage waiting for my next house move, bit random, but just found some photos of Hamburg away under Keegan as well,
 
Wow, takes you back, sad to see that’s all there is now. Looking back to those benches in the platt lane, those benches were hard. Never forget my first game there and going into the stadium the first time as a kid, the floodlights, the smells and the noise.
 
blew said:
I have some photos I took on the last day, if I get time I will try to upload ( may need some advice on that) Through my time I sat/ stood in every permanent stand, In the end my seat in the Kippax was just in front of Ricky Hatton box, it’s now in bits in my garage waiting for my next house move, bit random, but just found some photos of Hamburg away under Keegan as well,
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I remember that Hamburg trip well. That is, I would had I not been almost permanently pissed for the duration! What an away trip that was though. We took thousands.
 
NPBlue said:
The old dowager was well past her best when the wrecking balls moved in, but it had a unique character, like the faded seats of a different hue wherever you looked.

I remember when we were at the cutting edge of technology after the north stand opened, and an electronic scoreboard was installed. In a way, it was a reflection of our demise, as it worked well enough initially, but when the money started running out, the light bulbs started to blow, never to be replaced, and the messages became a confusing mish mash of unintelligible gibberish, rather like our chairman at the time.
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The old scoreboard ha ha, I remember when it used to come up saying Attack Attack Attack then a picture of a tank firing came up, ah the memories
 
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