What things do you remember from Maine Road?

Just been on streetview to have a look at what's there now and Immediately presented with an old bloke in a rag shirt walking down Blue Moon Way... How the fuck can that be allowed to happen ?!
 
the blue panther said:
The bomb scare in 1974 - cant remember who it was against, but I think it was during the power cuts. Also, I think it was a game on a weekday afternoon, and I was sciving off school. Hopefully someone can confirm. Cheers!
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It was the Coventry game and I was sat in the Platt Lane with my Dad and brother. We were all asked to look under our seats for a suspicious package that looked like a bomb (I'm sure they said that - we certainly all knew it was a bomb scare). Mike Summerbee picked up the match ball and shook it which caused a lot of laughter.

The noise of the generator was pretty loud - I'm sure BTSport would have made a comment about the generator being noisier than the crowd if they'd been around then!
 
Before floodlights, games kicking off at 2.15 in December, then by the end of Jan back to 3pm
The wall at the back of the Kippax with suspicious dark stains where lazy sods couldn't be bothered to use the Gents (which were horrible anyway)
The smell of ciggy and pipe smoke (and cigars at Xmas)
Queueing up to pay CASH at the turnstiles &(if you were a bit late) hearing crowd roars while the queue moved agonisingly slowly
The square scoreboard that put the half-time scores up
The Beswick Prize Band playing stirring march tunes whilst marching round
Getting soaked before the Kippax was covered (and my mother telling me off when I got home: "You'll catch your death!")
Seeing the players arrive before the game
Foggy days when you could hardly see the players or know what the score was
The occasional mud-heap of a pitch (how lucky we are now)
The sheer magic of the place. Heaven, I thought......
 
Feels like a good thread to put that song on " 80 years of football at Maine Road " it's the bloke with hat on in his bedroom on a guitar, it's on YouTube but I'm afraid I don't know how to post it
I'm sure those who haven't seen it will appreciate it
Brings a tear to the eye
 
1985/86 season, fa cup 2nd reply v Watford, first player I remember seeing wearing gloves, he got slaughtered for it.. Mr John Barnes. Mark Lillis missing a pen either in first game which was 1-1 or 2nd reply which was 1-3 if I remember rightly
 
Pleatfooted said:
1985/86 season, fa cup 2nd reply v Watford, first player I remember seeing wearing gloves, he got slaughtered for it.. Mr John Barnes. Mark Lillis missing a pen either in first game which was 1-1 or 2nd reply which was 1-3 if I remember rightly
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Remember Barnes getting slaughtered another time when he was a Liverpool player cos it came out in the days leading up to the match that he'd signed a contract that made him the first player to get paid > £10k a week
 
Walking with my uncle ,and when he wasn't working my dad , through Alec park & through all those back cobbled streets then suddenly there it was ! Both Dad and uncle gone now to the Kippax in the sky. The last match at Maine Road I sobbed leaving then went with someone from Costa Brava Blues to el Rincon de Rafa in town met the goat and Gary Owen. Great times over many years. Even if the football was shit at times, scintillating at others.
 
Wagon Wheels
Bovril
The Gardeners Before the Game
Crappy Souvenir Shop
Social Club
Great Days
 
Gary James said:
It was the Coventry game and I was sat in the Platt Lane with my Dad and brother. We were all asked to look under our seats for a suspicious package that looked like a bomb (I'm sure they said that - we certainly all knew it was a bomb scare). Mike Summerbee picked up the match ball and shook it which caused a lot of laughter.

The noise of the generator was pretty loud - I'm sure BTSport would have made a comment about the generator being noisier than the crowd if they'd been around then!
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I remember being there although everyone thinks I am mad when I mention it. Glad it has been verified
 
The grumpy old git running the souvenir shop (was it somebody Philipps) the gorgeous young blonde who also worked there (mid to late 80's cant remember her name), Pink Final, Jesus has sinned or whatever those signs said, entering a rammed Kippax an hour before the game, coming home richer than when I went due to the various coins flung, sitting down on the Kippax when bored, singing the names of virtually all the players just before the game and booing them if they didn't wave, trying to catch the bus home and finding a seat and then as I started to drive hoping that the car was being 'minded', trying to work out the attendance and then laughing along with everyone else when it was announced, Mr Banks has left the building, fanzines, the list is endless
 
Bovril
lack of toilets
Not being able to get a beer(Somethings never change)
Balti Pies
Giving abuse to the away fans caged in the the corner
The whole of the kippax giving abuse to away team players who were usually better than ours.
As a kid being passed over peoples heads to sit at the front.
The wave of people in the stand when we scored
The witty jibes from the fans when we were a rely poor team.
 
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