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I feel sorry for the younger fans who never experienced the magic of Maine Road. I was in a crammed Kippax and there is nothing like it for sheer noise and atmosphere. It was also a great day out: the pub crawl, the curry mile, walking through terraced streets and alleyways in Moss Side and the walk back to town. Loved the place and still miss it.
I was a serving soldier, in Northern Ireland and was buzzing that I had a ticket for that last game at Maine Rd v Southampton. Due to operational commitments, a leave ban was imposed and I couldn't go. I literally cried when I was told 😭 The result wasn't exactly sticking to the script, but would've loved to have been there. It's a brilliant feeling to win a cup, or a league and I've so many fond memories, but to miss an 'end-of-an-era' event like that was so disappointing Great vid 👏👏👏😁
Great upload, went to my first game at Maine Road in 1978 as an 8 year old, went hundreds of times after and was lucky enough to be at the last ever game in 2003, the last time I went, was to lay flowers at the ground for Marc Vivian Foe, after his tragic and untimely death a few weeks after I saw him play for City in the last game, I haven't been back to Maine Road since, too heartbreaking, I couldn't handle not seeing the old girl there anymore.
Same as you..Was 8 in 78 and went for the first time in Platt Lane.I eventually got into the Kippax when i was 12 with my old man watching me and my mates with binoculars from his spot in Platt Lane making sure we didnt piss about :)
Remember running on the pitch at half time to get Berts autograph got lots of cheers would get thrown out today loved Maine Road and miss it still xx ps i think i was about 6 yrs old !
I had a season ticket for the final 3 seasons there as a teenager. The atmosphere for that last ever derby was as loud and intense as I ever remember. I do miss the ground but we wouldn’t be where we are now had we not moved. Great memories (some bad) Thanks for this 👍🏻
@@MarlboroughBlenheim1 The takeover would probably not have happened without the stadium move. East Manchester is prime real estate for building. Maine Road could not provide this space in Moss Side. Plus the stadium was ready made with minimum development needed.
I went to one City game at Maine Road back in March 2003 with my Dad. Robbie Fowler scored that day against Birmingham and we won 1-0. Being from Ireland, we never got the opportunity to see City. Unknowingly, my dad was suffering from cancer at the time and passed away in December of the same year - so I guess he fulfilled his dream that day. This video brought back so many good memories - I remember being down at the platt lane training ground and having a look around. Time definitely goes quick.
Thank you so much for this vid blue. Maine road was a gem of a ground in a rough area. I had a season ticket in windy corner for a few seasons... open to the elements. I was there for the 5-1 massacre and the Paul lake tongue swallowing against Leicester...so many memories...never forget where we came from CTID 💙
Superb video mate. Gives a great sense to the history of the area and your passion for the history of the club is clear to see. Not a city fan myself but I understand how history is so important in football, particularly as a Spurs fan! Great video. Good luck next season
Hi thank you for explaining everything about man city I’m a man city fan that comes from france so I don’t have the occasion to go to the etihad it really helped me about the history of the club and it’s interesting too! COME ON CITY 💙
Albeit a United fan, I think my Dad was at either that Stoke game in 1934 or similar later with a vast crowd in the 75000+ category. I think what was always wonderful about this ground was that it was plum centre to where the fans who support City lived.
Nice post. Funnily enough, as a blue, my great grandfather grew up in Moss Side but was a red. He started supporting Utd when they borrowed Maine Road 1945-1949. He’d take my grandad to watch both and then gave him a choice in the 50s. My grandad chose City and then my entire family been blues since.
I really enjoyed this video when I was first into football I remember City and United head to head back in 67/68 I follow the reds but always thought Maine road was the more interesting ground and of course post-WW2 United played their home games at Maine road. So thanks for this smart little walk-around video and I could feel the passion, good job!
LFC fan here, but around 1996 /7 my dad won a competition to go and meet a couple of city players at that ground, I was only 14 and wasn’t really keen to go obviously (being a massive Liverpool fan) I met Jeff Whitley / mark Kennedy who were very friendly and an older gent I can’t recall. I got to go in the directors box etc, it was quite an impressive view from there. Great video, all the best!
Nice touch lads, thanks for taken me to a place I regrettably haven’t been before. 45 years couch supporter down devon, I’ve cried & celebrated over the years. It’s been a long old Hall but were at the top just where we belong.
My great grandad grew up in Moss Side but ended up supporting Utd as he watched them when they borrowed our ground 1945-1949. Thankfully he took my grandad to watch both and allowed him to choose - he chose City and we’ve had 3 generations of blues since.
Great video again mate. Shocked to hear you wasn't even born before the move. Makes me feel even older than I am! You would have loved the good old days in the late '70's. Emerging out of an alley way to see the majestic Kippax in front of you. The smell of the vendors with their push carts selling undercooked pink hambutgers, buying one but regretting it later. Through the turnstile with your Junior Season Ticket to walk up the steps then emerge at the top of the Kippax with the lush green pitch in view, expectantly awaiting for your beloved Blues to put on a good show and win. Those days were my formative years and have shaped me into the person I am today. You had to be there to actually appreciate what I mean.
Over summer last year I worked as a gardener and one of the jobs was to cut the grass you were kicking the ball on, the centre circle and a little on kippax street, I loved going there every time as I was born in 2005 and never got to see Maine road in person
I had a season ticket for the Kippax from 1980 until 1995, then one for the North stand until 2001. Great video and it brings back lots of memories, some good, some not so good. Unfortunately, that was what it was like at Maine road. So many highs and lows. Great to see our boys doing so well these days. CTID!
Good video. Missing Maine Rd. If City had not moved to what we jow know as the Eitihad, the current owners may not have bought the club. They were looking to buy a football club. Not one in praticular.
fantastic video mate. I'm not a City fan but always loved the look of Maine Road - a proper football ground. My team (Swansea) left its old home of the Vetch almost 100 years and into a stadium that much like City (only on a smaller scale!) saw the club's most successful years ever. Like your dad, I've got my old seat at home now! Good luck for this season :-)
Great video. Brought me back many memories of the day’s when Frank Mason Advertising did the perimeter signs, when they were all hand written. Also we did the signs , all hand written, high above the stands. Saturday morning was spent washing the signs as overtime. As City was always on Match of the day, back in the 70s. Happy days.
Brought back a lot of memories, back in 1974, I was 17, and was fortunate enough to work for City, on the ground-staff of Stan Gibson’s team. I was only there for the closed season of 1974. The picture of Stan with the stage behind him made me smile. I worked the very first concert ever held at Maine Road. It was a David Cassidy concert, supported by Showaddywaddy, ask you your dad! The stage was set up n front of the main stand, so it only was that stand that was occupied, but you’d be amazed what damage an army of ticketless pre-pubescent school girls can do! The tricky part was getting the star of the show onto the stage from the player’s tunnel, without causing a riot! So it was decided to smuggle him on to the stage dressed as a St John Ambulance member, dressing him in a long heavy coat and a St John peaked cap pulled down over his eyes and got him to help carry a stretcher to the back of the stage. Pictures do exist on line if you do a search for David Cassidy 1974 Maine Road concert. Other memories were working on the pitch, climbing on the roof of the North Stand, and feeling the palpable eeriness of being given the keys and told to lock the ground up, and being the only living soul inside the ground. I have since moved my allegiance to non league football. But back in the early, mid 70s I was a staunch City fan. Thanks for a great video.
Really interesting video, I'm a red and had some very happy memories of maine Road, especially the 1990 semi final dog fight with Oldham, the city 5 united 1 was an awful day, obviously not for you lot.. I used to enjoy our away days at maine Road, always a really tense atmosphere, it really is unbelievable where city are now compared to the maine Road days, and that's a complete understatement..
In 1957 at the age of 11 I watched Man C v Fulham at Maine Road. Don Revie was centre forward and Bert Trautmann was in goal. For Fulham, Johnny Haynes, the first 100 pounds a week footballer was playing. I recall it was all standing attendance and there were 60,000 watching. Cost about 4 pence for me to get in. Around 1968 I was at university studying mining engineering. In order to knock off time to get my 'managers ticket' and to make some money, I worked my Christmas vacation time at Bradford Colliery which is where the Etihad stadium is now. The mine is long closed but I sometimes watch for two big holes to appear in the pitch where the mine shafts were. Don't worry, they are well clear of the pitch.
Good Video. Life moves on, I love the older stadiums. I worked around Selhurst for a while and Palace‘s ground is still old school. Back in The 90s Spurs used to Train at Mill Hill and it was owned by Camden Council, I used to watch them train from the Street. I went to all the London stadiums growing up and some you could just walk into on the weekday. Times have changed.
This was the place where 85k city fans came together in 1934 at an FA cup fixture, this was where city got relegated many times and came back up this was the place where city had so many iconic moments CTID💙💙💙
Good video I visited Maine road once as a sunderland fan in 2003 think it might of been city’s last win there? Miss these old grounds just like our roker park in the heart of the community.
Thanks for the video, my first match was a 1-0 loss to Villa a Gary Shaw goal in 1983. I then didn't miss many games until 1996. Saw the 10-1 victory over Huddersfield and 3 hat tricks, all the Derby games, but the 5-1 massacre was extra special as had all the 1986 FA Youth cup winning player's in it. Some extraordinary FA cup quarterfinal ties v Liverpool and Spurs. Kinkladze solo goal v Southampton and Terry Phelan's mazy dribble through the Spurs side. Lots of Quinn, Rosler and White goals. Went with 4 of my mates and stood on the Kippax 💙💙💙
Great story guys, I’m a West Ham fan so understand how a move feels, great to see other fans share their thoughts. Shame we have have the success you have had but we are chasing you (ha). Great clip.
As a City fan i have been going since 1969, and one of my first home games at Maine Road was against West Ham, on a mudbath of a pitch due to heavy rain .... we actually scored first, but you have Jimmy graves making his debut and you soon turned things around ... you won 5-1 in the end, but I've never forgotten that game, and Ronnie Boyce scored a goal in a million that day!
You need to have a look around the Stagecoach depot on Hyde Road/Bennett Street one day. The weird railway tracks that split one of the stands are still there.
Leeds fan here! This vid is amazing 👏 Loved going to your old stomping ground, great times, didn't always come away with the points ! Remember John lukic being awful one night game. Always a good atmosphere 👌
Loved that away end. The sound reverberated off of the roof, also wooden bench type seats if I remember rightly. Saw Derby get relegated here. Early 90’s.
Leeds fan here, had many trips to Maine Road over the years. Always a dodgy ground to visit for us, lots of side streets where there was always a chance of getting ambushed by your mob. Still enjoyed going though, great atmosphere generated by both sets of fans and had some decent matches between us. Such a shame to see the old grounds with so much character and history no longer around. Been to the Etihad a couple of times and it doesn't get anywhere near to what Maine Road was like, none of the new stadiums do, unfortunately I suppose that's progress but to me I'd rather play in a shithole ground with a lot of passion than one of the new soulless arenas
Went to main road twice with Leeds, the classic FA Cup tie in 2000 and a PL game a few years later, great old stadium atmosphere for that cup game was off the scale.
I never saw City play there, but saw the Rolling Stones play there one time. Waited on the pitch in blazing sun from 1pm until the band came on (very late). Frazzled by the pyro on the stage. You could feel the magic of the space all afternoon before the band came on stage.
I still remember the first game I wemt to, my dad took my all the way from Denmark, where we lived for me to see his heroes. It was cold and we lost 1-2 to Barnsley, but a love for the club, the fans and the City was born! I've always been a City fan, just like my father and his father before him but that day is still so clear to me even tho I was only 6. I will follow this club wherever it goes through rain, hail and snow through relegation through promotion all the way up to the trophy with the big ears and down again 💙🏆🏆🏆 CTID
Just been watching your video with your father about the old Main Road memories for myself being the groundsman from 1976 to 1981 the year we won the League Cup with Dennis Stewart and also Peter Barnes scoring the first goal at Wembley against Newcastle United I was 16 at the time Stan Gibson was the groundsman old Albert wealth and Dave and Paul and myself Kevin all in 1976 now I am 63 to see City win the travel and the Super Cup come on City year 2023 to 24 thank you for the memories from Kevin ex groundsman
Used to play on what was the training ground you showed when it was the Police Club. They played in The Manchester Industrial League along with ICI, Mather and Platts, Conollys Cables and BEA Silver Wings. All great pitches but now housing estates etc.
My 1st game was in 1983.I was present when Luton send us down a few games later.My 1st Derby was the 5-1 massacre in 89 ha.My old fella and me would walk from burnage every home game and like you said we witnessed lots watching city in them days.Me and my pal were the first bricklayers on the new ground and my pal let me lay the first block on the job which was cool for me.When we moved grounds myself my wife and my dad all sat together until my old fella passed away in 2006 and then tragically in 2014 my wife lost her life in a road traffic accident.But at least Emma was sat next to me was Sergio won us the league and thats a memory for me I'll have forever. Great video,up the blues.
What history as a Everton fan you can never say to city fans where were you while you were shite city's supported there teams always been there great fans
Interesting stuff...from a utd fan, I do have bad memories of the 5-1 defeat 😞...sparky got the best goal though 🤣....I also was at Maine rd to see simple minds in 91 with stranglers & omd as support 👍
My memories; Sat in Marion seats in Platt Lane in Junior Blues section. Other Platt Lane bench colours were yellow and blue IIRC. City chippy, mind your car sir, queueing for 12 hours for a Gillingham ticket, actually running a line as a linesman in a City old boys friendly, having the same spot standing on the Kippax and the amount of times you would surge forward when City scored and falling. Watching reserves when 1st team were away and the scoreboard would say latest score from wherever City were playing. So many memories!
i used to live in ladybarn not far from here around 2007 and the stadium was still there. all four sides proudly poking above the houses. shame they just got rid. money wins every time
Remember going down there for Manchester City vs Blackpool first game of the season when you were in what is now league one. The game was sold out and as we walked to the away end there were loads of city fans wandering outside the ground shouting "anyone have spare tickets!?". Anyway, my team Blackpool lost 2-0 I think that day but the atmosphere in and around the stadium was electric, for a third division game, when most other fanbases would have been understandably downbeat about their circumstances. Kippax was a top 5 stand for me, almost looked like it shouldnt be able to stand up straight, odd but beautiful stand.
The reverse fixture at your place was a no score draw and too many City fans were packed into the away stand at the side of the pitch. Kids were put behind the goal in a condemed stand if memory serves correct. Bloomfield Road is a lot more modern now. I remember Weaver saving a one on one to keep scores level at one point. The game at Maine Road finished 3-0 although you had your chances early on with one lad hitting the bar with Weaver stranded.
My first visit to Maine Road as a kid in 1976, a night match under those famous floodlights. The sky blues, the combined smell of hot dogs, horse crap and lineament, then the noise as the blues came out. I was hooked.
I went to Heald Place Primary School and we used to walk to Maine Road on a Saturday from my Grandparents house in Platt View. My first pair of football boots were bought in Nobby Clarke’s Sports Shop under the Gaumont Cinema on Wilmslow Road. My grandad made me put dubbin on them! If remember my first game I went to as a toddler was against Wolves.
