MANCHESTER CITY: MAINE ROAD THE HISTORY

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF

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@barryh.4220 3 жыл бұрын

A proper football ground, full of history, full of memories ... and the british crowd record!

@dnstone1127 2 жыл бұрын

Not a British club ground record, that is Rangers Ibrox stadium - 118,567

@nkskro80 5 жыл бұрын

Only visited Maine Road once when my team Birmingham won in the 97/98 season I think it was & it was the same season Man City dropped into the 3rd division. How times have changed for them in the last 20 years.

@brandonmasters8996 2 жыл бұрын

Yep.. I know this is a reply very late but I remember that game well. Dele Adebola slotted the winner really late that day.

@billmorris8358 4 жыл бұрын

In a different life, many years ago, in 1974, when I was 17, I very briefly worked at Maine Rd, on the great Stan Gibson's groundstaff team. Although I was there a few months, I left with so many memories. But the picture that bings a memory back is the final picture. On the top of the arms supporting the roof of the North Stand, you can see small bands at intervals along each arm. This was called I recall 'Flash band', it stopped expansion of the joints in hot weather. I was once instructed to climb up onto the North Stand roof to help the contractor bring down all his equipment when he finished the job. The sheets that made up the roof was so thin, a missed placed foot would allow you see the seats underneath! The view was amazing, but you made certain to watch where you placed your feet!

@SIRDKA 4 жыл бұрын

Scary place to go as an away fan in the 70's

@crb6468 5 жыл бұрын

Still home for me but don’t think we’d be where we are today if we didn’t move.

@indiekiddrugpatrol3117 5 жыл бұрын

CRB Premier you would, there was plenty of room to expand, you’d still have been bought by a big owner you’d just have a stadium more comparable to Anfield or Villa park

@samdazliammurfitt1545 4 жыл бұрын

@@indiekiddrugpatrol3117 im a man city fan and ur talkin fax

@barryh.4220 3 жыл бұрын

It's was just a case of accepting the offer of moving into the brand new City of Manchester stadium after the Commonwealth games had finished, so that the stadium would become reguarly used, and not left as an unwanted 'white elephant' , something that Manchester City council certainly didn't want ........ the fact that it held around 15,000 more people than Maine Road did was also an attraction to City.

@liamjohnson7887 2 жыл бұрын

@@indiekiddrugpatrol3117 the etihad campus is huge, you would have had to knock down half of the houses in moss side to replicate that at maine road. Would have never been bought out by mansour if they were still at maine road.

@tomben6180 Ай бұрын

@@indiekiddrugpatrol3117There was room to expand half of it, but the North Stand was too close to the houses behind.

@MrVorpalsword 4 жыл бұрын

I've visited Maine Road a couple of times, it was a vast hotch-potch totally disorganised - seats plonked where there had been stairs down the stand - and that last big stand where the Kippax was, nothing seemed to fit together ... how long did that stand last before they pulled it all down?

@bluemoon905 3 жыл бұрын

Opened, properly, for the 95/96 season. Pulled down at the end of the 02/03 season.

@neilshaw5404 2 жыл бұрын

South Stand? Try Platt Lane

@rizkyramadhan9768 4 жыл бұрын

Music name?

@dipanjandas 3 жыл бұрын

ikson paradise

@swaldron5558 4 жыл бұрын

I remember in 1970s to 1980s there was world’s worst men’s public toilets at behind of Kippax Stand.

@barryh.4220 3 жыл бұрын

You should have tried the ones at Oxford United !

@jackplant6903 5 жыл бұрын

i was born in the year it was demolished so sadly i never got to see it

@AS-rf6rw 5 жыл бұрын

me too

@ispyeu1149 4 жыл бұрын

jack plant born 2005 wish I could have been

@tomben6180 3 жыл бұрын

@@ispyeu1149 How young are you lot haha. I had a season ticket the last 3 years. One thing I can honestly say is the fan base was so different when we moved. Maine Road was ferocious. We crossed the half way line and everyone stood up roaring the players on. Songs used to echo every minute from the North Stand. The minute we stepped into the City of Manc Stadium (Etihad), something had died at the club.

@ispyeu1149 3 жыл бұрын

@@tomben6180 15 innit, season ticket holder since 2008

@tomben6180 3 жыл бұрын

@@ispyeu1149 Fair play mate. You were lucky to miss the 1990’s 😉

@Ellinon_Vasileus 5 жыл бұрын

I thought Etihad was build on Maine road that it was a conversion of the old stadium... I feel little sad when teams leave their traditional ground!!!

@janeeccleston9196 4 жыл бұрын

Χαράλαμπος Βεζακιάδης Our first real big ground was Hyde road ,very close to where we are now..Part of that ground burnt down at that is why we moved to moss side .We are now very close to where the club originated from .

@barryh.4220 3 жыл бұрын

All that stands on the land where Maine Road once was is a rather odd Iooking modern housing development that they have since built, it struggles to fit in with the maze of terraced streets and alleyways that surround it ..... it's hard to believe that a football ground was ever there when you go back to Moss Side and look at it now. The Etihad has been built on land in Bradford, Manchester, that's now commonly known as Eastlands .... Bradford Pit/Colliery once stood there, as did Johnson's wire works. ....I was born just across the road from it. They have started building an arena next to it to rival the MEN Arena in the city centre ... it's said to be even bigger!

@novohomem8744 2 жыл бұрын

RIP Vincent Calderón

@Ellinon_Vasileus 2 жыл бұрын

@@novohomem8744 Yeah as it happens I like Atletico de Madrid and as much as I understand the magnificent appeal of Mediterraneo, the aura of the historic Vicente Calderon was something else!!

@greatbeautician 2 жыл бұрын

Nice collection of photos, but the music is unbearable!

@davidsmythe9266 3 жыл бұрын

Happy Days lived by Alex Park

@tokyohands 3 жыл бұрын

Although by 2000 the stadium was looking a mess, having been poorly redeveloped, it looked like a big site. Did they really need to move away from it??

@tomben6180 Ай бұрын

Yes. It was a no brainer. It’s no coincidence we got bought out by billionaires twice within 5 years of moving. Albeit one turned out to not have the money 😂

@dennisesplin3285 2 жыл бұрын

Jehova Witnesses held national convention there. Cleaned Main Road within an inch of its life. Sad to see old fashioned British style stadium gone.

@kochstevens3210 3 жыл бұрын

it looks & feels like a football stadium with character.. not like the cold concrete stadiums they build now that all look the same... boring..

@waz3128 3 жыл бұрын

The last quarter of this video should be renamed how to ruin a vintage football ground in 10 years. What a mess. Makes the Etihad seem like a beautiful stadium.