Maine Road was Manchester City's home for 80 years and is still loved despite 20 years of breaking new ground at the Etihad
"It was like a rollercoaster but it was like going down that rollercoaster hill for 90 minutes where everybody just cheers. It was insane."
"No matter how tired you were, because of the fans you always managed to get out that extra shot or run or tackle. When you're giving a team something and the fans are behind you it becomes a daunting place and when we were playing well it became like that but it was few and far in those days. "The Kippax were fantastic when things were going well but I had a couple of bad years, particularly the years we were struggling against relegation. When we played Luton [in 1983 when defeat saw City relegated], I came in for a bit of stick from the crowd but then the years we achieved anything - when we got promotion against Charlton and then the FA Cup Final in 1981 and I was voted Supporters Player of the Year so I had a mixed relationship with the Kippax Street.
After the disappointing downturn in the 1980s, more problems followed in the next decade and City found themselves in the third tier of English football. Despite the tumble down the leagues, the club refused to accept their new position and their fan defiantly refused to give up on them. "Liam walked up to the away end and stuck two fingers up, they were trying to get on the pitch and kill him and then he walked to the Kippax, got to the halfway line, sparkled a fag up and the Kippax just erupted.
"Even though we didn't win anything from 1976 to when we left Maine Road, I can still think of lots of fantastic games of football - Brian Horton when we beat Spurs 5-3, losing to Spurs in the quarter-final of the FA Cup when we thought we would win it. The worst one I can remember is the Luton one. I was sat in the North Stand that day behind the goal where Raddy Antic scored.
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