What is the population of a town such as Chester, Guildford or St Albans? The answer is somewhere around eighty five thousand which is the number of people that got into Maine Road in 1934 to watch Manchester City play Stoke City in the FA Cup Sixth round. That is the biggest attendance at any English football league ground – ever. Neighbouring Old Trafford is third on the all-time list with eighty-two thousand attending Manchester United against Arsenal in Division One in 1935. These are staggering figures and fairly reflect the obsession with football within the city of Manchester. Make no mistake; Manchester City is a mighty football club with a top pedigree. In 1970, I had put my pin closest to the spot on a giant wall mounted treasure hunt map in the school hall wall and won a box of Arkitex. This was a civil engineering equivalent of Meccano for kids and consisted of brightly coloured panels and windows of all sizes that a budding, young architect could use to build amazing model structures. It was not until i visited Maine Road years later and saw the back of the main stand that i discovered anything in a ‘grown-up’ scale that looked similar. It was a truly brilliant piece of football architecture and the wonderful, corrugated roof moulding was equally delectable. The contract with the Victorian, utilitarian brick and mortar construction of the surrounding terraces houses was unique. Definitely one of my favourites.
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