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best end or side !!

Mon Dec 06, 2010 9:18 am

Apart from Bob Bank or Grange end that took your breath away !
went there a few times in the 1970's It was Huge !!
Kippax stand Man City

also the
old Holte end at Villa


http://www.mcfc.co.uk/news/club-news/20 ... ory-060410

http://www.oldgrounds.co.uk/old_holte_e ... a_park.htm

Re: best end or side !!

Mon Dec 06, 2010 9:26 am

Kippax stand in the 80s that was mental being surrounded by Man city fans in our Cage. But to be fair Man City fans crapped themselves at our support that day and ran more than once :lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: best end or side !!

Mon Dec 06, 2010 9:29 am

Steve the Kippax was Huge !!! I remember going there in the late 1970's it was massive! must of held 30k in one stand in those days !

Re: best end or side !!

Mon Dec 06, 2010 12:12 pm

For sheer size, you only have to look at Charlton at the old Valley ground - absolutely staggering that terrace of theirs in the 70's :shock:

Re: best end or side !!

Mon Dec 06, 2010 12:30 pm

The Bank in Merthyr!

We are the famous the famous wank bank! :D

Re: best end or side !!

Mon Dec 06, 2010 12:34 pm

The end at the valley in the 70's has got to be one of the biggest, absolutely huge. Whoever the achitect was who designed that must have been very optimistic at the time.

Re: best end or side !!

Mon Dec 06, 2010 12:36 pm

Don't laugh but Port vales stands were huge in the 90's when I went there! they must of been big once!

Fishy I forgot about Merthyr! thats a given. :ayatollah:

Re: best end or side !!

Mon Dec 06, 2010 1:09 pm

The old south bank at wolves was massive. It may surprise some, but there was an article written back in the seventies which said that the old bob bank terrace when measured from the back down to the pitch by the halfway line, was the largest in the football league.

Re: best end or side !!

Mon Dec 06, 2010 1:32 pm

I remember my first visit to NP and I just couldn't believe how big the stand was. To a 7 year old, it seemed absolutely enormous.

Apparently, the Holte End is the biggest stand-alone end in Europe

Re: best end or side !!

Mon Dec 06, 2010 1:56 pm

Also that huge grandstand at elland road leeds is the biggest cantilever stand in Britain.

Re: best end or side !!

Mon Dec 06, 2010 1:57 pm

the old stretford end at Man Utd was big £3 to get in pay on gate until the early 90's !

http://www.tshirtsunited.com/catalogue/ ... d-end.html

Re: best end or side !!

Mon Dec 06, 2010 1:59 pm

placid-casual wrote:the old stretford end at Man Utd was big £3 to get in pay on gate until the early 90's !

http://www.tshirtsunited.com/catalogue/ ... d-end.html

I remember going to my first game in London, Tottenham v Man United in 1984. Paid £2.20 to stand on The Shelf. There were fights galore that day

Re: best end or side !!

Mon Dec 06, 2010 2:10 pm

When we played man utd down here in 74 I think it was only 70 pence to get in the grangend :lol: