With the exception of the fact that the children playing here, deep in Manchester's Moss Side, walk in the footsteps of legends, it is unremarkable in every sense and is a typical suburban setting.
Bell, Young, Tueart, Lee, Summerbee, and Bell. Here, they all played. Manchester's Maine Road used to be.
The historic center circle has been kept further on, down a few steps. A plaque designates the center location within it. On top is a plastic child's toy that need cleaning. The plaque, which pays homage to former Maine Road groundskeeper Stan Gibson, may still be read. Gibson was so devoted to the club that he resided in a home that was connected to its gift shop.
It was somewhere. Famous City center forward Dennis Tueart
Maine Road was replaced by City, nevertheless. They moved to a new house north and east of town this summer, 20 years ago. Under Kevin Keegan's leadership, the final game of that 2002–03 season was lost 1-0 at home against Southampton.
Pep Guardiola's club may win the Premier League, FA Cup, and Champions League triple in this season's final game against Inter in Istanbul on Saturday.
This is a walk, then. City's previous house and their new one are both accessible by foot. Moss Side in the south enters Manchester and Beswick in the east exits via the other side. The same way that City has impacted English football, they have also made their stamp on this community.
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The club's age-group players still started out in this £100 million training facility across the street from Etihad Stadium. Six-year-old Phil Foden was one of them.
This region served as City's geographic center during the heyday of Maine Road. chippy on Maine Road, terrible bars, and terraced streets. The stadium, which was built in 1923, holds the record for the largest English club crowd, with 84,569 fans jam-packed in for an FA Cup match against Stoke City a decade later.
However, Maine Road started to age around 2003. Former player Niall Quinn called it a "crumbling pile," and Keegan once threatened to cancel a game if the location wasn't fixed.
Tueart, who was by this time a board member, recalls, "We had to quit. Others all had brand-new stadiums. Why not, you ask?
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