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Greens on Screen started its life in 1999 before many of the football sites that we are familiar with today, including Plymouth Argyle's own official site. Greens on Screen is dedicated to the sights, sounds and history of Plymouth Argyle Football club. It is owned and run by the Plymouth Argyle Heritage Archive, a charity dedicated to the promotion, preservation, and display of the heritage of our great football club.

The site owes its existence to Steve Dean. Without Steve's dedication and commitment for over 25 years, GoS would not exist and be the valued and loved resource for all football fans that it is today. The site is truly the envy of many clubs, and we owe a huge debt to Steve for his tireless work, and continued support behind the scenes.

Greens on Screen's first page was published in January 1999. Its early purpose was to bring Plymouth Argyle a little closer to those unable to see their team, and whilst it has changed a great deal over the years, its core themes - sights and sounds for Westcountry exiles - still stand. The site was very lucky to take on the content of Trevor Scallan's Semper Viridis in the summer of 2007, and in 2009 launched GoS-DB, a wealth of facts and figures from PAFC's history. A year later, we embarked on a complete history of Argyle, with much-valued contributions from chapter authors. Greens on Screen was taken over by its new custodians, The Argyle Archive, in 2024.

Greens on Screen is an amateur website and proud of it. It is run by a team of volunteers from the Plymouth Argyle Heritage Archive (Argyle Archive). Without the hard work and much-valued contributions of these volunteers, running the site would not be possible. Greens on Screen is self-taught and as a result, a little bit quirky.

Greens on Screen remains advertisement free, which means we are grateful for the generous support of our donors and the work of our volunteers to help keep it free of promotions. If you would like to support the work of Greens on Screen, please consider donating to the Plymouth Argyle Heritage Archive.

GoS's sole aim is to be a service to fellow supporters, and we look forward to continuing to celebrate Argyle's history for many years to come.

Plymouth Argyle Heritage Archive.
April 2024

Welcome to the sights, sounds and history of Plymouth Argyle Football Club

The new roof and beyond

The newly-crowned 1951-52 Third Division champions on their way from the station to a civic reception

PICTURES OF THE DAY
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  • MATCH OF THE DAY: 18 SEPTEMBER

    • 18 September 1926Division Three South

      Another Hat-Trick for Jack Cock

      Argyle  4 - 0  Watford

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  • ON THIS DAY

  • 1971: Mike Bickle became the first Argyle substitute to score at Home Park, some six years after number 12s had been introduced into English Football. Bickle's goal, his last ever for his home town club, rescued a point in a 2-2 draw with Tranmere Rovers. Just under two years earlier, Bickle had become the first Argyle substitute to score when he netted at Doncaster Rovers.

  • 2011: With only one point from the first nine games of the season and Argyle firmly at the bottom of the Football League, Peter Reid was given the sack by Peter Ridsdale, so ending 15 months as manager during a period of financial meltdown for the club.

  • 2021: Argyle came from 2-1 down to win 3-2 at Devon rivals, Exeter City. Former Grecian, Martin Phillips, scored the Greens' opener and provided crosses for Mickey Evans and Ian Stonebridge to head the second and third goals respectively. Stonebridge's winner came in the last minute to send the travelling Green Army wild.

  • BORN THIS DAY

    • 1907: Harry Brown - 46 games, 12 goals between 1936 and 1938.

    Born in Kirkcaldy, Brown started his career as a youth with Wemyss Athletic before coming to the attention of Hibernian, where he played 113 times and scored ... more

    1932: Reg Wyatt - 216 games, 2 goals between 1955 and 1964.

    Plymouth-born Wyatt joined Argyle in 1950 from Astor Institute, having played for the same Plymouth Schoolboys side as Peter Anderson and he also later played ... more

    1949: Peter Shilton - 43 games, no goals between 1992 and 1993.

    Peter Shilton OBE is without doubt one of English football's genuine legends. He won 125 full international caps for his country, played in three World Cups ... more

    1950: Ian Pearson - 25 games, 1 goal between 1974 and 1984.

    Pearson was a schoolteacher and a part-time professional who had two spells at Home Park, almost a decade apart, and whose career dipped in and out of the ... more

    1951: Gordon Nisbet - 334 games, 16 goals between 1981 and 1987.

    Despite his roots in the North East - Nisbet was born in Wallsend and had represented Northumberland Schools - his first professional club was West Bromwich ... more

    1954: Lindsay Smith - 97 games, 8 goals between 1982 and 1984.

    Few Argyle fans of a certain age will fail to remember the perpetually and distinctively knee-strapped presence of Lindsay Smith at the heart of the defence. ... more

    1966: Robbie Turner - 77 games, 19 goals between 1990 and 1992.

    Mainly a tall, target-man type of forward throughout his career, Turner was born in Littlethorpe, near Ripon, North Yorkshire. He started his career at ... more

    1975: Howard Forinton - 9 games, 3 goals between 1998 and 1999.

    A young striker who joined Argyle on-loan from Birmingham City just in time for Christmas 1998, Forinton enjoyed a memorable two months at Home ... more


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