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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

From the video/DVD back-cover:

A hundred years of professional football at Plymouth Argyle has produced legends and folklore, heroes and classics, and games and goals that will live forever in the memory.

Now, for the first time, those games and those goals are captured exclusively in one bumper video.

Some of the Argyle fans' favourites guide you through the seasons. From Alex Govan in the fifties, via Mike Bickle, Paul Mariner, Tommy Tynan and up to the present with Paul Wotton, this unique video features a dozen Argyle personalities who have been in the spotlight in the Theatre of Greens.

There is goal action and memories from all of the promotions of the last thirty years, while excusive action from the film vaults pits Argyle against the big guns in one FA Cup and two League Cup semi-final campaigns.

But it is maybe other games that will stir the affections of Argyle fans: the day Mike Bickle beat Swindon a week after they won the League Cup; Hughie Reed's diving header against Torquay; and the night England paraded their World Cup at Home Park.

Other unforgettable highlights include the visit of Pele and Santos; Jim Furnell's penalty save against crystal Palace; and  - in the heartbreaking category - those agonising defeats at the hands of Burnley in 1990s.

The crowd scenes at games like the Colchester play-off win and the big day at Wembley show the depth of Argyle support and this goal-packed video shows the breadth of the club's playing adventures over their first 100 years. If you were there for those games, you'll want to be reminded; if you were not there, then enjoy these moments for the very first time.

Edited and narrated by Rick Cowdery

Executive producer: Gary Lovejoy

The following video clips are have been extracted from PAFC100, a PAFC production created from material owned by The South West Film & Television Archive, and reproduced with their kind permission:

Introduction 

League Div 2, 1964-65
Argyle 3 Manchester City 2

FA Cup, 1993-94
Argyle 2 Barnsley 2

 

A personal view:

This is Argyle's second major video production this year, and like the first  - The Dream Season, 1975 - it's a wonderful record of the very best of times in the Pilgrims' history.   This production is simply a must for all Argyle fans.  If you haven't bought it already, you really must - it's a cracker!

About the Producer:

Gary Lovejoy was born and bred in Plymouth and came back to work for Westward TV from 1977-82. Since then he has lived in Hampshire and abroad, but, as with so many, his blood remains deep green.

As Gary says:

"What PAFC100 shows is how the fans have had to ride the green roller coaster, for many of us it’s a lifetime in two hours on VHS or DVD. So Argyle fans, buy the two offerings or there may not be more productions like them in the future.  Argyle Media may have had a great time producing them but they have to make a profit so let’s see less ManYoo Goal rubbish in stockings around the world.  Buy Green this Centenary Christmas!"

Click here to read Gary's full account.

 

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