To get in touch, please write to [email protected]

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

Goal celebrations in the Championship days

'Out they come' for visitors in 2020-21

PICTURES OF THE DAY
Click to expand

  • MATCH OF THE DAY: 13 SEPTEMBER

    • 13 September 1952Division Two

      Victory From the Jaws of Defeat

      Argyle  4 - 3  Rotherham United

      [See More]

  • ON THIS DAY

  • 1909: Raymond Bowden was born in Looe. His Argyle career began at the age of 17, having scored 100 goals in one season in junior football. He achieved a rare ratio of more than one goal every two games in his seven seasons at Home Park, before a £5,000 transfer to Arsenal (a record fee for both clubs), where he won two championship medals, an FA Cup winners medal and six caps for England. He returned to Plymouth after the war and for many years, with his brother, ran a sports shop in the city. He lived his final years in a Plymouth residential home until his death in 1998.

  • BORN THIS DAY

    • 1905: John Oakes - 37 games, no goals between 1947 and 1948.

    Oakes's career began in junior football with Teeside club Cargo Fleet and he also played for the Chilton Colliery side before joining Nottingham Forest. After ... more

    1909: Ray Bowden - 153 games, 85 goals between 1927 and 1933.

    Born in Looe, Bowden started out in Cornish football with his local team. After scoring over 100 goals for Looe in one season as a 17-year-old, he signed for ... more

    1930: Arthur Morgan - 37 games, 4 goals between 1954 and 1956.

    Born in Ogmore in South Wales, Morgan began his professional career with Swansea Town, having previously played for the British Army. He spent nearly five ... more

    1948: Peter Middleton - 1 game, 1 goal in 1972.

    Middleton's all too short career began as an apprentice with the club he supported as a boy, Sheffield Wednesday. Despite becoming a member of the first team ... more

    1968: Mark Patterson - 154 games, 3 goals between 1993 and 1997.

    Born in Leeds, Patterson started his career further north with Carlisle United. Starting as a trainee at Brunton Park, he turned professional in 1986 and, ... more

    1987: Simon Walton - 66 games, 9 goals between 2008 and 2012.

    Walton began his career with hometown club Leeds United and made his debut aged just 16. After struggling to break into the first team he joined Charlton ... more

    1989: Bondz N'Gala - 37 games, 1 goal between 2010 and 2011.

    N'Gala initially joined Argyle on a short-term loan from West Ham United, the club with which he began his career. After progressing through the West Ham youth ... more

    1991: Sonny Bradley - 96 games, 11 goals between 2016 and 2018.

    Born in Kingston upon Hull, Bradley joined his hometown club as a seven-year-old and made his way through the Hull City youth ranks. After a loan at Harrogate ... more


Greens on Screen is run as a service to fellow supporters, in all good faith, without commercial or private gain. We have no wish to abuse copyright regulations and apologise unreservedly if this occurs. If you own any of the material on this site, and object to its inclusion, please get in touch using the 'Contact Us' button at the top of the page.