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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'ss history for many years to come.

Plymouth Argyle Heritage Archive.
April 2024

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

Paul Mariner, shoulder high

The chairman welcomes supporters to the new disabled facility

PICTURES OF THE DAY
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  • MATCH OF THE DAY: 17 DECEMBER

    • 17 December 1994Division Two

      Rocky Shilton's Horror Show

      Brentford  7 - 0  Argyle

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    • 17 December 1993Division Two

      Super Steve Hits Fastest Argyle Hat-Trick

      Stockport County  2 - 3  Argyle

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    • 17 December 1966Division Two

      A Brace for Banks on Home Park Debut

      Argyle  4 - 1  Bury

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    • 17 December 1960Division Two

      Argyle's Worst Ever Defeat

      Stoke City  9 - 0  Argyle

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  • ON THIS DAY

  • 1960: An extraordinary week is Argyle's history. Four days after holding the mighty Aston Villa in the 4th round of the League Cup (featured here), the Pilgrims suffered their worst defeat ever, a 9-0 humiliation at Stoke City. The shambles began with a gift after just 30 seconds, and so it continued against a side with the lowest scoring record in the division, just 18 goals before this match. Whether 'keeper Geoff Barnsley was fit to play was a major talking point - he took to the field with two black eyes and a swollen nose after serious injury at Villa Park - but ten others were equally to blame. Watch out for another strange event, just two days later in the League Cup replay when the game was abandoned after 90 minutes!

  • 1993: Stockport County 2 Argyle 3; Steve Castle scored the fastest hat-trick in Argyle's history (50th, 55th and 56th minutes).

  • 2005: Nick Chadwick scored the fastest ever goal at Home Park, timed at 11.23 seconds, in the 2-0 defeat of Crystal Palace. With the second coming four minutes into added time, the game probably contained the longest period of play between goals ever seen at Home Park.

  • BORN THIS DAY

    • 1959: Alan Walker - 2 games, 1 goal in 1992.

    When defensive lynchpin Andy 'Jock' Morrison sustained a suspected broken leg in September 1992, manager Peter Shilton put out a desperate appeal for ... more

    1970: Morrys Scott - 8 games, no goals in 1991.

    David Kemp's reign as Argyle manager in the early 1990s is best remembered for its agricultural style of football and bargain-busting transfer policy. Striker ... more

    1974: Paul McGregor - 90 games, 24 goals between 1999 and 2001.

    A product of the Nottingham Forest youth system, McGregor burst onto the scene during Forest’s 1995-96 UEFA Cup campaign, but his career did not progress from ... more

    1988: Craig Sutherland - 9 games, 1 goal between 2011 and 2012.

    Sutherland joined Argyle on a two-month loan from Blackpool in November 2011. He began his career with George Watson's College in his hometown of Edinburgh, ... more


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