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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 end of the Chisholm Lounge

A display at an Argyle Archive exhibition

PICTURES OF THE DAY
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  • MATCH OF THE DAY: 26 APRIL

    • 26 April 1975Division Three

      Bish! Bash! Posh! Peterborough Scupper Title Bid

      Peterborough United  1 - 0  Argyle

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    • 26 April 1952Division Three South

      Home Park Wecomes the Champions Home

      Argyle  2 - 2  Torquay United

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  • ON THIS DAY

  • 1947: Argyle 0 Birmingham 2; the first of a club record nine successive defeats (the last six games of that season and the first three of the next). It was the first season after the war, which had decimated the club and its facilities, but 'Resurgam': five years later ...

  • 1952: Argyle 2 Torquay 2, the last home game of a magnificent season, in which Argyle equalled the 107 goal record set by the 1925-26 side. This game was a typical anti-climax after promotion was secured three days earlier, but the result didn't matter. Over 28,000 packed Home Park to see Jack Chisholm lift the championship trophy, captain of what some would say was the greatest ever Argyle side: Shortt, Ratcliffe, Jones, Dougall, Chisholm, Porteous, Astall, Rattray, Tadman, Dews and Govan.

  • 1954: Stoke City 3 Argyle 2, 'Jumbo' Jack Chisholm's 188th and final game after five years at the club. By all accounts, he wasn't the most agile, he lacked speed, his ball control could have been better, he rarely left his penalty area - such was his fitness level - and from a medical point of view he should never have stepped on the pitch. Yet few have inspired as he did, an Argyle legend still remembered with great affection at Home Park today.

  • BORN THIS DAY

    • 1914: Ron Ferrier - 1 game, no goals in 1945.

    Although the Second World War was at an end, the Football League divided its competition into regional sections for the 1945-46 season because of the ... more

    1920: Pat McKenna - 1 game, no goals in 1953.

    McKenna began his career in Scottish Junior football with Blantyre Celtic before joining Aberdeen in 1944, where he was a teammate of Bill Strauss, George ... more

    1944: Ernie Machin - 70 games, 7 goals between 1972 and 1974.

    After beginning his career with Lancashire non-league side Nelson, Machin became the first player to be signed by Coventry City manager Jimmy Hill. It was a ... more

    2002: Luke Cundle - 27 games, 5 goals between 2023 and 2024.

    Cundle, born in Warrington in April 2002, came through the Wolverhampton Wanderers youth system to make his senior debut at the age of 17 in a League Cup tie ... more


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