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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 first Family Area in the mid-eighties

Yesterday's photo, 35 years later

PICTURES OF THE DAY
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  • MATCH OF THE DAY: 28 SEPTEMBER

    • 28 September 1957Division Three South

      Argyle Go Top, Exeter Drop to Bottom

      Argyle  1 - 0  Exeter City

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  • ON THIS DAY

  • 1953: The first floodlight game at Home Park: Argyle Reserves v Bournemouth Reserves.

  • 1977: The first Argyle lottery draw.

  • 1985: Jamie Mackie was born in Dorking, so 41 today.

  • BORN THIS DAY

    • 1936: Terry Stacey - 24 games, no goals between 1959 and 1961.

    Stacey was an England amateur international who played for Carshalton Athletic, and a former member of the Chelsea youth team, before arriving at Home Park in ... more

    1951: Paul Chapman - 3 games, no goals in 1970.

    Chapman was a young midfielder, who had joined Argyle as an apprentice after starring for the Plymouth & Devon Schoolboy teams. Originally born in Cardiff, ... more

    1954: Mike McCartney - 62 games, 6 goals between 1981 and 1983.

    McCartney was born in Musselburgh in 1954 and served his apprenticeship at The Hawthorns, although he failed to make a League appearance for West Brom and was ... more

    1966: Peter Swan - 31 games, 3 goals between 1994 and 1995.

    Signed from Port Vale for a club record £300,000 in the summer of 1994, Swan was supposedly the final piece in the jigsaw that would convert playoff failure ... more

    1985: Jamie Mackie - 102 games, 16 goals between 2008 and 2010.

    Mackie began his career at non-league Leatherhead before moving to Wimbledon and then Exeter City in the summer of 2005, having been released by the newly ... more

    1993: Jordan Copp - 1 game, no goals in 2011.

    Copp, born in Saltash, joined the Argyle Centre of Excellence when he was just nine years old. He played representative football for South-East Cornwall and ... more

    1996: Louis Rooney - 4 games, 2 goals between 2015 and 2017.

    From the other side of the Tamar in Torpoint, Rooney first joined Argyle at the age of nine. He attended Torpoint Community College and played for south-east ... more

    1999: Alfie Lewis - 2 games, no goals in 2022.

    Lewis became Steven Schumacher's first-ever signing when the 22-year-old midfielder joined the Pilgrims from St Patrick's Athletic in the Irish Premier ... more


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