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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

Long gone, never forgotten

In December 2020, one of a capacity 1,808 at Home Park for the first time in nine months

  • WHAT'S NEW?

  • 0Friday 23 Jan

    Foulston Park (Set 8)

    The latest redevelopment pictures from Home Park.

    [Non-Match Photos]

  • -2Wednesday 21 Jan

    Peterborough 0 Argyle 1

    Matchday Moments

    [Here & Now: Match Page]

  • -5Sunday 18 Jan

    Team Photos

    New and much improved images and captions for all 114 professional seasons, plus a few from the amateur days, displayed to make the most of the screen space available.

    [Then & Now: Team Photos]

  • -5Sunday 18 Jan

    Peterborough 0 Argyle 1

    77 photos from Gill

    Action Highlights

    [Here & Now: Match Page]

  • -6Saturday 17 Jan

    Peterborough 0 Argyle 1

    Audio clips from Keith

    [Here & Now: Match Page]

PICTURES OF THE DAY
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  • MATCH OF THE DAY: 23 JANUARY

    • 23 January 1974Football League Cup SF

      Argyle's Second League Cup Semi-Final

      Argyle  1 - 1  Manchester City

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    • 23 January 1937Division Two

      Burst Ball Stopped Play

      Leicester City  3 - 2  Argyle

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    • 23 January 1932FA Cup 4

      Argyle Attract a Record Crowd at Highbury

      Arsenal  4 - 2  Argyle

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  • ON THIS DAY

  • 1932: Another big game in the 1930s; in the FA Cup 4th Round, Arsenal 4 Argyle 2. The Pilgrims had beaten Manchester United in the previous round, and had achieved their best ever victory seven days earlier, an 8-1 thrashing of Millwall, witnessed by Arsenal's famous manager, Herbert Chapman. With the team doing well in tier 2, nearly 10,000 excited fans made the pilgrimage on five excursion trains and dozens of coaches in the hope of a major upset. It was the golden age in Arsenal's history; almost all their team were internationals. There's a fascinating newspaper report in GoS's "Memorable Matches" (... more on GoS).

  • 1974: League Cup semi-final (1st leg) - Argyle 1 Manchester City 1. After magnificent wins at Burnley, QPR and Birmingham (all top-flight clubs), Argyle found themselves one step from a cup final for only the second time in their history. This was the 1970s, a time of industrial strife, and the mid-week tie was moved to an afternoon kick-off because of the power crisis. To everyone's surprise, over 30,000 found their way to Home Park rather than their workplace.

  • BORN THIS DAY

    • 1895: Stanley Reed - 3 games, no goals in 1913.

    Reed was born in Torquay in 1895 and began his career with hometown side Torquay Town. He spent two years with the club, impressing with his performances on ... more

    1989: James Chester - 3 games, no goals in 2009.

    Chester was a talented product of the Manchester United youth system, having joined the Reds at the age of eight. A robust centre-back, he progressed from the ... more

    1999: Alex Battle - 2 games, no goals in 2018.

    Battle, a pupil at Plymstock School, represented Plymouth Schoolboys' under-15 team and also played for local side Keyham Kolts before joining Argyle's Academy ... more

    1999: Tymoteusz Puchacz - 18 games, no goals in 2025.

    Born in Sulechów in 1999, Polish defender Puchacz began his footballing career with Lech Poznań, his debut coming in a 3-0 defeat at Nieciecza near the ... more


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