Argyle memories

[Ottawa Green]

Dont throw your toilet rolls on the pitch

 

[Mark58]

That was my first full season following Argyle. My actual first match at Home Park had been in February of 1967 (Huddersfield - 2-3) but we finished that season relatively comfortably so I was full of childish optimism for 1967/68. Needless to say, at the end of that season they were relegated to the third tier - and over half a century of frustrating support later they are still worse off than when I first saw them...

Still, you've got to laugh!

 

[memory man]

That was my first full season following Argyle. My actual first match at Home Park had been in February of 1967 (Huddersfield - 2-3) but we finished that season relatively comfortably so I was full of childish optimism for 1967/68. Needless to say, at the end of that season they were relegated to the third tier - and over half a century of frustrating support later they are still worse off than when I first saw them...

Still, you've got to laugh!

I started with a promotion in my first full season, 58-59. 3 seasons later we lay third in the 61-62 Second Division, and we were the form team. Liverpool were way ahead but second place was up for grabs. We had 6 matches to go, with four of them against teams in the bottom 3, one against mid'table Bury and the final game at home to Liverpool. Unfortunately, we took a single point and slid down to finish 5th. I never thought that in the following 59 years we would fail to better that.

 

[Bovey Green lady]

I started with a promotion in my first full season, 58-59. 3 seasons later we lay third in the 61-62 Second Division, and we were the form team. Liverpool were way ahead but second place was up for grabs. We had 6 matches to go, with four of them against teams in the bottom 3, one against mid'table Bury and the final game at home to Liverpool. Unfortunately, we took a single point and slid down to finish 5th. I never thought that in the following 59 years we would fail to better that.

But it was good to see Argyle described as "Highflying" in yesterday's Mail on Sunday 's (brief!) match report! Maybe the better times really are on the way, Memory Man! My "green tinted world "commenced in 1956--so even earlier than yours.

 

[davie nine]

But it was good to see Argyle described as "Highflying" in yesterday's Mail on Sunday 's (brief!) match report! Maybe the better times really are on the way, Memory Man! My "green tinted world "commenced in 1956--so even earlier than yours.

…and me.

 

[mervyn]

I love these old tables. Interesting that in the following 55 years Rotherham and Argyle are the only two teams from that list to have never reached the top flight even once.

 

[Lundan Cabbie]

I love these old tables. Interesting that in the following 55 years Rotherham and Argyle are the only two teams from that list to have never reached the top flight even once.

I don’t think Preston have returned to the top flight in that time either. I do know that they claim that they are the only English Champions never to have played in the Premier League.

 

[Devongreenowl]

I like the way it makes it sound as if bog roll throwing is somehow worse than bottle throwing 😀

 

[rsp4]

I like the way it makes it sound as if bog roll throwing is somehow worse than bottle throwing 😀

The flares of the their days🤭

 

[The Greens]

First game was 27th Sept 1969. So 52 years ago today. Lost 1 3 to Luton. Ours goal was an OG. Remember it well. Where did that time go.

 

[Andy S]

I started with a promotion in my first full season, 58-59. 3 seasons later we lay third in the 61-62 Second Division, and we were the form team. Liverpool were way ahead but second place was up for grabs. We had 6 matches to go, with four of them against teams in the bottom 3, one against mid'table Bury and the final game at home to Liverpool. Unfortunately, we took a single point and slid down to finish 5th. I never thought that in the following 59 years we would fail to better that.

Mine also. My dad was always convinced that the then Board "took a dive" because it then cost money to play in League One and the Directors couldn't afford it and the team were "instructed" to throw the games.

 

[Sainghin Green]

Sorry to be pedantic about this but it was the First Division not League 1.
Apparently people made the same claim about the Directors during the run of second places in the Third Division South in the 1920s.

 

[Sainghin Green]

.....or League Division 1 as on Sports Report if I remember rightly.

 

[Green as Grass]

But it was good to see Argyle described as "Highflying" in yesterday's Mail on Sunday 's (brief!) match report! Maybe the better times really are on the way, Memory Man! My "green tinted world "commenced in 1956--so even earlier than yours.

I can trump you by one year. My first definite Argyle match was the 8th January 1955 in the Third Round of the FA Cup at home to Newcastle. The crowd was 29,865. My Dad got me there early and we got in the front of the then uncovered Lyndhurst near half way line. Newcastle won 1-0 and four months later won the Final at Wembley beating Man City 3-1 with Jackie Milburn scoring after 45 seconds. In those days few households had a television set but a friend of mine did and there was at least a dozen of us gathered around his small black and white set for what was the first live match I saw on TV. How things have changed !!

 

[Greenfox]

My first memory of Home Park is a 1-0 win against Halifax Town in 1969. The only goal was a 25 yard screamer from Colin Sullivan.