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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.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!
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 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.
…and me.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 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.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.
The flares of the their days🤭I like the way it makes it sound as if bog roll throwing is somehow worse than bottle throwing 😀
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.
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 !!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.