This is very sad news, Mike was one of my early boyhood hero’s. RIP Pilgrim you were one hell of a player.
Bring on the milkman was the chant one game when Mike was on the bench- must have been carrying an injury.
I was there for the Torquay and Swindon games- thanks for all the happy memories
RIP Milkman
Ditto. RIP big Mike.RIP Mike - the first player to have an impact on me as a boy
Really sad news. Mike was a neighbor of mine in Whitleigh and I remember many kick abouts with him in our back fields. He told me on first time playing for Argyle that only the keeper (Barnsley) came over and introduced himself in the dressing room! Great guy and very modest. RIP Mike.Really sad news. One of the Argyle greats. I remember him delivering milk to my junior school, Montpelier. He was always greeted by a big crowd of kids.
Hugely popular for the whole of the time he played for Argyle. He did what so many of us would have loved to have done - played for Argyle.
By coincidence, I have just finished writing a family history. One of the chapters had to be about Argyle,of course, as I looked back over my family's 'Argyle supporting career'. Two players got a special write up, not just for their contribution on the pitch, but for being local, Argyle through and through, and almost ever presents in the team from when I first attended until I left Plymouth in 1973.
The two? Johnny Hore and Mike Bickle. So very sad to read this news this evening.