The Argyle Book
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THE ARGYLE BOOK You may not remember Bill Adams or John Wingate, but they both played for Argyle once ... just once, but that one appearance is all they needed to secure their place in The Argyle Book - an illustrated record of every person who has played a league game for the Pilgrims since they first became a league club back in 1920. This fascinating A-W of Plymouth Argyle FC (there have been no Yeos, Yates's or Zimmermans yet) tells us not only who but also when anyone pulled on the famous green, black and white shirts but also gives a full account of any other league club the player may have been involved with in their time. The Argyle Book also contains season-by-season records of the matches, the teams and the end of season league tables, with a large number of fascinating and previously unpublished tables, compiled by Argyle statistician Terry Guswell, including: the top twenty highest, and lowest, league attendances - both home and away, the top twenty goalscorers - decade-by-decade, and the top twenty players to have played FA or League matches for Argyle. Throughout the book are liberally sprinkled some 200 or so cartoon drawings of Argyle players and managers drawn by Plymouth artist and historian Chris Robinson, who in addition to his other commitments was match day DJ and Announcer at Home Park, alongside his father Des, for 35 years since 1970. Chris produced his first set of cartoons in 1977 and until 2005 these quirky images had pride of place above the bar and around the walls of the Far Post Club at Home Park. A complete set of managers was later added and this was updated as and when required, providing the 240-page Argyle Book with an undoubtedly unique and altogether absorbing record of the Westcountry's most popular football team. |
