The perennial promotion winner.

Keith Hill had a self-confessed ‘happy home’ when he was growing up in Bolton in 1970s and you can certainly see those grounded values in the way he approaches football.

Whether that be as a player at Blackburn ~rovers in his early days, helping the side to the top tier, at Home Park with Argyle and helping them to promotion via the play-offs at Wembley, or even as a manager at Rochdale AFC, guiding them two the highest league position.

The happy go lucky Lancastrian, who had an old school attitude with missed with modern values who has become one of the most decorated managers in the EFL.

This is the story of Keith Hill.

From Paris to Plymouth.

There won’t be many players who would have enjoyed the career that Mathias Kouo-Doumbe did. And it was a career that almost didn’t get started.

Growing up in the football hotbed that is Paris, an obsession with the was game was always going to happen. But Mathias quicky shone. Despite his obvious quality, his feet were kept firmly on the ground by his parents who refused to let him join the much-famed Clairefontaine football academy and Monaco as a teenager.

He would soon make the move into the professional game at his boyhood club PSG. A trip to Scotland soon followed before he was taken south, to Argyle, by former manager Bobby Williamson.

Mat was an important player over his five years at the club. Comfortable playing anywhere across the back, his pace and physicality made him a firm fans favourite with the fans.

This is the story of Mathias Kouo-Doumbe.

Argyle Fives on kits.

On Friday, 25th April, it is the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK's annual Football Shirt Friday campaign. And as we have done for the last couple of years, Argyle are proud to support it.
Therefore, the Argyle Fives team of Charlie Price, Rob McNichol and Kevin Nancekivell got together to discuss their favourite football shirts from Argyle history.

Obviously, we all bleed green, but what shade of green? Do you prefer stripes or block colour? What about green and black or green and white. 

The constant throughout our history has been the colour green but there have been a wide variety of stripes that Argyle players have worn. But which ones will make it into the top five?

Argyle Fives is also available to watch on Argyle TV - enjoy!

The team behind the man.

Any good Head Coach will tell you; they can’t be successful without the team behind the scenes.

When Miron Muslic arrived at Home Park, he was lucky to have the likes of Kevin Nancekivell and Darryl Flahavan, two experienced coaches, already in place. However, he needed some familiar faces around him for his first job in England.

He turned to two men who helped him build success in Belgium in the shape of fellow Bosnia Adin Osmanbasic and Englishman Eddie Lattimore. Both are young for coaches but have packed their careers full of experience. Over the next 30 minutes you’ll hear both of their journeys.

This is the story of the backroom staff.

Late to the game, but worth the wait.

Many people, by the age of 25, would have given up on the dream of becoming a professional footballer. And in fact, Dwight Marshall was also in that camp. Failed trials at Crystal Palace and Sheffield United meant he had started a career in the ‘real world.’ 

However, an invitation to Cornwall to play in a pre-season tournament for Plymouth Argyle changed his life. 

Manager David Kemp offered him a deal right there and then and he went on to become a leading light for Argyle for the next four years.

Dwight only played eight seasons as a professional but as any fan of Argyle, Middlesbrough and Luton Town about him and they will all speak in glowing terms.

This is the story of Dwight Marshall.

Crossing the divide.

Growing up in Surrey, there is little chance that Jamie Mackie would ever have imagined he would be embroiled in two of the fiercest rivalries in England. Well, he was, and he somehow comes out of it pretty well.

As a teenager he broke into a Wimbledon side that was struggling financially and, when the decision was made to move the club to Milton Keynes, 18-year-old Jamie went. 

Three years later, he found himself as one of the top scorers in the Conference, with Exeter. At the peak of his powers, Devon rivals Argyle come into the conversation and once more Jamie takes the plunge.

He has a successful time at Home Park, despite the side falling out of the Championship, and bagged a move to Queens Park Rangers, where, in two spells he won promotion, got called up for his country and scored in one of the most famous games of all time. Not bad for a boy from Surrey.

This is the story of Jamie Mackie.

A table of redemption.

When he arrived at Home Park in what could have risen to be a club record fee, there were incredibly high hopes for Simon Walton.

He broke into his boyhood Leeds United side as a teenager, had almost 100 games at Championship level under his belt and was supposed to be part of a rebuild job that would take Argyle forward.

Fast forward just a couple of months and he was wanting out. A combination of bad performances, lack of professionalism and falling out with the manager left Walts on the transfer list – he was gone.

He had loan spell after loan spell and was losing his love for football until he was given the armband and the chance to prove himself and boy did he do that. He, along with the players in the 2011/12 season, will forever be remembered.

This is the story of Simon Walton.

The voice of Home Park.

From last minute winner, to promotions, penalty shootout wins and semi-final triumphs, Gary McLean has been there for all of them, over the last 15 seasons.

For an outgoing Argyle fan who always had a love for being a showman, being the stadium announcer has to be up there as a dream job.

In 2010, the club was looking for someone new to take the mic and Gary was the man to get Home Park ready for matchday’s ever since.

He’s seen big cup ties, semi-final wins, last minute winners and fights on the touchline. He has a close-up view of the goings on at Home Park.

This is the story of Gary McLean.

The latest episode of the Argyle Podcast is ready for you to listen to!

An Argyle team led by former player David Norris and Under-18s Head Coach Jamie Lowry will head Stateside this summer to take part in The Soccer Tournament (TST) in North Carolina.

TST, a 7v7 event with a $1million winner-takes-all prize will be played at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, NC, from June 4-9.

Argyle’s full squad will be announced in due course but will feature former players and futsal stars and be overseen for the week by player-manager Norris and player-assistant-manager Lowry.

Also competing at TST will be the likes of European giants Villarreal and Borussia Dortmund, as well as Sergio Aguero’s 'Selección Potrero', and Luis Nani's 'Nani FC'.

Hear from the coaches themselves in this latest episode.

A perfectly imperfect career.

Jamie Ness was a big deal in the youth ranks at Rangers. He was one of a crop of youngsters, alongside future Pilgrim Gregg Wylde, who were highly thought of and tipped to go to the top. And while it didn’t go totally to plan, Jamie made himself a bit of a cult hero.

Injuries blighted him throughout his career. After a stunning introduction to the Ibrox fans, with a 40-yard piledriver against bitter rivals Celtic, injuries and the club going bust meant he had to move on.

A trip to Stoke and a pre-season with Tony Pulis halted his career once more, as on day two he picked up a nasty injury.
After a few further moves, he perhaps played his best football in Devon, arriving at Home Park in the summer of 2017. Without being the standout, his partnership in midfield with David Fox and Antoni Sarcevic almost saw Argyle claim an unlikely play-off place in his first season.

He’s since moved back up north, to Scotland, where he has set up an Academy training young Jamie Ness’ of the future.

This is the story of Jamie Ness.