BEST&WORST
PLYMOUTH ARGYLE
Bastille drummer and Pilgrim Chris Wood looks back on Peter Reid’s sacrifice and mugging off the Kop
AROUND THE GROUNDS
XI BEST: Michael Cooper, Marc Patterson, Krisztian Timar, Graham Coughlan, Onismor Bhasera, Lilian Nalis, David Friio, Peter Halmosi, Graham Carey, Mickey Evans, Tommy Tynan.
WORST: Nicky Hammond, Taribo West, Peter Swan, Robbie Williams, Tafari Moore, Luke Daley, Neil Illman, Richard Flash, Steve MacLean, Sam Shilton, Nadir Ciftci.
PLAYER B: Peter Halmosi [right] didn’t play long but he had the most ability with a ball of anyone to ever wear the green shirt.
W: Nicky Hammond dropped the ball into his own net twice in three games. It still haunts me.
MOMENT B: David Friio’s goal against QPR to secure promotion to the Championship: the culmination of a long slog from the depths of the Football League. We’d watched some utter dross in the preceding years, making that moment extra sweet.
W: Going into administration and coming within hours of liquidation in 2011-12, all thanks to gutless owner Yasuaki Kagami. Massive shout-out to James Brent and the supporters’ groups for pulling the club back from the brink, and an even bigger shout to all of the club’s staff, who worked for free over this period.
GAME B: Beating Colchester 3-2 in extra time of the 1996 Division Three play-off semi-final at Home Park [above] sent us to Wembley for the first time. I was 11 and it’s still the most memorable atmosphere I’ve experienced. It felt like the stadium might take off.
W: The 2016 play-off final: 98 minutes of pain. The team just did not turn up.
SEASON B: Probably 2006-07, riding high in the Championship and making the FA Cup quarter-finals while playing some sensational stuff under Ian Holloway. He arguably made our best ever team.
W: That 2011-12 administration campaign. Poor old Peter Reid, our manager initially, auctioned off his FA Cup final medal just to pay Home Park’s heating bill. Reidy should always be held in the highest regard at Argyle. We looked doomed at one point and the fans collectively aged about 10 years that season.
SIGNING B: Friio was an all-action midfielder who got stuck in, scored goals and made things
