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The old Devonport End

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I started supporting Argyle in the early 90’s and I remember standing on the old Devonport End when it was usually pretty busy. But I was just watching the highlights from the Leeds game in 87 that are on the official site today. From those pictures the Devonport seems pretty empty when the rest of the ground looked fairly packed. I’ve noticed this in highlights from other matches around that time too. Any ideas why that was the case, or was it fuller than it looks?
 

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By the late 80's it was crap as most of us 'lads' moved to the Lyndy.

It was the 70's when the DE was awesome, but they took the roof off and made it smaller and by then we had all migrated to a better place.

The DE now is a shadow of what we had in the 70's, not even a shadow, more like a faint mark.
 

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Must have been the late sixties when the demport was often pretty sparse for half the game ,as a lot of us used to change ends at half time to be behind the goal we were attacking.Lyndy didn’t like that much.. :mad:
 

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I remember Chelsea getting in there in 1975.
 

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No one who was there will ever forget that day!

From memory they hammered us all game they were 2-0 up and he we had two late attacks and boom 2-2.

They wanted trouble that day, and that was the spark.
 
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In the late 50s and early 60s it was quite normal if we were playing towards the DE in the first half for a fair number of number of DE Fans to move to the Barn Park end for the second half or vice versa. In those days there were far less away fans due to very limited means, even poorer than today roads and much fewer people with cars. Interestingly home attendances were greater than today. Despite the movement of fans at half time it rarely ended up in crowd problems which is more than can be said if (obviously it can’t) it happened today.
 

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I remember what my memory says was a 2-2 at HP and I had never seen so many police dogs at HP as that day. GoS tells us that the 2-2 matches were at Stamford Bridge.
https://www.greensonscreen.co.uk/gosdb-results.asp?team=Chelsea&comp=&s1=&s2=

My memory was probably of the September '76 game as we definitely scored 2 and I remember Mariner giving their defence all sorts of trouble.
 
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I think we lost 2-3 to Chelsea the day the DE got taken over.
If memory serves me, we did pull it back to 2-2, but they got
a late penalty.
Among the stories circulating that day were one of loads of
Argyle scarves getting nicked from sports shops in the town
in the morning, and one of a huge black guy with one arm
swinging an axe around in the DE. I saw in a book written by
an ex-Chelsea hooligan many years later that the latter story
at least was true.
 
Gary S":26vy6ed6 said:
I think we lost 2-3 to Chelsea the day the DE got taken over.
If memory serves me, we did pull it back to 2-2, but they got
a late penalty.
Among the stories circulating that day were one of loads of
Argyle scarves getting nicked from sports shops in the town
in the morning, and one of a huge black guy with one arm
swinging an axe around in the DE. I saw in a book written by
an ex-Chelsea hooligan many years later that the latter story
at least was true.

That I believe may have been one arm Babs :think: