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da casino： In the last four seasons I have watched literally everything about my club, Plymouth Argyle, drastically change. Attendances for matches have dropped from around the 13,000 mark to just over 6000 for most home games, our players have been sold for a fraction of what they are really worth to make quick money and now play at a much higher level than the club. A club that used to be comfortably mid-table in the championship now finds itself in its third relegation battle in a row, the last two of which have resulted in the Pilgrims dropping like a stone into League Two. And the slide may not quite yet be complete for Argyle, and the now severely depleted Green Army.
This of course has all happened due to yet another case of mismanagement of a football club that spiralled Argyle into millions of pounds of debt and the longest administration process seen in recent years. What happened to my club has been well documented, so I won’t break down everything that happened. However the most important thing is that we were saved by local businessman James Brent and the Green Army still have a club to support.
Cast your eyes down the League Two table and you will find Argyle 23rd of the 24 teams and encased in the relegation battle. Should the Pilgrims fail to stay up this season it will represent the first time the Devon club has ever played non-league football. The sheer thought of seeing Argyle play in the conference sends a shiver down my spine.
The majority of Argyle fans, including myself, know that if we go down to the conference it is very unlikely we will return to the football league at the first, or even second time of asking. The standard of football at conference level is actually very good, and I believe that at about half of the teams in that league could do well in League Two. None of the teams that have been promoted from the conference in the last 7 seasons have since been relegated back down. This shows the quality that exists there and with only one automatic promotion spot, it is extremely tough league to get out of. Which is why Pilgrims everywhere know that if we go down, we may spend quite a few seasons languishing in the conference before finally returning to the football league.
The fact that Argyle are not as good as down already is something for us Argyle fans to take heart from though. After nine games we had only one point to show for our efforts, and had only scored four goals. At that point Peter Reid was replaced temporarily by central midfielder Carl Fletcher as manager, who has since been handed the job permanently. Ever since that point results have gradually got better and better for Argyle. Fletcher has won five games and drawn six, leaving us at the time of writing on 22 points – only two from safety. We were even briefly out of the relegation zone for a week, but a poor result against Port Vale coupled with a win for Dagenham sent us straight back under the dreaded line.
With 19 games left of the season, Argyle are yet to play all the teams in the bottom half of the table and will believe that they can pull of the greatest of escapes. No team is safe in the bottom half of this league; you only have to look at what happened to Lincoln last season to see that.
If Argyle stay up you will not find a happier set of fans anywhere else in the country. We won’t have won a league, a trophy or even been promoted, but we will have survived the most terrible of times as a football league club. We will have beaten administration and all that it entailed and not let the idiotic behaviour of the past board ruin our club. We will be a normal football club again and hell, if we survive this year, next season could well be a promotion push as James Brent has indicated he wants the club back at League One level at the very least.
If we stay up, it will be a victory for football.
By Sam Barker
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