Soccer Club Tartan Dispute

[Rob]

It would appear that Tartan/Kilt Mania might be spreading among football (soccer) supporters well to the south of the Scottish Border if this thread from the Plymouth Argyle Football Club Supporters message board is anything to go by. In order to understand the dispute about which tartan to adopt, one needs to know that the City of Plymouth is on the Devon side of the border between the Counties of Devon and Cornwall, but also attracts many Cornish supporters.

http://www.argyle.org.uk/cgi-bin/yab...num=1086196348

Rob

[al' Sporrano]

I'm gonna confuse every one tonight by cheering England and wearing my kilt.

Al

[GMan]

Al,

I love your iconoclastic attitude! Keep kilted and keep them guessing, it truly is great.

[Jimmy Carbomb]

Guess I'll just lounge around in a solid kilt, drink a few beers, and watch baseball. Issue averted!

[Jimmy Carbomb]

And this kind of talk comes from a football site?!
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Quote from site:

"Nice picture of a variation of the Campbell Tartan, Duke of Argyll is a Campbell so mayube thats where it came from for "his" army...

Don't know what the fuss is all about with regards to the Cornish Tartan... there is actually a Devon Tartan.. and as Argyle are in Devon thats got to be first choice!!!!"

[macwilkin]

Hmm...I wonder if the name refers to the group of Royal Marines from the HMS Repulse and Prince of Wales that joined up with some Argyll-Sutherland Highlanders in Malaya in 1941 and fought the Japanese? They are sometimes called The "Plymouth Argylls". If that is the case, then I would say the Government tartan that the A & S wears would be appropriate, and fairly easy to obtain.

T.

[Rob]

Hmm...I wonder if the name refers to the group of Royal Marines from the HMS Repulse and Prince of Wales that joined up with some Argyll-Sutherland Highlanders in Malaya in 1941 and fought the Japanese? T.

I am sorry to disappoint you, but the name comes from the fact that the club was founded following a meeting of backers at a house in Argyle Terrace in Plymouth, so there is no connection with any clan or regiment.

Rob

[macwilkin]

Rob,

Worth a shot anyway...

T.

[phil h]

very interesting, but whats all the Argyll talk abot?
would someone like to shed some light on the subject?

[macwilkin]

Which one, Phil? The Plymouth Argylls or Argyle Terrace?

T.