OUR MAN FRIDAY

A real maverick 70's footballer and icon. Most fans who saw him play in the flesh said he was better than George Best. In one particular game playing against Mark Lawrenson, Friday became agitated with the BBC pundit. He kicked Lawrenson in the face and received a red card before( shitting )in Lawrenson's kitbag. Legend! CCFC

A real maverick 70's footballer and icon. Most fans who saw him play in the flesh said he was better than George Best. In one particular game playing against Mark Lawrenson, Friday became agitated with the BBC pundit. He kicked Lawrenson in the face and received a red card before( shitting )in Lawrenson's kitbag. Legend! CCFC

When then-Cardiff manager Jimmy Andrews asked why the price was so low he was told, “You’ll see”. And see he did, as Friday was arrested at Cardiff Central station within minutes of arriving in the Welsh capital for fare dodging. The night before his debut for the Bluebirds against Fulham he went on a pub crawl before taking a dozen bottles of lager back to his hotel. He still scored twice against a defence featuring Bobby Moore, and went on to play a further 20 games for the Welsh side, scoring 6 goals and delighting crowds with his awesome array of tricks, before leaving he started going AWOL for days on end with a ‘mystery illness’. It was the beginning of the end for the wayward genius. His overall behaviour worsened and became, in the words of Wales legend and Cardiff skipper Phil Dwyer, “Very volatile”. It had been common knowledge within the game that Friday was developing a drink problem, and was also fond of indulging in LSD and other mind-altering substances. Afterwards Jimmy Andrews said, “At the time I didn’t know what his major problem was so I bought him... For a period I handled it but I’m afraid Robin was a hopeless case. He was lost and by the end he was uncontrollable”.




The situation proved intolerable, his contract at Cardiff was cancelled and Friday moved back home to London where his life descended into a private hell of alcoholism, drug abuse and mental problems. He died of a heart attack on the 22nd December 1990 at just 38. Unpredictable as ever, he died on a Saturday. As a fitting tribute the cover of the 1996 Super Furry Animals single ‘The Man Don’t Give a f**k’ (also named after him, naturally) featured a classic archive photograph of Friday scoring a goal for Cardiff, while showing two fingers to the despairing opposition goalkeeper.
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A real maverick 70's footballer and icon. Most fans who saw him play in the flesh said he was better than George Best. In one particular game playing against Mark Lawrenson, Friday became agitated with the BBC pundit. He kicked Lawrenson in the face and received a red card before( shitting )in Lawrenson's kitbag. Legend! CCFC

Obviously doesn't take much to become a Cardiff legend!. A total scumbag who did little for City but cause trouble. I saw him play and believe me he wasn't within a million miles of George best as a player.

A real maverick 70's footballer and icon. Most fans who saw him play in the flesh said he was better than George Best. In one particular game playing against Mark Lawrenson, Friday became agitated with the BBC pundit. He kicked Lawrenson in the face and received a red card before( shitting )in Lawrenson's kitbag. Legend! CCFC

Obviously doesn't take much to become a Cardiff legend!. A total scumbag who did little for City but cause trouble. I saw him play and believe me he wasn't within a million miles of George best as a player.

each to his OWN m8. CCFC

A real maverick 70's footballer and icon. Most fans who saw him play in the flesh said he was better than George Best. In one particular game playing against Mark Lawrenson, Friday became agitated with the BBC pundit. He kicked Lawrenson in the face and received a red card before( shitting )in Lawrenson's kitbag. Legend! CCFC

Obviously doesn't take much to become a Cardiff legend!. A total scumbag who did little for City but cause trouble. I saw him play and believe me he wasn't within a million miles of George best as a player.

each to his OWN m8. CCFC

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