That Friday feeling is bound to give you a good night out

The player in question was Robin Friday, whose biography by former Oasis bass player Paul McGuigan and Paolo Hewitt carried that title, and is now to be made into a film. It runs the risk of being accused of exaggeration by those unfamiliar with the man Friday, whose antics on and off the pitch – think George Best, Stan Bowles and Frank McAvennie rolled into one – led to his being named greatest cult hero by fans of his two clubs in a career that lasted less than three years.

At Reading from 1974-76, sympathetic manager Charlie Hurley just about coped with him, but his time under Jimmy Andrews at Cardiff never recovered from Friday taking the train to Wales to sign without a valid ticket and having to be bailed out.

The former borstal boy, failing to curb his drinking and drug-taking, was never likely to hit it off with a disciplinarian manager and in 1977 he retired, aged only 25. By 38 he was dead from a heart attack, which Hewitt believes stemmed from a heroin overdose.

The film is now in pre-production, backed by Film Agency Wales.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 20089.html

I have the book. I think his 2 'goal' fingered salute is iconic.

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