Robin Friday,never saw him play,yet

[Leekbrookgull]

Died young at 38,his profile reads trouble big time/big style ? Was he he a good player ?

 

[Lord Bamber]

Read the book, Robin Friday the best player you never saw - riveting read.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Lord/B that is why i ask 'the book' you post is often for sale WSC etc. Could he play ?

 

[northstandsteve]

Lord/B that is why i ask 'the book' you post is often for sale WSC etc. Could he play ?

excellent player great talent, absolute nutter, played against the Albion 76-77

 

[Lord Bamber]

Lord/B that is why i ask 'the book' you post is often for sale WSC etc. Could he play ?

Two guys i worked with said he was on his day without a shadow of a doubt the best player they ever saw play but they just doubted how many days he actually turned up to play.

 

[Skaville]

Antone who kills a swan with his bare hands at the hotel the night before the game and can turn up hammered and still put in a match willing performance does it for me.

Robin Friday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[BHA Swiifty]

To be voted player of the year while being a druggy is something special

 

[PHCgull]

Read the book. If memory int tricking me, the last thing he does on a football field is kick lawrenson in the bolocks at the goldstone, get sent off, and keep on walking. Best sports book I ever read

 

[catfish]

The book is well worth reading - a complete antidote to the usual anodyne footy biog.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

How different from the cossetted world of footballers these days.

I seem to remember that, at one stage, he nearly gave up football because he could earn more as a roofer.

 

[RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased)]

The best player you never saw is a great read. He was meant to be an absolute genius in the lower leagues, could and should have played at a higher level but for the fact he loved booze and didn't give a shit. I remember in the book that a ref said he saw him score the best goal he had ever seen anywhere. Because he was so good he was wound up and booted all over the pitch every game and because if this he had a volatile nature and was always being sent off. One game a goalie was giving him shit saying how crap he was and how he would never score. One piece if sublime skill left the keeper in his arse and the ball in the net. As he wheeled away in celebration he was famously photographed sticking two fingers up at the keeper. And that photo adorns the cover of super furry animals " the man doesn't give a f***" album


Sent by Derek Acorah via the spirit world.

 

[Julio]

Immortalised in song. Cracking tune as well.

 

[The Hon Sec]

The book is very good reading and the programme for the mid week Cardiff game included a little anecdote about the Lawrenson incident under 'Classic Clash'. According to 'urban legend' it says Friday did something rather indelicate in Lawrensons kit bag before leaving the ground.

 

[Gritt23]

The book is a great read. Just brilliant to read about such a talented player with basically a Sunday Pub Team attitude to life. It made me wonder just how fine the margins are between having the career of Robin Friday, and being George Best.

 

[jharris]

Hmm He kicked Lawrenson in the face during a game

 

[Screaming J]

I was at Uni in Reading from 75-78 and when I didn't watch ther Albion used to go along to Elm Park to watch Reading. It was always worth it when Friday was playing. I think he was more or less unmanageable, though. The Reading manager at the time Charlie Hurley was just about able to...but no one else ever really could.

 

[readingstockport]

I never knew him but knew several people who did. He would waltz into the Spreadeagle opposite elm park at 11 in the morning having spent the entire night clubbing and pissed as a fart and still dressed in a dinner suit. He would then proceed to drink until 2.45 before walking into EP and getting changed and playing a game. Sometimes he would even pop out at half time for a pint.

Apparently after scoring one of the greatest goals ever seen at EP he said to people after the game he was so pissed he couldn't actually see the goal.

 

[Dirk Gently]

Hmm He kicked Lawrenson in the face during a game

And when he was sent off for it he took a dump in Lawro's kitbag.

I did see him play - and yes he was as good as people say. Although I think the book is a very poor read - just snippets from the local paper laced together. It doesn't come close to giving the aura he had and how he could light up the whole ground with an audacious and impossible piece of skill.

 

[Langley]

Absolutely brilliant player, I had the pleasure of watching him for two years at Elm Park, when I worked in the supporters club bar. also playing for Reading at the time was Stewart Henderson & Brian Bromley. Along side Peter Ward , and Don Rogers of Swindon, 3 of the best players in the lower divisions I ever saw. Incidentally Charlie Hurley was the only manager to control Robin.

I believe that his daughter gained a degree at Brighton

 

[Braders]

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