{"id":39406,"date":"2020-01-31T14:47:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T14:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=39406"},"modified":"2020-01-31T14:47:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T14:47:14","slug":"legend-of-robin-friday-the-player-they-couldnt-tame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2020\/01\/31\/legend-of-robin-friday-the-player-they-couldnt-tame\/","title":{"rendered":"The legend of Robin Friday, the player they couldn&#039;t tame"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ahead of Cardiff v Reading, fans discuss his impact on their two clubs\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128_204552124_iOS-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/20200128_204552124_iOS-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/20200128_204552124_iOS-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/20200128_204552124_iOS-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/20200128_204552124_iOS-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/20200128_204552124_iOS-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/20200128_204552124_iOS-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/20200128_204552124_iOS-293x220.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/20200128_204552124_iOS-1400x1050.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128_204552124_iOS-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/20200128_204552124_iOS-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/20200128_204552124_iOS-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/20200128_204552124_iOS-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/20200128_204552124_iOS-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/20200128_204552124_iOS-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/20200128_204552124_iOS-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/20200128_204552124_iOS-293x220.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/20200128_204552124_iOS-1400x1050.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Robin Friday&#8217;s mural at Cardiff City Stadium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>THE Super Furry Animals could have picked any number of people to grace the cover of their 1996 protest song <em>The Man Don\u2019t Give a F***<\/em> \u2013 they chose Robin Friday.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p>They used the infamous picture of Friday flicking the Vs at Luton Town goalkeeper Milija Aleksic after scoring for Cardiff in 1977. The photo cemented Friday\u2019s status as a cult footballing icon.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The picture is recreated in a mural at Cardiff City Stadium, despite only playing a handful of times for the Bluebirds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhy is a player who only played 25 times for Cardiff City commemorated at the stadium when genuine legends like Brian Clark, Don Murray and Peter King don\u2019t appear to be?\u201d said Rob Jeffrey, writing in the Cardiff City Supporter\u2019s Trust magazine <em>Moving to a Different Beat<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p>When Friday travelled to Cardiff after his transfer from Reading in late December 1976, he was detained at the train station for not having a valid ticket.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>According to Jeffrey this was about the biggest impact he had during his time in the Welsh capital.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy overall impression of his short career as a Bluebird is one that started off with an outstanding performance and two goals at home to Fulham on New Year\u2019s Day 1977.\u202f\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter that game it seemed that his performances tailed off and he was then mostly ineffective or absent from the team.\u202f\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs far as Cardiff City is concerned, he was a waste of time, space and money.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>This wasn\u2019t the case for his previous club Reading, where he won the player of the year award in two consecutive seasons.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\" style=\"border-color:#0693e3\"><blockquote><p>As far as Cardiff City is concerned, he was a waste of time, space and money.<\/p><cite>Rob Jeffrey, Cardiff City Supporter&#8217;s trust<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe was an outstanding fourth division footballer. In terms of character, galvanizing a team, leading a team from the front, he was brilliant. The team was built around him,\u201d\u202fsaid Roger Titford, Supporter\u2019s Trust at Reading member.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe was a good-looking guy with long hair, he dribbled past people and he had a tremendous shot on him.\u201d\u202f\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>But Titford, who wrote the book <em>The Legend of Robin Friday,<\/em> is quick to temper any overreaction about Friday\u2019s talent.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe played alright in the third division. I wrote a book two or three years ago where I tackle the claim he would have been good enough to play for England &#8211; which I doubt.\u201d\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>So why then is a mercurial footballer from the mid-70s still revered? Titford argues the myth around Friday was created in 1990s.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cHis legend was created about five or six years after he died in 1990 when you had the Super Furry Animals looking at it, you had Paul McGuigan looking at it \u2013 [the Oasis bassist wrote a book, T<em>he Greatest Footballer You Never Saw<\/em>, with journalist Paolo Hewitt in 1997].\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cFriday embodied the 1970s, the spirit of the footballer you could not tame and that is what people, in a more sterile football world liked and identified with.\u201d\u202f\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cRobin Friday turns up late, dressed in a T-shirt and jeans and carrying his boots in a plastic bag almost like a park footballer, but he\u2019s going out and playing in front of 10-15,000 fans,\u201d Titford said.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p>It was also his off the field antics which are maybe even more legendary than his skill on a football pitch.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Robin Friday was a footballer like no other. A man whose talent for football was only eclipsed by his enthusiasm for high-jinx away from the game.<br><br>A brief history of Robin Friday: A footballer like no other:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CJxb8fF9gO\">https:\/\/t.co\/CJxb8fF9gO<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WhiteboardFootball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WhiteboardFootball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NPV1L1vczv\">pic.twitter.com\/NPV1L1vczv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tifo Football (@TifoFootball_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TifoFootball_\/status\/1221130612540489728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s stories of him nicking a figure from a graveyard and putting it on the chairman\u2019s lap on the way to an away game, stealing a swan and bringing it in, chucking lumps of scaffolding at players who are on a cross country run,&#8221; said Titford.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think the worst elements are untrue but some of it is authentic.&nbsp;I think people have had a self-interest in promoting the wilder aspects of Robin Friday.\u201d\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>However, Titford sees the memory of Friday disappearing.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cI would have said 10 years ago people still knew a lot about the story but nothing really new has been added to the story in the last five years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think it is on its way out.\u201d\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Jeffrey thinks that the myth around Friday, especially in Cardiff circles, centres solely on the infamous photo.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe contributed so little to Cardiff City other than appearing in a famous photo, and it\u2019s the photographer who should really get the credit for that.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is no doubt in my mind that, had this photograph never existed, Robin Friday would be much less well known than he is at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Cardiff v Reading, fans discuss his impact on their two clubs\u00a0 THE Super Furry Animals could have picked any number of people to grace the cover of their 1996 protest song The Man Don\u2019t Give a F*** \u2013 they chose Robin Friday.\u202f\u00a0 They used the infamous picture of Friday flicking the Vs at Luton Town goalkeeper Milija Aleksic after scoring for Cardiff in 1977. 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