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- Robin_Friday height "180.34".
- Robin_Friday abstract "Robin Friday (27 July 1952 – 22 December 1990) was an English footballer who played professionally as a forward for Reading and Cardiff City during a career that lasted four years in the mid-1970s. Born and raised in Acton, west London, Friday was scouted, but not retained, by four professional clubs during his teenage years. After appearing for local semi-professional sides in the Isthmian League, he joined Charlie Hurley's Fourth Division Reading team in 1974. He quickly became a key player, and helped Reading to win promotion to the Third Division during the 1975–76 season.Friday's on-field performances were regarded as excellent, and he won Reading's player of the year award in both of his full seasons there, as well as being the leading goal scorer. However, his habit of unsettling opponents through physical intimidation contributed to a heavily tarnished disciplinary record. Friday was also known off the field for his heavy smoking, drinking, womanising and drug-taking.As his drug habit intensified, Friday's form began to dip in the first half of the 1976–77 season, leading Reading to sell him to Second Division side Cardiff City in December 1976. Friday travelled to join his new team by train, without a valid ticket and had to be bailed by Cardiff manager Jimmy Andrews before even signing for the club. He performed strongly on his debut, but afterwards his form declined and his personal life caused him to repeatedly miss matches altogether. Following a number of incidents, on and off the field—including kicking Mark Lawrenson in the face mid-game—Friday retired from football in December 1977, aged 25. He died in Acton in 1990, aged 38, after suffering a heart attack.The strongest aspects of Friday's game were his ball skills, footballing intelligence and physical and mental strength. Andrews labelled Friday "the complete centre-forward", and, along with numerous contemporaries, retrospectively rated Friday as good enough for the England national team. Both because of his playing ability and personality, Friday remains an important figure to fans of both Reading and Cardiff, despite his short career: in a BBC poll held in 2004, he was voted the top "all-time cult hero" for both clubs. He has been voted Reading's best ever player three times, in 1999 and twice in 2007. Cardiff-based band Super Furry Animals dedicated their 1996 single The Man Don't Give a Fuck to his memory.".
- Robin_Friday birthDate "1952-07-27".
- Robin_Friday birthPlace Acton,_London.
- Robin_Friday birthPlace England_national_football_team.
- Robin_Friday birthYear "1952".
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- Robin_Friday deathDate "1990-12-22".
- Robin_Friday deathPlace Acton,_London.
- Robin_Friday deathPlace England_national_football_team.
- Robin_Friday deathYear "1990".
- Robin_Friday height "1.8034".
- Robin_Friday lccnId "n/97/880795".
- Robin_Friday position Forward_(association_football).
- Robin_Friday team Cardiff_City_F.C..
- Robin_Friday team Chelsea_F.C..
- Robin_Friday team Crystal_Palace_F.C..
- Robin_Friday team Enfield_1893_F.C..
- Robin_Friday team Hayes_F.C..
- Robin_Friday team Queens_Park_Rangers_F.C..
- Robin_Friday team Reading_F.C..
- Robin_Friday team Walthamstow_Avenue_F.C..
- Robin_Friday thumbnail Griffin_Park_1982_-_geograph-2023521.jpg?width=300.
- Robin_Friday viafId "75620645".
- Robin_Friday wikiPageExternalLink mirrorpix.com.
- Robin_Friday wikiPageExternalLink 9319253.stm.
- Robin_Friday wikiPageExternalLink seven-deadly-sins-football-gluttony-robin-friday-reading.
- Robin_Friday wikiPageExternalLink robin-friday-football-quiz.
- Robin_Friday wikiPageID "741018".
- Robin_Friday wikiPageRevisionID "606283012".
- Robin_Friday align "left".
- Robin_Friday align "right".
- Robin_Friday birthDate "1952-07-27".
- Robin_Friday birthPlace "Acton, London, England".
- Robin_Friday caps "121".
- Robin_Friday caps "21".
- Robin_Friday caption "Locations of Friday's non-League clubs in relation to his home in Acton, shown within Greater London".
- Robin_Friday clubs Cardiff_City_F.C..
- Robin_Friday clubs Enfield_1893_F.C..
- Robin_Friday clubs Hayes_F.C..
- Robin_Friday clubs Walthamstow_Avenue_F.C..
- Robin_Friday clubs "Hayes".
- Robin_Friday clubs "Reading".
- Robin_Friday colwidth "30".
- Robin_Friday colwidth "35".
- Robin_Friday dateOfBirth "1952-07-27".
- Robin_Friday dateOfDeath "1990-12-22".
- Robin_Friday deathDate "1990-12-22".
- Robin_Friday deathPlace "Acton, London, England".
- Robin_Friday float "right".
- Robin_Friday goals "46".
- Robin_Friday goals "6".
- Robin_Friday group "n".
- Robin_Friday hasPhotoCollection Robin_Friday.
- Robin_Friday lccn "n/97/880795".
- Robin_Friday name "Friday, Robin".
- Robin_Friday placeOfBirth "Acton, London, England".
- Robin_Friday placeOfDeath "London, England".
- Robin_Friday position Forward_(association_football).
- Robin_Friday quote "At the funeral I have never seen so many people ... When we got to the flat, the stairs and corridors leading to his mum's front door were packed with people.".
- Robin_Friday quote "His [Friday's] face looks as though it had been trampled on by a rugby squad and that was before the game. Friday's explanation: 'Me missus hit me with a can of beans'.".
- Robin_Friday quote "In his very first training session they were playing a six-a-side game and Robin went around trying to kick as many of the established Reading players as he could. He must have put two or three out of the game. Hurley had to call him off ...".
- Robin_Friday quote "The [Reading] squad needs you but I owe it to the club because I can't have you using drugs. ... If I know you're using drugs it won't take them [the major clubs] long to find out. You have got to get your act together. Or I'll have to give you a free transfer.".
- Robin_Friday quoted "1".
- Robin_Friday shortDescription "Footballer".
- Robin_Friday source "--09-13".
- Robin_Friday source "Charlie Hurley, to Robin Friday, in late 1976".
- Robin_Friday source "Liza Friday, second wife".
- Robin_Friday source "Reading F.C. historian David Downs recounts Friday's first training session with Reading".
- Robin_Friday viaf "75620645".
- Robin_Friday width "30.0".
- Robin_Friday width "300".
- Robin_Friday wordnet_type synset-soccer_player-noun-1.
- Robin_Friday years "1971".
- Robin_Friday years "1973".
- Robin_Friday years "1974".
- Robin_Friday years "1976".
- Robin_Friday youthclubs Chelsea_F.C..
- Robin_Friday youthclubs Crystal_Palace_F.C..
- Robin_Friday youthclubs Queens_Park_Rangers_F.C..
- Robin_Friday youthclubs Reading_F.C..
- Robin_Friday youthyears "1965".
- Robin_Friday youthyears "1966".
- Robin_Friday youthyears "1968".
- Robin_Friday description "Footballer".
- Robin_Friday description "Footballer".
- Robin_Friday subject Category:1952_births.
- Robin_Friday subject Category:1990_deaths.
- Robin_Friday subject Category:British_people_convicted_of_drug_offences.
- Robin_Friday subject Category:British_people_convicted_of_theft.
- Robin_Friday subject Category:Burials_in_London.
- Robin_Friday subject Category:Cardiff_City_F.C._players.
- Robin_Friday subject Category:Deaths_from_myocardial_infarction.
- Robin_Friday subject Category:Enfield_F.C._players.
- Robin_Friday subject Category:English_footballers.
- Robin_Friday subject Category:Hayes_F.C._players.