Waterstones The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw
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Description: Robin Friday was an exceptional footballer who should have played for England. He never did. Robin Friday was a brilliant player who could have played in the top flight. He never did. Why? Because Robin Friday was a man who would not bow down to anyone, who refused to take life seriously and who lived every moment as if it were his last. For anyone lucky enough to have seen him play, Robin Friday was up there with the greats. Take it from one who knows: 'There is no doubt in my mind that if someone had taken a chance on him he would have set the top division alight,' says the legendary Stan Bowles. 'He could have gone right to the top, but he just went off the rails a bit.' Loved and admired by everyone who saw him, Friday also had a dark side: troubled, strong-minded, reckless, he would end up destroying himself. Tragically, after years of alcohol and drug abuse, he died at the age of 38 without ever having fulfilled his potential. The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw provides the first full appreciation of a man too long forgotten by the world of football, and, along with a forthcoming film based on Friday's life, with a screenplay by co-author Paolo Hewitt, this book will surely give him the cult status he deserves.
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Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781840181081
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ISBN: 9781840181081
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Author: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5
Review: Great account of Man Friday, a complete one off. The interviews are now over 25 years old, but still feel fresh. A must read for any Reading fan, but also any football fan. Also read Stuart Kane's books as well.
Author: Very Amateur Golfer
Rating: 2
Review: I will start by saying i'm a big football fan and as a fan of another pretty unfashionable team I figured it might be nice to read about someone other than the elite stars for a change. Hidden somewhere in this book is a decent story, however its presented to you via newspaper clippings. To be honest I didn't really expect to pay money to get the side of the story I could have got from going to the right library and reading through newspapers. It feels low effort on the part of the writers and it gets really boring and repetitive very quickly. There are parts of the book where you hear the viewpoint of the people that knew Robin Friday personally, however these parts are sadly very fleeting and it doesn't appear that there was any real probing done by whoever interviewed them. Most of the story was therefore left to the reader to infer. Pretty dull read to be honest, difficult to visualise a bunch of decent goals from newspaper clippings and very little about the interesting off the field stuff that this probably needed for you to really buy into what sort of a man Robin Friday was. I'd only recommend this if you were a Reading or Cardiff fan of that era as it might have nostalgic value, otherwise I wouldn't bother.
