ooohfuckingfootballfriend:

Robin Friday, one time Reading and Cardiff legend, who was prone to drinking past kicking out time the night before games, was arrested on his transfer to Cardiff at the train station for bunking the train and quit the game aged 25. His final game saw him red carded for kicking Mark Lawrenson in the face, leaving the pitch, breaking into the Brighton and Hove dressing room and taking a shit in Lawrenson’s kit bag. 

Reading manager Maurice Evans tried to get Robin out of retirement, phoning and saying “If you would just settle down for three or four years, you could play for England.” Friday replied with the question “How old are you?”, and after Evans answered, continued: “I’m half your age and I’ve lived twice your life.”

Not long after Robin was imprisoned for impersonating a police officer and confiscating people’s drugs and died aged thirty eight of a heroin overdose in his council flat.

The greatest footballer no one ever saw. Could have been a superstar if he hadn’t been such a rebel.