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The Robin Friday film has taken a jump forward with director and Bafta-nominated Welsh director Philip John directing the project, according to the BBC website.
Filming is due to start in August, with casting well underway. However, the role of Friday is yet to be cast, although some names have been rumoured. Names linked with the Friday role are, British comedian Russell Brand, actor Tom Hardy and Welsh born actor Christian Bale, as possible candidates to play the wild man of football.
Friday had a reputation in football circles and beyond thanks to the book ‘The Greatest Player You Never Saw’. He made fellow players with reputation the likes of George Best and Roddy Marsh look more like choirboys than hell raisers. He was a hard-drinking drug-taking, hell-raising womaniser, but sometimes on the pitch, he was the master who could hold the breath of any fan.
One of my favourite Robin Friday stories came from Phil Dwyer’s autobiography ‘Mr Cardiff City’.
At Shrewsbury (Welsh Cup final 1976) we lost 3-0 and after the game the players, management and directors went to a bar to drown our sorrows. Robin got smashed and was completely off it, even for him. Screaming obscenities at anyone unlucky enough to be near him he jumped up onto the pool table and started hitting people with the cue. Matters were made even worse when he grabbed some of the snooker balls and launched them at the directors.
With both Cardiff’s and Reading's old grounds replaced with newer stadiums, the film makers will have to source new locations, however the plan is for the film to be shot mostly in Wales.
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