for Reading and Cardiff City during the mid-1970s. Born and raised in
Acton in west London, Friday joined Reading in 1974, quickly becoming a
key player and helping Reading win promotion to the Third Division
during the 1975–76 season. Friday won Reading's player of the year
award in both of his full seasons there as their leading goal scorer.
Many contemporaries would later assert that he was good enough to play
for England, but his habit of unsettling opponents through physical
intimidation contributed to a heavily tarnished disciplinary record, and
his personal life was one of heavy smoking, drinking, womanising and
drug abuse. His intensifying drug habit led Reading to sell him to
Cardiff in 1976. Following incidents on and off the field—including
kicking Mark Lawrenson in the face mid-game—Friday retired from
football in 1977. He died in Acton in 1990, aged 38, after suffering a
heart attack. Despite his short career, Friday remains prominent in the
memory of Reading and Cardiff supporters, as a player and a personality.
He has been voted Reading's best ever player three times.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Friday>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1149:
Second Crusade: An army led by Nur ad-Din Zangi destroyed the
forces of Antioch led by Prince Raymond.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Inab>
1444:
Albanians led by Skanderbeg scored a resounding victory in
their rebellion against the Ottoman Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Torvioll>
1776:
Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga and Father Francisco Palóu
founded Mission San Francisco de Asís, the oldest surviving building in
San Francisco.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Francisco_de_As%C3%ADs>
1985:
The European Economic Community adopted the Flag of Europe, a
flag previously adopted by the Council of Europe in 1955.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Europe>
1995:
The Shuttle–Mir Program began when Space Shuttle Atlantis
became the first space shuttle to dock with the Russian space station
Mir.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle%E2%80%93Mir_Program>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
enterolith:
A mineral concretion in the intestinal tract.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enterolith>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring
the cruelest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion,
love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership,
which is love's opposite.
--Antoine de Saint Exupéry
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint_Exup%C3%A9ry>
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