In 2004 the BBC conducted a poll surveying fans of each Football League club for the “cult hero” of their team’s history. In Cardiff City’s poll, the winner of the poll was not John Toshack, the towering center forward who would go on to fame as a player with Liverpool and as a manager with Real Madrid. Nor was it Robert Earnshaw, who burst from the club’s academy to score 100 goals for the Bluebirds in the late 90s.
The winner with the votes of 41% of terminally online Cardiff fans was Robin Friday, a skillful and aggressive striker…who scored only six goals in a single season with the club back in the mid 1970s.