The film is based on the biography "The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw: The Robin Friday Story". Robin Friday is controversial and wild English soccer legend who played for Reading and Cardiff, Wales in the 1970s and died tragically at the young age of 38. Friday's short-lived, but brilliant talent continues to be remembered by his fans, and in 2004 he was voted "all time cult hero" in a BBC poll. He was just as well known for his hedonistic lifestyle off the field and was named #1 in a Channel 4 list of soccer "Bad Boys."