Every so often, on my perambulations around the footballing part of the internet, I come across a discussion of the Beatles and football: they were Scousers, in their sly way, after all. Were they Liverpool fans? Old Evertonians? Was the Walrus really Dave Hickson? Etc.
The story that usually emerges is that none of the Beatles [...]

…damned if it doesn't close up shop right when it starts to get interesting.
Here's how this works: I'm going to walk you through all four Champions League quarter-final matches this week. I'm not going to make predictions, because fuck my predictions. That's what Alan Hansen's for. If you want a prediction, Alan Hansen can [...]

SPECULATIONS AT KRAKOW
Whenever I am alone and, for a moment, reasonably secure in Krakow, I repair to a certain library in which, as it is situated underground and beneath a building (the Museum of Pharmacology) whose staff I trust to alert me in the event of any disturbance, I am more than usually well-protected from [...]

Portsmouth have beaten West Brom 1-0 to reach their first FA Cup final since 1939. I had planned to write a detailed match summary, but I think a minute-by-minute report might be a better way to relate the experience of watching football from a far-off country in this internet age…

I am delighted to announce that The Run of Play will soon be joined by two new writers, who we believe will help cement our reputation as the Web's premier destination for unconventional football writing combined with unique voices in self-promotion you're already starting to skim past.
Dr. Chesapeake Marchpane, who is known to many of [...]

You can't fight it. You can criticize its style. You can complain about its sportsmanship. But the fire-bomb is coming. The roof of your house is going to be shattered, and your walls are going to light up. From far off it will look like a match being struck, then [...]

Robbie Savage's hair and Robbie Savage have been around football for such a long time that it's easy to take them for granted. Together they've played 154 games for Crewe Alexandra, 374 for Leicester City, 164 for Birmingham, and countless more for Blackburn and Derby—and the amazing thing is that they've always played for [...]

April Fools' Day is one of my favorite holidays, probably because it's the one day of the year when I don't have to apologize for deviousness and petty cruelty. In football, the first day of April is traditionally a time for pranks and hoaxes (see: La Liga and the 39th game), and over the [...]