The Run of Play is a blog about
the wonder and terror of soccer.

We left the window open during a match in October 2007 and a strange wind blew into the room.

Now we walk the forgotten byways of football with a lonely tread, searching for the beautiful, the bewildering, the haunting, and the absurd.

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Germany-Poland Line of the Day, Given That Everything About This Match Is Being Seen Through the Lens of 1939

Frankly I think the Poles have been asking for it.
—Andy Gray, after Germany took the lead

by Brian Phillips · June 8, 2008

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