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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Contemplating a World in Which “Joey Barton Courage” Is a Viable Google Search

I know it’s counterintuitive, but I’m just going to stick my neck out and say that there ought to be a limit to the morally redemptive and/or personally exemplary qualities we are willing to descry in the successful conversion of one penalty kick.