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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I Know They Have Some, It Just Sounds Ridiculous

The announcer on my Carling Cup stream this afternoon after Arsenal went up 2-0:

“Wigan really need to look to their skill players, to their flair players, to get them out of this…”

by Brian Phillips · November 11, 2008

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