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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Alienation and Despair at the Sun

“HARRY REDKNAPP is approaching tonight’s Carling Cup tie at home to Liverpool with a sense of dread.”

“his side could have been swamped that day”

“utter disbelief”

“I dread to think what might happen…they murdered us”

“We could have been dead and buried”

by Brian Phillips · November 12, 2008

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