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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Andrei Arshavin’s Highly Inclusive Dreams

I know it seems like he’s sent this signal to several different clubs. But I think it’s safe to say at this point that when Arshavin declares, “My dream is to play for Tottenham,” or “My dream is to play for Bayern,” what we should be hearing is, “I will faithfully and to their own specifications mow the lawn of anyone who can get me out of Russia.”