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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Watford Chairman Graham Simpson Is Assassinated by a Salad

According to the Watford Observer, the coup that led to the resignation of Watford chairman Graham Simpson this morning was put in motion by a company called Valley Grown Salads. We are a long way from the days of the Roman Empire.