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.
How long would it be before he put himself in at goalkeeper and started ripping his “teammates” in the press? Three matches? Four?
My God, how long it would be before he started criticizing from his vantage point as goalkeeper the decisions he was making as manager? He’d be the first 40-year-old player ever to bench himself for insubordination.
Sorry. I can’t stop thinking about this.