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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Arsenal Sign Arshavin: A Thing That Happened

Arsenal have signed Andrei Arshavin from Zenit St. Petersburg in a deal reported to be worth a club-record £16.9 million. The transfer was briefly delayed because of weather. There. See how easy that was to say?