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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The Masal Bugduv Hoaxer Interview

Fredorrarci’s long-awaited interview with the Masal Bugduv hoaxer is live at Sport Is a TV Show. There were moments when we despaired of it happening. And it ended abruptly with the hoaxer’s unexplained disappearance. We have this much thanks to Fredorrarci, and it’s brilliant (my favorite line: “As Lee Harvey Oswald may have said, it just seemed like a good idea at the time”). Please click through and enjoy.