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.
Check Zidane’s shirt sponsor in the second photo…
That is certainly more embarrassing (even if it is just the angle of the photo) than having your shirt read S’hea. However, it is not as embarassing as being John O’Shea.
I caught this on the Guardian yesterday and, let me say, it’s pretty lame. Could they really only come up with photographic evidence for five of the seven? Five pictures does not a gallery make.
What about David Beckham in 1998 Charity Shield I think it was. Spelt it “Beckam” maybe.
I’ll buy a vowel for $500, Vanna.
I don’t get it. Someone wanna help out an ignorant jerk?
Their names are misspelled on their shirts. It’s an homage to the fact that Roque Santa Cruz played his last match with a shirt labeled “Satna Cruz.”
Mostly I just liked the way Kuszczak in the picture above seems to have entered a dramatic twilight realm in which his name is changed to “Zuszczak,” as if there weren’t enough z’s in his name already.