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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Manchester United and the American Taxpayer

Should Manchester United get American bailout money? Or—here’s a thought. In light of the fact that their deficit spending is so much more under control, their domestic stability is so much more assured, and their foreign policy, while no less aggressive, has been so much more successful recently, should we maybe be asking for some kind of bailout from Manchester United?