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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Tottenham Unveil New Images of Naming Rights Park

You have got to be kidding me. I’m starting to believe that Naming Rights Park is actually this thing’s name, and that Spurs are about to break ground on the first meta-stadium in English soccer history.

Stop me if I’m going too far here, but couldn’t you read the curviness of the roof as a form of genre criticism?