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.
Reminds me of this: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/03/03/80-the-idea-of-soccer/
Whoever wrote that knows enough soccer fans to have created a stereotype of them (and likely as not, IS one of them). Frankly, it’s a good sign.
The onion is the single greatest news source on the planet.
(removes scarf sheepishly)
Being from Milwaukee, I used the read The Onion when it was etched in clay tablets …
“Women’s Sports/Soccer”
And their CRonaldo article is great.
This one was funnier.
I love the stuff white people like website – and the onion also had a recent great live video article on the global economy’s impact on prison-cigarette prices