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.
EDITOR
Brian Phillips
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Zach Dundas, Fredorrarci, Alan Jacobs, Supriya Nair, Richard Whittall
Imaginary Enemies
Ryan O’Hanlon on Anelka’s move to China.
Quiet Revolutions
Spurs have succeeded by remembering that some problems are minor. By Jake Meador.
Possession
When to keep the ball, and when not to. By Alan Jacobs.
The Death of Socrates
The demon and the daimon, by Alan Jacobs.
Goodbye Twentieth Century
Samuel Goff & James Coleman on the greatest French players of all time.
Generalissimo
Sam Fayyaz on Javi Martinez and Fernando Redondo.
The Rat in the Engine
Colin McGowan on the realism of FIFA 12.
Deus Absconditus
What makes a great referee, by Alan Jacobs.
The Legend of Arsene Wenger
The danger of a calcified philosophy, by Miriti Murungi.
