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
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Day of the Qatar Foundation-Sponsored Depend Adult Undergarment
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Wigan Rhythm: Number 1, 2011.
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Of J. Anthony Barton.
Bodies of Evidence 31
Alan Jacobs on soccer and body type.
Heaps of Woe 141
Andrew Thomas on racism at Barcelona.
Today in Low-Altitude Eroticism 18
The naked thrills of the FIFA Financial Report.
Big Box United 28
Benjamin Kumming on globalization and MLS.
If This Is a Fan 22
A Socratic dialogue, featuring Zico.
Clint Dempsey 15
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