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
A bagatelle for Arsenal, by Stefano Gulizia.
October 14, 2011 11 Comments
Alan Jacobs on Arsenal’s defense.
September 17, 2011 37 Comments
A great defense is a mathematics of frustration, Alan Jacobs writes.
December 16, 2010 38 Comments