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
Benfica and the nightmare of history, by Augusto Neto.
May 13, 2011 61 Comments
How Real Madrid is like the Spanish Empire, by João Jorge.
February 2, 2011 44 Comments
First: Zach recently asked why Americans focus so much on …
June 20, 2008 15 Comments