A couple of months ago I told you about an idea I had for a “Dictionary of Generic Narrative in Football”—a glossary of terms that would teach aspiring soccer fans how to talk about the game using the most widely admired and up-to-date cliches. At that point, I promised project updates, and here’s the [...]

One of our projects for the off-season—partly as a response to Andy Bull’s terrific critique of contemporary sports media, partly as something we’ve been thinking about on our own—is to put together a Dictionary of Generic Narrative in Sports Journalism, which will catalog the master narratives that are repeated over and over again in modern [...]

I am delighted to announce that The Run of Play will soon be joined by two new writers, who we believe will help cement our reputation as the Web’s premier destination for unconventional football writing combined with unique voices in self-promotion you’re already starting to skim past.
Dr. Chesapeake Marchpane, who is known to many of [...]

In what I can only assume was a perfect storm of reader enthusiasm, rampant cheating, and the fact that I put a huge banner about it at the top of the site, The Run of Play has won both Soccerlens Blog Awards it was nominated for, Best EPL Blog and Best Blog You’ve Never Heard [...]

I’m a bit late posting about this, because I couldn’t decide whether to take a modest tone (hey, lot of great blogs out there) or let myself go a little (the hammer of vengeance shall fall upon those who dismay us), but The Run of Play has been nominated for two Soccerlens Blog Awards. [...]

Ever since I first heard about the existence of myfootballclub.co.uk, back in what seems like a simpler time of fewer choices and unbroken corporate oligarchy, I’ve wanted to sound a note of caution. Sure, it sounds like the best idea in the world to turn over the management of a football team to a group [...]