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Champions League Preview: Viral Usability Is the New Agent Scully
It’s a day of nostalgia here at The Run of Play. We’re reminiscing on a simpler time of the internet, back when it was all Winona Ryder mailing lists and intricate debates about whether David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson were married in real life. “IRL,” we called it back then, in our smug, efficient [...]
Champions League Preview: Your Slutty Oscar Dress Is Like Mourinho’s Bible of Tactics
…damned if it doesn’t close up shop right when it starts to get interesting.
Here’s how this works: I’m going to walk you through all four Champions League quarter-final matches this week. I’m not going to make predictions, because fuck my predictions. That’s what Alan Hansen’s for. If you want a prediction, Alan Hansen can [...]
What About Croatia?
Chances are you know exactly what to expect from the England team tonight. You know what book Frank Lampard is reading. You know what brand of seltzer Sol Campbell likes to put in his orange juice. You even know about Peter Crouch’s hobby as the Dean of Engineering at Arizona State. But what about [...]
Arsenal v. Manchester United: The Preview That Melted Antarctica
What are we looking at here?
Arsenal v. Manchester United, Wenger v. Sir Alex, Fabregas v. Ronaldo, the league’s sharpest attack v. the league’s bluntest defense, 316 wins v. 375 wins, and Howard Webb v. the human tendency to assume a falling man was tripped, in the biggest match of the Premier League season so far. [...]
