Your Gnashing of Teeth Makes Me Drowsy

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.

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I Don’t Care That Joe Kinnear Said “F*ck”

I don’t care about this. I don’t care that Joe …

October 3, 2008 1 Comment
The Bissinger Video

Here’s the tape of the Buzz Bissinger-Will Leitch contretemps. Watching …

April 30, 2008 7 Comments
Buzz Bissinger, Will Leitch, and the White-Hot Flow of Opinion

H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger, the Pulitzer Prize-winner, the author of Friday …

April 30, 2008 10 Comments
As a Blogger, I Have “Opinions” About “News”

But I’m struggling to have one about the news that …

February 7, 2008 21 Comments

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