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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This Town Needs a Saloon

After three months of letting you figure things out for yourselves, and trusting that the odd sharp-eyed prospector who followed the rumors and the secret maps to this site would manage to discover what was here, I’ve decided to add an About page. You can find it in the sidebar to your right. This is what it says.

About the Run of Play