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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How to Write a Man Utd-Chelsea Preview, by Cognitive Dissonance

“And so in this, the most unpredictable of Barclays Premier League seasons, the clubs that have won the last six championships will once again, astoundingly, play for the championship. It was the clash that was foreordained from the very beginning of this, the most unpredictable of Barclays Premier League seasons.”