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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    Some Recent Accolades

    "High-minded but not pretentious."
    — New York Magazine Approval Matrix

    One of the "100 Football Blogs to Follow in 2011" : The Guardian

    Winner of the Gold Award from When Saturday Comes, December 2010

    “The highlight of the soccer blogosphere by far.”
    — Pitch Invasion, feature on the best soccer writing of 2009

    “Sharp, feisty and funny.”
    — When Saturday Comes

    Best EPL Blog and Best EPL Blogger : 2009 EPL Awards on EPL Talk

    Best Football Blogger of 2008 : Soccerlens Blog Awards

    Best EPL Blog : 2007 Soccerlens Blog Awards

    Since our launch in late 2007, we've appeared on the BBC, FreeDarko, and Slate, received links from Reuters, ESPN, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times, and been featured in some of the most influential sports media in the world.

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