Brian Phillips is a former staff writer at Grantland and senior writer at MTV News. He grew up in Oklahoma and now lives in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in Slate, Deadspin, The New York Times, The Awl, The New Republic, The Hudson Review, and Poetry, among other publications. His first book, Impossible Owls, an essay collection, will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in October 2018. He founded The Run of Play in 2007 and edited it until 2011. You can follow him on Twitter.
HOW DID WE GET AWAY WITH THIS? “HARRY REDKNAPP is …
November 12, 2008
The announcer on my Carling Cup stream this afternoon after …
November 11, 2008
The popularity of football has the effect of bringing to …
November 11, 2008
Background, for anyone who hasn’t been following this story. Last …
November 11, 2008
Harry Redkapp plays the Nintendo Wii with his son Jamie …
November 11, 2008
According to the Sun (so…but…) Arsène Wenger is using the …
November 10, 2008
Now that Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak has issued …
November 10, 2008
Barnsley’s 25-year-old striker Iain Hume suffered a fractured skull and …
November 10, 2008
Finality sells, but only that day’s papers. A week ago …
November 10, 2008
Breaking: Damien Comolli has a new job in football. For …
November 9, 2008
Darren Bent got two. Three players were sent off. The …
November 9, 2008
No one has written more acutely than Fredorrarci on what …
November 8, 2008
The goals were scored by Samir Nasri and Rafael da …
November 8, 2008
The match on everyone’s mind may be the lurid festival …
November 7, 2008
Noted pornographer and Birmingham City chairman David Gold has a …
November 7, 2008
By mid-21st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot …
November 7, 2008
This is a picture from Paul Willetts’s new book Teenage …
November 7, 2008
I like to imagine the consortium of world-class larcenists who …
November 6, 2008
I agree with almost everything Matt Hughes writes in his …
November 6, 2008
“Schuster: Juve’s Effectiveness Hurt Us” — Goal.com headline The Real …
November 5, 2008
It’s surprising, I guess, that Fenerbahçe held Arsenal to a …
November 5, 2008
Here’s the Nani match report from today’s Celtic-Manchester United game …
November 5, 2008
Maxi Rodríguez’s goal for Atlético Madrid against Liverpool yesterday looks …
November 5, 2008
I’m talking about Maradona, of course, who was officially unveiled …
November 5, 2008
Here’s the Ryan Babel match report from today’s Liverpool-Atlético game …
November 4, 2008
Keep your Maldinis, your Pirlos, your tailored trousers, your Gucci …
November 4, 2008
The city of Modena is home to Modena F.C., the …
November 4, 2008
Tottenham are back at the bottom of the Premier League …
November 3, 2008
Normally I wouldn’t pay a lot of attention to claims …
November 3, 2008
Maybe the goal of the weekend: São Paulo striker Dagoberto …
November 3, 2008
AC Milan are alone in first place in Serie A. …
November 2, 2008
I’m linking straight to the Sun on this one, because …
November 2, 2008
Barcelona’s 4-1 win over Málaga yesterday was a wet, nasty, …
November 2, 2008
On Diego Maradona being named coach of the Argentine national …
November 1, 2008
Never a dull moment in North London. After Arsenal saw …
November 1, 2008
Via Bloomberg: David Beckham’s endorsement income fell 6.6 percent in …
October 31, 2008
The Premier League season never officially starts until Alex Ferguson …
October 31, 2008
Nick and I have five matches picked out to watch …
October 31, 2008
Is celebrity a net asset or a net liability to …
October 31, 2008
I know it’s counterintuitive, but I’m just going to stick …
October 30, 2008
I’ve been reading through Tottenham’s annual financial results announcement, which …
October 30, 2008
A couple of thoughts on Maradona being named the new …
October 30, 2008
It’s been a month of milestones here at The Run …
October 29, 2008
It would, of course, take the Guardian‘s La Liga correspondent …
October 28, 2008
Not since the squirming, slippery ancestors of the creatures who …
October 26, 2008
That is, writes a desperate, face-saving open letter to Spurs …
October 26, 2008
There aren’t enough exclamation points in the keyboard for this, …
October 25, 2008
Then this message probably won’t reach you, but hey, any …
October 23, 2008
Harry Redknapp is many things: husband, father, manager, cup winner, …
October 22, 2008
This basically speaks for itself…and also for Rafa Benitez, Steven …
October 21, 2008