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.
I might have exaggerated before. Slightly.
May 21, 2009
Has Andriy Shevchenko ever met an oligarch he didn’t like?
May 21, 2009
The last-ever UEFA Cup Final was a smart little encounter.
May 21, 2009
Fooballers should think twice about running through Swanage Town in their underpants.
May 20, 2009
Mid-March, and we’re still alive in three competitions.
May 20, 2009
Inside Arsène Wenger’s contract negotiations.
May 19, 2009
A club where everything is going completely according to plan.
May 19, 2009
But this time in a good way.
May 19, 2009
Because no day of the week should be without Maldini.
May 18, 2009
Will this be the season when we finally bring home a trophy?
May 17, 2009
Open thread of exhaustion and disorientation.
May 16, 2009
Why does FIFA think they ought to fix it?
May 15, 2009
From the Vercelli Soccer Express, Amazon Kindle Edition, 29 Aug 2017.
May 15, 2009
Wigan 1 – 2 Manchester United.
May 14, 2009
A terrible end to the season, and a sudden stroke of luck.
May 12, 2009
More than any other footballer he seems to have sprung from the imagination of a child.
May 12, 2009
My lowest moment as manager.
May 10, 2009
Dancing in the streets of Raith.
May 9, 2009
A gunpowder ache in the bones.
May 9, 2009
Ben Franklin would be proud.
May 9, 2009
Can I, please?
May 8, 2009
Opaque like thin air.
May 7, 2009
I want to pay attention to the match.
May 6, 2009
Arsenal 1 – 3 Manchester United.
May 5, 2009
Links to help you get through the second half.
May 5, 2009
…for the man who transcends everything?
May 4, 2009
This was the summer when everything went crazy.
May 1, 2009
Aesthetic order and FC Barcelona.
April 30, 2009
Video highlights from Pro Vercelli’s fight to make the Champions League.
April 28, 2009
Doubt, chance, and mutability.
April 28, 2009
Let’s live-blog this masterpiece.
April 27, 2009
The shocking historical scandal at the heart of our rivalry with Inter.
April 23, 2009
We’re holding on, but barely.
April 20, 2009
Mistaking the meaning of Marta.
April 19, 2009
Coming soon to a gas station DVD bin near you.
April 16, 2009
On the off chance that you didn’t already feel like a twit.
April 15, 2009
The mirror. And breaking it.
April 14, 2009
Halftime. Words.
April 14, 2009
Can someone tell me what this weekend meant?
April 13, 2009
The close season opens with a bang.
April 13, 2009
Mysterious investors swoop in to buy the club, putting my job on the line.
April 11, 2009
A fantastic documentary about chinlone, an ancient Burmese relative of soccer.
April 9, 2009
Brilliant successes, unfortunate falls.
April 8, 2009
Live-blogging nobody’s fantasy.
April 8, 2009
The world just changed. You should probably see this.
April 6, 2009
Staying afloat in our first season in Serie A.
April 4, 2009
The Independent just overturned it.
April 3, 2009
The Liverpool co-owner defaults on loans worth $525 million.
April 3, 2009
The Greatest April Fools’ Day Tricks in Soccer History, &c.
April 3, 2009
Our former assistant manager goes on an epic quest.
April 3, 2009