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.
Get ready, market: Sven-Göran Eriksson is back on you.
April 2, 2009
They finally announce that they’ve aqcquired the rights.
April 2, 2009
The evening in five Clive Tyldesley quotes.
April 1, 2009
Meet the most hard-core six-and-seven-year-old girls’ team of all time.
April 1, 2009
Today’s top April Fools’ joke, as perpetrated by reality.
April 1, 2009
Tottenham unveil new images of their shrewdest fan outreach program yet.
March 31, 2009
The crashing excitement of summer.
March 31, 2009
Fox has won the American rights to the Champions League.
March 30, 2009
Kroenke and Usmanov circle the club like a pair of really wealthy sharks.
March 30, 2009
Looking ahead to our first season in Serie A.
March 30, 2009
The Vercelli Soccer Express draws on the power of the Anti-Jinxing Sheep.
March 27, 2009
Should English clubs get American bailout money?
March 27, 2009
Down memory lane with the Vercelli Soccer Express‘s Riccardo Nicastro.
March 24, 2009
Please don’t hurt me, Liverpool.
March 22, 2009
Pro Vercelli’s newest signings take Serie B by storm.
March 21, 2009
History repeats itself in the Champions League quarterfinal draw.
March 20, 2009
It’s dropped like points at Wigan.
March 20, 2009
They’ve won the North American rights to the Champions League, apparently.
March 19, 2009
The end of the road for the mercurial Jorge Ibáñez.
March 18, 2009
Upward over the rocks.
March 16, 2009
It’s worthy of being Arshavin’s first goal for Arsenal.
March 14, 2009
A thought on Nemanja Vidić.
March 14, 2009
Building the mountain.
March 12, 2009
Live-Blogging the Götterdämmerung.
March 11, 2009
Plague of toads, curtain of lightning.
March 10, 2009
Trying to make a more splendid life for all of us.
March 10, 2009
We didn’t make the playoff. Here’s what happened.
March 10, 2009
And the sudden violence of joy.
March 9, 2009
Struggling with the pitch at the Silvio Piola.
March 9, 2009
The synergy no one said wouldn’t happen.
March 8, 2009
Life in Arms / Down by the Schoolwall, &c.
March 6, 2009
Overachieving in Serie B.
March 6, 2009
Here and there, my hair is turning gray.
March 5, 2009
Legendary football shirt typos: a gallery.
March 3, 2009
The Guardian‘s Richard Williams makes the case.
March 3, 2009
I’ve always been a partisan of the 4-4-2 in FM games. That’s about to change.
March 2, 2009
Please help me understand your idea of the definite article.
March 2, 2009
To be the ringbearer at his wedding.
March 2, 2009
The foul-mouthed celebrity chef never really played for Rangers.
March 1, 2009
The quick comedown after winning promotion through a playoff.
February 28, 2009
From their own statements, it’s hard to tell how much they have.
February 27, 2009
The Liverpool executive loses his battle with Rafa.
February 27, 2009
Indisputably the greatest soccer-themed cat-neutering commercial of all time.
February 27, 2009
They’re friends, you guys. They are friends.
February 26, 2009
Arsenal have released their financial report. It’s interesting.
February 26, 2009
Okay, but you’ll have to take a test.
February 26, 2009
Drogba, when briefly upright.
February 25, 2009
Or, Víctor Valdés’s mysterious ineptitude.
February 25, 2009
The latest from our ongoing project to define all football cliches.
February 25, 2009
Inter v. Manchester United.
February 24, 2009