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.
EDITOR
Brian Phillips
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Zach Dundas, Fredorrarci, Alan Jacobs, Supriya Nair, Richard Whittall
Life in Arms / Down by the Schoolwall
I know William Gallas is supposed to have undergone a …
Breaking Down the Barclays Premier League Email Autoreply System, Part Three
I’m writing this from an abandoned tower high up in …
The Tuesday Portrait: Zlatan Ibrahimović
People who say that soccer is boring and people who …
The Cannon Loud, the Flag So High
In what I can only assume was a perfect storm …
The Old, Weird Everywhere
I’ve written a post for Pitch Invasion about the association …
Oh When the League Is Upside Down
FA CUP 5th-ROUND ACTION: Barnsley have stunned Liverpool at Anfield, …
Find the Stable; Pull Out the Bolt
This is a kind of purpose: to ask what these …
Breaking Down the Barclays Premier League Email Autoreply System, Part Two
Things keep getting stranger on the email autoreply front. After …
The Tuesday Portrait: Joe Cole
In myth and in the funny pages, tiny wiseguys with …
