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
Kevin Keegan Is Sad That No One Entered His Contest
Kevin Keegan and I have talked about this, though, and …
A Line Under Sunday, January 20
Portsmouth 3 – 1 Derby — Portsmouth’s Benjani Mwaruwari now …
Remembering Garrincha
Today is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Garrincha, …
Newcastle 0 – 0 Bolton, As Reported by W.B. Yeats
Is Kevin Keegan’s return to Newcastle the second coming? We …
Dion Dublin Is Retiring
One of the smaller pieces of news in the football …
A Weekend of Slouching Toward Bethlehem
It’s Friday, which means it’s almost time to get out …
The Run of Play Contest: How Unsurprised Can You Be by Kevin Keegan?
The magic of Kevin Keegan, as Tom pointed out in …
The Genius of Basketball and the Genius of Soccer
One takes something so difficult that a practiced adult can’t …
Dinner with Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini
This week’s Run of Play at Pitch Invasion feature finds …
