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
Can the Continental System Work in England?
There’s an entertaining mini-history to be written (by someone else; …
Football and Globalization: A Very Special Run of Play Report
A number of prominent economics and policy blogs have started …
The Real News for November 1
Micah Richards is hurt, and so is England. UPDATE: Richards …
Around the World Cup
On a slow news day in football (and they’re almost …
The Real News for October 31
Brazil will host the 2014 World Cup. Oddly, since the …
Parsing Michel Platini: It’s Like Searching for Bobby Fischer, But with Absolutely No Chance of Finding Him
Michel Platini, who has brought pleasure to so many in …
The Tuesday Portrait: Wayne Rooney
He looks, anyway, most of the time, something run-of-the-mill or …
The Real News for October 30
FIFA pass an overdue Joorabchian Restriction. (The Guardian) Glenn Roeder: …
It’s a Really, Really Big Bucket, But Paul Scholes Is Still a Drop
I would worry about this Paul Scholes injury if I …
