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
Aesthetics and Justice
Do bad calls make the game better?
Line-Up for Today
An ABC of La Liga. With apologies to Ogden Nash.
Technology and Justice
Fairness isn’t the only thing that matters.
Special
Andy Streets goes inside the mind of…oh, you know who.
The Beauty of Real Madrid
Through the prism of college basketball.
Nitemare in Philadelphia
Our MLS correspondent comes down with “exacerbated cheesesteak distress.”
El Clásico
Real Madrid 0 – 2 Barcelona.
I Returned!
Our MLS correspondent comes back to the United States.
Styles Make Fights
Alan Jacobs on why Barcelona’s style has no rival.
