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
Pro Vercelli: The Takeover
Mysterious investors swoop in to buy the club, putting my job on the line.
Mystic Ball
A fantastic documentary about chinlone, an ancient Burmese relative of soccer.
Pro Vercelli: Gravity’s Rainbow
Brilliant successes, unfortunate falls.
Liverpool – Chelsea
Live-blogging nobody’s fantasy.
Pro Vercelli: History Shatters
The world just changed. You should probably see this.
Pro Vercelli: Diagrams with Knives
Staying afloat in our first season in Serie A.
Wayne Rooney’s Suspension
The Independent just overturned it.
Tom Hicks Defaults
The Liverpool co-owner defaults on loans worth $525 million.
One Year Ago on The Run of Play
The Greatest April Fools’ Day Tricks in Soccer History, &c.
