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
The Epigraph from The Exorcist Is the Sunniest Part of This Post
I don’t know what’s happening to Anthony at the World …
I’m Not Saying They Should Stop the Presses Just Because Marlon King Punches a Girl in a Nightclub…
“Hull City striker Marlon King has been arrested for allegedly …
Pro Vercelli: Autumn Almanac
Good news and bad news from Vercelli, where our favorite …
Schuster’s Payout
It’s €4.5 million. We know Spurs paid Ramos roughly £1.7 …
Take That, Team with Hot Pink Uniforms
The classic length-of-court clearance/leaping scissor kick goal. I don’t pay …
The Effect Does Not Prove the Opposite of the Cause
The Mail thinks Ramos is in for a nice long …
Real Madrid Is Like Tottenham, Only Louder
For the inside-Greyskull stuff, see Tim Stannard on the cockroach-hard …
Real Madrid Sack Bernd Schuster, Quietly Redefine the Concept of Failing Upward
Bernd Schuster is out at Real Madrid, according to Goal.com. …
Darren Farley, Impersonating Rafa Benítez, Meets Rafa Benítez
Remember Darren Farley, the Liverpool fan whose dead-on impersonations of …
