The Run of Play - Attacking Football

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.

Toward a Somewhat More Possible Owl

Toward a Somewhat More Possible Owl 8

Imaginary Enemies 101

Ryan O’Hanlon on Anelka’s move to China.
Quiet Revolutions 60

Spurs have succeeded by remembering that some problems are minor. By Jake Meador.
Possession 62

When to keep the ball, and when not to. By Alan Jacobs.
The Death of Socrates 24

The demon and the daimon, by Alan Jacobs.
Goodbye Twentieth Century 34

Samuel Goff & James Coleman on the greatest French players of all time.
Generalissimo 36

Sam Fayyaz on Javi Martinez and Fernando Redondo.
The Rat in the Engine 29

Colin McGowan on the realism of FIFA 12.
Deus Absconditus 34

What makes a great referee, by Alan Jacobs.
The Legend of Arsene Wenger 50

The danger of a calcified philosophy, by Miriti Murungi.

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