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.

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More Beautiful Pictures of Tiny Plastic Football Men

From the Telegraph‘s “Pictures of the Day”: bespoke Subbuteo figurines. From left to right: Fabrizio Ravanelli, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Steven Gerrard, Alan Shearer, and Obafemi Martins. Hovering in the background like the smiling, bespectacled god of a race of men who are curiously affixed to brightly colored disks: creator Tom Taylor.