Yes, yet another self-obsessed moron waffling on subjects of which he has no real knowledge or understanding. Monday, 2 September 2013. Hope you saw Gareth Bale being paraded in front of a reasonably-filled Bernabeu stadium this afternoon. Here he is, in the picture on the left, sitting all tight and erect whilst the Real Madrid president, Perez effuses about him. Perhaps this man could make the ball levitate just with the power of his mind? I would personally have liked .

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. Spurs have succeeded by remembering that some problems are minor. When to keep the ball, and when not to.

Getting our backsides Tanned on the opening day. A lot of it comes to the UK via lorry, who have to use the Channel Tunnel. So delays such as the ones we have seen have caused issues for many clubs, the most ironic being Folkestone Invicta who can probably see the delivery lorry in question with a good pair of binoculars. Football can be a cr.