“The favors I owe Brian Phillips are beginning to stack up. First, he wrote an excellent piece comparing FIFA and FIBA for my blog, 48 Minutes of Hell. Now he has taken time out of his busy schedule to answer a few questions about Brooklyn Asylum F.C., a serial novel about American soccer in the 1920s he is steadily publishing at his site the Run Of Play. If you’re new to the Run Of Play, it’s a bit like getting drunk with Lionel Messi in a bookstore in Nuevo Laredo, only to wake up, roll over, and say, ‘Oh my God, I wasn’t dreaming. That’s Lionel Messi. And he’s wearing nothing but briefs.'” (Norman Einstein’s), (Must Read Soccer)