{"product_id":"9781835985601","title":"This is Our Game","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthors: Joel Rookwood \u0026amp; Daniel Fieldsend\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eSocial \u0026amp; cultural history | Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography | History of sport | Football (Soccer, Association football) | Travel writing\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 28\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e May 2026 by Canelo (August Books) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 304 pages \u003cbr\u003e136mm x 216mm x 27mm | 304g\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"gardners-meta\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/StarEmpty.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Reminds me of why I love football - at its heart, it's a reflection of the communities that are built around it. A special book.\" - Jamie CarragherYou know when you’re in a Football City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe murals, the billboards, the graffiti, the colours on the bars and pubs. No two football cities are the same. That cross on the club badge, commemorating a 1st century fisherman martyr (Ajax). The ‘cemetery’ of graves dedicated to the club’s league rivals (Napoli). The guttural roar of fans chanting “Aupa Athletic, aupa Euskal Herria!” – a fierce declaration of Basque pride and identity, echoing through San Mamés like a battle cry (Bilbao).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a world of increasing corporate and homogenous sport, football cities preserve culture and exhibit the particular and the unique with glorious passion. Fandom in a football city is for everyone: for boys and girls, for elderly men and the infirm; for the fashionable, the outcasts and the hopeless: it gives their days meaning and clarity – it can unite divided cities and divide the otherwise united.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is Our Game is a celebration of these unique fan cultures. Part travel, part social history, giving voice to distinctive local experiences, revealing the atmospheres, attitudes, fables, fashions, tensions and triumphs of twenty-two unique places and communities across all continents. It was the Russian composer (and FC Zenit fan) Dmitri Shostakovich who said: “Football is the ballet of the masses.” This book takes us inside the dance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57130755948919,"sku":"9781835985601","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781835985601.jpg?v=1780062743","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.co.uk\/products\/9781835985601","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}