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This Is Our Game: Inside the World's Greatest Soccer Cities

This Is Our Game: Inside the World's Greatest Soccer Cities

Rookwood, Joel
Fieldsend, Daniel

Paperback

AnthropologySports GeneralSoccer

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN13: 9798217270170
Publisher: August Books
Published: Jun 9 2026
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.65
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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 Carragher

You know when youâ (TM)re in a Football City.


The 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 â ~cemeteryâ (TM) of graves dedicated to the clubâ (TM)s league rivals (Napoli). The guttural roar of fans chanting â oeAupa Athletic, aupa Euskal Herria!⠝ â a fierce declaration of Basque pride and identity, echoing through San MamÃ(c)s like a battle cry (Bilbao).

In 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 â it can unite divided cities and divide the otherwise united.

This 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: â oeFootball is the ballet of the masses.⠝ This book takes us inside the dance.

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