{"product_id":"this-is-our-game-joel-rookwood-9798217270170","title":"This Is Our Game: Inside the World's Greatest Soccer Cities","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eReminds me of why I love football - at its heart, it's a reflection of the communities that are built around it. A special book.\u003c\/i\u003e\" - Jamie Carragher \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou know when you're in a Football City.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\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 \"\u003ci\u003eAupa Athletic, aupa Euskal Herria!\u003c\/i\u003e\" - a fierce declaration of Basque pride and identity, echoing through San Mamés like a battle cry (Bilbao). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is Our Game \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joel Rookwood,Daniel Fieldsend\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798217270170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e August Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Joel Rookwood","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48443103019263,"sku":"9798217270170","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d93c8beb-276f-4cb9-9178-bfec98a237a2.jpg?v=1777201865","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/this-is-our-game-joel-rookwood-9798217270170","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}