{"product_id":"9798217270170","title":"This is Our Game","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou know when you’re in a Football City.\u003c\/b\u003e\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).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joel Rookwood","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":48437985968340,"sku":"9798217270170","price":28.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_30d55de1-30bd-4339-a70e-1191fcb95082.jpg?v=1786135997","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9798217270170","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}