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

By Daniel Fieldsend and Joel Rookwood

The greatest soccer cities in the world, as told by the fans living within them.

You know when you're in a Soccer City.

The murals, the billboards, the graffiti, the colours on the bars and pubs. No two soccer 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 Mam s like a battle cry (Bilbao).

In a world of increasing corporate and homogenous sport, soccer cities preserve culture and exhibit the particular and the unique with glorious passion. Fandom in a soccer 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.

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: "Soccer is the ballet of the masses." This book takes us inside the dance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G7TG8XC2
• ISBN13: 9798217270170
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: August Books
• Length: 288 Pages