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

By Daniel Fieldsend and Joel Rookwood

"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 you (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 cemetery (TM) of graves dedicated to the club (TM)s league rivals (Napoli). The guttural roar of fans chanting oeAupa Athletic, aupa Euskal Herria  " a fierce declaration of Basque pride and identity, echoing through San Mam (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 " 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: oeFootball is the ballet of the masses.  This book takes us inside the dance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G7TG8XC2
• ISBN13: 9798217270170
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: August Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.5"