{"product_id":"this-is-our-game-inside-the-worlds-greatest-soccer-cities","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 youâ (TM)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 â ~cemeteryâ (TM) of graves dedicated to the clubâ (TM)s league rivals (Napoli). The guttural roar of fans chanting â oe\u003ci\u003eAupa Athletic, aupa Euskal Herria!\u003c\/i\u003e⠝ â \" a fierce declaration of Basque pride and identity, echoing through San MamÃ(c)s 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 â \" 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: â oeFootball is the ballet of the masses.⠝ This book takes us inside the dance.","brand":"August Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48192927727805,"sku":"BS-TC0-270170","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9798217270170-HD.jpg?v=1787152435","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/this-is-our-game-inside-the-worlds-greatest-soccer-cities","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}