{"product_id":"this-is-our-game","title":"This Is Our Game","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eeminds 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\" - Jamie Carragher\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e You know when you're in a Football City.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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' 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\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThis is Our Game\u003c\/i\u003e 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: \"Football is the ballet of the masses.\" This book takes us inside the dance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"This Is Our Game","offer_id":46242755641541,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-83598-560-1.jpg?v=1779171229","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/this-is-our-game","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}