{"product_id":"this-is-our-game-by-joel-rookwood-9781835985601","title":"This is Our Game","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - Jamie Carragher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou know when you’re in a Football City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 \"\u003cem\u003eAupa Athletic, aupa Euskal Herria!\u003c\/em\u003e\" – a fierce declaration of Basque pride and identity, echoing through San Mamés like a battle cry (Bilbao).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is Our Game\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47582919721196,"sku":"9781835985601","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781835985601-this-is-our-game.jpg?v=1777448886","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/this-is-our-game-by-joel-rookwood-9781835985601","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}