This is Our Game

"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 CarragherYou know when you’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’ 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 Mamés 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 cit