This is Our Game
Inside the World's Greatest Soccer Cities
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This is Our Game
Narrated by:
Joel Rookwood, Theo Solomon, Sebastian Balzarolo, Federico Louhau, Maud Arrault
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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 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: “Football is the ballet of the masses.” This audiobook takes us inside the dance.
Joel Rookwood is the Director of Sport and Exercise Management at University College Dublin, and has written widely about football as an academic, author and columnist. He is also Head of Research at Aalborg FC in Denmark and has written six academic books.
Daniel Fieldsend worked for the academies of Everton and Liverpool FC before becoming the accomplished author of The European Game and Locãl, the latter of which was shortlisted for the Telegraph Sports Book of the Year 2020. His works have been translated into four languages and sold in over forty countries.
© 2026 Joel Rookwood and Daniel Fieldsend (P) 2026 DK Audio
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