This is a book for anyone who has an interest not just in football and travel, but in people. In it we find contemporary history and reportage. Football fans will recognise the wider context of the beautiful game and seasoned travellers will smirk as they recognise themselves in awkward, alien situations. 43 images.

• “Dad, we hate the Israelis, don’t we?”
• The Ambassador, the Queen and the Man United fan
• On the way to the Land of Fire
• The Horror
• What’s the Basque for ‘offside’?
• One of us – the death of Mikey Dye
• Playing for peace in Kenya
• On top of the world
• This club belongs to me and thousands of others like me
• Kicking off in North Korea
• All quiet on the eastern front
• Firecrackers and flares
• Albania’s twenty-first-century shame
• Independence, plastics and the biggest brand in the world
• A tale of two towns
• East London’s noisy revolution
• Pride and privilege
• A fiesta in the favela
• History People
• The last day of the revolution
• Turn right at the camel
• To the country that doesn’t exist
• Red Dogs, Red Dragons – from TNS to Bucharest
• Picture Section