This book consists of seventeen texts by intellectual individuals and attempts, through an interdisciplinary approach to football, to highlight its entertaining and cultural side.
It is a continuation and complement to the previous book published by the same group, which addressed fan violence and other forms of violence in sports.
It is published by the "Religious Red Scientists", a well-known group of scientists and artists, fans of Olympiacos, and is accompanied by photographic material that captures impressive moments from sports fields and beyond...
The intellectual pleasure that football offers, football as a social phenomenon, the reasons for its mass appeal, its function as the central axis of a narrative, its evolution over the years, a psychological approach to fan worship, football as a carrier and means of artistic expression, its integration into a literary and linguistic framework, its relationship with poetry, music, and theater are some of the issues developed in the book.
Through all of the above, it is interpreted why football can be a temporary pleasant escape from the mundane reality in difficult times and, at the same time, a space for genuine collective expression of spontaneous popular sentiments towards it.