Parklife! A Photographic Journey Through Grassroots Football

Professional photographer Jason Mitchell has travelled the length and depth of Britain to capture the essence of adult grassroots football in this country, raw park football and Sunday league football.Covering over 1000 miles and over 50 games he has been photographing football that is played in the parks and small grounds where there is no entrance fee all over the country.The views include a remote island in the Outer Hebrides which FIFA has credited as one of the most remarkable places to play football in the world, London skyscrapers behind a women’s match, a cricket game as the backdrop to a fixture in Yorkshire and a match in Norfolk with a farm behind the goal.This is football where the players, whether they are male or female, just love the game and where the characters are at the forefront.This fascinating view of our national game, a million miles from state-of-the-art visuals of televised football, will appeal to football fans everywhere.