Football is the world's most popular sport and it's greatest means of cultural expression.

By combining on-the-ground reporting around the globe with investigative journalism and analysis, Joey D'Urso explains the modern world through one of its few universal symbols - the football shirt.

More Than A Shirt: Football Shirts That Explain The Modern World examines some of the biggest stories of our time; states in the middle east navigating the end of oil, China's rise as a world power, Putin's wars, global migration, the boom and bust in cryptocurrencies, deindustrialisation in the left-behind-West, and the decline of democracy. It is a journey that will take readers from Barnsley to Berlin, Miami to Milan, and Goa to Rio de Janeiro.

Football shirts and their sponsors provide a window through which we can understand not just the world of football but the world in general and the currents of money, people and ideas which flow between continents and through the globe's most popular sport.

For fans of Prisoners of Geography, The People's Game and Expected Goals, this is an accessible voyage through politics and history, using the lens of football to explain our modern world.