Product Description

2003 is Manchester City’s 80th and final year at Maine Road. Award-winning photographer and lifelong City supporter, Kevin Cummins, has spent the last year documenting this historic event, enjoying the dramatic highs and suffering the heartbreaking lows that come hand in hand with a true fan’s devotion to his team.

With unprecedented access on pitch and behind the scenes, We’re Not Really Here is a truly original insight into a Premiership club and its supporters.

The honesty of Cummins’ photographs and his ability to capture the humanity of his subjects makes We’re Not Really Here both a social document and a fan’s keepsake. Players and supporters from across the Premiership are pictured, as much a part of the atmosphere of any vibrant stadium as the home fans and team themselves.

On 11th May Manchester City played their last Premiership game at Maine Road. When the final whistle went an era ended for MCFC. Thanks to Kevin Cummins Maine Road will live on in more than just memories.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #167750 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-01
• Format: Box set
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Kevin Keegan
The best and most intimate portrayal of an individual football club ever produced.

James Lawton. The Independent
This book.... will warm a thousand memories and should be kept safe – and close to the heart.

Arena 2003
"To paraphrase Keegan himself – ‘You will love it.’"

Customer Reviews

We're Not Really Here
Book Review
We're not really here
Kevin Cummins

Wow! As Kevin Keegan says on the back: The best and
most intimate portrayal of an individual football club
ever produced. I bought this book on Sunday at the
Reebok City shop at the City of Manchester Stadium. It's
absolutely incredible. I've been looking at it in all
my spare time since then. We sat in the pub on Sunday
evening looking through it. The combination of alcohol
and this book is a potent mixture that guarantees a
few tears.
The pictures are beautiful. The way they are used in
the book is superb. There is a page of nine pictures
from the derby of absolute mayhem. Next to it are two
beautiful bored looking girls wondering if anyone is
ever going to come down to their stall to buy a pie.
The photos of the Gene Kelly look like something from
an old fairground. There's some fabulous photos of
fans, with and without tattoos. There's a great one of
a guy nursing his can of Stella and another one of a
fan proudly showing off his City logo on his phone
screen whilst his mate looks at him pityingly.
Great match action in the way I've never seen a match
photographed. Great pictures of Maine Road showing the
old signs and the jumble of styles that made it such a
warm place to be. Puddles everywhere. There's an
absolutely stunning set of pictures of Marc-Vivien Foe
with Sylvain Distin that make you realise how much
the players must have loved him and how he'll be

missed.
All the photos are in rich colours almost as if they
are challenging your senses to remember if in life
everthing was so vivid.
I can't recommend this book highly enough. Anyone who
went to the game on Sunday will have realised that
there is nothing there to remind us of Maine Road. The
peole who run the marketing department at MCFC are
idiots. They should buy some of these photos and put
them around the new stadium to remind us how lucky we are
but more importantly to ensure we don't forget where
we've come from and how those traditional values
should never be forgotten.
Buy this book and weep. The link with the past has
been captured beautifully in this incredible book. It
is already a testimonial to time's spirit past.

Mike Stearman

I can't recommend this book highly enough
despite this book not being avialable via Amazon yet I got mine at the new superstore last week - so it is out.

I've been looking at it in all my spare time since then. We sat
in the pub on Sunday evening looking through it. The combination of alcohol and this book is a potent mixture that guarantees a few tears.

The pictures are beautiful. The way they are used in the book is superb. There is a page of nine pictures from the derby of absolute mayhem. Next to it are two beautiful bored looking girls wondering if anyone is ever going to come down to their stall to buy a pie.

The photos of the Gene Kelly look like something from an old fairground. There's some fabulous photos of fans, with and without tattoos. There's a great one of a guy nursing his can of Stella and another one of a fan proudly showing off his City logo on his phone screen whilst his mate looks
at him pityingly.

Great match action in the way I've never seen a match photographed. Great pictures of Maine Road showing the old signs and the jumble of styles that made it such a warm place to be. Puddles everywhere. There's an absolutely stunning set of pictures of Marc-Vivien Foe with Sylvain Distin that make
you realise how much the players must have loved him and how he'll be missed.

All the photos are in rich colours almost as if they are challenging your senses to remember if in life everthing was so vivid. . Anyone who went to the game on Sunday will have realised that there is nothing there to remind us of Maine Road.