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🎙️Co-host @ItWasPod https://t.co/xvnaIIewgt 📕 Inside England: Behind the Scenes of 3 Lions World Cup Dream https://t.co/XZ3Rs7sC16 📰 @guardian_sport

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    RT @OllieHolt22: Big fan of the @itwaspod so it was real honour to chat with @draper_rob and @jonawils , who has been to a lot more football stadia than me, about 92: A Life in Football Grounds
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    We have the brilliant @OllieHolt22 on @ItWasPod with myself and @jonawils Patreon bonus edition today talking about 92: A Life in Football Grounds It’s a superb book, a football journey around the country and Ollie’s life
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    We have the brilliant @OllieHolt22 on @ItWasPod with myself and @jonawils Patreon bonus edition today talking about 92: A Life in Football Grounds It’s a superb book, a football journey around the country and Ollie’s life
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    RT @unherd: Cristiano Ronaldo has retired from international football. His descent into self-parody shows us that superstars are human too, writes @draper_rob 👇
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    RT @jonawils: Fanzines - looking at the changing nature of fan media. Daniel Gray joins us on IWWIW. #iwwiw #fanszines #dannybaker Listen here - or, for ad-free, Book Club, our World Cup history, and weekly bonus episodes, sign up here:
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    Camavinga here representing anyone non Spanish trying to have a conversation with a Spaniard in Spanish
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    😭 Check out Camavinga’s crazy exchange with a journalist in the Real Madrid midfielder’s recent press conference.
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    😭 Check out Camavinga’s crazy exchange with a journalist in the Real Madrid midfielder’s recent press conference.
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    ‘It wouldn’t actually matter if QPR weren’t in the Premier League’ Very good job I reconciled myself to that extraordinary thought as Daniel Gray @jonawils and I reminisce about golden age of fanzines and the great @prodnose 606 on today’s @ItWasPod episode
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    RT @jonawils: The Fanzine Movement, and why it was so important to British football culture in the late 80s and 90s. Daniel Gray joins us in It Was What It Was to discuss his book Fanzine. #fanzines #premierleague #iwwiw
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    LIVE @ItWasPod Q+A with myself and @jonawils TODAY @ 1700 UK time for Patreon subscribers‼️ Join us later….
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    One of the greatest games in football history was played here….. @jonawils will tell you where it is I’m sure 😉 And @OllieHolt22 will appreciate the pilgrimage to sacred ground
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    Excitingly the world’s second best history podcast has @jonawils wanging on about Hungarian football A reminder tho that if you want the real deal you’ll have to listen to @ItWasPod Don’t settle for imitations!
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    📣NEW BONUS EPISODE📣 🚨@dcsandbrook is joined by @jonawils to discuss THE MOST IMPORTANT MATCH IN THE HISTORY OF FOOTBALL... Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Budapest Honvéd, December 13th 1954. The match that invented the European Cup? 🤔 And crowned the champions of the world? 🌍 But that's not all: 🇬🇧Why did English football fall behind in the 1950s? ⚽️The invention of tactics 🇭🇺And who exactly was Puskás, and why was he so good? Want to listen now? You know where to go:
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    📣NEW BONUS EPISODE📣 🚨@dcsandbrook is joined by @jonawils to discuss THE MOST IMPORTANT MATCH IN THE HISTORY OF FOOTBALL... Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Budapest Honvéd, December 13th 1954. The match that invented the European Cup? 🤔 And crowned the champions of the world? 🌍 But that's not all: 🇬🇧Why did English football fall behind in the 1950s? ⚽️The invention of tactics 🇭🇺And who exactly was Puskás, and why was he so good? Want to listen now? You know where to go:
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    The extraordinary, heartbreaking story of Robert Enke today with his brilliant biographer Ronnie Reng is this month’s @ItWasPod Book Club for Patreon members His life and Ronnie’s book changed my understanding of mental health An astonishingly powerful book
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    Man Utd: what can you say? I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies
And on the pedestal these words appear: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains, Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away
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    RT @sternenko: Elon Musk claims that Ukraine allegedly violated Starlink's terms of use and used the system on combat drones. As someone who was inside the process at the Ministry of Defense, I can say with certainty that this is not true. In February of this year, whitelists were introduced. Stationary terminals could be registered by both military personnel and civilians. But for any satellite terminal to work while on the move, it had to be added to a special list and connected to the military Starshield system. Otherwise, no satellite communication terminals in Ukraine would work. In other words, using civilian Starlink for drone missions was technically impossible. All drone missions that required satellite communication could only be carried out using Starshield. We are very grateful to the United States and SpaceX for access to critically important satellite communications. Ukraine did not violate the terms of use.
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    It wasn’t just on the pitch that Arsène Wenger transformed English football Today’s @ItWasPod Patreon edition with @jonawils on how Wenger revolutionised scouting + helped build today’s Arsenal For years Arsenal were best in class - even if they missed out (just) on Messi!
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    The astonishing elegance with which Arsenal won the 1998 double was the moment Arsène Wenger cemented his legendary status in England Part 4 of Wenger on @ItWasPod with @jonawils covers that extraordinary 1997-98 season, the first French conquest of England since 1066
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    ‘You got beat by a team that shouldn’t even be in the league’ 🤨 Interesting, @newyorkcityfc 😐
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    Mamdani: How are you as a Liverpool fan right now? Reporter: Well… Mamdani: I mean, you got beat by a team that shouldn’t even be in the league. Reporter: I won’t comment on that
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    When I was a kid, I would wait for my Dad to come home form work, scrabble thru his briefcase and get out The Times. I devoured all the sports pages but when I read David Miller it opened my eyes to a different, observational way of writing. I wanted to be that man! That he wrote about my sports - football and athletics - with such authority only increased my awe as did his collaboration with my hero Seb Coe on a definitive biography: still on my bookshelf + I still regularly consult as a coaching manual. Undoubtedly he became too close to some of his extraordinary contacts, yet when I finally met him as a fellow pro, I was able to tell him he was the first sports writer I aspired to be. RIP
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    Sad to report that David Miller, the former sports correspondent for The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Express, has died. He was 91.
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    Mamdani: How are you as a Liverpool fan right now? Reporter: Well… Mamdani: I mean, you got beat by a team that shouldn’t even be in the league. Reporter: I won’t comment on that
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    Sad to report that David Miller, the former sports correspondent for The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Express, has died. He was 91.
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    🧵 A lot of talk about Abu Dhabi will simply outspend football authorities + Independent Football Regulator (IFR) in legal action, going back to Khaldoon Al Mubarak’s original quote - ‘rather spend £30m + sue them for next 10 yr than agree a financial penalty’…
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    RT @jwhitey98: For Sheikh Mansour, the stakes of the Manchester City investigation are far-reaching. Scandal has been at his door before. A piece on 1MDB, the Topaz yacht, and a claim that “the sheikh would not get out of bed for less than $100m”. Free to read ⬇️
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    So ultimately the UK Gov will financially backstop any legal challenge from Abu Dhabi about whether owners or directors fail any tests (subject to appeal) Which would make this even more challenging for PM @andyburnham as it would effectively be Abu Dhabi govt v UK govt*…
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    The future of Saudi sport amidst wars + PIF reining in its spending • Newcastle won’t go the way of LIV • But the ‘Man City’ model won’t ever be happening • Golf tournaments postponed • Questions over Asian Cup 2027 • No more stadiums in the sky
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    *Ultimately tho the bill goes back to football even if UK Govt loan the money to IFR The important take home is the IFR won’t fold its hand because it can’t keep up with the spending
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    “Bayern Munich 1974-1976: slow, boring, hampered by ponderous sweeper Beckenbauer” 💯 stick to my Ralf Rangnick inspired view this is the correct take @jonawils (a rigid, uninspired thinker) seems to think the evidence of 3 successive European Cup wins suggests otherwise 🙄
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