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It Was What It Was

@ItWasPod

The football history podcast. Hosted by renowned football journalists @jonawils and @draper_rob. Brought to you by @WeAreTheOverlap

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    Ever wanted the best football knowledge in your friendship group? 👀 If Jamie Carragher listens to It Was What It Was, you’re probably onto something 😂 🎙️ Listen:
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    Carra’s football knowledge is actually ridiculous! 🤯 🧠 Someone might need to make these questions a bit harder next time! 😂
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    Carra’s football knowledge is actually ridiculous! 🤯 🧠 Someone might need to make these questions a bit harder next time! 😂
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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 @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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    RT @draper_rob: ‘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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    🕰️- 17:00 Patreon subscribers, get your questions in below ⬇️
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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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    RT @Tweetingseagull: Loved the latest episode of @ItWasPod on Fanzines. Especially the mention of the great Gulls Eye. 🤍💙 An inspiring episode on the passion and history of football supporting, one I particularly enjoyed as an aspiring football writer myself. #bhafc
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    RT @draper_rob: 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!
    The Rest Is History @TheRestHistory
    📣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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    RT @jonawils: The latest IWWIW book club: Ronnie Reng talks about A Life Too Short, his brilliant biography or the tragic Robert Enke. Sign up here:
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    RT @draper_rob: 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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    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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    RT @draper_rob: 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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    RT @draper_rob: 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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    RT @draper_rob: “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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    RT @draper_rob: Arsène Wenger wandering around Wimbledon dressing room saying: ‘There is a bum?’ after Ian Wright pranked him there was a bomb scare 🤨 Picture Arsenal players sniggering in the background 🙄 Part 3 Wenger: The Man Who Changed English Football @ItWasPod @jonawils
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    RT @draper_rob: Football’s biggest financial scandals: Why Man City is not an aberration A bonus edition for our @ItWasPod Patreon subscribers on the long history of football’s financial skulduggery And why Sunderland should be relegated NOW‼️ Tho @jonawils argues they’ve suffered enough
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    Football’s Biggest Financial Scandals 💰 Out now on our Patreon for subscribers:
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    RT @ItWasPod: 30 years after one of the most significant coaching appointments in English football, we have released… THE ARSÈNE WENGER STORY 🇫🇷 How an unknown Frenchman transformed the Premier League. All 4 parts available on Patreon — with no ads.
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    RT @draper_rob: ‘That’s not normal!’ As a young coach, Arsène Wenger wld literally throw up after a defeat, so viscerally was he effected by losing Part genius, part obsessive: 30 years on from arguably the most significant appointment in PL history: Wenger Part 2 on @ItWasPod with @jonawils
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    RT @WeAreTheOverlap: The story behind one of football's most influential managers! 🇫🇷 The latest @ItWasPod explores Arsene Wenger's life, career and lasting impact on the game. 🎙️
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